Download or read book GOOGLIES NUTMEGS and BOGEY SIGNED written by B. WILSON and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Googlies Nutmegs and Bogeys written by Bob Wilson and published by Icon Books Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever flashed at a zooter in the corridor of uncertainty while on a sticky dog? Maybe you've seen someone hit a mulligan out of the screws to grab a birdie at Amen Corner?The world of sport has its own language, wonderfully rich in strange words and phrases, whose origins often stretch back centuries. Veteran BBC presenter and football legend Bob Wilson has written this brilliant illustrated guide to the fascinating true meanings, heritage and evolution of the great sporting terms we use today.
Download or read book Team Talk written by Julian Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why we talk about a handicap in sport, why boxing is so named, or whether a dumbbell ever rang? It was during the nineteenth century that hitherto local games with relaxed and varying rules were formalized. During this process terminologies developed to refer to these new standardized sports, borrowing, modifying and redefining words from all walks of life in sometimes strange and unexpected ways. Considering such subjects as why sport shares so many words with the fields of hunting and conflict, and how English sports terms have been both adopted from and given to other languages, this book looks at how words have come into the field of sport and how they have developed and changed.
Download or read book Sport written by Tim Harris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know tells the history of sport. All sport. Ever. From ancient times to the 21st century. In eight themed parts, Tim Harris describes the triumphs and breakthroughs - as well as the cheating and skulduggery - that have created the modern world of sport. Dip into it, or read it cover to cover - there's a 'Oh - now I get it' moment on every page. Sport: it's unique, funny, amazingly comprehensive and packed with extraordinary anecdotes to turn any reader into a sporting expert.
Download or read book The Man Who Ate Bluebottles written by Catherine Caufield and published by Totem Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Catherine Caufield has shown us that eccentrics are fascinating characters ... they add to the gaiety of nations and it would be sad to see them fade away' Patrick Moore, Daily Express'A hilarious compilation ... not to be missed' Good Book Guide'Mad dogs and Englishmen, laid out for public gaze' Fortean TimesUntil he ate a bluebottle, William Buckland had always maintained that the taste of mole was the most repulsive he knew. But that was before he ate the embalmed heart of Louis XVI. William, and a hundred other colourful characters populate the pages of this amusing survey of those strange British people through the ages.
Download or read book Football Freaking written by Gary Rimmer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Rimmer unearths the real truth behind the beautiful game of football. Learn how much Rio Ferdinand is paid while he cleans his teeth, how far you need to run to beat Arsenal and if football is more serious than life or death, how many England fans will die if England lose the World Cup 2006, and much more.
Download or read book Places to Hide written by Dixe Wills and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the rural, coastal, urban and mountainous getaways for when life gets a bit too much. Containing tips on concealment, total identity change and crouching, information on local terrain, and the experiences of famous hiders such as Lawrence of Arabia, it is a useful guide for anyone who needs to disappear for a bit.
Download or read book From Zeros to Heroes written by George Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the England squad around France as they create the most unlikely success story in sport for years, all borne out in perhaps the greatest Rugby World Cup ever staged.
Download or read book How Big Is Your Brain written by Ian Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title contains over 300 interactive number puzzles, codes and logic conundrums including a 16 page colour section. It is perfect for the 'New Year, New You' market - discover whether your brain is the size of a pea or the size of a planet! Like the rest of your body, your brain needs to sweat and stretch to improve. Give it the workout it deserves with this interactive book, and develop your concentration, memory and creative thinking! Ranging from the mildly challenging to the almost impossible, each puzzle directs you to another when completed - depending on whether or not you got the first one right! It's a fiendish interactive maze of riddles, enigmas and fanciful brainteasers, including code-breaking, number-crunching and logic conundrums, all there to test your mind to the limit. With over 200 puzzles, "How Big is Your Brain" can be endlessly replayed to improve your mind - and a brain-boosting score. How big is your brain? - take the challenge and find out!
Download or read book Cowgirls Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie written by Michelle Lovric and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums may have a reputation for being boring, dusty and outdated but Michelle Lovric's new books crushes that stereotype and shows the fascinating, fun and sometimes frightening collections that are housed in the museums of today. There are museums devoted to Jell-O, liars, peanuts and the Dakota Dinosaur. From the Salem Witch Museum to Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum, via the House of Terror, take a tour of the worlds most unusual collections.
Download or read book Rucks Pucks and Sliders written by Bob Wilson and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laced with anecdotes from Bob Wilson's own football and television careers, this text guides us through the fascinating true meanings, heritage and evolution of great sporting terms.
Download or read book Bob Wilson s Ultimate Collection of Peculiar Sporting Lingo written by Bob Wilson and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of sport has its own language, with strange words and phrases. This illustrated guide helps you discover the true meanings, heritage and evolution of the various sporting terms we use.
Download or read book Lewis Hamilton written by Mark Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Hamilton, the first black grand prix driver, made an instant impact on the sport of F1 racing. This title presents his story from his upbringing on a Stevenage council estate to the day he first sat in a kart as a seven-year-old to his sensational challenge on the world title.
Download or read book Buyology written by Martin Lindstrom and published by Currency. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.
Download or read book House Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Sports and Games Terminology written by Adrian Room and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specialized jargon of some sports can be quite esoteric. Non-Americans, for example, are likely puzzled by baseball terms such as bunt, cut-off man, and safety squeeze, while the non-British may pause over cricket's Chinaman, doosra, golden duck, off-break, popping crease, and yorker. This new dictionary gives the definitions of more than 8,000 terms used in sports and games from around the world, including mainstream sports like basketball and billiards alongside the more obscure netball and snooker. Entries cover sports equipment, strategies, venues, qualifying categories, awards, and administrative bodies, while a comprehensive system of cross-references offers assistance and clarification when needed. An appendix lists standard abbreviations of sports ruling bodies and administrative organizations.
Download or read book Bob Wilson Behind the Network written by Bob Wilson and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Wilson's intriguing and candid autobiography makes for fascinating reading. He spent 39 years at Arsenal, as player then as the first goalkeeping coach in the first division. Following his retirement as a footballer, a career in TV beckoned, making Bob Wilson a household name. His days as a sports commentator and presenter at the BBC and subsequent switch to ITV are reflected upon, as well as his account of the Grobbelaar trial and his relationships with some of the most popular names in sport and TV, including Des Lynam, Jimmy Hill and David Seaman. He also has affectionate memories of Jill Dando and Helen Rollason, and tells the moving story of his daughter's illness and legacy.
