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Book Steve Fairbairn on Rowing

Download or read book Steve Fairbairn on Rowing written by Steve Fairbairn and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rowing Notes

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  • Author : Steve Fairbairn
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1930
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Rowing Notes written by Steve Fairbairn and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science

Download or read book The Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science written by Niels H. Secher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science series delivers up-to-date scientific knowledge alongside practical applications in rowing, making it an invaluable resource for researchers, coaches and rowers of all abilities. Published under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, in collaboration with the International Rowing Federation (FISA), Rowing: Provides key knowledge of the historical, nutritional and psychological aspects of rowing Offers ground-breaking physiological insights which can help shape future training methodologies Features a rowing periodization plan to help trainers and athletes create comprehensive and effective training programs, racing plans and tactics. Rowing brings together internationally renowned experts with experience in competitive rowing and sports medicine, making this the complete handbook of medicine, science and practice in rowing.

Book Rowing Against the Current

Download or read book Rowing Against the Current written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the standard, dreary midlife crisis -- complete with wine-tasting courses, yoga classes, and a failed attempt at a first novel -- forty-year-old Barry Strauss falls unexpectedly and passionately in love with rowing, a sport in which a twenty-seven-year-old is a has-been. Strauss, a professor of classics and history, writes about the unanticipated delights of an affair that, like so many others, begins as a casual dalliance and develops into a full-blown obsession. Drawn to the sport in part because of his affinity for Greek antiquity, he develops a love for old boathouses, a longing for rivers at dawn, a thirst to test himself, and, ultimately, a renewed sense of self-reliance -- as someone who had experienced sports humiliation as far back as Little League suddenly finds himself bursting into athleticism at an unlikely age. From the awe-inspiring feats of the war-bound Greek triremes with their crews of 172 men rowing on three levels to the solitary pride of finishing a first race in which he gets stuck in the weeds and has to be fished out, Barry Strauss shows us why "there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half as much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

Book The Oarsmen

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  • Author : Scott Patterson
  • Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
  • Release : 2019-08-01
  • ISBN : 174358623X
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The Oarsmen written by Scott Patterson and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the First World War, there were 270,000 demobilised Australian soldiers in Europe. Getting them home after the Armistice was a task of epic proportions that would take more than two years. In the meantime, how to keep these disgruntled, damaged men with guns occupied? In a word: sport. The Oarsmen tells the story of the servicemen who survived the war to row for the coveted King’s Cup at the 1919 Royal Henley Peace Regatta. Competing against crews from the US, New Zealand, France, the UK and Canada, the Australians were a ragtag bunch of oarsmen thrown in an old-fashioned boat and expected to race. Many had seen the worst of the action during the war at Gallipoli and the Western Front, and carried scars both physical and psychological. The baggage they brought to the boat would soon threaten to capsize the whole endeavour. Combining first-hand accounts with lively prose, this never-before-told story approaches the First World War from peacetime and illuminates history in vivid and compelling detail. Interweaving the soldiers’ personal stories from before, during and after the war, The Oarsmen paints a fascinating picture of how these men, and society, transitioned from an unprecedented war to a new sort of peace.

Book Rowing in England

Download or read book Rowing in England written by Eric Halladay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sport of rowing has an illustrious history in the UK, managing to erect two controlling bodies by 1890 and taking its share of early and recent Olympic medals. This study traces the sport's influences, its champions, the amateur-versus-professional debate, and much more.

Book Entangled

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  • Author : Ian Hodder
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2012-05-08
  • ISBN : 0470672129
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Entangled written by Ian Hodder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and culture Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialism Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible and increase in scale and complexity over time Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theories in archaeology and related natural and biological sciences Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporary perspectives from materiality, material culture studies and phenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology, cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor Network Theory and complexity theory

Book The Unnatural Nature of Science

Download or read book The Unnatural Nature of Science written by Lewis Wolpert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolpert draws on the entire history of science, from Thales of Miletus to Watson and Crick, from the study of eugenics to the discovery of the double helix. The result is a scientist's view of the culture of science, authoritative, informed, and mercifully accessible to those who find cohabiting with this culture a puzzling experience.

Book A Text book of Oarsmanship

Download or read book A Text book of Oarsmanship written by Gilbert Charles Bourne and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sculling in a Nutshell

Download or read book Sculling in a Nutshell written by Gordon Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technical Book on Sculling and Sweep Rowing for Beginners to Elite from the perspective of Stability and the Preservation of Momentum with sections on Drills and General Rowing Topics

Book Messiah

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  • Author : Boris Starling
  • Publisher : Onyx Books
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780451409003
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Messiah written by Boris Starling and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While trying to help a friend out of a difficulty, teenage detective Nancy Drew has a perilous experience in and around a deserted bungalow.

Book Book of Ellacombe

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  • Author : Sydney R. Langmead
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781841140209
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Book of Ellacombe written by Sydney R. Langmead and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Social History of English Rowing

Download or read book The Social History of English Rowing written by Neil Wigglesworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to redress the balance of reporting in the sport's literature which has always favoured the activities of aquatic gentlemen at the public schools, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Henley Regatta and on the River Thames. This study focuses on the many who helped instigate and nurture the sport but who have been forgotten due to their not being associated with the elite of the sport.

Book Structures

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  • Author : J E Gordon
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 1991-09-26
  • ISBN : 0140136282
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book Structures written by J E Gordon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1991-09-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures.

Book Rowing News

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Rowing News written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Home Computer Wars

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  • Author : Michael Tomczyk
  • Publisher : Compute Publications International
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book The Home Computer Wars written by Michael Tomczyk and published by Compute Publications International. This book was released on 1984 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Lifetime In A Race

Download or read book A Lifetime In A Race written by Matthew Pinsent and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his last-gasp victory as part of the Great British coxless four team at the Athens Olympics, Matthew Pinsent clinched an historic fourth Olympic Gold to add to the three already won with his legendary rowing partner Steve Redgrave. In an uniquely exciting and evocative autobiography, Pinsent interweaves the build-up to Athens 2004 with the extraordinary story of his career and unforgettable partnership with Redgrave. Plucked from obscurity at the age of 20, told to partner his hero, and trained to within an inch of his life, Pinsent's story is uniquely revealing about what it takes to be a champion and the mixed blessings of success. Culminating with a nail-biting final chapter detailing the team's extraordinary victory in Athens in blow-by-blow detail, A Lifetime in a Race is a sports book in a different mould.