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Governance in Sport: Analysis and Application, Second Edition, examines governance within sport organizations at all levels of sport and across industry sectors. Drawing from both analytical and applied perspectives, students will learn principles of good governance and ethical decision making.
Dreamlike and propulsive, this coming-of-age story swims its way around Europe and the Americas, taking in ice pots in Finland, hot rivers in Iceland, cenotes in Mexico, and desert reservoirs in Arizona.Founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society Kate Rew has always sought to be a free woman: swimming freely - and free to define herself. As life tightens, she sets a course that takes in views of platonic friendship, hidden waterscapes and the stormy weather of ageing.Full of stunning waterscapes and the wildlife that live in them, Swim Nomad offers a profound sense of how to live a life of freedom at any age. Rew swims to be in nature, but also to experience life outside the neat roles that society would prescribe us. Joyful, political, apocalyptical and experiential: this is the story of connections, across generations and countries, and taking as many people as possible with you. An antidote to fear, and limits. Of how the middle years do not have to be a middle ground. And of a woman determined to pursue her passion - and bring as many others as she possibly can with her.
Reeds Crew Handbook is the ideal primer or aide-memoire for new crew, and for anyone going on a flotilla or charter holiday, or sailing aboard a friend's yacht for the weekend. Both a refresher for old hands and an ideal introduction for skippers to hand to new and aspiring crew, this guide gives them all the essential knowledge they need to undertake the tasks traditionally handled by crew aboard any size of yacht, including: Steering (both with a tiller and a wheel) Raising, dropping and reefing a sail Boat handling (using tide, wind, etc) Handling lines (throwing, coiling, lassoing, etc) Tying up a boat on a pontoon and against a quay wall Attaching bow and stern lines and springs Handling an anchor Using the radio Basic first aid Essential knotsPresented in bite-sized topics in a very accessible and undaunting fashion, and packed with colour illustrations to guide crew through each task, Reeds Crew Handbook is an invaluable primer for new crew before going to sea, and a handy pocket-sized reference for experienced crew when under sail.
Ned Boulting's highly anticipated follow up to How I Won the Yellow Jumper
Life in the Pitlane will detail the realities of life off the track; the good and the bad, with a particular spotlight on diversity and inclusion within the sport, and all the entertaining stories and behind the scenes details fans of F1 will be looking for.Replete with all the high-octane tales and behind the scenes details you'd expect from a life lived next to the fast lane, Life in the Pitlane will bring a brand new perspective to this incredibly exciting corner of the market, as the inimitable Calum Nicholas reflects on his career in the sport so far, as well as the future he hopes lies ahead. Unflinching in his appraisal of F1 and where it's at in terms of diversity and inclusion, Calum hopes to spark industry-changing conversations and initiatives. While Life in the Pitlane will address some difficult topics, it is, ultimately, a book designed to inspire its reader - because no matter what the odds have been, Calum has always found a way to make it work.
An inspiring memoir from Red Bull's senior engineer Calum Nicholas that will open up the world of F1 like never before.
In the year when Manchester City, managed by Pep Guardiola, swept its way to another Premier League title, Caught Beneath the Landslide examines another, very different club, also called Manchester City.This is the Manchester City of Maine Road, of Moss Side, when the music was by Oasis and the football by Georgi Kinkladze and Uwe Rosler. It is the story of club that plunged through two divisions and then clambered back up again. It is the story of a club before the Abu Dhabi takeover, when Manchester City was run, not by a sheikh, but by men like Peter Swales and Francis Lee who ran the gauntlet of supporters' anger as season after season ran out of control.Caught Beneath the Landslide interviews managers, fans, players and those, like the residents of Moss Side, who lived in the club's shadow. It opens in 1989 with the 5-1 victory in the Manchester derby that propelled Alex Ferguson to the very brink of dismissal and ends with the demolition of Maine Road and the move to what would become the Etihad Stadium.Tim Rich has spent a quarter of a century writing about sport, starting on The Sunderland Echo, where he was the paper's cricket correspondent. He had two spells working for The Independent, sandwiched between three years as The Daily Telegraph's northern football correspondent. He collaborated with Ron Atkinson and Andrei Kanchelskis on their respective autobiographies.
The extraordinary stories of the fearless women who set their sights on the sea in an all-male world, and paved the way for the female sailing superstars of today.
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