Sport

”Does cricket make money in order to exist, or does it exist in order to make money?” In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionise …

Real International Cricket charts cricket”s global evolution across the last 175 years. Author Roy Morgan selects 100 different scorecards from matches involving non-Test-playing nations, played bet …

1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year Douglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. He analyzes the effect of the 30- …

It is generally forgotten that cricket rather than rugby union was the ”national game” in New Zealand until the early years of the twentieth century. This book shows why and how cricket developed i …

Cycling was a sport so important in Italy that it marked a generation, sparked fears of civil war, changed the way Italian was spoken, led to legal reform and even prompted the Pope himself to praise …

Celtic FC On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the club”s glorious past, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdotes and legendary characters to produce an irresistibly …

Permaculture teacher Patrick Whitefield lived in a self built tipi in Somerset for eight years. This is his guide to all aspects of tipi living: the story of how he came to live this way; how to choo …

In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport. The internationally acclaimed book examines this issue at a crucial ti …

In 1599, during the period when the Portuguese crown was united to the crowns of Castile and Aragon, a Portuguese master-at-arms called Domingo Luis Godinho wrote a manuscript in Spanish entitled Art …