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It is the early 1950s. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope reign on America’s airwaves and movie screens. Bobby Jones has already won 13 major tournaments over the course of his golf career, and Ben Hogan, havi …

It is not the adversity that you face, but how you face the adversity, that defines you as a person and builds character. I think what Avis Brown and her family have done throughout their careers in …

‘I liked this book. It is funny and enjoyed it!’ - Peter Jablonski   ‘Enjoyable, entertaining and interesting. Five big stars!’  - Jason Frierson   The pe …

Anger is a part of being human … how one deals with it defines him, as you so aptly describe. The one constant is the ability to let anger go once its grabbed on to you. Some are better at it than …

"For all those women who want to play golf but are perhaps too intimidated to start, Get Your Golf On! demystifies the game from tee to green to the 19th hole. This book answers the questions as …

The ancient oaks of one of England’s major forests had just about seen it all – wars, droughts, fires, floods, you name it, they’ve survived it. But how would they cope with a maverick golf club skip …

This book will hopefully help you enjoy the history of a game that has been in experimental stages for centuries. Dating back, a rock was used in place of a golf ball and soon followed by a wooden ba …

At a time when migration is mostly discussed in terms of “conflict” and “crisis”, it is decidedly important to acknowledge the discursive traditions, narrative patterns, and conceptual categories tha …

‘Mix the page-turning, stream-of-consciousness writing of novelist, Tom Wolfe, in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, daily and nightly drinking sessions of a variety of libations in Ernest Hemingway’s, …

Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europ …