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Managing the Paralympics
by Simon Darcy Daryl Adair Stephen FrawleyThis book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world's premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the Paralympics explores how the organizers and connected stakeholders effectively organize and deliver the Paralympics, taking into account what has been learned from previous events. Including emergent models of best practice from event management, project management and sport management literature, the book gives an insight into the planning of one of the world's biggest sporting events that encompasses ten impairment types and multiple sport classes within sports.
Manchester Buccaneers: The Diary of a Manchester United Fan, aged 12, from Tampa Bay
by Adrian SherlingA hilarious diary of a young American soccer fan, who supports Malcolm Glazer's new Manchester Buccaneers'My name is Roswell P. Shambling. I'm a 12-year-old Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan. I saw Malcolm Glazer bought EPL soccer side Manchester and they are now my favourite franchise. Manchester rules, man!'Roswell is an American youngster who likes Malcolm Glazer and has decided to support Manchester United (or Manchester as he calls them). From his home in Tampa, he follows all the latest developments of his new team, commenting on what he believes Sir Ferguson should do, worrying about Ferdinand Rio getting into a bar brawl in the northern English town of Sweden (and why would he be there when Manchester is in the south?), sadly watching his beloved Roy Keano leave and questioning why he never played for England, delighting in watching Manchester take on the Russian side London Chelseas and seeing the Roonaldo brothers succeed ... Roswell attempts to spread the word about Manchester and their successes and failures against teams such as Tott Nam, made up predominantly of young Vietnamese players, through his website, but unfortunately his thoughts are now always well received, with hilarious consequences...
Manchester Buccaneers: The Diary of a Manchester United Fan, aged 12, from Tampa Bay
by Adrian SherlingA hilarious diary of a young American soccer fan, who supports Malcolm Glazer's new Manchester Buccaneers'My name is Roswell P. Shambling. I'm a 12-year-old Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan. I saw Malcolm Glazer bought EPL soccer side Manchester and they are now my favourite franchise. Manchester rules, man!'Roswell is an American youngster who likes Malcolm Glazer and has decided to support Manchester United (or Manchester as he calls them). From his home in Tampa, he follows all the latest developments of his new team, commenting on what he believes Sir Ferguson should do, worrying about Ferdinand Rio getting into a bar brawl in the northern English town of Sweden (and why would he be there when Manchester is in the south?), sadly watching his beloved Roy Keano leave and questioning why he never played for England, delighting in watching Manchester take on the Russian side London Chelseas and seeing the Roonaldo brothers succeed ... Roswell attempts to spread the word about Manchester and their successes and failures against teams such as Tott Nam, made up predominantly of young Vietnamese players, through his website, but unfortunately his thoughts are now always well received, with hilarious consequences...
Manchester City Ruined My Life
by Colin ShindlerColin Shindler has previously written of his deep love for Manchester City in the bestselling Manchester United Ruined My Life and three other previous books. Now he tells the story of his sorrowful disenchantment with his home town club as, on the instruction of its new foreign owners, it turns itself remorselessly into a global brand. Trophyless since 1976, in 2011 Manchester City won the FA Cup and set off on their quest for the Premiership and the Champions League. In their zeal to win every competition the new Manchester City has spent money with wild abandon, signing outstandingly talented players as well as a few ordinary ones but in almost every case at hugely inflated prices. From the nail-biting win over Gillingham in the League Two Play Off final at Wembley in 1999 to the climax of the 2011 season, Shindler watches his team get steadily more successful and, to his own bewilderment, feels steadily more alienated from it. This is the story of a frustrated romantic who finds in the glitz and glamour of the current media-obsessed game a helter-skelter of artificially fabricated excitement. As he details how football courses through his veins Shindler tells how it intersects with his own life, a life that has been marked by family tragedy, and how he finally found personal redemption even as his team lost its soul.
Manchester City Ruined My Life
by Colin ShindlerColin Shindler has previously written of his deep love for Manchester City in the bestselling Manchester United Ruined My Life and three other previous books. Now he tells the story of his sorrowful disenchantment with his home town club as, on the instruction of its new foreign owners, it turns itself remorselessly into a global brand. Trophyless since 1976, in 2011 Manchester City won the FA Cup and set off on their quest for the Premiership and the Champions League. In their zeal to win every competition the new Manchester City has spent money with wild abandon, signing outstandingly talented players as well as a few ordinary ones but in almost every case at hugely inflated prices. From the nail-biting win over Gillingham in the League Two Play Off final at Wembley in 1999 to the climax of the 2011 season, Shindler watches his team get steadily more successful and, to his own bewilderment, feels steadily more alienated from it. This is the story of a frustrated romantic who finds in the glitz and glamour of the current media-obsessed game a helter-skelter of artificially fabricated excitement. As he details how football courses through his veins Shindler tells how it intersects with his own life, a life that has been marked by family tragedy, and how he finally found personal redemption even as his team lost its soul.
Manchester United Ruined My Life
by Colin ShindlerColin Shindler was dealt a cruel hand by Fate when he became a passionate Manchester City supporter. In this brilliant sporting autobiography he recalls the great characters of his youth, like his eccentric Uncle Laurence, as well as his professional heroes. Threaded through these sporting events is the author's own story, which touches on a universal nerve, growing up in a Jewish family, his childhodd destroyed by the sudden death of his mother and his slow emotional recovery through his love for Manchester City. It is a tale that reveals what it is like to be on the outside looking in, with his nose pressed up against the sweet shop window watching the United supporters take all the wine gums.
Manchester United Ruined My Life
by Colin ShindlerColin Shindler was dealt a cruel hand by Fate when he became a passionate Manchester City supporter. In this brilliant sporting autobiography he recalls the great characters of his youth, like his eccentric Uncle Laurence, as well as his professional heroes. Threaded through these sporting events is the author's own story, which touches on a universal nerve, growing up in a Jewish family, his childhodd destroyed by the sudden death of his mother and his slow emotional recovery through his love for Manchester City. It is a tale that reveals what it is like to be on the outside looking in, with his nose pressed up against the sweet shop window watching the United supporters take all the wine gums.
Manchester United in Europe: Tragedy, History, Destiny
by Ken FerrisManchester United's quest to win the European Cup was forged amidst the charred remains of an Elizabethan airliner that crashed on take-off at Munich's Riem Airport on 6 February 1958. Twenty-three people died in the tragedy, including eight of the famous Busby Babes. From that moment manager Matt Busby's goal of winning the European Cup became an obsession that permeated the whole club.Ten years after the Munich disaster, Busby achieved his dream when United - inspired by Bobby Charlton and George Best - beat Benfica 4-1 in extra time to lift the European Cup at Wembley. Some felt the ghosts of Munich were there to witness the club's joy. It seemed to be United's destiny finally to honour those who had lost their lives in pursuit of the gleaming silver trophy. But that triumph was to hang over the club for the next 31 years as United failed to regain those heights. Alex Ferguson's arrival spawned a flood of trophies, but the European Cup - by then known as the Champions League - remained elusively outside their grasp. Then came the last final of the twentieth century, against Bayern Munich in the towering splendour of Barcelona's Nou Camp, when United snatched a 2-1 victory from the jaws of defeat to complete the impossible Treble. Manchester United in Europe: Tragedy, Destiny, History recounts the course of those three European campaigns. Using first-hand accounts of the dramatic events, the book describes the sadness and the joy that have run through United's pursuit of European glory and considers the club's chances of ever repeating the European triumphs of the past.
Manchester United: A Thematic Study
by David L. AndrewsDespite myriad popular and journalistic expositions, up to this point there have been virtually no academic discussions of the Manchester United phenomenon. This anthology represents the first concerted academic examination of Manchester United F.C. in its current guise as a widely followed and highly emblematic sporting institution.Bringing together respected academics from an array of disciplinary backgrounds these essays each interrogate various related dimensions of the Manchester United world. The primary aim of this collection is to illustrate how the structure and experience of Manchester United is implicated in broader societal shifts, within which the boundary between cultural and commercial concerns have become increasingly indivisible.The chapters are presented within five thematic sections:1 Becoming United2 Economy United3 Embodied United4 Local United 5 Global United
Manchester United: The Complete Story of the World's Greatest Football Club
by Jim WhiteManchester United:The Biography will do for the football team what Peter Ackroyd did for London in his huge biog of the same name. The book follows the club?s extraordinary journey from its birth in the railway works of Newton Heath to its current status
Manchester United: The complete story of the world's greatest football club
by Jim White75 MILLION FANS. AN ANNUAL INCOME OF MORE THAN £200 MILLION. AND A STORY THAT HAS NEVER FULLY BEEN TOLD - UNTIL NOW. 'A wonderfully entertaining history' Sunday Telegraph 'When historians 1,000 years from now try to fathom the cult of Manchester United Football Club, White will be a good place to start' Financial Times MANCHESTER UNITED: THE BIOGRAPHY contains everything a football fan needs to know about the club, from its birth in the smog-bound mud of Newton Heath to the Theatre of Dreams. From the solid yeomanry of Lancelot Holliday Richardson, through the gilded days of Law, Best and Charlton, to the dazzling artistry of Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Averio and the pursuit of a record-equaling 18th League title. Award-winning journalist and lifelong red Jim White brings the history of this extraordinary club to life - unofficial and unbiased, it is written with the passion of a true fan.
Mandy Miller Fights Back (Sweet Valley Twins #48)
by Jamie Suzanne Francine PascalMandy Miller wants to join the Unicorns, but the Unicorns don't want Mandy Miller! She wears wild thrift-shop outfits, and the other members think she tries too hard to fit in. Jessica thinks she's funny and nice, and she likes her offbeat way of dressing. The Unicorns have asked Jessica to tell Mandy that she can't join, but Jessica just can't bring herself to break the bad news. How can Jessica be friends with the Unicorns and Mandy at the same time? Suddenly Mandy gets some frightening news that makes the Unicorns seem unimportant to both Mandy and Jessica -- and now Jessica is afraid of losing her newfound friend for good!
Maniac Magee and Related Readings (Literature Connections)
by Mcdougal LittellManiac Magee, winner of the 1991 Newbery Medal, is the story of a homeless young wanderer who can move like no one else the town has ever seen. "Maniac" Magee intercepts a football on a field of players twice his size, hits an inside-the-park home run without a baseball, and wins a race running backwards. Two challenges he can't outrun: the strong racial divisions in his hometown, and his need for a loving family.
Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy
by Peyton Manning Archie Manning John UnderwoodThe inspiring personal story of a family, an athletic tradition, and fifty years of a great all-American game.
Manny Pacquiao (Amazing Athletes Ser.)
by Jon M FishmanBoxer Manny Pacquiao has won multiple world championships and is the only fighter in the sport's history to win titles in eight different weight classes. When Manny fought Floyd Mayweather in 2015, many people called it the fight of the century. But Manny is much more than just a boxer. He is also a musician and an actor, and he has even played professional basketball. In 2010, Manny became a congressman in the Philippines. Learn more about the Filipino fighter who has taken the boxing world by storm.
Manu. El cielo con las manos: Edición ampliada y actualizada
by Daniel FrescóRelato apasionante y exhaustivo, pleno de anécdotas que revela aspectos desconocidos de Ginóbili: la vocación casi genética por el básquet, la obsesión por crecer y la audacia por alcanzar un destino para el que se sabía predestinado. La fuerza de voluntad, la decisión inconmovible de triunfar, el talento, la inteligencia y una rara habilidad para llegar al lugar indicado en el momento justo confluyeron para dar forma al destino singular de Emanuel Ginóbili, el más grande jugador de básquet de la Argentina de todos los tiempos y uno de los mejores del mundo. El escritor y periodista Daniel Frescó reconstruye esa vida única mediante una minuciosa investigación que incluye testimonios de familiares, amigos y compañeros, desde la llegada de su bisabuelo a Bahía Blanca, la integración y desarrollo de su familia en la ciudad, y su infancia hasta la consagración en el básquet mundial con la obtención de la medalla de oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de Grecia y cuatro anillos de la NBA. El resultado de esta investigación demuestra que la forja de una personalidad como la de Manu no es producto del azar o la buena fortuna sino de la tenacidad individual, de sus orígenes, de un entorno, de un momento y hasta de un país. Su ascenso es el paradigma del argentino que conquista el mundo pero detrás de la imagen pública se esconde una persona humilde, fiel a sus afectos y dispuesto a superar todos los contratiempos a fuerza de inteligencia y constancia. Este relato apasionante y exhaustivo, pleno de anécdotas, revela aspectos desconocidos de Ginóbili: la vocación casi genética por el básquet, la obsesión por crecer y la audacia para alcanzar un objetivo para el cual, de algún modo, se sabía predestinado. Manu. El cielo con las manos, el primer y más completo libro sobre Emanuel Ginóbili, entrega el retrato preciso de una vida y de una carrera cuyos éxitos trascienden los límites del deporte. A trece años de su publicación y cuando Manu transita el retiro de la actividad, se impone una edición definitiva no simplemente para explicar su trayectoria o sus triunfos sino para realizar una proyección de un legado, que ya es tan o más impactante que sus logros, e imaginar el devenir de su futuro. Grandes estrellas y leyendas de la NBA; entrenadores de altísimo nivel; compañeros y excompañeros de los Spurs y la Selección Argentina; los jóvenes basquetbolistas que toman su bandera; atletas que compartieron con él Juegos Olímpicos; referentes nacionales e internacionales de otros deportes y actividades terminan de redondear con valiosísimos conceptos la trascendencia de su figura. Todo ello para completar un libro que abarca generaciones, atraviesa los siglos XX y XXI, y muestra al Manu íntegro que delinea un inmenso legado que perdurará por siempre. «Es un campeón, un gran competidor y uno de los mejores Spurs. Fue muy divertido jugar contra él todos estos años.»LeBron James «Manu será recordado por siempre.»Lionel Messi «Conservó ese fuego interno y ese deseo interior de seguir ganando.»Roger Federer «Su carrera nos dice a todos que se puede.»Jorge Valdano «Es un campeón. Soy fan de Manu. Quisiera saber dónde está esa fuente de la juventud.»Stephen Curry
Manual of Vibration Exercise and Vibration Therapy
by Jörn RittwegerThis book addresses the practical aspects of vibration exercise and vibration therapy. In addition, it describes the technical and physiological background, providing applied scientists and doctors with a deeper understanding of the therapeutic potential that vibration exercise holds. Having first emerged two decades ago, vibration exercise has since established itself as a widespread form of physical exercise, used in all rehabilitation areas. The goal of this book is to close the gap between scientific knowledge and practice.Given that occupational exposure to vibration leads to well-known unfavorable effects, the book is also dedicated to potential risks, hazards and contra-indications and of course, the application of vibration therapy in a number of specific conditions is presented in a clinically usable fashion. Given its breadth of coverage, this book will be of interest to physiotherapists and exercise scientists, but also to a wider range of physicians working in the field of rehabilitation.
Manuale di sopravvivenza. Come prepararsi a disastri e calamità.
by The BlokeheadLe calamità colpiscono all’improvviso. Una banale tempesta può diventare devastante in poche ore. Un terremoto può verificarsi in qualsiasi momento e senza alcuna avvisaglia. Può accedere di tutto, senza che ci sia il tempo di prepararsi. Per questo è fondamentale essere sempre pronti, anche in assenza di minacce conclamate. Essere pronti è la chiave per la sopravvivenza. Questo libro vi aiuterà a prepararvi adeguatamente alle calamità. Perché tutto funzioni sono necessarie delle conoscenze, un’attenta pianificazione e una corretta esecuzione. Nessuno vuole ritrovarsi nel momento del bisogno e scoprire di aver sbagliato nel preparare le provviste o di non averne a sufficienza per superare il periodo critico. Tra le altre cose, questo libro vi mostrerà anche come prepararvi al meglio senza spendere una fortuna.
Many Brave Fools
by Susan E. ConleyCodependency, a compulsive behavior sometimes known as &“relationship addiction,&” is often characterized by a dysfunctional, one-sided relationship that is emotionally destructive–even abusive. For years Susan Conley found herself trapped, married to an addict whose health, welfare, and safety she valued far above her own. Over time she watched as she lost contact with her own needs, desires, and sense of self. But then at forty-two, after yet another crisis came to an anticlimactic resolution that left nothing healed and little to hope for, she decided, having never so much as touched a horse, to take up riding. Here, with humor and honesty, Conley chronicles her experiences, sharing how her pledge to rediscover herself following her divorce was aided, abetted, and challenged by the horses in her life. &“They were as large a part of my recovery as were any of the self-help books I read, personal development workshops I did, and 12-step meetings I attended,&” she writes. &“The struggle to heal the wounds of a dysfunctional marriage was actually made easier via the real wounds received from horseback riding.&”Many Brave Foolsexplores the ways in which horses enriched Conley's life, and how the process of making herself into a rider also helped her become the person she most wanted to be: not the &“ex-wife of an addict,&” but a responsive, confident, even courageous woman, entering the prime of her life.
Manzanar to Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker
by Hank UmemotoIn 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhouette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories later, at the age of seventy-one, he reached the summit. Part memoir and part hiker's diary, Manzanar to Mount Whitney gives an intimate, rollicking account of Japanese American life California before and after World War II. As he wanders through the mountains of California's Inland Empire, Umemoto recalls pieces of his childhood on a grape vineyard in the Sacramento Valley, his time at Manzanar, where beauty and hope were maintained despite the odds, and his later career as proprietor of a printing firm, all with grace, honesty, and unfailing humor. And all along, the peak of Mount Whitney casts its shadow, a symbol of freedom, beauty, and resilience.
Mapping an Empire of American Sport: Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives)
by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan and Roberta J. ParkSince the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through American pastimes such as baseball, basketball and the American variant of football in particular, the U.S. has sought to Americanize the globe’s masses in a long series of both domestic and foreign campaigns. Sport played roles in American programs of cultural, economic, and political expansion. Sport also contributed to American efforts to assimilate immigrant populations. Even in American games such as baseball and football, sport has also served as an agent of resistance to American imperial designs among the nations of the Western hemisphere and the Pacific Rim. As the twenty-first century begins, sport continues to shape American visions of a global empire as well as framing resistance to American imperial designs.Mapping an Empire of American Sport chronicles the dynamic tensions in the role of sport as an element in both the expansion of and the resistance to American power, and in sport’s dual role as an instrument for assimilation and adaptation.This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Maradona: The Autobiography of Soccer's Greatest and Most Controversial Star
by Diego Armando Maradona Mark Weinstein"Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it's not like that. There are things which are only in my heart-that no one knows. At last I have decided to tell everything."-Diego Maradona A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty town, Diego Maradona became a genius with the soccer ball, kicking his way to the heights of South American, European, and world soccer, yet his struggles with the pressures of life inside and outside the game repeatedly threatened to tear him and his legend down. Hero or villain, one thing about Maradona is certain: He was the greatest soccer player of his generation-and perhaps of all-time. Never before has the legendary Maradona given us his extraordinary story in his own words-until now. From his poverty-stricken origins to his greatest glories on the field, Maradona recounts, with astonishing frankness and brilliant insight, the pivotal moments of his life-the pressures of being a child prodigy, the infamous semi-final game against England in the 1986 World Cup, an incredible turn-around and the dream-turned-sour at Napoli, and the shame and disgrace of his positive drug test at USA 1994. In this amazingly honest autobiography, we see inside the mind of one of the most talented, controversial, and complex sportsmen of our times-a man torn between the demands of corporate club bosses, the fans, the media, and his own tempestuous personal life. With a new epilogue exclusive to this paperback edition that brings Maradona's remarkable story up-to-date and more than eighty wonderful photographs, Maradona is a confessional, a revelation, an apology, and a celebration.
Maradona: The Boy. The Rebel. The God.
by Guillem BalagueMARADONA is the definitive new biography of a true global icon, from world-renowned football writer and journalist Guillem Balagué. Diego Armando Maradona was widely acclaimed as a genius. One of the greatest footballers of all time, he was also one of the most controversial. In an international career with Argentina he earned 91 caps and scored 34 goals and played in four FIFA World Cups. With his unforgettable 'hand of God' goal and unsurpassed second one in the 1986 quarter-final against England, he captained his nation and led them to victory over West Germany in the final in Mexico. His vision, passing, ball control and dribbling skills, and his presence and leadership on the field, often electrified his own team's overall performance.Maradona's club career included dazzling spells in his own country at Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors and Newell's Old Boys, and in Europe with Barcelona, Napoli and Sevilla. Yet his life was one of relentless media attention, including tales of drug abuse and constant health issues.Based on in-depth interviews and first-hand stories, Guillem Balagué's masterly biography represents a psychological and sociological approach to the legend. This journey of exploration takes Guillem to Argentina, Spain, Italy and Dubai. Along the way, he asks what fosters such adulation, and how this adoration engendered a self-destructive personality. Even after his untimely death in 2020, Maradona continues to fascinate: his divine status seemingly preserved for ever.
Marathon Man: My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World
by Matthew Shepatin Bill RodgersThe legendary long-distance runner details his historic victory in the 1975 Boston Marathon that launched the modern running boomWithin a span of two hours and nine minutes, Bill Rodgers went from obscurity to legend, from Bill Rodgers to "Boston Billy." In doing so, he instantly became the people's champ and the poster boy for the soulful 1970s distance runner. Having won the Boston Marathon and New York Marathon four times each, he remains the only marathoner to have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated twice. Winning the Holy Grail of marathons in an unthinkable record time changed Bill's life forever.But his dramatic breakthrough in Boston also changed the lives of countless others, instilling in other American runners the belief that they could follow in his footsteps, and inspiring thousands of regular people to lace up their shoes and chase down their own dreams. In the year before Rodger's victory at the 1975 Boston Marathon, 20,000 people had completed a marathon in the United States. By 2009, participants reached nearly half a million.Thirty-seven years later Bill Rodgers still possesses the same warm, endearing, and whimsical spirit that turned him into one of America's most beloved athletes. In Marathon Man he details for the first time this historic race and the events that led him there.
Marathon Man: One Man, One Year, 370 Marathons
by Rob YoungMarathon Man is a truly remarkable book that will inspire all who read it to know that they can take on the biggest challenges in their lives and overcome them. It all began when Rob's fiancee, exasperated as he sat slumped in front of the television watching the London marathon, bet him 20p that he'd never complete even one such race. Watching the 40,000 competitors as they raised over £53 million for charity, Rob decided to take things a little bit further. Despite never having run a marathon before, he set out to achieve an astonishing new record: he would run more than 365 marathons in a year. So it was that Marathon Man UK was born. This book not only tells the incredible story of Young's quest, during which he broke numerous world records, but also provides vital lessons in how to motivate yourself to achieve your goals and essential tips (learned the very hard way) in how to run and keep on going. He takes the reader on a vivid journey through some of the most beautiful scenery, as they join him in some of the toughest marathons and ultra-marathons in the UK. After suffering horrendous abuse as a child, Young has developed a determination that few can match. It enabled him to complete 370 marathons in the year and to win the Race Across USA (competing with a group of elite marathon-runners) by 30 hours. As Paula Radcliffe commented: 'This is amazing!' Marathon Man shows exactly why and how he achieved it.