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The Azeem Rafiq affair made cricket ask itself tough questions about race and class. From the end of Joe Root's reign to the T20 World Cup and on to Bazball's triumph at a breathless Oval, this book takes an unsentimental yet affectionate look at how cricket can face up to these challenges. It's written for lovers of the game.

Qatar's successful bid for the World Cup shocked the football world. Until then, we only knew that it was hot, home to rich people and hardly the home of democracy. How could such a place stage football's top tournament? Armchair Guide goes beyond the noise, taking a sideways look at everything from human rights to the cost of a pint at a game.

The life and times of the last man hanged in Birmingham

Author and Entrepreneur Phillip Berry contends that self-funded employers have many options to address the healthcarechallenges we face and that the health centers in which we've invested present our most powerful option for healthcare costs and outcomes.Using lessons learned from working with hundreds of employer-sponsored health centers across the United States, Berry offersa point of view, a model, and a path forward for those seeking to le...

Remember waking up thinking of a competition, presentation, or performance ahead of you? The thrill. The butterflies. Every day presents an opportunity to try your best, to be your best. This book is a personal growth devotional that aspires to lead the reader through key opportunities to make every day a game day in their own life.

From the Premier League to the local park, Project Restart looks at how seven clubs from the English game found their way through lockdown and tried to get going again. With a range of voices and comment, the book places football in its new world of furloughs and community action as clubs try to make sense of their place in a post-Covid future.

Last-day survival or nail-biting promotion, embarrassing cup exits and perennial non-achievement. Then occasional, almost unbelievable, moments of glory. That's the story of being a Birmingham City supporter - and it speaks to hopelessly committed fans everywhere, whatever their team. Hugging Strangers takes a wry look at how football grips us all.

You had one bath a week whether you needed it or not. You knew with iron certainty what was for tea on any given day of the week. There was every possibility that grown-ups, known to you or not, might clout you.But being a child of the 1950s endowed you with privileges that could only have been dreamt of by previous generations. Free secondary education and health services and, for a while, a booming economy and full employment not that you kn...

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A wonderful account of a mad, disrupting, unforgiving but ultimately joyous addiction to both the ferox and the truly wild waterscapes of Scotland.

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