Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Paperback - Andrew Zimbalist

Reducere. Beyond the headlines of the world's most beloved sporting eventsBrazil hosted the 2016 men's World Cup at a cost of $15 billion to $20 billion, bui...

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Get inside the life and history of this great, globally popular sporting eventPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Paul MasonNumber of pa...

Reducere. When Rassie Erasmus took over as coach of the Springboks in 2018, few thought they had a chance of winning the Rugby World Cup. The Boks had slippe...

THE World Cup 2022 Book is a fun, informative guide to the soccer World Cup.Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) LtdAuthor(s): Shane StayIllustratio...

The second in the Circus Maximus adventure series. Dido is the only girl ever to have won victory at the Circus Maximus, but it comes at a price. E...

Circus Maximus, the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world, where the best horses and charioteers compete in a race to the death, and o...

Circus Maximus, the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world, where the best horses and charioteers compete in a race to the death, and o...

The second in the Circus Maximus adventure series. Dido is the only girl ever to have won victory at the Circus Maximus, but it comes at a price. E...

No Longer Naive is a history of African football at the World Cup. For many years, African teams were labelled naive in their approach to football,...

"This afternoon I shall go to my own funeral service before I watch them bury me under six feet of London clay."Publisher: The Book Guild LtdAuthor...

Reducere. In the Best Interests of Baseball? is a thoughtful, balanced look at the impact of the ninth commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, on the sport as w...

Publisher: Birlinn GeneralAuthor(s): Andrew DownieIllustration(s): 16 Plates, black and whiteNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Tour the sites of Rome with David Starkey's garrulous new guide to the Italian Renaissance in fifty pocket-sized poems.Publisher: BiblioasisAuthor(...

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DescriptionWhether the reader is a newcomer to rugby union or a seasoned supporter, this comprehensive guide to the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan w...

Reducere. Although history has swept James Anthony Bailey into the iconic shadow of P. T. Barnum, Bailey was the hard-working manager and the driving force b...

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The US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics left German lawyer Thomas Bach unable to defend his fencing title, but decades later as IOC president he...

The FIFA World Cup is arguably the biggest sporting event on earth. This book is the first to focus on the business and management of the World Cup...

Reducere. WHAT IF...you could spend almost every day of your life at the circus?WHAT IF...you could travel with that circus around the world, seeing sights t...

Reducere. Now in paperback, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, here is the blockbuster story of the 1960 S...

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A complete match-by-match statistical record of the Intercontinental Cup (played between the winners of the European Cup and Copa Libertadores) whi...

Reducere. Callous Disregard is the account of how a doctor confronted first a disease and then the medical system that sought and still seeks to deny that di...

The Special Relationship delves into the fascinating story behind gridiron football's arrival in the United Kingdom. The book chronicles how the sp...

Reducere. THE ILLUMINATI This book begins by taking you back to when the Illuminati was first founded in 1776. It details the first few years of the Illumina...

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"England won the football World Cup in 1966.However websites all around the world are suddenly reporting that Portugal won it in 1966 because Engla...

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Between June and July 2010, 64 games of football determined that Spain was the world's best team at the World Cup in South Africa. South Africans -...

The Team have achieved everything Harvey had dreamed they would. They've won a silver trophy, medals, league titles, and they hold the Superstars R...

This is the story of the 2002 World Cup, a tournament that saw heart-warming stories and controversy intertwined. The book resurrects the great cha...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Andrew ZimbalistIllustration(s): 31 tablesNumber of pages: 388Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x...

Publisher: World Scientific Europe LtdAuthor(s): John R (Texas Christian Univ, Usa) FanchiNumber of pages: 356Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 159...

Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back: British Economic Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Financial Crisis - Nicholas Crafts

Publishing as a Special, Frankie's biggest adventure ever sees him magic-ed to Brazil to help take the England team to World Cup victory. Can he sa...

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Reducere. "Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining...

Reducere. Maximus the Confessor (580-662) was a monk whose writings focused on ascetical interpretations of biblical and patristic works. For his refusal to ...

Publisher: Soccer Books LtdAuthor(s): Gabriel MantzNumber of pages: 389Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 151 x 211 x 22Cover type: Paperback / soft...

The 2019 Cricket World Cup is commemorated in this unique collection of match reports and articles from the pages of The TimesIllustrations: 16 Pla...

Be transported pitch-side in this story of the fluctuating fortunes and football heroics that marked Northern Ireland's 1982 campaign. Based on new...

This book aims to understand the predicaments of 'left behind places' and the scale of the policy challenge of 'levelling up' their economic prospe...

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Reducere. An exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world - Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.

In the Heat of the Midday Sun is a homage to arguably the last truly iconic World Cup. Hosted with only three years' notice, and despite a devastat...

Qatar s successful bid for the World Cup shocked the football world. We only knew that it was hot, home to rich people and hardly the home of democ...

Patton's Last Gamble vividly recounts Gen. George Patton's ill-fated mission to liberate a German POW camp where his son-in-law and other Americans...