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  The Magical Season 1971-72 Los...

  Dr. Elliott Haimoff

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  THE MAGICAL SEASON: 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers and the 50th Anniversary of the Greatest Record in Pro Sports History,” profiles the Los Angeles Lakers’ first championship since moving to LA 15 years earlier, but also covers their record-setting 33-game winning streak that season. This record of 33 straight wins covering over two months of play, still stands unbroken even after 50 years. This accomplishment is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest team records in pro sports history. No other team in any major pro sport has even come close to breaking that record since that achievement in 1972. This offers a unique insight into those days of yesteryear, with this compilation of the unedited and unadulterated interviews of over TWENTY (20) LA Lakers players, coaches, and other basketball icons of that era. All of these iconic basketball notables were personally interviewed for a TV documentary special covering that season, of which 14 of them are NBA Hall of Famers. John Ireland, the long-time LA Lakers announcer provides an introduction, as well as the summary and impact of this magical season on the NBA, that is still felt in pro basketball to this day.

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  Mountains of Tartary -...

  Eric Shipton

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  In Mountains of Tartary, mountaineering and explorer Eric Shipton describes his climbs and explorations in northern and central Asia, taking the reader places that most would otherwise never go and writing with humour and self-deprecation.
  During the Second World War, and up until 1951, Shipton worked as consul general in Kunming and Kashgar in China, and as a diplomat in Hungary and Persia. In Mountains of Tartary, he describes his climbs and explorations that take him from the barren steppes of central Asia, to glass-clear lakes and forested slopes. Shipton and his party enjoy varying degrees of hospitality from the local people and occasionally potentially dangerous encounters. The book details the exploits of the climbers, explorers and guides, including a hilarious drunken banquet with government officials.
  Mountains of Tartary is like a postcard from history – a must-read for any keen climber, walker or explorer.

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  Sports Byline: Mike Freeman

  Ron Barr

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  Mike Freeman is an NFL writer who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and many more. Freeman currently writes for Bleacher Report and has written multiple books, including biographies of Bobby Bowden and Jim Brown. In this Sports Byline interview, he discusses his book, Snake: The Legendary Life of Ken Stabler, and how the NFL has changed over the years.

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  Cap in Hand - How Salary Caps...

  Bruce Dowbiggin

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  Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB’s labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors “were an abomination … if you’re selling a sport and the players don’t care about winning, that’s not a sport. That’s a fraud … an exhibition masquerading as a contest.” Bill imagined a better model and proposed that, as opposed to limiting the number of teams in MLB to protect parity, a free market was capable of sustaining many more franchises — hundreds, even — if we would just allow it to sort out the level at which those cities might best compete.
   
  Cap in Hand goes a step further, arguing that a free market in sports teams and athletes once existed and could work again if the monopolists of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL would simply relent from salary-restraint schemes and reserve-clause models that result in elite talent being spread as thinly as possible and mediocrity being rewarded via amateur drafts and equalization payments.
   
  In fact, the model for this exists and may be the most wildly popular and monetarily successful of all professional sports: European football.
   
  Cap In Hand asks: what if the four major North American pro sports move beyond the restrictive covenants of the franchise model? The product sold to fans today is a pale copy of what it might be if the market could guide the best players to the best teams, whose ingenuity and innovation would inspire everyone to do better and put on a better show.

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  Wrath of the Dragon - The Real...

  John Little

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  NO RULES. NO PROBLEM.Bruce Lee remains the gold standard that all martial artists are compared to. But could he actually fight? World Champions in karate competition have gone on record to point out that he never once competed in tournaments. Were his martial abilities merely a trick of the camera?For the first time ever, Bruce Lee authority and bestselling author John Little takes a hard look at Bruce Lee's real-life fights to definitively answer these questions with over thirty years of research that took him thousands of miles. Little has tracked down over thirty witnesses to the real fights of Bruce Lee as well as those who were present at his many sparring sessions (in which he was never defeated) against the very best martial artists in the world.From the mean streets of Hong Kong, to challenge matches in Seattle and Oakland, to the sets of his iconic films where he was challenged repeatedly, this is the incredible real-life fighting record of the man known as the "Little Dragon," who may well have been the greatest fighter of the twentieth century.

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  Terrorism: Survive - All the...

  Sarah Connor

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  This audio-book is a second edition, an updated, re-mastered version of the title, "Terrorist: Be a Survivor Not a Statistic."
  
  In a world where every day brings news of a new terrorist atrocity whether in an airport, on a train or bus or at a night spot, theatre, restaurant, market place, or tourist attraction, we must open our eyes and become aware of what is happening around us. Unfortunately these days if we are in public places we must be vigilant.
  
  In this audio-book we have brought together current thinking from around the world, from experts in Northern Ireland and GB and from government departments in the UK, USA, and some countries in Europe to help improve your chances if you are caught up in a terrorist firearms or weapons attack.
  
  This audio-book is designed to give you and your friends and family the skills and simple steps needed to improve your survival chances by outfoxing the predator:
  
  What to do to survive a terrorist firearms and weapons attack
  How to develop survivor awareness
  How to develop the will to survive
  How to understand and manage your fear
  And how to travel safely
  In helping you to learn and assimilate these new skills, you will experience powerful attack scenario visualizations with Sarah Connor walking by your side through a simulated attack and identifying each key learning point and action.
  
  We would like to acknowledge the support and advice of the UK National Counter Terrorism Security Office in the making of this audio-book.

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