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  Proteas The: 20 Years 20...

  Neil Manthorp

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  SA’s premier cricketing journalist, Neil Manthorp, presents twenty of the Proteas’ landmark cricket matches from the last twenty years to mark the 20th anniversary of our return to international competition (on 10 November 1991 at Eden Gardens, Calcutta). Including new interviews with many of the players involved, this unique and exciting book is a celebration, analysis and ultimately history of the Proteas since that pioneering series. Includes profiles of 15 of the greatest recent SA players, plus five of our most revered adversaries.

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  Ball Four

  Jim Bouton

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  The 50th Anniversary edition of “the book that changed baseball” (NPR), chosen by Time magazine as one of the “100 Greatest Non-Fiction” books.   When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries.   Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four. Fans liked discovering that athletes were real people—often wildly funny people. David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer for his reporting on Vietnam, wrote a piece in Harper’s that said of Bouton: “He has written . . . a book deep in the American vein, so deep in fact that it is by no means a sports book.”   Today Ball Four has taken on another role—as a time capsule of life in the sixties. “It is not just a diary of Bouton’s 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros,” says sportswriter Jim Caple. “It’s a vibrant, funny, telling history of an era that seems even further away than four decades. To call it simply a ‘tell all book’ is like describing The Grapes of Wrath as a book about harvesting peaches in California.”   Includes a new foreword by Jim Bouton's wife, Paula Kurman   “An irreverent, best-selling book that angered baseball’s hierarchy and changed the way journalists and fans viewed the sports world.” —The Washington Post

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  A weight loss lifestyle + a...

  Adeleye G.V

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  You wonder why a lot of people engage who engage in Dieting tend to lose weight temporarily. That’s is because Dieting is a temporary solution to losing weight. When you Diet for some time, the moment you get the desired result, you tend to quit Dieting to go back to your usual eating habits, and then the weight comes right back up. 
  Diets have short-term goals, the moment the plan (which is you losing weight) is reached, the dieting stops. 
  But have you ever considered making it a lifestyle as well? 
  Unlike Diets, Lifestyles are usually more permanent because it encompasses the way you live your life, the kinds of food you eat, how frequently you exercise, your vegetable intake and so on. 
  So, therefore, when people make changes to their lifestyles, it is usually for a permanent purpose; they do it because they want to continue to live in that manner, not because they have a goal to achieve at a set date or period. 
  Losing weight involves more than just being on a diet and engaging in exercises frequently; it is more about your lifestyle. 
  However, this book would guide you on losing weight the right way by making it your lifestyle.

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  Mental Toughness in Golf - 9 of...

  Professor Aidan Moran

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  9 of 10 Performing under Pressure 
  What does the word “pressure” mean to you? If you’re like most players, you associate it with feeling nervous or apprehensive about something, having negative thoughts, and experiencing a variety of unpleasant sensations like rapid breathing, a pounding heart, butterflies in your stomach and trembling hands. And that’s just on the first teebox! But joking apart, what do you really know about performing under pressure in golf? 
  Well, many players believe both that pressure is inevitable in golf and that there is very little you can do to overcome it. But both of these beliefs are wrong. Firstly, there is an important difference between pressure situations and pressure reactions. To clarify, although pressure situations – like facing a 6-foot downhill putt to halve a hole in matchplay - are inevitable in golf, your anxious response to them is not inevitable. 
  In this audio presentation, Sara is going to explain the secret of performing well under pressure - how to do our best when it matters most. In the first part, she will explore what anxiety or nervousness is, where it comes from, and how it affects your performance in golf. After that, she will provide some practical tips on how to control it so that you can perform well in pressure situations. 
   
  Written by Professor Aidan Moran. Aidan is Director of the Psychology Research Laboratory in University College, Dublin. Aidan’s work for the last twenty years has included one to one coaching on mental toughness with top players including Major winners. Narrated by Sara Dylan.

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  All or Nothing at All - The Life...

  Steve Chilton

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  Billy Bland set fellrunning records in the 80s and 90s while working at quarrying, building and stonewalling in his native Borrowdale. His 1982 Bob Graham Round record stood until 2018 when it was, at last, surpassed by the phenomenal Kilian Jornet. First and forever though, he is a champion of his beloved Lake District and the people who live there.Filled with stories of competition and rich in northern humor, All or Nothing At All is testimony to the life spent in the fells by one of their greatest champions, Billy Bland.

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  Inside the Box - How CrossFit ®...

  T. J. Murphy

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  In Inside the Box, veteran journalist and marathoner T.J. Murphy goes all in to expose the gritty, high-intensity sport of CrossFit®. Murphy faced a future with a permanent limp from one too many marathons. Desperate to reclaim his fitness and strength, the 47-year-old signed up for his first CrossFit® workout with nothing to lose. Anaerobically blasted by each workout of the day, Murphy discovered a sweat-soaked fitness revolution that’s transforming bodies and lives. CrossFit is the sport of fitness, a radical new approach to exercise that is turning the traditional gym workout upside down. Every day at thousands of CrossFit gyms across America, fitness seekers of all shapes and sizes flex their inner athlete by racing to finish fast-paced workouts. Each workout mixes weight lifting and gymnastics into an explosively effective and addictive new way to lose weight and carve out a new physique. Inside the Box is Murphy’s journey through CrossFit. From staggering newcomer to evangelist, Murphy finds out how it feels, why it’s so popular, whether it can fix his broken body.

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