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  Walking Through Glasgow's...

  Ian R Mitchell

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  Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past sets out to retrieve the hidden architectural, cultural and historical riches of some of Glasgow's industrial and working-class districts. Many who enjoy the fruits of Glasgow's recent gentrification may be surprised and delighted by the gems which Ian Mitchell has uncovered beyond the usual haunts.

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  PQ-7: You Against Yourself -...

  Manjul Gupta

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  The definitive mental toughness audio series for recreational athletes. 🎧Every Saturday morning, people wake up early, pack their bags, and drive to a pickleball court. Not because anyone is making them. Not because a trophy is waiting. Because somewhere along the way, the court became the most honest place in their week. 
  PQ-7 introduces a framework designed for understanding who you are becoming through sport, not just how well you are playing it.Seven dimensions. Seven characters you will recognize from your own court. Seven questions that will follow you home. 
  • DRIVE IQ • HEART IQ • GAME IQ • RECOVERY IQ • JOY IQ • POST-GAME IQ • CAMARADERIE IQ 
  You already know these people. You are already one of them.This is not really an audiobook about pickleball. It is a psychological mirror reflecting who shows up when pressure, partners, competition, recovery, joy, and belonging reveal what is already there. 
  For recreational athletes, parents of young athletes, and anyone striving to become a better version of themselves, PQ-7 explores identity, resilience, friendship, self-awareness, and the quiet ways we grow through community, competition, setbacks, and everyday moments. 
  Whether you play pickleball, tennis, golf, basketball, soccer, or no sport at all, the lessons are the same. Any court will do. 
  Narrated by the author, Manjul Gupta, Ph.D. 
  Perfect for listeners of: The Pickleball Podcast, Finding Mastery with Michael Gervais, The Way of Champions Podcast, and Brené Brown's Unlocking Us. 
  Topics: Pickleball psychology, sports mindset, mental toughness, athletic identity, recreational sports, self-awareness, community building, resilience, mindfulness in sport, pickleball audiobook, sports psychology.

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  Bare Knuckle Boxing - The Truth...

  Stu Armstrong

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  "Bare Knuckle Boxing - The Truth, The Blood & The Tears" by Stu Armstrong is a raw and unfiltered look into the gritty world of bare-knuckle boxing, a sport that has exploded in popularity in recent years. Armstrong, having worked directly within the sport, offers readers an insider's view of its controversies, including dirty tricks and hidden secrets that have long remained out of public view. 
  Bare-knuckle boxing, often considered the purest form of pugilism, strips away the gloves and the formalities of traditional boxing, leaving behind an intense and primal combat experience. Armstrong aims to lift the veil on the sport's inner workings, revealing both the brutal reality and the passion that fuels its fighters. 
  This book is poised to challenge perceptions and present the sport in a light that is both brutally honest and potentially shocking. If you're ready for the raw truth behind the blood and tears of bare-knuckle boxing, this is the book that delivers.

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  The Gas and Flame Men - Baseball...

  Jim Leeke

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  The Gas and Flame Men is the first full account of Major League ballplayers who served in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. Four players, two club executives, and a manager served in the small and hastily formed branch, six of them as gas officers. Remarkably, five of the seven—Christy Mathewson, Branch Rickey, Ty Cobb, George Sisler, and Eppa "Jeptha" Rixey—are now enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York. The son of a sixth Hall of Famer, player and manager Ned Hanlon, was a young officer killed in action in France with the First Gas Regiment. Prominent chemical soldiers also included veteran Major League catcher and future manager George "Gabby" Street and Boston Braves president and former Harvard football coach Percy D. Haughton. 
   
   
   
  The Gas and Flame Men explores how these famous baseball men, along with an eclectic mix of polo players, collegiate baseball and football stars, professors, architects, and prominent social figures all came together in the Chemical Warfare Service. Jim Leeke examines their service and its long-term effects on their physical and mental health—and on Major League Baseball and the world of sports. The Gas and Flame Men also addresses historical inaccuracies and misperceptions surrounding Christy Mathewson's early death from tuberculosis, long attributed to wartime gas exposure.

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  A BIKE AT LARGE - Ordeals on Wheels

  Jo May

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  A Bike at Large is the fourth book in Jo’s ‘At Large’ series. 
  When he was overtaken by a jogger on a borrowed mountain bike, Jo knew it was time for drastic action. Welcome to the world of a man in his 60s and his new e-bike. 
  His first injury occurred within one foot! Setting off for his first practice ride round a car park, he misjudged the width of the handlebars and scraped his hand on the cycle shop’s stone wall. 
  ‘You’ll go places you’ll never have dreamed of,’ said the shop owner. Prophetic words indeed. Eighteen hours later Jo was embedded in his neighbours hedge due to a clothing malfunction. Fortunately, before setting out he’d put his ego and self-esteem in the top drawer in the kitchen. 
  With the emergency ambulance on speed-dial, Jo climbs a steep learning curve on a series of mini adventures throughout the north of England, mercifully with a diminishing distance to injury ratio. 
  By calling his e-bike a ‘Lifestyle Investment’, it took his wife’s mind off the cost. At the time she needed some new slippers, so it was a sensitive issue. Asked whether he was searching for eternal youth? ‘Not really,’ he said, ‘more trying to keep out of my eternal hole in the ground.’ 
  Fuelled by red wine and optimism, off he goes………

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  Right Down + Circle - Tony...

  Cole Nowicki

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  An exuberant, incisive look at how Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater transformed a culture
  		 
  Going from a hobby toy for surfers to an Olympic sport, skateboarding has had a tumultuous history. Today, professional skateboarders land endorsement deals with Nike and Adidas, while popular television series like HBO’s Betty tell the stories of diverse crews of skaters living in New York City. So how did a fledgling subculture rise from its near-death knell in the ’90s to become ubiquitous today? It was simply a matter of finding the right messenger.
  		 
  In 1999, the bestselling video game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was released, and a new generation was exposed to skateboarding culture right in their very own homes. Kids and adults alike could now spend hours playing as actual skateboarders, learning the vernacular, listening to the music skateboarders loved, and having fun onscreen before trying to skate IRL in the driveway.
  		 
  Right, Down + Circle explores how a video game starring the most famous pro skater in the world brought skateboarding culture — and its ever-shifting markers of music, subversion, and coolness — to the masses and ultimately transformed the culture it borrowed from in the process.

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