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  Little Book of Manchester City

  David Clayton

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  City won the League Championship for the first time in 44 years following a thrilling Premier League campaign. A last-gasp Sergio Aguero goal against QPR secures the title in the most dramatic of fashions at a jubilant Etihad Stadium. Managed by Roberto Mancini, the club is now amongst the favourites to win both the Premier League and the Champions League. Celebrity supporters include the Gallagher brothers formerly of Oasis. Their biggest rivalry is against city neighbours Manchester United especially after they pipped the Reds to the league title last season on goal difference

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  The Hidden Game of Baseball

  John Thorne, Pete Palmer

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  The acclaimed classic on the statistical analysis of baseball records in order to evaluate players and win more games. 
   
  Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he’d honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the sabermetric revolution by demonstrating that we were thinking about baseball stats—and thus the game itself—all wrong. Instead of praising sluggers for gaudy RBI totals or pitchers for wins, Thorn and Palmer argued in favor of more subtle measurements that correlated much more closely to the ultimate goal: winning baseball games. 
   
  The new gospel promulgated by Thorn and Palmer opened the door for a flood of new questions, such as how a ballpark’s layout helps or hinders offense or whether a strikeout really is worse than another kind of out. Taking questions like these seriously—and backing up the answers with data—launched a new era, showing fans, journalists, scouts, executives, and even players themselves a new, better way to look at the game. 
   
  This brand-new edition retains the body of the original, with its rich, accessible analysis rooted in a deep love of baseball, while adding a new introduction by the authors tracing the book’s influence over the years. A foreword by ESPN’s lead baseball analyst, Keith Law, details The Hidden Game’s central role in the transformation of baseball coverage and team management and shows how teams continue to reap the benefits of Thorn and Palmer’s insights today. Thirty years after its original publication, The Hidden Game is still bringing the high heat—a true classic of baseball literature. 
   
  Praise for The Hidden Game 
   
  “As grateful as I was for the publication of The Hidden Game of Baseball when it first showed up on my bookshelf, I’m even more grateful now. It’s as insightful today as it was then. And it’s a reminder that we haven’t applauded Thorn and Palmer nearly loudly enough for their incredible contributions to the use and understanding of the awesome numbers of baseball.” —Jayson Stark, senior baseball writer, ESPN.com 
   
  “Just as one cannot know the great American novel without Twain and Hemingway, one cannot know modern baseball analysis without Thorn and Palmer.” —Rob Neyer, FOX Sports

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  Diego Maradona: 1960 - 2020

  Harry Harris

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  The death of Diego Maradona in November 2020 shocked the football world but he left behind a unique legacy following a playing career packed with amazing moments on the pitch and controversy off it.
  Award-winning football journalist Harry Harris gives his personal perspective on Maradona's life story as one of only a few British writers to have been granted access to arguably the world's greatest ever player.
  He is helped by World Cup winner Ossie Ardiles who was a close friend of Diego's for most of his life having first seen the boy wonder at close quarters performing football tricks in the warm-up at an international match in 1975 before Diego became a regular in the Argentina side.  Harry has captured Ossie's personal recollections of his close friend in graphic detail, and has also compiled a selection of all the worldwide tributes that poured in after his death.
  As the Daily Mirror chief football writer and one of the most prominent sports journalists of his generation, Harris followed Diego's career with first-hand knowledge and experience. He was present in the Azteca stadium when Maradona scored the most controversial and then the greatest goal in World Cup history and was also at the press conference in Dallas in 1994 following a positive drug test.
  Harry is one of the few global journalists afforded a one-to-one interview with Diego and he gives an account of the remarkable and incredible personal circumstances surrounding that exclusive interview.

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  Sex Death and Fly-Fishing

  John Gierach

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  From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life's greatest mysteries: sex, death, and fly-fishing.John Gierach's quest takes us from his quiet home water (an ordinary, run-of-the-mill trout stream where fly-fishing can be a casual affair) to Utah's famous Green River, and to unknown creeks throughout the Western states and Canada. We're introduced to a lively group of fishing buddies, some local "experts," and even an ex-girlfriend, along the way.Contemplative, evocative, and wry, he shares insights on mayflies and men, fishing and sport, life and love, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of it all.

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  Fight Like a Marine - Close...

  U.S. Department of Defense

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  This book thoroughly explains military techniques of close combat fighting necessary for self-defense in every situation. They will enhance your strength, flexibility, balance, and cardio-respiratory fitness. The practice will help you build personal courage, self confidence and self-discipline. Be as prepared and skillful as a U.S. Marine and act instantly when an unexpected confrontation occurs. Close combat fighting is an engagement between two or more persons in an empty-handed struggle, or with hand-held weapons such as knives or sticks.
  Table of Contents:
  Introduction:
  Definition of Combatives
  Purposes of Combative Training
  Safety…
  Training:
  Responsibilities of Trainers
  Safety Precautions
  Warm-Ups and Stretches
  Crawl, Walk, and Run
  Execution at Combat Speed
  Drills…
  Basic Ground-Fighting Techniques: 
  Back Mount
  Front Mount
  Guard
  Side Control 
  Body Positioning Moves
  Finishing Moves
  Drills
  Defense Against Headlocks…
  Advanced Ground-Fighting Techniques:
  Advanced Body Positions
  Pass the Guard
  Attacks from the Mount
  Attacks from the Back Mount 
  Attacks from the Guard
  Knee Mount
  Leg Attacks
  Striking from Side Control
  Defending Against Strikes in the Guard…
  Takedowns and Throws:
  Breakfalls
  Closing the Distance and Achieving the Clinch
  Takedowns from Against a Wall
  Double Leg Attack
  Single Leg Attack
  Attacks from the Rear
  Throws and Takedowns
  Strikes:
  Arm Strikes
  Punching Combinations
  Kicks
  Transition Between Ranges
  Handheld Weapons:
  Angles of Attack
  Rifle with Fixed Bayonet
  Knife-against-knife sequence
  Entrenching Tool
  Three-Foot Stick
  Defense Against the Knife…
  Standing Defense: 
  Lethal Force Scenarios
  Restrictive Force Scenarios
  Two Against One
  Three Against Two
  Group Tactics 
  Lethal Force Scenarios
  Restrictive Force Scenarios
  Competitions

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  The Dream Team - The 1988-89...

  Larry Henry

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  During its six-game NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Championship run, number three-seeded Michigan defeated fourteen-seeded Xavier 92–87,  six-seeded South Alabama 91–82,  two-seeded North Carolina 92–87,  five-seeded Virginia 102–65, one-seeded Illinois 83–81, and three-seeded Seton Hall 80–79 in overtime. The team, coached by Bill Fisher in the tournament, featured the following future NBA players: Glen Rice, Rumeal Robinson, Loy Vaught, Terry Mills, and Sean Higgins.

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