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Sports Injuries: Their Treatment By Homoeopathy And Acupressure Alternative Medicine Naturopathy and Homeopathy In these days of intense competition in both amateur and professional athletics, there is an increasing number of injuries.Homoeopathy and Acupressure do not supplant the normal manipulative therapy, but homoeopathic remedies are usually speedier in action and more effective that the usual drug therapy. In addition there is no risk of undesirable effects which can often occur after the administration of orthodox drugs.It can be fairly claimed that homoeopathy gives earlier relief from shock and pain, and quicker and more lasting healing of sprains, fractures and other injuries.The manipulations of the trainer, based on the sound principles of restoring position and function at the earliest moment are not called into question. It will be found, however, that homoeopathic treatments plus the use of acupressure, complement them and provide speedy recovery.Certain injuries and conditions have a habit of cropping up in sport and each particular sport has its own collection of regular injuries. With this in mind the book is divided into separate chapters, each concentrating on a particular sport.A simple to use practical handbook. Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Ebury Publishing Publication date 6/22/2009 Binding Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 91934877	£2.99	Visit Store »
Rough Ride Generals Lexicons Handbooks Yearbooks History and Theory First published in 1990, Rough Ride is one of the greatest books ever written about the life of a professional athlete. Almost twenty years later, Yellow Jersey is publishing an updated edition of this cycling classic, with a new foreword by the author which reflects on his life both inside and outside the sport.Paul Kimmage's boyhood dreams were of cycling glory: wearing the yellow jersey, cycling the Tour de France, becoming a national hero. He knew it wouldn't come easy, but he was prepared to put in the graft: he spent his teenage years cycling an average of 400 miles per week.The dedication began to pay off. As an amateur, he represented his country and finished sixth in the World Championships. In 1986 he turned professional. That's when reality hit. He soon discovered it wasn't about glory and courage, and it wasn't about how much training you put in or how much you wanted to win. It was about gruelling defeats, complete and utter exhaustion, and it was about drugs. Not drugs that would ensure victory, but drugs that would allow you to finish the race and start another day.Paul Kimmage left the sport to write this book. It is a powerful and frank account that breaks the law of silence surrounding the issue of drugs in sport. An eye-opening expose and a heartbreaking lament, it is a book that anyone interested in any sport should read. Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Random House Publication date 6/7/2007 Binding Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 224080172	£8.99	Visit Store »
Rough Ride Generals Lexicons Handbooks Yearbooks History and Theory First published in 1990, Rough Ride is one of the greatest books ever written about the life of a professional athlete. Almost twenty years later, Yellow Jersey is publishing an updated edition of this cycling classic, with a new foreword by the author which reflects on his life both inside and outside the sport.Paul Kimmage's boyhood dreams were of cycling glory: wearing the yellow jersey, cycling the Tour de France, becoming a national hero. He knew it wouldn't come easy, but he was prepared to put in the graft: he spent his teenage years cycling an average of 400 miles per week.The dedication began to pay off. As an amateur, he represented his country and finished sixth in the World Championships. In 1986 he turned professional. That's when reality hit. He soon discovered it wasn't about glory and courage, and it wasn't about how much training you put in or how much you wanted to win. It was about gruelling defeats, complete and utter exhaustion, and it was about drugs. Not drugs that would ensure victory, but drugs that would allow you to finish the race and start another day.Paul Kimmage left the sport to write this book. It is a powerful and frank account that breaks the law of silence surrounding the issue of drugs in sport. An eye-opening expose and a heartbreaking lament, it is a book that anyone interested in any sport should read. Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Random House Publication date 6/30/2009 Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1409078345	£9.38	Visit Store »
Beyond A Boundary Other Sports C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Random House Publication date 7/7/2005 Binding Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 022407427x	£8.99	Visit Store »
Not A Proper Journalist Letters Diaries Biographies and Autobiographies Bob Humphrys is one of the most famous names in sports journalism. As sports correspondent of BBC Wales's flagship news programme Wales Today, he was at the centre of every major story of the past twenty turbulent years. He was there right at the heart of Ruddockgate, there on the players' balcony when Glamorgan celebrated winning a county championship, there in the Mondeo driving Joe Calzaghe to his first world title fight. In short, he was where every sports fan would love to be - as close to the action as you can get without scoring a try, taking a corner or hitting a four.Despite a life-long love affair with sport, Bob wasn't always a sports journalist. Early in his career, his brother John - the Rottweiler of Radio 4's Today programme - took him aside and told him, 'The one thing you want to avoid is covering sport - that is not proper journalism.' But the man who always read his newspaper from back to front found it hard to resist sport's magnetic pull. After his successful stints as a feature writer and current affairs reporter - encountering everyone from Argentinian presidents to Danish drug dealers and Sir Anthony Hopkins Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Random House Publication date 11/13/2008 Binding Hardback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 224082752	£17.99	Visit Store »
Not A Proper Journalist Letters Diaries Biographies and Autobiographies Bob Humphrys is one of the most famous names in sports journalism. As sports correspondent of BBC Wales's flagship news programme Wales Today, he was at the centre of every major story of the past twenty turbulent years. He was there right at the heart of Ruddockgate, there on the players' balcony when Glamorgan celebrated winning a county championship, there in the Mondeo driving Joe Calzaghe to his first world title fight. In short, he was where every sports fan would love to be - as close to the action as you can get without scoring a try, taking a corner or hitting a four.Despite a life-long love affair with sport, Bob wasn't always a sports journalist. Early in his career, his brother John - the Rottweiler of Radio 4's Today programme - took him aside and told him, 'The one thing you want to avoid is covering sport - that is not proper journalism.' But the man who always read his newspaper from back to front found it hard to resist sport's magnetic pull. After his successful stints as a feature writer and current affairs reporter - encountering everyone from Argentinian presidents to Danish drug dealers and Sir Anthony Hopkins Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Random House Publication date 10/6/2009 Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1409078493	£18.76	Visit Store »
Four Kings: Leonard Hagler Hearns Duran And The Last Great Era Of Boxing Sport By the late 1970s, boxing had lapsed into a moribund state and interest in it was on the wane. In 1980, however, the sport was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an improbably dissimilar quartet: Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran. The 'Four Kings of the Ring' would fight one another nine times throughout the decade and win sixteen world titles between them. Like Ali and Frazier, Dempsey and Tunney, Robinson and LaMotta, these four boxers brought out the best in each other, producing unprecedented multi-million-dollar gates along the way. Each of the nine bouts between the four men was memorable in its own way and at least two of them Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Mainstream Publishing Publication date 7/3/2008 Binding Trade Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1845963598	£10.99	Visit Store »
Johnny Owen Sport Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Mainstream Publishing Publication date 12/1/2005 Binding Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1845960424	£7.99	Visit Store »
Muddied Oafs Ball Games There is Rugby Union: the fast, compelling, TV-friendly combat sport in which sponsored gladiators are sold on their ability to crash into each other at top speed, and sometimes even to avoid each other and score. And then there's rugger. Rugger was once the serious version of rugby, more than a mere game, a fierce contact-sport developed in Victorian public schools to forge manly and unshakeable character. For a hundred years boys played rugger and made themselves into men. They also drank too much beer and took their trousers down in public. The dark-side of rugger the man-maker is the recidivist, the dreaded English rugger-bugger. Setting out to examine this contradiction, Richard Beard tries to reconcile contrasting views of rugby and rugger with the diversity of characters he meets, from Booker Prize winning authors to former England hookers. He explores rugby's rivalry with soccer, its influence on the first World War, its surprising attraction for non-conformists, and it's unlikely role in international organised crime. And all the while he's trying to get himself a game. This is Beard's quest into his rugby-playing past, where he's lived the sport in many of its varied forms. By the end of his wayward journey, he almost qualifies to judge whether rugger has achieved what the Victorians always intended, and made him a better man. Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Random House Publication date 10/7/2004 Binding Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 224063944	£8.99	Visit Store »
The Encyclopedia Of The Motor Cycle Sport video and Dvd buy Review this product	Review this store The Works 9780000001534	£6.99	Visit Store »
Cycling For Competition (hardback) Books sport Review this product	Review this store The Works 9780000001637	£3.99	Visit Store »
Enzo Ferrari: A Life General Lexicons and Handbooks For tens of millions of people around the world, a single name evokes the world of speed - Enzo Ferrari. Today's Formula One would be unthinkable without the presence of the Ferrari cars on the grid. Win or lose, Ferrari attract more fans than all the other teams combined. And the cars unique appeal - their mystique, their myth - has its origins in the story of one man with a dictator's will and the cunning of a Machiavelli.Going back to the origins of 'The Old Man', tracing his remarkable rise to prominence, and using sources which have hitherto remained silent, Richard Williams tells the story of a man who was one of the key figures of sport in the twentieth century, and whose influence over his sport is undiminished today, more than a decade after his death. Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Random House Publication date 9/5/2002 Binding Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 224059866	£9.99	Visit Store »
Enzo Ferrari: A Life General Lexicons and Handbooks For tens of millions of people around the world, a single name evokes the world of speed - Enzo Ferrari. Today's Formula One would be unthinkable without the presence of the Ferrari cars on the grid. Win or lose, Ferrari attract more fans than all the other teams combined. And the cars unique appeal - their mystique, their myth - has its origins in the story of one man with a dictator's will and the cunning of a Machiavelli.Going back to the origins of 'The Old Man', tracing his remarkable rise to prominence, and using sources which have hitherto remained silent, Richard Williams tells the story of a man who was one of the key figures of sport in the twentieth century, and whose influence over his sport is undiminished today, more than a decade after his death. Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Random House Publication date 2/28/2011 Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1446450376	£10.42	Visit Store »
Benny: The Life And Times Of A Fighting Legend Sport Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Mainstream Publishing Publication date 10/3/2002 Binding Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1840186615	£7.99	Visit Store »
Easy Ryder: Europes Magnificent K Club Triumph: Three In A Row! Sport Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Mainstream Publishing Publication date 10/5/2006 Binding Hardback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1845961757	£16.99	Visit Store »
Unbroken Sport The new book from the author of the bestselling and much-loved Seabiscuit. Delivery time 5 - 7 days Delivery cost 1.95 Author Laura Hillenbrand Review this product	Review this store The Book People 9780007378012	£16.00	Visit Store »
Martial Arts: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Martial Arts and Self Defence New Holland Publisher Brazilian jiu jitsu is a martial art and combat sport that emphasizes ground grappling. The premise is that most of the advantage of a larger, stronger opponent comes from superior reach and more powerful strikes, both of which are largely negated if wrestling on the ground. Hence the huge success of Brazlian jiu jitsu fighters in mixed martial arts competitions. This book goes back to basics explaining the rules and regulations, scoring, basic principles of control, space, weight, leverage, sensitivity, timing and defence, movements on the ground, positions, common escapes, basic submission techniques and the sport aspects of Brazilian jiu jitsu. Review this product	Review this store New Holland 9781845377601	£14.99	Visit Store »
R/c Sport Ferrari Childrens Books toys and Games Radio Control Review this product	Review this store The Works 9780000000546	£5.99	Visit Store »
R/c Sport Audi Childrens Books toys and Games Radio Control Review this product	Review this store The Works 9780000000547	£5.99	Visit Store »
Ufc Ultimate Fighting Championship Official Fans Guide Sport other Toys UFC Review this product	Review this store The Works 9780000000905	£2.99	Visit Store »
Jinky Sport The amazing story of one of Scotland's most treasured football players Delivery time 5 - 7 days Delivery cost 1.95 Author Jim Black Review this product	Review this store The Book People 9780751539851	£7.19	Visit Store »
My Autobiography Sport Tony 'A.P.' McCoy is unquestionably the greatest jump jockey ever. Delivery time 5 - 7 days Delivery cost 1.95 Author A.P. McCoy Review this product	Review this store The Book People 9781409131663	£16.00	Visit Store »
Peter Pans First Xi Sport Hardback The story of possibly the most extraordinary cricket team ever to have taken the field. Delivery time 5 - 7 days Delivery cost 1.75 Author Kevin Telfer Publisher Stoughton General Division RRP 22.06 Review this product	Review this store The Book People IE 9780340919453	£4.50	Visit Store »
Boxings Hall Of Shame: The Fight Games Darkest Days Sport In Boxing Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Mainstream Publishing Publication date 5/4/2006 Binding Trade Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1845960815	£10.99	Visit Store »
Boxings Hall Of Shame: The Fight Games Darkest Days Sport In Boxing Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Mainstream Publishing Publication date 2/7/2008 Binding Paperback Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1845962044	£7.99	Visit Store »
Boxings Hall Of Shame: The Fight Games Darkest Days Sport In Boxing Delivery time please check website Delivery cost please check website Publisher Mainstream Publishing Publication date 3/11/2011 Review this product	Review this store rBooks 1845969634	£8.34	Visit Store »
Hitman Sport A story of death, sex, betrayal and revenge; sweat, steroids and duplicity. Delivery time 5 - 7 days Delivery cost 1.95 Author Bret Hart Review this product	Review this store The Book People 9780091932862	£5.59	Visit Store »
Racing Through The Dark Sport Tour de France cyclist comes to terms with drug use and cleans up. Delivery time 5 - 7 days Delivery cost 1.95 Author David Millar Review this product	Review this store The Book People 9781409114949	£15.19	Visit Store »
Harold Larwood Sport The first biography of England's finest and most controversial fast bowler. Delivery time 5 - 7 days Delivery cost 1.95 Author Duncan Hamilton Review this product	Review this store The Book People 9781847249494	£16.00	Visit Store »
Harold Larwood Sport The first biography of England's finest and most controversial fast bowler. Delivery time 5 - 7 days Delivery cost 1.95 Author Duncan Hamilton Review this product	Review this store The Book People 9781849162074	£7.19	Visit Store »

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