From the Lane

A riveting A-Z of sports miscellany and quippery from the writers and presenters of the award-winning Radio 5 show.

Goes through the stories of fourteen major sports from cricket to boxing to football, from their beginning and throughout the British Isles, whether it's Welsh inventor and tobacco enthusiast Major Walter Clopton Wingfield coming up with a game that could use those new fangled rubber balls (modern tennis) or the Scots inventing the golf club.

A hilarious collection of anecdotes from Britain's best-loved sporting double-act.

Boomerang throwing is a popular sport that is practiced around the world. This kit contains booklet and a mini boomerang. The booklet provides tips and instructions that aim to demystify this seemingly magical device.

Looks in-depth at the anatomy of the body when stretching. This title is suitable for gym users, personal trainers, athletes, sports therapists, coaches, and more. It looks at different aspects of stretching, and features more than 300 full-colour illustrations that reveal the primary and secondary muscles worked in 115 key stretches.

What is it about sport that holds us in such thrall? Why is it so profoundly important? Simon Barnes, award-winning chief sportswriter for The Times ponders such matters as the intellectual genius of Wayne Rooney, the mythic nature of Steve Redgrave, the making of Andrew Flintoff. At every step he revels in sport's extraordinary resonance in the human mind and heart. He examines the iron grip ...

AQA Physical Education for AS is the only set of resources to have been developed with, and exclusively endorsed by, AQA making them the first choice to support the new AQA specification for AS and A2.

The most exhilarating sporting personalities and events of the past 40 years as seen through the eyes of the searingly honest, witty and pre-eminent journalist Ian Wooldridge.

Tells the story of sport from ancient times to the 21st century. This book describes the triumphs and breakthroughs - as well as the cheating and skulduggery - that have created the modern world of sport. It contains anecdotes to help readers turn into sporting experts.

There is a huge category of sports fan: people who love a bloody good argument. Sport makes them think, engage and argue. This book describes the virtues of amateurism in professional world and explains why there'll never be another sportsman as dominant as Don Bradman. It unearths the hidden dimensions of England's 2005 Ashes win.