Featuring the largest and most diverse range of sports of any comparable book-more than 200 in all-from basketball to bobsledding, karate to korfball, synchronized swimming to ski-jumping, this up-to-date and authoritative guide presents information sourced from leading experts and sports governing bodies around the world to give you the most comprehensive book on sports to ever hit the market.
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The astroturf-clad coffee table book is more than just a conversation piece. It's the sports buff's bible, with rules and game-winning strategies for more than 200 sports, including 35 Summer Olympics events. --Men's Fitness
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Purchased as a birthday gift for my 12-year-old nephew and he just loves it. Says it has EVERYTHING in it.No problem with the order. Arrived on time and was exactly as depicted.
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Good friend for a P.E. Teacher,
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I teach physical education at a high school. This book has been great for two reasons.1) Children that do not change for class have to write an article review. Reviews about each sport (detailed history is not included about every sport) are entertaining and easy to understand for students. In addition, the rules of each game are described in very good detail that I have begun to use this book as a study guide for different sports. 2) Although the book does not recommend ways to alter games that can be played in a classroom- a little creativity goes a long way. My class just finished a "Team Handball" unit that became very easy to understand with the use of pictures in the book. We used a volleyball and tape on the court and a couple of soccer goals. Worked great. I can't give this book any less than 5 stars because it is a very complete book of just about any game you could ever think of. The only issue becomes, "Who would need that?!" Well, this guy did because I am a gym teacher. If you have a reason to know about underwater football, you might like this book too. I hope my review filled your heart with glee.
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Good cursory overview, but falls apart in the details,
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I'm a sports enthusiast, and this book caught my eye quite a while ago with its grassy cover. Good gimmick. I just found it on a bargain rack and decided to pick it up.It's not bad, but it could be a lot better. If you're looking to get a very cursory overview of lots of sports, and maybe learn about a few you never knew existed, this is a great book. But if you want in-depth details, you're going to be very disappointed. The book is also littered with grammatical errors (if I see another incorrect usage of "due to," I think I'll scream) ... don't publishers hire copy editors anymore? And then there are the little details that the publisher didn't get right in the graphics. For example, the rugby pitch is shown as being 100 meters long, from dead-ball line to dead-ball line. The text directly above it correctly states that it's 100 meters from try line to try line. A page earlier, an illustration of a Canadian football field lists it as being 150 yards long to the back of each end zone ... which is right, but the graphic shows the center of the field as being the 50-yard line, not the 55. It's the little details like these that make me suspicious about the accuracy in describing the sports I know nothing about. Too bad. A project like this held a lot of promise.
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By roughly 500 BCE, athletic festivals were being held throughout Greece. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
committee boat, first alpine skier, telltale board, inline roller hockey, individual sprint, canoe polo, trick skiing, pistol event, landing sector, rink hockey, popping crease, throwing circle, asymmetric bars, takeoff board, dirt jumps, shooting circle, hog line, artistic gymnastics, landing pit, windward mark, contest area, goal circle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Olympic Games, United States, World Championships, Formula One, Winter Olympics, World Cup, Winter Games, North America, New Zealand, South Africa, Soviet Union, World War, Grand Prix, Great Britain, International Olympic Committee, Australian Rules, Summer Olympics, Dakar Rally, Tour de France, Super Bowl, Laws of the Game, South Korea, Hong Kong, Munich Games, Lake Placid Browse Sample Pages:
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By roughly 500 BCE, athletic festivals were being held throughout Greece. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
committee boat, first alpine skier, telltale board, inline roller hockey, individual sprint, canoe polo, trick skiing, pistol event, landing sector, rink hockey, popping crease, throwing circle, asymmetric bars, takeoff board, dirt jumps, shooting circle, hog line, artistic gymnastics, landing pit, windward mark, contest area, goal circle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Olympic Games, United States, World Championships, Formula One, Winter Olympics, World Cup, Winter Games, North America, New Zealand, South Africa, Soviet Union, World War, Grand Prix, Great Britain, International Olympic Committee, Australian Rules, Summer Olympics, Dakar Rally, Tour de France, Super Bowl, Laws of the Game, South Korea, Hong Kong, Munich Games, Lake Placid Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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