Product Description: The long awaited fourth edition of the popular APIL Guide to MIB Claims provides the practical advice that all personal injury litigators handling RTA cases need to advise clients whose claims involve section 151 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, or the untraced and uninsured drivers...read more

Product Description: Now in its second edition, APIL Guide to RTA Liability is written by a team of specialist personal injury (PI) lawyers and provides detailed practical guidance on every aspect of UK road traffic accident (RTA) liability. Thoroughly updated, the book is broken down into 26 accessible chapters, each focusing on a particular aspect of RTA liability, including coverage of: claims made in the UK arising from foreign accidents * the new EC directive consolidating all old RTA directives * pedestrians run down when drunk * failure to wear a seat belt * the definition of a motor vehicle * a new section containing draft model pleadings...read more

Product Description: Accusations of doping in bicycle racing, whether proven or presumed, are nothing new. Right from the early days of the sport, the use of "performance enhancers" has been a staple of the sport's rumor mill. The last two decades of the 19th century were the time when bicycle racing tracks all over Europe and America attracted huge crowds to watch and bet on the riders who were at the time literally the fastest men (and some women) on earth...read more

Product Description: 100 years before Lance Armstrong became a famed American bicycle racer in what is considered a "European" sport, another American rider amassed fame and glory on the bicycle racing tracks of the world: Marshall "Major" Taylor. The first African-American sportsman outside boxing to become internationally famous, Taylor's life story is one of the most fascinating stories ever told about any athlete--white or black...read more

Product Description: APIL Guide to MIB Claims (Uninsured and Untraced Drivers) provides practical UK advice that personal injury litigators handling road traffic accident (RTA) cases need to advise clients whose claims involve untraced and uninsured drivers...read more

Product Description: Andrew Ritchie traces the history of bicycle racing from its roots in popular entertainment and gymnastic display in the 1860s to its emergence as a classic sport in the 1890s. One of the most equipment-dependent of modern sports, from its beginnings as an arena for testing the products of rival bicycle makers, the sport has had a rich and complex relationship with the industry as bicycle design and technology evolved...read more

Product Description: Proceedings of the 16th International Cycling History Conference, held in Davis, California, September 2005, with contributions from 17 authors. Includes 90 illusustrations

The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society. Injustices within sport often reflect larger injustices in society as a whole. In South Africa, for example, sport has been crucial in advancing the rights and liberty of oppressed groups. The geographical and chronological range of the essays in Ethnicity, Sport, Identity reveal the global role of sport in this advance. The collection examines cases of discrimination directed at individuals or groups, resulting in their exclusion from full participation in sport and their consequent struggle for inclusion. It shows how ethnic and national identity are sources of social cohesion and political assertion within sport, and it illustrates the manner in which sport has served to project ethnicity in various, often contradictory ways. It depicts sport as an agent of conservatism and radicalism, superiority and subordination, confidence and lack of confidence, and as a source of disenfranchisement and enfranchisement. That sport has been, and continues to be, a potent means of both ethnic restriction and release can no longer be ignored.

Product Description: This book provides the practical advice that all British personal injury litigators handling RTA cases need to advise clients whose claims fall within the new Uninsured Drivers Agreement. These cases have always been fraught with procedural difficulties and the technical nature of the 1999 agreement has only increased the risks of default by claimants and solicitors...read more

Product Description: A resource for anyone interested in the social and sporting history and technical development of the bicycle, this book contains the proceedings of and papers from the 12th International Cycling History Conference held in San Remo, Italy, in September 2001.

Product Description: This is the definitive historical record of bicycle racing information for virtually all major events for the last 100 years. Every event, every champion from the Tour de France, the Tour de Trump to the Olympics. Photography includes previously unpublished archival photography that will fascinate cycling enthusiasts...read more

World champion at 19... One of the first black athletes to become world champion in any sport... 1-mile record holder... American sprint champion in 1898, 1899, 1900... triumphant tours of Europe and Australia... Victories against all European champions...Until now a forgotten, shadowy figure, Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor is here revealed as one of the early sports world's most stylish, entertaining, and gentlemanly personalities. Born in 1878 in Indianapolis, the son of poor rural parents, Taylor worked in a bike shop until prominent bicycle racer "Birdie" Munger coached him for his first professional racing successes in 1896. Despite continuous bureaucratic―and, at times, physical―opposition, he won his first national championship two years later and became world champion in 1899 in Montreal. This beautifully illustrated, vividly narrated, and scrupulously researched biography recreates the life of a great international athlete at the turn of the century. Based on ten years of research―including extensive interviews with Major Taylor's 91-year old daughter―this is the dramatic story of a young black man who, against prodigious odds, rose to fame and stardom in the tempestuous world of international professional bicycle racing a century ago.