Product Description: This is the story of a man who came from 10 generations of bare knuckle fighters and climbed right to the summit of boxing - at a time when nobody outside his close circle gave him a chance. Tyson Fury went to Germany and took four world heavyweight titles from the unbeaten champion Wladimir Klitschko...read more

Product Description: Mike Tyson's pulsating rush to the heavyweight championship of the world began when he met Cus D'Amato, a supreme boxing trainer. Their partnership changed Tyson's life and he became the youngest ever champion with awesome physical power - able to intimidate opponents before they got into the ring...read more

Product Description: A look at the men who are with a boxer all his working days and nights. They are teachers, confidants, task masters, philosophers, allies and critics. They have seen it before and long to see it again. The greatest prize is a fighter with character and raw talent...read more

Product Description: Sonny Liston was born into abject poverty yet rose to be a World Champion. He is chiefly remembered for his two defeats by Muhammad Ali - but there was a lot more to Sonny than that. In his time boxing was dominated by the Mafia and he paid a heavy price for that...read more

Product Description: Beyond the views of uplifting stars and sunsets, the towering mountains and vast stretches of shifting sea that make up our beautiful world, there is an undeniably dark and painful side to life on earth. Blessings and suffering are not evenly dished out, and some people experience more pain than others as they wade through difficult times in their lives...read more

Product Description: The physical upgrading of the existing domestic and industrial building stock to improve energy performance is an essential part of a transition to a low carbon society. Successfully retrofitting buildings to improve energy performance is not simply a technological challenge, it is a complex socio-technical problem that needs to be addressed in a co-ordinated way, utilising skills and knowledge from a range of industrial and academic backgrounds...read more

Product Description: Philip Brown is one of the most admired and respected accounting academics alive today. He was a pioneer in capital markets research in accounting, and his 1968 article, co-authored with Ray Ball, "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers," arguably had a greater impact on the course of accounting research, directly and indirectly, than any other article during the second half of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Handbook of Prosocial Education is the definitive theoretical, practical, and policy guide to the prosocial side of education, the necessary second side of the educational coin. Academic teaching and learning are the first side of education; however, academic success depends upon the structures and support of prosocial educational efforts from promoting positive school climate to fostering student and teacher development to civic literacy and responsible and critical citizenship participation...read more

Product Description: Franky Franklyn is at it again. He finds himself waking up in Philadelphia in the year 1776. What exploits will he find himself in this time? Who will he meet as he explores what life is like at the birth of America? Will Danny Divine make an appearance? It's all here in this second adventure as we travel back in History...read more

Product Description: What does astrology have to do with Apple computers, Harry Potter, Bob Dylan, and American Idol? According to Philip Brown, trends in technology, film, books, TV, music, and fashion are all influenced by planetary movement. Cosmic Trends discusses the startling impact Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus have had-and continue to have-on our evolving culture...read more

Product Description: This book gives you an up-close look at every species of snake indigenous to California. You get scientific data and practical observations, including biological and taxonomic information, maps showing habitats and ranges, reproductive and behavioral characteristics, feeding habits, first aid for venomous snake bites, and more...read more

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