Product Description: Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer – passionate, obsessive, technically inept and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out, he decides to set off on an odyssey across the counties of England. It's a journey that begins at the birthplace of cricket, takes in the burial site of his favourite ground and even stops along the way to flirt with the love child of WG Grace and Kerry Katona that is Twenty20...read more

Product Description: Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer—passionate, obsessive, technically inept, and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out of an entire season, not only might it spell the end of his long career, he is faced more immediately with a summer aimlessly wandering garden centres and listening to The Archers...read more

Product Description: Fatty Batter is the story of one man's lifelong obsession with cricket. From his earliest awkward days as a fat schoolboy, to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates, cricket has offered Michael Simkins a shelter from life's irksome realities and a place in which to quietly dream...read more

Product Description: This hilarious story of one man's lifelong obsession with cricket takes readers from the early awkward days as a fat boy growing up in a Brighton sweet shop to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates still chasing the sweet spot...read more

Addressed to K-12 teachers, discusses enhancing student achievement through project-based learning with multimedia and offers principles and guidelines to insure that multimedia projects address curriculum standards.

Product Description: As well as looking at Hadrian's Wall itself, this volume covers the evolution of armour, equipment and beliefs amongst the Romans involved in the building of the wall and their successors. Visitor information on some of the historic sites described in the book is included.

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Places the reader in the thick of the merciless and invincible Roman hordes, masters of the crossbow, lance, and pickaxe, and describes their fighting technique, weapons, and armor

Product Description: The year of 122 was the first time a Roman Emperor had set foot in the Province of Britannia since the invasion in AD 43. No doubt he had read many reports concerning the damage caused by marauding tribesmen crossing from what is now Scotland into the Province...read more