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A guide to Australia, one of the most popular destinations for American tourists in the world, includes information on how to make a trip to see the September 2000 Olympic games in Sydney. Original.

Product Description: TEXAS POLITICS TODAY continues to be a best-selling overview of Texas Politics because it offers students a wide range of viewpoints, drawing on the diverse political and social perspectives of its contributing authors to give students rich, nuanced insight into the political system and decision-making processes of the Lone Star State...read more

An updated volume brings boxing fans on a tour of the sport and the famous figures that have contributed to its success, and provides more than five hundred full-color photographs from behind-the-scenes to inside the ring.

Product Description: Illuminates the often challenging field of comparative politics. Specialists provide twelve individual country studies to present a clear and reliable summation of their assorted political structures. Explores the purpose of government, current policy changes, and example illustrations and discussions of each...read more

Product Description: AT opographical Description of the Western Territory of North A merica: Containing a Succint Account of I ts Climate, Natural History, Population, A griculture, Manners and Customs With an Accurate Statement of the Various Tribes of Indians That Inhabit the Frontier Country, Together With a Delineation of the Laws and Government of the State of Kentucky in a Series of Letters to a Friend in England was written by G...read more

Product Description: A user-friendly, highly illustrated, straightforward boxing guide that promotes fun, fitness, self-defense, and self-confidence. Endorsed by USA Boxing, national governing body for amateur boxing.

A biography of the welterweight champion tells how he became involved in boxing and recounts some of his most memorable fights

In a faded downtown Las Vegas casino, with a hooker for company, a boxing writer and sometime boxer's agent reflects on his exit from the fight scene. As the world of professional boxing starts to recede, the characters Rendall has lived with - and for - rear into focus one last time.

Product Description: Bill Barich’s widely praised work is at its peak in these intimate glimpses into the stories behind the stories, the real people behind the public façade of the athletic realm. In this collection, Barich takes readers behind the scenes of both participatory and spectator sports, whose wide variety include:Three different types of horse racing: down-and-dirty bush racing in Cajun country; an elegant steeplechase at Ascot, England; and a big-time Santa Anita thoroughbred heading for the Kentucky Derby...read more

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“They need to think big like I did. If they can see it in their head, they can get there.” Thinkin Big is the story of a kid whose dream was never supposed to come true: the story of a man who won hearts with his gentleness, but whose fearlessness was legendary. It is the biography of a champion once broken by boxing. As he watched Cassius Clay destroy Sonny Liston on February 25, 1964, James Tillis was told by God he would be a professional fighter. Thirty-three years later, James “Quick” Tillis, dubbed the Fightin Cowboy by Muhammad Ali, would record his story in a dimly lit jail cell. He was a young black athlete who’d clung to his alcoholic father and his religious mother, rising to battle seven heavyweight champions. But this naive heavyweight would be sacrificed by the sport he loved; it would rob him of the women he loved, his dignity, his fortune, and his title. He crawled into the ring 64 times to prove that he could win, but one dirty agent was determined to bleed him dry. Now he tells a story like no fighter before. It’s raw, yet full of humour, told from a legend’s perspective.

Chris Jones looked for a sport to call his own when he was hired as a rookie reporter and found boxing. In this title, readers can find out what happened when he was dressed down by Don King, went to Muhammed Ali's birthday party and witnessed Naseem Hamed explode while Mike Tyson imploded.

Product Description: "Boxing is not just fighting," writes Carlo Rotella. "It is also training and living right and preparing to go the distance in the broadest sense of the phrase, a relentless managing of self that anyone who gets truly old must learn...read more

Product Description: Boxing in South Yorkshire' is a fighter by fighter history of the men who have hailed from South Yorkshire and in many cases, gone on to challenge and beat the best that the world could put up against them. Ronnie Wharton takes us on this one hundred year journey, through the lives of twenty eight of South Yorkshire's finest boxers...read more

Jonathan Rendall delves into the psyche of fallen superstar boxer and ex-world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, bringing vividly to life a history of street-gang violence, juvenile prison, sex scandals, marital strife, courtroom battles, and imprisonment.