From the moment he hooked his first ball in Test cricket to the boundary, David Gower has been in a class of his own when it comes to style and panache. In 114 Test matches, he scored over 8000 runs at an average of 44 which ranks him with the post-war greats. His elegant play is always a joy to watch and certainly there hasn't been a better and more entertaining left-hander since Sir Garfield Sobers. Yet because of his natural gifts, he has often attracted criticism for his "laid back" approach and "lack of application". In the book, Gower answers these charges and sets out his side of the story about his two spells of captaincy for both club and country. He puts his man-management record on the line alongside those of fellow captains Mike Brearley, Bob Willis, Mike Gatting and Graham Gooch, and attacks the current mentality of Test selectors "where runs around the block seem to count for more than runs in the middle". There are also many light-hearted moments in the book: visiting casinos and nightclubs in the company of fellow "rogues" Ian Botham and Allan Lamb, dumping a hired car at the bottom of a lake in St Moritz, and "buzzing" Robin Smith from a Tiger Moth while he was batting on the 1991/92 Australian tour.

Gower: the Autobiography

JOHNSON, Martin

Gower, David

Biographies & Memoirs

HarperCollins, Publishers

Mathematics in Action: Grade 7, Part 2

Science & Math

Jackson, Audrey

Mathematics

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Div

Easy-to-read and very practical in approach, this text provides prospective middle and secondary school physical education teachers with the skills and knowledge to develop, implement, teach and maintain a concepts-based fitness course within their physical education course. It doesn't just tell teachers what to teach, but also how to teach it, while altering the students' behavior to include activities for a lifetime of fitness.

Fitness Education: Teaching Concepts-Based Fitness in the Schools

Sports & Outdoors

Strand, Bradford N.

Scantling, Ed

Training

Benjamin/Cummings

We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote—or mouse—we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choice? Partisan news has been roundly castigated for reinforcing prior beliefs and contributing to the highly polarized political environment we have today, but there is little evidence to support this claim, and much of what we know about the impact of news media come from studies that were conducted at a time when viewers chose from among six channels rather than scores. Through a series of innovative experiments, Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson show that such criticism is unfounded. Americans who watch cable news are already polarized, and their exposure to partisan programming of their choice has little influence on their political positions. In fact, the opposite is true: viewers become more polarized when forced to watch programming that opposes their beliefs. A much more troubling consequence of the ever-expanding media environment, the authors show, is that it has allowed people to tune out the news: the four top-rated partisan news programs draw a mere three percent of the total number of people watching television.Overturning much of the conventional wisdom, Changing Minds or Changing Channels? demonstrate that the strong effects of media exposure found in past research are simply not applicable in today’s more saturated media landscape.

Changing Minds or Changing Channels?: Partisan News in an Age of Choice (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

Humor & Entertainment

Arceneaux, Kevin

Television

University of Chicago Press

We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote—or mouse—we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choice? Partisan news has been roundly castigated for reinforcing prior beliefs and contributing to the highly polarized political environment we have today, but there is little evidence to support this claim, and much of what we know about the impact of news media come from studies that were conducted at a time when viewers chose from among six channels rather than scores. Through a series of innovative experiments, Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson show that such criticism is unfounded. Americans who watch cable news are already polarized, and their exposure to partisan programming of their choice has little influence on their political positions. In fact, the opposite is true: viewers become more polarized when forced to watch programming that opposes their beliefs. A much more troubling consequence of the ever-expanding media environment, the authors show, is that it has allowed people to tune out the news: the four top-rated partisan news programs draw a mere three percent of the total number of people watching television. Overturning much of the conventional wisdom, Changing Minds or Changing Channels? demonstrate that the strong effects of media exposure found in past research are simply not applicable in today’s more saturated media landscape.

Rugby and All That

Hodder&Stoughton

Rugby and All That: An Irreverent History

Other Team Sports

Safari: a saga of the African blue

Safari: A Saga of the African Blue

History

Africa

Franklin Classics

Foreword by Walter de laM are every detail. Thaty he most patiently reiterated, is not the concern of Science. With these talks in view, he refers to hisS ocratic questioner. But then! Socrates was not only heretical but dangerous in the eyes of his enemies on account of a wisdom to which they were blind (as may be certain devotees either of the arts or of the sciences in respect to the main thesis of this book) .A nd no one but a gentleman nonpareil could have been the subject of the Phaedo. His method indeed was to reveal how hazy was the knowledge and how vague were the sentiments of those whom he catechised, while being himself perfectly assured that he knew the right answers, which he thereupon elucidated. My own feeble and precarious situation was precisely the reverse of this. And especially, needless to say, in respect to theM use called Urania. Like any other novice (and this book is by no means intended solely for the expert) I could lapse into a momentary daydream over photographs of the nebulae of Andromeda or of Coma Berenices; could even hazard a mere guess whether its myriads of suns in their assembly suggested the spiral or the concentric; could intelligently enquire whether any such spiral was in process of winding up or of unwinding; and could faintly realise the difficulty occasioned by the varying stellar distances in unimaginable light years for any rapt student considering them on earth. But Httle further. I had no objection, rather the reverse, to abiding the crucial questions, mathematical, metaphysical, thus involved, as too Dr. Johnson magnanimously abided my own litde simplicities, though in a different sense! But here there is less reason even for modesty; much more for shame and reproof. And it is here that we approach one of the paramount intentions of this book. Nowadays there is little excuse for staying ignorant, though there(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

Art and Scientific Thought: Historical Studies Towards a Modern Revision of Their Antagonism

Ams Pr Inc

Through The South Seas With Jack London (1913)

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Australia & Oceania

Kessinger Publishing

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