The Captain Class: the Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams by Sam Walker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
A bold new theory of leadership drawn from elite captains throughout sports--the perfect gift for Father's DayFrom the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal's sports section comes a bold new theory of leadership drawn from the elite captains who inspired their teams to achieve extraordinary success ...Show more
The Official MCC Story of the Ashes by Bernard Whimpress
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
The Official MCC Story of the Ashes is the perfect way to celebrate cricket's most fiercely contested series. From the late 19th century England and Australia have met twice every four years and, since 1882, the prize for the series winners has been a tiny urn, purportedly containing the ashes of a ba ...Show more
Leather Soul: A Half-back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues by Bob Murphy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
'A young, naive kid, with a brand-new football. Over time, the leather aged from the bumps along the trail. The Footscray winters and some glorious liniment-scented afternoons. All of the laughs, the scraps, the yarns and characters. The game. It all left a mark on me, on my soul.'Bob Murphy has never b ...Show more
The Rescuers by Laura Greaves
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Dogs are renowned for their loyalty, and those saved from animal shelters or rescue groups seem to be especially devoted to the humans who have offered them a second chance. In this extraordinary collection, meet the brave dogs that have shown incredible courage - even risking death - to protect their p ...Show more
Great Australian Sporting Stories by Ian Heads, Norman Tasker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness | Reading Level: 6 Sport
'Heads and Tasker, legends themselves, set out to write a book that would continue the trail laid by early-days sporting scribes of long ago. I could not put it down.' JOHN COATES AC, PRESIDENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE 'I know readers will enjoy the many stories and anecdotes that Heads and ...Show more
Running Outside the Comfort Zone - An Explorer's Guide to the Edges of Running by Susan Lacke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Running offers much more than road racing After a decade of writing about running, sports columnist Susan Lacke found herself in a serious running rut. The runners around her seemed to be thriving, setting goals, and having fun, but her own interest in running was lackluster. Seeking to reengage with th ...Show more
Sports Nutrition Handbook by Krzysztof Mizera; Justyna Mizera
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Sports Nutrition Handbook unpacks the need-to-know concepts of sports nutrition into everyday language, making fueling and daily diet easily understandable to athletes across a wide range of sports. Athletes will find the hows and whys of sports nutrition offered in plain language--no science required S ...Show more
Spirit Run - A 6000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez
$48.10 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
The son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas" (Catriona Menzies-Pike, author of The Long Ru ...Show more
Speed Kings: Australia and New Zealand's quest to win the Indy 500, the world's greatest motor race by John Smailes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
The fascinating, definitive story of Australia and New Zealand's quest to win the world's greatest motor race. Winning the Indianapolis 500, the greatest spectacle in motorsport, has been a quest for Australians and New Zealanders since the first race in 1911. Seventeen have tried and two have succeede ...Show more
Science of Strength Training: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology To Transform Your Body by Austin Current
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
The only book to demonstrate all muscle actions for exercises, with flexible workout programmes and over half the exercises adapted for home training. Discover the hard science needed to perfect each exercise and build your strongest body - at home or in the gym. Whether you are looking to tone and sc ...Show more
Majak by Majak Daw, Heath O'Loughlin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
The autobiography of a true trailblazer, Sudanese refugee and AFL champion, Majak Daw. At the peak of his powers, and with the world at his feet after a breakout season in the Australian Football League (AFL), the North Melbourne Kangaroos' Majak Daw was on the verge of finally becoming one of the AFL' ...Show more
Second Innings: On Men, Mental Health and Cricket by Barry Nicholls
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A reflection on Barry Nicholls' life, Second Innings, explores the author's struggle with mental health and the road to recovery, using his love of the game of cricket to make sense of it all. Set partly in the present, Second Innings includes flashbacks through five decades of life and focuses particul ...Show more