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  • Germs

    Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

    In this “engrossing, well-documented, and highly readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to reveal Washington's secret strategies for combating germ warfare and the deadly threat of biological and chemical weapons.**Today Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is ... Read more

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  • Detecting Doping in Sport

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
    The book explores the changing landscape of anti-doping investigations, which now largely centre on the collection of intelligence about doping through processes such as surveillance, interviews with witnesses and interrogation of athletes. It examines why and how investigative processes, hitherto typically reserved for serious crimes, have been co-opted by anti-doping agencies into a situation ... Read more

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  • The Dirtiest Race in History

    Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final

    Series series Wisden Sports Writing
    'A captivating and detailed account ... it reads like a thriller, which is exactly the right tone to adopt by author Richard Moore for a story dripping with skulduggery and intrigue ... compelling' The Sunday ExpressThe 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust

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    by Laurence Rees ...
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  • Run Like a Girl

    How Strong Women Make Happy Lives

    by Mina Samuels ...
    Run Like A Girl is about the impact that participating in sports has on women, how the confidence and strength that it helps to build makes us stronger and better prepared for life's many challenges.In this inspiring book, Mina Samuels uses the personal stories of women and girls of all ages and backgrounds, as well as her own, to take a broad look at the power sports have to help us overcome ... Read more

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  • A Higher Form Of Killing

    A Higher Form of Killing was first published to great acclaim in 1982. The authors have written a new Introduction and a new Epilogue to take account of the events that have happened since the early 1980s - including the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the black market that appeared in chemical and biological weapons, the acquisition of these weapons by various Third World states, the ... Read more

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  • LEARN HOW TO PLAY CHESS

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    Chess is a game played between two opponents on opposite sides of a board containing 64 squares of alternating colors. Each player has 16 pieces: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 8 pawns. The goal of the game is to checkmate the other king.If you play it right, you can feel how attractive the game is. But, still many people does not know how to play chess. For them I have ... Read more

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  • Escape From Davao

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    On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts executed a daring escapefrom one of Japan’s most notorious prison camps. The prisoners were survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March and the Fall of Corregidor, and the prison from which they escaped was surrounded by an impenetrable swamp and reputedly escape-proof. Theirs was the only successful group escape from a ... Read more

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  • Hand-Me-Down Dream (Essay)

    Father, Son, and the Burden of Basketball

    In this eBook exclusive essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist George Dohrmann follows a father and son separated by prison bars—but bonded by their pursuit of basketball glory.The dream of playing big-time basketball never came true for Bruce Nelson, so he passed it on to his son Roberto. His every waking moment as a father was devoted to securing Roberto a Division I scholarship. ... Read more

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    This is a tale of military machination and scientific subterfuge, of combatants who disappeared without trace, and bizarre experiments carried out behind locked doors. In waging ‘total war’ during the 1970s and 1980s, South African securocrats demanded a ‘total strategy’, including secret and unconventional means to fight the perceived ‘total onslaught’ against the apartheid regime. Against that ... Read more

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  • Physical Literacy

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
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