Offside Desire
Offside Desire

Author: Lainey Davis

Publisher: Lainey Davis

Published:

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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A pulse-pounding, sizzling sports romance that combines courage, second chances, and a fight for love against all odds. I can't tear my eyes away from her. I'm mesmerized by her every move. She's a force of nature on the soccer field, raw talent personified. A hundred percent my type, but a thousand percent a distraction I can't afford right now. I try to resist, but this pull between us is unstoppable. Now she’s facing a nightmare: the most powerful man in soccer is set on destroying her career. Behind closed doors, he's hurting her and everything she's worked for. I doubted her once before and rejected her. Now, I'll do anything to make things right and protect what’s ours. Exposing the truth means risking my career. But how can I chase my dreams knowing hers are slipping away? With both our futures on the line, I’m ready to risk it all and expose the truth. This time, I'm all in - fighting for her trust, her dreams, and the love we both deserve. OFFSIDE DESIRE contains the books Forging Passion and Forging Glory.

Offsides
Offsides

Author: Eden Butler

Publisher: Eden Butler

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1089787863

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Gia Jilani had rules. They kept her safe and her head in the game. As the NFL's first female general manager, there were risks to be weighed and taken. Like Kai Pukui, the linebacker helping her team dominate on the field. The same quiet, beautiful man who stares too long at her and reminds her of how decadent, and risky living life can be. But when Gia discovers why Kai seems so familiar and why she feels so drawn to him, things like risks and love become secondary to loss and pain. Gia will have to decide what's more important - a life worth risking or a love worth losing. SAINTS AND SINNERS READING ORDER Last Love of Luka Hale Roughing the Kicker Offsides

Cycling and Sustainability
Cycling and Sustainability

Author: John Parkin

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2012-05-18

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1780522983

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Explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport. This title examines the cultural development of cycling in countries with high use and the differences in use between different sub-groups of the population.

Off Side
Off Side

Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Publisher: Melville International Crime

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1612191150

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Barcelona's new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who's behind it. Pepe Carvalho is set to retire. Content to live out the rest of his days enjoying the best food and wine Catalonia has to offer, his plans are put on hold when an executive from Barcelona's world-famous soccer team pays him a visit. "The center forward will be killed at dusk," reads the note the executive gives to Carvalho. With that, the detective, former communist, and one-time employee of the CIA, must find out where this note is from. Is the threat real? Is it the work of one person? Or is it one of the real estate moguls tearing Barcelona apart in their battle over the most important properties of Catalonia? Here Montalbán does for the game of soccer what he has done for food. In an exquisite portrait of Spain's most beloved sport, soccer and politics mix in a gripping mystery about the reckless excesses--and limits--of power.

To Blag a Safe Forever
To Blag a Safe Forever

Author: Ostravious

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2019-12-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1728397138

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A compendium of poetry, stories and philosophy written between 1050 B.C. and 27909 A.D. which has a semi-autobiographical feel. A feeling of paranoia surges through the veins of this literary effort. From juxtaposed perspectives we interpret life on our sexy planet and others, judging it if only because it is in our nature to judge, appraise and therefore obtain opinion if not knowledge itself. In addition to which there is a rude joke about a pig, sci-fi from 1,000 millennia ago, morphine-laden ruminations on the nature of animals, a comedy sketch where the entire gag is based upon a simple yet versatile pun, and a tender, hearty section on adolescent lust. And then some.

Offsides
Offsides

Author: Tam DeRudder Jackson

Publisher: Warrior Romance Press

Published: 2024-07-08

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13:

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I never saw him coming. My life goals include working with athletes—not dating them. Even though all my friends seem to be hooking up with Wildcats players these days, that wasn’t in the cards for me. Then I met Finn McCabe. The big D-lineman is a padded-up ad for sin—surprisingly sweet, scary-smart, a little awkward, and far too hot for my own good. Too bad he has questionable taste in women . . . With the game on the line . . . Timing that first step for a free shot at the quarterback is always my focus. The trick is not to jump too soon and be called for offsides. Unfortunately, I forgot the rules when it comes to hooking up with the perfect girl. Everything with Chessly Clarke is moving exactly on time until a certain group of jersey chasers shows up and flags the play. Timing is everything. The moment I look into Chessly’s dark blue eyes, I’m a goner. Then I jumped offsides. Playing football for a national championship-caliber team, I know the rewards for hard work, and Chess is worth everything I’m willing to do for a second chance. She’s a little nerdy, a lot sexy, and she ties me up in knots. She thinks she knows the score, but I’m focused on winning her heart. Game Time.

Offsides
Offsides

Author: Jami Davenport

Publisher: Cedrona Enterprises

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1732942048

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He's the beast, and she's the beauty of his past. After twelve years in the league, all Zach Murphy wants is a Championship ring. His focus has been on hard hits–not smooth manners; about breaking quarterbacks–not making small talk at cocktail parties. After dumping a tray of drinks on the team owner’s daughter and accidentally feeling up the governor’s wife, his tenure with his team looks perilously short. Kelsie Carrington-Richmond knows what it's like to fall from grace. A onetime beauty pageant star and former high-school mean girl, she's now destitute and one step from living out of her car. With few real job skills, she focuses on starting her new business, Charm School for Real Men. She's thrilled to land her first clients, the Seattle Steelheads, who have hired her to polish their roughest player. Except…it’s Zach. The same guy whose broken heart she left in her wake when she was still a mean girl. He’s just the beast she remembers—but she’s nothing like the beauty queen she once was. Can they get beyond their pasts? Or will they both find themselves offsides? Keywords: football romance, beauty pageant star, mean girl, second chance romance, sports romance,football romance, football novel, sports romance, Seattle, football, urban romance, alpha male, sports hero, football star, professional football, football player, damaged hero, redemption, mean girl heroine, riches to rags, enemies to lovers, fish out of water Previously published as Down by Contact in 2013. This version has been updated, re-written, and re-edited. For fans of: Helena Hunting, Elle Kennedy, Catherine Gayle, Toni Aleo, Jami Davenport, Kelly Jamieson, Sarina Bowen, Sawyer Bennett, Carly Phillips, Kennedy Ryan, Nana Malone, Brenda Rothert, Elise Faber, Kate Meador, Victoria Denault, Mira Lyn Kelly, Odette Stone, Jennifer Lazaris, Lisa B Kamps, Cathryn Fox, Samantha Lind, Samantha Whiskey, Stacey Lynn

Morality and Socially Constructed Norms
Morality and Socially Constructed Norms

Author: Laura Valentini

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-10-26

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0192660721

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Observe social distancing. Tip your waiter. Give priority to the elderly. Stop at the red light. Pay your taxes. Do not chew with your mouth open. These are imperatives we face every day, imposed upon us by norms that happen to be generally accepted in our environment. Call these 'socially constructed norms'. A constant presence in our lives, these norms elicit mixed feelings. On the one hand, we treat them as valid standards of behaviour and respond to their violation with emotions such disapproval, resentment, and guilt. On the other hand, we look at them with suspicion: after all, they are arbitrary human constructs that may contribute to oppression and injustice. In light of this ambivalence, it is important to have a criterion telling us when, if ever, we are morally bound by socially constructed norms and when we should instead disregard them. Morality and Socially Constructed Norms systematically develops such a criterion. It traces the moral significance of those norms to the agential commitments that underpin them, and explains why those commitments ought to be respected, provided the content of the corresponding norms is consistent with independent moral constraints. The book then explores the implications of this view for three core questions in moral, legal, and political philosophy: the grounding of moral rights, the obligation to obey the law, and the wrong of sovereignty violations. Morality and Socially Constructed Norms shows how much progress can be made in normative theorizing when we give socially constructed norms their (moral) due.

I Can't Stop Thinking About VAR
I Can't Stop Thinking About VAR

Author: Daisy Christodoulou

Publisher: Swift Press

Published: 2024-11-07

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1800754949

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Is it football any more? 'Everyone involved in the VAR controversy should read this short, beautifully-written book and think again' Sir Michael Barber In 2019, the English Premier League introduced the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), a way of using technology to review and correct the on-field referee's decisions. It's been a disaster: players hate it, managers hate it, pundits line up to pour scorn on its decisions, and fans have coined the chant 'it's not football any more' to describe its effect on the game. Almost every other sport in the world has managed to integrate technology into its decision-making process. Why is football failing so badly? Is it a special case, or have the game's authorities got something wrong? And what does the controversy about VAR tell us about the nature of authority, rationality and technology in the 21st century?