True Blue
Author: Daniel Topolski
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780553400038
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There is an I in Team
Author: Mark de Rond
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1422171302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough numerous examples from sports, highlighted by interviews from distinguished players and coaches around the world, de Rond shows what team leaders can learn by focusing on the individuals within them.
True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
Author: Daniel Topolski
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-03-29
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1448169909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER OF THE FIRST WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD Strikingly reminiscent of Chariots of Fire, this classic bestseller tells the story of the sporting event which shook both Oxford University and its Boat Club to the very foundations during the harsh winter of 1986/7. A group of American students arrives at Oxford, hoping to put some steel into a Boat Race crew still reeling from their recent humiliating defeat at the hands of Cambridge. But disagreements over training methods soon bring to a head a bitter clash between the elected President of the Dark Blues and a fiery-tempered rower from California. Much more than the race is at stake in this clash between the amateur sporting tradition of the Boat Race and New World big-star sportsmanship. In the resulting battle, which made headline news worldwide, the rebels, having failed to remove the Boat Club President, pull out six weeks before the race. Can Oxford Coach Topolski, against all odds, mould an inexperienced and demoralized reserve crew of no-hopers into a winning team?
The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races
Author: William F. Macmichael
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 3954272644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its establishment in 1829, the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is one of the most popular British sport events of the year. These days, nearly a quarter of a million people walk to the river banks to watch the race live and millions of fans follow it on television. William Fisher Macmichael, former student of Downing College, Cambridge, and late secretary of the Cambridge University Boat Club, chronicles the history of the early races from 1829 to 1869. His sources are the official club books from both universities, newspaper accounts and records from eyewitnesses. Macmichael's elaborate report is supplemented by maps of the racing courses, a name index and an introduction on rowing. Reprint of the original edition from 1870.
Blood Over Water
Author: David Livingston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1408801191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Boat Race is the most divisive event in rowing … An extraordinary and gripping story of a battle between brothers' Sir Matthew Pinsent
Oxbridge Men
Author: Paul R. Deslandes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-05-04
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780253111258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athleticism, intellectualism, tradition, and ritual. In his investigation of the origins of this myth, Paul R. Deslandes explores the everyday life of undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge to examine how they experienced manhood. He considers phenomena such as the dynamics of the junior common room, the competition of exams, and the social and athletic obligations of intercollegiate boat races to show how rituals, activities, relationships, and discourses all contributed to gender formation. Casting light on the lived experience of undergraduates, Oxbridge Men shows how an influential brand of British manliness was embraced, altered, and occasionally rejected as these students grew from boys into men.
The Social History of English Rowing
Author: Neil Wigglesworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1135187746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book seeks to redress the balance of reporting in the sport's literature which has always favoured the activities of aquatic gentlemen at the public schools, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Henley Regatta and on the River Thames. This study focuses on the many who helped instigate and nurture the sport but who have been forgotten due to their not being associated with the elite of the sport.
Tom Brown at Oxford
Author: Thomas Hughes
Publisher:
Published: 1879
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
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Author: Alison Gill
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWaves Across the South
Author: Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-05-07
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 022679041X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Per the UK publisher William Collins's promotional copy: "There is a quarter of this planet which is often forgotten in the histories that are told in the West. This quarter is an oceanic one, pulsating with winds and waves, tides and coastlines, islands and beaches. The Indian and Pacific Oceans constitute that forgotten quarter, brought together here for the first time in a sustained work of history." More specifically, Sivasundaram's aim in this book is to revisit the Age of Revolutions and Empire from the perspective of the Global South. Waves Across the South ranges from the Arabian Sea across the Indian Ocean to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and Australia's Tasman Sea. As the Western empires (Dutch, French, but especially British) reached across these vast regions, echoes of the European revolutions rippled through them and encountered a host of indigenous political developments. Sivasundaram also opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history in addition to the consequences of historical violence, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short"--
