Scotland - winner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, the biggest prize in northern hemisphere rugby. Scotland are the underdogs - second-class citizens from a land that's become the testing ground for the most unpopular tax in living memory: Thatcher's Poll Tax.
Packed full of exclusive and previously untold stories, this Irish rugby edition joins the best-selling series of behind-the-scenes histories from Arena Sport.
An account of the most famous Lions tour of the modern age, featuring brand-new interviews with both the Lions and Springboks players and management, as well as featuring thoughts on the tour from modern-day greats.
By 1971 no Lions team had ever defeated the All Blacks in a Test series. Since 1904, six Lions sides had travelled to New Zealand and all had returned home bruised, battered and beaten. But the 1971 tour party was different. It was full of young, ambitious and outrageously talented players who would all go on to carve their names into the annals of sporting history during a golden period in British and Irish rugby. And at their centre was Carwyn Jones – an intelligent, sensitive rugby mastermind who would lead his team into the game’s hardest playing arena while facing a ferocious, tragic battle in his personal life, all in pursuit of a seemingly impossible dream.Up against them was an All Blacks team filled with legends in the game in the likes of Colin Meads, Brian Lochore, Ian Kirkpatrick, Sid Going and Bryan Williams. But as the Lions swept through the provinces, lighting up the rugby fields of New Zealand the pressure began to mount on the home players in a manner never seen before. As the Test series loomed, it became clear that a clash that would echo through the ages was about to unfold. And at its conclusion, it was obvious to all that rugby would never be the same again.
In the past forty years, Curtis Mayfield's music and poetry have grown into an impressive and truly individual body of work. Complete with full discography and interviews with his contemporaries, this is the definitive account of his life and career.
Rugby World Cup 101 is a compendium of fascinating facts, stats, stories, personalities and trivia - perfect for all fans of rugby from around the world.From the genesis of the tournament in 1987 all the way through to the present day, the Rugby World Cup's rich history is distilled into 101 facts, stats and stories.
Anthropology serves as a crucial lens for analyzing and evaluating the dynamics of tourism. The text explores how cultural insights can deepen the understanding of tourist behaviors, interactions, and the impacts of tourism on communities. By examining the relationship between culture and tourism, it highlights the significance of anthropological perspectives in shaping sustainable tourism practices and enhancing the overall tourist experience.
22 November 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of England's victory in the 2003 World Cup final and White Gold paints a unique portrait and analysis of how and why England won the World Cup. It examines how Clive Woodward changed the face of English rugby and will open up rugby to a non-rugby audience.
The Palmistry Textbook: An Illustrated Guide to Reading Hands, by Peter Burns, is a clearly written, step-by-step guide to hand analysis. Any reader's ability to learn will be greatly enhanced by the author's 80 well-drawn graphic illustrations of hands and photographs of palms-each illustrating his text explanations. The book is organized into thirty lessons that begin with the requirements and ethics involved in becoming a palm reader, the historical context and the terminology, and then progress though each step in analyzing the shape, size, structure and type of hands, the fingers, thumb and nails, the mounts, zones, lines, genetic engravings and more, concluding with a final two lessons on how to put it all together-to synthesize your understanding. Throughout the text, the author emphasizes the profound psychological insights one can gain through hand analysis. At the close of each lesson are a few questions so that you can self-test what you've learned. Answers to the questions are given at the end of the book. The author, a well-known palmist and astrologer from Victoria, Australia, is owner of the Ambrosia Academy of Astrology, through which he offers extensive correspondence courses in astrology and palmistry. He has offered many lectures and teaching seminars in Australia and the USA and is touring in USA late Autumn 2011.
In this book you will find exactly how little Becky proves that she's not so little any longer...