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  • Daily Bread

    January–March 2018

    by Ron Frost, Jon Gemmell, Esther Bailey, Penelope Swithinbank, Penny Boshoff, Terry Clutterham, Dorman Followwill, Elaine Duncan ...
    Daily Bread is the Bible reading guide that aims to help you hear from God as you read the Bible. If you've ever asked the question, 'What possible relevance can this verse have for me today?' or 'What difference does this passage make to my life?' then read on... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup

    Edited by Boria Majumdar, Jon Gemmell ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Cricket has been subject to a number of changes over the last twenty years. We can no longer talk of a sport particular to an out-dated English way of life. Cricket has become global and has to exist within the global environment. Primarily the world game has become commercialised. This collection of essays assesses the developments within major playing nations between the World Cups. Do we now ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Changing Face of Cricket

    From Imperial to Global Game

    Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Jon Gemmell, Nalin Mehta ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    For cricket enthusiasts there is nothing to match the meaningful contests and excitement generated by the game’s subtle shifts in play. Conversely, huge swathes of the world’s population find cricket the most obscure and bafflingly impenetrable of sports. The Changing Face of Cricket attempts to account for this paradox.The Changing Face of Cricket provides an overview of the various ways in which ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Cricket's Changing Ethos

    Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL

    by Jon Gemmell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of the imperial experiment and were eventually rejected and replaced with an ethos that better reflected the interests of new dominant elites. The ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Politics of South African Cricket

    by Jon Gemmell ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    The Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa. South African Cricket embraces an ethos that is symbolic of a wider held belief system and as such has distinctive political connotations in the region.Sport in South Africa is certainly influenced by forces beyond the playing field, but politics too can be influenced ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Lost Histories of Indian Cricket

    Battles Off the Pitch

    by Boria Majumdar ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game.It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. Yet, when it comes to writing on the history of the game, Indians have been ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Posh Boys

    How English Public Schools Ruin Britain

    by Robert Verkaik ...
    ‘The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones’s Chavs.’–Andrew Marr, Sunday Times‘In his fascinating, enraging polemic, Verkaik touches on one of the strangest aspects of the elite schools and their product’s domination of public ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Crickonomics

    The Anatomy of Modern Cricket: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023

    by Stefan Szymanski, Tim Wigmore ...
    SELECTED AS ONE OF WATERSTONES BEST SPORT BOOKS OF 2022.A CRICKETER BOOK OF THE YEAR.'Superb' Matthew Syed, The Times'Fascinating' The Observer'Crickonomics is packed with sufficient statistical analysis to have the most ardent cricket geek purring with pleasure' Mail on Sunday'An insightful, Hawk-Eye-like analysis of the nu... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Scotland

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rab Houston ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages, how it was irrevocably altered by Reformation, links with England and economic change, and how Scotland influenced the development of the modern world. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Tony Collins ...
    Called ‘the greatest game of all’ by its supporters but often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, no sport is more identified with England’s northern working class than rugby league.This book traces the story of the sport from the Northern Union of the 1900s to the formation of the Super League in the 1990s, through war, depression, boom and deindustrialisation, into a new economic and social ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Independence or Union

    Scotland's Past and Scotland's Present

    by T. M. Devine ...
    There can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the Middle Ages onwards the island of Britain has been shaped by the unique dynamic between Edinburgh and London, exchanging inhabitants, monarchs, money and ideas, sometimes in a spirit of friendship and at others in a spirit of murderous dislike.Tom Devine's ... Read more

    $11.59 USD