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Books like Lo strano caso dei Giochi Olimpici
Loved Lo strano caso dei Giochi Olimpici by Elisabetta Dami? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from sport, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
Sports writing captures something essential about competition, effort and what it means to push the body to its limits. This list spans 2001–2009 and includes 1 marked as essential reading in sport.
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Open
A tennis champion's startlingly honest memoir, including how much he hated the game; one of the best sports books ever written.
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Strategic Sports Event Management
Comprehensive coverage of an important and growing theme and a valuable resource for students in the event and sport management fields.
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Bleachers
Bij het sterfbed van zijn coach maakt de voormalige sterspeler van een American football team de balans op van zijn jeugd.
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Eyeshield 21
Sena Kobayakawa has been a gofer for bullies his whole life. As a result, he runs at lightning-fast speeds. When he enters high school, his childhood friend Mamori suggests that he join a club to make
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Miracle in the Andes
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby tea
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Promise Me
It began with a promise... 2.17am: the phone rings on Myron Bolitar's nightstand; at the other end of the line is Aimee Biel - a frightened teenager who has called the one adult who had promised to he
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Seabiscuit
An undersized horse lifts Depression-era America; a beautifully told underdog story.
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Guide des mouvements de musculation
Contains full-color detailed anatomical drawings of exercises that target every major muscle group, along with full descriptions of how to perform them. The illustrations graphically depict both the m
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Playing for Pizza
A former American football star joins the Parma Panthers to play football in a small town in Italy.
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Quidditch Through the Ages
A history of the sport Quidditch, answering such questions such as where the Golden Snitch came from, or why the Wigtown Wanterers have meat cleavers on their robes.