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Books : What Sport Tells Us About Life: Bradman's Average, Zidane's Kiss and Other Sporting Lessons
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What Sport Tells Us About Life: Bradman's Average, Zidane's Kiss and Other Sporting Lessons by: Ed Smith List Price: £15.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.29 You Save: £6.70 (42%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780670917228 ISBN: 0670917222 Label: Viking Manufacturer: Viking Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: March 06, 2008 Publisher: Viking Studio: Viking Sales Rank: 4101 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Not so much a book, more a collection of essays......but thoughtful and interesting ones, nonetheless. Although the book is called "What Sport Tells Us About Life", it might, equally, have been called "What Life Tells Us About Sport", since Smith takes philosophy, sociology, history, statistics, political science, economics, psychology and more besides and uses them to analyse sporting situations. Or, to look at it another way, he uses sporting situations to illustrate "real world" concepts. So, although this will be classed as a "sports book", one doesn't need to be a sportsman to enjoy it and it would sit better with the popular non-fiction books. Several examples in the book are taken from baseball and basketball - sports about which I know little - and ... Read More: Rating:  - so much more than.........I've not been interested in writing a book review before, but having read Ed Smith's book since hearing his interview on BBC radio last Saturday, I want to record my impressions. Its more than a sport book, you don't need to be interested in sport. Its not a psychology book, but it helps you to think about how others think. Its not a business book, but helps you to reflect how people work together or as individuals. It might even not be a book; it seems a series of essays. You can read at a breathless pace desperate to find out what Smith thinks of Zidane, or you can read and linger on fabulous prose. I smiled wryly on many occasions, when Smith clarified for me, many of those debates I've had and heard over the ... Read More: |
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