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Download Batting on the Bosphorus Online Book ByAngus Bell Total Download 39 “A book is a device to ignite the imagination.” -Alan Bennett Synopsis Angus Bell is innocently working in the Montreal magazine industry when, taking advantage of a psychic’s vision, he sets off to discover the secret cricketing world of Eastern Europe. From tournaments on ice in Estonia to university leagues in the crumbling Crimea, and from a Croatian military island to communist Belarus, Bell learns how Slavs play the Englishman’s game. Encounters with fingerless Tamil Tigers in Prague, a bomb-plotter in the Austrian Alps, a Guatemalan anarchist, and an MI6 agent making out lineup cards reveal the shadowy side of Slavic cricket. But nothing can stop Bell from playing the game or even becoming the captain of an international team. Between matches, he’s pursued by the KGB, becomes embroiled in a drug bust on the Midnight Express, and needs emergency treatment from a Romanian dentist. This boisterous travele

Download Free Democracy's XI Online Book PDF ByRajdeep Sardesai Total Download 15 “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” –Paul Sweeney Synopsis Bestselling author and journalist Rajdeep Sardesai narrates the story of post-Independence cricket through the lives of 11 extraordinary Indian cricketers who portray different dimensions of this change; from Dilip Sardesai and Tiger Pataudi in the 1950s to Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli today Book Preview Total Download 15

Download and Read Legends of Cricket Online Book ByGeoff Armstrong Total Download 31 “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” -Henry David Thoreau Synopsis A fully illustrated collection of biographies of the 25 greatest cricketers of all time, as chosen by a panel of experts. This book is guaranteed to settle a few arguments and start a whole lot more. Book Preview Total Download 31

Download and Read The Development of West Indies Cricket, Vol. 2 PDF ByHilary Beckles,Hilary McD. Beckles Total Download 41 “If you love books enough, books will love you back.” –Jo Walton Synopsis This two-volume work provides an analysis of the ebb and flow of West Indies cricket fortunes. This first volume examines the short-lived first rising of West Indian cricket supremacy, associated with the Worrell-Sobers axis and which, the book argues, sent a clear message to the world that the newly-independent nations of the West Indies were able to lead world cricket with certainty, purpose and poise. Book Preview Total Download 41

Download Arlott and Trueman on cricket Online Book ByJohn Arlott,Fred Trueman Total Download 24 “A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.” –Thomas Carlyle Synopsis Includes an anthology of cricket literature. Book Preview Total Download 24

Download Cricket Behavior and Neurobiology Online Book ByFranz Huber Total Download 14 “You are today who you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.” –Charlie “Tremendous” Jones Synopsis The world of crickets has long been a world of scientific adventure and human fascination. Because of their remarkable ways of communicating and because their nervous and endocrine systems are easily accessible to researchers, crickets can be studied and analyzed with great effectiveness. Starting in the 1960's, vastly improved behavioral and neurobiological techniques have brought them to the frontier of the new field of neuroethology.Here, in the most comprehensive book on crickets ever compiled, twenty-five leading scientists detail the present state of cricket research both at conceptual and at experimental levels. They tell about the manifold strategies crickets use in matching development with seasons and habitats, finding mates, and avoiding parasites and