Sport

Know the Game Bowls is the perfect introduction to thesport for all ages, whether you are a keen club player or beginner. Itis packed with expert text, clear illustrations and photographs of theprofessionals in action. The book includes: Playing the game: how to play bowls, the rules, positions on the pitch, how to score The laws of the game: from scoring to umpiring Equipment and pitch: bowling balls, positioning of players, measuring The skills: step-by-step guide to all the basic skills, including throwing, tactics and scoring.... read more

Phar Lap is one of Australia's best-loved icons. The story of the gangly foal who became one of the greatest racehorses ever has captured Australians' hearts for generations. Phar Lap: A True Legend, written by museum curator Michael Reason, has delighted and informed readers for the last five years. Now this fascinating story has been updated to include new evidence which finally reveals the reason behind the champion's untimely death. Illustrated with archival images of the great horse, as well as colour images of many of the int... read more

The Crowd Goes Wild: Year in Sport is Andrew Mulligan and Mark Richardson's tongue-in-cheek, opinionated, irreverent but well-informed take on the previous year's sporting events, fallouts and dramas. Featuring humorous summaries, anecdotes and controversies, quizzes, classic quotes, 'awards', bloopers and cartoons, it's the perfect gift for any sports nut!

Bob McMurray has just about seen all you can in motor sport. Right from the halcyon days when Bruce McLaren was setting up his fledgling Formula One team through to witnessing the first Kiwi to win one of the most prestigious motor-racing trophies, the Borg-Warner at the Indianapolis 500. McMurray's book is more like a conversation you'd have in the bar about 30-odd years in Formula One rather than who set the fastest time at Monaco on lap 32 in 1987 in what car, on what tyres, wearing what-coloured overalls and with what sort of l... read more

Fully revised and updated, this is an authoritative guide to using nutrition as an integral part of athletic training. Whatever your sport, as an athlete it's essential to have your body working at the pinnacle of efficiency. You want your training to provide maximum benefit and you want to achieve peak performance whether your goal is an Olympic medal or simply your personal best. This book presents nutrition as an integrated part of an athlete's total performance-enhancing package. General nutrition and exercise physiology inform... read more

Our Olympic Century is a landmark book that contains the story of New Zealand’s first 100 years at the Olympic Games, presented in an attractive, easy-to-read format. It contains the accounts, often in the first-person, of all our Olympic greats – Snell, Loader, Halberg, Todd, Walker, Williams, the Kendalls, Coberger, Lovelock, Ferguson, Ulmer and the rest. But it goes way beyond that. Author Joseph Romanos has presented the full picture of New Zealand’s Olympic involvement. There are stories about not just the c... read more

Rob Matthews always knew that one day he would be completely blind. He had inherited a congenital eye condition from his father and after a childhood of painful visits to eye clinics, where he was used as a textbook example for multitudes of medical students, he eventually became completely blind. After qualifying as a not very good Braille typist and with the aid of guide dogs and supportive parents, he began to lead an independent life. When the loneliness of his life began to get to him, he started looking for a sport he could t... read more

At the age of sixteen, Monica Seles crashed on to the world tennis scene by becoming the youngest winner in French Open History. For three years, she dominated the tennis circuit, racking up eight Grand Slam titles, winning three back-to-back French Open titles. At post-match conferences she charmed the media with her trademark giggle. In January 1993, Seles defeated Steffi Graf in the Australian Women's Open and in April of that year, while playing a quarter-final in Hamburg, a boning knife was plunged between her shoulder blades ... read more

This text is more than a book about physical fitness - it's a gateway to a new and better life. In language that is vivid and down-to- earth, Bill Phillips guides the reader, step by step, through the integrated "Body-for-life" programme.

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in Baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-bedget Oakland Athletic's visionary general manager Billy Beane, and a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge - insights that will give the little fellow who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.

Every Kiwi football fan knows Ricki Herbert. A star of the 1982 World Cup-qualifying All Whites, who under the inspired coaching of John Adshead and Kevin Fallon did the impossible, and took on the world from Mt Wellington, as Eriksson Stadium was then known, he then played professionally in the UK for Wolverhampton Wanderers. At the end of a successful playing career, one of the most highly respected and best-loved figures in the local game took his considerable skills into coaching the game he has loved with a passion all his lif... read more

This is more than a records book. Complementing the various lists on an incredible range of topics are numerous biographies of football legends, stories behind records and brief reports of famous matches.

Written in association with England Netball this is the perfect introduction to the sport for all ages, whether you are a keen club player or beginner. It is packed with expert text, clear illustrations and photographs of the professionals in action.
The book covers how to play netball, the rules, positions on the court, how to score, the laws of the game, umpiring, equipment and skills.
The Know the Game series is firmly established as the definitive introduction to a wide range of sports and games. Written by the exp... read more

"Ring of Fire" is an insider's account of the acclaim, heroism and pressures of being a MotoGP racer. This is a world where manufacturers invest millions, and where a rider will emerge from a coma with shattered legs and bloody lungs to get back on his bike to save his job. This is the first book to cover the whole of the MotoGP era, at the centre of which is Valentino Rossi. "Ring of Fire" charts his rise, fall and rebirth, detailing the darker side to his rivalries with Max Biaggi and Sete Gibernau and his battles with the tax ma... read more

The autobiography of the premiership-winning coach of the Brisbane Broncos. One of Rugby League's shrewdest and most innovative mentors, his profile on Australian Story revealed him as a man of great compassion with powerful family ties.

Sport Motivation covers all the bases for achieving excellence in sport, treating the mind as an essential part of sport training. It presents chapters on the skills and methods of Psychological Skills Training (PST), anxiety and peak performance, self-confidence, motivation and mental toughness, coping with pressure, communication and team-building, concentration, psychological rehabilitation from injury, goal-setting, planning a total training programme and using training worksheets. This revised and fully updated edition is illu... read more

Wayne Bennett's unprecedented 21-year run as coach of the Brisbane Broncos is an extraordinary achievement. His men won all six of the grand finals they contested in this time, and as Queensland State of Origin coach, Bennett lost just two series out of seven. In two stints as Australian coach, he built an incredible record of 11 wins and a draw from 15 Tests. Wayne Bennett: The Man in the Mirror is the candid story of this remarkable man who helped launch a new rugby league club and turned it into a powerhouse. A man of pri... read more

The Know the Game Skills series is the perfect introduction to sport for every budding player. Each book aims to teach young players the basic skills they need to start enjoying their sport - by giving plenty of simple practice drills and showing how the star players do it. Clearly illustrated and written by a professional coach, this book will give every player all the skills they need to enjoy netball.