High on Hawthorn: The Road to the 2013 Premiership (Large Print 16pt)

Author: Phillip Taylor
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
ISBN: 9781459677920
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
'We're a happy team at Hawthorn ... Well, 'happy' isn't the word - more like delirious. I wept, I quaffed Veuve Clicquot, I hugged grown men ... The ether was abuzz with electronic missives, the very air alive and humming with Hawthorn transmissions.'' This book tracks Hawthorn's triumphant 2013 season through the eyes of Phillip Taylor, Hawks tragic. A hallucinatory account of all things Hawthorn, it celebrates the sartorial splendour of the brown and gold stripes, traces the numerological power of the number 23 and reveals how Hawthorn broke its Groundhog Day disorder against Geelong. These days, there are more television hours spent analysing the AFL each week than there is actual game time. This book doesn't dwell on the kicks, corkies, handballs or hard - ball gets. Rather, it traces Hawthorn's dramatic and eventful season from the fans' perspective, giving voice to the excitement, exasperation and - ultimately - exhilaration that all Hawks supporters felt. From the public bar to the members' pocket at the MCG, this is the definitive record of Hawthorn's 2013 premiership campaign, celebrating the AFL's latest (brown and) golden era.

Football Entrepreneurship

Author: Vanessa Ratten
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100079993X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Football is the world’s most popular sport and is entrepreneurial by nature. There is a constant need for entities and individuals involved with football to act or behave in an entrepreneurial way. Competition is part of the football industry and emphasises the need to compete but also collaborate through entrepreneurial endeavours. This book is amongst the first to focus specifically on football entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial nature of football. The book looks at entrepreneurship and how it can occur through direct and indirect engagement with football in a variety of contexts. It examines different types of football including gridiron, rugby and soccer and offers insights on the international aspects of football and how cultural aspects influence entrepreneurship. This book provides a holistic understanding of how football can include innovation, risk-taking and proactive activity and will be useful for those interested to learn more of the football industry and entrepreneurship in the global context.

Hawthorn & Child

Author: Keith Ridgway
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811221679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
A mind-blowing adventure into a literary fourth dimension: part noir, part London snapshot, all unsettlingly amazing Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives nearby, swears he was shot by a ghost car. While Hawthorn battles with fatigue and strange dreams, the crime and the narrative slip from his grasp and the stories of other Londoners take over: a young pickpocket on the run from his boss; an editor in possession of a disturbing manuscript; a teenage girl who spends her days at the Tate Modern; a pack of wolves; and a madman who has been infected by the former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Haunting these disparate lives is the shadowy figure of Mishazzo, an elusive crime magnate who may be running the city, or may not exist at all.

The Complete Book of VFL Records

Author: Stephen Rodgers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781862528024
Category : Australian football
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description

Three Crooked Kings

Author: Matthew Condon
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702269646
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Book Description
One of the landmark Australian true-crime books, with a new introduction following the death of disgraced Police Commissioner Terry Lewis. Three Crooked Kings is the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption. At its core is Terry Lewis, deposed and jailed former police commissioner. From his entry into the force in 1949, Lewis rose through the ranks, becoming part of the so-called Rat Pack with detectives Glen Hallahan and Tony Murphy under the guiding influence of Commissioner Frank Bischof.The next four decades make for a searing tale of cops and killings, bagmen and blackmail, and sin and sleaze that exposes a police underworld that operated from Queensland to New South Wales. This gripping book examines the final pieces of the puzzle, unearths new evidence on cold cases, and explores the pivotal role that whistleblower Shirley Brifman, prostitute and brothel owner, played until her sudden death.Awarded journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive account of an era that changed a state and is still reverberating to this day.

It's All Possible

Author: Rob Hartnett
Publisher: Major Street Publishing
ISBN: 0648515923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Positive thinking coupled with positive doing is a must for anybody in today's disrupted, distracted world where change is the new normal.It's All Possible shows how to embrace change through insightful stories and proven possibility hacks from everyday people, business leaders, sports stars and entertainers that will inspire and motivate you. It is backed with the latest research on mindset and personal development.Throughout this book you will get to know Rob Hartnett who has worked in senior leadership roles with both global and small organisations, achieving many milestones along the way. Rob is the founder and CEO of The Hartnett Group and a sought-after speaker on possibility and mindset. Most importantly, Rob is a proud family man and a former world champion yachtsman. What drives Rob will drive you to believe that, really, It's All Possible.

Man in the Dark

Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312356587
Category : Historical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
"I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness." So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget ? his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death. Passionate and shocking, Man in the Dark is a story of our moment, an audiobook that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.

The Mighty West

Author: Kerrie Soraghan
Publisher: Nero
ISBN: 9781863959254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In 2016 the Western Bulldogs stunned the AFL world by winning the Premiership -- the club's first since 1954, and only its second ever. It was an unprecedented rise to success, capped by a stunning Grand Final victory that left players and fans alike shedding tears of joy. The Mighty West chronicles the experience of the team and of the fans -- a tale of family and belonging, western suburbs tribalism, and the romance of sport.

Roughy

Author: Jarryd Roughead
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 014379566X
Category : Australian football players
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Cancer doesn't discriminate. When things were at their worst for Jarryd Roughead, his four premierships, two All-Australian gongs and a Coleman Medal counted for nothing. As he spent his days vomiting or curled up with the cat, and his nights in a pool of sweat, fully clothed yet freezing, rolling out of bed every couple of hours to dunk his feet in cold water to douse the feeling that they were on fire, all that mattered was that he didn't stop believing. Roughead knew he had to keep believing he'd get better, otherwise he'd lose. And if he lost this battle, there would be no next week. "Roughy" is the story of a footballer who lived the dream, the country boy who not only became an AFL star, but was a key player in a Hawthorn team that will be remembered as one of the greats of any era. In 2015, a spot on his bottom lip was diagnosed as melanoma and it returned as spots on his lungs the next year. In "Roughy", you'll discover the resilience that got him through horrendous immunotherapy and helped him to not only play AFL again, but as Hawthorn captain. You'll read the stories of his childhood, of the basketballer who switched sports and learned not just to believe, but to expect to be the very best. Of his love for Sarah and their daughter Pippa, his unwavering will to carry on, his dignity through a final chapter of his career that was dignity personified, with a fairytale ending that was celebrated by all.

West Bromwich Albion

Author: Tony Matthews
Publisher: DB
ISBN: 9781780910291
Category : Soccer teams
Languages : en
Pages : 630

Book Description
Written by well-known football author Tony Matthews, this book provides an official record of West Bromwich Albion Football Club since their formation in 1883.