Sparring Partners

• Author : Leigh Morgan
• Publisher : Pen and Sword Publishing, LLC
• Release : 06 September 2010

What if everything you always thought you wanted could be yours simply by saying "I do"? Billionaire Jordon Bennett needs to find a wife, now, to secure his position as CEO of B.H. Holdings. Reed Mohr could use a miracle to help pay for her alternative elder care facility, Potters Woods. Inside and out of the dojo, can these two survive sparring with each other? Find out in SPARRING PARTNERS.

• Author : John Grisham
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 31 May 2022

Three thrilling stories of the law from the master of the legal thriller. Homecoming takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole some money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his

• Author : Jilly Bangs
• Publisher : Jilly Bangs
• Release : 07 July 2021

My female sparring partner didn't know how women got treated in this gym, but she was about to find out...

• Author : Janet O'Shea
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 01 October 2018

Risk, Failure, Play illuminates the many ways in which competitive martial arts differentiate themselves from violence. Presented from the perspective of a dancer and writer, this book takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through training in a range of martial arts practices such as jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, Filipino martial arts, and empowerment self-defense. Author Janet OâShea shows how play gives us the ability to manage difficult realities with intelligence and demonstrates

• Author : Bob Jones
• Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
• Release : 16 August 2013

From 'A Low Blow' to 'Went the Distance', a fascinating and lively examination of the regular use of terms from the boxing ring in our everyday language. Have you ever stopped to notice how often your local newspaper or favourite magazine uses the terms 'On the Ropes', 'The Gloves Are Off' and 'Knockout Punch'? How often TV newsreaders will say that a politician has "Thrown His hat in the Ring', is a 'Big Hitter', is 'Taking it on the Chin',

• Author : Elliott J. Gorn
• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• Release : 30 June 2022

A wide-ranging history of Chicago sports

• Author : California. Legislature. Assembly
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 June 1970

• Author : Michael Staack
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 25 July 2019

Michael Staack’s multi-year ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport ‘Mixed Martial Arts’. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how Mixed Martial Arts practitioners conjointly create and immerse themselves into their own world of ultimate bodily combat. With his examination of concentrative technique demonstrations, cooperative technique train-ings, and chaotic sparring practices, Staack not only provides a sociological illumination of Mixed Martial Arts culture’s defining theme – the quest of ‘Fighting

• Author : Loïc J. D. Wacquant
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 30 June 2022

In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers.

• Author : David Doloreux,Mark S. Freel,Richard G. Shearmur
• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Release : 30 June 2022

This timely volume brings together current research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation from a geographic or territorial perspective. Researchers from across Europe and North America explore areas such as innovation related cooperation between KIBS firms and their industrial partners, how KIBS firms mediate business knowledge and the impact that KIBS make in their local, regional and international contexts.

• Author : Randy L. Swope
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 16 January 2019

While many of his peers began their careers as farmers and factory workers, Leo Florian Houck became a boxing sensation at age 14, enabling him to support his mother and six siblings after his father's death. Houck's career really took off in 1911 with a 20-round victory over world-class welterweight Harry Lewis in Paris. During 1913 Leo became the leading middleweight contender in America. This biography details Houck's early years in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, his long career in the ring--including 200 fights--and his 27 years as

• Author : Rickey Jaikaran
• Publisher : WestBow Press
• Release : 27 April 2012

The world is baffled and in great distress when it comes to the future. The global financial crisis has shaken the foundation of the kingdoms of the world. History has proven that men who pursued their destiny in God lived the greatest and most secured life on Earth. They were answers to crisis, and crisis enhanced their destiny. They were unstoppable! When the nation of Israel was in slavery in Egypt, Moses stepped into his destiny and brought an end

• Author : Jawed Akrim
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release : 17 May 2021

Hangin’ Tough is a collection of essays and short stories that celebrate boxing. Jawed Akrim, a lifelong scholar and fan of the noble sport, answers an individual question with each essay or story. The question-and-answer format engages readers and encompass a variety of topics, such as: • Was there ever someone more intimidating than Mike Tyson? • Were people scared to fight Muhammad Ali? • Has a boxer ever been so nervous that they didn’t leave the dressing room? • Who would win

• Author : Robert Burkhardt
• Publisher : Diplomica Verlag
• Release : 01 April 2008

“It takes 20 years to build up a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” (Warren Buffett) British Petrol, Deutsche Bank, Nike, Siemens, Volkswagen – what do these companies have in common? First, they are part of the world market leaders in their business area and successful trendsetters, e.g. British Petrol in sustainable resources, Nike in sports goods and Siemens in high technology. Second, all of them had these “five minutes”

• Author : Jerry Beasley
• Publisher : Human Kinetics
• Release : 30 June 2022

He's been named the Instructor of the Year by Black Belt magazine and dubbed "the published authority on American karate" by Karate International magazine. Now Jerry Beasley, ninth-degree black belt, shares his insights on the technique and tradition behind the most popular form of karate in the western world. In Mastering Karate, Beasley focuses on the crucial components of advanced karate techniques that will enhance your individual performance and give you the edge in sparring situations. The detailed descriptions and