Résultats pour "One" dans Sports et loisirs

Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book", Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book "is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical."

“Finding Ultra blends Rich Roll’s story of superhuman personal transformation with an amazingly practical guide to plant-based living. It’s also an enlightened manifesto for anyone wanting to transform their life.”—Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and New York Times bestselling...

Matt Fitzgerald has already made a name for himself in the endurance-sport community with books like 80/20 Running, How Bad Do You Want It?, and Iron War. He is an accomplished amateur runner, but if he follows the training, nutrition, and lifestyle of an elite runner, just how fast could he go? He is approaching his mid-40s, so the time to do this is now. He at last has the financial means to do nothing but train.

The autobiography of one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time. 'Why me? How could a boy from a Copenhagen tower block say I want to be a champion with Manchester United and Denmark and make it happen?' Peter Schmeichel is a giant of football, who won more Premier League titles (five) than any...

Your non-overwhelming, down-to-earth guide for daily climate action…personalized to your unique strengths. The climate crisis is the biggest challenge of our time. But the urgency of a warming world creates anxiety and can sometimes cause us to throw our hands in the air and think, How can I...

A memoir about pushing through life's hardest moments: when the body is exhausted, the mind is breaking and nothing feels certain - and how to keep fighting when everything tells you to stop. Lach and Stef Lamble, aka Lambros, know what it means to face challenges that seem too big, too hard or...

Learn the Inspiring Story of the Los Angeles Dodgers' Outfielder, Cody Bellinger! Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device! One of many riveting reads in the Baseball Biography Books series by Clayton Geoffreys. In Cody Bellinger: The Inspiring Story of One of Baseball's Star...

""There are regular lives, and then there is Shikhar Dhawan's life. He has never given excuses. He has seen highs and lows and always risen above them. That journey needed to be told."" -Anshita Gupta, CEO, Da One Group 'One evening, when I was headed for dinner with my British girlfriend Ellen...

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart full, arms wide and ready to take up space in this world.”—USA Today Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time...

Travis Coleman, Quarterback der New York Phantoms, hat alles, was man sich wünschen kann. Ruhm, Reichtum und brillante Spielerqualitäten. Doch dann wird der Superstar zunehmend unzuverlässig. Violet, die als seine persönliche Assistentin engagiert wird, soll den tätowierten Profisportler zurück in die Spur bringen. Die taffe Kalifornierin hat zwar keine Ahnung von Football, von eigensinnigen Menschen aber umso mehr. Travis beginnt sich ihr zu öffnen und lässt sich auf sie ein, doch das stellt ihn vor neue Herausforderungen.

Read by the author, Diana Nyad. DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY BEHIND NETFLIX'S BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE NYAD. After four attempts, sixty-four year-old Diana Nyad finally swam from Cuba to the Florida Keys. She swam for fifty-three hours, across one hundred and ten miles. Find a Way is her account...

In 1938, 29-year-old 'Nicky' cancelled a ski holiday and instead spent nine months masterminding a seemingly impossible plan to rescue hundreds of Jewish children and find them homes in the UK. Over 6,000 people are alive today because of his efforts. What motivated an ordinary man to do something so extraordinary? This book, written by his daughter, Barbara, explores the 106-year life of an incredible humanitarian, a man whose legacy only came to public light decades later.

'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review 'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative...

'One evening, when I was headed for dinner with my British girlfriend Ellen, news of her presence spread like wildfire through the entire squad on tour. A senior national selector, who was on tour with us, spotted us walking in the lobby with our hands linked. It didn't even occur to me that I...

What would be the opposite thing of a “Bucket List”? For me, signing up to run in the Los Angeles Marathon would make the Top Three for sure. I’m not a runner and don’t think I’m a nut. Why would I sign up for such a lunatic adventure? I’m still not sure how it happened, but I trained for a year, then actually lined up with 20,000 other demented men and women to stagger through 26.2 miles in a cold, driving rain. Did David B. Smith’s debut on the marathon course go well? You’ll have to listen to this book to find out! Hint: the answer is a muscle-shredding, red-faced, ego-deflating no.

In One Tough Out: Fighting Off Life's Curveballs, Carew reflects on the highlights, anecdotes, and friendships from his outstanding career, describing the abuse, poverty, and racism he overcame to even reach the majors. In conversational, confessional prose, he takes listeners through the challenges he's conquered in the second half of his life, from burying his youngest daughter to surviving several near-fatal bouts with heart disease.

The history of baseball is filled with forgotten names: players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, land at the edges of the game. Some spend a week or two in the major leagues and then disappear back into the minors. Many leave the sport for...

"We should no longer be seen as being poor, miserable and living off benefits. We can be successful and live a happy and meaningful life. But changing that perception will be a bigger battle than climbing Everest." Hari Budha Magar is a father-of-three, husband and veteran. In 2010, he lost both...

Youth sports can build resilience and discipline—or quietly erode the very relationships they’re meant to strengthen. In Growing Up Young, Craig Young—father, marriage and family therapist, coach, and consultant—shares the faith-centered principles that guided his son’s journey from youth leagues to college football’s biggest stage and ultimately the NFL. This is not a football strategy manual. It is a parenting playbook for families navigating youth and competitive sports.

One Minute Late. What if one minute changed the course of your life forever? For Greg Bond, it did. When a young man was struck and killed by a train, Greg arrived just one minute too late to save him. A single minute. Sixty seconds that would haunt him for years and send him down a path of guilt, trauma, heartbreak, addiction, and self-destruction. In One Minute Late, Greg shares the raw and unfiltered story of a life shaped by unimaginable experiences, devastating losses, near-death encounters, and the emotional scars that followed.