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Stumped!
The Sports Fan's Book of Answers
- Author:
- By Nicholas Hobbes
- Format:
- Hardback
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- £9.99
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- Published: 8th Nov 2007
- ISBN: 1843546655
- Pages: 256
From the Publisher:
The world of sport generates perennial debates that can drive a grown man to distraction or create rifts between the firmest of friends.
Fear not. 'Stumped! The Sports Fan's Book of Answers' is here to save them.
Hobbes tackles those sports-related questions that thousands of people have debated in front of the TV and in the pub, but for which they have never found a definitive answer, including:
* What makes something a sport rather than a pastime?
* Why do female tennis players grunt?
* Is 'form' an illusion?
* Who would win a fight between Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee?
Drawing on studies by historians, statisticians, scientists, doctors and philosophers - and bringing a healthy amount of common sense to bear - Nicholas Hobbes addresses the whys, whats and hows so you don't have to.
Stumped? It's not the questions but the answers that count.
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