Hailed as a staggering piece of scholarship (Wall Street Journal) The Dickson Baseball Dictionary is the most complete resource on the lexicon of baseball in the English language. More than twenty-five years in the making, with the help of more than 400 baseball and lexical experts, this masterful t[...]

A smart, hilarious, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most euphemised word in the English language: Drunk
A record-breaking assemblage of 2,964 different ways to say "drunk." Tipsy, roasted, three sheets, whazooed and Boris Yeltsinned are just the beginning....With an introduction by the wis[...]

A new edition of the classic study of baseball statistics and scoring discusses the history of scorekeeping from the 1840s to the present, showing actual scorecards from some of baseball's most famous games, and looks at basic and advanced scoring techniques, Reprint. 20,000 first printing.[...]

On October 4, 1957, as "Leave It to Beaver" premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly polished shell, became the first man-made object in space; while it immediately shocked the world, its lon[...]

Lockas du av att utmana din fysik till det yttersta? Att träna upp din snabbhet och smidighet i ett flertal sporter samtidigt? Då kan triathlon vara något för dig! Intresset för triathlon har vuxit de senaste åren men det finns inte många böcker i ämnet. Det här är boken för dig som vil[...]