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2024 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kimball George Publisher: 66thand2nd È opinione condivisa tra addetti ai lavori e semplici appassionati che la boxe non abbia mai conosciuto un'epoca più gloriosa di quella narrata in questo libro, durante la quale, come scrive Pete Hamill nella prefazione, «gli uomini che si dedicavano allo sport più violento in assoluto erano anche artisti». Grazie a una singolare concomitanza temporale, e alla loro vicinanza in termini di peso e stazza, nel corso degli anni Ottanta del Novecento «quattro re» - Ray «Sugar» Leonard, «Marvelous» Marvin Hagler, Thomas «The Hitman» Hearns e Roberto «Manos de piedra» Durán - incrociarono per nove volte i guantoni con l'intento di stabilire a chi spettasse il titolo di sovrano assoluto della dolce scienza. Ne nacquero altrettante battaglie furiose, ciascuna a suo modo memorabile, capaci di concentrare sul ring un'impressionante quantità di talento, coraggio e violenza, e di salvare il pugilato da un declino che sembrava irreversibile. Dopo aver raccontato quelle sfide in presa diretta ed essere stato al fianco dei protagonisti prima e dopo i loro trionfi e le loro sconfitte, il pluripremiato giornalista George Kimball documenta l'enorme impatto che questa irripetibile epopea ha avuto non solo sul mondo della nobile arte, ma sull'intera società americana del dopo Vietnam. € 20,00
Scontato: € 19,00
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1912 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kimball George (EDT), Schulian John (EDT), McCann Colum (FRW) Publisher: Library of America Named a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, At the Fights is a gritty and glittering anthology of the very best writing about boxing. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; Richard Wright on Joe Louis’s historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling’s brilliantly comic portrait of a manager who really identifies with his fighter; Jimmy Cannon on Archie Moore, the greatest fighter of the 1950s; James Baldwin and Gay Talese on Floyd Patterson’s epic fight with Sonny Liston; George Plimpton on Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X; Norman Mailer on the Rumble in the Jungle; Mark Kram on the Thrilla in Manila; Pete Hamill on legendary trainer and manager Cus D’Amato; Mark Kriegel on Oscar De La Hoya; and David Remnick and Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson. National Book Award–winning novelist Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) offers a foreword and, in a new preface, John Schulian pays tribute to his co-editor, George Kimball, who lost his battle with cancer in 2011. € 17,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Buckley William F., Bridges Linda (EDT), Kimball Roger (EDT), Will George F. (INT) Publisher: Encounter Books For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckley's own writings were a significant part of this development. He was not a theoretician but a popularizer, someone who could bring conservative ideas to a vast audience through dazzling writing and lively wit. Culled from millions of published words spanning nearly sixty years, Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations offers Buckley's commentary on the American and international scenes, in areas ranging from Kremlinology to rock music. The subjects are widely varied, but there are common threads linking them all: a love for the Western tradition and its American manifestation; the belief that human beings thrive best in a free society; the conviction that such a society is worth defending at all costs; and an appreciation for the quirky individuality that free people inevitably develop. € 17,90
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1911 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kimball George (EDT), Schulian John (EDT), McCann Colum (INT) Publisher: Library of America € 31,20
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1910 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kimball George Publisher: Oxford University Press This is an accessible guide to the legal and practical issues arising from complex outsourcing deals with a particular emphasis on the UK and the US. This book covers the discrete legal issues involved, and also the management of the relationship between vendor and purchaser of outsourcing services, in a practical and comprehensive way. € 190,10
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2009 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kimball George Publisher: McBooks Pr "Sugar" Ray Leonard, "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns, and Roberto Duran all formed the pantheon of boxing greats during the late 1970s and early 1980s?before the pay-per-view model, when prize fights were telecast on network television and still captured the nation's attention. Championship bouts during this era were replete with revenge and fury, often pitting one of these storied fighters against another. From training camps to locker rooms, veteran sports journalist George Kimball was there to cover every body shot, uppercut, and TKO. Inside stories, including recent interviews of each of the boxers, are full of drama, sacrifice, fear, and pain, resulting in a fast-paced, blow-by-blow account of four extraordinary adversaries and a remarkable boxing epoch. € 18,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Rodriguez Robert G., Kimball George (FRW) Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc Pub This first nationwide study of boxing regulations in the United States offers an historical overview of the subject, from the earliest attempts at regulating the sport to present-day legislation that may create a national boxing commission. It examines the disparity of regulations among states, as well as the reasons for some of these differences. The work features interviews with boxing officials, analysts and boxers, and includes the results of a national survey of state athletic commission personnel. In-depth case studies of boxing regulations in Nevada and Kansas provide a close look at different states' methods, and Argentina's centralized system of regulation is presented as a comparison to the U.S. approach. € 32,30
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2008 |
![]() ![]() Author: George Kimball Publisher: MAINSTREAM SPORT Trade paperback. Subtitled, }Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran & The Last Great Era Of Boxing{. The first book to comprehensively tell the story of how four middleweight boxing giants came to dominate in the 1980s. € 15,70
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