Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Sport & Recreation

The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.

CARD GAMES. This title features hours of fun for players of all ages. It is a comprehensive, practical guide to more than 100 of the best-loved card games, explaining how to play and win: including the history, rules and strategies of each game. It includes patience and solitaire; point-trick gam...

Offers one hundred concise methods of surviving dangerous situations based on the skills of military special forces operatives, covering such topics as evading ambushes, escaping confinement, and winning a knife fight.

Most small and medium stakes poker players have a decent grasp of no-limit hold'em. However, they almost always have a few substantial leaks in their strategy that keep them from winning at the game. If they could plug those leaks, they could easily become regular winners at their current stakes ...

In 100 Funniest Moments in Australian Cricket, sports journalist, comedy writer and well-known cricket tragic Dan Liebke takes us on a hilarious journey through cricket history, showing us that good cricket is good, but funny cricket is amazing.

100 incredible apps for smartphones, tablets and desktops. With quick-fire tips, tricks and cheats this brilliant new books rattles through the most popular games, organising them into various sections - adventure, strategy, shoot-em-up, puzzle etc. So from Angry Birds to Temple Run, from Paper T...

CHESS. A 21st-Century Edition of a Great Checkmate Collection! Ask most chessplayers from the "baby boomer" generation how they acquired and sharpened their tactical skills, and chances are a Fred Reinfeld tactics collection will be part of their answer. And now, for the first time, 1001 Brillian...

Steve Giddins is an author acclaimed for his ability to write in down-to-earth style on fundamental chess topics. In this book he answers the questions that really matter to chess-players. His topics include many basic ideas, including some that have rarely been addressed so directly in chess lit...

The Foundation of All Survival Skills is "Feeder" Mind-Set. "Feeder" mind-set means being in control of a situation, proactive rather than reactive. It is an optimistic outlook that reframes any situation as a learning experience. Kevin Estela teaches survival skills from this feeder-based perspe...

Tony Wilson takes a look back on one of the most spectacular games in footy history. The 1989 Grand Final between Hawthorn and Geelong is considered one of the greatest of all. Hawthorn, seeking to go back-to-back for the first time was against a Geelong team that had not been in a Grand Final si...