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Sphere of Influence
Writings on Cricket and its Discontents
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2011
121 kr
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''Does cricket make money in order to exist, or does it exist in order to make money?'' In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty20, and a glamorous new competition, the Indian Premier League. How …
On Warne
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2012
118 kr
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'A superb portrait of the most brilliant cricketer of his generation' Mike Atherton Shane Warne dominated cricket on the field and off for almost thirty years - his skill, his fame, his personality, his misadventures. His death in March 2002 rocked Australians, even those who could not tell a …
Ashes to Ashes
The Story of the Back-to-Back Series of 2013-14
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2014
121 kr
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For the first time since the mid-1970s, England and Australia faced each other home and away in back-to-back series in the summer and winter of 2013. Under prolific captain Alastair Cook, England went into the Ashes on the back of three unbeaten series, including a first win in India for more than …
Uncertain Corridors
The Changing World of Cricket
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2014
121 kr
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For all the glamour and new-found wealth that has come to cricket thanks to the IPL, the sport has rarely faced such an uncertain future. The gold standard of cricket - Test matches - is being sidelined in some countries by the shorter forms of the game. While the sport is being transformed, …
Stroke of Genius
Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2016
121 kr
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‘The year’s best cricket book’ Daily Telegraph ‘Well researched and engagingly written, this exemplary work reveals a hidden history…superbly told story’ Sunday Times ‘Easily the cricket book of the year, of the century…It extends the possibility of cricket-writing-as-literature’ Suresh Menon, The …
Cricket War
The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket
Av Gideon Haigh
Häftad, 2017
277 kr
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One of The Times' 50 Greatest Sports BooksIn May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised ‘World Series’. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the …
Cricket War
The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2017
165 kr
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One of The Times'' 50 Greatest Sports Books In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised ''World Series''. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the …
Cricket War
The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2017
286 kr
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One of The Times'' 50 Greatest Sports Books In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised ''World Series''. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the …
Deserted Newsroom: Penguin Special
Penguin Special
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2012
158 kr
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Veteran journalist Gideon Haigh assesses the future of news media in light of the internet''s effects on traditional forms of publishing and broadcasting. In the last decade, customary news media have crumbled before the effects of the internet on advertising, circulation and viewership. In the …
End of the Road?: Penguin Special
Penguin Special
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2013
158 kr
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Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom – a remarkable achievement in a market so small. Yet the industry has few friends, and many vociferous critics who argue that the country should not make cars at all. In …
Uncertain Corridors: Writings on modern cricket
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2013
260 kr
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Gideon Haigh has had a front-row seat during that decline and Uncertain Corridors collects the best of his despatches, narrating the collapse of cricket''s traditional structures and the uneasy and troubled evolution of its new order, through the stories of Michael Clarke, Ricky Ponting, Mike …
Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2015
292 kr
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Certain Admissions is Australian true crime at its best, and stranger than any crime fiction. It is real-life police procedural, courtroom drama, family saga, investigative journalism, social history, archival treasure hunt - a meditation, too, on how the past shapes the present, and the present …
Sultan
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2022
215 kr
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Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket.For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking – his electrifying left-arm pace, his explosive left-handed striking, his leadership and his inspiration. …
Stroke of Genius
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2016
238 kr
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Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend – revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the records. In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world beater – at his peak just after Federation, he was …
Scandal in Bohemia
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2018
286 kr
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As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne’s bohemian salons – until one night in 1930 she was brutally slain by an unknown …
Brilliant Boy
Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2021
163 kr
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Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian , The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review . In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in …
Brilliant Boy
Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
Av Gideon Haigh
Ljudbok, 2021
396 kr
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Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian , The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review . In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in …
Shelf Life
Journalism 2000-2021
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2021
239 kr
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Few journalists exemplify the creed ‘without fear or favour’ like Gideon Haigh. Shelf Life selects from twenty-one years of writing on myriad subjects by one of our clearest thinkers, sharpest stylists and most curious journalists. Architecture and airline food. Depression and doodling. Goya and …
Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain
An Edwardian Cricket Murder
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2022
146 kr
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Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime – now he’s unearthed a gripping story that combines the two, in a masterpiece of historical detective work that ties back to the origin of the Ashes … On the night of 23 September 1910, on a station 500km west of …
Ashes 2023
a cricket classic
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2023
281 kr
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A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer. High hopes were held for the Ashes of 2023. They were exceeded in an instant classic of five Tests between a bold England and a battling Australia, finally drawn two-all. Ashes 2023 captures all the drama and skill, as well as the …
Book of Ashes Anecdotes
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2012
167 kr
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The Ashes, the symbol of cricket supremacy between England and Australia, is the game's oldest and fiercest rivalry, still hot to the touch after a century and a quarter. The Book of Ashes Anecdotes collects hundreds of the best stories from more than 260 publications to create the fullest, …
Game for Anything
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2005
115 kr
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Gideon Haigh''s new book covers all the great figures and major issues of cricket, by collecting all his best writing about the game. There are profiles of players past and present - Bradman, Ranjitsinhji, Benaud and Sobers from the past, Steve Waugh, Shane Warne and Wasim Akram from the present. …
On the Ashes
Av Gideon Haigh
Inbunden, 2023
254 kr
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Nothing compares to the Ashes. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently burnished.'The best cricket writer in the world' Guardian'The Bradman of cricket writing' Sunday …
On the Ashes
Av Gideon Haigh
Häftad, 2025
162 kr
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Nothing compares to the Ashes. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently burnished.'The best cricket writer in the world' Guardian'The Bradman of cricket writing' Sunday …
Silent Revolutions
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2007
91 kr
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Gideon Haigh''s first collection of cricket pieces, "Game for Anything", was published by Aurum in 2004 and soon sold out. This is the follow-up, also featuring a striking and off-beat cover picture. Since "Game for Anything" appeared, Haigh has published two more books with Aurum: his book on the …
Mystery Spinner
The Life and Death of an Extraordinary Cricketer
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2002
104 kr
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It is no mystery that today the name of Jack Iverson is virtually unknown. For most of his life he was an unexceptional estate agent in Australia. He died in obscurity, by his own hand, at the age of only 58. He was a clumsy fielder, and a hopeless batsman. But for four years he was the best spin …
Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO; Quarterly Essay 10
Av Gideon Haigh
Häftad, 2003
200 kr
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Momentous, Uneventful Day
a requiem for the office
Av Gideon Haigh
Häftad, 2020
154 kr
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Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office’s final triumph?For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown …
Ashes 2023
a cricket classic
Av Gideon Haigh
Inbunden, 2023
214 kr
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A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer.High hopes were held for the Ashes of 2023. They were exceeded in an instant classic of five Tests between a bold England and a battling Australia, finally drawn two-all. Ashes 2023 captures all the drama and skill, as well as the …
Bad Company
The Cult of the CEO; Quarterly Essay 10
Av Gideon Haigh
E-bok, 2003
206 kr
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Gideon Haigh examines the rise of CEO culture, exposing the myths of corporate leadership and the failures of modern managerial capitalism.In Bad Company, Gideon Haigh scrutinises the way we have turned CEOs into tin gods. Is moral outrage the appropriate response to the collapses of Enron or HIH …
