Wisden 2013
- the 150th edition
- contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation & reports & scorecards

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With Tests & One Day Internationals now joined by Twenty 20 games there is more international cricket than ever before. These games captivate a television audience of tens of millions throughout the year & throughout the world. But how do you keep track of all the players? The Wisden Guide to International Cricket (formerly known as The ESPN Cricinfo Guide to International Cricket) is the answer. The 2013 edition of this already popular annual paperback will contain crisply written profiles of everyone expected to appear in a Test match in 2013. Published in November 2012 at the beginning of international cricket's busiest time of year this is the only guide that tells you HOW they play as well as what they've achieved. The 200 players featured in the book all get full-page treatment with a photograph alongside a career summary in words facts & figures. & to back up the profiles there are quick-fire records for every country & up-to-date statistics from www.cricinfo.com the world's biggest cricket website. The Wisden Guide to International Cricket is the essential companion for every cricket lover & the ideal complement to the long-standing Spring bestsellers Wisden Cricketers' Almanack & Playfair. ...

Throughout its long & distinguished history Wisden has reported on Indian cricket around the world & commented on its highs & lows. One of the first references to a touring Indian cricket side was in 1889: ' Perhaps the most notable feature of the tour was the wonderfully successful bowing of Mr Pavri who took 170 wickets at a cost of under 12 runs each'. For a time India enjoyed a golden age of cricket largely through Lord Hawke's tours in the 1890s & then buoyed up by the exploits of Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji who was chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1897. But there were set-backs to come such as the team's 1953 ' Worst Start in Test Cricket' which saw Trueman scythe through their top order at Headingley to leave the team in disrepair at 0 for 4 wickets after 14 balls. Recent decades have seen formidable players such as Ganguly Laxman Sehway Dravid & Tendulkar lift India's game to great heights making them a force to be reckoned with. This anthology charts the progress of India through Wisden's pages using match reports articles notes obituaries & illustrations to bring this extraordinary team
- & their equally extraordinary nation
- to vivid & delightful life.

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Yorkshire County Cricket Club is by far the most successful county cricket club in history. Since the County Championship was constituted in 1890 Yorkshire has in addition to one shared Championship won it outright on 30 occasions & Yorkshire cricket supporters take great pride in the countys cricketing history. As well as the clubs successes there have been 42 Yorkshire players chosen as Wisden Cricketers of the Year. Many have been world-class cricketers such as Wilfred Rhodes Len Hutton Fred Trueman & Geoffrey Boycott with distinguished England careers. Many thousands of Wisden pages have been filled with Yorkshire cricket Yorkshire cricketers & Tests in Yorkshire. Wisden on Yorkshire is a fascinating journey mixing great matches personalities feats controversies & unusual occurrences. Presenting the best Yorkshire info from the Almanack archives Wisden on Yorkshire
Includes:: Focus on the iconic Yorkshire players such as Truman & Boycott Cricketers of the Year & Obituaries The Countys history highlighting significant years & extracts from reviews of those years Fascinating stories of both the highs & lows in the clubs history colour plate section containing superb classic images Detailed records match reports & scorecards
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Healers are continually caring for others but who helps the healer? Guidance for healers on how to remain effective while working in the demanding field of energy medicine has rarely been addressed & that is the intent of these cards. Healers need to recognize the symptoms of burnout as well as be discerning about how best to use their personal skills. These cards aim to be a source of essential support as you serve your clients in the demanding art of healing. ...

If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus & approach the Gospels as though for the first time something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of radical wisdom & compassion whose aim is nothing less than the transformation of human consciousness. His methods are as bold & surprising as a Zen masters. & his aim is to break through our habitual thinking & to effect a complete conversion of our minds & hearts. Cynthia Bourgeault is our guide to rediscovering Jesus as a wisdom master in the tradition of the Buddha & other teachers. She looks to the Gospels to contemplative experience & to recently discovered ancient Christian documents (such as the Nag Hammadi scriptures & the Gospel of Thomas) to reveal a fresh new understanding of Jesus & his teaching. What Jesus experienced she says was a profound understanding of nonduality-the essential oneness of all things-and his aim was to transmit this truth to others experientially. She provides instruction in simple practices from the Christian contemplative tradition that leads to the kind of transformation Jesus taught. These include Centering Prayer a form of Christian meditation & Lectio Divina: Divine reading " a meditative practice unique to Christianity that intersperses slow & deliberate reading of a text with silence contemplation & prayer." ...

It seemed to me that the bees were working on the very same kinds of problems we are trying to solve. How can large diverse groups work together harmoniously & productively? Perhaps we could take what the bees do so well & apply it to our institutions. When Michael OMalley first took up beekeeping he thought it would be a nice hobby to share with his son. But he noticed that bees not only work together to achieve a common goal but in the process create a remarkably productive organization like a miniature but incredibly successful business. OMalley also realized that bees can teach managers a lot identifying 25 powerful insights such as: Distribute authority
- the queen bee delegates relentlessly & worker bees make daily decisions; Keep it simple
- bees exchange only relevant information; & Protect the future
- when a lucrative vein of nectar is discovered the entire colony doesnt rush off to mine it. Blending practical advice with interesting facts about the hive The Wisdom of Bees" is a useful & entertaining guide for any manager looking to get the most out of his or her organization."


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In this landmark work NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications. Decisions taken by a large group even if the individuals within the group arent smart are always better than decisions made by small numbers of experts. This seemingly simply notion has endless & major ramifications for how businesses operate how knowledge is advanced how economies are (or should be) organised & how nation-states fare. With great erudition Surowiecki ranges across the disciplines of psychology economics statistics & history to show just how this principle operates in the real world. Along the way Surowiecki asks a number of intriguing questions about a subject few of us actually understand
- economics. What are prices? How does money work? Why do we have corporations? Does advertising work? His answers rendered in a delightfully clear prose demystify daunting prospects. As Surowiecki writes: The hero of this book is in a curious sense an idea a hero whose story ends up shedding dramatic new light on the landscapes of business politics & society.
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We all know that humanity's greatest thinkers were children once. What you may not know is that some of humanity's greatest thinkers are children now. This playful little book collects amusing insightful & endearing pearls of wisdom from some of the most unlikely little geniuses ever to open their mouths. ...

More than any other bodybuilding writer or authority Mike Mentzer single-handedly changed the way bodybuilders the world over have looked at exercise. A logical (and necessary) companion volume to Mentzers last book (High Intensity Training The Mike Mentzer Way" which was also co-authored by Little) " The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer" goes much further. Whereas the former book revealed the fundamentals of Mentzers revolutionary " Heavy Duty" training system the latter presents not only Mentzers final & most recent discoveries & innovations but also never-before-released "advanced" training techniques that were known only to Mentzers inner circle & personal clients. Illustrated with the most motivational photographs ever taken of Mentzer (in the gym posing & at work) as well as a gallery of his greatest inspirational physique shots " The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer" is THE definitive book on the exacting science of building muscle
- fast. Some of the materials revealed for the first time within the pages of this book are: how excessive training is slowing down your progress; the importance of working to the "point of failure"; Mentzers pioneering use of the early Nautilus machines: a complete " Heavy Duty" seminar; Mike Mentzers " Most Productive" Routine; advanced " Heavy Duty" training techniques; a workout of two sets performed once a week
- & why Mentzer thought it worked "like magic" compared to any other bodybuilding program; & how to push past mental & physical plateaus. in addition the Mentzer estate has made available to the author never-before-released written audio & video materials (including Mentzers research into a revolutionary workout that consists of but two sets performed once every seven days that caused one client to actually "double" his bodyweight in one year!) from the Mike Mentzer archives which when combined with Littles unique personal history with Mentzer & full understanding of his training methods have resulted in startling new insights & novel applications of Mentzers revolutionary " Heavy Duty" training method."

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