Роберт Твиггер4.0 "Злые белые пижамы" - книга, написанная Робертом Твиггером о своем пребывании на годовой интенсивной программе Ёшинкан Айкидо. Действие книги разворачивается в середине 90-х в Токио, Твиггер живет с двумя друзьями в маленькой квартирке недалеко от центра Токио. Для укрепления физической формы и смены жизненного распорядка они дружно решают записаться на занятия в Ёшинкан Хомбу Додзё.
Вскоре после начала регулярных занятий, Твиггер решает, что единственный способ прочувствовать айкидо - это пройти в Ёшинкане курс "Сеншусей", изнурительную 11-месячную программу для подготовки инструкторов айкидо Ёшинкан. Курс состоит из четырех часов тренировок в течение пяти дней в неделю, а также обязанностей по уборке додзё, уик-эндов со специализированными тренировками и демонстраций.
Rachel Cusk0.0 Stella Benson, eager to change her life, answers a classified ad for an au pair and arrives in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family slightly larger than life. What drove her to leave home, job, and life in London for such rural ignominy? Why has she severed all ties with her family? Why is she so reluctant to discuss her past? And who, exactly, is Edward?
Джонатан Рендалл0.0 Fittingly, it is in Las Vegas, boxing's capital, that author Jonathan Rendall, a young British boxing enthusiast, reflects on his own exit from the boxing scene. What unfolds is the true story of his boyhood romance with the sport, his canny coming-of-age as a boxing writer, and his risky bid to bring the unknown Colin "Sweet C" McMillan to the World Featherweight Championship.
Written with the detachment of a seasoned journalist, Jonathan Rendall has produced an uncommon sports memoir about having the faith and losing the faith. Intelligent and funny, This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own is a boxing book with appeal that extends well beyond the ring.
Кейт Саммерскейл, Джо Карстерс0.0 When Marion "Joe" Carstairs died in 1993 at the age of ninety-three, she was largely forgotten. During the 1920s she held the world record as the fastest female speedboat racer. But as journalist Kate Summerscale discovered, when researching an obituary for the Daily Telegraph, Carstairs was also a notorious crossdresser who favored women and smoked cheroots. Supremely self-confident, she inherited a Standard Oil fortune and knew how to spend her money -- on fast boats and cars. on her female lovers, and on a Caribbean Island. Whale Cay, where she reigned over a colony of Bahamians. There, far from her bohemian past in London and Paris, Carstairs hosted a succession of girlfriends and celebrities, including Marlene Dietrich and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Through it all, she remained devoted to Lord Todd Wadley, a little doll who was her bosom companion until the very end.
