Donald Dinnie Uncovered


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Through the use of newspapers, books and journals from the 19th Century, the author is able to present the most in-depth analysis ever undertaken of Dinnie's throwing achievements and competition results. The findings are presented using detailed modern graphs and include the personal records claimed by Dinnie himself.As a travelling athlete and strongman Dinnie was involved in a number of disputes across the globe. He was no stranger to the courts in Scotland, USA, New Zealand or Australia and the details of many of his legal issues are examined. Including when he was sued by his own son.No book on Donald Dinnie would be complete without mentioning his renowned featsof strength and the massive Dinnie Stones he lifted. This book does not disappoint with its thorough assessment of Dinnie's strength and it slays many myths and misunderstandings along the way.Many beautiful contemporary photographs appear throughout the book as the author takes the reader on a journey though Donald Dinnie's life and legacy in a manner never achieved in other works.




Mr Struth: The Boss


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Bill Struth is the most celebrated Manager in the history of Rangers Football Club. In his 34 year tenure, he led the club to 30 major trophies and nurtured many of the club's greatest players. To them, he was simply 'Mr. Struth' - a father figure who guided them with the principle that, '... to be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football.' If these words set the ideals for his players to attain, his own personal life was clouded by moments of indiscretion which were to influence the course of his life and career. Drawing on family accounts and Rangers archives, the book explores his early life in Edinburgh and Fife, as well as his celebrated years in Glasgow. It recounts his career in professional athletics and in football with Heart of Midlothian, Clyde and ultimately, Rangers. It reflects on the legacy of the Struth era and his influences that remain at Ibrox today.




Gangland Sydney


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Gangland Sydney details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Sydney from the mid-1800s to the present day.In this compelling book, Britain's top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadcaster Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Sydney's standover men, contract killers, robbers, brothel keepers, biker gangs and drug dealers, and also examine the role of police, politicians and lawyers who have helped and hindered the growth of these criminal empires.Vivid and explosive, Gangland Sydney is compulsive reading.




Stonelifting


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Training with and lifting stones will shape you into a very strong and powerful individual. It can arguably be said that lifting a stone to a great height is the ultimate test of strength. Throughout time strength and the desire to be strong has been the back bone of an individual's ability and willingness to be better. Lifting Stones provides a natural test of strength and challenge that stems back thousands of years, stones that were lifted to make the step from being known as a boy and welcomed into manhood and as a test of strength, both as a competition and as an individual's sacred and personal contest against the stone. In this book you will read about stones that are situated round Scotland and Iceland which had been used as such a test of strength, as a result of this these stones have a hidden history behind each and every one with stories and tales that will have you rushing to lift them, testing your own abilities and becoming part of the stones unique history. You will learn about correct lifting technique and form, gym exercises that will push you further in your stonelifting strength abilities, and how to train with stones alone.Learn the science behind stonelifting with 'The Basic 10', which is the 10 individual aspects to be taken into consideration before lifting each stone, and 'The 10 Building Blocks of Stonelifting', a guide to preparing you to lift as well as lifting a stone as high up and away from the ground as you can. Learn the lifting technique and training methods that will prepare you to lift any stone in your path, like, the famous Dinnie Stones, Inver Stone, Testing Stone Of The Fianna, Barevan Stone that sits in the ruins of an old Scottish church yard and Iceland's Husafell Stone as well as many more.







The Strongest Man That Ever Lived


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(The book is about the life of the great Canadian strongman Louis Cyr) ... "So, dear strength lover, because my creed is yours, I have drawn together the golden threads of a great man's life and spun the web of his story within these pages. The manner in which this book is written is entirely a new departure in strong-man journalism. I have bared my soul and purposely scorned the reins of conventional writing by giving full sway to my exultations, and perhaps to a few lamentations, but not many, as there is so little reason for them, especially when we consider that all things happen for the best. If I have in places appeared too abandon and let the fire of my song run riot, forgive me, remember I am human and that my strength is my weakness, for I love the God-made man even as you do. As you read through these pages, I hope you will feel the throbs of excitement that I have lived. The straining at the leash of a restless spirit as mine has been, the enveloping passion to shout and hurl sky-high your hat like a baseball fan, as you visualize our hero crash through the battle line to victory. I want you to see this man as I have seen him, sweaty, palpitating, sometimes bloody, but with a triumphant eye as he looked over his battlefields. I only hope you will like this book and inspire others to possess it, so that this volume will be the first of many to fire your soul and urge you to beautify your body even as my other book so instructs and guides." - The Author, GEORGE F. JOWETT. This is a 6" by 9" original version, restored and re-formatted edition of Jowett's 1927 classic. A must have in your physical culture library. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com




The Breeder's Gazette


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The History of the 51st (Highland) Division, 1914-1918


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If it were possible for the General who for three years commanded all the British Divisions in France, and was served with equal gallantry, devotion, and success by each, to admit a predilection for any of them, my affection would naturally turn to the Division that drew so many of its recruits from the same part of Scotland where my boyhood was spent and my own people lived. Those who read the pages of this book will find therein a tale of patient endeavour and glorious achievement of which I claim a good right to be as proud as any of my fellow-countrymen. The 51st Division does not need to boast of its prowess or its record. It can point to the story of its deeds, plainly and simply told, and leave the world to judge.




The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images


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This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. Providing original case studies, the book further examines how the Nordic models have been constructed, transformed and circulated in time and in space. It investigates the actors and channels that have been involved in circulating models: journalists and media, bureaucrats and policy-makers, international organizations, national politicians and institutions, scholars, public diplomats and analyses where and why models have travelled. Finally, the book shows that Nordic models, perspectives, or ideas do not always originate in the Nordic region, nor do they always develop as deliberate efforts to promote Nordic interests. This book will be of key interest to Nordic and Scandinavian studies, European studies, and more broadly to history, sociology, political science, marketing, social policy, organizational theory and public management. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.




Donald Dinnie


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