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Curling
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Curling For Dummies
P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, youre probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Curling For Dummies (9780470838280). The book you see here shouldnt be considered a new or updated product. But if youre in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. Were always writing about new topics!
Curling
A well illustrated guide for anyone interested in curling. It covers the history, players, and events as well as the basics of the game, strategies and techniques. The author is a past Canadian Men's Curling Champion and an authority on the game.
Curling
Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, Curling in the Global Citizens: Olympic Sports series explores the sport through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Economics. Text and photos look at the history, basic philosophies, and geography of curling. As they read, students will develop questions about the text, and use evidence from a variety of sources in order to form conclusions. Data-focused backmatter is included, as well as a bibliography, glossary, and index.
The Roaring Game
Harking back to Scotland in the 16th century, curling is an increasingly popular game in which two teams of four players slide stones over a stretch of ice toward a target circle. As "Open Ice" explains, the sport's attraction is that anyone can play it, whether young, old, average Joe, or superstar athlete. This lively book explores the genesis and growth of curling from humble origins in stream-beds centuries ago to its present status as an Olympic sport and cult favorite. In surveying curling's wide history, author Doug Clark includes a fascinating range of the many and often unusual places -- such as James Bond and Beatles movies -- it appears. Clark takes readers behind the scenes at the Olympics, explores the giddy highs and tragic lows of momentous moments in curling history, and introduces an unforgettable array of eccentric curlers, including "The King of Swing," noted for his dancing prowess and "swing" ice that makes rocks curl wildly.
Curling
Excerpt from Curling: Complete Rules and Regulations, With Diagrams of Play "Noo, fill a bumper to the brim, And drink wi' three times three, man; May curiers on life's slippery rink Trae crul rubs be free, man." The game of curling is one of the most interesting of our winter amusements. While the majority are inclined to look on the features of the sport in a jocose light, yet we think that it affords scope for a display of skill, such as few games demand; in fact, it has been claimed that no mortal can curl to perfection, but tradition has it that a certain Tam Pate, who flourished in the early part of this century, never missed a shot. Of the origin of curling it is hard to speak with ac...
Curling Superiority!
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