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Playing the Long Game
A Memoir
2022
EN
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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport.**Christine Sinclair is one of the wo...
10,38 €
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2016
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This book presents cutting-edge, peer reviewed research on networked learning organized by three themes: policy in networked learning, researching networked learning, and boundaries in networked learning. The "policy in networked learning" section explores networked learning in relation to policy networks, spaces of algorithmic governance and more. The "boundaries in networked learning" section investigates frameworks of students' digital literacy practices, among other important framework...
85,85 €
Playing the Long Game
A Memoir
- Narrated by
- Rachel Cairns
Unabridged
6 hours 15 min
2022
EN
**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport.**Christine Sinclair is one of the wo...
22,30 €
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All Roads Home
A Life On and Off the Ice
Unabridged
8 hours 40 min
2022
EN
**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete.**Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Ho...
23,19 €
Over the Boards
Lessons from the Ice
- Narrated by
- Katie Ryerson
Unabridged
7 hours 4 min
2021
EN
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Hayley Wickenheiser is an incredible human being . . . this is what a billion hours of hard work looks like.”—Ryan ReynoldsThe greatest women’s hockey player of all time, Hayley Wickenheiser shares the lessons that won her four Olympic gold medals, and hard-earned wisdom distilled from moments when she fell short.**There is no one in the world like Hayley Wickenheiser.13 World Championship appearances. 6 Olympic Games. Hockey Hal...
21,41 €
All Roads Home
A Life On and Off the Ice
2022
EN
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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete.**Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Ho...
10,27 €
Over the Boards
Lessons from the Ice
2021
EN
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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Hayley Wickenheiser is an incredible human being . . . this is what a billion hours of hard work looks like.”—Ryan ReynoldsThe greatest women’s hockey player of all time, Hayley Wickenheiser shares the lessons that won her four Olympic gold medals, and hard-earned wisdom distilled from moments when she fell short.**There is no one in the world like Hayley Wickenheiser.13 World Championship appearances. 6 Olympic Games. Hockey Hal...
10,38 €
Down and Back
On Alcohol, Family, and a Life in Hockey
2023
EN
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For readers of Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father and Hockey Confidential, Down and Back tells broadcaster Justin Bourne’s story of following his Hall-of-Fame father not only to the NHL, but also into rehab.Bob Bourne was everything a son wants to emulate—an NHL All-Star, a Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year,” a Stanley Cup champion. Justin Bourne followed in those huge footsteps, leading his teams in scoring year after year, an...
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The Series
What I Remember, What It Felt Like, What It Feels Like Now
2022
EN
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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA new book by Hall of Fame goalie and bestselling author Ken Dryden celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series**SEPTEMBER 2, 1972, MONTREAL FORUM, GAME ONE:The best against the best for the first time. Canada, the country that had created the game; the Soviet Union, having taken it up only twenty-six years earlier. On the line: more than the players, more than the fans, more than Canadians and Russians knew.So began an enti...
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Life in Two Worlds
A Coach's Journey from the Reserve to the NHL and Back
2023
EN
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**#1 BESTSELLERIn 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn’t work in pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened?**Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates many sizes too big. But poverty wasn’t his biggest challenge. Playing the game meant spending his life in two worlds: one in which he was loved and accepted and one where he was often told he didn’t belong....
10,38 €
Evolve or Die
Hard-Won Lessons from a Hockey Life
2022
EN
For fans of Michael McKinley’s Hockey: A People’s History and Bob Cole’s Now I’m Catching On—a book about what’s changed in hockey, what never should, and a celebration of what we love about the game, from the broadcaster, analyst, and longtime executive producer of Hockey Night in Canada, John Shannon.For decades, Hockey Night in Canada has been the gold standard not just for hockey broadcasts, but for all sports across North Am...
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The Save of My Life
My Journey Out of the Dark
2022
EN
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A riveting look behind the mask of an NHL goalie, The Save of My Life offers understanding and hope to anyone living with mental illnessBy the time he was twenty-two years old, goaltender Corey Hirsch had realized his childhood dream of playing in the NHL, won an Olympic medal and drunk from the Stanley Cup. While he excelled on the ice, out of the net Hirsch was plagued by persistent dark thoughts and ceaseless anxiety. On days when he could barely get ou...
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