Gifford, Clive

This book tells about the twelve disciplines of track and field including the training, competitions, and some famous track and field athletes.

With their exciting contests of powerful racing cars and motorbikes, motorsports have had a surge in popularity. Young people will enjoy learning about these sports, which draw upon drivers skills, endurance, and nerve.

Presents easy-to-follow instructions on a variety of golf topics, including tee shots, iron play, pitching, chipping, navigating bunkers, reading a green, and putting.

This book describes and presents step-by-step photographs showing the essential techniques for swimming competitions and strokes including the front crawl, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly.

This book features detailed cutaway illustrations with clear text to explain the principles behind how planes work and what their various parts are designed to do.

Explains the nature, parts, operations, and uses of robots as factory workers, vehicles, surgical assistants, sheep shearers, space explorers, and more.

Uses text, photographs, and diagrams to examine all aspects of soccer tactics, covering starting formations, set piece routines, defensive plays, and attacking moves, and offers suggestions for games and exercises.

This book introduces field athletics and presents step-by-step descriptions of the different events and the techniques, training, and equipment required.

This book describes the most extreme types of motorcycle races and events, including MotoGP, motocross, land speed racing, ice speedway, and top-fuel motorcycle drag racing.

Explores the history of robots, both in science fiction and in science and technology, robot construction, how they are being used in the human body, and other scientific uses of robotic technology.