Ice Hockey : Science on Ice [1 ed.] 9781534561144, 9781534561137

Physics explains how an ice hockey player scores a goal. Biology explains why certain exercises help hockey players beco

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Ice Hockey : Science on Ice [1 ed.]
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The earliest forms of ice hockey developed over the centuries in numerous cold weather countries. In the 17th century, a

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"Rev up that Zamboni. Even the most hardened of hockey fans and critics will find something new in Artificial Ice.&

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Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out 'to the ice' to hunt seals in the

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Covering more than seven percent of the earthOCOs surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphereOCoand

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Peter Worsley’s studies at Cambridge were interrupted by war service as a communist officer in the colonial forces in Af

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Enjoy a (slow) spin around the old rink in the only history of the world-famous Zamboni ice resurfacer...now available i

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Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over tw

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