e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Merlino, Doug.
Subjects
Mixed martial arts -- Social aspects.
Mixed martial arts -- Training.
Martial artists -- Anecdotes.
Mixed martial arts -- History.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Merlino, Doug.
by title:
Beast : blood, strug...
by call number:
796.8071 M565b
Search the Web
Merlino, Doug.
Mixed martial arts -- Social aspects.
Mixed martial arts -- Training.
Martial artists -- Anecdotes.
Mixed martial arts -- History.
MARC Display
Beast : blood, struggle and dreams at the heart of mixed martial arts /
Doug
Merlino
.
by
Merlino
,
Doug
.
Bloomsbury, c2015.
Call #:
796.8071 M565b
Subjects
Mixed martial arts -- Social aspects.
Mixed martial arts -- Training.
Martial artists -- Anecdotes.
Mixed martial arts -- History.
ISBN:
9781620401552 (hc.)
162040155X (hc.)
Description:
xv, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes index.
Contents:
Prologue: Kearney -- New starts. The anarchist next door -- The bear goes stouh -- As long as I don't get my face broken -- Grind. Monday -- I don't want to be in an exclusive club -- My motivation was to kill everybody -- Potluck -- The psycho switch -- Fight season. You gotta run your mouth a little bit -- Just one more -- A mauling in Vegas -- Lincoln -- Hercules -- Roots. An uncanny Eastern rite -- There are no rules -- The snowman -- ATT -- Rising up and coming down. Heroes and villains -- Believe -- Spasibo -- One step back -- Sport, art, business, spectacle. Do you wanna be a fighter? -- Beast -- Life is standing there to kick you in the face -- Pushing on. Head down -- I finish -- You are playing in my world -- Endings. Edmonton -- Peoria -- Cincinnati -- Kazakhstan -- Orlando.
Summary:
Doug
Merlino
takes us from the cage to the training gyms to the fighters' living rooms in a character-driven examination of the world's fastest-growing sport: mixed martial arts.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.8071 M565b
Adult books
Adult Display 1
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.