Get Your Head in the Game
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Get Your Head in the Game is the first book to tackle the issue of mental health and its relationship with the most popular sport in the world, football.
Dominic J Stevenson Boeken
Dominic Stevenson is een schrijver die zich toelegt op het aangaan van cruciale wereldwijde discussies over maatschappelijke, gender-, seksuele en onderwijsongelijkheid. Zijn werk duikt in hedendaagse kwesties, met als doel begrip te kweken en te pleiten voor gelijke kansen. Door zijn literaire bijdragen en gemeenschapsbetrokkenheid wil Stevenson urgente maatschappelijke zorgen belichten en een rechtvaardigere wereld bevorderen. Zijn schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een scherp bewustzijn van maatschappelijke dynamiek en een drang naar positieve verandering.
Opening with Wimbledon 2019, The Art of Tennis covers the excitement of the sport up to the profound silence of the Covid-19 pandemic-when no tennis was played for a year-through Wimbledon 2021.
In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life living with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China. His journey took him to some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places in the world, from the poppy fields of the Afghan–Pakistan border, to the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road, before he was arrested for drug smuggling while boarding a boat from Shanghai to Japan. After eight months on remand in a Chinese police lock-up, Stevenson was sentenced to two and a half years in one of the biggest prisons in the world, the Shanghai Municipal Prison aka "The Monkey House." There, he was imprisoned alongside just five westerners amongst five thousand Chinese criminals in a block for death row inmates and political prisoners, where the guards drank green tea and let the prison run itself. The experience led him to reflect on his previous life in Japan, India and Thailand, during which time he took on a varied array of jobs, including English teacher, karaoke-bar host, factory worker, busker, crystal seller, dope smuggler, and film extra. From Afghan gun shops to Tibetan monasteries, Thai brothels and the stirrings of the rave culture in Goa, Monkey House Blues is a tale of discovery and rediscovery, of friendship, and betrayal. An original and picaresque tale of love, loss, and awakening in a Chinese prison.