Andrew Strauss

In November 2010, Andrew Strauss faced the ultimate challenge for an England cricket captain: winning the Ashes on Australian soil, a feat that had not been achieved for 24 years. By the end of a series that gripped the nation, he had led his team to an overwhelming victory - inflicting an unprecedented three innings defeats on the old enemy. Winning the Ashes Down Under is the captain's story of a tour that exceeded all expectations. It not only reveals what went on behind the scenes as Andrew Strauss and coach Andy Flower put together their team of winners, but also paints a very personal picture of day-to-day life on tour. It is an inspiring tale of how hostile conditions, injury and intimidating reputations were overcome by leadership, planning, a slice of good fortune - and extraordinary performances from the likes of Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott with the bat, and James Anderson and Chris Tremlett with the ball. Ranging from reverse swing to the sprinkler dance, from referrals to sledging, from despair at Perth to triumph at Sydney, this is the definitive account of a series that will live long in the memory.

Coming out on Top

Andrew Strauss: Winning the Ashes Down Under

Testing Times is the 2009 Ashes-winning captain`s personal account of a remarkable and tumultuous two-year period in world cricket. When Strauss went out for his second innings in the Napier Test of March 2008, everyone thought-including the man himself-he was one false stroke from the end of his England career. With extracts from the end of his diary, Strauss gives a unique insight into the torment that many Test cricketers go through. But, at the last ditch, he scored 177 and re-established himself as England`s first-choice opening batsman. Taking the reader behind the scenes, Strauss describes his momentous experiences, such as Kevin Pietersen`s captaincy, the dramatic events of the Stanford Twenty20 series, the shocking terrorist attack in Mumbai, his feat of becoming the first England batsman to hit two centuries in a Test in Asia, his sudden appointment as England captain, and his team being dismissed for 51 in his first Test. Both revealing and forthright, Testing Times captures all the excitement of the 2009 Ashes triumph in which his magnificent batting and calm leadership played such a vital role: the agonising last day at Cardiff, England`s first Ashes victory at Lord`s for 75 years, the horrors of Headingley, which began with a 5 a.m. fire alarm, and finally, at The Oval, the joy of regaining the Ashes. Andrew Strauss was born in 1977 and spent his early years in South Africa, Australia and England. He learned his game at Radley College and Durham University, and made his first-class debut for Middlesex in 1998 before becoming captain in 2003. Strauss wrote his name into the record books when he became only the second England batsman to score a century at Lord`s on his Test debut, in 2004. He was awarded an MBE in 2005. In 2009 Strauss was named England captain and was subsequently named Man of the Series in the Ashes victory. Andrew Strauss is married with two children.

In Pursuit of the Ashes

Testing Times

Man Ray

Adina Kamien-Kazhdan

How does one make sense of a purported link between mathematics, William Shakespeare, and art? The answer lies within the oeuvre of Man Ray (1890-1976). The publication sets out to unravel the Surrealist puzzle beginning with his photographs of mathematical models he encountered at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris in the thirties. Moreover, it charts a path culminating in his Shakespearean Equations (1947-1954) series of oil paintings, which were inspired by the photographs and painted in Hollywood over a decade later. The arc the images strike from painting back to photography reveals the ease with which Man Ray moved between various disciplines and forged his own path. An inveterate experimenter, he pioneered artistic activities in the realms of painting, object making, film, and photography, challenging conventional boundaries and blurring established aesthetic categories.

Andrew Strauss

About

Books

Join the club