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Sport and mind games

Ed Hawkins longs to believe in the possibility of mind control over players. But there’s nothing occult about the psychology of sport

  • The Men on Magic Carpets: Searching for the Superhuman Sports Star

    Ed Hawkins

    Bloomsbury Sport, pp. 296

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