Cultural & Social Aspects
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In Search of Powder: A Story of America’s Disappearing Ski Bum
$21.95 Add to cartAs a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture–a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: “Ski as much as poss… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803228392
- Language: English
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Latinos and Latinas in American Sport: Stories Beyond Peloteros
$39.95 Add to cartLatinos and Latinas in American Sport: Stories Beyond Peloteros expands upon the significance of sport in U.S. Latino communities by looking at sports as diverse as drag racing and community softball,… [more below]
- Series: Sport in the American West
- Author: Iber, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1682830403
- Language: English
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Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA
$25.00 Read moreFrom the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, how well, and why. Says Nate Silver: “If you want to unders… [more below]
- Author: Goldsberry, Kirk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1328767515
- Language: English
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Agony: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu & the Ancient Greeks
$29.95 Add to cartWhat has Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to do with the Ancient Greeks? A lot, according to Joshua Kulseth and David Larmour, investigating the connections between the Greek pankration and contemporary BJJ and MM
- Author: Kulseth, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: November 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0989537153
- Language: English
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Prehistoric: The Audacious and Improbable Origin Story of the Toronto Raptors
$18.00 Read moreThe improbable story of the birth of modern-day pro basketball in Toronto
In just over 25 years, the Toronto Raptors have evolved from an intrepid expansion team to an NBA champion. But for all the tr
- Author: Wong, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637276583
- Language: English
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Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball — And America — Forever
$21.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season–when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams
From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by nati- Author: Wendel, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821834
- Language: English
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Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. the Fight
$116.67 Read moreOn October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match. One was Muhammad Ali, who vowed to r
- Author: Mailer, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 22 2022
- ISBN10: 3836591499
- Language: English
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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
$30.32 Read moreRiveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter
“The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick’s story is big
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976757
- Language: English
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Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It
$18.95 Read moreA bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere
Those who have been lured by the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decision- Author: Moore, Evan F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1637272944
- Language: English
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Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit
$22.95 Add to cartField of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires wh… [more below]
- Author: Demause, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803260164
- Language: English
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Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power
$21.99 Add to cartSoccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two cou… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 1568586337
- Language: English
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Live to Ride: Finding Joy and Meaning on a Bicycle
$30.00 Add to cartA visual celebration of the beauty and lure of bicycle culture by renowned cycling journalist Peter Flax
Live to Ride is an ode to cycling from one of the world’s most respected cycling journalists. T- Author: Flax, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1648291317
- Language: English
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Sports Illustrated the Basketball Vault: Great Writing from the Pages of Sports Illustrated
$30.00 Read moreSports Illustrated, the most respected voice in sports journalism, has covered the NBA for the much of its existence, documenting its expansion from fledgeling league to global force.
Curated by edit- Author: Ballard, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379565
- Language: English
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Rolling Thunder: The Golden Age of Roller Derby & the Rise and Fall of the L.A. T-Birds
$31.99 Add to cartScott Stephens received his first set of roller skates at age six in 1966 – and soon he was staging Roller Derby games in his backyard. Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, it was impossi… [more below]
- Author: Stephens, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1532084730
- Language: English
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Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South
$18.95 Add to cartA wry and witty commentary on college sports and identity in the complicated social landscape of the South.
Ed Southern, lifelong fan of the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons, the smallest school i… [more below]
- Author: Southern, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1958888087
- Language: English
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Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against Women
$43.93 Add to cartSkating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.
- Author: Dekeseredy, Walter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1487547102
- Language: English
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Golf All-In-One for Dummies
$34.99 Add to cartThe fun way to get a grip on every aspect of golf
Golf is a popular spectator sport, but for those who play it’s a great source of low impact cardiovascular, strength, and aerobic exercise. In additio
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: The Experts at Dummies
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 111811504X
- Language: English
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The Modern Medicine Game: Lacrosse, The Haudenosaunee, and Reconciliation
$24.99 Add to cartIN 2010, MEMBERS OF THE HAUDENOSAUNEE NATIONALS (formerly the Iroquois Nationals) lacrosse team, representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of six Indigenous Nations in North America, were sitting in … [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1039167322
- Language: English
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Prophetic Grappling: Including as-Suyuti’s al-Musārʿah ilā al-Muṣārʿah
$22.45 Add to cartHe ﷺ said, “Go and wrestle him.” So, I took him down and thus he ﷺ thus permitted me to join the mission. – Samurah ibn Jundub (Companion of the Messenger of God ﷺ)
Sport has been
- Author: Shaikh, Nisar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 20 2022
- ISBN10: 191502515X
- Language: English
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Rage on the Field: The Decline of Sportsmanship in Sports Today
$19.99 Add to cartDuring a match in Colville, Washington, official Bob West was head-butted by a high school wrestler in 1996 and knocked unconscious. This incident, captured on tape, has been aired on every major netw… [more below]
- Author: West, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1039166725
- Language: English
