Cultural & Social Aspects
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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
$30.32 Add to cartRiveting 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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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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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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Freezing Cold Takes: NFL: Football Media’s Most Inaccurate Predictions–And the Fascinating Stories Behind Them
$19.99 Add to cartSports fans love holding media “experts” accountable for bad predictions.
Since 2015, Fred Segal has chronicled “unprophetic” sports predictions on the internet. His Freezing Cold Takes social media p- Author: Segal, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0762475455
- Language: English
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What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States
$18.00 Add to cartEdgeofsports.com sportswriter Dave Zirin provides a no-holds-barred commentary on the personalities and politics of American sports.
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1931859205
- Language: English
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Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
$26.95 Read moreTriumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty–it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warn
- Author: Luther, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1477313133
- Language: English
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Tell Me a Story I Don’t Know
$22.00 Read moreIn Tell Me a Story I Don’t Know, veteran sports reporter and broadcaster George Ofman shares his most fascinating conversations with some of the biggest names in sports media. Through these previousl
- Author: Ofman, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1637275420
- Language: English
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Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism
$30.00 Read moreAn inside look at how women athletes are leading the fight for equality–on and off the field
Women’s sports receive a fraction of the airtime allotted for men’s sports, as well as a fraction of the
- Author: MacKenzie, Macaela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600894
- Language: English
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When It Mattered Most: The Forgotten Story of America’s First Stanley Cup Champions, and the War to End All Wars
$37.76 Add to cartNEW UPDATED EDITION FOR FANS OF HOCKEY AND SPORT EVERYWHERE
This commemorative 2nd Edition is one of the most important recent contributions to hockey literature and is consistently among Amazon’s b
- Author: Ticen, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987407622
- Language: English
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Angelo Cataldi: Loud: How a Shy Nerd Came to Philadelphia and Turned Up the Volume in the Most Passionate Sports City in America
$28.00 Read moreFor over three decades, Angelo Cataldi was the on-air voice of Philadelphia sports fans, leading the charge with unabashed zeal and infectious energy. He was the maestro of the mania, the conductor o
- Author: Cataldi, Angelo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1637273541
- Language: English
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Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates
$29.00 Read more“[An] electrifying debut…Through in-depth and compassionate reporting, Barnes breaks down the misunderstood science surrounding sex and gender that has been used to keep cisgender women out of sport
- Author: Barnes, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1250276624
- Language: English
