Cultural & Social Aspects
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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
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We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality
$24.95 Add to cartIn this exceedingly timely book, Louis Moore looks at the history of Black activist athletes and the important role of the Black community in insisting that the concept of fair play should apply not o
- Series: Race and Sports
- Author: Moore, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0813153808
- Language: English
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El Mundial de Messi / Messi’s World Cup
$14.95 Add to cartEs la crónica en caliente, con el recuerdo del campo de batalla aún en la retina, de la deseada y a su modo perfecta conquista de la tercera estrella. Gastón Edul, pegado a la lÃnea de cal y desde
- Author: Wall, Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 6073905181
- Language: Spanish
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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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The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics.
There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely … [more below]- Author: Goldblatt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: January 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1594482969
- Language: English
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Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City
$28.00 Add to cartA Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity
Americans love sports, from neighborhood pickup basketball to the National Football League, and everything in between. Whi- Author: Hayashi, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0822947846
- Language: English
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75 Day Hard Challenge Book
$19.95 Add to cartWelcome to The 75 DAY Hard Challenge Book!
THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF YOUR HEALTHY LIFESTYLE JOURNEY.
As you begin your healthy lifestyle journey, this journal will be a valuable resource. The prompts an
- Author: Read Me Press, Pick Me
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1956259619
- Language: English
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Sports Illustrated the Football Vault: Great Writing from the Pages of Sports Illustrated
$30.00 Read moreSports Illustrated, the most respected voice in sports journalism, has covered the National Football League for over seven decades, documenting its heroes, villains, great characters, and iconic momen… [more below]
- Author: Sports Illustrated
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1637275390
- Language: English
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The Idealist: Jack Trice and the Battle for a Forgotten Football Legacy
$28.00 Read moreAn essential story of understated courage, the lasting power of a name, and the battle to honor a pioneering legacy.
On the eve of his second varsity football game for the Iowa State Cyclones, Jack T- Author: Gelber, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379964
- Language: English
