Cultural & Social Aspects
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50 Years in the Bleachers: What modern sports parents can learn from a Title IX pioneer
$14.95 Add to cartFive decades. Three generations. One family’s sports story.
As a Title IX pioneer, Christine Hawkinson helped blaze the girls’ sports trail her daughters followed 20 years later. Having been a coach’s
- Author: Hawkinson, Christine A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: May 26 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985234800
- 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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Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids’ Sports–And Why It Matters
$28.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards 2022
A close look at how big money and high stakes have transformed youth sports, turning once healthy, fun activities for kids into all-consuming en- Author: Flanagan, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 059332904X
- 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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Pelé: My Story
$22.00 Add to cart“For an American soccer kid growing up in the ’80s, Pel? transcended the game. From the moment I first saw him standing next to Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in Victory, there was only one star… [more below]
- Author: Pele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1635768519
- Language: English
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Friday Night Lights (25th Anniversary Edition): A Town, a Team, and a Dream
$32.00 Add to cartNamed Sports Illustrated’s best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town a… [more below]
- Author: Bissinger, H. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0306824213
- Language: English
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The New Ballgame: The Not-So-Hidden Forces Shaping Modern Baseball
$30.00 Read moreWatching a game of baseball today means witnessing phenomena that would have been novel, if not completely unheard of, not so long ago.
Starting pitchers sling 100 mile-per-hour heat for just four or- Author: Carleton, Russell A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 163727226X
- Language: English
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The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making–And Unmaking–Of the World’s Greatest Soccer Club
$19.00 Add to cartWith rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the worl… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297733
- Language: English
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Ignorant Man’s Son: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartVictor James Hill saw himself in his community’s kids. As a child of the Projects, he’d witnessed deadly shootings, heroin addiction, and brutal violence by the age of thirteen. He bottled up his emot
- Author: Hill, Victor James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987398142
- Language: English
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Mike: The Tigers of Lsu
$29.95 Add to cartMike the Tiger–the only live tiger mascot in the United States–is an iconic presence on LSU’s campus. From his tiger sanctuary next to Tiger Stadium, he draws a steady stream of fans, adults and chi… [more below]
- Author: Baker, David G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180300
- 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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How to Watch Football: 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, on and Off the Pitch
$24.99 Read more‘I love Tifo’ Ian Wright
RULE #1: DON’T WATCH THE BALL Yes, football is about stars, goals and g
‘Tifo are great’ Alan Shearer
‘Tifo have changed the game when it comes to football analysis’ Elis James- Author: The Athletic, Tifo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0241609372
- Language: English
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Sauna: The Power of Deep Heat
$29.95 Add to cartIn many countries, the sauna is sacred. Nothing beats the camaraderie of congregating in the steam and plunging in an ice bath when it gets too hot to handle.
There is a new wave of sauna culture spre
- Author: O’Kelly, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1801292426
- Language: English
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Field Guide: Stories of Lived Experiences
$25.00 Add to cartDiversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Field Guide: Stories of Lived Experience was created to be used by leaders and practitioners in parks and conservation to outdoor and adventure education an
- Author: Yerkes, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24 2022
- ISBN10: 9798987102008
- 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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Becoming a Sustainable Runner: A Guide to Running for Life, Community, and Planet
$27.95 Read moreBecoming a Sustainable Runner is not just another running guide on developing the physical attributes to run faster or longer. What it will help you achieve is a newfound purpose that merges your pass
- Author: Muir, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1718214030
- 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
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637276591
- Language: English
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Talk of Champions: Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartA revealing, humorous, behind-the-scenes memoir from Kenny “The Jet” Smith–superstar basketball commentator, host of the top-rated show, Inside the NBA, and two-time NBA champion. Smith reveals memor… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Kenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0385548052
- Language: English
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The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
$35.00 Add to cartA hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.
Baseball is “the New- Author: Baker, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 05, 2024
- ISBN10: 0375421831
- Language: English
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
$18.99 Add to cart“An eccentric, fascinating exposé of a world most of us know nothing about. . . . Bristles with anecdotes that are almost impossible to believe.” –New York Times Book Review
“Terrific. . . . A travel
- Author: Foer, Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061978051
- Language: English
