Category - Sports & Recreation
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Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From baseball to biology, an award-winning journalist highlights the power of team chemistry in this "terrific" data-driven investigation of huma...
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La complejidad del Barça / The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making An d Unmaking of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Con un acceso excepcional e inigualable, el coautor de Soccernomics y periodista del Financial Times, Simon Kuper cuenta la historia de cómo el F...
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In Search of Powder: A Story of America's Disappearing Ski Bum
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /As a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture—a carefree l...
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Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The nation's sharpest sportswriter explores the contested politics of sports and profiles athletes making change. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781931...
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Baseball History: The History of Baseball Along With Fascinating Facts & Unbelievably True Stories
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Would you love to know the incredible and exciting history of baseball? Whether you want to (1) learn incredible and interesting facts about base...
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Unwinding Madness: What Went Wrong with College Sports?and How to Fix It
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sports Unwinding Madness is the mos...
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Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player ta...
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Becoming a Sustainable Runner: A Guide to Running for Life, Community, and Planet
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Becoming a Sustainable Runner is not just another running guide on developing the physical attributes to run faster or longer. What it will help ...
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“An eccentric, fascinating exposé of a world most of us know nothing about. . . . Bristles with anecdotes that are almost impossible to believe.”...
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Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport / Edition 6
PaperbackOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport's darker side--the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, polit...
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Research Methods for Sports Studies
PaperbackOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /Research Methods for Sports Studies is a comprehensive, engaging and practical textbook that provides a grounding in qualitative and quantitative...
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Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports--And Why It Matters
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards 2022 A close look at how big money and high stakes have transformed youth sports, turning once h...
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You Negotiate Like a Girl: Reflections on a Career in the National Football League
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An incomparable memoir of business and football from the woman known as "The Princess of Darkness." Former NFL team executive Amy Trask has held m...
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Sports Illustrated the Basketball Vault: Great Writing from the Pages of Sports Illustrated
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Sports Illustrated, the most respected voice in sports journalism, has covered the NBA for the much of its existence, documenting its expansion fro...
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The New Ballgame: The Not-So-Hidden Forces Shaping Modern Baseball
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Watching a game of baseball today means witnessing phenomena that would have been novel, if not completely unheard of, not so long ago. Starting p...
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Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The story behind Shohei Ohtani's legendary MVP season as baseball's greatest two-way player-dominant pitcher and outfielder/DH with otherworldly po...
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Raising Empowered Athletes: A Youth Sports Parenting Guide for Raising Happy, Brave, and Resilient Kids
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A timely and down-to-earth guide for parents navigating the difficult decisions and extraordinary pressures of youth sports. Today's youth sports ...
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Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit Nation explains how we got here and imagines how ...
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Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The story behind Shohei Ohtani's legendary MVP season asbaseball's greatest two-way player--dominant pitcher and DH with otherworldlypower at the p...
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Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An 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 all...
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Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"[An] electrifying debut...Through in-depth and compassionate reporting, Barnes breaks down the misunderstood science surrounding sex and gender th...
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Sauna: The Power of Deep Heat
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In 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...
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The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"Indispensable history." -Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right Call A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, wh...
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An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field "Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges...
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