Category - Social Science
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The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the R...
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Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball and Changed America's Game Forever
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"The players today are much better than we were.... But there is one thing that we could do better. We could pass the ball better than they can n...
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Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and fa...
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Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial de...
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King James
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /King James offers a fascinating, inside look at the early years of the king of the basketball court, Lebron James.LeBron is a six-foot-eight gift f...
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The Book of James: The Power, Politics, and Passion of Lebron
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The unique social, cultural, and political life of the incomparable LeBron James LeBron James is the hero in two very American tales: one, a succe...
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Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legen...
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Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this extraordinary work of journalism, bestselling and award-winning author Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow Indians and...
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In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is...
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James--from the author of the National Book Award final...
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Hoop Muses: An Insider's Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women's) Game
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"In vibrant color and style, Hoops Muses tells the vital stories that celebrate the history and tradition of our game." --Sue Bird, WNBA legend Hoo...
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Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA Champion
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The story of Giannis Antetokounmpo's extraordinary rise from poverty in Athens, Greece, to superstardom in America with the Milwaukee Bucks--becomi...
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They Call Me Goose: My Life in Kentucky Basketball and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /When Jack "Goose" Givens first walked onto the basketball court at Lexington's Douglass Park for the legendary Dirt Bowl league, it was the begin...
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Common Enemies: Georgetown Basketball, Miami Football, and the Racial Transformation of College Sports
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /During the 1980s Black athletes and other athletes of color broadened the popularity and profitability of major college televised sports by infus...
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Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /**Winner of the 2021 Montana Book Award****Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona General Nonfiction Book Award****Finalist for the Spur Award for B...
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