Sport: general

Backpacker The Survival Hacker's Handbook provides detailed instruction on how to use everyday items to survive in extraordinary circumstances.

Fully updated and revised, Hiking the White Mountains, Second Edition, is the must-have insiders guide to the very best peaks in New England.

The Ultimate Guide to Tennessees Great Paddling!

The runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to fail.

The classic guide to Montanas gorgeous campgrounds, now completely updated and revised!

Best Trail Runs Denver and Boulder features forty of the best trail runs within an hour of both citiescomplete with color photos, maps, and detailed specs and trail descriptions, as well as GPS coordinates for all trailheads.

As majestic as they are dangerous, and as timeless as they are current, bears continue to captivate readers.

Lightweight and small enough to fit in your pocket or tucked into your backpack, Survive Mountains is the must-have item to keep with you in case you find yourself in a mountainous survival situation.

The essential handbook for every beginner, Learning to Climb Indoors is the most complete book available on indoor climbingnow revised and in its third edition!

The classic guide to hiking the Hoosier State, now updated and in full-color!

Unprecedented guide to the AK-47!

The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies.

The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies.

This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches in the field.

Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams.

From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage,Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and fishing in Alaska.

From the popular television Oregon travel series Grants Getaways comes the third book in Grant McOmies well-loved guidebooks.

This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists.

Journey "inside the numbers" for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team.

A thought-provoking journey into the complicated history of gender, sexuality, race, and social justice through the world of sports.

Olympic skiing champion Nikki Stone shares her own inspirational story and those of Tommy Hilfiger, Steve Young, Lindsey Vonn, Lester Holt, and others .

Updated with information on the latest models of GPS and new technology such as sophisticated downloadable maps, this new edition provides all the information needed to work any GPS unit in the outdoors.

This book covers how to begin a strengthening program and how to progress in it, and includes clear instructions on how to strengthen every major muscle group in the body.

After working as a minor league hitting instructor, Charley Lau Jr.

Until now, few people could truly say they knew Sam Sneadhis fears, his secrets, his dark side.

Maine is certainly an exciting place, with a plethora of outdoor activities to pursue.

The first biography of Vin Scully is long overdue.

In this lively history of Southern California football, Steven Travers makes the case that under coach Pete Carroll (54-10), the Trojans have overtaken Notre Dame as the greatest ever collegiate tradition.

Stretching is an essential first-step for sports and activities of all kinds.

Did you think that males are the only ones good in sports?

The Green Monster.

As a Maine Guide for 20 years and a hunter and fisherman since childhood, Christian Potholm knows the woods and waters of Maine from the coast to the North Woods.

Why are Americans obsessed with the home run in sports, business, and even life?

This book is a trip-oriented guide, with each entry focusing on a specific activity at a particular location.

In early 1969, New York City and all it represented was in disarray: politically, criminally, and athletically.

It began as a Depression-era, winner-take-all challenge between two Chicago stockbrokers, one of them a flamboyant daredevil with more guts than money and the other with more money than sense.

Have you ever wished you had a professional coach who could encourage your creative pursuits, help structure your efforts, and cheer you on?

Hereis the ultimate golf reference book, meant to feed golfers' insatiable hunger for the statistics and trivia of their game.

In business, sports and life, it takes more than knowledge and good technique to achieve great performances with consistency.

The subject of a front-page New York Times article, Frank Messina takes the same seat at every New York Mets home game.

The year 1966 marked the birth of the National Football League as we know it, when owners in the NFL and the upstart American Football League agreed to an unprecedented merger, to take place at the start of the 1970 season.

Glow Pucks and 10-Cent Beer: The 101 Worst Ideas in Sports History chronicles the sports world's most infamous events, ill-fated ideas and unfortunate trends.

The breadth of our moral experience is more extensive than has been believed over the past several millennia.

American youth sports are in crisis: Parents are fighting with referees, coaches, their kids, and one another.

In Tumultuous Times in America's Game: From Jackie Robinson's Breakthrough to the War over Free Agency, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte provides a comprehensive examination of major developments and key figures in Major League Baseball from the integration of Jackie Robinson in 1947 to the owners-instigated catastrophic players' strike of 1994-95.

In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues.

A captivating narrative guidebook to inspire everyone, no matter their abilities, to get outside and experience the country's natural landscapes.

As befits a game traditionally passed from one generation to the next, baseball has always had a special reverence for origins.

Performance Excellence: Stories of Success from the Real World of Sport and Exercise Psychology provides concise and effective lessons on a variety of psychological skills and broader concepts within the domains of exercise, sport, and performance psychology.

In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball.