Written by a leading expert in the field of sport science, this motivational text provides a thorough overview of fitness and exercise psychology as it relates to everyday life.
With hundreds of books dedicated to conventional sports and activities, this encyclopedia on the weirdest and wackiest games offers a fresh and entertaining read for any audience.
Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, explores the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in and reinforced by play.
More than any other sport, professional football contributed fighting men to the battles of World War II, and the 22 or so players or former players that lost their lives are among the riveting stories told in this tribute to football's war heroes that spans many decades and military conflicts.
Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sport as a means to better understand a society's past, present, and future.
This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have transcended their sports.
San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years.
Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failure-a very successful batter manages a base hit in just three of every ten attempts-Mark Kingwell argues that there is no better tutor of human failure's enduring significance than this strange, crooked game of base, where geometry becomes poetry.
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "e;a spectacular leap,"e; African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years.
Now for the first time in ten years, The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide appears in a revised edition that solidifies its place as the flagship title of the Orvis brand.
This sensitive commentary on Jackie Robinsons life describes his childhood in Pasadena, through his years as a sports hero, to his later involvement in politics and the Civil Rights movement.
"e;A clear-eyed, critical examination of the social, political, and economic costs of hosting the 2016 summer OlympicsThe selection of Rio de Janeiro as the site of the summer 2016 Olympic Games set off jubilant celebrations in Brazil-and created enormous expectations for economic development and the advancement of Brazil as a major player on the world stage.
Gatorade is an enthralling story, brought to life in bright color and sharp detail in this book as journalist and author Darren Rovell chronicles every astonishing milestone of the company's history.
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s, roughly half of Furman's high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo, and increasingly Jewish, San Fernando Valley, while the other half were African Americans bused in from the inner city.
From the legendary Ebbets Field in the heart of Brooklyn to the amenity-packed Houston Astrodome to the "e;retro"e; Oriole Park at Camden Yards, stadiums have taken many shapes and served different purposes throughout the history of American sports culture.
The surface of fallen snowits contours and texturecan tell the interested observer much about the forces that shaped it and about its stability and what it is likely to do.
An inspiring story spanning the 1981-82 Big Ten Championship and a non-profit organization which trains young athletes to excel and give back to the community by serving seniors.
This is volume one of a series, a collection of the first 17 stories of school horses and the pivotal lessons they taught to Anne Wade-Hornsby as she developed her riding school and became a noted trainer in Riverside, California, from 1971 until the present.
For the first time, Notre Dame football fans have a travel book to call their very ownone tailored to making the most out of the home football game experience.
On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a challenge: to walk the path surrounding the Catskills' glorious Ashokan Reservoir every day for a year, at all times of day and in all kinds of weather, trying to find something new every time.
This encyclopedic listing of every man who played on or coached the New York Knicks from the team's inception in 1946 to the present is jam-packed with details on everything from a player's careers statistics to his height, weight, and jersey number.
This is a murder mystery that takes place in the northwest, and involves sea kayaking, rare book collecting and a beloved Newfoundland dog, who rides in the heroines kayak.
In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard.
Like others in the Five-Star Trails series, this book features up to 40 day-hikes, ranging from 1 mile to 12 miles, in and near a midsize city--in this case, Knoxville.
