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 How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of GlobalizationBest Price: $6.25 I could write another BOOK as to why this tome should NEVER have been written. For all those... |  Principles And Practice Of Sport ManagementBest Price: $49.85 I bought the book as supporting material for a masters degree course I teach called... |  Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our ChildrenBest Price: $15.17 As a person who reads a great deal about sports and who has a twenty-five year background in... |  One Helluva Ride: How NASCAR Swept the NationBest Price: $12.47 If you'd like to learn about the history of racing but want it on a more personal level, this is... |  Patron Saints: How the Saints Gave New Orleans a Reason to BelieveBest Price: $12.49 PATRON SAINTS tells the story of a people thrown into hell on earth after the worst natural... |
 Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black AthleteBest Price: $7.64 As a sportsfan, this is a must read! The author's writing style was fantastic. The way the title... |  Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and Americas Most Beloved BallparkBest Price: $11.78 This is a great book. As Mets and Yanks tear down their stadiums, Fenway remains. Does this... |  God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports (And How We Can Get It Back)Best Price: $8.47 Being a loyal Deadspin reader for a couple years now, I was excited to get a chance to sit down... |  Economics of Sports, The (3rd Edition) (The Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)Best Price: $105.00 This summer I am teaching for the first time an economics course at the local community college.... |  Sport in Contemporary Society: An AnthologyBest Price: $42.95 This book provides a very insightful view of sport. The book does not male bash as another... |
 Social Issues in SportBest Price: $42.60 Sport is all around us. Yet few of us look critically at how it affects our lives?—and... |  Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian SoccerBest Price: $2.23 It's hard to explain how good this book is. When I was searching for a soccer book, I wanted one... |  Souled Out?: How Blacks Are Winning and Losing in SportsBest Price: $13.00 First of all, I'm not a sports fan, but I'm aware enough of the world around me to know Muhammad... |  Strategic Sport CommunicationBest Price: $50.22 Strategic Sport Communication is the first text that encompasses the vast, varied, and... |  Sports in American Life: A HistoryBest Price: $44.02 This richly documented book traces the evolution of American sports from the colonial period to... |
 Steroid Nation: Juiced Home Run Totals, Anti-aging Miracles, and a Hercules in Every High School: The Secret History of America's True Drug AddictionBest Price: $10.99 Excellent book on how steroids moved from the gym culture in California to mainstream America,... |  Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of SportBest Price: $19.87 This book explains America's love of sport just as it reveals sport's darker side--the influence... |  Fighting for Acceptance: Mixed Martial Artists and Violence in American SocietyBest Price: $12.47 Madeya and Chings book was a step forward in terms of the limited academic research that has... |  Sport Mechanics for CoachesBest Price: $23.05 |  Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional SportsBest Price: $0.76 Any true fan of baseball will love this book. Not only does it provide factual reporting, but is... |
 Sociology of North American Sport: Eighth EditionBest Price: $50.36 The book that set the standard for sports textbooks has been extensively revised and updated for... |  Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition (At Table S.)Best Price: $12.35 I read the 1999-published edition of FIELD OF SCHEMES, not this revised version. I imagine the... |  Playing With the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in SportsBest Price: $13.49 This is a courageous book. The Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano illustrate how our... |  Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport: Andrew Yiannakis, Merrill J. Melnick EditorsBest Price: $43.91 |  Understanding Sport Organizations: The Application of Organization TheoryBest Price: $50.88 The book is fantastic! I'm a teacher and it will help my classes in Brazil. Everybody that... |
 Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to TodayBest Price: $30.95 "Dope: A History..." is a well-balanced and informative book that brings clarity and... |  Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in BasketballBest Price: $12.69 Buy this book! I'm not even a huge fan of the sport, but Jeff Lane manages to make it... |  Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary ReaderBest Price: $16.89 This is an excellent compiliation of some of the best ground breaking research and writings on... |  Bash Brothers: A Legacy SubpoenaedBest Price: $16.90 McGwire and Canseco were the poster boys for the recent era of performance-enhancing drugs in... |  New Game Plan for College Sport (ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education)Best Price: $49.95 The same general challenges, in varying forms, have confronted those responsible for... |
 Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport (Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)Best Price: $26.22 A revealing look at gender issues in contemporary sport. |  Build a Better Athlete: What's Wrong with American Sports and How To Fix ItBest Price: $14.08 Even though I classify myself as a "recreational runner," I still take my training and... |  Sport and Gender Identities: Masculinities, Femininities and SexualitiesBest Price: $38.69 How are gender and sexuality constructed and contested in sport? This important new book brings... |  The Economics Of Intercollegiate SportsBest Price: $48.50 Does the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) exploit student athletes? Should... |  Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in AmericaBest Price: $11.95 The photography, a careful mixture of historical, documentary and portraiture, makes this book a... |
 National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball And the Rest of the World Plays SoccerBest Price: $13.23 Where to begin? First of all, this book is a century out of date. Americans do not play baseball... |  Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with Nascar (P.S.)Best Price: $1.73 This is one of the funniest stories I have ever read about NASCAR fans. If you enjoy racing as I... |  Inclusion Through SportsBest Price: $24.99 Learn how to use sport as the common element to build an effective physical education program... |  Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through SportsBest Price: $1.97 A cover blurb on Christine Brennan's new book uses the word "heartfelt." I'm very... |  Sports Ethics: An AnthologyBest Price: $38.96 The essays in this reader examine philosophical issues such as sportsmanship, violence,... |
 Philosophy of Sport (Paragon Issues on Philosophy Series)Best Price: $7.95 |  Sport and Society: A Student IntroductionBest Price: $61.95 `Barrie Houlihan's astonishingly ambitious and skilfully assembled collection, Sport and... |  Everywhere We Go: Behind the Matchday MadnessBest Price: $7.89 This volume offers an insight into the behavior of the football thug. It features many... |  The Olympic Games: A Social Science Perspective (Cabi Publishing)Best Price: $42.42 This 2nd edition of a highly successful book (published in 2000) provides a comprehensive,... |  The New Americans: Defining Ourselves Through Sports and Fitness ParticipationBest Price: $24.95 Based on primary research in the service of more than 200 corporate, governmental, media and... |
 We Are All AthletesBest Price: $3.00 I read this book in public places (on the Metro, in cafes), and some of the passages had me... |  Club Life: The Games Golfers PlayBest Price: $1.99 Culled from Steinbreder's popular Club Life column in Golfweek magazine, the chapters of Club... |  Sport: A Critical SociologyBest Price: $18.58 In this lively new book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of... |  Learning Culture through Sports: Exploring the Role of Sports in SocietyBest Price: $17.95 This book provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes... |  Young, Black, Rich, and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American CultureBest Price: $8.00 Using the tools of a critical theorist, Todd Boyd sets out to analyze the quest for freedom of... |
 Making the Play: How to Get the Best of Baseball BackBest Price: $1.60 off the Bat when George Steinbrenner is the doing the introduction then you know anything can be... |  The Wages of Wins: Taking Measure of the Many Myths in Modern SportBest Price: $11.48 WoW is a great introduction to thinking more critically about sports and how we define "the... |  Sports Fan Violence in North AmericaBest Price: $22.95 I am the author of this volume. It is my hope that readers use the information in the book to... |  Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional WrestlingBest Price: $13.57 One thing can be said about this book: it's unique. Not just for the smarts but definitely not... | |
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