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Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look like? by Jane Gottesman Publisher Comments Jane Gottesman, Game Face project director and co-curator, was a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, a contributing writer to Women's Sports & Fitness magazine, a writer and associate producer for ABC Sports, and co-editor of the book Play Like a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports by Michael Sokolove Publisher Comments Amy Steadman was destined to become one of the great women's soccer players of her generation. "The best of the best," Parade magazine called her as she left high school and headed off to the University of North Carolina. Instead, by age twenty, Amy had... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports by Mary Jo Festle Publisher Comments Mary Jo Festle reveals the true story of public attitudes and private ambitions surrounding women's athletics in the post-World War II era, confronting the politics of equality, difference, identity, and self-determination that have shaped women's... (read more) List Price $70.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir by Leslie Heywood Publisher Comments You are a girl. You are a girl and you want to show the world what you're made of, blood and steel and backbone, guts. So you start running. Running so all those eyes who see just a girl will know what you can do. Your legs take the hills, eat up the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports by Eileen Mcdonagh Publisher Comments Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." By keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Their Day in the Sun: Women of the 1932 Olympics by Doris Hinso Pieroth Publisher Comments The 1932 Olympic games took place in Los Angeles in the depths of the Great Depression; that they were held at all falls barely short of miraculous. The United States sent thirty-seven women to compete - seventeen swimmers, seventeen track and field... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Run Like a Girl: How Strong Women Make Happy Lives by Mina Samuels Synopsis Run Like A Girl is about the impact that participating in sports has on women—how the confidence and strength that it helps to build spills over into all of our experiences, making us stronger and better prepared for lifes many challenges. In this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Still Kicking: My Dramatic Journey as the First Woman to Play Division One College Football by Katie Hnida Publisher Comments It took just 1.28 seconds to make history. On August 30, 2003, Katie Hnida became the first woman ever to play and score in NCAA Division I football. The struggle to get to that groundbreaking moment took eight long years, a journey filled with dogged... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Athletic Female by Arthur J Pearl Book News Annotation Sports medicine experts from a variety of subdisciplines examine medical, physiological, and behavioral issues for athletic females from prepubescence through maturity, focusing on physically active females of all levels, from organized youth sports... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hard Fought Victories: Women Coaches Making a Difference by Sara Gogol Publisher Comments An in-depth look at the challenging lives of women coaches, Hard Fought Victories, profiles coaches of a wide variety of sports -- including basketball, volleyball, tennis, softball, track, soccer, rowing, field hockey, cross country and ice hockey -- at... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Playing Ball with the Boys: The Rise of Women in the World of Men's Sports by Betsy Ross Synopsis Female sideline reporters are the fastest-growing trend in broadcasts of professional and college football: names like Suzy Kolber, Erin Andrews, and Andrea Kremer are now as well known as any of the men in the booth. But even more has been going on. In... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women Who Risk: Profiles of Women in Extreme Sports by Marilyn Olsen Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-188).... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Winning Woman: 500 Spirited Quotes about Women and Their Sport by Molly Jay Publisher Comments Here's a way to teach our daughters-and all young women-that there's nothing they can't accomplish! This inspiring compilation of more than 500 quotations includes words of wisdom from Billie Jean King, Lisa Leslie, Missy Giove, Mia Hamm, Teresa Edwards,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Making Her Mark: Firsts and Milestones in Women's Sports by Ernestine Miller Publisher Comments The rich and colorful history of American women in sports<P>""Making Her Mark" is a momentous achievement. Ernestine Miller's amazing compilation of people and events in over fifty sports documents the rich legacy of women athletes in the U.S... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In These Girlshope Is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais Publisher Comments They Were a Talented Team with a Near-Perfect Record. But for Five Straight Years, When it Came to The Crunch of the Playoffs, the Amherst Lady Hurricanes-A Finesse High-School Girls' Basketball Team of Nice Girls from A Nice Town-Somehow Lacked the... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend by Jeff Leen Synopsis The Queen of the Ring is the story of Mildred Burke, the longest reigning champion of female wrestling. In this in-depth account, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jeff Leen pulls back the curtain on a forgotten era when a petite midwesterner used... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women in Sports: The Complete Book on the World's Greatest Female Athletes by Joe Layden Book News Annotation Profiles the lives and careers of gifted and successful athletes who helped to advance the cause of women's sports. Included are pioneers such as Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Althea Gibson as well as modern superstars such as Martina Navratilova... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports by Eileen Mcdonagh Publisher Comments Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." By keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shooting from the outside :how a coach and her Olympic team transformed women's basketball by Tara Vanderveer Publisher Comments Avon has compiled a varied list of books that focus on issues and concerns for women everywhere -- from notable fiction to detailed healthcare guides.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Still Kicking: My Journey as the First Woman to Play Division I College Football by Katie Hnida Publisher Comments The first woman to play in NCAA Division I football describes how an injury ended her promising soccer career, her struggles to cross athletic gender lines throughout her education, her devastating rape by a teammate, and her induction into the College... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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