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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales Publisher Comments After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States by Dave Zirin Publisher Comments "Zirin is America's best sportswriter."-Lee Ballinger, Rock and Rap Confidential "Zirin is one of the brightest, most audacious voices I can remember on the sportswriting scene, and my memory goes back to the 1920s."-Lester Rodney, N.Y. Daily... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports by Dave Zirin and Chuck D Publisher Comments Dave Zirin is the best young sportswriter in America.-Robert Lipsyte This much-anticipated sequel to What's My Name, Fool? by acclaimed commentator Dave Zirin breaks new ground in sports writing, looking at the controversies and trends now shaping sports... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Face to Face by Furman Bisher Publisher Comments As a veteran sportswriter, Furman Bisher has been Face to Face with the most influential sports figures the country has to offer. He pulls no punches and leaves no question un-asked in this collection of his all-time best interviews. From baseball to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.99 Sale - Hardcover
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The Best American Sports Writing (Best American Sports Writing) by Glenn Stout Publisher Comments Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the year's finest writing on sports. Chosen from more than 350 national, regional and specialty publications, the twenty five pieces here embrace the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Celebrant (93 Edition) by Eric Rolfe Greenberg Publisher Comments The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of promise and innocence in America. Hardworking immigrants could achieve the American dream; heroes were truly heroic. Eric Rolfe Greenberg brilliantly and authentically chronicles the real-life... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dick Enberg: Oh My! 50 Years of Rubbing Shoulders with Greatness by Dick Enberg Publisher Comments What does a play-by-play announcer do when he loses his voice during a basketball telecast? If you are Dick Enberg, suffering from a cold with a voice reduced to croaks and whispers as you try to call your fourth game in two days, you turn to your... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcvr W/Comp Media
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The Worst Call Ever!: The Most Infamous Calls Ever Blown by Referees, Umpires, and Other Blind Officials by Kyle Garlett Publisher Comments In any sport, whenever an official takes the field, court, ice, ring, or pitch, they do so with a bright red bull's-eye on their backs. For even with their great accuracy and passion for the game, they do make errors—occasionally, great big fat... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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My Turf: Horses, Boxers, Blood Money, and the Sporting Life by William Nack Publisher Comments William Nack is widely acknowledged as one of the finest sports writers of the past half-century. He has won the prestigious Eclipse Award, given annually for the best magazine piece on horseracing, an unprecedented six times. Laura Hillenbrand, best... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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People's History of Sports in U. S. (08 Edition) by Dave Zirin Publisher Comments In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog The Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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All Fishermen Are Liars by Linda Greenlaw Publisher Comments Veteran deep-sea fisherman Greenlaw relays true fishing stories--swapped with other seafarers at the Dry Dock Bar--on such topics as the most eccentric crew member, the funniest episode, the biggest fish, the wildest night at sea and more.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sporting Road: Travels Across America in an Airstream Trailer--With Fly Rod, Shotgun, and a Yellow Lab Named Sweetzer by Jim Fergus Publisher Comments From renowned outdoor writer Jim Fergus comes this collection of invigorating, thoughtful essays about life and the land reflected in the seasons of one man's sporting life. The book is also about relationships, which for Fergus include old friends, new... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Andy Roddick Beat Me with a Frying Pan: Taking the Field with Pro Athletes and Olympic Legends to Answer Sports Fans' Burning Questions by Todd Gallagher Publisher Comments Massive goalies, midget batters, and Mike Tyson... Todd Gallagher faced them all to answer your questions Every sports fan knows that the debates can be almost as interesting as the games themselves (unless you’re a Tampa Bay Devil Rays fan, in... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sport in Contemporary Society (6TH 01 - Old Edition) by D. Stanley Eitzen Publisher Comments This classic anthology analyzes the sociological implications of sports in modern society through a series of interesting and informative essays. Sport in Contemporary Society can be used in a variety of ways, as a primary text for courses in the... (read more) List Price $46.25 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race by John Hoberman Publisher Comments DARWIN'S ATHLETES focuses on society's fixation with black athletic achievement. Hoberman argues that this obsession has come to play a troubling role in African American life and our country's race relations. Rich, flamboyant superstars lend credence to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Buddha on the Backstretch: The Spiritual Wisdom of Driving 200 MPH by Arlynda Lee Boyer Publisher Comments By using Buddhism as a lens to examine NASCAR racingand NASCAR as a means to illustrate Buddhist teachings, Buddha on the Backstretch provides a unique new perspective to the field of sports and spirituality. Not aimed solely at either Buddhists or race... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Game of Shadows (06 Edition) by Fainaru-wada Publisher Comments Told by the award-winning reporters who broke the story, this is the completeinside scoop of Barry Bonds and the shocking steroids scandal that rocked theprofessional sports world.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What Is Sport? (07 Edition) by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments In this elegant paperback gift edition, one of the major figures of 20th-century French literature and thought offers a poetic meditation on professional sport.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Game on: How the Pressure to Win at All Costs Endangers Youth Sports and What Parents Can Do about It by Tom Farrey Publisher Comments Played by more than thirty million boys and girls across the country, youth sports have turned from a casual activity for kids into a fanatical force-an intense, expensive, elitist rite of passage driven by the needs of impatient (if often well-meaning... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? by Jane Gottesman Publisher Comments On playing fields and street corners, in backyards and gyms, the people in this arresting array of pictures are unselfconsciously exploring the physical and emotional pleasures of competition and play. Each image offers an affirming and satisfying answer... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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