Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Skip side bar filters

Last of the David Teams

by Ken Cottrill ...

The English Premier League (EPL) is the richest, and, arguably, the most competitive, soccer league in the world. It is dominated by a handful of wealthy teams that have used their financial clout to win most of the league's trophies. Yet an EPL club outside of this elite group has become known for its ability to beat the "money teams" and consistently achieve a ranking in the top half of the ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The English Premier League (EPL) is the richest, and, arguably, the most competitive, soccer league in the world. It is dominated by a handful of wealthy teams that have used their financial clout to win most of the league's trophies. Yet an EPL club outside of this elite group has become known for its ability to beat the "money teams" and consistently achieve a ranking in the top half of the
... Read more
Blockchain Meets Supply Chain

Rewiring Business Operations for the Digital Age

by Ken Cottrill, Peter Harris ...

Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: Rewiring Business Operations for the Digital Age is a primer for those who want to learn about blockchain applications in supply chain management, and how the technology could help to reshape the flow of goods and finance across the globe. High-performing supply chains are critical to business success. It is estimated that in the U.S. alone, business logistics ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: Rewiring Business Operations for the Digital Age is a primer for those who want to learn about blockchain applications in supply chain management, and how the technology could help to reshape the flow of goods and finance across the globe. High-performing supply chains are critical to business success. It is estimated that in the U.S. alone, business logistics
... Read more
Blockchain in Smallholder Farming

Sowing the Seeds of Growth

by Ken Cottrill ...

Chain Business Insights' new eBook by Co-founder and Research Principal, Ken Cottrill titled Blockchain in Smallholder Farming: Sowing the Seeds of Growth investigates how blockchain combined with agricultural technologies, such as precision farming could help improve productivity significantly, lift millions of smallholder farmers out of poverty and bolster the world’s food supply.Population ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Chain Business Insights' new eBook by Co-founder and Research Principal, Ken Cottrill titled Blockchain in Smallholder Farming: Sowing the Seeds of Growth investigates how blockchain combined with agricultural technologies, such as precision farming could help improve productivity significantly, lift millions of smallholder farmers out of poverty and bolster the world’s food supply.Population
... Read more
Blockchain and the Future of Food

Driving Efficiency, Transparency and Trust in Food Supply Chains

by Chain Business Insights, Ken Cottrill, Sherree Decovny, Pete Harris ...

Dramatic changes in the global demand for food, safety concerns and the rise of precision farming are among the challenges facing food supply chains. Can blockchain technology help the industry to meet these challenges at a time when it is also grappling with increasing supply chain complexity? Blockchain and the Future of Food: Driving Efficiency, Transparency and Trust in the Food Supply Chain ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Dramatic changes in the global demand for food, safety concerns and the rise of precision farming are among the challenges facing food supply chains. Can blockchain technology help the industry to meet these challenges at a time when it is also grappling with increasing supply chain complexity? Blockchain and the Future of Food: Driving Efficiency, Transparency and Trust in the Food Supply Chain
... Read more

Theory of the Leisure Class

by Thorstein Veblen ...

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, by Thorstein Veblen, is an economic treatise and detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social-class consumerism. It proposes that the social strata and the division of labor of the feudal period continued into the modern era. The lords of the manor employed themselves in the economically useless ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, by Thorstein Veblen, is an economic treatise and detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social-class consumerism. It proposes that the social strata and the division of labor of the feudal period continued into the modern era. The lords of the manor employed themselves in the economically useless
... Read more
Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF

They Have Style, They Have Violence... The Intercity Firm Are All Your Worst Nightmares Come True

by Cass Pennant ...

The Inter City Firm…hard, terrifyingly vicious, brilliantly organised, tremendously feared and hihgly fashionable. They were the most notorious firm of the Seventies and Eighties football hooligans this country has ever seen. For the first time ever, all the aces of the West Ham firm reveal their memories and thoughts about the violence, the battles, the campaigns, the run-ins with the authorities ... Read more

$5.39 USD

The Inter City Firm…hard, terrifyingly vicious, brilliantly organised, tremendously feared and hihgly fashionable. They were the most notorious firm of the Seventies and Eighties football hooligans this country has ever seen. For the first time ever, all the aces of the West Ham firm reveal their memories and thoughts about the violence, the battles, the campaigns, the run-ins with the authorities
... Read more
The John Carlos Story

The Sports Moment That Changed the World

by Dave Zirin, John Carlos ...

"A powerful and poignant memoir" of an African American athlete who defied the establishment—decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Race Matters).An NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/AutobiographyJohn Carlos was a bronze medalist in the two hundred-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, but he is remembered for more than his ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"A powerful and poignant memoir" of an African American athlete who defied the establishment—decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Race Matters).An NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/AutobiographyJohn Carlos was a bronze medalist in the two hundred-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, but he is remembered for more than his
... Read more
Indentured

The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

by Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss ...

“How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

“How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Taboo

Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

by Jon Entine ...

In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the ... Read more

$12.99 USD

In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the
... Read more
Death to the BCS: Totally Revised and Updated

The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series

by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, Jeff Passan ...

With all-new reporting, a completely revised and updated second edition of the bestseller that takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Divsiion I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical ... Read more

$4.99 USD

With all-new reporting, a completely revised and updated second edition of the bestseller that takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Divsiion I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical
... Read more
The Arena of Masculinity

Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex

by Brian Pronger ...

Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive growth of gay sporting leagues, a puzzle.Pronger explores the paradoxical position of the gay athlete ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive growth of gay sporting leagues, a puzzle.Pronger explores the paradoxical position of the gay athlete
... Read more
Revolution in the Bleachers

How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone CrazyOver Youth Sports

by Regan McMahon ...

A journalist and mother of two athletic kids exposes the physical and emotional dangers of our over-the-top youth sports culture—and offers practical solutions for positive change.A decade ago, Joan Ryan’s exposé, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, changed the way we look at elite sports, namely figure skating and gymnastics. Today, there is another crisis in youth sports. It may affect any child, from ... Read more

$5.99 USD

A journalist and mother of two athletic kids exposes the physical and emotional dangers of our over-the-top youth sports culture—and offers practical solutions for positive change.A decade ago, Joan Ryan’s exposé, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, changed the way we look at elite sports, namely figure skating and gymnastics. Today, there is another crisis in youth sports. It may affect any child, from
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“ken cottrill”

Last of the David Teams

Blockchain Meets Supply Chain

Blockchain in Smallholder Farming

Blockchain and the Future of Food

People who read these also enjoyed

Theory of the Leisure Class

Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF

The John Carlos Story

Indentured

Taboo

Death to the BCS: Totally Revised and Updated

The Arena of Masculinity

Revolution in the Bleachers

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“ken cottrill”

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed