Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

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
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “steven l hellerman”
Skip side bar filters

  • Offside

    Soccer and American Exceptionalism

    by Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does most of the world ignore American sports in return? Offside is the first book to explain these peculiarities, ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Over the Line

    Wrist Shots, Slap Shots, and Five-Minute Majors

    by Al Strachan ...
    Bestselling author and Toronto Sun sportswriter Al Strachan shares more insider stories from his more-than-forty-year career covering pro hockey.Bestselling author and Toronto Sun sportswriter Al Strachan is a permanent fixture in the illustrious world of professional ice hockey. His opinion, backed by an extensive knowledge of the game and his sharp sense of humour, is read and enjoyed by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Meaning Of Sports

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • On the Edge

    Women Making Hockey History

    by Elizabeth Etue, Megan K. Williams ...
    Using personal accounts from star players, interviews with sport insiders and striking photographs, On the Edge provides a dramatic look into the business and politics of women's hockey. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Tales from the Montreal Canadiens Locker Room

    A Collection of the Greatest Canadiens Stories Ever Told

    by Robert S. Lefebvre ...
    Series series Tales from the Team
    When most sports fans hear the stat 3,000, they immediately turn to baseball. But for those fans whose breath comes out in frosty puffs, and who bleed ice and snow, 3,000 can only mean one thing—the glory of Montreal Canadiens hockey. The “Original One” of the “Original Six,” the Montreal Canadiens hockey team is practically synonymous with superlative: The most Stanley Cup championship victories, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

    by D. Stanley Eitzen ...
    Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction that lays out the two themes of the book with fresh examples, and a significantly revised chapter on ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Artistic Impressions

    Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport

    by Mary Louise Adams ...
    In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Canada's Game

    Hockey and Identity

    by Andrew C. Holman ...
    Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Canada's Other Game

    Basketball from Naismith to Nash

    by Brian I. Daly ...
    Basketball, the only major world sport undeniably invented by a Canadian, has ironically failed to win Canadians’ hearts more than a century after its creation. James Naismith’s brainchild is a popular recreational pastime in his homeland, but players with bigger dreams had better take their talents south of the border. Canadian hoops has languished in the seemingly eternal shadow of hockey, with ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball and Philosophy

    Thinking Outside the Batter's Box

    Edited by Eric Bronson, William Irwin ...
    Series Book 6 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Baseball and Philosophy brings together two high-powered pastimes: the sport of baseball and the academic discipline of philosophy. Eric Bronson asked eighteen young professors to provide their profound analysis of some aspect of baseball. The result offers surprisingly deep insights into this most American of games.The contributors include many of the leading voices in the burgeoning new field of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Language of the Game

    How to Understand Soccer

    by Laurent Dubois ...
    Essential reading for soccer fans as the 2022 World Cup approaches, this lively and lyrical book is "an ideal guide to the world's most popular sport" (Simon Kuper, coauthor of Soccernomics).Soccer is not only the world's most popular game; it's also one of the most widely shared forms of global culture. The Language of the Game is a passionate and engaging introduction to soccer's history, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Sports Revolution

    How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

    by Frank Andre Guridy ...
    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in ... Read more

    $17.29 USD