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  • No Boston Olympics

    How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch

    de Chris Dempsey, Andrew Zimbalist ...
    In 2013 and 2014, some of Massachusetts’ wealthiest and most powerful individuals hatched an audacious plan to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston. Like their counterparts in cities around the world, Boston’s Olympic boosters promised political leaders, taxpayers, and the media that the Games would deliver incalculable benefits and require little financial support from the public. Yet these ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

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  • League of Denial

    The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth

    de Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “meticulously documented and endlessly chilling” (The New York Times) exploration of the NFL’s decades-long attempt to deny and cover up mounting evidence connecting brain damage from football with CTE.“A first-rate piece of reporting [that] adds crucial detail, texture, and news to the concussion story, which despite the NFL’s best efforts, isn’t going away.”—TimeONE ... Leer más

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  • Fear and Loathing in La Liga

    Barcelona, Real Madrid, and the World's Greatest Sports Rivalry

    de Sid Lowe ...
    Fear and Loathing in La Liga is the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport: FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid. It's Messi vs. Ronaldo, Guardiola vs. Mourinho, the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs. Franco's fascists, plus majestic goals and mesmerizing skills. It's the best two teams on the planet going head-to-head. It's more than a game. It's a war. It's El Cláco.Only, ... Leer más

    Antes $11.99 USD Ahora $1.99 USD

  • Terrace Legends - The Most Terrifying And Frightening Book Ever Written About Soccer Violence

    de Cass Pennant ...
    Meet the men who, for decades, have ruled the football terraces. They are the faces behind the biggest firms in football history; behind the rucks, the rules and the respect. They have caused chaos for the public and the press and struck fear into rival fans that have crossed their path. In this book, the men behind the mobs have joined forces to reveal their experiences as key figures in the most ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • In the Zone

    Transcendent Experience in Sports

    de Michael Murphy, Rhea A. White ...
    Michael Murphy, bestselling author of Golf in the Kingdom, explains the power of athletics to transform the body, mind, and spiritAthletes and coaches often say they feel "in the zone" while participating in sports or other endeavors, and Esalen Institute cofounder Michael Murphy carefully documents this phenomenon in one of the most comprehensive works of its kind. Murphy and coauthor Rhea A. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • This Is Your Brain on Sports

    The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon

    de L. Jon Wertheim, Sam Sommers ...
    This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild ride into the inner world of sports. Through the prism of behavioral economics, neuroscience, and ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Lords of the Realm

    The Real History of Baseball

    de John Helyar ...
    "The ultimate chronicle of the games behind the game."—The New York Times Book ReviewBaseball has always inspired rhapsodic elegies on the glory of man and golden memories of wonderful times. But what you see on the field is only half the game.In this fascinating, colorful chronicle—based on hundreds of interviews and years of research and digging—John Helyar brings to vivid life the extraordinary ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • What's My Name, Fool?

    Sports and Resistance in the United States

    de Dave Zirin ...
    “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 Worker sports editor, 1936–1958“Zirin has an amazing talent for covering the sports and politics beat. Ranging like a great shortstop, he scoops up everything ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Mannings

    The Fall and Rise of a Football Family

    de Lars Anderson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports.What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero–turned–New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and Peyton’s younger ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Sports in America

    de James A. Michener ...
    Originally published in 1976, James A. Michener’s explosive, spectacular Sports in America is a prescient examination of the crisis in American sports that is still unfolding to this day. Pro basketball players are banned for narcotics use, while a Major League pitcher is arrested for smuggling drugs across the Mexican border. The NFL’s “injury report” grows longer every Sunday. Corruption and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Most Expensive Game in Town

    The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families

    de Mark Hyman ...
    Building on the eye-opening investigation into the damaging effects of the ultra-competitive culture of youth sports in his previous book, Until It Hurts, Mark Hyman's new book looks at the business of youth sports, how it has changed, and how it is affecting young Americans. Examining the youth sports economy from many sides--the major corporations, small entrepreneurs, coaches, parents, and, of ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Season of Saturdays

    A History of College Football in 14 Games

    de Michael Weinreb ...
    From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: “A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage that tracks college ball through fourteen key games, giving depth and meaning to all” (Sports Illustrated), now with a new Afterword about the first ever College Football Playoff.Every Saturday in the fall, it happens: On college campuses, in bars, at gatherings of fervent alumni ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD