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New Titles - Sports
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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
Daniel Light - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth.Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America... |
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Think Like a Runner: Understanding Why We Run and How to Do It Better
Jeff Horowitz - VeloPress
Format: Hardcover
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Run faster. Run farther. Run better. Discover exactly what it is that makes you a runner and improve your running technique with this practical guide packed with friendly advice, anecdotes, tips, and more.. We all decide to run for different reasons, whether it's to lose weight, improve... |
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Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside
Melissa Ludtke - Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover
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While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, 26-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after... |
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Running Throughout Time: The Greatest Running Stories Ever Told
Roger Robinson - Meyer & Meyer Fachverlag und Buchhandel GmbH
Format: Paperback
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Every runner's story is part of a great tradition of running stories. Running Throughout Time tells the best and most important of them. From Atalanta, the heroic woman runner of ancient Greece - when goddesses advised on race tactics - to the new legends of Billy Mills, Joan Benoit... |
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