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Powder: The Greatest Ski Runs on the Planet
Patrick Thorne · Quercus
Pages: 224
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Powder is the definitive guide to the world's top ski and snowboard locations. This comprehensive and visually stunning feast of snow-bound derring-do showcases the very best and most feared descents in the world. Along with classics like Chamonix, Whistler, and Jackson Hole, this book... |
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The Game Plan: The Art of Building a Winning Football Team
Bill Polian · Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover |
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As one of the most successful general managers and team presidents in NFL history, few people understand how to create the blueprint for a winning football team like Bill Polian. After building the Buffalo Bills team that went to four consecutive Super Bowls and taking the expansion Carolina... |
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Bias in the Booth: An Insider Exposes How the Sports Media Distort the News
Dylan Gwinn · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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Most of us see sports as a welcome - even blessed - relief from the challenges and frustrations of everyday life. We want to sit back, open a beer, and enjoy the game.But many of those who bring us the game have a different agenda - they use their broadcasting platform to harangue us with... |
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Wooden: A Coach's Life
Seth Davis · Henry Holt & Co
Pages: 591
Format: Hardcover |
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A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America's top college basketball writersNo college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and '70s capped... |
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Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia—and Even Iraq—Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
Simon Kuper · Nation Books,
Pages: 447
Format: Paperback |
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed one of the "Best Books of the Year" by Guardian, Slate, Financial Times, Independent (UK), and Bloomberg NewsSoccernomics pioneers a new way of looking at soccer through meticulous, empirical analysis and incisive, witty commentary. The San Francisco... |
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The Bike Deconstructed: A Grand Tour of the Modern Bicycle
Richard Hallett · Princeton Architectural Press |
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A metal frame, two wheels, pedals, a seat, and handlebars—on first glance, bicycles look pretty straightforward. And yet, even today's most stripped-down bicycles can feature as many as two hundred parts, each with a critical role to play. The unbelievably efficient way they work... |
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