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The Complete Book of Soccer
John Malam · Firefly Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The Complete Book of Soccer captures all of the exciting action, color and passion of the world's most popular sport, comprehensively telling the story of the game and its greatest exponents. It is packed with information about clubs and players around the world, statistics galore,... |
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The Hunter's Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and Curing Wild Game and Fish
Philip Hasheider · Voyageur Press; First edition
Format: Paperback
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Expert Philip Hasheider shows you how to turn your hard-earned hunt into delicious cuisine. Truly avid hunters are always looking for ways to get the most out of their game and maximize their yield. Look no further this book offers essential tips and background information, as well as coveted... |
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Forward: A Memoir
Abby Wambach · Dey Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Lucid and wrenching...Forward puts [Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor." - NPR"Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves." - Sheryl Sandberg,... |
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel · Knopf
Pages: 203
Format: Hardcover
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Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality - not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. A New York... |
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The Long Run: A Memoir
CATRIONA MENZIES-PIKE · CROWN
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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An unlikely marathoner finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running.Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, orphan. "Runner"... |
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Lift: Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors
Daniel Kunitz · Harper Wave
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A riveting cultural history of fitness, from Greek antiquity to the era of the "big-box gym" and beyond, exploring the ways in which human exercise and physical ideals have changed over time - and what we can learn from our past. How did treadmills and weight machines become the gold... |
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Tiger, Meet My Sister...: And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said
Rick Reilly · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
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Rick Reilly has been called "one of the funniÂest humans on the planet - an indescribable amalgam of Dave Barry, Jim Murray, and Lewis Grizzard, with the timing of Jay Leno and the wit of Johnny Carson" (Publishers Weekly) . In Tiger, Meet My Sister, Reilly comÂpiles the best... |
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A History of Women's Boxing
Malissa Smith · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Records of modern female boxing date back to the early eighteenth century in London, and in the 1904 Olympics an exhibition bout between women was held. Yet it was not until the 2012 Olympics—more than 100 years later—that women’s boxing was officially added to the Games.... |
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The Secrets of My Life
KATHERINE SUE NEWPORT · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
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In this remarkable memoir-written during her pivotal first years of becoming her authentic self-Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future. |
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The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams
SAM WALKER · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The former global sports editor of The Wall Street Journal profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed.The secret to winning is not what you think it is. It's not the coach.... |
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Almost Perfect: The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching's Holy Grail
Joe Cox · Lyons Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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The rich, poignant tales of major league baseball's most hard-luck fraternity - the pitchers of its Almost-Perfect GamesFrom 1908 to 2015, there have been thirteen pitchers who have begun Major League Baseball games by retiring the first twenty-six opposing batters, but then, one out from... |
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