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Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map
Rick Ridgeway - Patagonia
Format: Hardcover
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At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he's spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: "And most of that in small tents pitched in the world's most remote... |
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The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA
Joshua Mendelsohn
Format: Hardcover
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Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite team's chances to win a championship. In the early 1980s, however, a salary cap was not only novel but nonexistent. The Cap tells the fascinating,... |
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Eat. Lift. Thrive.
Sohee Lee - Human Kinetics
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Eat healthy. Exercise. Be happy. It sounds easy enough, so why is it so difficult? Because as millions of women know, it's not easy. There are challenges and obstacles, and health programs are not one size fits all. Sohee Lee understands, because she's faced the challenges and overcome... |
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Running: A Love Story: 10 Years, 5 Marathons, and 1 Life-Changing Sport
Jen A Miller - Seal Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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Jen Miller has fallen in and out of love, but no man has been there for her the way running has.In Running: A Love Story, Jen tells the story of her lifelong relationship with running with wit, thoughtfulness, and brutal honesty. Jen first laces up her sneakers in high school, when, like... |
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Superfans: Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom
GEORGE DOHRMANN - Ballantine Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America's most obsessive sports fans. There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what... |
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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
Ed Caesar
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan: he would fly a plane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person... |
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This Much Country
Kristin Knight Pace - Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod.In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided... |
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How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth
Nick Greene - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Basketball is the second-most popular sport in the world - an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism, craftiness, rules, intangibles, and superstardom. However, while it's enjoyable to watch, the real reason it works is because it's a game of culture, art,... |
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How to Beat a Broken Game: The Rise of the Dodgers in a League on the Brink
Pedro Moura
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of how the Dodgers won their first championship in more than 30 years--but helped cripple the sport of baseball in the process.For most baseball teams, the 2020 season was a strange, short, fanless diversion--but not in Los Angeles. After years of frustrating playoff runs,... |
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