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One Last Read: The Collected Works of the World's Slowest Sportswriter
ISBN: 9781592136001 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Didinger has written thousands of articles, columns, and profiles during his 25 years as a sports writer in Philadelphia. He selects his finest work, along with some strongly-worded opinion pieces, to be included in this book.
Didinger has written thousands of articles, columns, and profiles during his 25 years as a sports writer in Philadelphia. He selects his finest work, ...
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151,53 zł |
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The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told
ISBN: 9781592280889 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The perfect gift for anybody who has ever swung a club or marveled at the skill of touring professionals on television, The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told is a compulsively readable collection of some of the most entertaining and insightful reading on the subject of golf.
Contributions include some well-known works from renowned writers of the genre, such as Dan Jenkins, Herbert Warren Wind, and John Updike, as well as some rare, lesser-known gems from Gary McCord, Bud Shrake, and the great F. Scott Fitzgerald. The thirty stories in this fascinating collection will lead you from tee to... The perfect gift for anybody who has ever swung a club or marveled at the skill of touring professionals on television, The Greatest Golf Stories Ever...
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86,87 zł |
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El Superclasico. Boca-River: Historia y Secretos de Una Pasion
ISBN: 9781597540766 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,15 zł |
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Fanatic: Ten Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die
ISBN: 9780547053639 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gorant takes readers along as he searches out the top ten iconic sporting events, evoking the best (and sometimes worst) sports has to offer. Part adventure, part pilgrimage, he captures these events in all their color and commotion and reveals why sports matter so much to so many.
Gorant takes readers along as he searches out the top ten iconic sporting events, evoking the best (and sometimes worst) sports has to offer. Part adv...
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65,47 zł |
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Fighting for Acceptance: Mixed Martial Artists and Violence in American Society
ISBN: 9780595478910 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,88 zł |
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Fighting for Acceptance: Mixed Martial Artists and Violence in American Society
ISBN: 9780595713950 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, mixed martial arts, also known as "ultimate fighting," has become thefastest-growing sport in American society, but it is also considered the mostcontroversial. Based on interviews conducted with forty mixed martial arts athletes, Fighting for Acceptance answers these questions:
In recent years, mixed martial arts, also known as "ultimate fighting," has become thefastest-growing sport in American society, but it is also consid...
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115,42 zł |
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Sports Mania: Essays on Fandom and the Media in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780786437269 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these essays, 30 scholars of sports communication tackle a wide range of subjects, including the ways in which people root for their teams and the uses of technology to cultivate fan communities. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach through the fields of communication, psychology and telecommunications.
In these essays, 30 scholars of sports communication tackle a wide range of subjects, including the ways in which people root for their teams and the ...
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167,87 zł |
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Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game on
ISBN: 9780803259973 / Angielski / Miękka / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of us will never know what it s like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it s our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover returning with firsthand tales from inside the ropes. Here, in the tradition popularized by George Plimpton, is participatory sportswriting at its finest and most far-out. Editor Zachary Michael Jack fields a dream team of today s best sports journalists, hotshots, and rising stars in search of the game behind the...
Most of us will never know what it s like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest,...
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96,15 zł |
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Farewell to Sport
ISBN: 9780803267619 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America s ace sportswriters. He saw them all the stars and the hams, the immortals and the phonies in boxing, wrestling, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and every other field of muscular endeavor in which men and women try to break hearts and necks for cash or glory. Then in 1937, at the height of his game (and the height of the payroll), Gallico suddenly and famously called it quits and left the New York Daily News. But before he departed the world of sports, he left his legions of fans one last hurrah: a...
For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America s ace sportswriters. He saw them all the stars and the hams, the i...
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84,59 zł |
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The Best American Sports Writing
ISBN: 9780618751181 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past year. Chosen from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications, the twenty pieces here embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement. Contributors include Scott Price, Rick Bragg, Gary Smith, J.R. Moehringer, and others.
Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past ...
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96,30 zł |
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The Best After-Dinner Sports Tales
ISBN: 9780007154128 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A glittering array of sporting personalities regale their amusing tales in this compilation of over 300 after-dinner stories and anecdotes, published in aid of the children's charity SPARKS. Readers will be thoroughly entertained as the wittiest after-dinner speakers recount their most interesting tales. These are real stories from their lives both inside and outside of the world of sport; some already known and much loved, others untold until now. From Dickie Bird to Frankie Dettori, Henry Cooper to Gary Lineker, Sally Gunnell to Sandy Lyle, all will reveal the funniest... A glittering array of sporting personalities regale their amusing tales in this compilation of over 300 after-dinner stories and anecdotes, publish... |
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46,20 zł |
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Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales
ISBN: 9780007189908 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment. The book will take a look at the cricket world, with stories from Australia, West Indies, South Africa, New Zealand and the sub-continent, and go on to cover many other sports, with contributions from the world of rugby, football, golf, racing and athletics. Alongside some the biggest names in sport, there will be other celebrities amusing the... Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some ... |
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38,49 zł |
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Matters of Sport : Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning
ISBN: 9780415348331 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This festschrift in honour of Eric Dunning -the leading sports sociologist in the English-speaking world- addresses his contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport with reflections from leading international academics.
This festschrift in honour of Eric Dunning -the leading sports sociologist in the English-speaking world- addresses his contributions to the sociologi...
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708,73 zł |
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Far Afield: A Sportswriting Odyssey
ISBN: 9780061708725 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Year in Provence . . . in sweats Some people would consider writing for Sports Illustrated a dream job. Others fantasize about living idyllically in the South of France. S. L. Price got to do both. Assigned by Sports Illustrated to cover sports in Europe, Price relocated his family to a small hamlet in Provence, and then set out to uncover the soul of world athletic competition. In an attempt to comprehend the planet's most intense and bloody sports, he immersed himself in the cricket rivalry between India and Pakistan. He spent time with Lance Armstrong as... A Year in Provence . . . in sweats Some people would consider writing for Sports Illustrated a dream job. Others fantasize about liv... |
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69,36 zł |
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Running Through Roadblocks
ISBN: 9781934452035 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Never give up! It's not just a rallying cry but the everyday philosophy for twenty heroic athletes. Jerry Del Priore chronicles the trials and tribulations of these warrior athletes who inspire through optimism in the face of life-changing adversity. These indomitable spirits have battled life's greatest challenges to show the world that winning doesn't always mean getting across the finish line first.
Never give up! It's not just a rallying cry but the everyday philosophy for twenty heroic athletes. Jerry Del Priore chronicles the trials and tribula...
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36,21 zł |
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Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam
ISBN: 9781401309909 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment of talented and driven young men and women who do certain things with both skill and passion."
--David Halberstam David Halberstam was a distinguished journalist and historian of American politics. He was also a sports writer. Everything They Had brings together for the first time his articles from newspapers and magazines, a wide-ranging collection edited by Glenn Stout, selected over the full scope of Halberstam's five... "Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment...
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121,34 zł |
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Fathers & Sons & Sports: Great Writing by Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel, Norman Maclean, and Others
ISBN: 9781933060705 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For generations, fathers and sons have used the language of sports to work out their differences and express their love for each other. Fathers & Sons & Sports presents a powerful lineup of real-world stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life, written by such great sportswriters and authors as
Henry Aaron, as told to Cal Fussman - Michael J. Agovino - Buzz Bissinger - Jeff Bradley - John Ed Bradley - James Brown - Darcy Frey - Tom Friend - Bill Geist - Mike Golic - Donald Hall - Paul Hoffman - Mark Kriegel - Norman Maclean - John Buffalo... For generations, fathers and sons have used the language of sports to work out their differences and express their love for each other. Fathers & S...
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80,92 zł |
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The Best American Sports Writing 2009
ISBN: 9780547069715 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together theyear's finest writing on sports. Chosen from more than 350 national, regional and specialty publications, the twenty five pieces here embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement."
Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together theyear's finest writing on sports. Chosen f...
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96,30 zł |
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In Hemingway's Meadow: Award-Winning Fly-Fishing Stories, Vol. 1
ISBN: 9780892728053 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The annual Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Award features a distinguished original work of short fiction or nonfiction that embodies an implicit love of fly-fishing, respect for the sport and the natural world in which it takes place, and high literary values. Now, for the first time, the winners of this prestigious award are collected in one volume, which promises to satisfy not only fly-fishing aficionados but general readers who appreciate the outdoors experience.
The annual Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Award features a distinguished original work of short fiction or nonfiction that embodies an implicit love of fly...
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66,83 zł |
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The Best American Sports Writing 2010
ISBN: 9780547152486 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past year. Edited by the award-winning Peter Gammons, the pieces in this volume embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement.
Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in th...
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96,30 zł |
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