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Cadillac Men
ISBN: 9781935520689 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rebecca Schumejda's second full-length collection, CADILLAC MEN, explores the pool hall subculture before the economic downturn in 2008, when the narrator and her husband took a calculated risk and purchased a pool hall in downtown Kingston, New York. During their arduous planning, they did not consider that their business and livelihood would depend on men who threw pebbles in church collection plates, shot up in the bathroom, and had nicknames like Bobby-Balls-in-Hand, The Butcher, and Mikey Meatballs. CADILLAC MEN is a fractured poetic memoir about the year the narrator's husband chased...
Rebecca Schumejda's second full-length collection, CADILLAC MEN, explores the pool hall subculture before the economic downturn in 2008, when the narr...
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73,50 zł |
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Strong Women: Inspirational athletes at the top of their game
ISBN: 9781802792256 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,50 zł |
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The Worst Call Ever!
ISBN: 9780061251375 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In any sport, whenever an official takes the field, court, ice, ring, or pitch, they do so with a bright red bull's-eye on their backs. For even with their great accuracy and passion for the game, they do make errors--occasionally, great big fat ones--that change the tide of sports history. In The Worst Call Ever, keepers of truth and enlightenment, sportswriters Kyle Garlett and Patrick O'Neal, expose the most injurious mistakes and desecrations, document their lasting damage--which to some wronged parties has evolved into a condition akin to post-traumatic stress... In any sport, whenever an official takes the field, court, ice, ring, or pitch, they do so with a bright red bull's-eye on their backs. For even wi... |
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73,68 zł |
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The Best American Sports Writing 2020
ISBN: 9780358196990 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,68 zł |
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Bouncing Back: Athletic Transition Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned along the Way
ISBN: 9781636766171 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,68 zł |
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How Soccer Explains the World
ISBN: 9780062156693 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,68 zł |
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Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America
ISBN: 9780062342638 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part introspective soul searching, part cultural analysis, Tribal tackles the controversies plaguing college athletics, tracing the dubious historical underpinnings of Americans' most popular sport, offering a visceral and often funny analysis of its tribal thrills and deep contradictions. Florida State's football team is always in the headlines, producing Heisman Trophy candidates, winning championships, and, at the same time, dealing with federal investigations into corruption and rape. Same as many big time collegiate sports programs. Seems no matter how the team... Part introspective soul searching, part cultural analysis, Tribal tackles the controversies plaguing college athletics, tracing the dubiou... |
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73,68 zł |
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The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game
ISBN: 9780061881794 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer a question inspired by his sports-loving son: "Why do we play ball?" From Mexican jungles to the small-town gridirons of Ohio, frommedieval villages and royal courts to modern soccer pitches andbaseball parks, The Ball explores the little-known origins ofour favorite sports across the centuries, and traces how a simpleinvention like the ball has come to stake an unrivaled claim on ourpassions, our money, and our lives.... Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer... |
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73,68 zł |
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Bright Lights & Long Nights
ISBN: 9781736581544 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,68 zł |
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Rising Tide: Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter
ISBN: 9781455526321 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime."
During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and Joe Namath-two of the most iconic and controversial figures in American sports-changed the game of college football forever. Brilliantly and urgently drawn, this is the gripping account of how these two very different men-Bryant a legendary coach in the South who was facing a pair of ethics scandals that... "The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to vi...
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73,72 zł |
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Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The science behind drugs in sport
ISBN: 9780199678785 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common. Here, Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of Essex, looks at the science behind drugs in sport. Using the performance of top athletes, Cooper begins by outlining the limits of human performance. Showing the basic problems of human biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy, he looks at what stops us running faster, throwing longer, or jumping higher. Using these evidence-based arguments he shows what the body can, and cannot, do. There is much curiosity about why certain substances are used, how...
Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common. Here, Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of E...
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75,04 zł |
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We Can't Run Away From This: Racing to improve running’s footprint in our climate emergency
ISBN: 9781839811166 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,77 zł |
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The Game: A? ?Journey Into the Heart of Sport
ISBN: 9781785372971 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 zł |
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Unsung: Not All Heroes Wear Kits (Behind the Scenes with Sport's Hidden Stars)
ISBN: 9781801501415 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 zł |
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Fear and Loathing on the Oche: A Gonzo Journey Through the World of Championship Darts (Shortlisted for the 2018 William Hill Sports Book of the Year)
ISBN: 9781787290013 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anyone who's ever seen or attended the PDC World Darts Championships knows that darts is no ordinary sport.And then there's the fans... Darts fans are unlike any other fans in world sport.
Anyone who's ever seen or attended the PDC World Darts Championships knows that darts is no ordinary sport.And then there's the fans... Darts fans are...
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75,98 zł |
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The Captain Class: The Hidden Force Behind the World’s Greatest Teams
ISBN: 9781785030291 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ground-breaking theory of how unlikely leaders create sport's greatest successes
The ground-breaking theory of how unlikely leaders create sport's greatest successes
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75,98 zł |
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Pitch Battles: Sport, Racism and Resistance
ISBN: 9781786615237 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 zł |
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Woman Up: 'One of the most prolific writers about women's football in the UK' Evening Standard
ISBN: 9781915643490 / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 zł |
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Joyful by Nature: Embracing Outdoor Adventure as Women of Color
ISBN: 9781577154105 / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 zł |
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Lead with Faith, Play with Purpose: A 100-Day Devotional for Athletes
ISBN: 9780310367918 / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 zł |
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