Simon Winchester

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the past year, selected from American magazines and newspapers.

The Best American Travel Writing 2009

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Rue Mapp

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors

"Nature Swagger presents thirty life-changing stories of self-discovery, courage, and healing in the natural world. Told through first-person narratives, essays, and poems, this uplifting collection celebrates the many ways that outdoor spaces offer Black people opportunities for personal empowerment, connection, and rejuvenation. Readers will immerse themselves in stories told from mountains, redwood forests, city parks, and far-off beaches: joining a woman on her courageous journey up Kilimanjaro, meeting a couple teaching the art of beekeeping in urban Detroit, and following a long-distance swim alongside a pod of dolphins-plus so much more. Interspersed are essays by author and celebrated outdoor leader, Rue Mapp, honoring the rich history and traditions surrounding Black people's relationship to the outdoors. Full of breathtaking photography and powerful storytelling, this boundary-breaking collection offers moments of profound beauty and insight, inviting every reader to forge their own meaningful and joyful relationship with the natural world"--

Nature Swagger

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H. G. Bissinger

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

A Town, a Team, and a Dream

Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed all-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team.

Friday Night Lights

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Rick Reilly

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition

A popular sports columnist puts his life-- and his dignity-- on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet. He set out on a global journey to discover sports which push the body-- and human idiocy-- to the outermost limits.

Sports from Hell

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E. Paul Roetert

Mark Kovacs

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Mississippi

Tennis Anatomy brings the game to life with over 194 full-color anatomical illustrations depicting strokes and movements, strengthening exercises and injury-prevention exercises. The 72 step-by-step exercises are arranged anatomically for shoulders, arms and wrists, chest, back, core and legs, with explanations of how each affects performance. Authors Paul Roetert, PhD, and Mark Kovacs, PhD have both have had long tenures with the USTA. Original.

Tennis Anatomy

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Tom Kertscher

A Packer Fan's Tribute

Brett Favre is one of the most popular athletes in America, in all sports and his jersey is the sixth all-time bestseller in league history, according to NFL.com. This revised and expanded edition of Brett Favre: A Packer Fan's Tribute is a fitting salute to an American hero. This revised and expanded edition of the book contains everything from the first edition and more. Its chapters are devoted to the distinctive aspects of his play that returned the Packers to glory in 1996 with their twelfth World Championship and third Super Bowl victory.

Brett Favre

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Kyle Petty

Ellis Henican

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Florida

Life at My Speed in the First Family of NASCAR Racing

*A Wall Street Journal, Southern Indie, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller*

Stock-car racing star, country singer, and sports broadcaster Kyle Petty shares his familial legacy, intertwined with NASCAR's founding and history, in Swerve or Die--written with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellis Henican, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of In the Blink of an Eye.

"Born into racing royalty. The only son of NASCAR's winningest driver ever. The grandson of one of the sport's true pioneers. The nephew of our very first Hall of Fame engine builder. It's quite a family to represent, and through it all, I've somehow managed to keep being Kyle."

Kyle Petty won his very first stock-car race, the Daytona ARCA 200, in 1979 when he was eighteen. Hailed as a third-generation professional NASCAR racer, he became an instant celebrity in circles he had been around all his young life. Despite being the grandson and son of racing champions Lee Petty and Richard Petty, Kyle didn't inherit innate talent. Working in his family's North Carolina race shop from an early age, he learned all about car mechanics and maintenance long before he got behind the wheel. And although Kyle continued the family business, driving "Petty blue" colored cars emblazoned with his grandfather's #42--a number once used by Marty Robbins--his career took a different route than his forebears'.

In Swerve or Die: Life at My Speed in the First Family of NASCAR Racing, Kyle chronicles his life on and off the racetrack, presenting his insider's perspective of growing up throughout the sport's popular rise in American culture. In between driving and running Petty Enterprises for thirty years, Kyle took some detours into country music, voiced Cal Weathers in Pixar's Cars 3, and started his annual motorcycle Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America. And when his nineteen-year-old son Adam, a fourth-generation racing Petty, tragically lost his life on the track, Kyle founded Victory Junction, a camp for children with chronic and serious medical conditions in Adam's name--with help from Academy Award-winning actor and motorsports enthusiast Paul Newman.

Filled with NASCAR history, stories of his family's careers, and anecdotes about some of stock-car racing's most famous drivers, Kyle's memoir also tackles the sport's evolution, discussing how welcoming diverse racers, improving car and track safety features, and integrating green technology will benefit NASCAR's competitors and fans in the future.

Includes Photographs

Swerve or Die

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Bradford Angier

A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere

The classic manual for "survivors" everywhere has now been updated, expanded, reillustrated and published for the first time in jungle-proof rubber. 150 illustrations. 24-page color insert.

How to Stay Alive in the Woods

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Andrea Williams

Louisiana

Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues

For fans of Hidden Figures and Steve Sheinkin's Undefeated, Andrea Williams's Baseball's Leading Lady is the powerful true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues--on teams coached by Black managers, cheered on by Black fans, and often run by Black owners. Here is the riveting true story of the woman at the center of the Black baseball world: Effa Manley, co-owner and business manager of the Newark Eagles. Elegant yet gutsy, she cultivated a powerhouse team. Yet just as her Eagles reached their pinnacle, so did calls to integrate baseball, a move that would all but extinguish the Negro Leagues. On and off the field, Effa hated to lose. She had devoted her life to Black empowerment--but in the battle for Black baseball, was the game rigged against her?

Baseball's Leading Lady

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Steven Kotler

Colorado

Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

An exploration of how extreme athletes break the limits of ultimate human performance and what we can learn from their mastery of the state of consciousness known as "flow"

In this groundbreaking book,New York Times-bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and first-hand interviews with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes such as big-wave legend Laird Hamilton, big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and skateboarding pioneer Danny Way, Kotler explores the frontier science of "flow," an optimal state of consciousness where we perform and feel our best.

Building a bridge between the extreme and the mainstream,The Rise of Superman explains how these athletes are using flow to do the impossible and how we can use this information to radically accelerate our performance in our own lives.

At its core, this is a book about profound possibility, what is actually possible for our species, and where--if anywhere--our limits lie.

The Rise of Superman

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Book is in excellent condition: no interior markings or folds. Slight wear on cover and bending on cover corners as visible from the photos 

Texas

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Memoir ‘44: Tactics & Strategy Guide

Ira Berkow

Kerry Wood

John Stevens

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Illinois

An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Chicago Cubs

This stunning tribute to "the one and only," written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ira Berkow, is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Wrigley Field in 2014. Wrigley Field brilliantly and beautifully documents the stadium's entire career through a decade-by-decade account, a priceless collection of historical photographs and memorabilia, and vivid first-person reminiscences of the people to whom this great place has meant so much. Notable fans interviewed for this book include Barack Obama, Scott Turow, Joe Mantegna, Sara Paretsky, Jim Bouton, and George F. Will, among others. Rounded out by a foreword by former player Kerry Wood and an afterword by associate justice John Paul Stevens, this is a book that no Cubs fan--and no baseball fan--will be able to resist.

Wrigley Field

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Tight and clean with a little jacket edge wear. Perfect Father’s Day gift for a boxing fan. Mailer’s coverage of the Ali vs Foreman fight in Zaire. 

Massachusetts

The Fight

Phil Jackson

Pau Gasol

Kobe Bryant

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

How I Play

The Mamba Mentality

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Brad Balukjian

Utah

On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania

From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye‑opening road trip adventure into a pocket of iconic pop culture--professional wrestling--starring the Iron Sheik, Hulk Hogan, Tito Santana, and many more larger‑than‑life characters of the WWF of the 1980s. In 2005, Brad Balukjian left his position as a magazine fact-checker to pursue a dream job: partner with his childhood hero, The Iron Sheik (whose real name was Khosrow Vaziri), to write his biography. Things quickly went south, culminating in the Sheik threatening Balukjian's life. Now seventeen years later, Balukjian returns to the road in search of not only a reunion with the Sheik, but something much bigger: truth in a world built on illusion. Balukjian seeks out six of the Sheik's contemporaries, fellow witnesses to the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) explosion in the mid-'80s, to unearth their true identities. As Balukjian drives 12,525 miles around the country, we revisit the heady days when these avatars of strength, villainy, and heroism first found fame and see where their journeys took them. From working out with Tony Atlas (Tony White) to visiting Hulk Hogan's (Terry Bollea) karaoke bar, we see where these men are now and how they have navigated the cliffs of fame. The Six Pack combines the spirit of a fan with the rigor of an investigative reporter, tracking down former WWF employees, childhood friends, and mutually curious archivists. Wrestling is perceived as a subculture without a cultural home, somewhere between sport and theater--often dismissed as silly and low‑brow. But what makes this book so compelling is the humanity beneath each wrestler. The Iron Sheik, Hulk Hogan, and the rest of the cast were not characters in a comic book movie. They were real people, with families and feelings and bodies that could break. Most of them did, in fact, break; some have been repaired, but none of them will ever be the same.

The Six Pack

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Roy Bacon

Washington

BSA, Illustrated Motorcycle Legends

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Adidas - stories of how sports can change lives. 

Pennsylvania

Stories of How Sport Can Change Lives

Power of Sport Vol. 2

Austin Robinson

Connor Gleim

Patrick Golden

Do you love the sea? Are you a fan of the ocean? Whether you're a Maritime Law student / researcher or just an observer of the big blue water on our planet, this is the book for you! With five incredible chapters, this book takes you through the history of Maritime Law, the features of Nautical Issues, and much more. It even features a comprehensive list of the primary higher education institutions in the world where you can obtain a degree in Maritime Law / Studies! Brought to you by three major sea-lovers, this book is certain to make a nice addition to your maritime bookshelf. 

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The #1 Guide to Maritime Law, Nautical Issues, and Private Ocean Disputes

Do you love the sea? Are you a fan of the ocean? Whether you're a Maritime Law student / researcher or just an observer of the big blue water on our planet, this is the book for you! With five incredible chapters, this book takes you through the history of Maritime Law, the features of Nautical Issues, and much more. It even features a comprehensive list of the primary higher education institutions in the world where you can obtain a degree in Maritime Law / Studies! Brought to you by three major sea-lovers, this book is certain to make a nice addition to your maritime bookshelf. And if this is your first maritime book, then we thank you for starting off strong with your collection! All proceeds from the sales of this book will be donated straight to Lonely Whale Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in the United States dedicated to bringing people closer to the world's oceans through education and awareness, inspiring empathy and action for ocean health and the wellbeing of marine wildlife. Learn more about Lonely Whale Foundation here: www.SeaSection.org

The Sea Section

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Gordon Bloch

Valuable Coaching from a National Class Marathoner on Getting up for and Finishing

From a national class marathoner who qualified for the Olympic Trials—valuable coaching on gearing up for and finishing a marathon. Bloch explains the benefits of cross-training for marathon runners, offers winning strategies specific to individual race courses, and more.

How to Train for and Run Your Best Marathon

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Peter Arnold

Wisconsin

And Other Gambling Card Games

How to Play Poker

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Richard Hoad

Paul Moore

The World’s Toughest Endurance Challenges profiles 50 of the most extreme marathons, triathlons, bike rides, adventure races, climbs, open-water swims and other iconic endurance events from around the world. Breathtaking full-color photographs and insider commentary from top athletes will thrill endurance athletes, extreme sports addicts, and outdoor adventurers of all stripes.
 
Across the world seemingly ordinary people are undertaking extraordinary challenges that will push their minds and bodies to achieve the impossible – by sea, bike, foot, or sled. For many, these once-in-a-lifetime experiences become strangely addictive. From the Badwater Ultramarathon in the unforgiving heat of Death Valley to the South Pole Race in the freezing wilderness of Antarctica, there is an unbreakable drive in these tenacious competitors to see just how far they can push themselves. 
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Across the world seemingly ordinary people are undertaking extraordinary challenges that will push their limits to achieve the improbable - by sea, bike, foot or sled. This book looks at 50 of the most extreme marathons, triathlons, bike rides and other iconic endurance events from around the globe

The World's Toughest Endurance Challenges

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John Feinstein

Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of the New York media market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at The World Series-Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with the Yankees. The two veterans experience very different seasons--one on a team dealing with the pressure to get to a World Series for the first time in seven years, the other with a team expected to be there every year. Taking the reader through contract negotiations, spring training, the ups of wins and losses, and the people in their lives-family, managers, pitching coaches, agents, catchers, other pitchers--John Feinstein provides a true insider's look at the pressure cooker of sports at the highest level.

Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember

Pitchers are at the heart of baseball. Each has the potential to make his team a winner or, very quickly, a loser. The pressure is huge. In the end, only those with both the arm and the heart and the ability to manage extraordinary stress will emerge as champions. John Feinstein looks into this complex side of the game through the events of one nerve-racking season and through the eyes of two great pitchers trying to perform at the highest possible level in the twilight of their careers in the biggest media fishbowl in America. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues, remarkable highs and heartbreaking lows. Both entered the 2007 season in search of individual milestones and one more shot at the World Series--Glavine with the Mets, Mussina a few miles and one borough away with the Yankees. Despite their proximity, they experienced very different seasons--one pitching for a team dealing with the pressure of trying to qualify for the World Series for the first time in seven years; the other with a legendary team, expected to be there every year. Feinstein captures the rollercoaster that was the 2007 season for both teams through the experiences of two pitchers at the center of it all. John Feinstein provides a true insider's look into the most intensely watched and scrutinized position in sports-Major League starting pitcher.

Living on the Black

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Marc Romano

This is a hardcover book, it is however missing the outer sleeve. The inner end pages are super cool! If you’re a crossword enthusiast this is a great book for you! 

It does have a name written on the inside as shown in the pictures. 

One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession

A journalist describes his personal odyssey into the baffling world of crossword puzzles, tracing the history of crosswords and other word puzzles and profiling the colorful people who create them, solve them, and become obsessed by them. 40,000 first printing.

Crossworld

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Missing the sleeve and has a name written on the inside but other than that in good condition. 

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Simon Winchester

The Best American Travel Writing 2009

Rue Mapp

Nature Swagger

H. G. Bissinger

Friday Night Lights

Rick Reilly

Sports from Hell

E. Paul Roetert; Mark Kovacs

Tennis Anatomy

Tom Kertscher

Brett Favre

Kyle Petty; Ellis Henican

Swerve or Die

Bradford Angier

How to Stay Alive in the Woods

Andrea Williams

Baseball's Leading Lady

Steven Kotler

The Rise of Superman

Alexis Beuve

Memoir ‘44: Tactics & Strategy Guide

Ira Berkow; Kerry Wood; John Stevens

Wrigley Field

Norman Mailer

The Fight

Phil Jackson; Pau Gasol; Kobe Bryant

The Mamba Mentality

Brad Balukjian

The Six Pack

Roy Bacon

BSA, Illustrated Motorcycle Legends

Adidas

Power of Sport Vol. 2

Austin Robinson; Connor Gleim; Patrick Golden

The Sea Section

Gordon Bloch

How to Train for and Run Your Best Marathon

Peter Arnold

How to Play Poker

Richard Hoad; Paul Moore

The World's Toughest Endurance Challenges

John Feinstein

Living on the Black

Marc Romano

Crossworld

Marc Romano

Crossworld