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  • Pacific Rims

    Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball

    by Rafe Bartholomew ...
    A young man's journey through the Philippines' most unlikely obsession: basketball.In Pacific Rims, Rafe Bartholemew, journalist, New Yorker, and veteran baller, ventures through the Philippines to investigate the country's love of basketball.From street corners where diehards fashion hoops out of old car parts to the professional league where politicians exploit team loyalties to win elections, ... Read more

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  • Range

    Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

    by David Epstein ...
    The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking, from the author of the highly anticipated Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better.“The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. PinkShortlisted for the <e... ... Read more

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  • The Confident Mind

    A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

    by Dr. Nate Zinsser ...
    Believe and be unshakable.The Director of West Point’s influential Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to peak performance in any field.Dr. Nate Zinsser has spent his career training the minds of the U.S. Military Academy’s cadets as they prepare to lead and perform when the stakes are the ... Read more

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  • The Inner Game of Tennis

    The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

    by W. Timothy Gallwey ...
    “A Zen classic” (The Washington Post) about achieving the state of “relaxed concentration” that’s not only the key to peak performance in tennis but the secret to success in life itself—now in a 50th anniversary edition with an updated epilogue and a foreword by NFL coach Pete Carroll“The Inner Game of Tennis is not just a tennis book . . . because inner voices torture all of us—not just country ... Read more

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  • The Book of Basketball

    The NBA According to The Sports Guy

    by Bill Simmons ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast“Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street JournalIn The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for a. ... Read more

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  • Young People, Social Media and Health

    Edited by Victoria Goodyear, Kathleen Armour ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351026987, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.The pervasiveness of social media in young people’s lives is widely acknowledged, yet there is little evidence-based understanding of the impacts of social media on young people’s health ... Read more

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  • Learned Excellence

    Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World’s Top Performers

    by Eric Potterat, Alan Eagle ...
    Learn how to perform at your very best, from the psychologist who has advised elite military operators, Olympic medalists, big wave surfers, neurosurgeons, cliff divers, first responders, Cirque du Soleil acrobats, professional athletes and coaches, Fortune 500 business executives, and CIA analysts.Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high ... Read more

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  • The Secret Race

    Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France

    by Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle ...
    “The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans . . . The book’s power is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity. . . . The Secret Race isn’t just a game changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. It’s the game ender.”—OutsideNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR ... Read more

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  • Boys Among Men

    How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution

    by Jonathan Abrams ...
    The definitive, never-before-told story of the prep-to-pro generation, those basketball prodigies who from 1995 to 2005 made the jump directly from high school to the NBA.When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college—as young basketball prodigies were expected to do—but instead enter the 1995 NBA draft directly from high school, he blazed a trail for a ... Read more

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  • The Hot Hand

    The Mystery and Science of Streaks

    by Ben Cohen ...
    How do winning streaks work? "Consistently entertaining, The Hot Hand asks a big question: how do we determine when one success will likely follow another?"—Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author of SupercommunicatorsFor decades, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize winners) have spent massive amounts of time ... Read more

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  • Peak

    Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

    by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool ...
    “This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the things we care about.”—Seth Godin, author of Linchpin**“Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read [Peak]. Rest assured that the book is not mere theory. Ericsson’s research focuses on the real world, and he explains in detail, with examples, how all ... Read more

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  • Therapeutic Exercise for Sports Injuries

    by Dr Fatemeh Karami borzabad, Dr. C. Venkatesh, Dr. Vahid Karim Azad Marjani ...
    Gaining health through exercise, as a practical directive is recommended to all. Meanwhile, there are people who suffer skeletal and muscular disorders. Several studies suggest that specific physical exercises can reduce both intensity and progress of these disorders, and even in some cases, it helps in complete cure. These are known as medical movements. This book includes chapters specifying ... Read more

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  • The Victory Machine

    The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty

    by Ethan Sherwood Strauss ...
    How money, guts, and greed built the Warriors dynasty -- and then took it apartThe Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA for the better part of a decade. Since the arrival of owner Joe Lacob, they won more championships and sold more merchandise than any other franchise in the sport. And in 2019, they opened the doors on a lavish new stadium.Yet all this success contained some of the seeds of ... Read more

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  • The Death of WCW

    10th Anniversary Edition of the Bestselling Classic — Revised and Expanded

    by Bryan Alvarez, Randy Reynolds ...
    In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top. It was the number-one pro wrestling company in the world, and the highest-rated show on cable television. Each week, fans tuned in to Monday Nitro, flocked to sold-out arenas, and carried home truckloads of WCW merchandise. It seemed the company could do no wrong.But by 2001, however, everything had bottomed out. The company — having lost a ... Read more

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  • How To Watch Football

    52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, On and Off the Pitch

    by Tifo - The Athletic ...
    'I love Tifo' Ian Wright'Tifo are great' Alan Shearer'Tifo have changed the game when it comes to football analysis' Elis JamesRULE #1: DON'T WATCH THE BALLYes, football is about stars, goals and glory. But it's also about the intense calculations and movements being made by the twenty-one other players on the pitch. It's about the ticking clock, and the bellowing fans, and their impact on pla... ... Read more

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  • Nutrition and Metabolism in Sports, Exercise and Health

    by Jie Kang ...
    The second edition of Nutrition and Metabolism in Sports, Exercise and Health offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to sport and exercise nutrition, integrating key nutritional facts, concepts and dietary guidelines with a thorough discussion of the fundamental biological science underpinning physiological and metabolic processes. Informed by the latest research in this fast-moving ... Read more

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  • Bobby Cremins' Ultimate Offense: Winning Basketball Strategies and Plays from an NCAA Coach's Personal Playbook

    by Bobby Cremins ...
    Pick up the pace with Coach Bobby Cremins' secrets for playing up-tempo ballWhen Bobby Cremins became head coach of Appalachian State University, he was one of the youngest professionals to ever lead an NCAA Division I basketball team. Going to Georgia Tech at 33, he was among the youngest ever in the history of the ACC. Two decades later as Georgia Tech's all-time winningest coach, Cremins had ... Read more

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  • The Rodchenkov Affair

    How I Brought Down Russia’s Secret Doping Empire – Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020

    by Grigory Rodchenkov ...
    ***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all***One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade''The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen'In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following revelations of an elaborate state-sponsored ... Read more

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  • Bayern

    Creating a Global Superclub

    by Uli Hesse ...
    ‘MASTERFUL’ Raphael HonigsteinThe story of superclub Bayern Munich by the critically acclaimed author of Tor!Bayern Munich is a team of extremes. They are the most passionately supported club in Germany and the most hated. There is no doubt that they are the most successful.Winners of twenty-four domestic titles since the late 1960s, they have stood at the ... ... Read more

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  • His Ownself

    A Semi-Memoir

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    Series series Anchor Sports
    In His Ownself, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of his legendary career as a sportswriter and novelist. Here we see Dan's hone his craft, from his high school paper through to his first job at the Fort Worth Press and on to the glory days of Sports Illustrated. Whether in Texas, New York, or anywhere for that matter, Dan was always at the center of it all—hanging out at Elaine's while swapping ... Read more

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  • Capoeira

    Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game

    by Nestor Capoeira ...
    Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open practice was allowed in the 1930s it soon became very popular. Capoeira came to America around 1975, and has become widely recognized by dancers and martial artists. The author discusses capoeira's ... Read more

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  • The Loyal Lieutenant

    Leading Out Lance and Pushing Through the Pain on the Rocky Road to Paris

    by George Hincapie, Craig Hummer ...
    Trading on the sterling reputation that enabled him to survive a widely publicized doping confession, American cyclist “Big George” Hincapie—a record seventeen-time Tour de France participant, Olympian, and key witness in the Lance Armstrong doping case—offers an insightful account of his esteemed career and a sports era defined by performance-enhancing drug use.In this highly anticipated cycling ... Read more

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  • Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

    An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

    by Gary Mack, David Casstevens ...
    Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition. ... Read more

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  • Zonal Marking

    The Making of Modern European Football

    by Michael Cox ...
    ‘A wonderful overview of tactical development in European football’ Matthew Syed, The Times‘A fascinating assessment of football in 2019’ ObserverAn insightful, comprehensive and always entertaining appreciation of how European football has developed over the last three decades by the author of the much heralded The Mixer.Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. F... ... Read more

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