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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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Golf: 21 Tips and Tricks To Enhance Your Game of Golf And Play Like The Pros

    golf swing, golf putt, lifetime sports, chip shots, pitch shots, golf basics

    by Kevin Anderson ...
    Series series golf swing, golf putt, lifetime sports, chip shots, pitch shots, golf basics
    Are You Ready To Consistently Break 90?Get ready to shave off strokes from your game in no time when you grab your copy of "21 Tips & Tricks" today!Golf is one of the most difficult sports to master. The difference between a successful drive and a ball that drops straight into the pond is just millimeters. Hitting that perfect spot each and every time you're up can take years of practice and ... 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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  • 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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  • Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?

    Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise

    by Alex Hutchinson ...
    Award-winning journalist, physicist, and bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson reveals the little-known and often surprising truths that science has uncovered about exercise, ranging from cardio and weights to competition to weight loss.There's plenty of conventional wisdom on health and fitness—but how much of it is scientifically sound? The truth is: less than you'd think.In Which Comes ... 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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  • Steve Nash

    The Unlikely Ascent of a Superstar

    by Dave Feschuk, Michael Grange ...
    From the authors of the national bestseller Leafs AbomiNation, the story behind the success of one of Canada's greatest athletes, NBA all-star Steve Nash.A small man in a big man's game, a white man in a game dominated by black men, a rare Canadian in a US-based industry, the unlikely rise of Steve Nash, from Victoria high school to Hollywood hardwood, is compelling proof that great things await ... Read more

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  • The First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA

    by Charley Rosen ...
    "Charley Rosen has undertaken the challenge of documenting the latest and greatest history of the game professionally--and has done so to great success. . . . . When I finished the book it seemed as if I had gone through another season, injuries and all. . . . Rosen skillfully leads readers through the NBA's first steps along its journey toward what it has become today.”--Phil Jackson, from the ... Read more

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  • Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success

    Building Blocks for a Better Life

    by John Wooden, Jay Carty ...
    The Coach of the Century Reveals His Secret to SuccessLegendary college basketball coach John Wooden and Jay Carty know that when it comes down to it, success is an equal opportunity player. Anyone can create it in his or her career, family, and beyond.Based on John Wooden's own method to victory, Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success reveals that success is built block by block, where each block is a ... Read more

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  • Unplayable Lies

    (The Only Golf Book You'll Ever Need)

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    Series series Anchor Sports
    In Unplayable Lies, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of the links as only he can do it. Here, Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen, the funniest things said on a golf course, the rivalries on tour and in the press box, the game's most magical moments--and its most absurd. Filled with well-known characters like Tiger Woods, to others like Titanic Thompson--gambler, golf hustler, ... Read more

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  • Changing Your Story

    How To Take Control Of Your Life, Create Change And Achieve Your Goals

    by Bill Beswick ...
    'Bill offers you an opportunity to grow your mind and think like a champion. I recommend it to you!' Adam Peaty******We all love stories. They make us feel, help us connect, relate to one another, and make sense of our lives. Bill Beswick is a storyteller who has 20 powerful life lessons to share from his work with his clients at the top of their fieldsto help us all overcome our fears, boost our ... Read more

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  • Summer of '49

    by David Halberstam ...
    This #1 bestselling baseball classic of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is "a celebration of a vanished heroic age" ( The New York Times Book Review ).The summer of 1949: It was baseball's Golden Age and the year Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees were locked in a soon-to-be classic battle with Ted Williams's Boston Red Sox for the American League pennant. As postwar America looked for a unifying moment, ... Read more

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  • Sport Psychology: A Complete Introduction

    by John Perry ...
    Sport Psychology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key experiments and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The book uses a ... Read more

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  • Endure

    Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

    by Alex Hutchinson ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Foreword by Malcolm GladwellLimits are an illusion: discover the revolutionary account of the science and psychology of endurance, revealing the secrets of reaching the hidden extra potential within us all."A voyage to the outer reaches of human capacity.” —David Epstein, author of Range"Reveals how we can all surpass our per... ... Read more

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