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Sports through the Lens
Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477330098
Pub Date: January 7th, 2025
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.
The Sports Revolution
How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 9781477328576
Pub Date: October 3rd, 2023
Format: Paperback
432 Pages
The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.
Astros and Asterisks
Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781477327432
Pub Date: July 18th, 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
An in-depth and multiperspectival look at the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and its roots in the culture of baseball fandom.
Pitching Democracy
Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477326763
Pub Date: March 14th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
How Dominicans contribute to Major League Baseball and what they receive in return.
The Olympics that Never Happened
Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781477326459
Pub Date: February 14th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
342 Pages
A look back at how powerful politicians, business leaders, and a diverse cast of activists used a thwarted Olympics to shape the state of Colorado and the city of Denver.
Roller Derby
The History of an American Sport
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9781477323823
Pub Date: October 12th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
The dynamic and culturally complex story of roller derby, the only full-contact sport in the United States that has embraced women as equal competitors since its inception.
Egypt’s Football Revolution
Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477323175
Pub Date: July 27th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
A detailed account of the entanglement of Egyptian football with surging nationalist politics as the sport’s appeal waxed and waned before and after the 2011 Revolution.
The Myth of the Amateur
A History of College Athletic Scholarships
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9781477322864
Pub Date: May 4th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
A deft examination of the controversy over paying men and women college athletes, which persuasively argues that, for all the NCAA’s insistence on amateurism today, college sports have never been amateur.
Friday Night Lives
Photos from the Town, the Team, and After
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477321195
Pub Date: November 3rd, 2020
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Robert Clark returns to the photographs of the Permian Panthers he took thirty years ago for the iconic Friday Night Lights, with a selection of his previously unpublished photos plus portraits of the players and the community as they are today.
Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781477313138
Pub Date: September 1st, 2020
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson explore what it means to be a fan, even as ethical concerns--from doping to domestic violence--complicate the games we love
Sports through the Lens
Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477330098
Pub Date: January 7th, 2025
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
The Sports Revolution
How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 9781477328576
Pub Date: October 3rd, 2023
Format: Paperback
432 Pages
Astros and Asterisks
Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781477327432
Pub Date: July 18th, 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Pitching Democracy
Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477326763
Pub Date: March 14th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
The Olympics that Never Happened
Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781477326459
Pub Date: February 14th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
342 Pages
Roller Derby
The History of an American Sport
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9781477323823
Pub Date: October 12th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Egypt’s Football Revolution
Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477323175
Pub Date: July 27th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
The Myth of the Amateur
A History of College Athletic Scholarships
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9781477322864
Pub Date: May 4th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Friday Night Lives
Photos from the Town, the Team, and After
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477321195
Pub Date: November 3rd, 2020
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781477313138
Pub Date: September 1st, 2020
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages