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Rooting for the Home Team by Daniel A. Nathan
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los... -
Rooting for the Home Team by Daniel A. Nathan 9780252079146
Booksplease Price: £32.00Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los... -
Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal by Daniel A. Nathan
Booksplease Price: £21.66The story of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and his White Sox teammates purportedly conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds has lingered in our collective consciousness... -
Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction by Aaron Kreuter
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £22.97Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a... -
Methodology in Sports History by Wray Vamplew 9780367888855
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The process of converting the 'past' into 'history' involves engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and sports historians inevitably participate in the same debates over... -
Candlemoth R.J. Ellory 9780752859149
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Daniel and Nathan were six years old when they first met and became best friends. Thirty years later Dan is convicted of Nathan's murder . . .Daniel Ford has thirty-six days to live. Accused of the... -
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Candlemoth by R. J. Ellory 9780752859149 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.27Daniel and Nathan were six years old when they first met and became best friends. Thirty years later Dan is convicted of Nathan's murder . . .Daniel Ford has thirty-six days to live. Accused of the... -
Tuning and Modifying the Rover V8 Engine by Daniel R Lloyd 9781785006036
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.50This is the ultimate book for any enthusiast or professional who is tuning or modifying the Rover V8 engine. This essential read covers all aspects of tuning this versatile and much-loved engine,... -
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Toward "Natural Right and History": Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937-1946 by Leo Strauss
Booksplease Price: £48.29Natural Right and History is widely recognized as Strauss's most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, and a full transcript of the 1949 Walgreen Lectures... -
American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History by Rhae Lynn Barnes 9781512825770
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27How studying material texts can help us better understand the diversity of the Americas, past and present A Hawai’ian quilt stitched with anti-imperial messages; a Jesuit report that captures the... -
The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City by Steven A. Riess
Booksplease Price: £21.19The Chicago Sports Reader examines Chicago's long and glorious history of recreational and competitive sport, and as the home of the finest sporting events and most loyal fans in the United States... -
Baseball Beyond Our Borders: An International Pastime by George Gmelch 9780803276826
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played. This collection of essays... -
Sports through the Lens: Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs Maureen M. Smith 9781477330098
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years. Ever since photography and professional sports originated in the nineteenth century, photographers have shaped how... -
When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime by Ryan A. Swanson 9781496219534
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947 is one most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War,... -
Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree: My Basketball Odyssey by Sheldon Anderson 9781496226488
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree chronicles Sheldon Anderson's basketball career from grade school in small-town Moorhead, Minnesota, in the 1960s, to inner-city high school and college ball in... -
Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation by Sarah K. Fields
Booksplease Price: £20.12Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of... -
Moments of Impact: Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football by Jaime Schultz 9781496211767
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In the first half of the twentieth century, Jack Trice, Ozzie Simmons, and Johnny Bright played college football for three Iowa institutions: Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and Drake... -
The New York Intellectuals Reader Neil Jumonville (Florida State University) 9780415952651
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34In the early 1930's in a small alcove at City College in New York a group of young, passionate, and politically radical students argued for hours about the finer points of Marxist doctrine, the true... -
Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation by Sarah K. Fields 9780252040283
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of... -
Sports in Chicago by Elliott J. Gorn 9780252075230
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Chicago teams have won the World Series, Super Bowl, multiple Stanley Cups, and a string of National Basketball Association titles. But amateur sports also play a large role in the city's athletic... -
Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star Edmund F. Wehrle 9780826223470
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.80Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball's draconian labor system. To the... -
Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports by Howard P. Chudacoff
Booksplease Price: £20.12"In Changing the Playbook, Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that redefined college sports. These changes involved fundamental... -
Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports by Howard P. Chudacoff 9780252039782
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14"In Changing the Playbook, Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that redefined college sports. These changes involved fundamental... -
Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties by George Gmelch 9780803276819
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers organization. Gmelch grew up sheltered in an all-white, affluent San Francisco suburb, and he knew little... -
Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties by George Gmelch 9781496219589
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers organization. Gmelch grew up sheltered in an all-white, affluent San Francisco suburb, and he knew little...