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Killer Instinct by Martina Navratilova 9780345472687
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345472687Author Martina NavratilovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Impr -
Shape Your Self by Martina Navratilova 9780316732963
Booksplease Price: £18.48In July 2003, at the age of 46, Martina Navratilova became the oldest player to win a Grand Slam, when she and Leander Paes won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title. It was a 20th Wimbledon title for... -
Sports Journalism and Women Athletes: Coverage of Coming Out Stories by William P. Cassidy 9783030305253
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.20"Women's sports have typically been grossly under-represented in sports media coverage. Although elite lesbian athletes far outnumber 'out' male athletes, media scrutiny of their experiences remains... -
Unfair Play: The Battle For Women's Sport 'Thrillingly Fearless' THE TIMES by Sharron Davies 9781800752825
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.55Shortlisted for the 2023 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 'A hard-hitting, important, scientifically rigorous polemic ... thrillingly fearless' -... -
The People's Wimbledon: Memories and Memorabilia from the Lawn Tennis Championships by Richard Jones
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.83The People's Wimbledon brings you the magic of SW19 in words and pictures. Take a trip down memory lane as you rekindle memories of colourful characters, breathtaking matches, intense rivalries and... -
Left-handed Legends Alphabet by Beck Feiner
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Calling all southpaws! From Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Martina Navratilova, Will Ferrell to Barack Obama, Left-Handed Legends Alphabet honors an A to Z of those who lead with their left. Boldly... -
My Double Life Mark Foster 9781399425162
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'As gripping as Mark's greatest races' - Zoe Ball'Incredibly brave and uplifting' - Rebecca Adlington The moving story of one of Britain's best-loved sportsmen, and his thirty-year coming out... -
Women Tennis Stars: Biographies and Records of Champions, 1800s to Today by Dennis J. Phillips 9780786469291
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59From forehands to fashions, this book covers the careers of 35 champions who made significant contributions to the sport both on and off the court. Suzanne Lenglen, Helen Wills Moody, Maureen... -
The World's Greatest Left-Handers: Why Left-Handers are Just Plain Better Than Everybody Else by James T. de Kay 9780871314499
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.90Everyone knows that left-handers are more creative (Leonardo da Vinci), smarter (Ben Franklin), funnier (Carol Burnett), tougher (Billy the Kid), more musical (C.P.E. Bach), more athletic (Martina... -
Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar by Sasha Abramsky 9781909715912
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.41Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 One of The Times 50 Best Sports Books of 2021 Little Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie... -
All My Own Words: The Sportswriter Who Was Author of His Own Downfall by Neil Harman 9781801503785
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23All My Own Words is the remarkable story of a kid with a paper round who dreamed of a career in Fleet Street, the historic fulcrum of the British press. In just a few short years, he achieved that... -
Motivation and Emotion in Sport: Reversal Theory by John H. Kerr
Booksplease Price: £51.28Why did Michael Jordan quit basketball and take up baseball? Why was Martina Navratilova so successful as a professional tennis player? These and many other questions about aspects of motivation and... -
Sports Culture: An A-Z Guide Ellis Cashmore 9780415285551
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24We live in a culture in which sports play an important role. The growth in broadcasting, merchandising, iconography and the commercialization of sports has led to an increasing interest in the... -
Social Activism in Women's Tennis: Generations of Politics and Cultural Change Kristi Tredway 9781032176697
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Analyzing the key players and political moments in women's professional tennis since 1968, this book explores the historical lineage of social activism within women's tennis and the issues,... -
US Open: 50 Years of Championship Tennis by Rick Rennert 9781419732188
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.83Timed to coincide with the US Open's 50th anniversary, this exquisitely produced book celebrates the most electrifying event in tennis. All of the key moments and unforgettable personalities from the... -
Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History Vol.2: From World War II to the Present Day by Robert Aldrich
Booksplease Price: £46.79Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day provides a comprehensive modern biographical survey of homosexuality in the Western world. Among those included... -
What a Lesbian Looks Like by National Lesbian and Gay Survey
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38The National Lesbian and Gay Survey is a mass observation project set up in 1985 to record the experience of lesbians and gay men. Since that time, lesbian and gay volunteers have provided accounts... -
Tennis Confidential: Today'S Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies by Paul Fein 9781574885262
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12In this outstanding collection of essays and interviews, Paul Fein takes the reader into the world of the pro tennis tour with inside scoops about the game's greatest stars, past and present.Tennis... -
Sports Media History: Culture, Technology, Identity by 9780367558673
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This research collection explores the ongoing interaction between sports, media, and society throughout important periods in history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It examines both... -
Philosophical Perspectives on Gender in Sport and Physical Activity Paul Davis 9780415476621
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94There are a broad variety of sex and gender resonances in sport, from the clash of traditional ideas of femininity and athleticism represented by female athletes, to the culture of homophobia in... -
Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention by Martha Gever 9780415944809
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Before the rise of celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and k.d. lang, lesbians were rarely in the limelight and the few that were often did not fare well. Times have changed and today's famous lesbians... -
Making Sense of Sports by Professor Ellis Cashmore
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £52.39Updated, revised and enhanced with new features, the fifth edition of Making Sense of Sports is the biggest and strongest yet. Ellis Cashmore's unique multidisciplinary approach to the study of... -
Gift and Grit: Race, Sports, and the Construction of Social Debt by Joseph Darda 9781009584067
Booksplease Price: £28.57In 1998, Bill Clinton hosted a town hall on race and sports. 'If you've got a special gift,' the president said of athletes, 'you owe more back.' Gift and Grit shows how the sports industry has... -
The Choice Point: The Scientifically Proven Method for Achieving Your Goals by Joanna Grover 9781472147660
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The scientifically proven method to overcome obstacles and make choices that lead us closer to our goalsWITH A FOREWORD BY MARTINA NAVRATILOVAWhen we choose to go to the gym at 6 a.m., keep running... -
New Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida 9780684806822
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.75Since its original publications in 1978, Our Right to Love's resources, interviews, and essays have evolved to cover every aspect of the ever-changing, everyday lives of lesbians.The complete lesbian... -
Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality by Jennifer Hargreaves
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £68.04The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of... -
Greatest Tennis Matches of All Time by Steve Flink 9780942257939
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.25Author and tennis historian Steve Flink profiles and ranks the greatest tennis matches in the history of the sport. Roger Federer, Billie Jean King, Rafael Nadal, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Martina... -
A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes by David C. Ogden 9781496807847
Booksplease Price: £31.89Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of particular focus in A Locker Room of Her Own. Race,... -
A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes by David C. Ogden 9781617038136
Booksplease Price: £99.43Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of particular focus in A Locker Room of Her Own. Race,... -
Immigration: Public Legislation and Private Bills by Bernadette Maguire 9780761807919
Booksplease Price: £113.11Immigration laws have encompassed a wide variety of purposes by reuniting families, invigorating the country with new skills, and rescuing victims of war. This book brings a human dimension to the... -
This Little Rainbow: A Love-Is-Love Primer by Joan Holub
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.32Learn all about important leaders who represent, empower, and support the LGBTQIA+ community in this engaging board book perfect for proud leaders-in-training!Now even the youngest readers can learn... -
Havana by Stephen Hunter 9780099471448
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.59High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex, and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia and United Fruit to pimps,... -
Building Champions: Blueprints to Success in Women’s Tennis by Molly McElwee 9781913759230
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Featuring a foreword by Billie Jean King. Since the turn of the century, women's tennis has established itself as one of the world's most unpredictable sports. With 36 different Grand Slam champions... -
Wimbledon's Greatest Games: The All England Club's Fifty Finest Matches by Abi Smith
Booksplease Price: £19.01Wimbledon's Greatest Games features 50 of the most exciting and absorbing tennis matches ever played on the All England Club's courts. Journey back in time and relive the unforgettable feats of Rod... -
Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever by L Jon Wertheim
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.31A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sportsThe summer of... -
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Britain, Sport and the 1980s by Roger Domeneghetti 9781529114843
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The 1980s' most memorable sporting moments show how sport became fully entwined in our national story.Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the Brixton riots; the Moscow Olympics and the... -
Little Ash Party Problem! by Ash Barty 9781460762806
Booksplease Price: £5.31Australian tennis superstar Ash Barty teams up with Jasmin McGaughey and Jade Goodwin to bring young readers this fun and exciting new illustrated series about school, sport, friendship and family... -
The Attitude Equation: Rockstars in All Fields Share Their Secret Attitudes by Mark Schulman 9798888453841
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Through interviews with some of today’s world-class performers, you will learn to immediately apply a formula to empower your attitude and alter the outcomes of your life.Attitude is at the heart of... -
The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett by Andy Warhol
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES'His last great work of art' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian'Cruel, sexy, and sometimes heartbreaking ... Warhol is no neutral observer, but a character in his own right' Newsweek... -
Thrive: A practical guide to harness your resilience and realize your potential Richard Sutton 9781786788504
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54We live in a world that demands perfection. Should we fail to live up to societal expectations, we experience a sense of failure, and fears and anxiety about a tenuous future. Added to this is the...