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Midnight Basketball Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780226374987, ISBN: HB: 9780226374840, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders – home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls – is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about...
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£28,00
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Outside in the Interior An Adventure Guide for Central Alaska, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781602232808, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2016
328 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 100 colour plates, 70 maps
With its breathtaking vistas and countless acres of unmarked wilderness, Alaska has long attracted those who are looking for a bit of adventure in their vacations – from visitors who want to climb rugged peaks to those content to push a stroller down...
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£20,00
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Hidden Game of Baseball A Revolutionary Approach to Baseball and Its Statistics
ISBN: PB: 9780226242484, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he'd honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, "The Hidden Game...
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£17,00
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Selling the Yellow Jersey The Tour de France in the Global Era
ISBN: HB: 9780226206530, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 map, 3 tables
Yellow Livestrong wristbands were taken off across America early last year when Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he had doped during the seven Tour de France races he won. But the foreign cycling world, which always viewed Armstrong wi...
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£36,00
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From Black Sox to Three-Peats A Century of Chicago's Best Sportswriting from the "Tribune", "Sun-Times", and Other Newspapers
ISBN: PB: 9780226036601, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Bears, Bulls, Cubs, Sox, Blackhawks – there's no city like Chicago when it comes to sports. Generation after generation, Chicagoans pass down their almost religious allegiances to teams, stadiums, and players and their never-say-die attitude, along w...
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£13,50
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Black Men Can't Shoot
ISBN: PB: 9780226211411, ISBN: HB: 9780226076034, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 tables
The myth of the natural black athlete is widespread, though it's usually talked about only when a sports commentator or celebrity embarrasses himself by bringing it up in public. Those gaffes are swiftly decried as racist, but apart from their lin...
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£12,00
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Wrigley Field The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines
ISBN: PB: 9780226134277, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
448 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 30 halftones, 1 map
In spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around Chicago's and organized baseball's hierarchies, the new Weeghman Park (named after its builder, fast-food magnate Charley Weeghman) was home...
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£15,00
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Skijor with Your Dog
ISBN: PB: 9781602231863, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2012
318 pp., 25x15 cm
Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a great sport in which almost everyone – and almost any breed of dog – can participate. It requires little beyond a pair of skis and a dog with a desire to pull. The second edition of this po...
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Euphoria and Exhaustion Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society
ISBN: PB: 9783593392905, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
320 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm
The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society – they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Sovie...
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£40,00
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Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals
ISBN: HB: 9780226155463, University of Chicago Press, April 2009
174 pp., 22.1x14.7 cm
Despite their influence in our culture, sports inspire dramatically less philosophical consideration than such ostensibly weightier topics as religion, politics, or science. Arguing that athletic playfulness coexists with serious underpinnings, and t...
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£37,00
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