Economist Goes to the Game
How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports
ISBN: PB: 9780300274127,
ISBN: HB: 9780300218244,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
216 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 3 black&white illus.
216 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 3 black&white illus.
An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field.
Are ticket scalpers good for teams? Should parents push their kids to excel at sports? Why do Koreans dominate women's golf, while Kenya...
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£11.99
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£20.00
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When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black
ISBN: HB: 9780300270976,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 60 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 60 black&white illus.
The lost memoir of Britain's first Black Olympic medal winner – and the America he discovered.
After winning Olympic medals for Britain in 1920, Harry Edward (1898-1973) decided to try his luck in America. The country he found was full of thrilling...
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£18.99
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Isaac Murphy
The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey
ISBN: HB: 9780300254426,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 10 black&white illus.
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 10 black&white illus.
The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities.
Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in Ameri...
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Sports in South America
A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300247527,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
288 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 12 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
"Sports in South America" follows the transformation of sporting cultures in South America leading up to Uruguay's hosting...
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£40.00
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Peak Pursuits
The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300231946,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
320 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 35 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 35 black&white illus.
European forays to mountain summits began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the search for plants and minerals and the study of geology and glaciers. Yet scientists were soon captivated by the enterprise of climbing itself, e...
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£32.50
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Why Baseball Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300244403,
Yale University Press,
May 2019
224 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
224 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
Baseball, first dubbed the "national pastime" in print in 1856, is the country's most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as w...
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£13.99
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Hank Greenberg
The Hero Who Didn't Want To Be One
ISBN: PB: 9780300192469,
Yale University Press,
April 2013
192 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
192 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the history of baseball was Hank Greenberg's swing. His calmly poised body seemed to have some special set...
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£10.99
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Joe DiMaggio
The Long Vigil
ISBN: PB: 9780300181470,
Yale University Press,
April 2012
192 pp., 21,1x14,2 cm
192 pp., 21,1x14,2 cm
As the New York Yankees' star centre fielder from 1936 to 1951, Joe DiMaggio is enshrined in America's memory as the epitome in sports of grace, dignity, and that ineffable quality called "class". But his career after retirement, starting with his ni...
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£19.00
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Joe Louis
Hard Times Man
ISBN: PB: 9780300177633,
Yale University Press,
February 2012
328 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
328 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Joe Louis defended his heavyweight boxing title an astonishing twenty-five times and reigned as world champion for more than eleven years. He got more column inches of newspaper coverage in the 1930s than FDR did. His racially and politically charged...
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£23.00
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Bicycle
The History
ISBN: PB: 9780300120479,
Yale University Press,
June 2006
480 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 115 colour illus., 98 black&white illus.
480 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 115 colour illus., 98 black&white illus.
This lively and lavishly illustrated book tells the extraordinary history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. Recounting a story replete with disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportun...
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£27.50
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