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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
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Nicholas Blincoe, "More Noble Than War: A Socce...
Blincoe offers a beautifully narrated and written history of a century of conflict between pre-state Jews and Palestinians and Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians after the establishment of the state...
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Roger Gilles, "Women on the Move: The Forgotten...
Gilles recovers the history of women’s cycle racing in the 1890s...
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Brad Balukjian, "The Wax Pack: On the Open Road...
A combination of Charles Kuralt and Lawrence Ritter, Balukjian’s work examines 14 baseball players pulled from a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring:...
Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...
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Andrew R. M. Smith, "No Way But To Fight: Georg...
Smith shows that from his upbringing in Houston’s Fifth Ward to his role as a spokesman for the Foreman Grill, Foreman always fought to redefine himself along with the times...
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John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: I...
Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?
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Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet:...
Veri and Liberti the origins of tailgating in the United States, the way that tailgate gender roles changed throughout the 20th century; the interplay between the gender of tailgaters, cooking technologies, and food ways of tailgating; and the future possibilities and current limitations of the tailgating community...
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Seán Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, ...
In "Gaelic Games on Film," Crosson traces out the use of Irish sports in Irish, American, and British cinema.
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Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of...
Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...
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Gabe Logan, "The Early Years of Chicago Soccer,...
The thriving metropolis of Chicago was the land of opportunity for a wide variety of ethnic groups...
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Asher Price, "Earl Campbell: Yards After Contac...
Earl Campbell was a force in American football...
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
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Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U...
Alou started playing organized baseball late in life (early teens), endured poverty and hardship in his native Dominican Republic, and then helped to break down barriers of language and perception throughout his long career on the field and in the dugout...
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Rebecca Scofield, "Outriders: Rodeo at the Frin...
Scofield argues that rodeo performance has also long-been a means of asserting “Western-ness” for people excluded from narratives about the region...
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "San Francisco Year Zero" ...
1978 was the year that changed San Francisco forever..
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Derrick E. White, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jak...
White chronicles the development of black college football in the twentieth century, and is among the first comprehensive histories of black college athletics...
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Trevor Thompson, "Playing for Australia: The Fi...
In "Playing for Australia," Thompson investigates the Asian context of some of Australia’s earliest international soccer matches...
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
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Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: F...
In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”
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David A. F. Sweet, "Three Seconds in Munich: Th...
Sweet relates the horror of terrorism, the pain of losing the most controversial championship game in sports history to a hated rival, and the consequences of the players’ decision to shun their Olympic medals to this day...
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Rob Ruck, "Tropic of Football: The Long and Per...
Ruck addresses the paradox of Samoan accomplishment in American football.
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Bernardo Ramirez Rios, "Transnational Sport in ...
The game of basketball is not necessarily associated with Mexicans or Mexican Americans...
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