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Wonderful walks from dog-friendly campsites on a budget
If you like camping and you love taking your dog, but do not know where to go, this book will help you find ideas for either a weekend jaunt, to explore a region or to even plan a tour of the UK.
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Toyota yaris wrc
GAZOO! The full story of Toyota's recent and highly-successful World Rally Championship campaign, undertaken by its motorsport subsidiary, Gazoo Racing. Using stunning photography sourced from the factory, the book covers every WRC entry made by Gazoo, and looks back at Toyota's early days in the...
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Formula 1 all the races: the 100 greatest races
Formula 1’s 75th anniversary on May 13, 2025, marks a landmark in motorsport history—a celebration of speed, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of greatness. From the inaugural race at Silverstone in 1950 to today, F1 has hosted 1,131 Grand Prix events, crowned 34 World Champions, and deliver...
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‘sox’
Until now, Gary Hocking was the only World Motorcycle Champion of his era without a book dedicated to his life. This book reveals Gary’s life in Rhodesia, how he was helped to become a World Champion, his dedication, and retirement at a young age – and the accident that cost him his life.
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The great british rally
From the running of the 1932 RAC rally, mainly a social event, to the present day, when Rally GB is a high-speed endurance World Championship rally, this is the very first all-embracing history of an important part of British motorsport history. Descriptions of every event, opinions, results and ...
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The british at indianapolis
A history of the British influence on the Indianapolis 500, including not only the drivers and cars, but the many others – mechanics, designers, and officials – who have been involved. The story is set out in a series of stand-alone chapters, with a wide variety of informative sidebars, and goes ...
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Inspired to design
Nigel Bennett’s unique autobiography describes his life and career, from growing-up influenced by car design, to his education and the building of his 750 specials. He describes his work as Firestone Development Manager, recounting many tales of the outstanding designers and drivers of the period...
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Formula 1 all the races 2016-2024
Over four editions, the 'Formula 1 All the Races' series chronicled the captivating narrative of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship on a race-by-race basis. Now, as the race-count climbs to an astonishing 1,125 at the end of 2024, Formula 1's 75th season provides the perfect opportunity for a f...
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Slow burn - the growth of superbikes & superbike racing 1970 to 1988
Slow Burn tells how the big names of the motorcycle industry used Superbike racing to test their street bike designs. The book features the biggest riders: Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan, Wayne Rainey, Kevin Schwantz and Eddie Lawson, who started out on big, unruly superbikes, and learned how to powe...
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Motor racing heroes
Covering the period from the first Grand Prix win in 1906, to Michael Schumacher’s 2006 retirement, this book is one man’s idea of the 20th century’s motor racing heroes.The sport has attracted many men and women whose determination, raw courage, and skill at the wheel has driven them into that s...
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Ford escort rs cosworth & world rally car
The Escort RS Cosworth became Ford's most successful model since the legendary Escorts of the 1970s. The combination of Cosworth power, 4WD transmission, and an effective aerodynamic package made it a Rally Giant in all conditions, making this generation of Escorts the most effective rally car th...
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Chris carter at large
Chris Carter has been a journalist, broadcaster, commentator and friend of the star names of international motorcycle sport for more than 60 years.This book is a wonderful collection of anecdotes – some tragic, but mostly humorous – documenting a fascinating and unique life spent at the heart of...
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The iconic jersey
Traces the design and aesthetics of the iconic baseball jersey both on and off the baseball field.
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Rebound
HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD NOMINEE From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion. “The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For ever...
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Stay safe
Former FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) Operator & Special Agent provides you the Tactics, Techniques & Procedures to survive in today’s dangerous world.
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Rebound
"Matt is everything you could ask for in a friend and leader." ––Jay Bilas, ESPN Matt Doherty played and coached basketball at the University of North Carolina. He started on the 1982 National Championship team coached by Dean Smith while playing alongside NBA stars Michael Jordan and James Wor...
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30 day champions journal
This book is an athlete’s companion to their physical game which shows that journaling for sports helps reduce physical symptoms of anxiety as well as negative thoughts and worry. This tool for coaches, parents, sports administrators as well as athletes.
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Personal foul
In this book NBA referee Tim Donaghy tells his story of gambling addiction, betting with inside information, the investigation, trial, and punishment.
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Heritage and sport
This book provides a holistic view of the relationship between heritage and sport and an in-depth examination into the different types of sport heritage. It offers both theoretical and applied approaches to the heritage–sport relationship and intersects with many contemporary topics in heritage, ...
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Climbing days
A forgotten classic of 1920s mountaineering literature; Dorothy Pilley broke new ground for women in a sport dominated by men with her true account of adventure, endurance and daringDorothy Pilley was a pioneer of women's climbing a hundred years ago. She founded a club celebrating women's climbi...
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What are the olympics for?
‘Athletes first’ is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world’s attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on be...
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Sport, history, and heritage
An examination of the relationship between sport and its cultural heritage.Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life. Although its importance has been recognised by academic historians, sport has yet to be fully appreciated in the growing and related fiel...
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What is fifa for?
A wide-ranging look at football’s powerful but controversial governing body. Football is the world’s most popular sport and truly a global phenomenon. As a result, it attracts huge sums of money from its advertisers, sponsors and broadcasters, much of which flows to FIFA, the sport’s internationa...
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The digital world of sport
The book analyses how new media, and in particular, digital and social media, has changed the world of sports forever, from its pivotal role in the evolution of the sports industry and its trailblazing impact on the broader media industry.
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Fighting scholars
‘Fighting Scholars’ presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Bod...
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Occupational devotion: finding satisfaction and fulfillment at work
The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, skilled trades, and small business proprietors. Devotee ...
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Beyond the metrics
This interdisciplinary book explores how fitness technology affects self-image, anxiety, and social identity, connecting sports science, psychology, and digital culture.
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Trees of illinois field guide
Learn to identify Illinois trees with this handy field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment. With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identification simple, informative, and productive. There’s no need to look through dozens of p...
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Wildflowers of texas field guide
Identify Texas wildflowers with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information. With this famous field guide by Nora Bowers, Rick Bowers, and Stan Tekiela, you can make wildflower identification simple, informative, and productive. T...
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Fish of michigan field guide
This updated field guide, organized by family, features full-color illustrations and information to help readers quickly and easily identify Michigan fish.
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Trees of indiana field guide
Learn to identify Indiana trees with this handy field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment. With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identification simple, informative, and productive. There’s no need to look through dozens of ph...
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The rocky mountain plant guide
Get to know the region’s wildflowers, shrubs, and trees with this comprehensive field guide, organized by color for ease of use. The majestic Rocky Mountains provide a diverse landscape of life zones, habitats, and micro-niches, each packed with the wonders of nature. Plant life—from towering for...
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Wildflowers of arizona field guide
Identify Arizona wildflowers with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information. With this famous field guide by Nora Bowers, Rick Bowers, and Stan Tekiela, you can make wildflower identification simple, informative, and productive. ...
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Butterflies of the midwest field guide
Identify butterflies with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information! Butterflies are fascinating, beautiful, and a joy to behold. Now observing them is even better with the Butterflies of the Midwest Field Guide. This handy book...
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Trees of new england field guide
Learn to identify trees in the Northeast with this handy field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment. Make tree identification simple, informative, and productive with the field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela. There’s no need to look through dozens of photos of t...
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Fish of minnesota field guide
This updated field guide, organized by family, features full-color illustrations and information to help readers quickly and easily identify Minnesota fish.
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Stretching pocket book
Stretch with the pocket edition of the most popular fitness book in the world—more than 3.75 million copies sold, translated into 24 languages! The benefits of stretching are bountiful, from increased blood flow and better range of motion to improved physical performance and decreased risk of inj...
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Outdoor medicine
This straightforward guide presents essential information for managing common illnesses, injuries, and medical emergencies in the wilderness.
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Bird tracks
Identify bird tracks with this pocket-size booklet, organized by track shape for convenience of use. Whether you’re a tracker who studies animal tracks, a bird watcher, a gardener, or simply someone who appreciates nature and all of its curiosities, keep this convenient guide close at hand. Writt...
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Garden bugs & insects of california
Get this tabbed booklet to garden insects and bugs, and learn how to identify and attract (or repel!) them. Brightly colored flowers, rich soil, and delicious nectar, the garden landscape is a bug’s paradise. It attracts the ones we want to see—like bees, butterflies, and lady beetles—but also t...
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A birder's guide to minnesota
Explore the best birding locations in Minnesota with this county-by-county guide. Whether you’re new to birding or have been enjoying your backyard visitors for years, it’s time to take bird-watching to another level. Bring your love of birds on the road, and discover more than 1,400 of Minnesot...
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Stretching
Stretch with the most popular fitness book in the world—more than 3.75 million copies sold, translated into 23 languages! The benefits of stretching are bountiful, from increased blood flow and better range of motion to improved physical performance and decreased risk of injury. Maximize your fit...
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Football in american society
Football effects the lives of many in substantial ways. This book first addresses the notion that this is “merely entertainment.” The significance of why football emerged atypically in Texas is discussed as well as what this portends for American society. Unsurprisingly, Texan disparities in inco...
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Live all you can
Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and restless spirit codified the rules of the spo...
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Das sowjetische fieber
What did the citizens of the Soviet Union identify with? Where did the societal faultlines lie? Did mass demonstrations destabilize Soviet order? How did informal groups come into being within a society based on uniformity? What impact did media and new forms of connection have on the development...
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More than just a game
More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. By examining both professional and intercollegiate sports such as baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, and stock car rac...
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From ritual to record
Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras,...
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Skateboarding between subculture and the olympics
The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercialization and sportification. This anthology creates an analytical framework for understanding the fundamental conflict between skateboarding’s core ethos and...
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Sports spectators
In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand. Sports Spectators...
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The price of football
This revised and updated second edition of the bestselling guide to understanding football club finance includes analysis of the most recent club accounts, as well as the impact of Covid-19 on the game's finances, the latest legal rulings on club affairs, and expanded coverage of "creative accoun...
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Sports analytics
This book is a practical, nontechnical guide to incorporating sports data into decision making, giving leaders the knowledge they need to maximize their organization’s investment in analytics.
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Striking beauty
Using the ethics and aesthetics of the Asian martial arts to enrich our knowledge of human behavior, bodily movement, technical knowledge, and artistic creation.
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Game misconduct
“‘You’re not a human being, you’re a number, a product, an asset as long as you can perform. If you can’t perform, then you’re a liability and they’ll drop you.’”Professional athletes suffer tremendous damage to their bodies over the course of their careers. Some literally lose years from their l...
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Decolonizing sport
Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize.
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Fixing your feet
This book covers essential information that any active person needs to know about foot care, including footwear, prevention, and treatment.
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Winter weed finder
Identify plants in eastern North America during winter with this pocket-size guide. You can appreciate and enjoy nature’s plants and wildflowers—even during late fall and winter! If you’re curious about the dry, non-woody plants that you encounter, then Winter Weed Finder by Dorcas S. Miller is j...
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Winter tree finder
Identify deciduous trees in eastern North America with this pocket-size guide. You can appreciate and enjoy nature’s beautiful trees—even during late fall and winter! If you’re curious about the deciduous trees that you see, then Winter Tree Finder by May Theilgaard Watts and Tom Watts is just wh...
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Rail-trail hall of fame
The experts from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy present 33 Hall of Fame rail-trails found in 29 states across the country.
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The stormrider surf guide: france
Finally, France has a Stormrider Surf Guide that covers all the incredible waves along this vast coastline. From the chilly Channel to the mild Mediterranean, there's something for everyone, helpfully written in both French and English. Beautifully illustrated by the best photographs available an...
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The stormrider surf guide: europe
By popular demand, "The Beast" is back. In response to customer feedback and general confusion, "The Stormrider Surf Guide Europe" is back in one huge, mind-blowing book. Much like a traditional bible, it seems surfers want both testaments in one place, so "The Continent and Atlantic Islands" boo...
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The stormrider surf guide: tropical islands
The Stormrider Surf Guide: Tropical Islands travels through the trade winds belt on the ultimate island-hopping journey to explore and compare the world's best warm-water surf zones. Many of the planet's finest surf breaks are found between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, from the powerful, ...
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The world stormrider surf guide
This mammoth book is the largest collection of surf-spot information ever compiled, with detailed analysis of the surf spots, swell forecasting and more.
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Global olympics
Draws together international scholars on issues that emerge from ancient Olympic contests, and over one hundred years of modern Olympic history, with varied perspectives, while encompassing an assessment of literature and debates on the Olympics. This book serves as a resource for students and re...
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Sport and the environment
This volume examines sport’s relationship with the environment in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. Contributors examine how sport is implicated in environmentally damaging activities,how decisions are made about how to respond to environmental issues, who benefits most and least from th...
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In perpetual motion
Through the interaction of a number of disparate disciplines alternative ideas and approaches are being discovered to grapple with the complexity of human travel and behaviour. These papers document the direction and findings of contemporary research.
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Qualitative research on sport and physical culture
Addresses issues in methodology, contemporary issues in research methods and innovative trends in qualitative research that are addressed through case study examples from areas of research in sport studies. This title includes: historical methods; ethnography; auto-ethnography; embodied methods; ...
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Running, identity and meaning
Running, Identity and Meaning showcases how gender, class, age and ethnicity influence whether and how different groups participate in the sport, and explores its role in the reproduction of social structure and the search for distinction.
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Sociology of sport
The Sociology of Sport has grown since its inception in the late 1950s and has become robust, and diverse. Many countries now boast strong scholars in the field and this volume reflects the fascinating research being done. This innovative volume is dedicated to a review of the state of the area b...
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Handbook of cultural sports psychology
This volume explores sports through Cultural Psychology, focusing on Sports Psychology and its cultural aspects. It examines how competitive sports and performing arts help us understand human nature and athletes' pursuit of excellence.
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Parkour, deviance and leisure in the late-capitalist city
This book examines the contradictions surrounding popular lifestyle sports such as parkour and freerunning and their exclusion from our hyper-regulated city centres. The author combines ethnographic data and complex theory to move beyond tropes of resistance and acknowledge and explain the parado...
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Sport, alcohol and social inquiry
This volume is a collection of works from both expert and emerging scholars with an empirical focus on case studies and ‘real-world’ examples in the sociological study of sport and alcohol that would appeal to a global audience. Implications drawn from the chapters in the book will offer new insi...
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Education, retirement and career transitions for 'black' ex-professional footballers
Drawing on a combination of interviews and auto-ethnographic data, Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footballers provides a case-study of 16 'black' British male professional footballers' preparedness and experiences of retirement and transition from careers...
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Sports and understanding organizations
This volume uses sports metaphors to understand organization and management processes, aiming to improve leadership and productivity. Each chapter presents new ways to view organizational constructs through sports, offering insights into the role sports play in understanding organizations globally.
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Reflections on sociology of sport
In this tenth celebratory volume, ten recognized and influential sport scholars from around the world reflect on their respective academic journeys within the subfield Sociology of Sport.
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The encyclopedia of sports and recreation for people with visual impairments
This guide profiles accessible sports and recreation for the blind, highlighting athletes' journeys and the impact of participation. It covers major organizations, camps, and programs, inspired by the Paralympic movement and the ADA, promoting inclusion and lifelong health through sports.
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Native games
Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity. This volume compares and conceptualises the sociological significance of Indigenous sports in diff...
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The olympic games
Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympic Games command public and media attention, while Olympic mythology and ritual obscure their underlying function as a profit-making business enterprise.
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Sport startups
Sport Startups: New Advances in Entrepreneurship examines the global growth of startup enterprises in the sports sector and addresses how they contribute to new developments in business innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Contradictions in fan culture and club ownership in contemporary english football
Showcasing a robust conceptual model primed for use in future studies, this work offers a close analysis of the culture of the fast-moving football club ownership world, football fandom and consumption, and what it might mean for the future of the sport.
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Managing global sport events
Managing Global Sport Events: Logistics and Coordination provides a look behind the scenes of large-scale sports events, combining the previously separate but inextricably bound areas of sports, logistics and coordination management.
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