Published to coincide with the clubs centenary celebrations, 100 Years of Leeds United tells the story of a one-club city and its tumultuous relationship with its football team.Since its foundation in 1919, Leeds United Football Clu...More info...
The Final: In Pursuit of Greatness tells the incredible story of the last ever European Cup final before the Champions League overhaul. Barcelonas Dream Team clashed with Capellos AC Milan in a match that defined an era, producing one of the most re...More info...
Germanys football culture has a historically rich background full of transnational entanglements, German identity formation, and fan cultures. Football Nation constructs new insights surrounding the multifaceted landscapes of German historical and c...More info...
Sports Knight uncovers the life stories behind the nations sporting knights and dames, offering a compelling alternative history of British sport and society across the past century. Why were these sporting greats held up as national role models? An...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246493)
In 1990 a fearless group of players changed the sport of soccer in the United States forever. Young, bronzed, and mulleted, they were Americas finest athletes in a sport their country loved to hate. Even sportswriters rooted against them. Yet this...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496245595)
When Bob Feller hit the Major League Baseball scene, he instantly became one of the most famous athletes in the country. Everything Feller did made headlines, primarily because anything he did had never been done before, especially by someone his ag...More info...
This book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution of Olympic and Paralympic sport, exploring the dynamic interplay between innovation, sustainability, and technology. This book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution...More info...
Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, this is still the only textbook to introduce best management practice, process and policy in elite and high performance sport (HPS). Drawing on real-world case-studies of elite sport around the world...More info...
Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, this is still the only textbook to introduce best management practice, process and policy in elite and high performance sport (HPS). Drawing on real-world case-studies of elite sport around the world...More info...
One of the greatest football managers of our time tells the story of his illustrious career through his record-breaking seven Champions League wins. Featuring interviews with Jude Bellingham, Paolo Maldini, Luka Modric and Davide Ancelotti....More info...
Reminds me of why I love football - at its heart, its a reflection of the communities that are built around it. A special book. - Jamie Carragher You know when youre in a Football City. The murals, the billboards, the graffi...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), ISBN-13: 9780857508638)
The great book on 1966 that needed writing. PAUL HAYWARD, OBSERVER Panoramic and polemic. JONATHAN NORTHCROFT, SUNDAY TIMES - A vivid portrait of the world in 1966, centred around the storied World Cup tournament and its backdrop, publ...More info...
The most comprehensive history of the FIFA World Cup, featuring vivid accounts of individual games, the innovations that shaped the sport across the decades, and the games biggest stars-now updated for the 2026 World Cup....More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781538740729)
ESPN’s Tim MacMahon goes behind the scenes of Luka Doncic’s years with the Dallas Mavericks—before his trade to the Lakers stunned the basketball world—telling the story of a franchise’s quest to build a championship team around a prodigy. ...More info...
A GRIPPING AND INCREDIBLY HONEST INSIGHT INTO OUR SPORT, FROM ONE OF RACING’S MOST EXCITING TALENTS FRANKIE DETTORI‘AN ASTONISHINGLY HONEST ACCOUNT OF WHAT ITS LIKE BEING A PROFESSIONAL JOCKEY DAILY TELEGRAPH ...More info...
Go out to the ballgame with an interactive tour through America’s ballpark landmarks in this new edition of America’s Classic Ballparks.The ultimate tribute to the stadiums that shaped America’s pastime, America’s Classic Bal...More info...
Carlos Had a Dream charts the remarkable Carlos Carvalhal era at Sheffield Wednesday; how the Portuguese transformed the culture at Hillsborough, turning Wednesday into promotion contenders with a style of football that wowed Owls fans and took them...More info...
Steven Apostolov, Tracey Owens Patton, Lane Demas, Lorenz J Finison, Donna L Halper, Leslie Heaphy, Edward H Jones, Stephanie Liscio, Susan A Michalczyk, Eileen Narcotta-Welp...
This volume adopts the perspectives of historical hermeneutics and technological anthropology to explore the cultural evolution of Wushu. Drawing extensively on classical historical sources, excavated manuscripts, unearthed martialarts artifacts, an...More info...
