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  • How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports

    The Pay-to-Play Pipeline, with a New Preface

    by Rick Eckstein ...
    More girls are playing sports than ever before—which, on the surface, is great for girls because sports offer positive and empowering fun for young women. In reality, though, few young athletes report “fun” as a reason they play sports. The rates of concussions and repetitive-use injuries are on the rise, and kids are encouraged to specialize in a single sport at earlier and earlier ages, even at ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Confidence

    How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End

    by Rosabeth Moss Kanter ...
    From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?There’s a fundamental principle at work—the vital but previously unexamined factor called confidence ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • ESPN The Company

    The Story and Lessons Behind the Most Fanatical Brand in Sports

    by Anthony F. Smith, Keith Hollihan ...
    A fascinating look at ESPN and its success as a brandESPN The Company reveals the inside scoop on the biggest business story in sports, detailing the creative and innovative spirit and practices that drove the programming, products, and services of the most powerful and prominent name in sports media. The authors provide a behind-the-scenes perspective on how ESPN dealt with their many partners ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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  • McKinsey's Marvin Bower

    Vision, Leadership, and the Creation of Management Consulting

    by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim ...
    "I had the privilege of working closely with Marvin and McKinsey for many years. This book makes Marvin come to life and perpetuates him as a role model."-Peter F. Drucker"A wonderful book about a wonderful man. In many ways, Marvin's McKinsey framed the hypotheses in our own search for excellence-for example, passion for values, belief in people as the prime resource, and willingness to let ... Read more

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  • Game Misconduct

    Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It

    by Evan F. Moore, Jashvina Shah ...
    A bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in ... Read more

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  • Fair Ball

    A Fan's Case for Baseball

    by Bob Costas ...
    From his perspective as a journalist and a true fan, Bob Costas, NBC's award-winning broadcaster, shares his views on the forces that are diminishing the appeal of Major League Baseball and proposes realistic changes that can be made to protect and promote the game's best interests.In this cogent--and provocative--book, Costas examines the growing financial disparities that have resulted in nearly ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

    by D. Stanley Eitzen ...
    Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction that lays out the two themes of the book with fresh examples, and a significantly revised chapter on ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Athletics Incubus: How College Sports Undermine College Education

    by Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus ...
    Previously published as part of Higher Education?In this provocative work, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that American college athletics—which originally came into the campus as an innocent form of recreation—have overtaken academic pursuits, compromised the moral authority of educators, and gobbled up resources that should ... Read more

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  • Management by Baseball

    The Official Rules for Winning Management in Any Field

    by Jeff Angus ...
    What do Hall of Fame baseball managers like Connie Mack and John McGraw have in common with today's business leaders? Why are baseball managers like Joe Torre and Dusty Baker better role models for business, government, and non–profit management than respected corporate giants like Jack Welch and Bill Gates? And just what does Peter Drucker have to do with Oriole ex–manager Earl Weaver?Management ... Read more

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  • Business the NHL Way

    Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice

    by Norm O'Reilly, Rick Burton, Hayley Wickenheiser ...
    The National Hockey League is at its apex in terms of its business success. Even a global pandemic could not slow it down. The league generates more than $5 billion annually, its revenues and media deals continue to grow, and its properties are increasing in value, innovation, and quantity. More clubs are profitable than are not, and the game of hockey is expanding globally.Business the NHL Way ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Ethics of Sport and Athletics

    Theory, Issues, and Application

    by Robert C. Schneider ...
    Timely, accessible, and focused on practical application, Ethics of Sport & Athletics: Theory, Issues, and Applications, Second Edition, details the theories and mechanics of moral reasoning, ethical and unethical behavior in sport, and the development of moral education through sport. This well-organized, case-based approach to sport-related dilemmas teaches readers how to successfully apply ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Olympic Marketing

    by Alain Ferrand, Jean-Loup Chappelet, Benoit Seguin ...
    The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans. It has been estimated, for example, that 3.6 billion people (about half of the world population) watched at least one minute of the Beijing Games in 2008 on television. The ... Read more

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