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  Ballers of the New School - Race...

  Thabiti Lewis

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  Ballers of the New School is one of the first and best books to come along that effectively explains contemporary athletes and the public response to them.  It asks readers to consider the role of race in the sweaty as well as the sweat-free zones of sport. It challenges the well-worn narrative of sport as America's most significant site of racial progress by scrutinizing the true role of sport in mobilizing and shaping definitions, social relations, and public life.American sport culture performs and propagates rituals, symbols, and expressions of fear and difference that sustain racism, and notions of racial supremacy and block bridges to racial progress.  
   The text encourages a restructuring of the power of the racial subtexts thrust into sporting arenas, upon the bodies of athletes of color, and into the mind and hearts of spectators via the racial contract.  The book's impetus is for readers to emerge with more truthful narratives, more honest dialogues, better American values, better social relations, and hopefully, using this new vision of sports culture as a model, real change.

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  The Ghosts of NASCAR - The...

  John Havick

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  "A rollicking ride back to the roots of stock car racing in the Midwest." —Journal of American Culture 
   
   
   
  Named by BookAuthority one of the 22 Best Motorsport eBooks of All Time 
   
   
   
  Chosen by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association as the second best motorsport book published in 2013 
   
   
   
  Who won the first Daytona 500? Fans still debate whether it was midwestern champion Johnny Beauchamp, declared the victor at the finish line, or longtime NASCAR driver Lee Petty, declared the official winner a few days after the race. Author John Havick interviewed scores of people, analyzed film of the race, and pored over newspaper accounts of the event. He uses this information and his deep knowledge of the sport as it worked then to determine what probably happened. But he also tells a much bigger story: the story of how Johnny Beauchamp—and his Harlan, Iowa, compatriots, Dale Swanson and Tiny Lund—ended up in Florida driving in the 1959 Daytona race. 
   
   
   
  The Ghosts of NASCAR details how the Harlan Boys turned to racing cars to have fun and to escape the limited opportunities for poor boys in rural southwestern Iowa. As auto racing became more popular in the 1950s, Swanson, Lund, and Beauchamp battled dozens of rivals and came to dominate the sport in the Midwest. By the later part of the decade, the three men were ready to take on the competition in the South's growing NASCAR circuit. One of the top mechanics of the day, Swanson literally wrote the book on race cars at Chevrolet's clandestine racing shop in Atlanta, Georgia, while Beauchamp and Lund proved themselves worthy competitors. It all came to a head on the brand-new Daytona track in 1959.

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  Ruck Fit - Build Strength and...

  CPT Kayla Girgen

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  Add weight to your pack and hit the gym or trail to help build strength, lose weight, and boost your resilience. 
   
  Carrying weight over distance can benefit almost everyone, at almost every fitness level. A first-of-its-kind guide, Ruck Fit helps explain how to harness the power of rucking―the hot, new health trend―and highlights the physical benefits, such as improved strength, bone density, and body composition, as well as the psychological perks, that can follow. It helps listeners understand how to get started, with basic guidelines for beginners, answers to common questions, safety tips, and more advanced strategies to help maximize fitness goals. It surveys gear and gadgets, including packs, plates, footwear, and more, and offers sample training plans designed to put listeners on the road to better mobility, greater aerobic fitness, strength, and even competitive challenges. Examples of nutrition protocols help optimize performance with practical meal–planning guidance. The book also helps with goal setting, tracking progress, and other tips for improving your fitness―one step at a time.

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  The Cycling City - Bicycles and...

  Evan Friss

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  Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have played out in the media, on city streets, and in city halls. Very few people recognize, however, that these questions are more than a century old. 
   
  The Cycling City is a sharp history of the bicycle’s rise and fall in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, American cities were home to more cyclists, more cycling infrastructure, more bicycle friendly legislation, and a richer cycling culture than anywhere else in the world. Evan Friss unearths the hidden history of the cycling city, demonstrating that diverse groups of cyclists managed to remap cities with new roads, paths, and laws, challenge social conventions, and even dream up a new urban ideal inspired by the bicycle. When cities were chaotic and filthy, bicycle advocates imagined an improved landscape in which pollution was negligible, transportation was silent and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country were blurred. Friss argues that when the utopian vision of a cycling city faded by the turn of the century, its death paved the way for today’s car-centric cities—and ended the prospect of a true American cycling city ever being built.

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  Championship Behaviors - A Model...

  Hugh McCutcheon, Thad Levine

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  From an Olympic gold medal–winning coach, a new playbook for effective athlete education and team building 
   
   
   
  Championship results require championship behaviors—it's as simple as that. In this essential book, Hugh McCutcheon provides a proven framework for competitive excellence based in motor learning, psychology, and decades of coaching experience and success. 
   
   
   
  Championship Behaviors provides athletes, parents of athletes, and coaches a defined path to the "how" of significant achievement while simply and clearly explaining the research behind the "why." McCutcheon speaks to the need for aspiring athletes to work, learn, and compete and the responsibility coaches have to teach, coach, and mentor. As he says, "We won't always have five-star talent, but we can often make up the difference by being five-star teachers, learners, and competitors." 
   
   
   
  A sought-after coach and consultant, McCutcheon also illuminates the value of integrating the physical, mental, and social aspects of sport to maximize chances of competitive success.

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  Crawling Out of Hell - A Raw...

  Roman Kartashevsky

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  A Raw Story and Real Advice to Change Your Life 
  What if your life began in a place where violence was normal, alcohol was survival, and every friendship could end in a fight? 
  This is the brutally honest memoir of a young man from Eastern Europe who grew up surrounded by chaos — and refused to stay in it. 
  Fistfights in the streets. Addiction to computer games. Betrayal in love. Cold nights without food or heating. 
  Every chapter is a punch to the gut — and a lesson in survival. 
  But this story isn't just about pain. 
  It's about the power of change. 
  About escaping the darkness and building a new life — through discipline, education, and belief in yourself. 
  🔥 Inside this book: 
  ✅ A true coming-of-age story filled with raw experiences, 
  ✅ Powerful lessons on overcoming poverty, addiction, and broken relationships, 
  ✅ Real-life motivation for teens, young men, and immigrants trying to rebuild, 
  ✅ No excuses. No sugar-coating. Just the truth. 
  You will follow Roman Kartashevsky's journey: 
  – from forgotten villages to brutal jobs, 
  – from street fights to the kickboxing ring, 
  – from part-time studies in Belarus to earning a master's degree in Poland. 
  He didn't have perfect parents, money, or luck. 
  But he had something else: the will to fight for a better future. 
  👊 This book is for: 
  Boys and men growing up without role models 
  Teens trapped in toxic environments 
  Immigrants trying to start again 
  Anyone who needs a wake-up call to fight for their life 
  Readers of gritty, motivational memoirs like Can't Hurt Me, The Way of the Fight, or Man's Search for Meaning 
  You don't need money, privilege, or a lucky break. 
  You need courage. 
  And someone to tell you: 
  👉 I crawled out of hell. Now it's your turn!

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