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Eat Sweat Play: How Sport can Change our Lives

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By Anna Kessel — 2025

Why are women reluctant to play sports? What are the benefits for women playing sports? Eat Sweat Play answers these questions and more.

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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.

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Howard Bryant
2025
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Beyond Triathlon: A Dual Memoir of Masters Women Athletes

Female students today never knew a time without Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which protects students from sex-based discrimination and exclusion in education programs or activities. It benefits all women, especially female athletes.

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Celeste Callahan, Dottie Dorion, Jane E. Hunt
2025
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The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions

The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model.

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Billy Hawkins
2013
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Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes (The American Campus)

Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams.

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Kirsten Hextrum
2021
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State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation

Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is an important, compelling, and entertaining first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality—or at least the closest that one high...

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Melissa Isaacson
2020
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The Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being: Exercise, Diet, and Emotional Balance

Millions have benefited from Dr. Cooper’s famous aerobic exercise programs. He has revolutionized the way Americans get in shape and stay in shape. Now, he presents a complete program for total well-being—physically, nutritionally, emotionally.

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Kenneth H. Cooper
1985
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Stand: A Memoir on Activism. A Manual for Progress. What Really Happens When We Stand on the Front Lines of Change.

What really happens on the front lines of change? For Kathryn Bertine, a former ESPN columnist and professional cyclist, advocating for gender equality wasn’t even on her radar in 2007. By 2017, everything changed.

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Kathryn Bertine
2025
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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps—only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries.

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David Davis
2022
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Working Out, Working Within: The Tao of Inner Fitness Through Sports and Exercise

During physical training, we can experience something deeper than just the burn of working out. We can achieve spiritual awareness and know that we are alive and healthy.

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Jerry Lynch, Chungliang Al Huang
1999
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Zen Athlete: The Secrets to Achieving Your Highest Potential

Zen Athlete demystifies the art of mental training, flow and peak performance. At its core Zen Athlete is a practical guide to self mastery.

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Matthew Belair
2025
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