Truxal Library Special Topic Library Guide: Current Issues in Sports
Selection of Books
The Anthropology of Sport: bodies, borders, biopolitics –by Call Number: GV706.2 .B48 2018ISBN: 9780520289017Publication Date: 2017-12-08
The athlete's clock : how biology and time affect sport performance –by Call Number: RC1235 .R685 2011ISBN: 9780736082747Publication Date: 2011-04-15
Be all in : raising kids for success in sports and life –by Call Number: GV709.2 .R36 2020ISBN: 9781538751732Publication Date: 2020-08-18
The Brain on Youth Sports –by Call Number: RC394 .C7 S73 2021ISBN: 9781538143193Publication Date: 2021-07-06
The Cost of these dreams: sports stories and other serious business –by Call Number: GV697 .A1 T46 2019ISBN: 9780143133872Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Dance science : anatomy, movement analysis, conditioning –by Call Number: RC1220 .D35 G76 2015ISBN: 9780871273888Publication Date: 2015-07-15
Doping: a sporting history –by Call Number: RC1230 .H46 2022ISBN: 9781789145274Publication Date: 2022-06-28
Elevated : the global rise of the N.B.A. –by Call Number: GV885.515 .N38 E55 2019ISBN: 9781629376509Publication Date: 2019-04-16
Fighting for recognition: identity, masculinity and the act of violence in professional wrestling –by Call Number: GV1196.4 .S63 S65 2014ISBN: 9780822357094Publication Date: 2014-08-19
Game of edges: the analytics revolution and the future of professional sports –by Call Number: GV734 .S36 2023ISBN: 9780393531688Publication Date: 2023-06-06
Games People Played: a global history of sport –by Call Number: GV571 .V35 2021ISBN: 9781789144574Publication Date: 2021-09-14
Good to go : what the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery –by Call Number: RC1235 .A78 2019ISBN: 9780393254334Publication Date: 2019-02-05
How soccer explains the world: an unlikely theory of globalization –by Call Number: GV943.9 .S64 F64 2010ISBN: 9780061978050Publication Date: 2010-05-11
The joy of movement : how exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage –by Call Number: GV481.2 .M44 2019ISBN: 9780525534105Publication Date: 2019-12-31
The League : how five rivals created the NFL and launched a sports empire –by Call Number: GV955.5 .N35 E58 2018ISBN: 9780465048700Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Modern sport ethics : a reference handbook –by Call Number: GV706.3 .L84 2017ISBN: 9781440851155Publication Date: 2016-12-12
More Than a Game: a history of the African American experience in sport –by Call Number: GV583 .W5455 2018ISBN: 9781442248960Publication Date: 2018-10-01
The Mulligan guide to sports journalism careers –by Call Number: PN4784.S6 M85 1999ISBN: 9780844245409Publication Date: 1999-01-01
The NFL National Anthem Protests –by Call Number: GV955.5 .N35 H33 2019ISBN: 9781440869037Publication Date: 2018-12-07
The Numbers game: why everything you know about soccer is wrong –by Call Number: GV943 .A656 2013ISBN: 9780143124566Publication Date: 2013-07-30
The Only game in town : sportswriting from the New Yorker –by Call Number: GV704 .O55 2011ISBN: 9780812979985Publication Date: 2011-06-14
Out in sport : the experiences of openly gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport –by Call Number: GV708.8 .A63 2016ISBN: 9781138182219Publication Date: 2016-03-10
Out of play : critical essays on gender and sport –by Call Number: GV706.5 .M46 2007ISBN: 9780791471715Publication Date: 2007-07-05
Pedaling revolution: how cyclists are changing American cities –by Call Number: GV1045 .M36 2009ISBN: 9780870714191Publication Date: 2009-03-01
Pigskin nation : how the NFL remade American politics –by Call Number: GV955.5 .N35 B45 2018ISBN: 9780252041709Publication Date: 2018-04-11
Power Games: a political history of the Olympics –by Call Number: GV721.5 .B675 2016ISBN: 9781784780722Publication Date: 2016-05-17
Raise a fist, take a knee : race and the illusion of progress in modern sports –by Call Number: GV706.32 .F45 2021ISBN: 9780316540933Publication Date: 2021-11-16
Reading sport: critical essays on power and representation –by Call Number: GV706.5 .R42 2000ISBN: 9781555534301Publication Date: 2000-05-12
The Secret to Superhuman Strength –by Call Number: PN6727 .B3757 Z46 2021ISBN: 9780544387652Publication Date: 2021-05-04
Sex testing : gender policing in women's sports –by Call Number: GV709 .P48 2016ISBN: 9780252040221Publication Date: 2016-05-30
Sidecountry : tales of death and life from the back roads of sports –by Call Number: GV707 .B7195 2021ISBN: 9781324006695Publication Date: 2021-06-01
Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives –by Call Number: GV706 .F4 2013ISBN: 9780803271531Publication Date: 2013-07-01
Sport and sociology –by Call Number: GV706.5 .M344 2012ISBN: 9780415571210Publication Date: 2012-02-13
The Sports gene : inside the science of extraordinary athletic performance –by Call Number: RC1235 .E58 2013ISBN: 9781591845119Publication Date: 2013-08-01
Sports injury prevention and rehabilitation: integrating medicine and science for performance solutions –by Call Number: RD97 .S658 2016ISBN: 9780415815055Publication Date: 2015-12-02
Sports in the aftermath of tragedy : from Kennedy to Katrina –by Call Number: GV706.5 .G396 2013ISBN: 9780810887008Publication Date: 2012-12-06
Start your own personal training business –by Call Number: GV428.7 .S73 2016ISBN: 9781599185958Publication Date: 2016-11-15
Sweating together: how Peloton built a billion dollar venture and created community in a digital world –by Call Number: HD9993 .E934 P453 2022ISBN: 9781940858975Publication Date: 2022-05-24
That's gotta hurt : the injuries that changed sports forever –by Call Number: RD97 .G44 2017ISBN: 9781611689068Publication Date: 2017-06-06
Weight training without injury : over 350 step-by-step pictures including what not to do! –by Call Number: GV546 .S727 2016ISBN: 9780996263818Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Women's lacrosse : a guide for advanced players and coaches –by Call Number: GV989.15 .T834 2014ISBN: 9781421413983Publication Date: 2014-02-15
Women's sports : what everyone needs to know –by Call Number: GV709 .S38 2018ISBN: 9780190657703Publication Date: 2018-09-03
The Year's Best Sports Writing 2022 –by Call Number: GV581 .B47 2022ISBN: 9781637270905Publication Date: 2022-10-04
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