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An in-depth look not only at Joe Louis, but at the concept of heroism in the black community. AUTHOR: Richard Bak
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Sports & Outdoors 
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 | Smoky Mountain Fly Fishing by Don Kirk
Includes a chapter on each major stream in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and valuable information on stream location, fishing pressure, species of trout, access routes, and more. AUTHOR: Don Kirk
PUBLISHER: Menasha Ridge Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Sports & Outdoors
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 | Boat Data Book by Ian Nicholson
This new edition contains more tables and newly updated data, and is packed with solid information on every aspect of boat design and construction. AUTHOR: Ian Nicholson
PUBLISHER: Sheridan House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Sports & Outdoors
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 | Football by Mark F. Bernstein
Every autumn American football fans pack large college stadiums or crowd around grassy fields to root for their favorite teams. Most are unaware that this most popular American sport was created by the teams that now make up the Ivy League. From the day Princeton played the first intercollegiate game in 1869, these major schools of the northeast--Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale--shaped football as we now know it. Almost every facet of the game still bears their imprint: they created the All-America team, produced the first coaches, devised the basic rules, invented many of the strategies, developed much of the equipment, and even named the positions. Both the Heisman and Outland trophies are named for Ivy League players. Crowds of 80,000 no longer attend Ivy League games as they did seventy years ago, and Ivy teams are not the powerhouses they once were, but at times they can still be a step ahead of the rest of football, as in 1973 when Brown and Penn started the first black quarterbacks to face each other in major college history. In this rich history, Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League...Although Ivy League football and its ancient rivalries have disappeared from big-time sports by their own accord, their legacy remains with every snap of the ball. AUTHOR: Mark F. Bernstein
PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Sports & Outdoors
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 | Season of the 76ers by Billy Cunningham, Wayne Lynch
The 1967 Philadelphia 76ers were Wilt Chamberlain's team, and the man known as the Big Dipper had one goal: to take down the Bill Russell-led Boston Celtics dynasty. Lynch's zealous, crazed-fan take on Philly's glorious, giant-toppling season fast-breaks through the season that Wilt carried on his shoulders. Text accompanied by 16 b&w photographs. AUTHOR: Billy Cunningham, Wayne Lynch
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Sports & Outdoors
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 | Sultry Climates by Ian Littlewood
Historically, the sexual motives of travel have rarely been spelled out in travel guides and brochures. But there is an alternative history of tourism, made up of precisely the details that usually go unmentioned. As Ian Littlewood demonstrates here with dazzling elegance and wit, if we want to make sense of the celebrated Grand Tour of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for example, it's as important to take account of traveler's visits to Dresden streetwalkers and Venetian courtesans as it s to reckon with their visits to the Dresden picture gallery and the Doge's Palace. To understand the Victorian passion for the Mediterranean, we need to be aware of Greek and Italian attractions that extended far beyond the historical. from Byron in Greece to Isherwood in Germany, from American expatriates on the Left Bank to Orton in Morocco and right up to the present day, what emerges from these experiences is a continuing motif of tourism, previously neglected or ignored, that comes into full view only with the twentieth century's cult of the sun. suffice it to say that after reading SULTRY CLIMATES, you'll never look at tourists in quite the same way again. AUTHOR: Ian Littlewood
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Travel
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