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  • Playing it Forward

    50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada

    Edited by Guylaine Demers, Lorraine Greaves, Sandra Kirby, Marion Lay ...
    Series series A Feminist History Society Book
    Over the last 50 years, the struggles to achieve equity in sport have become central to the feminist mission. This book contains an inspiring collection of stories from the women on the front lines: athletes, coaches, educators, and activists for women's sport, who have done so much to foster change. Many of the women profiled here reflect on their tough beginnings in sport: being isolated and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • The Promised Land

    Manchester United's Historic Treble

    by Daniel Harris ...
    In 1998-99, Manchester United won the Premier League, the FA Cup and Champions League – the only English team ever to accomplish such a feat. Whether that makes it the finest of all time is open to debate, but what is not is the status of the season: it featured astounding football, exceptional competition, staggering determination, ceaseless tension, astonishing plot twists, and a cast of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Titans of '72

    Team Canada's Summit Series Heroes

    by Mike Leonetti ...
    Phil and Tony Esposito, Paul Henderson, Ken Dryden, Frank and Peter Mahovlich, Ron Ellis, Yvan Cournoyer, Rod Gilbert, Bobby Clarke, Guy Lapointe, Stan Mikita, Brad Park - these are some of the Team Canada heroes who struggled mightily to defeat the Soviet Union's formidable superstars. For most of September 1972, Canadians were riveted to their television screens in what became one of the most ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • That First Season

    How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory

    by John Eisenberg ...
    The story of a team, a town, and a leader: Vince Lombardi's first year as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and how he turned them into a powerhouse.The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock by the late 1950s. They hadn't fielded a winning team in more than a decade, and were close to losing their franchise to another city. They were in desperate need of a savior—and he arrived in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada's Other Game

    Basketball from Naismith to Nash

    by Brian I. Daly ...
    Basketball, the only major world sport undeniably invented by a Canadian, has ironically failed to win Canadians’ hearts more than a century after its creation. James Naismith’s brainchild is a popular recreational pastime in his homeland, but players with bigger dreams had better take their talents south of the border. Canadian hoops has languished in the seemingly eternal shadow of hockey, with ... Read more

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  • Ping-Pong Diplomacy

    The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World

    by Nicholas Griffin ...
    Combining the insight of Franklin Foer’s How Soccer Explains the World and the intrigue of Ben Affleck’s Argo, Ping Pong Diplomacy traces the story of how an aristocratic British spy used the game of table tennis to propel a Communist strategy that changed the shape of the world.THE SPRING OF 1971 heralded the greatest geopolitical realignment in a generation. After twenty-two years of antagonism, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • "Dirty Northern B*st*rds!" And Other Tales From The Terraces

    The Story of Britain's Football Chants

    by Tim Marshall ...
    Perfect for fans of original and engaging sports writing, this is the first intelligent and accessible history of soccer chants in the UK"The tales we tell each other on the terraces create something you cannot see, only feel, but it is very real and it goes very deep. . ."Soccer chants—spontaneous, witty, tribal, and, sometimes, downright offensive—are the grassroots of the game, from the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MIKE's FREE Soccer Sports Comic Book

    Volume 6

    by MIKE - aka Mike Raffone ...
    Series series MIKE's FREE Sports Comic Book Series
    Known as football throughout the non-American sports universe, soccer boasts its own unique language, eccentric expressions and unparalleled personalities.Soccer is the world’s most popular sport by a long shot, even in spite of its peculiarities. For example:Soccer keeps time in the exact opposite direction of every other sport on the planet.Soccer matches, not games, are played by men wearing ... Read more

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  • Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919

    by Brian Douglas Tennyson ...
    An in-depth historical study of Nova Scotia's role in WWI and its lingering impact on the region, its people, and its economy.Though the First World War ended in 1918, it continued to haunt Canada for generations. In Nova Scotia at War, 1915-1919, historian Brian Douglas Tennyson examines what was, for the people of Canada, an unprecedented period collective military trauma. As Tennyson ... Read more

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  • Tide Rips and Back Eddies

    Bill Proctor's Tales of Blackfish Sound

    by Bill Proctor, Yvonne Maximchuk ...
    Billy Proctor, resident legend of Echo Bay, BC, recounts almost a century’s worth of experience with this collection of stories, memories and local knowledge of the central BC coast region around Blackfish Sound. Situated in the beautiful Broughton Archipelago between northern Vancouver Island and the mainland coast, this region boasts a history and culture as engaging as its stunning locale—and ... Read more

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  • Surplus People

    by Jim Rees ...
    The Great Famine in Ireland was a catastrophe of immense proportions. Eviction, emigration and death from starvation were widespread. Landlords, eager to dispose of 'surplus' tenants, engaged in 'assisted passages', whereby tenants were given financial incentives to emigrate. The clearances of uneconomic tenants from the 85,000-acre Coolattin Estate in County Wicklow by Lord Fitzwilliam were the ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Toronto Maple Leafs

    The Complete Oral History

    by Eric Zweig ...
    A complete history of the Toronto Maple Leafs, as told by the players, coaches, and reporters.On December 19, 1917, the Toronto Arenas took to the ice for the first NHL game ever played. Over the next hundred years, the franchise changed names twice, home rinks twice, and won 13 Stanley Cups on its way to becoming one of the most successful and storied franchises in NHL history.The Toronto Maple ... Read more

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