Brave Dragons

Hardcover | 320 pages | Knopf | History - China; Sports & Recreation - Basketball; Travel - Asia - China
978-0-307-27221-8 (0-307-27221-4)

February 14, 2012 | $31.00



The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
 
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of...

The Inner Art of Karate

Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Shambhala | Sports & Recreation - Martial Arts & Self-Defense
978-1-59030-949-0 (1-59030-949-9)

February 14, 2012 | $17.95



Budo, the way of the martial arts, is at heart a path of spiritual cultivation and self-realization whose aim is to develop a strategic mind that makes combat unnecessary. Kenji Tokitsu explains the philosophy of karate as budo and looks deeply at the key concepts that are essential for developing the...

Play Their Hearts Out

Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Ballantine Books | Sports & Recreation - Basketball
978-0-345-50861-4 (0-345-50861-0)

February 7, 2012 | $19.00

Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting
Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports
 
Eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story’s deepest truths allow Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the machine that produces America’s basketball stars...

Bagua and Tai Chi

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Blue Snake Books | Sports & Recreation - Martial Arts & Self-Defense; Body, Mind & Spirit - Healing - Energy (Chi Kung, Reiki, Polarity); Health & Fitness - Healing
978-1-58394-359-5 (1-58394-359-5)

January 31, 2012 | $23.95



In Bagua and Tai Chi, noted teacher Bruce Frantzis demonstrates through these two important practices what is required to develop and embody high levels of chi flow. Inside the slow-motion movements of tai chi is a sophisticated mind/body/spirit practice. Derived from the I Ching (Book of Changes), bagua is unique in...

The Hockey News Young Guns 2

Trade Paperback | 184 pages | Transcontinental | Sports & Recreation - Hockey
978-0-9813938-8-9 (0-9813938-8-8)

January 17, 2012 | $19.95



Behind every young star is a great story and Young Guns II is packed full of both.

Every young hockey player in the world shares the same dream, but there are many different paths to NHL glory. Young Guns II profiles 25 of the best fresh faces in the world and traces...

Scorecasting

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Three Rivers Press | Sports & Recreation - Sports Psychology; Sports & Recreation
978-0-307-59180-7 (0-307-59180-8)

January 17, 2012 | $17.00



In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.

Drawing from Moskowitz's original...

The Art of Todd Bratrud: Seen Unknown

Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Mark Batty Publisher | Sports & Recreation; Art - Individual Artist
978-1-935613-22-0 (1-935613-22-7)

December 6, 2011 | $22.95



The release of these two Seen Unknown titles marks the beginning of a new MBP series, edited by Winston Tseng, art director for Enjoi Skateboards. Tseng has worked with some of today’s most genre-defying visual artists and designers whose work extends well beyond skateboard culture. From sneaker and apparel design to...

Darragh

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Mainstream Publishing | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Sports & Recreation - Soccer
978-1-84596-724-6 (1-84596-724-0)

November 14, 2011 | $21.95

The Sevenpenny Gate

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Mainstream Publishing | Biography & Autobiography; Sports & Recreation - Soccer
978-1-84596-777-2 (1-84596-777-1)

November 14, 2011 | $24.95

Triumph and Tragedy

Hardcover | 272 pages | Mainstream Publishing | Sports & Recreation
978-1-84596-776-5 (1-84596-776-3)

November 14, 2011 | $42.95

Voices from Croke Park

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Mainstream Publishing | Sports & Recreation
978-1-84596-723-9 (1-84596-723-2)

November 14, 2011 | $21.95