Science journalist Alex Hutchinson presents a revolutionary account of the dynamic and controversial new science of endurance....

Scott Jurek is one of the world's best known and most beloved ultrarunners. Renowned for his remarkable endurance and speed, accomplished on a vegan diet, he's finished first in nearly all of ultrarunning's elite events.... 

One of the greatest sports figures of all time salutes his heroes and takes us inside the game as few others can....

The first book by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady - a deeply practical "athlete's bible" that reveals Brady's revolutionary approach to sustained peak performance....

The All Blacks are the world's most successful sporting outfit, undefeated in over 75% of their international matches over the last 100 years. What is the secret of their success?....

Henry Ford, Lee Iaococca and Carroll Shelby concoted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing....

Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever been published....

Tim Richmond was, fellow NASCAR driver Kyle Petty said, "a stranger in time."....

When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tennis's Battle of the Sexes in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the center of a national debate about gender equity.....

On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan - to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear. Alone on the Wall recounts the most astonishing achievements of Honnold's extraordinary life and career....

Bill Walsh was perhaps the most influential and successful coach in NFL history, transforming the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a dynasty that won five Super Bowls....

In November 2015 Sarah Outen completed her five-year, 25,000 mile journey looping the planet by cycling across Europe, Asia and North America and canoeing and kayaking across the North Pacific....

Thursday Night Lights tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of African American high school football in Texas. Drawing on interviews, newspaper stories, and memorabilia, Michael Hurd introduces the players, coaches, schools, and towns where African Americans built powerhouse football programs under the PVIL leadership. He covers 50 years (1920-1970) of high school football history.

In The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (1974), tennis coach W. Timothy Gallwey argues that most people have the natural ability to improve at any endeavor they pursue. Using tennis as a guiding example, he explains how people naturally learn new abilities and points out how this process can be interrupted when people criticize themselves harshly or begin to credit sheer willpower for their ability to improve. 

As the coach, you are the leader of the team and should lead by example. The harder you work, the harder your team will work. There is not a perfect way to coach and it normally takes time to find the style that works best for you and motivates your players. This book will help you in that process. This book is not intended to be a complete guide on coaching because if you have ever coached, you realize that everything to know could not be contained in one book. It will help you become the coach that changes every game, the coach whose team every player wants to be on.

You may know him as an NFL All-Pro or as a world-class magician who made the finals of America’s Got Talent. But Jon Dorenbos says that what he does is not who he is. Who he is is someone forced, at the most tender of ages, to coach himself into turning tragedy to triumph. One morning in August 1992, when Jon was 12 years old and living a seemingly idyllic childhood in suburban Seattle, he woke up for baseball camp. His dad waved good-bye. Later that day, Jon heard the news: His father had murdered his mother in the family’s three-car garage.

Most referee and umpire training materials stink. They spend so much time focused on rules and signals, they miss the simple communication ideas that will help you survive those scary first few games, and become a better sports league official. Whether it's flag football, softball, little league baseball, basketball, or even kickball and dodgeball, this guide will help you become a better referee, umpire and communicator for your league and teams, and just maybe in your life.

The legalization of sports wagering has increased the pot exponentially. But navigating the new systems can be tricky. If you're a newcomer ready to bet on sports as an occasional pastime, veteran sports writer and Las Vegas insider Rob Miech delivers a vital primer on terminology, options, and procedures. If you're already taking advantage of the sports betting world as a money-spinning career, he shares the latest approaches and all-new game-changing techniques by tapping the skills, secrets of success, and cautionary counsel of players on both sides of the counter.