Soccer Stories

Donn Risolo

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• Arguably the world's most popular sport, soccer has its own colorful lore, still little known in a nation only now beginning to give the game its due.... Lees meer

Kokomo Joe

John Christgau

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, ... Lees meer

The Madness of March

Alan Jay Zaremba

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• Every spring, the first four days of the NCAA men's basketball tournament attracts a horde of basketball bettors to Las Vegas. From the tip-off of the... Lees meer

Nez Perce Country

Alvin M Josephy

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• The rivers, canyons, and prairies of the Columbia Basin are the homeland of the Nez Perce. The Nez Perce, or Nimiipuu, inhabited much of what is now n... Lees meer

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Naomi Samson

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• A document in the history of the persecution of children. Lees meer

Adventures in the West

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• Before MP3 players, DVDs, and video games, before even TV and radio, American children entertained themselves by reading. Often what they read were po... Lees meer

The Global Game

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• Includes "The Empty Pleasure" by 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Mario Vargas Llosa The world's most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the p... Lees meer

Upstream Metropolis

Lawrence Harold Larsen, Barbara J Cottrell, Harl A Dalstrom

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• From its birth as interdependent towns on the Missouri River frontier to its emergence as a metropolis straddling two states, Omaha-Council Bluffs has... Lees meer

Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains

Paul A Johnsgard

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains is an easy-to-use reference on the wildlife that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark encountered during their 1804-... Lees meer

Football's Last Iron Men

Norman L Macht

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• In November 1934, the Princeton football team--unbeaten in its last fifteen games--faced the 3-3 Yale Bulldogs, who gave new meaning to the term "unde... Lees meer

True to the Roots

Monte Dutton

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• Americana music isn't just a musical form--it's a state of mind. In this book, Monte Dutton charts the coordinates of this state of mind with a series... Lees meer

Buffalo Nation

Ken Zontek

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• The gruesome story of the devastation of buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century has become uncomfortably familiar. A less familiar story, but a ... Lees meer

Only a Game

Bill Littlefield

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• It's only a game, Bill Littlefield's National Public Radio program tells us, trying to keep sports in perspective. And for all the deadly serious pers... Lees meer

The Overseer's Cabin

Édouard Glissant

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• With Édouard Glissant's The Fourth Century , the Village Voice observed, "we get the full effect of his overarching project: a literary exorcism of Ma... Lees meer