{"product_id":"9781849351362","title":"One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter","description":"\u003cbr\u003e“The spirit of Walt Whitman, cheered on by the ghost of A. J. Liebling, moves Matt Hern’s pen in this street-tough but joyful celebration of bodies electric and hopes defiant. The bottom line? Be kind, be tough.” —Mike Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSports are serious stuff. Football, basketball, tennis, mixed martial arts, and beyond: these are arenas of immense power, with mass appeal, yet far too many of us have abandoned the sporting world as a legitimate site of contestation and innovation. Why? What do we gain by handing over the power of sports to the world of hyper-consumption, militarism, violence, sexism, and homophobia—the worst elements of our culture? As Matt Hern suggests, not a whole lot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the basis of his forty-plus years of sports fanaticism, Hern makes an impassioned and entertaining plea for a more active engagement with sports, both physically and intellectually. His eye is critical, and his analysis is sharp, but this book is more than a critique—it’s a celebration of what sports have taught us, and a map of how much more we still have to learn. Matt Hern is a former sportswriter and a radical urbanist whose writing has been published on six continents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFun, engaging, and fast-paced, One Game at a Time is for anyone willing to get their head into the game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatt Hern \u003c\/b\u003elives and works in east Vancouver, where he founded the Purple Thistle Center and Car-Free Vancouver Day. A former sportswriter and a radical urbanist whose writing has been published on six continents and in ten languages, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eCommon Ground in a Liquid City \u003c\/i\u003e(AK Press, 2010), which was shortlisted for the Vancouver Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038204281072,"sku":"9781849351362","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849351362_p0.jpg?v=1763752945","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849351362","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}