1,100円 "Roma sul ring" è il racconto di quasi un secolo di boxe nella Capitale: personaggi, aneddoti, ma soprattutto storie di vita di pugili che praticavano la noble art quando il ring era spesso la strada. Dalla leggenda di Primo Camera a Piazza di Siena fino alle imprese di Nino Benvenuti, al suo inc...

1,760円 Manny Pacquiao, 31, was recently named "Fighter of the Decade" by the Boxing Writers' Association and is the only fighter ever to capture seven championship belts in seven different weight classes. But few could have imagined that Pacquiao would have ever reached the pinnacle of his sport, consid...

3,315円 Proclaimed the young fighter from Louisville. Most boxing fans criticised this upstart and few believed he had the skills to justify such a statement. He proved them so very wrong on so many levels. Muhammad Ali became the greatest heavyweight ever to step into the boxing ring and a compelling pr...

903円 Con uno sguardo situato anche dentro il ring, Elisa Virgili ripercorre le storie di cinque e più pugili donne che hanno deciso di sfidare le norme di genere e di classe di un ambiente storicamente considerato di esclusivo appannaggio maschile. Cinque percorsi diversi ma accomunati da un filo ross...

1,917円 When it comes to sports and entertainment, the glitz and the glamour of celebrity life, most of us only aspire to gain something small such as an autograph. Few of us ever have the chance to sit down with stars and discuss their lives, or rub shoulders with those closest to them. Being up close a...

900円 Thomas Hauser is among the most decorated boxing writers ever. He burst upon the fistic scene four decades ago with publication of The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing and followed that triumph with Muhammad Ali: His Life and Timesーthe definitive biography of the man who was...

1,408円 "It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterpr...

5,638円 One critical priority of the discipline of Africana studies is applied memory, specifically, how the record of the culture’s survival and agency reveals usable and reproducible knowledge and behavior. In terms of how Muhammad Ali, as an historical actor, has left an heroic legacy that bequeaths t...

3,805円 Casual observers of the Welsh boxing scene might well think that the best practitioners of the sport have all hailed from the valleys and coastal cities of the south. But the rural counties have contributed their share to the nation's fistic history. In the high-profile heavyweight division alone...

4,227円 The Rhondda Valleys have always produced hard men. The descendants of those who flocked there in the nineteenth century to work in the expanding coalfield combined to form a special kind of society, in which brawn and brain were equally respected. While the famous miners' institutes nurtured the ...

750円 « ALI BOMA YE ! » Ce cri de ralliement, devenu légendaire, résonnait comme l’expression du soutien inébranlable du peuple zaïrois – aujourd’hui congolais – à Muhammad Ali. Accueilli en héros, il incarnait, aux yeux de nombreux Africains, bien plus qu’un boxeur : un symbole de résilience, de fiert...

2,789円 The most outspoken and combative coach in NBA history-and one of the most successful, amassing more than 1,175 victories, the sixth best winning record ever-reflects on his life, his career, and his battles on and off the basketball court in this no-holds-barred memoir A man of deep passion and i...