Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike
By: William Fotheringham
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
The first ever English-language biography of Eddy Merckx, the greatest cyclist of all time, by Will…
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1. Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
By: Reed Albergotti , Vanessa O'Connell
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, the phenomenal business success built … read more
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"He is a man of great strength, determination, and resilience, and we truly hope that he will use those qualities to make a moral comeback as complete as the physical comeback he effected from the can…"-Reed Albergotti, Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
"...Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and…"-Reed Albergotti, Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
4. My Time
By: William Fotheringham , Bradley Wiggins
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On 22 July 2012 Bradley Wiggins became the first British man ever to win the Tour de France. In an … read more
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5. Domestique: The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro
By: Charly Wegelius
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For 11 years I was a professional cyclist, competing in the hardest and greatest races on Earth. I … read more
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6. In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more
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7. Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike
By: William Fotheringham
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
The first ever English-language biography of Eddy Merckx, the greatest cyclist of all time, by Will… read more
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8. It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
By: Robert Penn
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,… read more
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9. The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
By: Daniel Coyle , Tyler Hamilton
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe Secret Racei… read more
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10. Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape: The Remarkable Life of Jacques Anquetil, the First Five-Times Winner of the Tour de France
By: Paul Howard
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jacques Anquetil remains one of the most outstanding figures in the history of cycling. He was the … read more
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11. The Rider
By: Sam Garrett , Tim Krabbé
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in the Netherlands in… read more
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12. Cash
By: Johnny Cash , None
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He w… read more
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13. Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France
By: Richard Moore
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Tour de France is sport's most compelling battle -- an annual cauldron of heroism and treachery… read more
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14. Racing Through the Dark
By: David Millar , Jeremy Whittle
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped… read more
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15. Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
By: Jocko Willink
4.30
Format: 373 pages,
FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE - AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOM Jocko Willink's methods for s… read more
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16. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
By: Alex Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more
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17. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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18. Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was
By: Daniel Friebe
4.31
Format: 610 pages, Kindle Edition
Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most natu… read more
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19. One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels
By: Jonathan Vaughters
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, fo… read more
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20. God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent
By: Andy McGrath
3.98
Format: None pages, ebook
The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by Willia… read more
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21. Monuments
By: Peter Cossins
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling’s one-day tests t… read more
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