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An English professor starts training in mixed martial arts, exploring the science and history behind the violence of men When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym opens across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge. Pushing forty, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, he works up his nerve...

This is the story of a kid from the wrong side of Scranton who made it to the Naval Academy, played linebacker for the Navy football team for four years, became a Marine officer, graduated first in his infantry officer class, led his men in two intense combat tours in the Anbar Province, received the Silver Star for gallantry, and now has emerged a...

In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on not working until he?d spent it all. It occurred to him that, without distractions, he could finally indulge a longdormant obsession: fighting. Within a year, he was in Bangkok training with the greatest figh...

An intimate profile of the legendary mixed martial arts (MMA) referee, this first fulllength autobiography of pop culture icon ?Big? John McCarthy details every aspect of his life?from his stronghanded Los Angeles upbringing to his involvement in the naming of the sport, his role in its regulation, and MMA?s rise in stature. The narrative follows...

For readers of leadership books like The 48 Laws of Power and classic Eastern philosophy like the Art of War and the Book of Five Rings, comes martial arts pioneer Urijah ?The California Kid? Faber?s guide to mental dominance in and outside the cage, drawing on his experiences as a world champion MMA fighter and top UFC draw to provide readers with...

From a humble beginning in a dirtpoor migrant camp where he picked cotton and fruit with dreams of playing baseball and seeing the world, to being stationed in Thailand as a member of the United States Air Force, to the quiet of the locker room before a big fight, to the center of the cage in the middle of chaos, to the stadiums of Japan, to the a...

A New York Times Bestseller, Got Fight is an hysterical, entertaining, and inyourface guide to fighting from the most enigmatic and unpredictable fighter in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Forrest Griffin is the lightheavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and was the winner of the first season of Spike TV?s The Ultimate Figh...

Growing up in a trailer park and trying to stay out of trouble, fifteenyearold Travis Tooke had zero plans for the future. Then one night a friend brought over a VHStaped UFC tournament, and together they watched a slender Royce Gracie dismantle his opponents with something called jiujitsu. With that one fuzzy video, Travis?s life found directi...

No Holds Barred is the definitive American history of mixed martial arts (MMA), arguably the fastestgrowing sport in the world. Armed with a recorder and a press pass to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, author Clyde Gentry III set out to tell the story of MMA in the late 1990s when the sport was barely treading water due to the political backla...

Randy Couture voted "The Greatest Fighter of All Time" by viewers' choice recounts his recordbreaking career, which has made him an undisputed UFC legend. Randy Couture wins fights with the seemingly effortless ease with which lesser mortals eat or breathe. He's the only athlete to have held championship titles in both the heavyweight and li...

With brand new material exclusive to this Updated American Edition, here in his own words is the story of the newest member of the Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Fame, Britain?s own Rocky Balboa, Michael Bisping Featuring an entirely new chapter for U.S. readers, the story of his induction into the UFC Hall of Fame, fresh insights about his...

From his fights inside the cage with Hall of Famers Royce Gracie and Dan Severn to his even more fearsome battles outside of it, this book takes an indepth look at one of the most fascinating men in all of combat sports. In Shamrock: The World's Most Dangerous Man, acclaimed Bleacher Report sportswriter Jonathan Snowden offers a compelling and har...

Six moving profiles reveal the human stories behind gun violence in the United States. A mother's untimely death causes a boy's emotional spiral that culminates in drugrelated shooting and twentythree years in prison; an honor roll student and allAmerican athlete drunkenly brandishes a shotgun and accidentally shoots a man; a fresh, hopeful Chic...

Growing up in Dublin, John Kavanagh was a skinny kid who was frequently bullied. After suffering a bad beating when he intervened to help a woman who was being attacked, he decided he had to learn to defend himself. Before long, he was training fighters in a tiny shed, and promoting the earliest mixedmartial arts events in Ireland. And then, a coc...

At ten years of age, lined up alongside his two brothers in the living room of their Seattle home, Jens Pulver stared down the length of a shotgun into his father?s haggard face. Because Jens was the oldest, the one constantly running upstairs to protect his mother in the middle of the night, his father placed the barrel into his mouth first. Fear ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the world?s most popular UFC fighter, Georges ?Rush? St. Pierre, comes a startlingly honest portrait of a fighter?s journey, highlighting the lessons that propelled his rise from bullying victim to internationally celebrated athlete and champion.There?s more to winning battles than fists and feetFor worldrenowned pr...

From the Ultimate Fighting Championship's (UFC) meager beginnings to its presentday glory, this indepth chronology reveals all the information needed to understand the contemporary world of mixed martial arts, where the backroom dealmaking is as fierce as the fighting. Between the UFC's controversial president, Dana White, the political persecut...