Sports and outdoor recreation Books
AuthorHouse Winning Gambling Strategies
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sports Discourse Bloomsbury Discourse
Book SynopsisTony Schirato is Reader in Media Studies, Victoria Wellington University, New Zealand.Trade ReviewThe language and logic of sporting competition and conduct are deeply ingrained in everyday talk and texts. Combining theoretical sophistication with historical scope, Tony Schirato explains why this is the case. This accessible book travels from the foundations of modern sport through to the expansion of television sport and the rhythms of a globalised, digital age. I recommend it to any reader wanting to understand how the cultural field of sport both reflects and informs the world in which we live. -- Brett Hutchins, Associate Professor of Communications and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Research Unit in Media Studies, Monash University, AustraliaTable of Contents1. Discourse and Critical Theory 2. Play and Sport 3. Public School Athletics 4. Victorian Sport 5. Gender and Sport 6. Global Sport 7. The Modern Olympic Games 8. Television Genres and Sport 9. Media Interactivity and Fantasy Sport 10. Conclusion Bibliography
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Authorhouse The Yard
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AuthorHouse EquiYoga Equitation Yogique
£23.99
AuthorHouse Bridge
£16.68
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Diabolo Book: Spinning a Top on a String with Hand Sticks
£8.88
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Ultimate Wheel Book
£8.87
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform On One Wheel: A Unicycling Autobiography
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Amorata Press Krav Maga For Women: Your Ultimate Program for
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PublicAffairs,U.S. The Meaning Of Sports
Book SynopsisIn The Meaning of Sports , Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball became national institutions and how they reached their present forms and covers the evolution of rules, the rise and fall of the most successful teams, and the historical significance of the most famous and influential figures such as Babe Ruth, Vince Lombardi, and Michael Jordan. Whether he is writing about baseball as the agrarian game, football as similar to warfare, basketball as the embodiment of post-industrial society, or the moral havoc created by baseball's designated hitter rule, Mandelbaum applies the full force of his learning and wit to subjects about which so many Americans care passionately: the games they played in their youth and continue to follow as adults. By offering a fresh and unconventional perspective on these games, The Meaning of Sports makes for fascinating and rewarding reading both for fans and newcomers.Trade Review"Not only fascinating but enormously entertaining. A knowledgeable sports fan will learn more than a thing or two. I'm one and I did. The non-sports fan will discover just why sports are woven so tightly into the fabric of American life." Wall Street Journal"
£17.09
Penguin Putnam Inc An American Caddie In St. Andrews: Growing Up,
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Book Jungle Rosicrucian Manual (1920)
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Book Jungle The Kabala of Numbers (1911)
£19.95
Outskirts Press Excuses, Excuses! 100 Reasons Why Your Horse Lost the Race!
£18.50
Adams Media Corporation The Everything Kids' Environment Book: Learn How You Can Help the Environment-By Getting Involved at School, at Home, or at Play
£12.34
Epublishing Works! A Golf Swing You Can Trust
£12.39
Positive Herding 101 Positive Herding 101: Dog-friendly training
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Lulu.com Dream Season: Worldwide Guide to Heli & Cat
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Lulu.com Back in the Game
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Lulu.com Judo Games
£15.50
Ebury Publishing A Question of Sport Quiz Book
Book SynopsisAfter more than four decades on the air, A Question of Sport is firmly established as the final word in sports trivia. Now, after countless arguments, sporting debates and lost hours spent directing the action from the sofa, you can finally test your own knowledge to see if you can succeed where so many sporting greats have failed.With over 3,500 brand new questions, A Question of Sport Quiz Book will challenge you to put your money where your mouth is and put your knowledge of the sports world to the ultimate test. Play on your own or in teams to answer questions covering all eras of football, golf, cricket, motor racing, boxing, rugby, darts, snooker, the Olympics and so much more.With questions from your favourite rounds from A Question of Sport, here at last is your chance to take on the captain's challenge, or go head-to-head on the quick-fire buzzer round. What will be your score when the final whistle blows?Trade ReviewWell worth picking up for both fans of the show or anyone interested in testing their sports trivia. * Total Football Magazine *
£18.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Post-Olympism: Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century
Book SynopsisThe Olympic ideal and the Olympic Games stand as symbols of global cooperation, international understanding and the bonding of individuals through the medium of sports. However, throughout the twentieth century, Olympic rhetoric was often confronted by a different reality. The Games have regularly been faced by crises that have threatened the spirit of Olympism and even the Games themselves. Given the many changes that have occurred in the Olympic Games during the past century it seems reasonable to ask if this global event has a future and, if so, what form it might take. With this larger issue in mind, the authors of Post-Olympism? ask probing questions about the following: the infamous 1936 Olympics the effect of new technologies on the Games the future impact of the 2008 Beijing Games on China and of China on the Olympics the local and regional impact of the Sydney green Olympics the Games and globalization Disneyfication racism drug abuse The book provides a useful overview of the ongoing significance of the Olympics and will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the Games.Trade Review'The editor has successfully gathered fifteen articles that discuss sport on several theoretical levels... as well as critically evaluating the dilema of olympic competition.'Milan Hosta, 'Sport' Magasine, Faculty of Sport in Ljubljana, SloveniaTable of ContentsThe Future of Multi-Sport Mega EventsRichard Cashman, University of New South WalesTroping Along: A Historian's View of Olympic ScholarshipDouglas Booth, University of OtagoCitius, Altius, Fortius: A Critique and a ReinterpetationSigmund Loland, Norwegian Sports University, Oslo"What's the Difference between Propaganda for Tourism or for a Political Regime?" The 1936 Olympics in World PerspectiveArnd Krger, University of GttingenAccelerating Olympism: The Poetics and Problematics of Nano, Virtual, and Cyborg Sport TechnologiesSynthia Sydnor, University of IllinoisThe Aesthetic Dimensions of SportSoren Damkjaer, University of CopenhagenDrugs and the Olympics in the Context of AestheticsVerner Moller, University of South Denmark, OdenseOlympic Legacies: Sport, Space and the Practices of Everyday LifeDouglas Brown, University of AlbertaOlympism, Post-Humanism and the Spectacle of RaceBen Carrington, University of BrightonChina and OlympismSusan Brownell, University of Missouri, St LouisThe Global, the Popular and the Inter-Popular: Olympic Sport between Market, State and Civil SocietyHenning Eichberg, IFO, DenmarkLaying Olympism to RestKevin Wamsley, University of Western OntarioSportive Nationalism in an Age of GlobalizationJohn Hoberman, University of TexasMaking the World Safe for Global Capital? The Sydney 2000 OlympicsHelen Lenskyj, University of Toronto The Disneyfication of the Olympics: Selling the SpectacleAlan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
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Ripley Entertainment Inc Div of The Jim Pattison Group Ripley's Believe It or Not! Amusement Park Oddities & Trivia
Book SynopsisWith more than 350 stories inside its pages, and 50-plus original illustrations by Ripleys official cartoonist John Graziano, this book is dedicated to the bizarre, colorful, and entertaining universe of amusement parks, rides, and attractions.
£10.67
Read Books Thirty Years with Fighting Dogs
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The Blackburn Press Sport, Space and the City
£24.49
On Target Publications Can You Go?: Assessments and Program Design for the Active Athlete...and Everybody Else
£22.49
Random House USA Inc Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the
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£13.29
Frances Stone Schools Orienteering
£25.00
Jean-Claude Boulet Equine Multilingual Abridged Dictionary
£15.50
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Creativity and Innovation: A New Theory of Ideas
Book Synopsis Ideas are ubiquitous. They are the fundamental building blocks for all aspects of life. Yet, efforts to use ideas as a basic unit of analysis in a shared framework are rare. We often find it difficult to look past the artificial boundaries that academic disciplines and specialist fields of knowledge construct. In this book, the authors address this substantial lacuna by proposing an intuitive theory of ideas that serves as a trans-disciplinary basis for studying innovation and creativity. The theory proposed shows how new ideas emerge from contexts that rely on mechanisms, which were originally built on older and more central ideas. It demonstrates how these mechanisms help instantiate different perspectives on the same idea in variegated manners. By applying their theory to a variety of bat and ball sports, the authors illustrate the role that primitive ideas have on sports innovation, and explore further avenues for employing the theory in a number of different situations. This original book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of the processes of innovation and creativity, developed within a complex framework of ideas.Table of ContentsPart I. Introducing Ideas.- 1. The Most Basic Unit.- Part II. Building the Theory.- 2. A Subjective Theory of Ideas.- 3. Mechanisms of the Theory of Ideas.- 4. Core Rules, Contracts and Commons.- Part III. Why We Play.- 5. The Ideas before Sports.- 6. The Ideas in Sports.
£71.24
Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Rise and Size of the Fitness Industry in
Book SynopsisThis book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as in-depth analyses of national surveys in fifteen European countries. Following an introduction to the socio-historical and conceptual aspects of fitness, the collection presents the scope of fitness as a business and participatory activity. Furthermore, both policy and governance issues as well as community and supply angles are considered. Drawing on this unique material, the book will appeal to students and scholars of sport business, sport economics, sport management, and social sport sciences, but also to administrators, policymakers and entrepreneurs in the international and national sport and health community.Table of Contents
£104.49
Springer Lebensziel: Glücklich sein: Mehr Gesundheit,
Book SynopsisViele fundierte Impulse für Ihr persönliches Glück – trainieren Sie Ihre Körperchemie auf gute Energie! Der erfahrene Sport- und Mentaltrainer Maik Göbbels erklärt, welche individuellen Anreize aus Ernährung, Bewegung und sozialem Umfeld das persönliche Muster eines Menschen für Gesundheit, Zufriedenheit und Erfolg triggern. Verständnisvoll und motivierend erhält der Leser konkrete Hinweise auf den eigenen Status quo und erfährt, wie er dank der Kraftwerke im eigenen Körper, der Mitochondrien, neue Energien gewinnt, die eigene Kraft (wieder) fokussiert, lohnende Änderungen wagt, Resilienz aufbaut und vor allem seine volle Lebensfreude wiederfindet.Table of Contents
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