Cougars of Any Color: The Integration of University of Houston Athletics, 1964-1968
ISBN: 9780786437214 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After years of playing sub-par teams in weak athletic conferences, the University of Houston athletic program sought to overcome its underdog reputation by integrating its football and basketball programs in 1964. Cougar coaches Bill Yeoman and Guy V. Lewis knew the radical move would grant them access to a wealth of talented athletes untouched by segregated Southern programs, and brought on several talented black athletes in the fall semester, including Don Chaney, Elvin Hayes, and Warren McVea. By 1968, the Cougars had transformed into an athletic powerhouse and revolutionized the nature of...
After years of playing sub-par teams in weak athletic conferences, the University of Houston athletic program sought to overcome its underdog reputati...
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187,25 zł |
The Modern Chess Primer
ISBN: 9781408630679 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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149,78 zł |
The Worst Call Ever!
ISBN: 9780061251375 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In any sport, whenever an official takes the field, court, ice, ring, or pitch, they do so with a bright red bull's-eye on their backs. For even with their great accuracy and passion for the game, they do make errors--occasionally, great big fat ones--that change the tide of sports history. In The Worst Call Ever, keepers of truth and enlightenment, sportswriters Kyle Garlett and Patrick O'Neal, expose the most injurious mistakes and desecrations, document their lasting damage--which to some wronged parties has evolved into a condition akin to post-traumatic stress... In any sport, whenever an official takes the field, court, ice, ring, or pitch, they do so with a bright red bull's-eye on their backs. For even wi... |
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73,32 zł |
Press Box: Red Smith's Favorite Sports Stories
ISBN: 9780393310023 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From The House that Ruth Built to the grass courts of Wimbledon, from the opening tip to the nineteenth hole, Red Smith s Press Box offers a bird s-eye view of the greatest moments in sports history. Literary or low-down, ringside or rinkside, the meticulous eye and wide-angle wit of these classics promise great reading for every sports fan.
From The House that Ruth Built to the grass courts of Wimbledon, from the opening tip to the nineteenth hole, Red Smith s Press Box offers a bird s-ey...
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86,09 zł |
A Wider Social Role for Sport : Who's Keeping the Score?
ISBN: 9780415363495 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the particular social problems that governments seek to address through sport, and examines the nature and extent of the evidence for sport's positive role. The book illustrates that, in an era of evidence-based policy-making, the cumulative evidence base for many of these claims is relatively weak.
Explores the particular social problems that governments seek to address through sport, and examines the nature and extent of the evidence for sport's...
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892,02 zł |
Sports Scandals
ISBN: 9780313344589 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cheaters, gamblers, drugs, and violence. Sound like the latest action/adventure film? It is most likely playing in a stadium, ice rink, track field, basketball court, or ballpark near you. We're talking about the larger-than-life scandals that often surround and sometimes engulf the world of sports. Covering everything from the little leagues to college and professional sports, this indespensable book offers students an intriguing, readable guide to the most notorious scandals in American sports history. Each chapter focuses on a specific category of scandal, including race-related,... Cheaters, gamblers, drugs, and violence. Sound like the latest action/adventure film? It is most likely playing in a stadium, ice rink, track field... |
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338,59 zł |
Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup
ISBN: 9780415371643 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cricket has been subject to a number of changes. This collection of essays assesses the developments within major playing nations between the World Cups. Seeking to answer various questions, it focuses on racial and ethnic tensions and their place in the g
Cricket has been subject to a number of changes. This collection of essays assesses the developments within major playing nations between the World Cu...
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662,64 zł |
Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, 1875 1914
ISBN: 9780521355971 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a vast range of club and association records, Pay Up and Play the Game, first published in 1988, presents a systematic economic analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during the years prior to World War I. It explores the tensions behind an increasingly commercialised activity that was nonetheless suffused with 'gentlemanly' values at many levels, and highlights the retreat of the latter as working-class consumption and participation became predominant, symbolised most dramatically by the celebrated victory of proletarian Blackburn Olympic over the Old Etonians in the FA...
Based on a vast range of club and association records, Pay Up and Play the Game, first published in 1988, presents a systematic economic analysis of t...
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489,33 zł |
Controversies of the Sports World
ISBN: 9780313360749 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary life in the United States would be difficult to understand withouth examining the pivotal role sports have played in it. Controversies of the Sports World is designed to take readers of all ages into the heart of the tensions and conflicts that arise from the wide-ranging enterprise that now dominates the lives of millions of people. The controversies explored include such issues in sports as recruitment procedures, steroid and other drug use, discrimination against women, discrimination against African Americans, and violence. Each of sixteen chapters... Contemporary life in the United States would be difficult to understand withouth examining the pivotal role sports have played in it. Controvers... |
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193,59 zł |
Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries
ISBN: 9780313361159 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the sports and games played around the world today have their roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their history, detailed in Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries, provides us with an insight into the life and times of cultures across the globe. The dominance of Britain as a world power during this time had a particularly powerful effect in sports, as it organized many Western sports with specific rules, and repressed the traditional sports and games of regions it colonized such as Africa. Rules and equipment for all of the sports and games of this time period,... Many of the sports and games played around the world today have their roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their history, detailed in Sports an... |
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193,59 zł |
Sports and Games of the Ancients
ISBN: 9780313361203 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on reports from 19th century explorers, museum artifacts, and other historical documents, the rules, equipment, and diagrams as they are currently understood are provided here for readers, along with suggestions for adapting these sports and games for modern times. Sports enthusiasts and students will find this volume a valuable resource for discovering the earliest beginnings of our modern-day sports. Divided according to seven geopolitical regions of the world, Sports and Games of the Ancients describes the sports, games, and play of our earliest ancestors.... Based on reports from 19th century explorers, museum artifacts, and other historical documents, the rules, equipment, and diagrams as they are curr... |
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Sport and British Politics Since 1960
ISBN: 9781850008101 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Coghlan has used his experience on the Sports Council, as well as his many years in the field, to record the development of sport in Britain and the direct relationship between sport and politics. Two great threats hang over British sport - inadequate funding and the ever-increasing threat of government interference. The story must begin in the 19th century if one is to understand the influence British politics have had on sport during the last 30 years.
Dr. Coghlan has used his experience on the Sports Council, as well as his many years in the field, to record the development of sport in Britain and t...
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249,71 zł |
A History of Drug Use in Sport: 1876 - 1976: Beyond Good and Evil
ISBN: 9780415357715 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been the crisis or 'evil' we now think it is. Instead, the late nineteenth century was a time of some experimentation and innovation largely unhindered by talk of cheating or health risks. By the interwar period, experiments had been modernised in the new laboratories of exercise physiologists. Still there was very little sense that this was contrary to the ethics or spirit of sport. Sports, drugs and science were closely linked for over half a century. ...This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been the crisis ... |
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764,59 zł |
Reformers, Sport, Modernizers: Middle-Class Revolutions
ISBN: 9780714652443 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes self-interestedly but not always self-interestedly, as a medium of personal, collective and national virtue. It is the first general consideration of a selection of these innovatory pioneers and proselytisers who placed Europe at the forefront of major developments in contemporary world sport - now a phenomenon of...
A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who ...
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Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport
ISBN: 9780714681276 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been packaged and marketed as mass entertainment for a national or even international audience. This volume explores different facets of this phenomenon.
The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been ...
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163,07 zł |
The Four-Minute Mile: Historical and Cultural Interpretations of a Sporting Barrier
ISBN: 9780415400152 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Breaking records and challenging the limits of human ability are central to much of our understanding of athletic track and field sports, with a world record title arguably as valued as an Olympic gold medal. Some particular limits and records take on greater significance, however, as in the case of the Four-Minute Mile which was roundly believed to be impossible until Roger Bannister shattered the illusion with half a second to spare in May 1954. These essays look at the background of Bannister's achievement and the meaning that was ascribed to it by the media and the public at... Breaking records and challenging the limits of human ability are central to much of our understanding of athletic track and field sports, with a wo... |
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433,21 zł |
Secrets of the Sword
ISBN: 9781409725602 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a fascinating, engaging, and thoroughly enjoyable book concerning fencing. A gentleman delivers a series of lectures over a period of eleven evenings on the subject of fencing, dealing with the fundamentals of the sport, different techniques, etiquette, and more. This volume is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in fencing, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: The First Evening, The Second Evening, The Third Evening, The Fourth Evening, The Fifth Evening, The Sixth Evening, The Seventh Evening,...
This vintage book contains a fascinating, engaging, and thoroughly enjoyable book concerning fencing. A gentleman delivers a series of lectures over a...
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144,95 zł |
Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia
ISBN: 9780231154901 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad? Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport in Asia....
The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present...
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493,63 zł |
Sports and Games of the Renaissance
ISBN: 9780313327728 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Renaissance was a period of extraordinary spirit and development that marked a critical stage in the history of sports and games. In Europe the development of a moneyed economy and more refined methods of timekeeping ushered in a new era of leisure and leisure-activity, in which the old tradition of the Shrove Tuesday Football match deepened in the cultural consciousness. In Asia, Sumo's gradual codification began to develop alongside ancestors of the modern game of hackey-sack. In North and South America, European explorers saw how traditional team sports and games such as lacrosse... The Renaissance was a period of extraordinary spirit and development that marked a critical stage in the history of sports and games. In Europe the... |
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411,10 zł |
Wales and Its Boxers: The Fighting Tradition
ISBN: 9780708319154 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though few outside of its native borders associate the great Celtic nation of Wales with the gritty history of pugilism, Welsh fist-fighters have made their talent and passion for boxing unmistakable for centuries. "Wales and Its Boxers" traces this triumphant spirit through the lives of village heroes and national superstars such as Peerless Jim Driscoll and Freddie Welsh, commenting along the way on compelling cultural issues like masculinity, Welsh identity, and the changing face of the ringed spectacle. Here you ll read the story of Jimmy Wilde, The Mighty Atom, who rose from a life in... Though few outside of its native borders associate the great Celtic nation of Wales with the gritty history of pugilism, Welsh fist-fighters have m... |
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90,08 zł |