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"Readers will be transfixed by this novel" - Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

Order is the supreme value. Merit camouflages oppression. All people are not created equal.

Daniela can run. She's a track star and a survivor, a girl who knows her way around plague-ravaged Bronx City. She never dreamed of getting the chance to leave, to attend school with the elite and compete against the world's best. There is no place for someone like her among the genetically engineered elite of Manhattan. Yet they want her. But Daniela isn't ready for the greed and deceit hidden beneath the...

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport coaching research, examining the often implicit links between research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions.

Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology, risk over-simplifying our understanding of coaching, this book presents an alternative framework for sports coaching research based on critical...

This is a book about the biographical afterlives of the Romantic poets and the creation of literary biography as a popular form. It focuses on the Lives of six major poets of the period: Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, published from the 1820s, by Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, and others. It situates these within the context of the development of biography as a genre from the 1780s to the 1840s. Starting with Johnson, Boswell, and female collective Lives, it looks at how the market success of biography was built on its representation...