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Gear Heads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports
ISBN: 9780743229517 / Angielski / Other book format / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early nineties, a visionary special-effects guru named Marc Thorpe conjured a field of dreams different from any the world had seen before: It would be framed by unbreakable plastic instead of cornstalks; populated not by ghostly ballplayers but by remote-controlled robots, armed to the steely teeth, fighting in a booby-trapped ring. If you built it, they'd come all right....
In Gearheads, Newsweek technology correspondent Brad Stone examines the history of robotic sports, from their cultish early years at universities and sci-fi conventions to today's televised... In the early nineties, a visionary special-effects guru named Marc Thorpe conjured a field of dreams different from any the world had seen before: It ...
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The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw
ISBN: 9780743278850 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. Most of the team were drafted into professional baseball. Two of them, Darryl Strawberry and Chris Brown, would reunite as teammates on a National League All-Star roster. But Michael Sokolove's The Ticket Out is more a story of promise denied than of dreams fulfilled.
The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. Most of t...
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Chasing Tiger
ISBN: 9780743442138 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All eat from the bowl of life -- Tiger Woods just has a bigger spoon. So writes Curt Sampson in his groundbreaking account of the current state of golf and the man who changed the game forever -- Tiger Woods. With a mix of power, skill, and business savvy, Woods has become the biggest sports figure since Michael Jordan, wielding a competitive edge of equal parts inspiration and intimidation. As for the rest of the golfing world -- including other players, junior golfers and their parents, corporate America, agents, instructors, fans, and the media -- it's either catch up or give...
All eat from the bowl of life -- Tiger Woods just has a bigger spoon. So writes Curt Sampson in his groundbreaking account of the current ...
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74,21 |
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Ten on Sunday: The Secret Life of Men
ISBN: 9780743442145 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A moving, lyrical, eye-opening look at the true nature of intimacy among men.
The L.A. riots had an indelible effect upon the city of Los Angeles, upon the wider debate in this country about race, and especially -- in the pages of this wonderful memoir -- on ten weekend basketball players. After the riots, and once he'd fled his mid-city home for the relative safety of suburban Santa Monica, Alan Eisenstock at last found himself with a driveway that was big enough for a weekly basketball game. For years he'd yearned for this; now all that stood between him and the zone defense was the... A moving, lyrical, eye-opening look at the true nature of intimacy among men.
The L.A. riots had an indelible effect upon the city of Los Angeles... |
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Managing Leisure
ISBN: 9780750637176 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reference tool for both students and practitioners in the leisure industry, this work offers practical advice on managing buildings, budgets and people. It also covers the vital aspects of law, finance, health and safety and competitive tendering. It takes management theory and looks at its practical application in a leisure management context.
A reference tool for both students and practitioners in the leisure industry, this work offers practical advice on managing buildings, budgets and peo...
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273,71 |
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Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Industries
ISBN: 9780750640978 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Entrepreneurship is the engine that drives any successful industry or economy. In the rapidly evolving hospitality, tourism and leisure sector worldwide this is particularly true. This new text is designed to develop a greater understanding of the process and context for entrepreneurship as well as to provide key concepts which will enable the reader to become more entrepreneurial themselves. the student, manager or trainer a powerful framework for understanding every aspect of this vital business function. Rigorously developed by authors with wide teaching and industry experience it...
Entrepreneurship is the engine that drives any successful industry or economy. In the rapidly evolving hospitality, tourism and leisure sector worldwi...
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378,24 |
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The Sport Star: Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity
ISBN: 9780761943501 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are sport stars central to celebrity culture? What are the implications of their fame?
Proceeding from a broadly based discussion of heroism, fame and celebrity, Smart addresses a number of prominent modern sports and sport stars, including Michael Jordan (basketball), David Beckham (football), Tiger Woods (golf), Anna Kournikova and the Williams sisters (tennis). He analyses the development of modern sport in the UK and USA, demonstrating the key economic and cultural factors that have contributed to the popularity of sport stars, while examining issues such as race and gender, the... Why are sport stars central to celebrity culture? What are the implications of their fame?
Proceeding from a broadly based discussion of heroism, f... |
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The Sport Star : Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity
ISBN: 9780761943518 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are sport stars central to celebrity culture? What are the implications of their fame?
Proceeding from a broadly based discussion of heroism, fame and celebrity, Smart addresses a number of prominent modern sports and sport stars, including Michael Jordan (basketball), David Beckham (football), Tiger Woods (golf), Anna Kournikova and the Williams sisters (tennis). He analyses the development of modern sport in the UK and USA, demonstrating the key economic and cultural factors that have contributed to the popularity of sport stars, while examining issues such as race and gender, the... Why are sport stars central to celebrity culture? What are the implications of their fame?
Proceeding from a broadly based discussion of heroism, f... |
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Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970
ISBN: 9780773521575 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Natural Selections traces the history of the first four parks in Atlantic Canada through the selection, expropriation, development, and management stages. Alan MacEachern shows how the Parks Branch's preconceptions about the landscape and people of the region shaped the parks created there. In doing so he details the evolution of the park system, from the conservation movement early in the century to the rise of the ecology movement. MacEachern analyzes Parks Canada's efforts to fulfill its twin mandates of preservation and use, arguing that the agency never favoured one over the other but...
Natural Selections traces the history of the first four parks in Atlantic Canada through the selection, expropriation, development, and management sta...
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Legalized Casino Gaming in the United States: The Economic and Social Impact
ISBN: 9780789006400 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering the entire United States gaming market, Legalized Casino Gaming in the United States provides gaming researchers, policymakers, and hospitality students comprehensive overview of the history, development, legislation, and economic and social impacts of riverboat, land-based, and Native American casino gaming. Containing national and regional research about the industry, this book will provide students with a historical view on gaming and the hospitality industry, offer researchers data and current market status of the industry; and will give policymakers information about the...
Covering the entire United States gaming market, Legalized Casino Gaming in the United States provides gaming researchers, policymakers, and hospitali...
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Caregiving-Leisure and Aging
ISBN: 9780789007995 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Create programs that make good use of the leisure time of the elderly, and of those who care for them Caregiving is a vital issue in today's rapidly aging society. Each year, a greater number of elderly people find themselves in need of care, and at the same time, more elderly adults than ever are finding themselves in the caregiving role. Caregiving--Leisure and Aging blends the work of six experts in the field, exploring implications for future practice and research, examining caregivers and care receivers and their need for appropriate leisure and recreation activities, and sharing...
Create programs that make good use of the leisure time of the elderly, and of those who care for them Caregiving is a vital issue in today's rapidly a...
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Sport and Postmodern Times
ISBN: 9780791439265 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmodern sport writing; sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality; virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape; discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power used to "invest" postmodern sporting bodies; and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography.
This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmod...
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Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy
ISBN: 9780803277984 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A growing controversy in recent years has arisen around the use and abuse of Native American team mascots. The Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Florida State Seminoles, and so forth-these are just a few of the images and names popularly associated with Native Americans that are still used as mascots by professional sports teams, dozens of universities, and countless high schools. This practice, a troubling legacy of Native-Euro-American relations in the United States, has sparked heated debates and intense protests that continue to escalate. Team...
A growing controversy in recent years has arisen around the use and abuse of Native American team mascots. The Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Wash...
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104,48 |
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Media, Sports, and Society
ISBN: 9780803932449 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Media, Sports and Society provides a foundation for research on the communication of sports. The volume is framed by a seminal article outlining the parameters of the communication of sports and pointing to major issues that need to be addressed in the relationship between sports and media. Contributors examine the theoretical, cultural and historical issues, the production of media sports programming, its content and its audience. Individual chapters include a discussion of the spectacle of media sports, a comparison of Super Bowl Football and World Cup Soccer, a consideration of the...
Media, Sports and Society provides a foundation for research on the communication of sports. The volume is framed by a seminal article outlining the p...
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Sportswriting: The Lively Game
ISBN: 9780813822464 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Think all it takes to be successful sportswriter is a love of sports? Read Sportswriting: The Lively Game and find out--sports fan is one thing: a sports report is another
Conrad C. Fink, veteran journalist, editor and the author of Bottom Line Writing: Reporting the Sense of Dollars and Writing Opinion for Impact, provides another common sense, real-life approach for journalism or sports management students wishing to break into the exciting, fast-paced world of sportswriting. In vivid writing that is packed with the realities of sports reporting, Professor Fink... Think all it takes to be successful sportswriter is a love of sports? Read Sportswriting: The Lively Game and find out--sports fan is one thing: a spo...
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Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums
ISBN: 9780815761112 / Angielski / Miękka / 525 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book assesses the case for government subsidies for sports teams by examining the economic impact of new stadiums and the presence of a sports franchise on the local economy. The book contains case studies of major league sports facilities in Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinatti, Cleveland, Indianapo
This book assesses the case for government subsidies for sports teams by examining the economic impact of new stadiums and the presence of a sports fr...
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129,37 |
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Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon Volume 5
ISBN: 9780816636242 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sculpted speed of Marion Jones. The grit and agility of Mia Hamm. The slam-dunk style of Lisa Leslie. The skill and finesse of these sports figures are widely admired, no longer causing the puzzlement and discomfort directed toward earlier generations of athletic women. Built to Win explores this relatively recent phenomenon--the confident, empowered female athletes found everywhere in American popular culture. Leslie Heywood and Shari L., Dworkin examine the role of female athletes through interviews with elementary- and high school-age girls and boys; careful readings of ad campaigns by...
The sculpted speed of Marion Jones. The grit and agility of Mia Hamm. The slam-dunk style of Lisa Leslie. The skill and finesse of these sports figure...
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94,52 |
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CRC Desk Reference on Sports Nutrition
ISBN: 9780849322730 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The landscape of sports nutrition is dramatically altering, as those in search of optimal performance are moving the field from haphazard alchemy to exact science. Currently, thousands of products -- from ancient herbs and old standards to hormone extractions and test tube concoctions --compete for a place at the training table of both professional and amateur competitors, as well as those non-athletes seeking some potent elixir of youth. Unfortunately, getting straight and genuinely relevant information on these products can be a time consuming and frustrating challenge.
The CRC Desk... The landscape of sports nutrition is dramatically altering, as those in search of optimal performance are moving the field from haphazard alchemy to e...
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Homocysteine: The New Cholesterol
ISBN: 9780879837228 / Angielski / Spiralna / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A more accurate marker for heart disease. A more accurate marker for heart disease. |
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Olive Oil Miracle
ISBN: 9780879837631 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How it lowers cholesterol, cancer risk and more. How it lowers cholesterol, cancer risk and more. |
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