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Wild Sports In Europe, Asia, And Africa V1 (1844)
ISBN: 9781437364910 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Two Volumes. Illustrated By Drawings Taken From Nature.
In Two Volumes. Illustrated By Drawings Taken From Nature.
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146,53 zł |
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Sport And Sportsmen: A Book Of Recollections (1866)
ISBN: 9780548898116 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,90 zł |
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Copying It Down: An Anecdotal Memoir
ISBN: 9780761847557 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the second of three volumes, is the story of Harvey Dorfman, who rose from a childhood sickbed to experience a numerous successes in the world of sports. Dorfman has been a teacher, coach, counselor, and a consultant in sport psychology.
This book, the second of three volumes, is the story of Harvey Dorfman, who rose from a childhood sickbed to experience a numerous successes in the wo...
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257,29 zł |
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Gloom to Glory: Trials and Tribulations of a True Philly Sports Fan
ISBN: 9781432745219 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Plight of the Philadelphia Sports Fan Dan Nolan recounts his life's journey through the trials and tribulations of the world of a Philadelphia sports fan, taking the reader along through the pain of defeat, the despair of the long drought, and the frenzied joy of the win. In his inimitable familiar and funny style, Dan sits you down in front of his TV or in his seats at the ballpark and brings you to those games; you'll feel the beer spilling and the boos reverberating as you relive those moments from the perspective of a true Philly die-hard. The Plight of the Philadelphia Sports Fan Dan Nolan recounts his life's journey through the trials and tribulations of the world of a Philadel... |
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61,47 zł |
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Leisure Studies: Themes and Perspectives
ISBN: 9781412903851 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This critical introduction to the field offers a systematic account of the meaning and structure of leisure today. The book: Situates the student in the fieldProvides a comprehensive account of the leading approaches to leisureExplores the influence of class, race, gender, ethnicity, disability, and ageDiscusses to role of the stateExamines leisure in the context of changing work relationshipsLocates leisure in the debate around globalization
This critical introduction to the field offers a systematic account of the meaning and structure of leisure today. The book: Situates the student in t...
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804,84 zł |
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The Sportswriter Who Punched Sam McDowell: And Other Sports Stories
ISBN: 9781606350447 / Angielski / Miękka / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lively collection of columns about Cleveland sports When he retired in 2006, Bob Dolgan had been a sportswriter for forty-five years at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Known for his unique perspectives on sports figures, Dolgan's style, instincts, and experience as a reporter were evident in his columns that were beloved by his readers and admired by his colleagues. Highlighting Dolgan's writing at its best, The Sportswriter Who Punched Sam McDowell is a collection of over 100 of Dolgan's columns that focuses on historic events and individual... A lively collection of columns about Cleveland sports When he retired in 2006, Bob Dolgan had been a sportswriter for forty... |
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136,53 zł |
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Women and Exercise: The Body, Health and Consumerism
ISBN: 9780415871204 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines women's contradictory experiences of their bodies, health and exercise within the cultural context of consumerism. Featuring contributions by leading scholars on women and exercise, this timely examination of women, exercise and fitness will shape the international dialogue on these critical issues.
This volume examines women's contradictory experiences of their bodies, health and exercise within the cultural context of consumerism. Featuring cont...
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780,44 zł |
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The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting
ISBN: 9780803230477 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America s press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art. The brilliant W. C. Heinz called Lardner the best of us. This book shows why.Lardner applied his singular touch not only to his era s icons Joe Louis, Ted Williams, Satchel Paige but to the scamps, eccentrics, hustlers, and con men in the shadow of sports. Whether in snappy columns or leisurely magazine pieces, Lardner held sport of every description up to the light, forever changing the way people wrote,...
This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America s press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting...
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76,88 zł |
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Tight Lines: Observations of an Outdoor Philosopher
ISBN: 9781452851983 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don Moyer began writing his outdoor column, Tight Lines, at the Tracy Press in California in 1979. As years went by, he added numerous other newspapers. Also a freelance fishing writer, his work has appeared in Angler & Flyfishing the West magazines. An angler and hunter since childhood, Don has been active in fishing and hunting conservation groups for decades. A former Region Manager of California Trout and member of Trout Unlimited and the Federation of Flyfishermen, Don also served on the Board of Directors of the Tuolumne River Trust. He has been a member of The Rocky Mountain Elk...
Don Moyer began writing his outdoor column, Tight Lines, at the Tracy Press in California in 1979. As years went by, he added numerous other newspaper...
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80,92 zł |
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Indecent Acts in a Public Place: Sports, Insolence and Sedition
ISBN: 9781895166002 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Twenty years after its original publication, Indecent Acts in a Public Place is still well ahead of the curve of cultural analysis regarding sport. Importantly, it was perhaps the first book to bring an approach that both understood the cultural significance of games as well as the incredible distortions of the modern spectacle. The author of these essays (as British filmmaker Doug Aubrey wrote at the time) was obviously an "intellectual premier leaguer" and one of "popular culture's 'new wave' of First Division 'Mediaristocrats'" and this is still apparent despite the fact that over these...
"Twenty years after its original publication, Indecent Acts in a Public Place is still well ahead of the curve of cultural analysis regarding sport. I...
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63,59 zł |
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The Best American Sports Writing 2011
ISBN: 9780547336961 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Series(r) The Best American Series(r) |
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96,30 zł |
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Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture, and Commerce
ISBN: 9781551930558 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artificial Ice explores how hockey has moved from popular pastime to commercial entertainment product, and one struggling to maintain its stature in the North American entertainment market. Contributors to Artificial Ice discuss the changing character of "major league" sports in North America, the strategic mistakes of the NHL in trying to enlarge its US presence, the importance of television to the economics of sports today, and the role of luxury sports facilities in the new "downtown" economy. The book highlights profound social and cultural changes within hockey, as well... Artificial Ice explores how hockey has moved from popular pastime to commercial entertainment product, and one struggling to maintain its st... |
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126,78 zł |
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The Best American Sports Writing
ISBN: 9780547336978 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Series(r)
First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Sports Writing 2012 includes PAUL SOLOTAROFF JEANNE MARIE LASKAS WELLS TOWER... The Best American Series(r)
First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest sho... |
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96,30 zł |
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Sporty Reflections of a Court Recidivist
ISBN: 9781463717810 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SPORTY REFLECTIONS OF A COURT RECIDIVIST Jacque D'Artichoke, J.D. Salutations Earth levitators I'm a philosopher, an athlete, and admittedly, a goofball. The reader will enjoy my 80+ vignettes about broader life, sports, and other juvenile musings. While the essays are quite random, they showcase D'Artichoke's unbridled zest for life's sublime eccentricities. The essays often boast a philosophical bent. Included are American freedoms that should remain inalienable, the probability of extra-terrestrial life, the significance of international boundaries and how to diffuse bloodshed with PEZ...
SPORTY REFLECTIONS OF A COURT RECIDIVIST Jacque D'Artichoke, J.D. Salutations Earth levitators I'm a philosopher, an athlete, and admittedly, a goofb...
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80,88 zł |
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Sport and the Literary Imagination; Essays in history, literature, and sport
ISBN: 9783039107094 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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372,42 zł |
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The Swiftest
ISBN: 9780393344981 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,17 zł |
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Pumping Granite: And Other Portraits of People at Play
ISBN: 9780896727786 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From rock climbing to rodeo, sumo wrestling to slow-pitch softball, boomerangs to bowling, this collection of articles by one of America's leading journalists probes the recreational lives of people of all ages. From arctic Alaska to an island in the Bahamas, these pieces crawl into the more remote nooks and crannies of our culture, showing what our sporting passions and obsessions say about us as individuals and as a society. Funky, fascinating, heroic, and compassionate, Pumping Granite is a one-of-a-kind book about men, women, and children and the unusual games they play.
From rock climbing to rodeo, sumo wrestling to slow-pitch softball, boomerangs to bowling, this collection of articles by one of America's leading jou...
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76,88 zł |
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Traveling at the Speed of Life
ISBN: 9780983710011 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The tragedy on September 11, 2001 killed many and hurt many more. David Sylvester tried to make sense of that senseless moment by jumping on his bicycle and connecting with people. His message to the people he met across three continents was simple: "Find your bike." It translates to finding your passion and now, ten years later, after pedaling across deserts, down dirt roads and highways, and over the mountains of Africa, Asia, and North America, David spreads his inspirational message on the pages of this book. Whether relaying stories of tragedy or triumph David writes with a degree of...
The tragedy on September 11, 2001 killed many and hurt many more. David Sylvester tried to make sense of that senseless moment by jumping on his bicyc...
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60,69 zł |
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The Best of Informative Sports
ISBN: 9781478127840 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of the best writing from Informative Sports, the sports analysis and news website that ran from October 2008 to July 2010.
An anthology of the best writing from Informative Sports, the sports analysis and news website that ran from October 2008 to July 2010.
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60,49 zł |
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Women and Exercise: The Body, Health and Consumerism
ISBN: 9780415811507 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly visible part of health campaigns, obesity among women is rising, and studies indicate that women are generally less physically active than men. Women's (lack of) exercise, therefore, has become a public concern, and physiological and psychological research has attempted to develop more effective exercise programs aimed at women. Yet women have a complex relationship with embodiment and physical activity that is difficult for quantitative scientific approaches to... Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly visible part of health ca... |
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214,58 zł |
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