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Sports in America : 1950 to 1959
ISBN: 9780816052370 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covers a crucial ten years in sports history in a concise, easy-to-use format. Organized by year, this reference documents key contributions, athletes, new records, and championships, among other things.
Covers a crucial ten years in sports history in a concise, easy-to-use format. Organized by year, this reference documents key contributions, athletes...
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121,40 |
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Sports in America : 1960 to 1969
ISBN: 9780816052387 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide to sports in the 1960s discusses every sport being played during this time period, as well as the success stories and historical and cultural events behind them.
This guide to sports in the 1960s discusses every sport being played during this time period, as well as the success stories and historical and cultur...
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121,40 |
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Sports in America : 1970 to 1979
ISBN: 9780816052394 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines an extensive range of sports while reflecting on the events of the time and their impact on athletics. Comprehensive and easy-to-use, this reference is organized by year with an introduction, a milestone feature, and five to eight pages covering each year.
Examines an extensive range of sports while reflecting on the events of the time and their impact on athletics. Comprehensive and easy-to-use, this re...
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121,40 |
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Sports in America : 1980 to 1989
ISBN: 9780816052400 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides complete coverage of the sports, history, and culture of this decade. In an easy-to-follow format, readers learn how sports were shaped by social history while reading up on the most exciting highlights from each year.
Provides complete coverage of the sports, history, and culture of this decade. In an easy-to-follow format, readers learn how sports were shaped by so...
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121,40 |
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Sport and Leisure Cultures: Volume 6
ISBN: 9780816633838 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the soccer field and the basketball court, in the football stadium and the baseball park, far more is played out than a game of athletic skill. In this collection of essays, the influential sports theorist Alan Tomlinson delves into the phenomenon of contemporary sport and reveals much about its impact on local, national, and global culture. This far-reaching book includes essays ranging from an in-depth examination of sport culture in one working-class English community to a theoretical discussion of how national identity is often linked to sport. Through ethnographic techniques,...
On the soccer field and the basketball court, in the football stadium and the baseball park, far more is played out than a game of athletic skill. In ...
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101,97 |
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Imagined Olympians : Body Culture And Colonial Representation In Rwanda
ISBN: 9780816633852 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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286,61 |
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Stadium Games: Fifty Years of Big League Greed and Bush League Boondoggles
ISBN: 9780816634347 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Seattle to Houston to New York, governments and taxpayers are grappling with how to pay for new major league sports facilities. Support for public funding is down -- sports fans feel alienated in the face of team owners' demands, threats to leave, and spiraling player salaries. In Stadium Games, veteran Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Jay Weiner zooms in on Minnesota's fifty-year history with pro sports and the issues contributing to the bid for a new stadium for the Minnesota Twins, along the way providing a big-picture evaluation of national sports economics.
Stadium, Games begins... From Seattle to Houston to New York, governments and taxpayers are grappling with how to pay for new major league sports facilities. Support for publi...
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121,40 |
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To Show What An Indian Can Do : Sports at Native American Boarding Schools
ISBN: 9780816636518 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A compelling and inspiring account of Native American student athletes.
A compelling and inspiring account of Native American student athletes.
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218,60 |
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To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools Volume 2
ISBN: 9780816636525 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Carlisle Indian School and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were among the many federally operated boarding schools enacting the U.S. government's education policy toward Native Americans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, one designed to remove children from familiar surroundings and impose mainstream American culture on them. To Show What an Indian Can Do explores the history of sports programs at these institutions and, drawing on the recollections of former students, describes the importance of competitive sports in their lives. Author John Bloom focuses on the male...
The Carlisle Indian School and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were among the many federally operated boarding schools enacting the U.S. government's ...
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67,96 |
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Pittsburgh Sports: Stories from the Steel City
ISBN: 9780822957737 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Summer afternoons at Forbes Field, playoff Sundays with the Steelers, winter nights at the Igloo cheering for Mario and the Penguins: Pittsburgh Sports captures all that and more. With stories from sports fans, historians, and former athletes, Pittsburgh Sports mixes personal experiences with team histories to capture the full range of what it means to be a sports fan--in Pittsburgh, or, by extension, anywhere. A book that can be read cover-to-cover, or in bits and pieces, Pittsburgh Sports includes chapters on the ill-fated Pittsburgh Pipers, who won the... Summer afternoons at Forbes Field, playoff Sundays with the Steelers, winter nights at the Igloo cheering for Mario and the Penguins: Pittsburgh... |
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110,23 |
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Japanese Sports: A History
ISBN: 9780824824648 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this first synthetic, comprehensive survey of Japanese sports in English, the authors are attentive to the complex and fascinating interaction of traditional and modern elements. In the course of tracing the emergence and development of sumo, the martial arts, and other traditional sports from their origins to the present, they demonstrate that some cherished ancient traditions were, in fact, invented less than a century ago. They also register their skepticism about the use of the samurai tradition to explain Japan's success in sports. Special attention is given to Meiji-era Japan's... In this first synthetic, comprehensive survey of Japanese sports in English, the authors are attentive to the complex and fascinating interaction o... |
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82,53 |
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Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780842028219 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean is the most comprehensive overview to date of the development of modern sports in Latin America. This new book illustrates how and why sport has become a central part of the political, economic, and social life of the region and the repercussions of its role. This highly readable volume is composed of articles on a wide variety of sports-basketball, baseball, volleyball, cricket, soccer, and equestrian events-in countries and regions throughout Latin America, including Mexico, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Dominican...
Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean is the most comprehensive overview to date of the development of modern sports in Latin America. This new boo...
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194,31 |
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Chesapeake Sails: A History of Yachting on the Bay
ISBN: 9780870335143 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many books document the workboats of the Chesapeake, but for decades bay waters have been home to another kind of craft: sailboats designed and built strictly for the fun of racing or cruising. This book traces the popularity of sailing yachts in the Chesapeake Bay. Here, the term yacht does not suggest a large or luxurious vessel; rather, it describes a pleasure boat of any size. The author depicts these sailing yachts not only by the details of their design and construction, but also through the eyes and actions of their skippers and crews, effectively alternating factual history with the...
Many books document the workboats of the Chesapeake, but for decades bay waters have been home to another kind of craft: sailboats designed and built ...
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163,58 |
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Sport and American Mentality, 1880-1910
ISBN: 9780870493959 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,54 |
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Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports
ISBN: 9780871137616 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent years have seen a huge explosion in the popularity and commercial viability of women's sports -- with new professional leagues for women to play in, new magazines to cover them, and recognition for female athletes that is overtaking that of men. Nike Is a Goddess tells the dramatic story of the rise of women's sports over the last century in a series of original narratives focusing on the great female athletes whose success has changed the game and paved the way for the women and girls of today. Recent years have seen a huge explosion in the popularity and commercial viability of women's sports -- with new professional leagues for women to ... |
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64,62 |
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Minnesota Sports Alamanac: 125 Glorious Years
ISBN: 9780873515580 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To be hoisted on your teammates' shoulders after a championship win? To nail the perfect serve? To conquer the wilderness with a pack of dogs in the fore? To crush the Packers? To dust off your pompoms and skip onto the field? To take home the trivia trophy from your local sports bar? Whatever your athletic aspiration, Minnesota Sports Almanac is the book for you. Spanning 125 years of feats and follies, this groundbreaking sports bible has it all:
--Colorful profiles of famous and infamous players and teams in virtually every sport --Crowd-pleasing trivia featuring... To be hoisted on your teammates' shoulders after a championship win? To nail the perfect serve? To conquer the wilderness with a pack of dogs in the f...
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113,84 |
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Kid on the Sandlot: Congress and Professional Sports, 1910-1992
ISBN: 9780879726768 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the role and influence of professional sports has increased in American life, so has the relationship between the U.S. Congress and the professional sports world. Since WW II, Congress has held dozens of investigations and debated hundreds of bills on subjects such as organized baseball s antitrust exemption, the NFL s television blackout policy, the role of organized crime in professional boxing, the league mergers in professional football and basketball, and franchise relocations.
Lowe provides concise, interpretive narrative of Congress s involvement in professional sports.... As the role and influence of professional sports has increased in American life, so has the relationship between the U.S. Congress and the professiona...
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60,63 |
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" . . . 'Til the Fat Lady Sings": Classic Texas Sports Quotes
ISBN: 9780896723399 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everybody knows that Texans take their sports seriously. Whether it's a high school football clash on Friday night, a college baseball game on Saturday afternoon, or a pro basketball matchup on Sunday morning, sports is serious business in the Lone Star State.How serious? Ask Don Meredith to comment on former Dallas Cowboys Coach Tom Landry: "He's a perfectionist. If he was married to Racquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook." Or talk to golf pro Lee Trevino about the tour: "You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands...
Everybody knows that Texans take their sports seriously. Whether it's a high school football clash on Friday night, a college baseball game on Saturda...
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38,82 |
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100 Athletes Who Shaped Sports History
ISBN: 9780912517537 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The top 100 international male and female athletes from over 20 different sports--through recorded history. Chronologically organized, the book begins with Milo of Crotona, the greatest of Olympian athletes. The 100th place belongs to Tiger Woods, today's dominant presence in pro golf. Each athlete is wonderfully profiled with an engaging one-page biography, along with an illustration or photograph and locator map.
The top 100 international male and female athletes from over 20 different sports--through recorded history. Chronologically organized, the book begins...
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30,37 |
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Sports & Recreation Fads
ISBN: 9780918393920 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. True to the spirit of the all-American athlete and our society's seemingly endless pursuit of and passion for leisure activities is Sports & Recreation Fads. This readable and fascinating reference book highlights some of the most notable as well as some long-forgotten pastimes and personalities. Sporting and recreation events have thrived in the United States for more than two centuries. Just about every sport and recreation embraced from Colonial America to the present has had its faddish aspects. The fascinating introduction provides a basic understanding of the importance of fads in the...
True to the spirit of the all-American athlete and our society's seemingly endless pursuit of and passion for leisure activities is Sports & Recreatio...
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165,11 |
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