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Sport
ilość książek w kategorii: 60593
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More Than Just a Game: Sports in American Life Since 1945
ISBN: 9780231125345 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. By examining both professional and intercollegiate sports such as baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, and stock car racing, Kathryn Jay looks at the impact of packaging, salary, hype, corporate sponsorship, drug use, and the presence of women and African American players. Jay also considers the persistent belief that sports encourage good citizenship and morality despite a rise in cheating and violent behavior...
More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, ...
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More Than Just a Game: Sports in American Life Since 1945
ISBN: 9780231125352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. By examining both professional and intercollegiate sports such as baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, and stock car racing, Kathryn Jay looks at the impact of packaging, salary, hype, corporate sponsorship, drug use, and the presence of women and African American players. Jay also considers the persistent belief that sports encourage good citizenship and morality despite a rise in cheating and violent behavior...
More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, ...
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O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs
ISBN: 9780231127486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College--a small Catholic women's school outside Philadelphia--made history by winning the first three women's national college basketball championships ever played. A true Cinderella team, this unlikely fifteenth-seeded squad triumphed against enormous odds and four powerhouse state teams to secure the championship title and capture the imaginations of fans and sportswriters across the country. But while they were making a significant contribution to legitimizing women's sports in America, the Mighty Macs were also challenging the...
Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College--a small Catholic women's school outside Philadelphia--made history by winning the first ...
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609,34 |
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O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs
ISBN: 9780231127493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College--a small Catholic women's school outside Philadelphia--made history by winning the first three women's national college basketball championships ever played. A true Cinderella team, this unlikely fifteenth-seeded squad triumphed against enormous odds and four powerhouse state teams to secure the championship title and capture the imaginations of fans and sportswriters across the country. But while they were making a significant contribution to legitimizing women's sports in America, the Mighty Macs were also challenging the...
Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College--a small Catholic women's school outside Philadelphia--made history by winning the first ...
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199,24 |
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The Nazi Olympics
ISBN: 9780252013256 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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156,19 |
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Global Games
ISBN: 9780252026546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Discusses how individual sports developed, what institutions and groups spread them, and why certain sports and not others found a ready audience elsewhere. This book demonstrates that sports are not a trivial pursuit but are deeply embedded in the way individuals and nations wish to be perceived.
Discusses how individual sports developed, what institutions and groups spread them, and why certain sports and not others found a ready audience else...
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166,66 |
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The Nazi Olympics: New Perspectives
ISBN: 9780252028151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler s Third Reich and international sporting competition. This volume gathers original essays by modern scholars from the Games most prominent participating countries and lays out the issues -- sporting as well as political -- surrounding individual nations involvement.
"The Nazi Olympics" opens with an analysis of Germany s preparations for the Games and the attempts by the Nazi regime to allay the international concerns about Hitler s racist ideals and expansionist ambitions. Essays follow on the United States,... The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler s Third Reich and international sporting competition. This volume gathers o...
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208,32 |
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Sports in the Western World
ISBN: 9780252060427 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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130,15 |
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Leftist Theories of Sport: A Critique and Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780252063619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. William Morgan argues here that leftist theories have lost their critical edge and can no longer be counted on to transform sport society. Assessing these theories, he goes on to propose a new, reconstructed critical theory of sport, invoking the logical integrity of sport itself and the deliberations of sporting practice communities.
William Morgan argues here that leftist theories have lost their critical edge and can no longer be counted on to transform sport society. Assessing t...
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156,19 |
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John L. Sullivan and His America
ISBN: 9780252064340 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Aims to make the reader feel the lure of the boxing ring.
Aims to make the reader feel the lure of the boxing ring.
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130,15 |
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The New American Sport History: Recent Approaches and Perspectives
ISBN: 9780252065675 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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119,73 |
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Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience
ISBN: 9780252066542 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mark Dyreson locates the invasion of sport at the heart of American culture at the turn of the century. It was then that social reformers and political leaders believed that sport could revitalize the republican experiment, that a new sense of national identity could forge a new sense of community and a healthy political order as it would serve to link America's thinking classes with the experiences of the masses. Nowhere was this better exemplified than in American accounts of the Olympic Games held between 1896 and 1912. In connecting sport to American history and culture, Dyreson has...
Mark Dyreson locates the invasion of sport at the heart of American culture at the turn of the century. It was then that social reformers and politica...
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130,15 |
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The World's Game: A History of Soccer
ISBN: 9780252067181 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Traces the growth of what during pre-industrial times was called the simplest game through its codification in the nineteenth century to the 1994 World Cup. This title weaves the sport's growth into the culture and politics of the countries where it has been taken up.
Traces the growth of what during pre-industrial times was called the simplest game through its codification in the nineteenth century to the 1994 Worl...
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93,69 |
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Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era
ISBN: 9780252067754 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Discusses the ideology of baseball, professional baseball and urban politics, politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods, social reform, and baseball as a source of social mobility.
Discusses the ideology of baseball, professional baseball and urban politics, politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods, social reform, and baseball ...
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93,69 |
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Cowgirls of the Rodeo: Pioneer Professional Athletes
ISBN: 9780252068744 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Uses biographies to describe women's transformation from serious rodeo athletes to beauty queens and their successful struggle to regain their place, and respect, as the competitive athletes that they are.
Uses biographies to describe women's transformation from serious rodeo athletes to beauty queens and their successful struggle to regain their place, ...
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119,73 |
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Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origin of Ball Games
ISBN: 9780252069925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Covers the origins not only of baseball but of a score of related sports involving hitting, catching, throwing, or kicking a ball. This title traces the origins of ball sports to religious rites in ancient Egypt, where the ball represented a fertility symbol and opposing teams engaged in mock combat signifying the struggle of good against evil.
Covers the origins not only of baseball but of a score of related sports involving hitting, catching, throwing, or kicking a ball. This title traces t...
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114,52 |
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The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games
ISBN: 9780252070464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a thoroughly revised and updated study, the author of Women's Sports and Games and Empires traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality. Simultaneous. (Sports & Recreation).
In a thoroughly revised and updated study, the author of Women's Sports and Games and Empires traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2...
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88,48 |
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Jack Dempsey: THE MANASSA MAULER
ISBN: 9780252071485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey began his boxing career as a skinny boy of sixteen, riding the rails and participating in hastily staged saloon bouts against miners and lumberjacks. This biography charts the life and career of a man widely regarded as one of the toughest ever to enter the ring.
Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey began his boxing career as a skinny boy of sixteen, riding the rails and participati...
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83,28 |
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Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe: High School Basketball in Illinois
ISBN: 9780252071997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In urban and rural high schools throughout Illinois, basketball is a Friday night ritual. Local games are often the biggest thing happening all week, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and state tournaments attract fanatical fans by the thousands. Far from the jaded professionals, the stories in Taylor Bell's Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe are of hungry young men playing their hearts out, where high-tops and high hopes inspire hoop dreams from Peoria to Pinckneyville, and Champaign to Chicago. Bell, a life-long fan and authority on high school basketball in Illinois, brings together...
In urban and rural high schools throughout Illinois, basketball is a Friday night ritual. Local games are often the biggest thing happening all week, ...
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83,28 |
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Josh Gibson: The Power and the Darkness
ISBN: 9780252072246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is said that Josh Gibson is the only man ever to have hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium. Some claim he hit as many as seventy-five home runs in a season. All agreed that he was a frightening hitter to face. What Satchel Paige was to pitching in the Negro leagues, Gibson was to hitting: their greatest star, biggest gate attraction, and most important symbol. Though Gibson is best remembered as the black Babe Ruth, Ruth became a beloved symbol of the national pastime, while Gibson lived a life veiled in the darkness that came both from the shadow world of the Negro leagues and from...
It is said that Josh Gibson is the only man ever to have hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium. Some claim he hit as many as seventy-five home runs in...
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88,48 |
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