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Handbook of Sports Studies

Author : Jay Coakley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446265056
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Sports Studies written by Jay Coakley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this vital handbook marks the development of sports studies as a major new discipline within the social sciences. Edited by the leading sociologist of sport, Eric Dunning, and Jay Coakley, author of the best selling textbook on sport in the USA, it both reflects and richly endorses this new found status. Key aspects of the Handbook include: an inventory of the principal achievements in the field; a guide to the chief conflicts and difficulties in the theory and research process; a rallying point for researchers who are established or new to the field, which sets the agenda for future developments; a resource book for teachers who wish to establish new curricula and develop courses and programmes in the area of sports studies. With an international and inter-disciplinary team of contributors the Handbook of Sports Studies is comprehensive in scope, relevant in content and far-reaching in its discussion of future prospect.

The Sports Immortals

Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726706
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Sports Immortals written by Peter Williams and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the psychology of hero-worship in sports, covering the period from the late 19th century to the present. Offers an overview of the classic theorists, and demonstrates how the public creates heroes and villains in the same way the Greeks created archetypal deities. Topics include the archetypes of human myth, localized sports archetypes, origins of the baseball myth, the archetypes of baseball, and the sports press. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Graphic Sports

Author : Joe Aggrey
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphic Sports written by Joe Aggrey and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 1997-06-24 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ethics of Sport

Author : Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190631953
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Sport written by Arthur L. Caplan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport is often thought of as simply "games," but it can in fact be much more. Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting city-wide riots, uniting countries, permanently injuring youth, revolutionizing views about race, gender and class, and producing several of the most successful global industries. Reports of ethical crises in athletics are constant fodder for popular attention, whether performance enhancing drugs in baseball, corruption in college athletics, the epidemic of brain damage among NFL players, and others too numerous to mention. As a proxy for social concerns, we naturally think of sport in inherently moral terms. Yet we can hardly define the term "sport" or agree on acceptable levels of sporting risk, or determine clear roles and responsibilities for fans, players, coaches, owners, media and health care personnel. Bringing together 27 of the most essential recent articles from philosophy, history, sociology, medicine, and law, this collection explores intersections of sports and ethics and brings attention to the immense role of sports in shaping and reflecting social values.

Sports Journalism

Author : Rob Steen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317805798
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Sports Journalism written by Rob Steen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Journalism is a comprehensive guide to the purpose, principles and practice of this unique profession. Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, including important new material on social media and the rise of on-line journalism, this is still the only book to explore the fundamentals of sports reporting across every media platform. Combining an introduction to practical skills, contextual discussion of the changing media environment, and important case studies, including the ground-breaking story of Lance Armstrong, the book covers key topics such as: essential relationships in sports journalism - networking and the Sports Desk print journalism for magazines, tabloids, broadsheets and the internet live action – news, radio and television sports journalism effective research – managing and accessing sources, information, statistics practical skills for managing schedules and meeting deadlines working with sports agents and PR professionals getting the best from press conferences and interviews. Laced with revealing anecdotes from the author's own thirty years’ experience of domestic and international sport journalism, and including questions in each chapter to encourage critical reflection and notes on further reading, Sports Journalism is the ultimate insider’s guide and an invaluable student companion.

Transnational and Comparative Research in Sport

Author : Ian P. Henry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415401127
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Transnational and Comparative Research in Sport written by Ian P. Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies, illustrates and evaluates the major approaches to comparative and transnational analysis in sports studies, addressing common assumptions that can hamper meaningful research.

Religion and Sports

Author : Rebecca T. Alpert
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539320
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Sports written by Rebecca T. Alpert and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like religion, playing and watching sports is a deeply meaningful, celebratory ritual enjoyed by millions across the world. The first scholarly work designed for use in both religion and sports courses, this collection develops and then applies a theoretically grounded approach to studying sports engagement globally and its relationship to modern-day issues of violence, difference, social protest, and belonging. Case studies explore the place of sports in mainstream faiths, such as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, and lesser-known religious groups, particularly in Africa. It covers football, baseball, and basketball but also archery, soccer, bullfighting, judo, and track. Essays reflect all skill levels, from amateur to professional, and find surprising affinities among practices and cultures in locations as disparate as Germany and Japan, Spain and Saudi Arabia. Thoroughly examining a range of phenomena, this collection fully captures the unique overlap of two universal institutions and their interplay with human society, politics, and culture.

American Indian Sports Heritage

Author : Joseph B. Oxendine
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803286092
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book American Indian Sports Heritage written by Joseph B. Oxendine and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Neither the highly commercialized nature of professional sports today nor the more casual attitude prevailing in amateur activities captures the essence of Indian sport,” writes Joseph B. Oxendine. Through sport, Indians sought blessings from a higher spirit. Sport that evolved from religious rites retained a spiritual dimension, as seen in the attitude and manner of preparing and participating. In American Indian Sports Heritage, Oxendine discusses the history and importance in everyday life of ball games (especially lacrosse), running, archery, swimming, snow snake, hoop-and-pole, and games of chance. Indians gained nationwide visibility as athletes in baseball and football; the teams at boarding schools such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were especially famous. Oxendine describes the apex of Indian sports during the first three decades of the twentieth century and chronicles the decline since. He looks at the career of the legendary Jim Thorpe and provides brief biographies of other Indian athletes before and after 1930.

Global Perspectives on Sports and Christianity

Author : Afe Adogame
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317573463
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Sports and Christianity written by Afe Adogame and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the relationship between sport and religion is deeply rooted in history, it continues to play a profound role in shaping modern-day societies. This edited collection provides an inter-disciplinary exploration of this relationship from a global perspective, making a major contribution to the religious, social scientific and theological study of sport. It discusses the dialectical interplay between sport and Christianity across diverse cultures, extending beyond a Western perspective to include studies from Africa, South America and Asia, as well as Europe, the UK and the US. Containing contributions from leading experts within the field, it reflects on key topics including race, gender, spirituality, morality, interfaith sport clubs, and the significance of sport in public rituals of celebration and mourning. Its chapters also examine violent sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts, as well as reflecting on the cult of sporting celebrity and the theology of disability sport. Truly international in scope, Global Perspectives on Sports and Christianity is fascinating reading for all those interested in the study of sport, sociology and religion.

Representations of Sports Coaches in Film

Author : Katharina Bonzel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351795929
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Sports Coaches in Film written by Katharina Bonzel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international scholars working across the humanities and social sciences to examine ways in which representations of sports coaching in narrative and documentary cinema can shape and inform sporting instruction. The central premise of the volume is that films featuring sports coaches potentially reflect, reinforce or contest how their audiences comprehend the world of coaching. Despite the growing interest in theories of coaching and in the study of the sports film as a genre, specific analyses of filmic depictions of sports coaches are still rare despite coaches often having a central role as figures shaping the values, social situation and cultural expectations of the athletes they train. By way of a series of enlightening and original studies, this volume redresses the relative neglect afforded to sports coaching in film and simultaneously highlights the immense value that research in this emerging field has for sporting performance and social justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Sports Coaching Review.

Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports

Author : Irwin Hirsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000198529
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports written by Irwin Hirsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights the importance of sports for different individuals and how the function and use of sports can be brought into the consulting room. Passionate interest in actively engaging in sports is a universal phenomenon. It is striking that this aspect of human life, prior to this volume, has received little attention in the literature of psychoanalysis. This edited volume is comprised largely of psychoanalysts who are themselves avidly involved with sports. It is suggested that intense involvement in sports prioritizes commitment and active engagement over passivity and that such involvement provides an emotionally tinged distraction from the various misfortunes of life. Indeed, the ups and downs in mood related to athletic victory or defeat often supplant, temporarily, matters in life that may be more personally urgent. Engaging in sports or rooting for teams provides a feeling of community and a sense of identification with like-minded others, even among those who are part of other communities and have sufficient communal identifications. This book offers a better psychoanalytic understanding of sports to help us discover more about ourselves, our patients and our culture, and will be of great interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, or anyone with an interest in sport and its link to psychoanalysis and mental health.

NIV, Extreme Sports Bible

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310729815
Total Pages : 2600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book NIV, Extreme Sports Bible written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 2600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme sports—the harsh elements, adrenalin rush, wild talent, and raw challenge—can mirror the highs, lows, aspirations, and setbacks in our life and in our relationship with God. The Extreme Sports Bible recognizes these parallels and uses them as fuel for connecting to the Word of God. Fans of extreme sports will find new adventure and inspiration in this amazing NIV Bible. Features include twenty color images of extreme sports action photos along with verses about courage, bravery, faith, and adventure, along with the complete text of the New International Version (NIV)

Manual of British Rural Sports

Author : John Henry Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manual of British Rural Sports written by John Henry Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This is Your Brain on Sports

Author : L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0553447408
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book This is Your Brain on Sports written by L. Jon Wertheim and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The executive editor of "Sports Illustrated" and a psychologist join forces to examine the behavior of those involved in professional sports, explaining how athletes can successfully put aside personal trauma on game day and why people love to root for aloser.

Trukese-English Dictionary

Author : Ward Hunt Goodenough
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871690142
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Trukese-English Dictionary written by Ward Hunt Goodenough and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1990 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of the Trukese-English Dictionary supplements the first one, published in 1980. It provides an English-Trukese index or finderlist for the Trukese-English of the first volume & a concordance of roots, including what appear to be complex words that we cannot analyze into constituent elements. The Truk Dictionary Project was supported by the Nat. Science Found. (NSF), the Dept. of Ed. of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Univ. of Penna., & the Univ. of Hawaii. Illustration.

Sketches of Indian Field Sports

Author : Daniel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Sketches of Indian Field Sports written by Daniel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Super Silly Sports Trivia Dingbats Book

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793353815
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Super Silly Sports Trivia Dingbats Book written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: