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  • The Shortest History of Soccer

    From Ancient Kicking Games to the World's Most Popular Sport

    by Brian D. Bunk ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    A whirlwind history of soccer’s improbable rise—from ancient traditions to worldwide cultural focusHow did a simple kicking game conquer the world? In this concise yet comprehensive history, sports historian Brian D. Bunk traces soccer’s unlikely, meteoric rise, showing how a pastime humbly rooted in English schoolyard contests grew to become the planet’s most popular sport. Today, soccer is a ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beyond the Field

    How Soccer Built Community in the United States

    by Brian D. Bunk ...
    Series series Sport and Society
    Played by both migrants and native-born Americans, soccer created communities across the United States. Brian D. Bunk ranges from Pawtucket to Honolulu as he illuminates the deep and diverse origins of the American sport.Soccer took root as immigration, urbanization, and industrialization triggered immense changes across society. Matches built local pride as teams battled rival neighborhoods and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • From Football to Soccer

    The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States

    by Brian D. Bunk ...
    Series Book 1 - Sport and Society
    Rediscovering soccer's long history in the U.S.Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Ghosts of Passion

    Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War

    by Brian D. Bunk ...
    The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolution of October 1934 triggered the broader conflict by accentuating existing social tensions surrounding religion and gender. Through careful analysis of the images produced in books, newspapers, posters, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders

    Similarities and Differences

    by M.T. Tsuang, C. Perris, H.M. Emrich, R.-D. Stieglitz, P. Propping, A. Marneros, W. Maier, H. Helmchen, B.J. Carroll, G. Winokur, T.F. McNeil, J. Angst, A. Deister, K. Heinrich, M. Maj, B. Pitt, C. Eggers, A. Rohde, D. Bunk, H.-J. Möller, W. Coryell, H. Häfner, P. Berner, E.S. Paykel, B. Müller-Oerlinghausen, K.R.R. Krishnan, D. von Zerssen ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Several contributions in our first book about schizo affective disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizoaffective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986) supported the assumption that schizoaffective disorders differ in relevant ways from schizophrenic disorders. The classification of schizo affective disorders as a subgroup of schizophrenia has also been criticized, and empirical research in clinical, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    The Shortest History of Soccer

    From Ancient Kicking Games to the World's Most Popular Sport

    by Brian D Bunk ...
    Narrated by Mitch Crawford ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    A whirlwind history of soccer's improbable rise―from ancient traditions to worldwide cultural focusHow did a simple kicking game conquer the world? In this concise yet comprehensive history, sports historian Brian D. Bunk traces soccer's unlikely, meteoric rise, showing how a pastime humbly rooted in English schoolyard contests grew to become the planet's most popular sport. Today, soccer is a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

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  • 100 Grey Cups

    This Is Our Game

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