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  • Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies

    Edited by Holly Thorpe, Michael Silk, David Andrews ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries, preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS, drawing on transdisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as sport studies, sociology, history, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Gender, Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture

    by Michael Silk, Rosemary Barrow ...
    Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present

    by Michael Silk ...
    Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Classical Tradition

    Art, Literature, Thought

    by Michael Silk, Ingo Gildenhard, Rosemary Barrow ...
    The classical tradition—the legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome—is a large, diverse and important field that continues to shape human endeavour and engender wide public interest. The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an original, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large ... Read more

    $122.00 USD

  • Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age

    Edited by Michael Silk, Brad Millington, Emma Rich, Anthony Bush ...
    Digital worlds and cultures—social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps—dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer ‘just’ consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook, twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding of our everyday ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sports Coaching Research

    Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

    by Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport

    Power, Pedagogy and the Popular

    by Michael Silk ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, in providing ‘official’ understandings and interpretations of the event, and setting the terms for a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Alexandria, Real and Imagined

    by Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Istanbul

    A Tale of Three Cities

    by Bettany Hughes ...
    Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Philosophy

    by Kevin Perry ...
    Philosophy is to question everything. More than a lifestyle, larger than any single idea, broader than a conviction, philosophy is the love of exploration, of knowledge, of uncertainty, and of that cornerstone of free thinking: doubt. Kevin Perry's "Philosophy" takes the reader on a grand tour of life's biggest questions, examining all that the world's greatest philosophers have said about life ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • An Introduction to Western Philosophy

    by Matt McGinniss ...
    For some people philosophy is everything. For others it's nothing. It's a subject that solves problems, causes arguments and even brings war. But what is philosophy, and who are the famous men and women who have changed our world with their ideas?In this eBook, you will find simple biographies and basic explanations of the ideas of twenty of the most important western philosophers. It can be read ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encyclopedia Of Philosophy: Eastern And Western Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Logic, Aesthetics, Marxism, Democracy & More (Mobi Reference)

    by MobileReference ...
    Encyclopedia of PhilosophyTABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Introduction II. Branches of Philosophy III. Schools of Thoughts IV. Political Philosophy V. Ancient Philosophy VI. Medieval Philosophy VII. Modern Philosophy List of Philosophers Glossary I. IntroductionIntroduction: Western philosophy Philosophical doctrines Ethics and political philosophy in the West Applied philosophy Eastern philosophy African ... Read more

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