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  • A Cold War In The Soviet Bloc

    Polish-east German Relations, 1945-1962

    In A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Sheldon Anderson uses recently declassified documents from Polish and East German communist party and foreign ministry archives to examine the interplay of national interests with the exigencies of communist party relations within the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Anderson explores how Polish-East German relations were strained over the permanence of the Oder ... Read more

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  • Schools for Scandal

    The Dysfunctional Marriage of Division I Sports and Higher Education

    Series series Sports and American Culture
    For well over a century, big-time college sports has functioned as a business enterprise, one that serves to undermine the mission of institutions of higher education.This book chronicles the long and tortured history of the NCAA’s attempt to maintain the myth of amateurism and the student-athlete, along with the attendant fiction that the players’ academic achievement is the top priority of ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh

    The Greatest Female Athlete of Her Time

    Stella Walsh, who was born in Poland but raised in the United States, competed for Poland at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, winning gold and silver in the 100 meters. Running and jumping competitively for three decades, Walsh also won more than 40 U.S. national championships and set dozens of world records. In 1975, she was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, yet Stella Walsh’s ... Read more

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  • The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports

    This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. The book focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, the particular processes by which the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • 5 a Day = Fluent in a Year

    Have you ever wanted to learn a foreign language but you were overwhelmed because you thought it would take forever? Were you curious about how many words that it would take for you to be considered fluent? Did you give up before you even started because you didn't know where to begin? Here is a simple method that I have for you. I call it 5 a day=fluent in a year All you have to do is learn ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree

    My Basketball Odyssey

    Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree chronicles Sheldon Anderson’s basketball career from grade school in small-town Moorhead, Minnesota, in the 1960s, to inner-city high school and college ball in Minneapolis, to a professional career in West Germany, and finally to communist Poland, where he did PhD research while on a basketball junket behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s.Because he was the ... Read more

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  • International Studies

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues

    This book provides a much-needed classroom text in international studies that is genuinely interdisciplinary in its approach.International Studies focuses specifically on five core disciplines; history, geography, anthropology, political science and economics, and describes them in relation to one another, as well as their individual and collective contributions to the study of global issues. The ... Read more

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  • Forgotten Ones

    Drabbles of Myth and Legend

    The battle is upon us, and the old gods are waking.Within these pages gods of fable, creatures of lore, and ancient rituals have been brought back to life in over two hundred drabbles of exactly one hundred words each.Tremble as you rediscover the darkness that came before, the darkness that could eat the world. Delve into the madness created by award-winning horror and fiction authors from around ... Read more

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  • Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

    11th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 19–21, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2018, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in January 2018.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 299 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical ... Read more

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  • Twin Cities Sports

    Games for All Seasons

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    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the hub of interwar speedskating, the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the building of a world-renowned park system, the Minneapolis ... Read more

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    We all want to believe. The truth is still out there.The X-Files have been reopened. IDW Publishing and series creator Chris Carter have authorized new investigations into the weird, the strange, and the mysterious. New York Times bestselling author and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry brings together some of today's top storytellers for a series of anthologies featuring all-new ... Read more

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