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  • Blood and Guts to Glory--a History of Sports

    Sport Science Series

    de Gerald Gems ...
    Series series Sport Science Series
    Dr. Gerald Gems is one of the premier sports historians in the world. In this book, the first video text in sport history, we can see videos of how ancient and modern games have been played. But he goes beyond the sport, looking at the cultural background in which the sports have been played. We see ancient sports from China, India and the Americas and we follow the evolution of sports through the ... Leer más

    $2.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sports--Blood and Guts to Glory

    de Gerald Gems ...
    One of the world's foremost sports historians, Professor Gems has written a readable, fully illustrated book on sports history. It is the first video text in the field in which the reader can see authentic reenactments of ancient sports and videos of modern sport. It is written as a textbook for college classes in sport history and for the general public who are interested in modern and ancient ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Turnen around the World

    de Gerald Gems, Karl Graf, Wendy Gray, Rob Hess, Alec Hurley, Toshiyuki Ichibai, Michael Krüger, Gertrud Pfister, Josef Ulfkotte, Lothar Wieser0, Annette R. Hofmann2, Evelise Amgarten Quitzau3, Robert K. Barney4 ...
    Series series Sport, Identity, and Culture
    Turnen around the World represents an international effort by an assemblage of prominent sport historians to detail and assess the worldwide scope, effects, and residual influences of the German Turnen movement over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A male nationalistic movement based on gymnastics and other physical activities established in response to the Napoleonic wars ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

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  • The Games

    de David Goldblatt ...
    “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

    Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

    Edición de J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • A Great Game

    The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey

    de Stephen J. Harper ...
    Drawing on extensive archival records and illustrations, histories of the sport, and newspaper files, Canada’s Prime Minister delves into the fascinating early years of ice hockey.In the tumultuous beginnings of hockey, the fights were as much off the ice as on it. This engaging new book is about the hockey heroes and hard-boiled businessmen who built the game, and the rise and fall of legendary ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Sport

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Mike Cronin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Sport is big business; international in nature and the focus of much media and cultural attention. In this Very Short Introduction, Mike Cronin charts the history of sport, from its traditional origins in folk football and cock fighting to its position as a global phenomenon today. Looking at a variety of sports from team games such as rugby, cricket, and football to games for individuals such as ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Ball

    Discovering the Object of the Game

    de John Fox ...
    Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer a question inspired by his sports-loving son:"Why do we play ball?"From Mexican jungles to the small-town gridirons of Ohio, frommedieval villages and royal courts to modern soccer pitches andbaseball parks, The Ball explores the little-known origins ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Olympics, A Very Peculiar History

    de David Arscott ...
    Series Libro 2 - A Very Peculiar History
    From its beginnings in Ancient Greek antiquity, right up to its arrival in Great Britain, the home of so many modern sports and favoured pastimes, the Olympic Games have always been a grand and exciting spectacle, whether you're watching a no-holds-barred wrestling match or a mesmerising, freewheeling gymnast. 'The Olympics, A Very Peculiar History' gives an overview of the strange, the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Past Mistakes

    How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters

    de David Mountain ...
    **'A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega, author of The Middle AgesFrom the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.**The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpretations that have whitewashed entire chapters of history, erased ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Canada's Game

    Hockey and Identity

    de Andrew C. Holman ...
    Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of World Sport

    Edición de David H Levinson ...
    This convenient book provides fascinating information about sports throughout the world. Over 245 separate pieces written by the world's greatest authorities offer everything you could possibly want to know about hundreds of sports, including traditional sports and national games, and sporting events. Each entry includes an introduction to the sport, followed by details of its history, the rules ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD