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  • A Guide to the SIAC Arbitration Rules

    This is the first text to provide a comprehensive rule-by-rule commentary of the inception, interpretation, and application of the SIAC Rules, written by practitioners with extensive experience in South East Asia arbitrations . Practical and strategic in approach, this book provides useful guidance for practitioners whilst also delivering commentary and thematic analysis to highlight the ... Leer más

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  • Leading Lesson Study

    A Practical Guide for Teachers and Facilitators

    "Provides readers with a compelling rationale for the process, offers experience-tested tools, and suggests ways to address commonly-occurring challenges. This book will assist teachers, and those who support them, in understanding and implementing all phases of lesson study, from initial planning through sharing with others what was learned."—Dennis Sparks, Executive DirectorNational Staff ... Leer más

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  • Olympic Aspirations

    Realised and Unrealised

    Edición de J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. One section of the Forum was devoted to the impact of the Olympic Movement on China ... Leer más

    $62.99 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

  • Sport and American Society

    Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’

    Edición de Mark Dyreson, J. A. Mangan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the contributors outline the story of how American sport has contributed to a climate of insularity, exceptionalism ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Mapping an Empire of American Sport

    Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through American pastimes such as baseball, basketball and the American variant of football in particular, the U.S ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems

    6th International Conference, Living Machines 2017, Stanford, CA, USA, July 26–28, 2017, Proceedings

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2017, held in Stanford, CA, USA, in July 2017.The 42 full and 19 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The theme of the conference encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair and recycling inspired by ... Leer más

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    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

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  • The John Carlos Story

    The Sports Moment That Changed the World

    "A powerful and poignant memoir" of an African American athlete who defied the establishment—decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Race Matters).An NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/AutobiographyJohn Carlos was a bronze medalist in the two hundred-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, but he is remembered for more than his ... Leer más

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  • La Roja

    How Soccer Conquered Spain and How Spanish Soccer Conquered the World

    de Jimmy Burns ...
    La Roja is bestselling author Jimmy Burns tremendous opus on Spanish soccer. From its early beginnings when the first soccer on the shores of Bilbao and Buenos Aires was played by British sailors and engineers, through to the influx of South American stars, and similarly inspirational Italians, Dutchman and Scandinavians, Burns show how the engagement of foreigners with home-grown Spanish talent ... Leer más

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  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Alan Knight ...
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    The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940. Taking account of these divergent interpretations, this Very Short Introduction offers a succinct ... Leer más

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  • Capoeira

    The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Originally the preserve of Afro-Brazilian slaves, the marginalized and the underclasses in Brazilian society, capoeira is now a mainstream sport, taught in Brazilian schools and practised by a range of social classes around the world. Some advocates now seek Olympic recognition for Capoeira. This apparent change in the meaning and purpose of Capeoira has led to conflicts between traditionalists, ... Leer más

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