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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This engaging book argues that tourists - be they on a package tour or immersing themselves in local cultures - are not passive consumers of either destinations or their interpretations, but that they actively occupy a multi-sensory, embodied experience.Author: Stephen Wearing,Deborah Stevenson,Tamara YoungISBN-10: 0761949984ISBN-13:...

Clinical Exercise Science is an introduction to core principles and best practice in exercise science for students and practitioners working with clinical populations. Combining the latest scientific research with evidence-based, practitioner-led analysis, the book offers integrated coverage of the full clinical exercise curriculum, including:...

HOW TO USE SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE PLANNING AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES, ON YOUR QUEST TO MASTER CHESS STRATEGY Strategy - it's the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, and his subsequent career as star...

Author: Steven MageeISBN-10: 1453785442ISBN-13: 9781453785447Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2010Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.24d

Author: Margaret a. AdamsISBN-10: 1367313325ISBN-13: 9781367313323Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2016Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.45d

Internet Resources for Leisure and Tourism is designed to allow students, academics and practitioners within the leisure and tourism fields to get the very most out of the World Wide Web, helping them track down and fully exploit the most useful resources available. This...

Author: Michael K. SemiaoISBN-13: 9798994255124Publisher: Shadow Court PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2026Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Author: Micahel K. SemiaoISBN-13: 9798994255117Publisher: Shadow Court PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2026Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Thomas L. PelisseroISBN-13: 9798218642020Publisher: Sellar Street Boys Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2025Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

For decades, mental training books have reminded players that the greatest opponent is not across the net, but within. The Inner Way of Tennis, Sport, and Life takes that understanding further-into the deeper inner conflict that quietly blocks access to peak performance and the...

The Original Arkhangelsk anti-Ruy Lopez weapon is reached through the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 b5 6.Bb3 Bb7. It has been played as Black by many great players, including Carlsen, Anand, Caruana, Svidler, Ivanchuk, Pragg, Vachier-Lagrave, Shirov, Adams, Grischuk,...

What if we re-contextualized our relationship with our environment and became more curious, tactile, and imaginative? What if we imagined the urban environment as a playground-how would we move differently through it? Campusing: A Secret History & Buildering Guide to UC Berkeley attempts to...

Many athletes use foam rolling (FR) as a means of recovery after exercise or as a way to improve flexibility. While the effect of FR on flexibility has been extensively researched, there are still few studies that examine the potential for improving physical performance...

Glenn leads us through a clear process that delivers results, and a clear and precise methodology is laid out for you to follow. Nothing is left ambiguous or vague in this book. In the following chapters, Glenn explains which form of Chi generates movement...

Unlock the Thrill of Kayak Fishing with the Ultimate Beginner's Guide!Are you ready to dive into the exciting world of kayak fishing but don't know where to start?"Kayak Fishing for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Gear, Safety, Techniques, and Ethical Angling" is your comprehensive...

Embark on a captivating journey through 19th-century Norway with "Three In Norway," a delightful travelogue penned by James Arthur Lees and Walter J. Clutterbuck. This charming account invites readers to experience the wonders of the Scandinavian landscape through the eyes of intrepid explorers. Discover...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

This book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality. As an age-old art form, theatre has always embraced 'new' media. To create theatrical effects and optical illusions, theatre makers were ready to integrate state-of-the-art technics and technologies, and by doing so they playfully...

Author: Michael PinchbeckISBN-10: 3319979698ISBN-13: 9783319979694Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2018Pages: 265Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d

This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error. With striking interdisciplinary connections to theater treatises as well as works from the philosophical, legal, and medical discourses, it tracks the relocation of error from...

This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Through ethnographic, oral history-based research, it connects the veterans' wartime histories, memory politics, performance practices, recollections of imprisonment and torture, and social...

This book analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores crimes committed by professional criminals, nonprofessional criminals, businessmen, believers in a cause, the police, the Government, and prison officials. It examines punishments decreed by judges,...

This Palgrave Pivot surveys facts and cases exhibiting and exemplifying corruption in sport. The standard economic theory (economics of crime, game theory) is introduced alongside the economic methods (sanctions, etc.) which are currently derived from it to combat corrupt sport and their limitations. The...

This Palgrave Pivot provides a comprehensive overview of economic aspects to criminal behaviour in sport. It addresses manipulations, dysfunctions, distortions and crimes triggered by economic interests or pure greed in sports, and challenges the governance of this important industry. Topics covered include hazing, sabotage,...

In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex and class identities in politicized performances during key revolutionary moments in modern European history. The book includes discussions of sodomitical closet dramas from the decades surrounding...

This book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship. It argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, and features a diverse array of critical and fictional works, often...

This anthology explores how theatre and performance use home as the prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, cultural, and personal identity. Whether examining parlor dramas and kitchen sink realism, site-specific theatre, travelling tent shows, domestic labor, border performances, fences, or front yards,...

Amusing memories and reflections on the game he loves and the people he has met on and off the course by Jimmy Tarbuck, one of Britain's great comedians.Author: Jimmy TarbuckISBN-10: 1909040312ISBN-13: 9781909040311Publisher: Retro ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2012Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.27d

Short-listed for the North American Society for Sport History Book Award 2003. Alcohol is never far from sporting events. Although popular thinking on the effects of drinking has changed considerably over time, throughout history sport and alcohol have been intimately linked. The Victorians, for...

An inclination to view games and sport as ephemeral, non-serious, and inconsequential has served to discourage the distinctive contribution that anthropology might make to the study of sport, as well as the rich insights that a fuller appreciation of sport might furnish to anthropology....

The Collector's Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting...

This book is needed to help guide the conversation around ways to address the great disparities that impact African American males in intercollegiate athletics. In particular, scholars and practitioners have grappled with issues surrounding the climate and opportunities presented to African American males as...

Featured in the New York Daily News! Twenty-five years ago, Rich O'Malley combined his two great loves - sports and travel - into one "superhobby," launching a lifelong dream of seeing a home game for every franchise in American professional sports. Ever watch a...

For at least a century, across the United States, Mexican American athletes have actively participated in community-based, interscholastic, and professional sports. The people of the ranchos and the barrios have used sport for recreation, leisure, and community bonding. Until now, though, relatively few historians...

DescriptionA unique combination of history, biography, bibliography, and statistics, the widely acclaimed first edition of Outstanding Women Athletes has now been updated to reflect the many significant changes that have taken place in women's sports in America in recent years. Now added are the...

For reference librarians and researchers seeking information on sports and fitness, this guide is an important first stop. For collection development specialists, it is an invaluable selection guide. Allen describes and evaluates over 1,000 information sources on the complete spectrum of sports: from basketball,...

Just like life in the real world, it pays to have connections. Knowing the right people can help launch careers that may not have gotten off the ground otherwise. Those connections don't just bring opportunities but a wealth of knowledge as well. This experience...

A Child's Way to Water Play presents to parents an enjoyable, common sense approach to water play for their infants and pre-school children. Learn how the sink, bathtub, shower, inflatable pool, sprinklers and many more environments can be used for this activity. Parent concerns...

This antiquarian book contains a practical guide to keeping and caring for finches, being a handy collection of tips and helpful hints for the breeding, feeding, and training of these beautiful birds. This volume contains a wealth of information on all types of common...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: C. F. KirkusISBN-10: 1447400216ISBN-13: 9781447400219Publisher:...

"Let's Dance" is a fantastic vintage guide to social dancing. It has step-by-step instructions for a variety of traditional dances, as well chapters on history, popularity, general remarks, and much more. This volume is highly recommended for novices and veteran dancers looking to expand...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: S. G. GoldschmidtISBN-10:...

This early work is a comprehensive study of the history of dance thoroughly recommended for the bookshelf of the dance enthusiast. Extensively illustrated with text and full page photographs. Contents Include: Historical Aspects - The Dance in Shaker Ritual; John Durang-The First American Dancer;...

Written by the author of the famous The Gun and Its Development. Over 100 illustrations. The detailed contents cover a wide range of subjects: Central Fire Guns - Breech Loading Shotguns - The Bacon, Horsley, Wesson, Allen and Abbey Breech Loaders - Gun Powder...

Author: Lois CantwellISBN-10: 1435889436ISBN-13: 9781435889439Publisher: Rosen Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2002Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.26d

This volume consists of outstanding essays by contemporary scholars and specialists on classic writings in law and society. This second edition expands the previous volume by adding additional statements. Included are commentaries on Edward A. Ross's Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of...