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  • Bullfighting and Evolution

    by Jack Nelson ...
    Bullfighting is more than a bloody spectacle. It must be seen in a context going back to pre-history, and extending into our distant future. Biology, ecology, economics, evolution,and more. Our own nature is tied to the picture. ... Read more

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  • Interviews mit starken Frauen: Sportlerinnen

    Das vorliegende Ebook enthält Interviews die ich zwischen 2003 und 2005 mit starken Frauen wie Boxerinnen, Gewichtheberinnen, Siebenkämpferinnen oder Bodybuilderinnen geführt habe. ... Read more

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  • Digital Business Models in Sport

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management
    Digital technologies are having a profound impact on sport business, opening up new opportunities to generate income and value. This book explores the phenomenon of digitization in sport management, with a particular focus on business models and how they are being transformed in this new digital era.The book explains how business models describe and underpin contemporary sport business, and how ... Read more

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  • Heroic Journey: Finding the Will to Survive in the Wilderness

    by Kurt Thompson ...
    Wilderness survival guides consistently identify the will to live as the most important factor for overcoming an emergency. Knowledge, skill, and equipment are always considered as secondary. However, the ever increasing number of survival guides rarely devote more than half a sentence to the subject, preferring instead to move on to skill and equipment.Survival guides say little if anything about ... Read more

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  • 1回30秒! 自分で治せる腰痛ストレッチ 腰痛・坐骨神経痛の痛みがみるみる消える古武術式腰痛体操メソッド

    by 志田 清之 ...
    改善率90.8%の「完治プログラム」とは?医師も学ぶ古武術式メソッドを伝授。読者特典ビデオセミナー付き!【本文より】あなたに質問します。もしも腰痛から完全卒業できたら?腰痛で失っていた物を取り戻せるとしたら?あきらめかけていた好きな事がまた楽しめるとしたら?人生の残り時間を充実感に満ち溢れたものに出来るはずです。ぜひ「完治プログラム」を実践して「腰痛知らずの体」を手に入れてください。〈本書の学び方と「完治プログラム」メニュー実践方法〉本書のプログラムは、間違いゼロで実践効果を100%引き出すために2つの学習プログラム構成としました。2つの学習プログラムとは、本書による「テキスト解説」と「ビデオセミナー」です。まず教科書である「本書」で正確な理論を吸収する。そして「ビデオセミナー」では、テキスト解説では理解できなかった部分を動画解説により完全に会得します。一見難しい「古武術式 ... Read more

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  • Фитнес-цели и как их достичь

    Статья о том, как правильно навести порядок в тренировочном процессе, при столь длинной дороге, под названием «Фитнес».Чтобы избежать пустой траты времени и возможных травм, необходимо уделить время, в построении правильной программы. В статье указаны три основных и наиболее популярные методики тренировочного процесса: похудение, набор мышечной массы, повышение силовых способностей. Что ... Read more

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  • Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice

    Edited by Timothy Kellison ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums, and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color. Offering a series of review articles and global case studies, it illustrates what happens when sport organizations and other public and private stakeholders fail to factor environmental justice into their planning and operations processes.It opens with an ... Read more

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  • The Set Point

    Securing the future of volleyball

    "This book examines the trail blazed by the FIVB that culminated in the partnership with CVC Capital Partners. The authors explain each step of the way from the moment the FIVB's President acknowledged the lack of financial sustainability to secure the future of volleyball and his courageous decision to develop a new event based on cutting-edge technology, which led to financial innovation. The ... Read more

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  • An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 1

    Overview

    Series series Economy and Social Inclusion
    This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volumes that follow, individuals with an intellectual disability tell their life stories, while their family members, teachers, classmates, and co-workers describe their professional, academic, and family ... Read more

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  • Sport, Identity and Inclusion in Europe

    The Experiences of LGBTQ People in Sport

    Edited by Ilse Hartmann-Tews ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book explores and critically assesses the challenges and experiences of LGBTQ people within sport in Europe. It presents cutting-edge research data and insights from across the continent, with a focus on sport policy, sport systems, and issues around anti-discrimination and inclusion.The book introduces the theoretical and methodological foundations of research into LGBTQ people in sport and ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Research in Gambling

    Exploring the production and consumption of risk

    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and technologies, regulatory models, changing ... Read more

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  • Action Sports and the Olympic Games

    Past, Present, Future

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first action sports to those featuring for the first time in the Tokyo Olympic Games and beyond.In an effort to remain relevant to younger audiences, four new action sports, surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing, and BMX ... Read more

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  • Martial Arts and Well-being

    Connecting communities and promoting health

    Martial Arts and Well-Being explores how martial arts as a source of learning can contribute in important ways to health and well-being, as well as provide other broader social benefits. Using psychological and sociological theory related to behaviour, ritual, perception and reality construction, the book seeks to illustrate, with empirical data, how individuals make sense of and perceive the ... Read more

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  • The Ponytail

    Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman

    Series series Cultural Sociology
    This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in sports and society, Broch uncovers this hairstyle’s polyvocality and argues that it is a total social phenomenon. By separating his approach from the cultural studies tradition, Broch highlights how hair is imbued with ... Read more

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  • TOP 5 Abnehmmethoden

    Endlich wieder glücklich werden

    by John Tough ...
    Du hast dir fest vorgenommen endlich etwas Sport zu treiben und das Gewicht um den ein oder anderen Kilo zu reduzieren? Gar nicht so einfach da das richtige Programm zu finden! Deshalb will ich dir mit meinem Buch helfen und dir dir 5 besten Abnehmmethoden vorstellen, mit denen du deine Ziele endlich erreichen kannst! ... Read more

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  • Sport For Business & Business For Sport

    by Andy Whipp ...
    Learn how business and sport are totally linked and how you can considerably improve one by addressing the other.For more information visit: www.play2urstrengths.com ... Read more

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  • Attack of the Flying Squirrel People!

    This essay won the Grand Conference Award at the 2008 Arkansas Writers Conference for sports comedy. It details all the stuff the short description covered, plus more. I hope you enjoy, but please: don't try this at home. ... Read more

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  • Games Without Frontiers?

    Socio-historical Perspectives at the Gaming/Gambling Intersection

    Series series Leisure Studies in a Global Era
    This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and gaming, Wardle traces how we got here. She argues that the intersection between gambling and gaming cultures has a long lineage, one that can be traced back throughout the 20th ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Soldier (Part 1 of 3): He wasn’t a soldier, he was just a boy

    Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.But this is not just his story; it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who fought and bravely died for their countryThe Forgotten Soldier tells the story of Private Edward Connelly, ... Read more

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  • Sport, Forced Migration and the 'Refugee Crisis'

    Series series Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
    Drawing on original research, this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes, patterns and outcomes of forced migration and the 'refugee crisis'.Adopting a systems theory framework and examining different sport disciplines, performance levels and settings, it represents a significant contribution to our understanding of one of the most urgent social issues facing the modern ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Sport and the Environment

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The natural environment is a central issue in both academic and wider societal discourse. The global sport industry is not immune from this discussion and has to confront its responsibility to reduce its impact on the natural environment. This book goes further than any other in surveying both the challenges and the opportunities presented to the sports industry as it engages with the ... Read more

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  • Political Expression in Sport

    Transnational Challenges, Moral Defences

    by Cem Abanazir ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    This powerful new book looks at how private institutions governing and organising sport restrict political expression. Uniquely, it makes a case for the freedom of expression for athletes, spectators and audiences built upon philosophical foundations.In the era of Colin Kaepernick and taking a knee, politics and protest in sport have never been more visible and immediate. Drawing on a wide range ... Read more

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  • Jews in the Gym

    Judaism, Sports, and Athletics

    Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish Civilization
    For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in-and thinking about-sports for more than two thousand years.The articles in this volume scan a wide chronological range: from the Hellenistic period (first century BCE) to the most recent basketball season. The range ... Read more

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  • Sport, Gender and Development

    Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories

    Series series Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.In a context where striving for gender equity in relation to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals seems more pressing than ever before, Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories brings together an exploration of sport feminisms ... Read more

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