Masters of the Games : Essays and Stories on Sport 9781442236547, 9781442236530

In this collection, his twenty-fifth book, Joseph Epstein departs from writing about literature and culture to indulge h

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Masters of the Games : Essays and Stories on Sport
9781442236547, 9781442236530

The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring fe

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This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and c

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This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors prob

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In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural un

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From Duke Ellington to Churchill Downs, championship golf to Greta Garbo, Alistair Cooke reports on the popular sports a

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One of the meanings of the word ‘olio’ is ‘a miscellany’. The books in the Aleph Olio series contain a mélange of the be

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An important credo of Native American life states that you can learn while you play and play while you learn. Readers wi

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This new book brings together leading and innovative thinkers in the field of teaching and sport coaching pedagogy to pr

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Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the British, says Ashis Nandy, defying history, in this delightful

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