What Is Sport

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300116047
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What is Sport? written by Roland Barthes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegant paperback gift edition, one of the major figures of 20th-century French literature and thought offers a poetic meditation on professional sport.

Author : D Josev Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733800907
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is Sport? written by D Josev Brewer and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a common misapprehension to try and distinguish activity as sport or not based on the degree of human athleticism or physicality required. This confusion leads inevitably to forced arguments from jocks and bullies about the dubious virility of soccer players or the prohibitions on crying in baseball in order to make the case for or against any particular activity. What is Sport?, however, recognizes that our intuition about sport turns on one very important test about the purpose of the activity rather than the physicalness or testosterone involved. John Forbes Nash Jr., or his adapted-screenplay version, once said, "Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter." From the beautiful mind of D. Josev Brewer comes this truly original idea, What is Sport? He has accomplished what some of the greatest thinkers in sports media, like Terry Bradshaw and Lou Ferrigno, could not. He has defined sport.

Author : Robert C.R. Siekmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9067048291
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lex Sportiva: What is Sports Law? written by Robert C.R. Siekmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The important theme “What is Sports Law?” was the topic of the international Conference on “The Concept of Lex Sportiva Revisited”, which took place in Jakarta in late 2010. Academics and practitioners are still in debate to agree on this concept as is evident in this book. This book not only contains the worked out contributions of this Conference, but also other related chapters on the subject. It produces a reassessment of the content of Sports Law and its terminology keeping a close eye on the current literature. The book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law Series, under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Robert Siekmann, Dr. Janwillem Soek and Marco van der Harst LL.M.

Author : Jonathan Fader
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0738218952
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life as Sport written by Jonathan Fader and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the key to success is enjoying what you do, with essential sports psychology techniques and their use in everyday life.

Author : Steffen Borge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042960212X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Football written by Steffen Borge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are the only creatures known to engage in sport. We are sporting animals, and our favourite pastime of football is the biggest sport spectacle on earth. The Philosophy of Football presents the first sustained, in-depth philosophical investigation of the phenomenon of football. In explaining the complex nature of football, the book draws on literature in sociology, history, psychology and beyond, offering real-life examples of footballing actions alongside illuminating thought experiments. The book is organized around four main themes considering the character, nature, analysis and aesthetics of football. It discusses football as an extra-ordinary, unnecessary, rule-based, competitive, skill-based physical activity, articulated as a social (as opposed to natural) kind that is fictional in character, and where fairness or fair play – contrary to much sport ethical discussion – is not centre stage. Football, it is argued, is a constructive- destructive contact sport and, in comparison to other sports, is lower scoring and more affected by chance. The latter presents to its spectators a more unpredictable game and a darker, more complex and denser drama to enjoy. The Philosophy of Football deepens our understanding of the familiar features of the game, offering novel interpretations on what football is, how and why we play it, and what the game offers its followers that makes us so eagerly await match day. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the world’s most popular game or in the philosophical or social study of sport.

Author : Ed Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141031859
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Sport Tells Us About Life written by Ed Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a huge category of sports fan: people who love a bloody good argument. Sport makes them think, engage and argue. Given that people already take sport so very seriously, and at such an intense level of enquiry, then Ed Smith concludes we should draw out some of sport's intellectual lessons and practical uses What Sport Teaches Us About Life gives us a rare glimpse into the world of sport as seen from an extraordinarily keen, and closely-involved observer. In one chapter Smith extols the virtues of amateurism in today's professional world; in another he explains why there'll never be another sportsman as dominant as Don Bradman. He unearths the hidden dimensions of England's 2005 Ashes win, examines the impact of the free market on cricket and football, argues that cheating is not always as clear cut as it might seem.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789241548052
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community-based Rehabilitation written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.

Author : Stuart Weir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841011486
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What the Book Says about Sport written by Stuart Weir and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of this popular book that takes a look at a Christian approach to sport in terms of theology and evangelism-sure to become increasingly relevant as the UK gears up for the 2012 Olympics. Published in conjunction with Christians in Sport.

Author : Andy Miles
Publisher : Coachwise 1st4sport
ISBN 13 : 9781902523514
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What is Sports Coaching? written by Andy Miles and published by Coachwise 1st4sport. This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter C. McIntosh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport in Society written by Peter C. McIntosh and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: