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Instant Blues
(The Play By Ear Series)
by Les Horan, Layla Horan, Douglas P. Booth
Paperback, 115 Pages, Published 1993 by St Martins Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-09315-0, ISBN: 0-312-09315-2






The Field(1st Edition)
Truth and Fiction in Sport History
by Douglas Booth
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-28228-4, ISBN: 0-415-28228-4

"2006 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year The literature on sport history is now well established, taking in a wide range of themes and covering every activity from aerobics to zorbing. However, in comparison to most mainstream histories, sport history has rarely been called upon to question its foundations and account for the basis of its historical knowledge. In this book, Booth offers a rigorous assessment of s ..."






Australian Beach Cultures
The History of Sun, Sand and Surf (Sport in the Global Society)
by Douglas Booth
Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-7146-8178-8, ISBN: 0-7146-8178-4

"Australians are surrounded by beaches. But this enclosure is more than a geographical fact for the inhabitants of an island continent; the beach is an integral part of the cultural envelope. This work analyzes the history of the beach as an integral aspect of Australian culture."






Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports
by Douglas Booth, Holly Thorpe
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2007 by Berkshire Publishing Group Llc
ISBN-13: 978-0-9770159-5-5, ISBN: 0-9770159-5-5

"The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports provides the first international survey of extreme sports, which include a wide variety of physical pursuits and activities such as bungee jumping, dirt biking, sky surfing, and rock climbing: individualist, adventure-type sports rather than traditional team sports. "Extreme" also refers to the antisocial attitudes and uncompromising values associated with these new sports, attitudes and valu ..."






How to Land a Top-Paying Cage Cashiers Job
Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What To
by Douglas Booth
Published 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4861-0303-4, ISBN: 1-4861-0303-0






The Field
Truth and Fiction in Sport History
by Douglas Booth
352 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-45938-4, ISBN: 1-134-45938-6

"Harris's narrative, particularly in the way that he evokes sports, suggests that beneath the surface, Native Americans and African Americans shared common interests at a particular moment of danger in relation to racial politics. Bloom finds further support for his argument in Harris' decision to stay at Hampton after the federal government, fearful of, in Harris' words, 'Indians ... intermarry[ing] ... Negroes', refused to financi ..."






The Field(1st Edition)
Truth and Fiction in Sport History
by Douglas Booth
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-28227-7, ISBN: 0-415-28227-6

"2006 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year The literature on sport history is now well established, taking in a wide range of themes and covering every activity from aerobics to zorbing. However, in comparison to most mainstream histories, sport history has rarely been called upon to question its foundations and account for the basis of its historical knowledge. In this book, Booth offers a rigorous assessment of s ..."






The Race Game
Sport and Politics in South Africa (Sport in the Global Society)
by Douglas Booth
Hardcover, 284 Pages, Published 1998 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-7146-4799-9, ISBN: 0-7146-4799-3

"1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the YearDouglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. He analyzes the effect of the 30-year sport boycott but concludes that sport will never unite South Africans except in the most fleeting and superficial manner."






Routledge Handbook of Sport History
by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth, Carly Adams
430 Pages, Published 2021 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-00-044161-1, ISBN: 1-00-044161-X

"After 20 years as SHR's editor-in-chief, Morrow stepped down as editor but before leaving the journal he decided that a ... He also called upon two long-time, editorial review board members – Colin Howell and Ann Hall – to help identify ..."






Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body
Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Critical Issues in Sport and Society)
by David Andrews, Joshua I. Newman, Holly Thorpe, Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S. Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark, Simon C. Darnell, Samantha Frost, Simone Fullagar, Pirkko Markula, Mary G. Mcdonald, Jennifer Sterling, Christopher Mcleod, Matthew G. Hawzen, Richard Pringle, Oliver Rick, Jacob J. Bustad, Samantha King, Shannon Leigh Jette, Katelyn Esmonde, Carolyn Pluim, Gavin Weedon, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2020 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9181-0, ISBN: 0-8135-9181-3

"The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social clas ..."






Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body
Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Critical Issues in Sport and Society)
by David Andrews, Joshua I. Newman, Holly Thorpe, Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S. Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark, Simon C. Darnell, Samantha Frost, Simone Fullagar, Pirkko Markula, Mary G. Mcdonald, Jennifer Sterling, Christopher Mcleod, Matthew G. Hawzen, Richard Pringle, Oliver Rick, Jacob J. Bustad, Samantha King, Shannon Leigh Jette, Katelyn Esmonde, Carolyn Pluim, Gavin Weedon
Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2020 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9182-7, ISBN: 0-8135-9182-1

"The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social clas ..."






New Zealand and the Sea
Historical Perspectives
by Atholl Anderson, Tony Ballantyne, Julie Benjamin, Douglas Booth, Chris Brickell, Peter Gilderdale, David Haines, Susan Liebich, Alison Macdiarmid, Ben Maddison, Angela Mccarthy, Grace Millar, Damon Salesa, Jonathan Scott, Michael J. Stevens, Jonathan West
384 Pages, Published 2018 by Bridget Williams Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-947518-71-4, ISBN: 0-947518-71-1

"James Spencer's friend and collaborator, Captain William Stirling, can also be thought of as the town's founder, or at least ... Marleen Boyd, Librarian at the Bill Laxon Maritime Library based at the New Zealand Maritime Museum, is unable to  ..."






Race Game, the
Sport and Politics in South Africa
by Douglas Booth
Published 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1-283-89069-4, ISBN: 1-283-89069-0






Routledge Film Guidebooks Ser.
James Cameron
by Alexandra Keller, Douglas Booth
208 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-70014-1, ISBN: 1-134-70014-8

"While some saw this as cause for alarm, many did not, and Universal executives pointed to King Kong's similarities to Titanic: its cost overruns, its three- hour-plus running time, its widespread critical acclaim and good con- sumer word of mouth, its less than spectacular first weekend, all of which suggested Jackson's film might enjoy the same longevity as Cameron's.60 That, like Jackson's successful Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ki ..."






Sport in the Global Society
Race Game: Sport and Politics in South Africa
by Douglas Booth
Published 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-203-04447-6, ISBN: 0-203-04447-9






Sport in the Global Society
Australian Beach Cultures: the History of Sun, Sand and Surf
by Douglas Booth
Published 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-203-04559-6, ISBN: 0-203-04559-9






Sport in the Global Society
The Race Game : Sport and Politics in South Africa
by Douglas Booth
272 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-136-31347-9, ISBN: 1-136-31347-8

"1, 1991, p. 12. Moodie, The Rise of Afrikanerdom, p. 248. Odendaal, 'Black Victorians', pp. 199-200. André Odendaal, Vukani Bantu. The Beginnings of Black Protest Politics in South Africa to 1912 (Cape Town, 1984). Odendaal, ' Black Victorians', p. 200. Ibid., p. 201. Marks and Rathbone, 'Introduction', p. 20. Roux, Longer Than Rope, pp. 72-3. Bill Freund, The Making of Contemporary Africa (London, 1984), p. 103. Tom Lodge, Black Po ..."






The Race Game
Sport and Politics in South Africa
by Douglas Booth
272 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-136-31354-7, ISBN: 1-136-31354-0

"69.Albert Grundlingh, 'Playing for Power? Rugby, Afrikaner Nationalism and Masculinity in South Africa, C.1900C.1970', in Nauright and Chandler,Making Men, p. 196. 70. Lapchick,The Politics ofRace, pp.1914 and 13940. 71.Sam Ramsamy, 'Racial Discrimination in South AfricanSport', United Nations Centre against Apartheid, Notes and Documents 8/80 (1980). 72. Lapchick, The Politics ofRace, p. 169. 73.Ivor Wilkins and Hans Strydom, The ..."






Sport in the Global Society
Australian Beach Cultures : The History of Sun, Sand and Surf
by Douglas Booth
284 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-136-33840-3, ISBN: 1-136-33840-3

"Several historians and sociologists have examined the place of the beach in Australian national identity (Fiske, et al., Myths of Oz, pp. ... Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Free Press, 1965). ... 4-5). For a brief semiotic interpretation of the Australian beach see, Fiske, et al., Myths of Oz, p. 59. Kroeber and Kluckholm, Culture, p. 181. Talcott Parsons, The Social System (London: Routledg ..."






Australian Beach Cultures
The History of Sun, Sand and Surf
by Douglas Booth
Published 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-283-88767-0, ISBN: 1-283-88767-3



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