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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 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 ..."






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 ..."






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
Truth and Fiction in Sport History
by Douglas Booth
352 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-45937-7, ISBN: 1-134-45937-8

"Ian Harriss also addresses the issueof postmodern superficiality inhis analysisof oneday cricket, although this tooraises issues. According to Harriss, onedaycricket exhibits several unique characteristics. Among them are the negation of individual strategies, particularlythose pertaining to batting (the oneday version confines batters''portfolio of strokes' as thegame draws to its maximum fiftyovers),and a technological infrastruc ..."






The Field
Truth and Fiction in Sport History
by Douglas Booth
352 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-203-09997-1, ISBN: 0-203-09997-4

"Hamilton, Carolyn, '“Living by Fluidity”: Oral Histories, Material Custodies and the Politics of Archiving', in Carolyn Hamilton, ... Harris, Verne, 'A Shaft of Darkness: Derrida in the Archive', in Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Jane Taylor, Michele ..."






The Field
Truth and Fiction in Sport History
by Douglas Booth
Published 2005
ISBN-13: 978-1-281-15828-4, ISBN: 1-281-15828-3






Land Trusts and Biodiversity
by Douglas E. Booth
Paperback, 314 Pages, Published 2007 by Booksurge Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-4196-6261-4, ISBN: 1-4196-6261-9

"Land trusts are a new and growing phenomenon and are not yet much studied by academics. This book provides an entry point into the world of land trusts and biodiversity for anyone (i) doing academic work in the conservation sciences, (ii) taking their first job with a land trust and in need of an overview of the topic, or (iii) who has a general interest in land conservation and the protection of biological resources. The book sets out ..."






Hooked on Growth(1st Edition)
Economic Addictions and the Environment
by Douglas E. Booth
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-2718-8, ISBN: 0-7425-2718-2






Decoding Your Dreams
by Ray Douglas, Stuart Booth, Steinar Lund, Lynne Milton
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2006 by Sterling
ISBN-13: 978-1-4027-2282-0, ISBN: 1-4027-2282-6






The Environmental Consequences of Growth
Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline
by Douglas Booth
Ebook, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-70017-2, ISBN: 1-134-70017-2

"Nonetheless, surprisingly little has been said by economists about the macroeconomics of modern environmental problems. Although such problems are seen by most economists as fundamentally microeconomic, there are dissenters, ..."






The Environmental Consequences of Growth
Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline
by Douglas Booth
Ebook, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-70018-9, ISBN: 1-134-70018-0

"The opportunity to experience the true prairie landscape with its full complement of species has been lost. Similarly, the true prairie ecosystem with its full complement of species and all their interactions has been lost. An ecosystem fragment is ..."

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