[PDF] Playing With The Big Boys eBook

Author : Lou Antolihao
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803255462

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""Playing with the Big Boys" traces the development of basketball in the Philippines from an educational tool during the early period of American colonial rule in the early twentieth century to a ubiquitous national pastime"--

Author : Gillian Bendelow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1134774168

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The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life as they hold the key to our understanding of social processes and sociological investigation. First published in 1997, Emotions in Social Life consolidates the sociology of emotions as a legitimate and viable field of enquiry. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the sociology of emotions using work from scholars of international stature, as well as newer writers in the field. It presents new empirical research in conjunction with innovative and challenging theoretical material, and will be essential reading for students of sociology, health psychology, anthropology and gender studies.

Author : George Djuric
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2001-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1420897926

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Riding With the Big Boys is a real-life account of an aspiring novelist trying to support his family by driving an eighteen-wheeler across the country, while waiting for publishers' response to his first U.S. novel. It is written in the shape of a diary, as a mixture of daily duties, falling hopes, financial stress, and panoramic sceneries shifting one after another, from Big Planes to the Rockies, from Newark Airport to Columbia River. It also reveals the parallel world of one of America's most impressive sub-societies, the life of the Big Boys - long distance truckers who spend the best years of their lives living inside their "sleepers."

Author : Steven Blush
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1932595988

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"American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"—Paper magazine Steven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics–distributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, thirty new interviews, flyers, a new chapter ("Destroy Babylon"), and a new art gallery with over 125 rare photos and images.

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1603789383

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(Easy Piano Vocal Selections). Selections from the acclaimed DreamWorks animated film include all feature songs by Stephen Schwartz including the Oscar-winning "When You Believe" as well as themes from the Hans Zimmer soundtrack. Illustrated throughout with full-color reproductions of the stunning artwork!

Author : Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1498536662

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This interdisciplinary case study invokes historical, sociological, and anthropological means to examine the ascendance of the United States to a world power in its first imperial venture. In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 the U.S. acquired and occupied the Philippine Islands for nearly a half century in an attempt to install a democratic form of government, a capitalist economy, the Protestant religion, and a particular value system. Sport became a primary means to achieve such goals, fostered initially by the military, and then widely promoted in the schools and the YMCA. Competitive programs, including international athletic spectacles, channeled Filipino nationalism against Asian rivals rather than the American occupiers as guerrilla warfare ensued in the islands. The strategies learned in the Philippines, now known as “soft power” remain prominent factors in current American foreign policy.

Author : Koji Kobayashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1000372200

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What does the ‘Asian’ mean in Asian sport celebrity? With a collection of nine essays on Asian sport celebrities variously associated with Australia, Belgium, China, Japan, New Zealand, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-faceted construction of what it means to be Asian from the perspectives of race, ethnicity and regionality. Sport celebrity, as a modern invention, is disseminated from the West to the rest of the globe including Asia, and so are its functions of symbolizing particular values, desires and personalities idolized and idealized within their respective societies. While Asian athletes were historically depicted as weak, fragile and biologically ‘unsuited’ to modern sport, the emergence of more than a few world-class Asian athletes in the twenty-first century demands an in-depth inquiry into the relationship between sport celebrity and the representation of Asia. This book is therefore essential for those interested in a range of socio-cultural issues—including globalization, transnationalism, migration, modernity, (post-)coloniality, gender politics, spectacle, citizenship, Orientalism, and nationalism—within and beyond Asia. It was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : George Aichele
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781563383540

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An intertextual examination of popular films and scripture.