[PDF] This Artful Sport eBook

Author : Paul Schullery
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1493085387

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Two of America’s foremost fly-fishing authors join forces in this unique book offering guidance to others who aspire to write about fly fishing. Paul Schullery and Steve Raymond, both members of the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame, have separately written many fly-fishing books, both fiction and nonfiction, and edited three fly-fishing magazines. Here they offer the benefit of their many years of experience to help others who aspire to write about the sport, including everything you need to know about developing your personal writing style, how to write and sell fly-fishing magazine articles or books, how to find publishers, how to promote and sell your work, or how to self-publish.

Author : Kitrina Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1134622813

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What is life really like for the elite athlete? How does the experience of being a professional sports person differ from the popular perceptions of fans, journalists or academics? Why might elite sports people experience mental health difficulties away from the public gaze? In the first book-length study of its kind, Kitrina Douglas and David Carless present the life stories of real elite athletes alongside careful analysis and interpretation of those stories in order to better understand the experience of living in sport. Drawing on psychology, sociology, counselling, psychotherapy and narrative theory, and on narrative research in sports as diverse as golf, track and field athletics, judo and hockey, they explore the ways in which the culture of sport interacts with the mental health, development, identity and life trajectories of elite and professional sports people in highly pressurised and sometimes unhealthy environments. By casting light on a previously under-researched aspect of sport, the book makes a call for strategies to be put in place to minimise difficulties or distress for athletes, for support to be tailored across the different life phases, and highlights the potential benefits in terms of athlete well-being and improved performance. The book also considers how these important issues relate to broader cultural and social factors, and therefore represents important reading for any student or professional with an interest in sport psychology, coaching, sport sociology, youth sport, counselling, or exercise and mental health.

Author : W Robert Griffiths
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2024-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1035845121

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Beyond the Concept of Sport challenges tired assumptions about athletics to unveil sports’ underestimated yet far-reaching social impact and philosophical significance. While governments downplay its influence, author Robert Griffiths recognizes that sports – especially cricket – deeply channels the human spirit for participants and fans alike. He eschews cliches to deliver fresh insight into sports’ resonance. This is no dry academic tome, but rather a lively examination blending scholarship with accessibility. Griffiths brings iconoclastic yet sage opinions to unpacking how athletic pursuits shape culture and consciousness. He illuminates the under-appreciated role sports play in forging identity, purpose, inspiration, escapism and more for millions globally. Grappling with issues often overlooked when discussing athletics, Griffiths’ unconventional analysis explores fandom, nationalism, arts, business, and the very meaning woven through sports’ rituals. Written with passionate intellect, wry wit, and a distaste for the dull, Beyond the Concept of Sport cries out to be read by both die-hard fans and curious sceptics. After all, few human realms spark such fervour and unity across the world’s divides like that of sports. This book captures that emotional impact while elevating sports as a subject worthy of serious yet spirited consideration.

Author : Gregory Baum
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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Anti-communism : end of an industry / Leonardo Boff -- Sport, society and religion / Gregory Baum, John Coleman -- Sport and society : the major questions / Klaus Heinemann -- Sport and the contradictions of society / John Coleman -- Social factors influencing sport and violence : on the "problem" of football fans in West Germany / Gunter Pilz -- Sexism and sport : a feminist critique / Nancy Shinabargar -- Sports in society : futebol as national drama / Roberto DaMatta -- Canada's national game / Bruce Kidd -- Ethics of sport / Dietmar Mieth -- Early Christianity and the Greek athletic ideal / Sean Freyne -- Olympia between politics and religion / Ju?rgen Moltmann -- Towards a spirituality for sports / Thomas Ryan -- Sport between Zen and the self / Hans Lenk.

Author : Sarah L. Kaufman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0393243966

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"Sarah Kaufman offers an old-fashioned cure for a modern-day ailment. The remedy for our culture of coarseness is grace…This is an elegant, compelling, and, yes, graceful book." —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive In this joyful exploration of grace’s many forms, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Sarah L. Kaufman celebrates a too-often-forgotten philosophy of living that promotes human connection and fulfillment. Drawing on the arts, sports, the humanities, and everyday life—as well as the latest findings in neuroscience and health research—Kaufman illuminates how our bodies and our brains are designed for grace. She promotes a holistic appreciation and practice of grace, as the joining of body, mind, and spirit, and as a way to nurture ourselves and others.

Author : John Kaag
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739178415

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Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport explores the philosophical significance of sport – the phenomenological experience, the training, coaching, and the competition – from a uniquely pragmatic angle of vision. The philosophical insights of John Dewey, William James, C.S. Peirce, Jane Addams, and Josiah Royce shed new light on the meaning of the physical practices that take place on our soccer fields, national arenas, backyards, and playgrounds. Interestingly, a close examination of these contemporary practices allows us to understand a wide array of ethical, epistemological and metaphysical commitments that the American pragmatic tradition has articulated for more than a century. Pragmatism’s insistence that truth be embodied in the practical consequences of everyday life, its balancing of communal and individual purposes, its emphasis on the role of chance and spontaneity in experience — resonate with the findings of modern kinesiology and sport science.

Author : Paul Guernsey
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1616082356

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Will fly fishing survive the twenty-first century? Author and angler Paul Guernsey argues that angling and the natural resources it depends upon—clear rivers, unpolluted oceans, and much more—are threatened by a host of increasingly complex social and environmental factors. Tradition, conservation of land and water, a foresighted ethic, concerns for the sport of other anglers, a commitment to the next generation, and much more—these are at the heart of Guernsey’s explorations in this path-breaking book. In Beyond Catch & Release he draws a road map into the future for the sport of fly fishing and all those who love it.