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Author : Henry Fazakerley Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Athletics
ISBN : OXFORD:600082127
Author : H. F. Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Sports
ISBN : BL:A0018719558
Author : Daniel A. Dombrowski
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781459605923
Despite their influence in our culture, sports inspire dramatically less philosophical consideration than such ostensibly weightier topics as religion, politics, or science. Arguing that athletic playfulness coexists with serious underpinnings, and that both demand more substantive attention, Daniel Dombrowski harnesses the insights of ancient G...
Author : Julia Hickey
Publisher : Coachwise 1st4sport
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1905540132
Part of the "Understanding Sports" series, this title helps you unpick the complex rules, structures and jargon of Athletics. Filled with interactive tasks, photos, FAQs, player profiles and web links, it acts both as a quick reference guide as well as an interactive learning journey, for both parents and kids.
Author : Jason König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521838452
Examination of Greek athletics in the Roman Empire and how they were represented in the literature of the period.
Author : Alan Beale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521138208
An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Where did the idea of celebrating the Olympic Games every four years come from? The short answer is ancient Greece. The very name 'Olympic' announces an origin for the competition, but, as with most of our classical heritage, it is easy for the superficial similarities to conceal major cultural differences. The purpose of this new book in the Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts series is to provide an introduction to Greek athletics and their most important competition at Olympia through a selection of contemporary visual and literary sources.
Author : Jörg Krieger
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781957792521
In the edited collection Athletics in the Nordic Countries, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden explore historical developments and current phenomena in the sport of athletics (track and field). The chapters provide insight into sport officials, events, and athletes from the Nordic countries that have shaped the international athletics scene. The authors identify the leading role of sport leaders from Scandinavia in the foundation years and highlight how athletics’ events held in the region were milestones in the transformation of the sport. Athletics’ international governing body World Athletics was founded in Sweden in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation. Seventy years later, Finland hosted the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983. In between those turning points, Nordic officials and athletes promoted significant changes in athletics, and their innovative approaches continue to shape the development of the sport until today.
Author : Heather L. Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317984955
This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and pharaohs in early Egypt and Mesopotamia. It then traces the role of athletics and the Olympic Games in transforming the idea of aristocracy as something acquired by birth to something that can be trained. This idea of training virtue through the techniques and practice of athletics is examined in relation to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Then Roman spectacles such as chariot racing and gladiator games are studied in light of the philosophy of Lucretius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. The concluding chapter connects the book’s ancient observations with contemporary issues such as the use of athletes as role models, the relationship between money and corruption, the relative worth of participation and spectatorship, and the role of females in sport. The author argues that there is a strong link between sport and philosophy in the ancient world, calling them offspring of common parents: concern about virtue and the spirit of free enquiry. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Ethics and Sport.
Author : National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : College sports
ISBN : UOM:39015040601802
Author : James J. Duderstadt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472021918
After decades of domination on campus, college sports' supremacy has begun to weaken. "Enough, already!" detractors cry. College is about learning, not chasing a ball around to the whir of TV cameras. In Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University James Duderstadt agrees, taking the view that the increased commercialization of intercollegiate athletics endangers our universities and their primary goal, academics. Calling it a "corrosive example of entertainment culture" during an interview with ESPN's Bob Ley, Duderstadt suggested that college basketball, for example, "imposes on the university an alien set of values, a culture that really is not conducive to the educational mission of university." Duderstadt is part of a growing controversy. Recently, as reported in The New York Times, an alliance between university professors and college boards of trustees formed in reaction to the growth of college sports; it's the first organization with enough clout to challenge the culture of big-time university athletics. This book is certainly part of that challenge, and is sure to influence this debate today and in the years to come. James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan.
Author : Jean Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317746669
This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers. Questions explored in this text include: What are the fresh perspectives and newly available sources for the historian of women’s sport? How do these take forward established debates on women’s place in sporting culture and what novel approaches do they suggest? How can our appreciation of fashion, travel, food and medical history be advanced by looking at women’s involvement in sport? How can we use some of the current ideas and methodologies in the recent literature on the history and sociology of sport in order to look afresh at women’s participation? Jean Williams’s original research on these topics and more will be a useful resource for scholars in the fields of sports, women’s studies, history and sociology.
Author : Thomas F. Scanlon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0195348761
Ancient Greek athletics offer us a clear window on many important aspects of ancient culture, some of which have distinct parallels with modern sports and their place in our society. Ancient athletics were closely connected with religion, the formation of young men and women in their gender roles, and the construction of sexuality. Eros was, from one perspective, a major god of the gymnasium where homoerotic liaisons reinforced the traditional hierarchies of Greek culture. But Eros in the athletic sphere was also a symbol of life-affirming friendship and even of political freedom in the face of tyranny. Greek athletic culture was not so much a field of dreams as a field of desire, where fervent competition for honor was balanced by cooperation for common social goals. Eros and Greek Athletics is the first in-depth study of Greek body culture as manifest in its athletics, sexuality, and gender formation. In this comprehensive overview, Thomas F. Scanlon explores when and how athletics was linked with religion, upbringing, gender, sexuality, and social values in an evolution from Homer until the Roman period. Scanlon shows that males and females made different uses of the same contests, that pederasty and athletic nudity were fostered by an athletic revolution beginning in the late seventh century B.C., and that public athletic festivals may be seen as quasi-dramatic performances of the human tension between desire and death. Accessibly written and full of insights that will challenge long-held assumptions about ancient sport, Eros and Greek Athletics will appeal to readers interested in ancient and modern sports, religion, sexuality, and gender studies.
Author : S. W. Pope,John Nauright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135978129
The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged to position themselves and their methodologies in relation to current epistemological issues, and to promote the importance of reflecting on the literary or poetic dimensions of producing history. These contemporary developments, along with a wealth of international research from a range of theoretical perspectives, provide the backdrop to the new Routledge Companion to Sports History. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. Readers are guided through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts and are introduced to the latest cutting edge approaches within the field. Including contributions from many of the world’s leading sports historians, the Routledge Companion to Sports History is the most important single volume for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field. It is an essential guide to contemporary research themes, to new ways of doing sports history, and to the theoretical and methodological foundations of this most fascinating of subjects.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015059974546
The genesis for this book was a 1969 compilation in which Peter Lovesey and Tom McNab described all books on track and field to date. Both authors have had a lifetime interest and involvement in athletics and the present work builds on that knowledge and expertise to give the reader a definitive guide to the UK literature of track and field. This super bibliography includes an extensive introductory overview of the literature by Tom McNab, as well as annotations contributed by all three compilers. The compendium covers the history, theory and practice, and personalities of athletics as well as special chapters on athletics in literature and the visual arts.
Author : G. M. Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107625624
Originally published in 1929, this book was written to provide schoolboys with a guide to the principles of modern methods in various athletics events. Numerous illustrative figures are contained throughout the text, including 'excerpts from slow-motion cinematograph films' demonstrating the best techniques for different sports. An appendices section, incorporating a bibliography, is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of education and the development of athletics.