Play Up Play Up And Play The Game

Author : Leslie P. Kozak
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525565045

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Play Up! Play Up! And Play the Game! by Leslie P. Kozak Pdf

In August 1956 at 3 o’clock in the morning a 15-year old aspiring hockey player boarded a Greyhound bus in Yorkton, Saskatchewan to begin a journey that first took him to Maple Leaf Gardens where he achieved his childhood dream of playing in the NHL and then the journey unexpectantly led him down a path where he was able to build a 45-year career as a scientist in modern molecular medicine. Leslie Kozak explores his early life to determine how the environment created his intense competitive spirit. This exploration of life takes the reader through Leslie’s years at St. Michael’s College School, a short interlude as a Trappist monk, success as a Toronto Maple Leaf, then followed within days by a depressed fracture of his skull that ended his hockey career. Out of this journey emerges a molecular geneticist who dedicates himself in a 45-year research career to the exploration of body heat production and energy metabolism in response to a cold environment and how they could provide solutions to obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Author : Patrick Howarth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000887433

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Play Up and Play the Game by Patrick Howarth Pdf

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt. ‘Newbolt Man’, imbued with the spirit of fairplay, loyalty, fearlessness, conformity (while remaining slightly philistine and sexless), can be traced in the work of Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Anthony Hope and P.C. Wren. The book traces his development from the Victorian schoolboy (Tom Brown’s School Days and Kipling) to the twentieth-century secret agent (Buchan’s Richard Hannay), and on to his demise in Sheriff’s Journey’s End and Aldington’s Death of a Hero.

Author : Marie Corelli
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022175300

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A Poem by Marie Corelli Pdf

This long-form poem by the celebrated author Marie Corelli reflects on themes of love, loss, and redemption. Corelli's lyrical style and vivid imagery bring emotional power to this meditation on the human experience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Middle class
ISBN : 0714682292

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A Sport-loving Society by J. A. Mangan Pdf

A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.

Author : Stephen Basdeo
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526749406

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Heroes & Villains of the British Empire by Stephen Basdeo Pdf

An analysis of the builders of the British Empire, how they were represented in popular culture of the day, and how that vision has changed over time. From the sixteenth until the twentieth century, British power and influence gradually expanded to cover one quarter of the world’s surface. The common saying was that “the sun never sets on the British Empire.” What began as a largely entrepreneurial enterprise in the early modern period, with privately run joint stock trading companies such as the East India Company driving British commercial expansion, by the nineteenth century had become, especially after 1857, a state-run endeavour, supported by a powerful military and navy. By the Victorian era, Britannia really did rule the waves. Heroes and Villains of the British Empire is the story of how British Empire builders such as Robert Clive, General Gordon, and Lord Roberts of Kandahar were represented and idealised in popular culture. The men who built the empire were often portrayed as possessing certain unique abilities which enabled them to serve their country in often inhospitable territories and spread what imperial ideologues saw as the benefits of the British Empire to supposedly uncivilised peoples in far flung corners of the world. These qualities and abilities were athleticism, a sense of fair play, devotion to God, and a fervent sense of duty and loyalty to the nation and the empire. Through the example of these heroes, people in Britain, and children in particular, were encouraged to sign up and serve the empire or, in the words of Henry Newbolt, “Play up! Play up! And Play the Game!” Yet this was not the whole story: while some writers were paid up imperial propagandists, other writers in England detested the very idea of the British Empire. And in the twentieth century, those who were once considered as heroic military men were condemned as racist rulers and exploitative empire builders.

Author : Wray Vamplew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521892309

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Pay Up and Play the Game by Wray Vamplew Pdf

This 1988 book presents an analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during the years prior to World War I.

Author : Terry White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136369179

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Reinventing the IT Department by Terry White Pdf

'Reinventing the Information Technology Department' is both anecdotal and informal but deals with a subject which is of vital interest to Chief Information Officers and IT Managers, addressing questions such as: * How does the IT department keep pace with business change? * How do we provide stable and responsive IT platforms? * How do we add recognised value to the organisation? * How do I reinvent my department? * How do I get onto the board? It offers an alternative view of the new roles of the in-house IT function and proposes a rethink about IT services within companies, suggesting a self-help approach to redefining/reinventing in-house IT for CIOs. The author explains that new modes of business thinking and operation are essential if a company is to succeed in the near future and in light of this covers topics such as self-organising systems, knowledge management, multi-stakeholder perspectives, and empowerment initiatives in relation to the overall business and in particular the IT function. Each chapter contains implementation templates for the readers to take themselves through the repositioning or reengineering of the IT function and their own departments.

Author : Gregory Cajete
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Spirit of the Game by Gregory Cajete Pdf

Author : Luther H. Gulick
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Spirit of the Game by Luther H. Gulick Pdf

C ompulsion fails to account for the greatest things in the world. One cannot imagine, for example, that those poems which bless us with their beauty and strength, with their vision and inspiration, were written under a compelling sense of duty. Such poems as Mrs. Browning's Portuguese Sonnets spring from sources other than those of necessity.

Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317984771

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‘Manufactured’ Masculinity by J. A. Mangan Pdf

'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school system for the privileged which serviced the largest empire, the world has ever known, at the zenith of its control and which has had a significant influence in the formation of the modern world. This authoritative study of the making of British imperial masculinity shines light on the period of Muscular Christianity, Social Darwinism and Militarism as meshed ideological instruments of both power and persuasion. This magisterial study reveals the extraordinary and paramount influence of games fields as the 'machine tools' in an 'industrial process' with the schools as 'workshops' containing 'cultural conveyor-belts' for the production of robust, committed and confident servants of empire, and templates for imperial reproduction in imperial possessions. Mainly on efficient 'production belt' playing fields of the privileged minds were moulded, attitudes were constructed and bodies shaped - for imperial manhood. Earlier 'manliness' was metamorphosized, morality was redefined and militarism at the high point of imperial grandeur was an adjunct. Professor Mangan outlines this unique process of cultural conditioning with a unique range of evidence and analysis. This book was published as a special double issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Robert Baden-Powell
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780486318127

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Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell Pdf

This blueprint for the Boy Scout movement not only provides energetic tips on camping, tracking, and woodcraft, but offers proper Victorian-era advice on manners, self-discipline, and good citizenship. Includes the original illustrations.

Author : John Howlett
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781837645282

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Playing the Game by John Howlett Pdf

Two of Henry Newbolt’s poems, ‘Vitaï Lampada’ and ‘Drake’s Drum’, became staples of poetry anthologies and were able to be recited by every school-boy. His poetry was also deeply significant in constructing ideas around late Victorian/Edwardian imperial manliness. A consequence of this was that Newbolt became in his own time one of the best known and most popular of writers. However, in the years since his death, his work has fallen into comparative critical neglect and he has been seen as a mouthpiece for the worst aspects of his age. The aim therefore of this new edition is to place the poet’s literary work in a broader context that has hitherto not been addressed as well as offering a fresh appraisal of a significant literary figure. Aside from careful consideration of the poetry, of equal interest is Newbolt’s active public life. He contributed widely to government committees and debates on education, as well as working for the propaganda bureau in the First World War and advising on the Irish question. The links between his poetry - which spanned over three decades - and the socio-economic changes under way in the British Isles at the time are a primary theme of John Howlett’s substantial Introduction to the work. Exploring this wider historical context means that this book is an essential research tool for the field of Victorian and Edwardian poetry but also cultural studies.

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : 9780415065689

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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge Pdf

Eric Honeywood Partridge, renowned philologist, etymologist and lexicographer, dedicated his life to the study of language but it is for his work on slang, and in particular for his flagship dictionary, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, that he is most widely remembered and admired. Now for the first time from Routledge, the eighth, and current, edition of Partridge's renowned dictionary is available in paperback. Originally published in 1984, this edition was published posthumously but had been worked upon by Partridge until six weeks before his death. Its place in the history of the lexicography of slang is assured as the last edition to feature original work by Partridge himself. Book jacket.

Author : Rebecca Knuth
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810885172

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Children's Literature and British Identity by Rebecca Knuth Pdf

For more than 250 years, English children’s literature has transmitted values to the next generation. The stories convey to children what they should identify with and aspire to, even as notions of “goodness” change over time. Through reading, children absorb an ethos of Englishness that grounds personal identity and underpins national consciousness. Such authors as Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling have entertained, motivated, confronted social wrongs, and transmitted cultural mores in their works—functions previously associated with folklore. Their stories form a new folklore tradition that provides social glue and supports a love of England and English values. In Children’s Literature and British Identity: Imagining a People and a Nation, Rebecca Knuth follows the development of the genre, focusing on how stories inspire children to adhere to the morals of society. This book examines how this tradition came to fruition, exploring the works of several authors, including: Robert Baden-Powell Robert Ballantyne J. M. Barrie Enid Blyton Angela Brazil Frances Hodgson Burnett Randolph Caldecott Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens Maria Edgeworth Kenneth Grahame Kate Greenaway G. A. Henty Thomas Hughes Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling C.S. Lewis A. A. Milne Hannah More E. Nesbit John Newbery George Orwell Beatrix Potter Arthur Ransome Frank Richards J. K. Rowling Anna Sewell Robert Louis Stevenson J. R. R. Tolkien P. L. Travers Sarah Trimmer Charlotte Yonge Evaluating the connection between children’s literature and the dissemination and formation of identity, this book will appeal to both general readers and academics who are interested in librarianship, English culture, and children’s literature.

Author : Kathleen E. McCrone
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813116414

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Playing the Game by Kathleen E. McCrone Pdf

" In England the latter years of the nineteenth century saw a period of rapid and profound change in the role of women in sports. Kathleen McCrone describes this transformation and the social changes it helped to bring about. Based upon a thorough canvas of primary and secondary materials, this study fills a gap in the history of women, of sport, and of education."