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  • The Shortest History of Soccer

    From Ancient Kicking Games to the World's Most Popular Sport

    by Brian D. Bunk ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    A whirlwind history of soccer’s improbable rise—from ancient traditions to worldwide cultural focusHow did a simple kicking game conquer the world? In this concise yet comprehensive history, sports historian Brian D. Bunk traces soccer’s unlikely, meteoric rise, showing how a pastime humbly rooted in English schoolyard contests grew to become the planet’s most popular sport. Today, soccer is a ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beyond the Field

    How Soccer Built Community in the United States

    by Brian D. Bunk ...
    Series series Sport and Society
    Played by both migrants and native-born Americans, soccer created communities across the United States. Brian D. Bunk ranges from Pawtucket to Honolulu as he illuminates the deep and diverse origins of the American sport.Soccer took root as immigration, urbanization, and industrialization triggered immense changes across society. Matches built local pride as teams battled rival neighborhoods and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work

    Edited by Tanja Kleibl, Ronald Lutz, Ndangwa Noyoo, Benjamin Bunk, Annika Dittmann, Boitumelo Seepamore ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work reflects on and dissects the challenging issues confronting social work practice and education globally in the post-colonial era. By analysing how countries in the so-called developing and developed world have navigated some of the inherited systems from the colonial era, it shows how they have used them to provide relevant social work methods ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Ghosts of Passion

    Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War

    by Brian D. Bunk ...
    The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolution of October 1934 triggered the broader conflict by accentuating existing social tensions surrounding religion and gender. Through careful analysis of the images produced in books, newspapers, posters, ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • From Football to Soccer

    The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States

    by Brian D. Bunk ...
    Series Book 1 - Sport and Society
    Rediscovering soccer's long history in the U.S.Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Shortest History of Soccer

    From Ancient Kicking Games to the World's Most Popular Sport

    by Brian D Bunk ...
    Narrated by Mitch Crawford ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    A whirlwind history of soccer's improbable rise―from ancient traditions to worldwide cultural focusHow did a simple kicking game conquer the world? In this concise yet comprehensive history, sports historian Brian D. Bunk traces soccer's unlikely, meteoric rise, showing how a pastime humbly rooted in English schoolyard contests grew to become the planet's most popular sport. Today, soccer is a ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Homotopy Theory with Bornological Coarse Spaces

    by Ulrich Bunke, Alexander Engel ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Providing a new approach to assembly maps, this book develops the foundations of coarse homotopy using the language of infinity categories. It introduces the category of bornological coarse spaces and the notion of a coarse homology theory, and further constructs the universal coarse homology theory. Hybrid structures are introduced as a tool to connect large-scale with small-scale geometry, and ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

  • Canvas Detroit

    by Julie Pincus, Nichole Christian, Jane Orr, Halima Cassells, Mitch Cope, Ron English, Greg Fadell, Jerome Ferretti, Scott Hocking, Judith Hoffman, Greg Holm, Nicole MacDonald, Hubert Massey, Gregory Tom, Yvette Rock, Robert Sestok, Catie Newell, Raymond E. Stanczak, Graem Whyte, Katie Yamasaki, John Dunivant, John Sauve, Alec Hostomsky, Olayami Dabls, Marc Schwartz, Erik Howard, Katie Craig, Matthew Eaton, Kevin Joy, Veronika Scott, Kobie Solomon ...
    Series series Painted Turtle Press
    A compelling look at the contemporary art and artists that are transforming Detroit's physical landscape.Detroit's unique and partly abandoned cityscape has scarred its image around the world for decades. But in the last several years journalists have begun to view the city through a different lens, focusing on the wide range of contemporary artists finding inspiration amid the emptiness and ... Read more

    $34.41 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Data Mining In Time Series And Streaming Databases

    by Mark Last, Horst Bunke, Abraham Kandel ...
    Series Book 83 - Series In Machine Perception And Artificial Intelligence
    This compendium is a completely revised version of an earlier book, Data Mining in Time Series Databases, by the same editors. It provides a unique collection of new articles written by leading experts that account for the latest developments in the field of time series and data stream mining.The emerging topics covered by the book include weightless neural modeling for mining data streams, using ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders

    Similarities and Differences

    by M.T. Tsuang, C. Perris, H.M. Emrich, R.-D. Stieglitz, P. Propping, A. Marneros, W. Maier, H. Helmchen, B.J. Carroll, G. Winokur, T.F. McNeil, J. Angst, A. Deister, K. Heinrich, M. Maj, B. Pitt, C. Eggers, A. Rohde, D. Bunk, H.-J. Möller, W. Coryell, H. Häfner, P. Berner, E.S. Paykel, B. Müller-Oerlinghausen, K.R.R. Krishnan, D. von Zerssen ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Several contributions in our first book about schizo affective disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizoaffective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986) supported the assumption that schizoaffective disorders differ in relevant ways from schizophrenic disorders. The classification of schizo affective disorders as a subgroup of schizophrenia has also been criticized, and empirical research in clinical, ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • In the Heartland

    A Story So Real, It Might Be True

    by Bunk Russell ...
    This is a story that centers around the changing of our society in the post 9/11 era, a change that is real but denied for the most part by the government and the press. It illustrates and brings to life, through a group of fictional characters that you may recognize, an undercurrent of disappointment and at times outright hate of certain segments of our society. The storyline plays out mostly in ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Uprising

    We Almost Forgot Freedom Isn't Free

    by Bunk Russell ...
    In The Uprising, the third book in what many are now calling the Heartland trilogy, Bunk Russell continues to entertain his readers with his unique writing style. In this writing, patriotism takes on a new meaning as Mike Lane, the leader of the now Patriot Party and the Newly Born Patriot Movement, creates an alliance between strange bedfellows--the patriot militias, the United States military, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD