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  • Commodified and Criminalized

    New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports

    by David L. Andrews, Lisa Guerrero, Samantha King, Kyle W. Kusz, Stacy L. Lorenz, Anoop Mirpuri, Ronald L. Mower, Rod Murray, Jared Sexton, Michael L. Silk, Nancy E. Spencer, C.L Cole ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present

    by Michael Silk ...
    Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport

    Power, Pedagogy and the Popular

    by Michael Silk ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, in providing ‘official’ understandings and interpretations of the event, and setting the terms for a ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Gender, Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture

    by Michael Silk, Rosemary Barrow ...
    Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • The Classical Tradition

    Art, Literature, Thought

    by Michael Silk, Ingo Gildenhard, Rosemary Barrow ...
    The classical tradition—the legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome—is a large, diverse and important field that continues to shape human endeavour and engender wide public interest. The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an original, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large ... Read more

    $122.00 USD

  • Alexandria, Real and Imagined

    by Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies

    Edited by Holly Thorpe, Michael Silk, David Andrews ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries, preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS, drawing on transdisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as sport studies, sociology, history, ... Read more

    Was $70.99 USD Now $62.99 USD

  • Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age

    Edited by Michael Silk, Brad Millington, Emma Rich, Anthony Bush ...
    Digital worlds and cultures—social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps—dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer ‘just’ consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook, twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding of our everyday ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sports Coaching Research

    Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

    by Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Design of Material, Organism, and Minds

    Different Understandings of Design

    Edited by Silke Konsorski-Lang, Michael Hampe ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Design is eminent throughout different disciplines of science, engineering, humanities, and art. However, within these disciplines, the way in which the term design is understood and applied differs significantly. There still is a profound lack of interdisciplinary research on this issue. The same term is not even guaranteed to carry the same meaning as soon as one crosses over to other ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    All Out

    The Strategist

    by Michael Adeniyi Ajayi ...
    Narrated by AI Voice Theo Silk ...
    Series Audiobook 1.0 - All Out

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.An elite agent vanishes in a city of secrets. A criminal empire dares the world to come find him.When MI6 agent Ryan Brown is abducted in Shanghai, a ruthless Chinese crime syndicate aims to eliminate the primary threat to their global dominance. As the mastermind behind MI6’s East Asian counter-terrorism, Ryan’s disappearance triggers a frantic ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Consequences

    Feud For Revenge

    by Michael Adeniyi Ajayi ...
    Narrated by AI Voice Theo Silk ...
    Series Audiobook 1.0 - The Consequences Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours 51 min

    This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.Some choices change your life. Others destroy it.When former military intelligence officer Tony Diggs takes a low-key job as a chauffeur for the ultra-wealthy Frank and Michelle Douglas, he believes his tactical days are behind him. He is dead wrong.The enigmatic Michelle quickly draws Tony into an intense, dangerous game of seduction and strict secrecy. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus