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  • Slow Sport and Slow Philosophy

    Edición de Irena Martínkova, Bernard Andrieu, Jim Parry ...
    This book explores the emerging concept of ‘slow sport’ – recreational movement practices that emphasize mindful engagement over competition. Targeted at philosophers of sport, wellness researchers, physical education specialists, and practitioners of mindful movement disciplines, this collection examines how intentional, non-competitive bodily practices cultivate deeper experiential connections ... Leer más

    $224.99 USD

  • The Academy of Smoke and Mirrors

    A Boarding School on the Brink

    de Alexander Troy, Jim Parry ...
    Let's be honest: it was crazy spending $150 million to create the world's only Jewish boarding school and put it in rural Georgia.Crazier still was Jeff Taylor's belief he could save Hampton Acres Hebrew Academy, or HAHA, before it went belly up.Jeff, a former hedge fund manager and lawyer, thinks he's seen all the curveballs life can throw...until he takes the HAHA helm. There he runs smack into ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Olympic Games Explained

    A Student Guide to the Evolution of the Modern Olympic Games

    de Jim Parry, Vassil Girginov ...
    Series series Student Sport Studies
    This multidisciplinary text is a comprehensive introduction to the central themes and background of the modern Games.The text considers a range of topics including:the ancient Olympicsthe modern revival of the nineteenth centurythe development of the Games throughout the twentieth century.the media and the OlympicsOlympic marketing and sponsorship.Complemented by a dedicated website offering ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • The Top 10 As We Hit Bottom

    What Global Warming, Nuclear War, Cyberwar, Pandemics, Supervolcanoes, Asteroid Strikes, Out-of-Control A.I., and Other Unpleasantries Could Do to Us.

    de Jim Parry ...
    From best-selling author and illustrator Ron Barrett, who forecasted the weather in the classic picture book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, now predicts how—thanks to climate change and other unpleasantries—the world will end!With research and really scary text by Jim Parry, The Top Ten As We Hit Bottom is a darkly humorous collection of “Top Ten” lists that highlights the predicament global ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Experiential Learning and Outdoor Education

    Traditions of practice and philosophical perspectives

    Edición de Jim Parry, Pete Allison ...
    This book adds to the theoretical development of the emerging fields of experiential learning and outdoor education by examining the central concept, 'experience', and interrogating a central claim of experiential learning: whether, and if so how, a short-term singular experience can transform a participant’s life as a whole and in a permanent way.While such a possibility has been corroborated by ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Theology, Ethics and Transcendence in Sports

    Edición de Jim Parry, Mark Nesti, Nick Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book provides an inter-disciplinary examination of the relationship between sport, spirituality and religion. It covers a wide-range of topics, such as prayer and sport, religious and spiritual perspectives on athletic identity and ‘flow’ in sport, theological analysis of genetic performance enhancement technologies, sectarianism in Scottish football, a spiritual understanding of sport ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Ethics and Governance in Sport

    The future of sport imagined

    Edición de Yves Vanden Auweele, Elaine Cook, Jim Parry ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    What is, or what should be, the function of sport in a globalized, commercialized world? Why does sport matter in the 21st century? In Ethics and Governance in Sport: the future of sport imagined, an ensemble of leading international experts from across the fields of sport management and ethics calls for a new model of sport that goes beyond the traditional view that sport automatically encourages ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Phenomenological Approaches to Sport

    Edición de Irena Martínková, Jim Parry ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    The study of sport is often thought of simply in terms of the sport sciences. This book explains how a phenomenological approach is capable of revealing the nature and meanings of sport in ways that are beyond the reach of the sciences and how the very concepts required by sport science stand in need of philosophical explanation. The book has a 'didactic' intention, seeking to present and discuss ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure

    Edición de Bernard Andrieu, Jim Parry, Alessandro Porrovecchio, Olivier Sirost ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    The emerging field of body ecology offers fresh insights into how the body engages with its surrounding environment through consciousness, perception, knowledge and emotion. In this groundbreaking collection, leading scholars of sport, leisure and philosophy draw on research on topics as diverse as surfing, freediving, slacklining, parkour, bodybuilding, dance and circus arts to flesh out the ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Olympic Ethics and Philosophy

    Edición de Mike McNamee, Jim Parry ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games. The essays consider a range of topics including critical reflections on nationalism and internationalism within the Olympic movement, sexism in Olympic marketing and sponsorship, the preservation and corruption of Olympism, the underlying ideology of the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Sport and Spirituality

    An Introduction

    de Jim Parry, Simon Robinson, Nick Watson, Mark Nesti ...
    Sport science can quantify many aspects of human performance but the spiritual dimensions of sports experience cannot be fully understood through measurement. However, the spiritual experience of sport – be it described as ‘flow’, ‘transcendence’ or the discovery of meaning and value – is central both to our basic motivation to take part in sports, and to achieving success.Sport and Spirituality: ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

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  • Learning Culture through Sports

    Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports

    de Doug Abrams, Cheryl Cooky, Rylee Dionigi, Keith Harrison, Jackson Katz, Kyle Kusz, Carwyn Jones, Mary McDonald, Leanne Norman, Genevieve Rail, Barbara Ravel, Ellen Staurowsky, Cheria Thomas, Sanford S. Williams, Jay Coakley, Angela J. Hattery, C. Richard King, Richard Lapchick, Earl Smith ...
    In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book's sections each address a ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD