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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...

Their ever-evolving popularity notwithstanding, audiobooks remain a rather undertheorized phenomenon. The handful of existing studies have adopted an inherently historicist approach, failing to...

A de facto American national holiday and phenomenon, the Super Bowl claims a spot as one of the most significant sporting events in the world and the most widely celebrated, feasted and feasting...

Culture of Crisis and Extinction: Idealism and Ideology Expressed in Arts and Architectural Forms explores the mythology of cultures in crisis, tracing the symptoms that lead to their destruction and...

This book addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: How can we design for, with, and in service of the complex world we live in? How can we be useful as designers in a rapidly changing...

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, hosted by the Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain, 11-13 March 2024. The conference featured research...

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, hosted by the Institute of Religious Studies, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 23-24 May 2024...

In a world facing global crisis after crisis, a new approach to urban development is emerging. This book is the result of three years of iterative research which explores the ways in which...

The purpose of Gender Performativity in Sports and Physical Education is to explore a perspective of gender called gender performativity. The notion of gender performativity was coined by Judith...

In recent years, there has been a focus on promoting the uptake of STEM subjects in schools. This has been driven by the need to ensure that young people gain the knowledge and skills essential to...

Introduction to International Air Law : Student's GuideAuthor: Gracieux MbuzukongiraPublisher: Common Ground Research NetworksPublication Date: Oct 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The perspectives offered in this work come from 40 interviews with migrants, law enforcement officers, journalists, film-makers, policy experts, vocational workers, shelter workers, migration...

Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, hosted by the San Jorge University, Zaragoza, Spain, May 24-26 2024. The conference featured research addressing the...

Comprehending what power is, may be, or imagined to be, through human considerations is vital, since the energy used to generate power is life's social and cultural fabric. Since power is understood...

Following IOC guidance, many sports assented to a major change that uniquely affected women's sport. Athletes may now play in the category aligned to their self-declared gender, ignoring biological...

Popular ModernismsAuthor: Bruce BarberPublisher: Common Ground Research NetworksPublication Date: Jan 01, 2025Number of Pages: 328 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1863352163ISBN-13:...

Popular Modernisms examines a process that has occurred throughout the history of art; one that accelerated with the social effects of the industrial revolution, the development of capitalism and the...

This book presents a broad epidemiological portrait of psychoactive drug use among athletes, bolstered by a sociological framework that problematizes sport as a risk environment" for substance use...

In the edited collection Restart: Sport After the Covid-19 Time Out, practitioners and international scholars explore the "restart" of sport and fitness following the initial period of lockdowns...

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Settler Colonialism, Sport, and Recreation interrogates the interconnections between settler colonialism and sport, recreation, and physical activity, theorizing sport as a site of ongoing colonial...

Mountains can tell us much about our past. Six iconic peaks in Central Victoria, Australia, Mounts Kooroocheang, Beckworth, Greenock, Tarrengower, Alexander, and Franklin, tower above the rich...

Diversity is the nature of humanity because the profiles of men and women have highly diverse features. The same applies to the structure, behavior and results of the groups they form, the...

Social history is only one kind of history. Still, it is exactly the type of history that disability demands to be told, especially due to the universality of the disability experience. Doris and...