Biography: sport

Bruce Trigger examines the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective.

This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past.

The first ever reference book on the behaviour, physiology, conservation and biogeography of the dwarf and mouse lemurs of Madagascar.

This book contains two essays delivered by Edward Clodd to the Royal Institution and originally published in "e;The Hibbert Journal"e;.

The Ladies Professional Golfers Association (LPGA) was formed in 1950, 34 years after the men's association.

Noch nie ist es einem Österreicher gelungen, in die höchste Funktionär Riege des europäischen Fußballs vorzudringen.

This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation.

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*; Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author's decades of magical practice *; Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment *; Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld A Book of Shadows is a witch's sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells.

A comprehensive study of the use of talismans and amulets in the Western Mystery Tradition *; Provides an in-depth look at the medieval and Renaissance use of amulets and talismans, including the work of Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Athanasius Kircher *; Provides a full summary of the magical knowledge required to make an amulet or talisman, including the invocations required to activate their powers *; Reviews different kinds of amulets and talismans, from ancient jewelry and magical objects to the modern rabbit's foot or lucky horseshoe The use of talismans and amulets stretches back nearly to the dawn of man, from everyday items magically prepared, such as horns or coins, to intricate and beautiful jewelry imbued with protective powers.

Much has been written about the legendary players and managers of baseball's Deadball Era (1901-1919).

Argues the just war tradition, rather than being a restraint on war, has expanded its scope, and criticises this trend.

Five-time Mr.

Thematically focused on the theology of redemption or what is called in theology "e;soteriology,"e; each of the two sections of The Redemption addresses biblical literature and significant moments in the history of Christian theology, and especially the work of Anselm of Canterbury.

The first full examination of the ''protectionist turn'' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.

Explores Ireland''s central role in European debates about empire and commerce in the global age of revolutions.

Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

This volume explores the range of Montaigne''s philosophy and its social and intellectual contexts.

In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness and popery.

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge.

Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice in political thought.

Remember the first time you blew out the candles on your birthday cake and made a wish?

The first detailed collation of the evolution, ecology and conservation of some of South America''s least-known, and most endangered, primates.

Contemporary biographies of Galilei emphasize, in several places, that he was a masterful draughtsman.

Is there always someone else to blame for your failures?

This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil''s ''messianic'' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.

This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure.

As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works.

This edition includes two important texts illustrating Kants''s view of history along with notes and a comprehensive bibliography.

This book, written in an accessible style, is an exhaustive survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present.

This book offers a conceptual history of compromise demonstrating the connection between understandings of compromise and understandings of political representation.

The Stoics, Dante, the philosophers of the Enlightenment, H.

Wie trägt man globales Denken in die Köpfe der Menschen?

Challenging scholarly emphasis on French Revolutionary violence, this book instead examines the prevalence of peaceful, democratic methods in Parisian protest.

Winner of the Cricket Writers' Club Book of the Year 2016Shortlisted for the MCC Book of the YearShortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year at the Sports Book AwardsScyld Berry draws on his experiences as a cricket writer of forty years to produce new insights and unfamiliar historical angles on the game, along with moving reflections on episodes from his own life.

This book traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the emergence of the medical tradition archive.

Adam Smith, in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments, largely left his readers to develop his argument's full implications.

This book is a sequel to Nathan Ron's Erasmus and the "e;Other.

This volume addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics.

The first definitive oral history of the ever popular L.

Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation.

An honest, uncensored look at the National Football League that captures the good, the bad, and the bloody.

This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early socialism in Britain.

Sheehan argues that Madison''s vision for the new nation was informed by the idea of republican self-government.

This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and internationally.

This book shows how liberal education taught Tudor and Stuart monarchs to wield pens like swords and transformed political culture in early modern Britain.