Biography: sport

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue.

This elegantly written book explores the history of ideas in Europe from the revolutions of 1848 to the beginning of the First World War.

A how-to guide for ethnoprimatological research in the Anthropocene, offering an inside look at the latest research in the field.

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This monograph is a study of the work of British author A.

When a man walks on to a pitch there s always a chance something magic can happen, that s what keeps us coming back In A Man Walks On To a Pitch, Harry shares a lifetime s experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first hand the good, the bad and the unbelievable.

Get the Toolbox You Need to Design for All LearnersDesign for All Learners empowers instructional designers, trainers, and other talent development professionals to create learning experiences that are accessible to and inclusive of all people.

The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives.

This book introduces students to the anthropology of magic and witchcraft, terms widely used but with no widely accepted definitions.

ARSENE WENGER, French football manager and former player, has managed Arsenal since 1996, and has become the club's longest-serving and most successful manager.

An autobiography from golf's freshest, most individual voiceIan Poulter is one of golf's most charismatic figures, with an appeal extending way beyond his sport.

An in-depth look at the life of the influential University of Kentucky basketball coach and his legacy.

A boldly revisionist history of the first disputes in nineteenth-century Britain over the role of economists in society Economics now so dominates our understanding of how the world works that some of the field's most influential concepts seem akin to natural laws.

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

Writing from deep, been-there experience, college football standout-turned NFL dropout Trent Shelton takes you on a journey to become the best hope-filled version of yourself.

Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence.

In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'.

Orlando Cepeda enjoyed a stellar baseball career in the late fifties and throughout the sixties, but after it ended in the mid-seventies, his life fell apart.

What is goodness?

Armin Assinger schreibt in diesem Buch über das Leben, über Höhen und Tiefen, Freud und Leid, Motivation, Resignation und weitere Befindlichkeiten, die uns durch unser Leben begleiten.

Chessplayers wishing to improve their performance typically seek to deepen their middlegame understanding or to increase their endgame knowledge.

This innovative revisiting of South Asian intellectual history critically examines Nirad C.

This original study explores the development of the postmodern turn in history, brought on by the social, political and cultural changes of the 1970s and 1980s.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"e;I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

A critical assessment of how evidence in biological anthropology is discovered, collected and interpreted.

The book covers the life of one of the greatest women rally drivers of all time, Pat Moss Carlsson.

Eye-opening contributions from the stars of game make this a powerful, groundbreaking investigation into the mind of the professional golfer.

Fred Beiser, renowned as one of the world's leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention.

Vom Straßenkicker zum Kugelblitz - ein brasilianisch-deutsches MärchenWie wird ein Junge aus dem kleinen Provinznest Mogeiro im brasilianischen Bundesstaat Paraíba, der bis zum 16.

You've seen him become a Liverpool legend, watched as he and Jude Bellingham lead England through the world cup - now get to know the real Jordan Henderson, both on off the pitch .

Ob unscheinbarer Alltagsgegenstand oder gehüteter Kunstschatz – die in diesem Buch vorgestellten Objekte haben Geschichte und machen Geschichte erzählbar.

This first anthology of women''s international thought explores how women transformed international relations, from the early to mid-20th century.

Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the eighteenth century.

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.

Discusses some of the most significant ideological debates that have animated the Arab world over the last two decades.

When Kenny Albert was growing up, family gatherings sounded a lot like a dispatch from the first all-sports radio station.

Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.

A study of three centuries of radical ideas and activity in English political and social history.

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

The field of theory and philosophy of history deals with our many ways of relating to the past(s).

Part sports star, part antihero, part hip-hop icon, Allen Iverson has managed to cross over into the mainstream of American culture -- without compromise.