Biography: sport

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"e;Through honest stories and inspiring lessons from her life, A'ja Wilson reminds us to never doubt who we are or apologize for being true to ourselves.

This book evaluates Rousseau''s arguments concerning why inequality exists in society and why it poses dangers to human well-being.

This book explores how an impoverished understanding of responsibility as quantifiable and dischargeable sustains moralistic politics.

IT WAS past three o'clock in the morning when Joe Calzaghe experienced the sweetest validation of his professional life.

Saturn and Melancholy remains an iconic text in art history, intellectual history, and the study of culture, despite being long out of print in English.

A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies, each volume being devoted to a specific period.

Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished academic disciplines in important ways.

James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals.

An unrivalled overview of social theory and its development from 1945 to the present day.

Robbie Savage could have been just another Manchester United reject.

Mit dem Fall der Qing-Dynastie im Jahr 1912 endete nicht nur eine Ära kaiserlicher Herrschaft, sondern begann eine Reise des Wandels für die Verbotene Stadt – das Herz des einstigen Kaiserreichs.

In this book, John C.

A moving memoir that reminds us of the power of play to inspire, unite, and healand that sometimes what brings us the most pain can be the source of our greatest inspiration.

Man's Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people's character and intelligence.

Examines the behavior of Athenians in the classical period, arguing that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens.

This book discusses whether democracy and republicanism are identical, complementary, or contradicting ideas.

The story of boxing legend Jerry Quarry has it all: rags to riches, thrilling fights against the giants ofthe GoldenAge of Heavyweights(Ali-twice, Frazier-twice, Patterson, Norton), a racially and politically electric sports era, the thrills and excesses of fame, celebrities, love, hate, joy, and pain.

Problems in Value Theory takes a pro and con approach to central topics in aesthetics, ethics and political theory.

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika sind weltweit bekannt für ihre Freiheitsideale und die Prinzipien, auf denen die Nation aufgebaut wurde.

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity.

Romantic Dynamics creatively collides English poetry with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the 'new physics' of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity, and complexity in a chaotic universe.

John Terry is known as Chelsea's 'captain, leader, legend' for good reason.

This edition makes available an entirely new version of Hegel's lectures on the development and scope of world history.

This book is the first English-language monograph about the institutional development of sociology in (North) Macedonia.

When legendary Chicago Cubs' broadcaster Harry Caray passed away in February of 1998, thousands of baseball fans mourned the loss.

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes' Steven PinkerMeritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth.

Portraits of Integrity depicts more than 20 historical, fictional and contemporary figures whose character or life raises questions about what integrity is and how it is perceived.

Sonny Bill Williams (SBW) is a once in a hundred-year athlete with immense sporting talent in Rugby League, Rugby Union and Boxing.

Michael Slote is one of the most prominent philosophers working in the discipline today.

This book explores shame as a politically charged idea that is disavowed, invoked, and negotiated in moments of democratic struggle.

Das Frühwerk des Wiener Autors Hermann Broch ist nicht denkbar ohne den Kontakt zu Ludwig von Ficker, dem Herausgeber der Innsbrucker Kunst- und Kulturzeitschrift Der Brenner (1910–1954).

This is the story of hockey, one scar at a time.

What did democracy mean before liberalism?

Examines how the ancient customs of constructing and keeping a house formed a sacred bond between homes and their inhabitants *; Shares many tales of house spirits, from cajoling the local land spirit into becoming one's house spirit to the good and bad luck bestowed by mischievous house elves *; Explains the meaning behind door and window placement, house orientation, horsehead gables, the fireplace or hearth, and the threshold *; Reveals the charms, chants, prayers, and building practices used by our ancestors to bestow happiness and prosperity upon their homes and their occupants Why do we hang horseshoes for good luck or place wreaths on our doors?

Donald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain’s greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week.

Leading scholars explore how the arguments of classical European thinkers relate to the ethics and politics of military intervention today.

The Element reveals that ideas about progress have shifted according to the scale on which history has been conceived.

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to the Native Americans.

Unveil the Path of the WitchEvery Witch's story begins with a step into the unknown-but you don't have to do it alone.

'Claridge is not just a character.

Dasheng qixin lun, or Treatise on Awakening Mahyna Faith , has been one of the most important texts of East Asian Buddhism since it first appeared in sixth-century China.

The Lesbian Liberation Movement is both a movement that encompasses liberating a sexual practice from stigmatization and a political movement challenging the dual oppression of women by the patriarchy's assumption of male supremacy and heterosexuality.

Winner of the 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitlesMark D.

This book recovers and recommends the core conviction of Victorian liberal theory that human beings, with the help of the state, can achieve an objective moral perfection.

For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work of our age.