Biography: sport

The first study of a neglected tradition of participatory democracy in modern India.

This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian emigres and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized relations between individual and society and subjectivity and culture.

In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums-by asserting some very strange things.

'The most beautiful book I ever read.

In 1963, 17 charter members were inducted into the newly established Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Colin Shindler has previously written of his deep love for Manchester City in the bestselling Manchester United Ruined My Life and three other previous books.

Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community.

Andrew Strauss, one of the most successful and respected England cricket captains of the modern era, announced his retirement from professional cricket at the end of 2012.

This book gathers contributions on the topic of astrology in the West during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from 1914-2022.

Communicating the History of Medicine critically assesses the idea of audience and communication in medical history.

When his life came to a sudden and tragic end on October 25, 1999, Payne Stewart was at the top of his game on every level.

Mainstream addiction science sees addiction either as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control or as a voluntary practice engaged in freely.

A new approach to ideas about war, from one of the UK's leading strategic thinkersIn 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships.

Few studies of Foucault have examined his thought from a sustained interdisciplinary perspective.

Examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged conceptions of identity at the turn of the twentieth century.

The complete guide to our closest living relative, drawing on thirty years of primate observation.

Updated with a new chapter on Klopp's emotional final season at LiverpoolJ rgen Klopp was confirmed as manager of Liverpool FC in October 2015 to a rapturous reception.

Stephen Edmondson articulates a coherent Christology from Calvin''s commentaries and his Institutes.

This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening.

From Ricoeur to Action engages with the thinking of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) in order to propose innovative responses to 21st-century problems actively contributing to global conflict.

Red Rum's classic win in the 1977 Grand National is the stuff of sporting legend.

Introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law.

Frank Shamrock may be the toughest man alive.

The only serious study of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to 1951.

This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.

Die Geschichte Sebastian Deislers ist die eines jungen Mannes, der als fußballerisches Jahrhundert-Talent gilt, mit 21 Jahren Spielmacher der deutschen Nationalmannschaft wird und dessen Ja-Wort dem FC Bayern München ein Handgeld von 20 Millionen D-Mark wert ist.

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective.

This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life.

The purpose of this book is three-fold.

Unsere Gesellschaft spaltet sich: am einen Ende stehen Rechtspopulisten, am anderen "woke" Moralisten.

The Emergence of Literature is an extension and reworking of a series of significant propositions in philosophy and literary theory: Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's examination of the concept of the literary absolute; Martin Heidegger's destruction and Giorgio Agamben's archaeology of the metaphysics of will; Maurice Blanchot's delimitation of the space of literature; and Michel Foucault's archaeology of literature.

This monograph is a new interpretation of Kant's atemporal conception of the causality of the freedom of the will.

Presents an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements in modern European intellectual history.

Supplies extensive material making it possible for the reader to understand how Thomas Jefferson's mind spanned the vast distance separating antiquity from writers like William James and Sigmund Freud, analyzing his studies in economics, moral philosophy, history and law.

This is an extraordinary account of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the modern world.

The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.

This monograph focuses on "e;Christian Goddess Spirituality"e; (CGS), the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft.

The Crown is the bedrock of Westminster-style democracies, yet its meanings, powers and effects are opaque and little understood.

In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed.

In Between East and West/Word and Image, Geng Youzhuang, one of China's leading intellectuals, offers an original and sophisticated analysis of both Western cultural and literary theory and contemporary Chinese thought.

Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to soccer: simply the best there has ever been.

In the decades after its publication, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship served as a touchstone for such major philosophical and literary figures as Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, and Schlegel, and was widely understood to be one of the greatest novels of the German canon.