Biography: sport

Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left comprises short essays on fifty revolutionary keywords, each word being put to work on a contemporary political issue.

The first collaborative volume to explore popular sovereignty, a pivotal concept in the history of political thought.

Dignity is a fundamental aspect of our lives, yet one we rarely pause to consider; our understandings of dignity, on individual, collective and philosophical perspectives, shape how we think, act and relate to others.

Founded in 1920, the National Football League chose famed athlete Jim Thorpe as its first president, a position he held briefly until a successor was elected.

Leading international contributors present a lively and interdisciplinary panorama of the Italian Renaissance as it has developed in recent decades.

This book presents the ideas of some of the most outstanding economists of the past half century.

Ray 'Rabbits' Warren is the legendary voice of Australian sports commentary.

This volume offers a unique comparative perspective on post-war conservatism, as it traces the rise and mutations of conservative ideas in three countries - Britain, France and the United States - across a 'short' twentieth century (1929-1990) and examines the reconfiguration of conservatism as a transnational phenomenon.

Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize.

Canadian-born George "e;Mooney"e; Gibson (1880-1967) grew up playing baseball on the sandlots around London, Ontario, before going on to star with the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at shedding light on the archives of some of the key thinkers of Critical Theory of Society, also well known as "e;Frankfurt School"e;.

Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020 'You need this.

In this inspiring memoir, undefeated five-time world champion boxer Andre Ward--aka "e;Son of God"e;--shares the gripping narrative of his unforgettable career, his rock-solid faith, and why boxing was never the biggest fight of his life.

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

Winner of the IAJS Book Award 2023 for Best Theoretical BookTraditionally, alchemy has been understood as a precursor to the science of chemistry but from the vantage point of the human spirit, it is also a discipline that illuminates the human soul.

Bob Humphrys is one of the most famous names in sports journalism.

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.

Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.

Offers a fluent and readable translation of the Eudemian Ethics, including explanatory notes.

Richard Crouter illustrates how Schleiermacher''s life work draws from the Enlightenment and Romanticism.

Trotz der Bedeutung der ersten Generation bolschewistischer Führer für die Geschichte des 20.

In November 2010, Andrew Strauss faced the ultimate challenge for an England cricket captain: winning the Ashes on Australian soil, a feat that had not been achieved for 24 years.

Edition of the latter part of Thucydides'' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSome people are born to be a certain thing.

This book offers a model to bridge the differences between political theorists and social scientists, focusing on deliberative practices.

Starting in the 1930s, the Black caddies of Augusta National walked the course with the worlds greatest golfers.

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

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

Completely revised and updated featuring two brand new chapters, in preparation for the 2019 Ashes seriesFrom the William Hill Award-Winning Author of A Lot of Hard Yakka comes Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: A History of the Ashes in 12 Matches by Simon Hughes.

If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal.

Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice-the writing of incantations on amulets-changed in an increasingly Christian context.

A reissue of Paul "e;Bear"e; Bryant's autobiography, this edition features a completely new introduction and an accompanying audio CD of Bryant himself, in his own voice, talking about his life and football.

A Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth-century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals.

This book cuts through the confusion and controversy about whether modern economics has succeeded or failed.

The Essential Davidson compiles the most celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers.

"e;Emrick loves stories and loves to tell them.

This book examines how trust relates to the main political concepts - sovereignty, reason of state, and natural law - of seventeenth-century discourse.

Recently, scholarship has paid increasing attention to the Soviet dissident movement that emerged in the mid-20th century; but what, Petr A.

We wouldn't have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi today without the ingenuity of an actress once described as "e;the most beautiful woman in the world.

The period known as the fin de siecle - defined in this groundbreaking book as chiefly the period between1885 and 1901 - was a fluid and unsettling epoch of optimism and pessimism, endings and beginnings, aswell as of new forms of creativity and anxiety.

This volume uncovers the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics.

■ Einleitung: Die Grablegung des alten Deutschland■ Gottfried Keller■ Wilhelm Raabe■ Der alte Fontane■ Enzyklopädisches Stichwort: Bemerkungen zu Literatur und Politik■ Quellennachweis■ Personen- und Sachregister■ Verzeichnis der erwähnten Werke

It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties.

The definitive, New York Times-bestselling biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach.

In a narrative that extends from fin de siecle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "e;pure sound.