Biography: sport

Constructing a functional system of magic that helps readers suspend disbelief is a crucial part of worldbuilding in the fantasy genres.

This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, and not in the Scientific Revolution.

What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyondIt is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family.

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is the last or furthest end of knowledge ?

This is the story of the most unlikely Olympic decathlete in history.

This insightful essay delves into old Scottish records to uncover the grisly truth behind the country's witch trials.

A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline.

Most of what has been written on the economy of the middle ages is deeply influenced by abstract concepts and theories.

Andrew Shanks brings together a grand narrative of theology and continental philosophy to argue that the 'solidarity of the shaken' is the kingdom of God in secular dress.

Wenn der Fußball wie das Leben ist, dann war die Karriere von Marco Russ wie ein Zweikampf.

On January 6, 1975, Nottingham Forest were thirteenth in the old Second Division, five points above the relegation places and straying dangerously close to establishing a permanent place for themselves among football's nowhere men.

Children have posed a longstanding dilemma for liberalism.

In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records.

The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century comprises twenty-six new essays by leading experts in the field.

This probing study of the career, works, and influence of Ernst Cassirer -- a German-Jewish neo-Kantian who taught at the University of Hamburg until Hitler came to power -- analyses his thoughts on human culture as they developed during the turbulent political and cultural conditions in the Germany of his time.

This is the first comprehensive biography of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) written in English.

Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, God and Progress offers a unique and authoritative account of intellectual change in nineteenth-century Britain.

This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them.

This 2005 book proposes a model for understanding religious debates in the Churches of England and Scotland from 1603 to 1625.

This volume contains the political writings of Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653), perhaps the most important patriarchal political theorist of the seventeenth century

No job in the world of sports is as intimidating, exhilarating, and stress-ridden as that of a hockey goaltender.

Since 1954, Japan has become home to a vibrant but little-known tradition of Black Studies.

Discover 26 tales of triumph, hope, and determination in this collection of personal stories from London Marathon runners.

This book focuses on the most important utopian and dystopian literary texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century Hungarian literature, and therefore widens the scope of the traditionally Anglophone canon.

In Put It In the Book, New York Mets broadcaster and lifelong fan Howie Rose takes fans behind the microphone, into the locker rooms, and through the last 50 years of Mets baseball.

Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire, this is an original volume full of fascinating insights about the conduct of men as well as women.

After 20 major league seasons-all with the New York Yankees-Derek Jeter is hanging up his spikes at the conclusion of the 2014 campaign.

This book studies the construction of self-styled white men''s countries from South Africa, to North America and Australasia.

This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant''s critical philosophy as a whole.

This book, first published in 2000, offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to the classical period of German philosophy.

Slaphappy is reporter Thomas Hackett's penetrating look at the world of professional wrestling, for those who love the spectacle and for the sport's skeptics and the uninitiated.

For more than a half century, as a superstar ballplayer, television broadcaster, and front office executive, Al Kaline has personified the Detroit Tigers like no one else.

The definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world.

Der Österreicher Niki Lauda prägte die Formel 1 über Jahrzehnte wie kein Zweiter - als erfolgreicher Fahrer, aber als auch Manager und Macher hinter den Kulissen.

Combines medieval studies and contemporary neuroscience to explore the fascinating and surprising concept of ''phantom limb pain''.

A reinterpretation of the secularization of American culture, focusing on the political views of natural and social scientists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Amazonen der Feder, Bürgerinnen in der Republik des Geistes, weibliche Intellektuelle: die Literatur des 17.

In Annotations Nahum Dimitri Chandler offers a philosophical interpretation of W.

Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines.

In 2014, Kevin Pietersen's autobiography was one of the most talked about sporting media stories of the year, largely due to the shockwaves it sent through the cricketing establishment.

Since the heyday of ordinary language philosophy, Anglophone epistemologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the English word 'know' and to English sentences used to attribute knowledge.

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories, and featuring a foreword by five-times World Champion Vishy Anand.

Angelique Kerber ist die erfolgreichste und populärste deutsche Tennisspielerin des letzten Jahrzehnts, sie gewann u.

In its early modern form, philosophy gave a decisive impetus to the science and technology that have transformed the planet and brought on the so-called Anthropocene.

This book examines ancient Greek thinking about the probable, hypothetical, and counterfactual across a variety of disciplines (philosophy, science, politics, literature, art).

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.