Biography: sport

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This is an exploration of the cultural representations of transvestism and transsexuality in modern screen media against a historical background.

One Last Strike by legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa is a thrilling sports comeback story.

THE TIKTOK SENSATION!

Ingeborg von Heister, Segel-Pionierin und Atlantik-BezwingerinEin Solo-Segeltörn ist ein Abenteuer, bei dem auch erfahrene Fahrtensegler mit modernen Booten an ihre Grenzen kommen können.

During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the methodology of the natural sciences.

Nadie mejor que François Dosse para asumir semejante reto: escribir una narrativa, panorámica y sistemática, de la aventura histórica y creativa de los intelectuales franceses en su momento de hegemonía mundial.

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression.

Includes an introduction, contextualizing his book in light of developing philosophical trends.

Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony.

Die Geschichte der Salzburger Festspiele in der Ersten Republik Österreich ist keineswegs eine lineare Erfolgsgeschichte, sondern von existenzbedrohenden Krisen gekennzeichnet, die 1924 sogar zur völligen Absage der Festspiele führten.

In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it.

The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.

Entschleiern Sie die Mysterien hochmagischer Rituale und philosophischer Tiefen mit 'Die geheimen Lehren des Aleister Crowley: Ein Wegweiser durch die Praxis der hohen Magie'.

This book provides original perspectives on the work of one of the most important thinkers in international law today.

The ideological roots of the British Empire have been widely discussed in early modern studies, as have maritime settings in the period's imaginative writing.

Gangsters have been around boxing for ever.

When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear.

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

A radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England.

Before the advent of printing, the preaching of the friars was the mass medium of the middle ages.

This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

A survey of influential thinkers and their ideas in eighteenth-century British philosophy, science, religion, history, law, and economics.

En este libro se exponen treinta maneras de huir y, también, treinta maneras de ser felices.

The Princess of Darkness.

An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations.

In rugby, there are the Flash Harrys and the Glory Boys: the fly-halves who run, kick and dazzle; the scrum-halves who nip and dart; the wingers who step and glide.

Offers the latest contextual and biographical scholarship with innovative interpretations and is supplemented by the first and latest English translations.

Der Band hinterfragt den Nutzen des Begriffs "Orientalismus" zur Erforschung der vielfältigen deutsch-jüdischen kulturellen Beziehungen im 19.

“Baseball’s most eloquent analyst” demonstrates why he has “long since attained the status of national treasure,” in this classic essay collection (The New York Times Book Review).

This 2005 book examines the significance of the mathematician Archytas of Tarentum in fourth-century Greece.

Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love.

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.

This vintage work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and ceremonies used among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling, witch-doctoring, love-philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by many anecdotes and instances, taken either from works as yet very little known to the English reader or from personal experiences.

A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, this book goes about intimating the mystical experience underlying hermetic symbolism.

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

Lisa Pon examines the cultural biography of the city of Forlì''s miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire.

After Plato's Forms, and Aristotle's substances, the Stoics posited the fundamental reality of lekta - the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves.

Originally published in 1992, The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot examines beliefs, practices, and activities described as mystical, psychical, magical, spiritual, metaphysical, theophysical, esoteric, occult, and/or pagan, among other possible labels, by their American disciplines.

Shows that economic concerns about jobs, costs, and consumption, rather than climate change, are likely to drive energy transition in developing countries.

The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century.

Anyone who knows Jay Horwitz knows he loves stories and has a wealth of them to share.

This volume brings together current research and practice on gibbon conservation, ecology, taxonomy and phylogenetics.

This book uses extensive original archival and elite interview research to examine the attempt to rejuvenate liberalism as a means of disciplining democracy and the market through a new rule-based economic and political order.

This volume contains an 1875 English translation of Father Sinistrari of Ameno's rare book on demonology "e;Demoniality, or Incubi and Succubi"e;.