Biography: sport

'"e;Originality"e; is only plagiarizing from a great many', remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire.

This volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries.

Nie waren Fußballer langweiliger als heute.

These essays form a most convenient and accessible guide to Darwin.

More than 60 pagan leaders and teachers describe in their own words what they believe and what they practice.

Zeitdruck ist zur zentralen Herausforderung für politisches Handeln geworden.

In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex.

Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics.

Connecting to issues in the humanities today, this book shows how the Italian Renaissance influenced and changed Early Modern Europe.

Radical reappraisal of the political struggles of the late Roman Republic through a study of the conflicting uses of libertas.

SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS.

Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law.

Willie Mays' career bridged eras in baseball history, from the Negro Leagues to expansion to free agency.

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

Amateur unter Profis: Die Erfolgsstory einer unbekannten LegendePorsche 917 – bei diesem Wagen fällt den meisten Motorsportfans zuerst das Jahr 1970 ein.

A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction.

Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history.

Few contemporary intellectuals have attempted to inform theory, the academy and social change as does Lewis Gordon.

From nowhere to the winner's podium: the story of Jenson Button's astonishing domination of the F1 world championship.

The legendary chess players that Genna Sosonko brings to life in this new collection of his acclaimed writing have one thing in common: Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal and Petrosian, they were all world champions.

A confessional story that reads like fiction, this is the true story of a famed tennis star who went from being ranked fourth in the world, dueling the sport's greatest players to lying to police in several countries to avoid jail.

Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy's Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour.

Relying on both Chenu's previously unpublished materials and his many publications, Christophe Potworowski examines the role of faith and contemplation in the Dominican life and in theology as well as considering the historical and social dimensions of the human situation in terms of individual and ecclesial existence.

This book examines how the experience of living with slavery shaped the way that the Roman elite thought about empire.

James Doull's remarkable legacy as a teacher, scholar, and thinker has left behind a profound and challenging examination of the philosophical and historical roots of contemporary thought and politics.

Elegant and accessible, this book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas.

Beginning with the practices of and the problems faced by model builders, this book discusses the modeling process and the testing of models.

Unearth the power of natural magic with this guide to green witchcraftGreen witchcraft is a school of magic that relies on living in harmony with the earth and its many natural wonders-and this book is your guide.

In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism.

Though Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life.

It can be said that western literature begins with a war story, the Iliad; and that this is true too of many non-Western literary traditions, such as the Mahabharata.

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

Providing several new contributions to both the disabilities literature and research on special populations and international perspectives on Generation A, this book explores ways that researchers can help facilitate finding and maintaining employment for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

En esta obra de referencia fundamental hallará el lector un análisis exhaustivo del pensamiento político fraguado en Europa, América y Asia a lo largo del siglo que arranca con la Revolución francesa.

The notion of ''representative democracy'' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

ONE OF FOUR FOUR TWO MAGAZINE'S '50 FOOTBALL BOOKS YOU MUST READ'A great book' Henry Winter'A lovely read, the kind in which you constantly annoy people by reading the funny bits out loud' Irish Post----First published 25 years ago, The Mavericks was one of a new breed of literary football books.

This 2001 book is a comprehensive study of the curriculum of school education in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

This is the definitive account of how Victor Wembanyma became the best basketball prospect of his generation, told through immersive interviews with the star, stunning visuals, and behind-the-scenes stories from those who knew him best.

This book examines the Jungian imperative that the Third must become the Fourth through the lens of Carl Jung's complex reception of Plato.

The Secular Contract seeks to defend the European Enlightenment's secularization of political philosophy by promoting an understanding of Enlightenment secular liberalism and extending it to contemporary issues.

This book frames Romanticism as the epicentre of modern Europe''s fascination with orientation and disorientation in literature and politics.

For fans of the hit Netflix docuseries The Last Dance.

Explores the origins and practices of early alchemy*; Examines the oldest surviving alchemical texts, the original purpose of the ';Royal Art,' and the first alchemists, showing how women dominated early alchemy*; Looks at the historical setting for the first alchemists, with detailed accounts of their apparatus, recipes, chemical processes, and the ingredients they used*; Reveals how changing the color of materials was more important in early alchemy than transmuting base metals into goldInvestigating the origins of alchemy and the legend of the Philosopher's Stone, Tobias Churton explores the oldest surviving alchemical texts, the original purpose of the ';Royal Art,' and the first alchemists themselves.

What can the lived experience of a neurodiverse social entrepreneur teach us about the strength and innovation that comes from diversity?

This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization.

The sixteenth-century Reformation remains a fascinating and exciting area of study.

Der Tour de France-Rekord-Etappensieger Marcel Kittel erzählt sein LebenSein Weg in den Radsport schien vorgezeichnet: Als Sohn eines Radamateurs und einer Leichtathletin brachte Marcel Kittel vieles mit, was ein Profi braucht.