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Exploring Research in Sports Coaching and Pedagogy
Context and Contingency
These detailed, yet concise, essays on the nature of sports coaching provide a critical ‘snapshot’ of the current literature in coaching pedagogy. They cover a wide array of sports and techniques and their insights are essential for any serious students of the discipline.
These detailed, yet concise, essays on the nature of sports coaching provide a critical ‘snapshot’ of the current literature in coaching pedagogy. They cover a wide array of sports and techniques and their insights are essential for any serious students of the discipline.
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Inspired by a pantheist worldview, this text advocates an alternative globalization based not on the economy and politics, but on humanity’s transcendence to a collective consciousness, presenting a counter-trend against nationalism, religious extremism, xenophobia, and racism.
Inspired by a pantheist worldview, this text advocates an alternative globalization based not on the economy and politics, but on humanity’s transcendence to a collective consciousness, presenting a counter-trend against nationalism, religious extremism, xenophobia, and racism.
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One Paradigm, Many Worlds
Conflict Resolution across the Disciplines
One Paradigm, Many Worlds surveys collaborative, "win-win" conflict resolution across disciplines. It challenges traditional "win-lose" paradigms, documenting the merits of this approach in fields from education and human services to international relations.
One Paradigm, Many Worlds surveys collaborative, “win-win” conflict resolution across disciplines. It challenges traditional “win-lose” paradigms, documenting the merits of this approach in fields from education and human services to international relations.
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Luxury and American Consumer Culture
A Socio-Semiotic Analysis
This book analyzes the role of luxury in American consumer culture, with case studies on how it affects our choices of automobiles, homes, and hotels. Adopting a global perspective, it also features analyses of luxury in China, Germany, Russia, and other countries.
This book analyzes the role of luxury in American consumer culture, with case studies on how it affects our choices of automobiles, homes, and hotels. Adopting a global perspective, it also features analyses of luxury in China, Germany, Russia, and other countries.
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Social network analysis is a methodological tool used to investigate collections of individuals and their shared relationships. The book provides an overview of the tool’s growing body of research in sport, and details practical guidance for its application.
Social network analysis is a methodological tool used to investigate collections of individuals and their shared relationships. The book provides an overview of the tool’s growing body of research in sport, and details practical guidance for its application.
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Cultural Diversity in Cross-Cultural Settings
A Global Approach
As people move across international borders, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural values can result in communication breakdowns.
As people move across international borders, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural values can result in communication breakdowns.
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Religious Messages in the Media
Mission Impossible?
Can religious messages be transmitted through the media? This book analyzes the relationship between media and religion, arguing that media can only convey religious messages superficially and are unsuitable for mediating deep spiritual content or evangelization.
Can religious messages be transmitted through the media? This book analyzes the relationship between media and religion, arguing that media can only convey religious messages superficially and are unsuitable for mediating deep spiritual content or evangelization.
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The struggle of birds for freedom mirrors that of women. This work explores the complex, often contradictory relationship between humans and birds—from inspiration to oppression. Through feminist and animal rights lenses, it inspires a keener sense of environmental care.
The struggle of birds for freedom mirrors that of women. This work explores the complex, often contradictory relationship between humans and birds—from inspiration to oppression. Through feminist and animal rights lenses, it inspires a keener sense of environmental care.
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This collection offers a glimpse into the challenges and opportunities of globalization for youth in Africa and its diaspora. It issues a call for action to governments to tap into the energy of its youth through education, agriculture, sport, and technology.
This collection offers a glimpse into the challenges and opportunities of globalization for youth in Africa and its diaspora. It issues a call for action to governments to tap into the energy of its youth through education, agriculture, sport, and technology.
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This book analyses land grabbing and displacement in India. Based on fieldwork in Odisha and Jharkhand, it reveals the subsequent impoverishment and trauma, with a special focus on the tribal women who bear the brunt of displacement and lose their autonomy as migrant labourers.
This book analyses land grabbing and displacement in India. Based on fieldwork in Odisha and Jharkhand, it reveals the subsequent impoverishment and trauma, with a special focus on the tribal women who bear the brunt of displacement and lose their autonomy as migrant labourers.
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This book reconsiders teaching and learning in media studies, arguing that many academics have been slow to respond to transformations in digital media. It critically reassesses key debates in the field and asks: is media studies still relevant in its current form?
This book reconsiders teaching and learning in media studies, arguing that many academics have been slow to respond to transformations in digital media. It critically reassesses key debates in the field and asks: is media studies still relevant in its current form?
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How does international justice combat sexual violence in armed conflict? This book explores how justice can bridge legal and societal domains to aid in social reconstruction and protect victims, examining both its advancements and its enduring flaws.
How does international justice combat sexual violence in armed conflict? This book explores how justice can bridge legal and societal domains to aid in social reconstruction and protect victims, examining both its advancements and its enduring flaws.
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Popular Media and Communication
Essays on Publics, Practices and Processes
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.
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Undisciplined Animals
Invitations to Animal Studies
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
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Discourses and Practices of Othering
Politics, Policy Making, and Media
This book investigates how ‘others’ are manufactured and anchored in collective memory. Through analysis of film, news, and social media, it sheds light on the institutional, political, and social forces that form and transform the discourses and practices of othering.
This book investigates how ‘others’ are manufactured and anchored in collective memory. Through analysis of film, news, and social media, it sheds light on the institutional, political, and social forces that form and transform the discourses and practices of othering.
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Betraying the Event
Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures
This volume offers a critical reconsideration of victimhood, exposing its cultural and political constructions. It examines how language can be manipulated to devise a vicious reversal of victim/victimizer positions, raising awareness of the consequences.
This volume offers a critical reconsideration of victimhood, exposing its cultural and political constructions. It examines how language can be manipulated to devise a vicious reversal of victim/victimizer positions, raising awareness of the consequences.
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Locality, Memory, Reconstruction
The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-Industry Communities
This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.
This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.
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This collection examines Japanese popular culture, including manga, music, and film. Multidisciplinary scholars offer fresh perspectives on the cross-cultural influences between Japan and the West, considering how each has, in turn, influenced the other.
This collection examines Japanese popular culture, including manga, music, and film. Multidisciplinary scholars offer fresh perspectives on the cross-cultural influences between Japan and the West, considering how each has, in turn, influenced the other.
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Is scientific forecasting of the future possible? The authors of this book are convinced it is. Using rigorous methodology and mathematical modeling, leading experts demonstrate what the world will look like in the coming decades and centuries.
Is scientific forecasting of the future possible? The authors of this book are convinced it is. Using rigorous methodology and mathematical modeling, leading experts demonstrate what the world will look like in the coming decades and centuries.
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The Future of Asian Feminisms
Confronting Fundamentalisms, Conflicts and Neo-Liberalism
This book on Asian feminisms confronts fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism. A critical contribution from Asian women’s studies scholars and activists, it stimulates a unique “Asian voice” in the global women’s movement.
This book on Asian feminisms confronts fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism. A critical contribution from Asian women’s studies scholars and activists, it stimulates a unique “Asian voice” in the global women’s movement.
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