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by Andrew Denning (Author)Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from Europe's Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe, where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for skiing across the world. Denning offers a fresh, sophisticated, and engaging cultural and environmental history of skiing that alters our understanding of the sport and reveals how leisure practices evolve in unison with our changing relationship to nature. Denning probes the ...
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by Christopher S. Thompson (Author)In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event--including pos...
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by Michael Messner (Author)Today, in a world quite different from the one that existed just thirty years ago, both girls and boys play soccer, baseball, softball, and other youth sports. Yet has the dramatic surge in participation by girls contributed to greater gender equality? In this engaging study, leading sociologist Michael A. Messner probes the richly complex gender dynamics of youth sports. Weaving together vivid first-person interviews with his own experiences as a volunteer for his ...
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by Roger Kittleson (Author)Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian. Yet the practic...
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by Kay Schiller (Author), Chris Young (Author)The 1972 Munich Olympics--remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team--were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young ...
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by Kay Schiller (Author), Chris Young (Author)The 1972 Munich Olympics--remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team--were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young ...
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by Theresa Runstedtler (Author)In his day, Jack Johnson--born in Texas, the son of former slaves--was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908-1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, masculine bravado, and interracial love wherever he traveled. Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner provides the first in-depth exploration of Johnson's battles agains...
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by James Riordan (Author)The role and development of sport in Soviet society received little contemporary attention, in the West or in Russia. Although it was widely banned after the Russian Revolution, and viewed as a tool developed by the bourgeoisie for the training of body and mind during the rise of capitalism, the USSR was among the world's sporting powers. This 1977 book examines the evolution of sport in Russia from its early association with health and hygiene, through a period of fu...
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by Tracy C. Davis (Editor)Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns - embodiment, ethical research and social change - are held in common with many other fields, however a unique combination of methods and applications is used in exploration of the discipline. Bridging live art practices - theatre, performance art and dance - with technological media, and social sciences with humanities, it is truly hybrid and experiment...
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by Peter A. Lorge (Author)In the global world of the twenty-first century, martial arts are practiced for self-defense and sporting purposes only. However, for thousands of years, they were a central feature of military practice in China and essential for the smooth functioning of society. Individuals who were adept in using weapons were highly regarded, not simply as warriors but also as tacticians and performers. This book, which opens with an intriguing account of the very first female mar...
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by Robert Cantu (Author), Mark Hyman (Author)See the movie "Concussion." But first read the classic book from the acclaimed concussion doctor who's changing how America thinks about safety in youth sports. "This is an important, cutting-edge work by the premier specialist in his field. If you watch sports, or if you have a young athlete in your family, you need to read this book." --Dan Shaughnessy, author of The Curse of the Bambino From Washington to Quebec, from offices at the NFL to the...
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by Caleb Daniloff (Author)"Running Ransom Road is Caleb Daniloff's unblinking, ultimately triumphant account of his journey from mean, hopeless drunk back to humanity and himself--through distance running. It's a searing tale of spiritual redemption--one marathon, one mile, one brave, difficult step at a time."--Steve Friedman, co-author of New York Times bestseller Eat and Run and author of the memoir Lost on Treasure Island For fifteen years, the words that best described Caleb Daniloff wer...
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 232
Dimensions: 0.5 x 10.8 x 8.1 IN
Publication Date: December 20, 2020
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 144
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 128
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 136
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 256
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 128
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.4 x 10.7 x 8.2 IN
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 128
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)The Core Skills Social Studies series engages students with easy-to-understand passages that help students build a better understanding of the worldaround them. Interactive lessons encourage active participation with the text, including practice with maps, charts, and illustrations. Students are given many opportunities to reflect on the text through higher-level thinking questions. Social studies focuses on developing knowledge and skill in history, geogr...
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 160
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 160
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.4 x 10.6 x 8 IN
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 128
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 128
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)The Core Skills Phonics series guides students to become successful and confident readers. The skill-specific practice pages link phonics with spelling and reading so students build language skills through integrated activities.Lessons include the following features: - skill boxes that introduce the sounds of consonants and vowels- ample practice opportunities to apply the rule- context activities to give students additional practice in reading words with ...
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)The Core Skills Phonics series guides students to become successful and confident readers. The skill-specific practice pages link phonics with spelling and reading so students build language skills through integrated activities.Each lesson includes the following features: - picture icons to illustrate the sounds of consonants and vowels- ample practice opportunities for children to use visual and auditory modalities to explore the skill- context activity t...
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 128
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
Number of Pages: 128
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by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)The Core Skills Phonics series guides students to become successful and confident readers. The skill-specific practice pages link phonics with spelling and reading so students build language skills through integrated activities.Each lesson includes the following features: - explanation of a specific rule and examples- ample practice opportunities to apply the rule- context activity to give students additional practice in reading words with phonics skillIn ...
