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Basketball in Japan

Shooting for the Stars

By: Aaron L. Miller

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Basketball in Japan

Shooting for the Stars

By: Aaron L. Miller

Through a study of basketball in Japan, this book aims to help readers better understand the historical formation and contemporary reformation of cultural identity in Japan. This reformation includes the process of reconciling the perceived differences between basketball in Japan and basketball in the West, the process of reconciling how perceptions of one’s body are shaped in a globally interconnected society, the process of reconciling what it means to be a modern man, and the process of reconciling what it means to be Japanese in a nation that is increasingly multicultural. In other words, basketball in Japan matters, not only because it has for too long been over‐simply labelled as a “minor” sport, but also because it is much more than a game. Examining the real and symbolic power which sport has on Japanese culture, and even in some instances the state, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of Japanese culture and society and the sociology of sports.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040113648

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Big-Time Women's College Basketball and the Future of College Sports

By: Aaron L. Miller

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Big-Time Women's College Basketball and the Future of College Sports

By: Aaron L. Miller

Buying In: Big-Time Women’s College Basketball and the Future of College Sports juxtaposes the rise of women’s college sports with the historical transformations that set the stage for contemporary big-time college sports. Aaron Miller draws on positive psychology to create a new framework he calls “positive anthropology.” He uses this lens to highlight the accomplishments of women’s college basketball teams and engages with college athlete exploitation, pay-for-play, and other contemporaneous issues that affect both women’s and men’s teams, though women’s teams are often excluded from the popular conversation. With insights drawn from – and applicable to – a wide range of scholarly fields in the humanistic social sciences, this book will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers and educators working in the fields of sports studies, gender studies, education, sociology, history, and anthropology, as well as anyone interested in the future of big-time college sport and higher education. This book poses and answers the question: “How can scholars help envision a brighter future for all college athletes, male and female?”

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538166445

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9781538166444

Up from the Depths

Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

By: Aaron Sachs

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Up from the Depths

Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

By: Aaron Sachs

A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis. The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure. Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times.

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Princeton University Press

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0691215413

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The Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers

By: Jane E. Aaron

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The Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers

By: Jane E. Aaron

The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, Fifth Edition, offers the currency and authority of The Little, Brown Handbook in a brief, spiralbound format. This easy-to-use reference clearly and concisely answers questions about the writing process, grammar, punctuation, research writing, documentation, and more. New in the Fifth Edition: Extensive and up-to-date coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE documentation styles, New chapter on avoiding plagiarism, including discussion of Internet term-paper sites and detection software, more examples of plagiarism and its correction, and advice on acknowledging online sources, New chapter on oral presentations, including planning, organization, and delivery, Fully integrated companion Web site, cross-referenced in every chapter of the handbook and including 34 video tutorials, 100 interactive exercises, sample research papers, usage flashcards, and links to useful Web sites in every discipline. Book jacket.

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0321067460

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Sport Management

Principles and Applications

By: Russell Hoye,Aaron C.T. Smith,Matthew Nicholson,Bob Stewart

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Sport Management

Principles and Applications

By: Russell Hoye,Aaron C.T. Smith,Matthew Nicholson,Bob Stewart

Now available in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sport Management: Principles and Applications examines the nature of the sport industry and the role of the state, non-profit and professional sectors in sport. It focuses on core management principles and their application in a sporting context, highlighting the unique challenges faced in a career in sport management. Written in highly accessible style, each chapter has a coherent structure designed to make key information and concepts simple to find and to utilize. Chapters contain a conceptual overview, references, further reading, relevant websites, study questions and up-to-date case studies from around the world to show how theory works in the professional world. Topics covered include: strategic planning organizational culture organizational structures human resource management leadership governance financial management marketing performance management. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organizations. It is ideal for first and second year students studying sport management related courses, as well as those studying business focused and human movement/physical education courses who are seeking an overview of sport management principles. Visit the companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/hoye

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Routledge

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1135137528

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9781135137526

LB

The Little Brown Handbook

By: Jane E. Aaron

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The Little Brown Handbook

By: Jane E. Aaron

Concise and easy to use,LB Brief is the writing handbook that helps writers find what they need and then use what they find. Writing process, business writing, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, electronic research, documentation/citation style guides, avoiding plagiarism, ESL. Any student or professional interested in improving their writing.

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Addison-Wesley Longman

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0321207815

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9780321207814

Language Change in the Wake of Empire

Syriac in Its Greco-Roman Context

By: Aaron Michael Butts

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Language Change in the Wake of Empire

Syriac in Its Greco-Roman Context

By: Aaron Michael Butts

It is well documented that one of the primary catalysts of intense language contact is the expansion of empire. This is true not only of recent history, but it is equally applicable to the more remote past. An exemplary case (or better: cases) of this involves Aramaic. Due to the expansions of empires, Aramaic has throughout its long history been in contact with a variety of languages, including Akkadian, Greek, Arabic, and various dialects of Iranian. This books focuses on one particular episode in the long history of Aramaic language contact: the Syriac dialect of Aramaic in contact with Greek. In this book, Butts presents a new analysis of contact-induced changes in Syriac due to Greek. Several chapters analyze the more than eight-hundred Greek loanwords that occur in Syriac texts from Late Antiquity that were not translated from Greek. Butts also dedicates several chapters to a different category of contact-induced change in which Syriac-speakers replicated inherited Aramaic material on the model of Greek. All of the changes discussed in the book are located within their broader Aramaic context and analyzed through a robust contact linguistic framework. By focusing on the Syriac language itself, Butts introduces new – and arguably more reliable – evidence for locating Syriac Christianity within its Greco-Roman context. This book, thus, is especially important for the field of Syriac studies. The book also contributes to the fields of contact linguistics and the study of ancient languages more broadly by analyzing in detail various types of contact-induced change over a relatively long period of time.

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Penn State Press

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1575064227

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9781575064222

Idol Anxiety

By: Josh Ellenbogen,Aaron Tugendhaft

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Idol Anxiety

By: Josh Ellenbogen,Aaron Tugendhaft

This interdisciplinary collection of essays on idolatry, including both historical and theoretical contributions, shows that the concept of idolatry is helpful for all who study the ways that people interact with and conceive of the things around them.

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Stanford University Press

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0804760438

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The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s

By: Scott Aaron Stine

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The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s

By: Scott Aaron Stine

Reviews of The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s: "recommended"--Booklist; "exhaustive...useful"--ARBA; "a solid reference work"--Video Watchdog; "bursting with information, opinion and trivia...impeccably researched"--Film Review; "interesting and informative"--Rue Morgue; "detailed credits...entertaining"--Classic Images. Author Scott Aaron Stine is back again, this time with an exhaustive study of splatter films of the 1980s. Following a brief overview of the genre, the main part of the book is a filmography. Each entry includes extensive technical information; cast and production credits; release date; running time; alternate and foreign release titles; comments on the availability of the film on videocassette and DVD; a plot synopsis; commentary from the author; and reviews. Extensive cross-referencing is also included. Heavily illustrated.

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McFarland

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1476611327

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Big-Time Women's College Basketball and the Future of College Sports

By: Aaron L. Miller

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Basketball in Japan

Basketball in Japan

Buying In

Buying In

Up from the Depths

Up from the Depths

The Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers

The Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers

Sport Management

Sport Management

LB

LB

Language Change in the Wake of Empire

Language Change in the Wake of Empire

Idol Anxiety

Idol Anxiety

The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s

The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s

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