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Routledge handbook of global sport
The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This ambitious new volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the development of every major sport or classification of sport, examining their history, …
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- 9781315714264
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- xi, 501 p
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- 306.483 NAU r
Sport, psychology and Christianity : welfare, performance and consultancy
The majority of sport psychology research to date has been underpinned and driven by a secular perspective. There is an urgent need for sport psychologists to better understand the relevance of Christian faith in athletes’ sporting experiences and day-to-day lives in order to improve their performance and well-being. Sport, Psychology and Christianity is the first book to consider the relatio…
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- 9781351165488
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- xiii, 212 p
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- 796.019 BRI s
Governing the sustainable development goals : quantification in global public…
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and implem…
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- 9783031039386
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- XVII, 165 p
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- 338.927 JUS g
Negotiating the North : meeting-places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea zone
This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early medieval and medieval administrative practic…
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- 9781003045663
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- xx + 349 p
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- 948.02 SEM n
Environments of intelligence : from natural information to artificial interac…
What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate “4E” theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In his take on that family of views, Hajo Greif first defends and refines a concept of information as primar…
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- 9781315408101
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- xii + 218 p
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- 153 GRE e
Human Rights in Child Protection: Implications for Professional Practice and …
This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each ch…
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- 9783319948003
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Celebrity bromances : constructing, interpreting and utilising personas
This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity “bromances,” interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity and authenticity. The authors examine how the performance of intimate male friendships functions within broadly “Western” celebrity culture from thr…
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- 9781003093329
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- xviii + 140 p
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- 791.430280811 LAM c
The Impact of Food Bioactives on Health: in vitro and ex vivo models
“Infogest” (Improving Health Properties of Food by Sharing our Knowledge on the Digestive Process) is an EU COST action/network in the domain of Food and Agriculture that will last for 4 years from April 4, 2011. Infogest aims at building an open international network of institutes undertaking multidisciplinary basic research on food digestion gathering scientists from different origins (fo…
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- 1
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- 9783319161044
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- XVII, 338
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- 664.001579 KIT t
Working, Housing: Urbanizing : The International Year of Global Understanding…
This book presents an incisive outline of the historical development and geography of cities. It focuses on three themes that constitute essential foundations for any understanding of urban form and function. These are: (a) the shifting patterns of urbanization through historical time, (b) the role of cities as centers of production and work in a globalizing world, and (c) the diverse housing …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783319451800
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- XV, 60
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- 307.76 Rob
Sex work, health, and human rights : global inequities, challenges, and oppor…
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices. Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social an…
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- 9783030641719
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- XXIII, 263 p
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- 306.74 SHI s
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