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  • Nelson

    The Sword of Albion

    de John Sugden ...
    This second volume concludes the most comprehensive and intimate portrait of the life of Horatio Nelson ever written."This superb warts-and-all biography details the awe-inspiring ups and downs of the final eight years of British Admiral Horatio Nelson's life. Sugden's meticulously research, highly readable work will no doubt be the definitive portrait of a brilliant, fearless, inspiring warrior ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Tecumseh

    A Life

    de John Sugden ...
    "[A] masterful study of the life of the Shawnee leader . . . [who] left an indelible imprint on the history of his people and on American history." —David Dixon, HistoryNetIf Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. Although Tecumseh literature exceeds that devoted to any other Native American, this is the first reliable biography—thirty years in the making—of the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Sir Francis Drake

    de Dr John Sugden ...
    More than four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and cirumnavigated the world to bring home the Golden Hind laden with Spanish treasure. His attacks on Spanish cities and ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Scum Airways

    Inside Football's Underground Economy

    de John Sugden ...
    Football is big business and it doesn't come much bigger than Manchester United – commercial giants and the richest club in the world. But in the shadow of Old Trafford a black economy is growing to rival the commercial power of the official sales channels. Scum Airways is an inside investigation of the Manchester grafters – touts, black marketeers and shady dealers – who, led by characters like ... Leer más

    $9.69 USD

  • Football, Corruption and Lies

    Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban

    de John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Power Games

    A Critical Sociology of Sport

    Edición de John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies

    Playing with Enemies

    de John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building.In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Edición de John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • Leave It As It Is

    A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness

    de David Gessner ...
    Bestselling author David Gessner’s wilderness road trip inspired by America’s greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, is “a rallying cry in the age of climate change” (Robert Redford).“Leave it as it is,” Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. “The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” Roosevelt’s pronouncement signaled the beginning ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024

    de Bill McKibben, Jaime Green ...
    Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.“This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling.” The ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • The Book of Minds

    How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

    de Philip Ball ...
    This "fascinating and illuminating account" explores how we might perceive the mind if we didn't put humans at the center of our understanding ( The Guardian Observer).Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Gunfighter Nation

    The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America

    de Richard Slotkin ...
    Series Libro 3 - Mythology of the American West
    National Book Award Finalist: The "impressive" conclusion to the "magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history" ( Film Quarterly)."The myth of the Western frontier—which assumes that whites' conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society—is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus