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Sport, Masculinities and the Body (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)
Sport, Masculinities and the Body (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)

This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or unsuccessfully - and the consequences of these...

Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology)
Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology)

During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early...

Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan: The Phantom Samurai (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan: The Phantom Samurai (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

In contrast to the enduring stereotype of a ‘nation of samurai’, this book uses provincial newspapers and local records to hear the voices of ordinary people living in imperial Japan through several decades of war and peace. These voices reveal the authentic experiences, opinions and emotions of men, women and children. They show...

Nanocomputers and Swarm Intelligence
Nanocomputers and Swarm Intelligence

“We need men who can dream of things that never were.” It is this sentence spoken by John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963 which has undoubtedly influenced my industrial career. Whether it be everyday electronics for the general public, or the components industry or even the world of video and imagery, the technological innovations which...

Why Men Don't Listen And Women Can't Read Maps
Why Men Don't Listen And Women Can't Read Maps

It was a sunny Sunday afternoon as Bob and Sue set out with their three teenage daughters on a lazy drive down to the beach. Bob was at the wheel and Sue sat beside him, turning towards the back every few minutes to join in the animated series of conversations going on among their daughters. To Bob, it sounded as if they were all talking at...

Romantic Autobiography in England (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Romantic Autobiography in England (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Taking into account the popularity and variety of the genre, this collaborative volume considers a wide range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. In the wake of Rousseau's "Confessions", autobiography became an increasingly popular...

Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations
Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations

Statistically Speaking is a book of quotations. It has, for the first time, brought together in one easily accessible form the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the disciplines of probability and statistics. Some of the quotations are profound, others are wise, some are witty, but none are frivolous....

End-to-End Game Development: Creating Independent Serious Games and Simulations from Start to Finish
End-to-End Game Development: Creating Independent Serious Games and Simulations from Start to Finish

In the award-winning AMC television series Mad Men, set in the early 1960s, a mysterious and massive machine shows up one day in the offices of the advertising agency Stirling Cooper. The machine is a Xerox photocopier, and the workplace is about to change forever. Previously, document duplication was done with a mimeograph, a hand-cranked...

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and Lucina's Rape
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and Lucina's Rape

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, was born on All Fools’ Day, 1647, at Ditchley in Oxfordshire on the estate that had belonged to his mother’s first husband, Sir Henry Lee. Rochester’s father, Lord Wilmot, was a royalist general; witty, restless and hard-drinking, he was with the exiled court in Paris, and hardly saw...

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, United Nations
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, United Nations

Th e swift course of domestic and world events, part of a hastened process of change, requires an enormous increase of basic understanding by peoples of the multiple factors infl uencing the tempo and direction of national developments. Th e pattern of intercultural penetration and cross-fertilizing exchanges of scientifi c and technological...

The Apache Wars: The Final Resistance (Landmark Events in Native American History)
The Apache Wars: The Final Resistance (Landmark Events in Native American History)

“Indah! Indah! The White Men are coming,” screamed the old woman. Th e boy turned and saw fl ashes of rifl e fi re along the lake. His mother quickly lifted him and placed him on the mule’s back. As she tried to lift her infant daughter alongside her as well, the mule panicked and reared. A man snatched her baby and ran up...

Singing For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies)
Singing For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies)

Take your voice to the next level and grow as a performer

Whether you're a beginning vocalist or a seasoned songster, Singing for Dummies makes it easy for you to achieve your songbird dreams. This practical guide gives you step-by-step instructions and lots of helpful tips, hints, vocal exercises, reminders, and...

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