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  • Historical Dictionary of Football

    de John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century. Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with similar games (but significant rules differences) played in the United States and Canada.The Historical Dictionary of Football covers the ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Boxing

    de John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport since – to avoid unnecessary harm – it has been endowed with rules to keep it clean, referees to see the rules are obeyed, and organizations to regulate the sport. Boxing was once largely amateur, ... Leer más

    $178.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Tennis

    de John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    The sport of tennis has been played in one form or another for more than 800 years. It can trace its roots to games played by monks in the 12th century. Through the years the game has evolved from one in which the ball was struck with the hands to the modern game in which rackets are used to propel the ball in excess of 150 miles per hour. From the sport of the elite to the sport played by elite ... Leer más

    $100.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Wrestling

    de John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Wrestling as a legitimate contest is one of the oldest, if not the oldest form of sport. There are cave drawings in France that depict memorable matches, which are over 15,000 years old. Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestling bouts where wrestlers are using most of the holds known to the modern-day sport. Wrestling was also a big part of ancient Greek literature and legend and historical ... Leer más

    $161.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Basketball

    de John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James Naismith, basketball's inventor, to have envisioned the extent to which his simple game would reach. Without major changes to his original 13 rules, basketball is now played in more than 200 countries ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Bowling

    de John Grasso, Eric R. Hartman ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Loggats, kayles, quilles, skittles, half-bowl and ninepins were all early forms of games in which the goal was to knock down small standing objects from a distance by rolling or throwing another object at them. Archaeologists have found items from Egypt around 5200 B.C. that included small stone balls and narrow pins that were possibly used for a game. Additional research has disclosed that ... Leer más

    $153.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

    de John Grasso, Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that ... Leer más

    $214.99 USD

  • Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy

    The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso

    de Christopher Grasso ...
    The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author, and anarchist. A former Methodist preacher and Missouri schoolteacher, John R. Kelso served as a Union Army foot soldier, cavalry officer, guerrilla fighter, and spy. Kelso became driven by revenge after pro-Southern neighbors stole his property, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Contested Britain

    Brexit, Austerity and Agency

    de Paul Carmichael, Derek Birrell, Klaus Stolz, Hugh Mackay, Allan Cochrane, Magdalena Nowicka, Kirsten Forkert, Marius Guderjan, Carlo Morelli0, Ingrid Von Rosenberg1, Thomas Montgomery2, Lisa McKenzie3, John Clarke5, Steven Truxal6, Maria Grasso7, Simon Griffiths8 ...
    A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and consequences of austerity politics, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist politics in Britain.Bringing together case studies and perspectives from ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • The End of Dragons

    de Adriana Zadravec, Cameron Cordich, Carly Seemann, E. W. Farnsworth, Inaya Bhimani, Jeffrey Davis, John Dewald, Joshua Grasso, Juliana Nunes, Karin Osterberg, Kelly Bedbrook, Lillie E. Franks, Maxwell Czyzyk, Rebecca Coyte, Robert Kramer, Taylor Rigsby, J. B. Charon ...
    The last battle has been fought, and the victors are leaving the field.What happens to the remaining dragons now?In the End of Dragons, seventeen new voices show our young readers fantastical worlds where dragons and magic were real. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Engagements

    John R. Kelso's Civil War

    de John R. Kelso ...
    The first edited edition of a Union soldier’s remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of the Union men who battled them. This edition of John R. Kelso’s Civil War memoir presents a firsthand account of an ordinary man’s extraordinary ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Catholicism and Religious Freedom

    Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty

    de Francis P. Canavan, David S. Crawford, John F. Crosby, Cardinal Avery Dulles, Robert P. George, Thomas Heilke, David T. Koyzis, William L. Saunders ...
    The late Pope John Paul II frequently invoked Dignitatis Humanae as one of the foundational documents of contemporary Church social teaching. In this timely new edited collection, Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty, Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt have assembled an impressive group of scholars to discuss the current ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD