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Book Race and Sports

Download or read book Race and Sports written by Rachel Laws Myers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Sports: A Reference Handbook provides a breadth and depth of discussion about minority athletes, coaches, sports journalists, and others in U.S. sport. This volume examines race and sports and connected issues, from the integration of professional sports to the present day. It also explores the history of minority involvement in sports at every level: the barriers broken, the stereotypes that have been shattered, and the difficulties that these pioneers have endured. One of the most valuable aspects of the book is that it surveys the history of race and sports in a manner that helps readers identify key issues. An extensive background on the topic of race and sports, including a review of the history and an introduction to its technical aspects, is followed by a discussion of controversies, problems, and possible solutions. Essays from various contributors showcase different aspects of race and sports, while a substantial amount of the volume is dedicated to reference material — such as biographical sketches, a chronology, an extensive annotated bibliography, and a glossary — helpful in further study of the topic.

Book Sound Play

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Cheng
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-05
  • ISBN : 0199970009
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Sound Play written by William Cheng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows how video games empower their designers, composers, players, critics, and scholars to tinker (often transgressively) with practices and discourses of music, noise, speech, and silence. Faced with collisions between utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, philosophy, and additional disciplines. With case studies spanning Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there-in the safe, sound spaces of games-can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here. Foreword by Richard Leppert Video Games Live cover image printed with permission from Tommy Tallarico

Book Man Enough

Download or read book Man Enough written by Justin Baldoni and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITY The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. In this engaging and provocative new book, beloved actor, director, and social activist Justin Baldoni reflects on his own struggles with masculinity. With insight and honesty, he explores a range of difficult, sometimes uncomfortable topics including strength and vulnerability, relationships and marriage, body image, sex and sexuality, racial justice, gender equality, and fatherhood. Writing from experience, Justin invites us to move beyond the scripts we’ve learned since childhood and the roles we are expected to play. He challenges men to be brave enough to be vulnerable, to be strong enough to be sensitive, to be confident enough to listen. Encouraging men to dig deep within themselves, Justin helps us reimagine what it means to be man enough and in the process what it means to be human.

Book Economic Development  Integration  and Morality in Asia and the Americas

Download or read book Economic Development Integration and Morality in Asia and the Americas written by Donald Wood and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores economic development, integration, and morality in economic transactions in Asia and the America. This title includes chapters that look at underground gambling behavior in China in light of that country's economic boom and retail store expansion and local socioeconomic effects in rural Mexico.

Book California  Court of Appeal  2nd Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 2nd Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Affirmative Action Plan

Download or read book Affirmative Action Plan written by New Jersey. Department of Military & Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethnicity And Crime  A Reader

Download or read book Ethnicity And Crime A Reader written by Spalek, Basia and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Basia Spalek has compiled an excellent reader about a much researched and highly sensitive subject. Crucially, she contextualises ethnicity and crime within broadly defined social and intellectual contexts, avoiding the limitation of all too frequently repeated research based solely on statistical measures and policy evaluations.? Simon Holdaway, Professor of Criminology and Sociology, Sheffield University Issues in relation to race and ethnicity have generated substantial and ever-growing interest from, and within, a multitude of academic, research and policy contexts. This book brings together important material in race and ethnic studies and provides different ways of thinking about race and ethnicity in relation to crime and the criminal justice system. Ethnicity and Crime: A Reader consists of a collection of works that capture the main themes that arise from within this vast area of work. It is divided into five sections: ?Race and crime?, racial discrimination and criminal justice The racialisation of crime: Social, political and cultural contexts Race, ethnicity and victimisation Self and discipline reflexivity: Ethnic identities and crime Ethnic identities, institutional reflexivity and crime Each section contains recurring and overlapping themes and includes many different ways of thinking about race and ethnicity in relation to crime. It spans theoretical approaches that might be labelled as positivist, critical race analyses, left realist approaches, feminist, as well as post-modern perspectives. This is the first title in the new series Readings in Criminology and Criminal Justice and follows the series format of thematic sections, together with an editor's introduction to the complete volume and an introduction to each section.

Book Social Panics   Phantom Attackers

Download or read book Social Panics Phantom Attackers written by Robert E. Bartholomew and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Man Eaters of the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alex MacCormick
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-10-07
  • ISBN : 1632202379
  • Pages : 777 pages

Download or read book Man Eaters of the World written by Alex MacCormick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans may have reached the top of the food chain, but the world is still teeming with apex predators who retain the advantage in their own environments, and sometimes venture into ours, especially when they have gained a taste for human blood. Survivors, hunters, and witnesses recall first-hand accounts of hair-raising, fatal encounters with massive and dangerous beasts of the wild, describing the often rapid and unstoppable series of events that result in devastation and serve to bolster the legends of the world’s flesh-hungry maneaters. Relentless wolves and rogue elephants, swarms of fire ants and vicious sharks, ruthless panthers, grizzly bears, crocodiles, and even human cannibals—all have taken their toll on unsuspecting travelers.

Book Betty   Pansy s Severe Queer Review of San Francisco

Download or read book Betty Pansy s Severe Queer Review of San Francisco written by Betty and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated edition reviews all the newest bars, cafs, clubs, and restaurants, as well as providing helpful lists, like Betty and Pansy's Top Ten Cruising Spots by Night and Favorite Places to See and Be Seen After 2 a.m.

Book Job Patterns for Minorities and Women in Private Industry  1994

Download or read book Job Patterns for Minorities and Women in Private Industry 1994 written by United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clubbing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben Malbon
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-03-11
  • ISBN : 1134633602
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Clubbing written by Ben Malbon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clubbing explores the cultures and spaces of clubbing. Divided into three sections: Beginnings, The Night Out and Reflections, Clubbing includes first-hand accounts of clubbing experiences, framing these accounts within the relevant research and a review of clubbing in late-1990s Britain. Malbon particularly focuses on: the codes of social interaction among clubbers issues of gender and sexuality the effects of music the role of ecstasy clubbing as a playful act and personal interpretations of clubbing experiences.

Book The Termination of Criminal Careers

Download or read book The Termination of Criminal Careers written by Stephen Farrall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed an increase in the attention given to the later stages of criminal careers. Research upon this topic has charted the main factors associated with the termination of criminal careers, outlined some of the possible reasons behind these relationships and started to develop theoretical explanations for such relationships. Collected together for the first time are some of the most important contributions to this field of research. The collection focuses upon the initial explorations into this topic, the most commonly observed findings, the cessation of offending by specific offender-types and theoretical matters. An introductory essay by the editor provides a thorough overview of the work in this area and highlights the reasons why the termination of criminal careers will become increasingly important to criminologists and criminal justice policy makers alike.

Book The Mammoth Book of Predators

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Predators written by Alex MacCormick and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't go into the woods today. . . If you're on a cruise, tramping through a forest or holidaying in an exotic location, you are constantly being watched - somewhere close by a creature is lurking, stalking and eyeing your every move. The variety and range of these potential predators is truly astonishing, from Asiatic wolves to rogue elephants, fire ants to sharks, snakes, crocodiles and grizzlies. In this definitive anthology survivors recall their terrifying ordeals, while hunters and other witnesses describe the final bloody moments of victims and their killers. Including: The British climber alone in the mountain wilderness pursued for days by a vengeful bear The African traveller's unhappy encounter with a crocodile A member of the Royal Family's gory meeting with a shark in the Caribbean A tiger breaking out of the jungle to grab a woman from her village

Book Gay Travel A to Z

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ferrari International
  • Publisher : Ferrari International Publishing Incorporated
  • Release : 1999-06
  • ISBN : 9780942586688
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Gay Travel A to Z written by Ferrari International and published by Ferrari International Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete coverage of gay and lesbian travel options available anywhere is detailed in this comprehensive guide produced by a gay publisher who has specialized exclusively in gay and lesbian travel since 1980. The features most remarked upon are the multiple indexes that allow readers to find things in different ways.