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Book Foul   Fair Play

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  • Author : Marty Roth
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780820316222
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Foul Fair Play written by Marty Roth and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foul and Fair Play is an examination of classic detective fiction as a genre--an attempt to read a wide variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions. Marty Roth covers the period from the "prehistory" of detective fiction in Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. G. Wells up to the 1960s, which marked the end, he says, of the classical period--"the end of an extremely conservative paradigm." The detective fiction genre, as Roth defines it, includes analytic detective fiction, hard-boiled detective fiction, and the spy thriller. Roth insists on the structural common ground of these three types of writing and places them in the larger system of mystery fiction that preceded and surrounds them. The first part of the book consists of a reading of conventions: conventions of character (the detective, the criminal), of gender and sexuality, of narrative style, of settings, and of the curious rules of exchange and coincidence that operate in the realm where detective stories take place. The second section deals with the convoluted epistemology of mystery and detective fiction, depending as it does on other major intellectual developments of the late nineteenth century, such as psychoanalysis. An extremely original study, Foul and Fair Play offers many insights into the literary and cultural history of a popular genre.

Book Fair Play Or Foul

Download or read book Fair Play Or Foul written by Cathy Chua and published by . This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fair and Foul

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  • Author : D. Stanley Eitzen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Fair and Foul written by D. Stanley Eitzen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains America's love of sport just as it reveals sport's darker side--the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, and media grandstanding. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Book Fair or Foul

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  • Author : Christopher S. Kudlac
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-05-05
  • ISBN : 0313378266
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Fair or Foul written by Christopher S. Kudlac and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing book offers a comprehensive examination of all issues related to sports and criminal behavior, from high school to professional athlete, player to spectator. Fair or Foul: Sports and Criminal Behavior in the United States is an examination of the intersection of these two increasingly connected worlds. The book was written to answer two questions. First, is there a relationship between athletic participation and criminal behavior? Second, what other connections—positive or negative—exist between sports and crime? To arrive at his answers, author Christopher S. Kudlac surveys professional, college, and high school sports in relation to crime, spectator crime, and gambling. Other topics include how urban sports programs help deter kids from getting involved in crime and how the use of sports in prisons has worked to positive effect. The book also examines the issues of aggression, masculinity, commercial incentives (or disincentives), and other contributing factors that may spur illegal activity among athletes and spectators. Looking at the subject from the perspectives of criminal justice and forensic psychology, Kudlac is able to uncover just how intertwined the two worlds are—for better or for worse.

Book Fair Play in Sport

Download or read book Fair Play in Sport written by Sigmund Loland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive sport. By linking general moral principles and practical cases, the book develops a contemporary theory of fair play. The book examines many of the key issues in the ethics of sport, including: * fairness and justice in sport * moral and immoral interpretation of 'athletic performance' * what makes a 'good competition' * the key values of competitive sport. The notion of fair play is integral to sport as we know and experience it, and is commonly seen as a necessary ethos if competitive sport is to survive and flourish. Fair Play in Sport provides an invaluable guide to the subject for all those with an interest in ethics and the philosophy of sport.

Book Cool of the Evening

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  • Author : Jim Thielman
  • Publisher : Kirk House Publishers
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781886513716
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Cool of the Evening written by Jim Thielman and published by Kirk House Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, the Minnesota Twins were an endless surprise. Baseball was the nation s sport, and it gave people a little break from the world. The Minnesota Twins powerful lineup drew huge crowds in cities such as New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. But in an upper Midwest storm-filled year, the Minnesota Twins were the perfect storm. When the World Series between the Twins and the Dodgers arrived Minneapolis was vibrant with red, white, and blue bunting. The Twins scored six times in the third inning of the first World Series game ever played in Minnesota. Decades after the 1965 World Series fans lined up for autographs of their heroes. This is the story of the team, the players, the games of the 1965 Minnesota Twins.

Book Playing Fair

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  • Author : Richard Dagger
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-01
  • ISBN : 0199388849
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Playing Fair written by Richard Dagger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written on both political obligation and the justification of punishment, there has been little sustained effort to link the two. In Playing Fair, Richard Dagger aims to fill this gap and provide a unified theory of political obligation and the justification of punishment that takes its bearings from the principle of fair play. To do this, he first establishes the principle of fair play-the idea that people in a cooperative venture have obligations to one another to shoulder a fair share of the burdens because they receive a fair share of the benefits of cooperation-as the basis of political obligation. Dagger then argues that the members of a reasonably just polity have an obligation to obey its laws because they have an obligation of reciprocity, or fair play, to one another. This theory of political obligation provides answers to fundamental and still debated questions about how to justify punishment, who has the right to carry it out, and how much to punish. Playing Fair brings two long-standing concerns of political and legal philosophy together to rebut those who deny the possibility of a general obligation to obey the law, to defend the link between political authority and obligation, and to establish the proper scope of criminal law.

Book Fair Play

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  • Author : C. Lisle
  • Publisher : Рипол Классик
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN : 5874065261
  • Pages : 45 pages

Download or read book Fair Play written by C. Lisle and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1917 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Why Is The Foul Pole Fair

Download or read book Why Is The Foul Pole Fair written by Vince Staten and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicken soup for the baseball lover's soul -- the inimitable Vince Staten takes you out to the ol' ballgame and answers all the baseball questions your dad hoped you wouldn't ask.

Book Strange Bedfellows

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  • Author : John A. Lamb
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-10
  • ISBN : 9780615407722
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Strange Bedfellows written by John A. Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder what happens to your trash? You might be surprised to know the government sent some on an all expense-paid Southern cruise. Strange Bedfellows is not that ship's log but while truth is often stranger than fiction, it's rarely as much fun. So come aboard and meet tugboat captain Elliot, investigative reporter Alexandra, and a motley assortment of politicians, social-climbers, and crooks.

Book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Eloquence

Download or read book Modern Eloquence written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionnaire Royal Fran  ois anglois Et Anglois fran  ois  Tir   Des Meilleurs Auteurs Qui Ont   crit Dans Ces Deux Langues  Par Mr  A  Boyer

Download or read book Dictionnaire Royal Fran ois anglois Et Anglois fran ois Tir Des Meilleurs Auteurs Qui Ont crit Dans Ces Deux Langues Par Mr A Boyer written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Herald of Asia

Download or read book The Herald of Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English written by Ernest Weekley and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Royal Dictionary  In Two Parts  First  French and English  Secondly  English and French  The French Taken Out of the Dictionaries of Richelet  Furetiere  Tachart  the Great Dictionary of the French Academy  and the Remarks of Vaugelas  Menage  and Bouhours  The English Collected Chiefly Out of the Best Dictionaries  and the Works of the Greatest Masters of the English Tongue     For the Use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester

Download or read book The Royal Dictionary In Two Parts First French and English Secondly English and French The French Taken Out of the Dictionaries of Richelet Furetiere Tachart the Great Dictionary of the French Academy and the Remarks of Vaugelas Menage and Bouhours The English Collected Chiefly Out of the Best Dictionaries and the Works of the Greatest Masters of the English Tongue For the Use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester written by Abel BOYER and published by . This book was released on 1699 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Personal Foul

Download or read book Personal Foul written by Tim Donaghy and published by Clerisy Press. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover the true story behind the Netflix documentary Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul. “The book the NBA doesn’t want you to read.” —Deadspin.com Tim Donaghy loved basketball. In many ways, his zest for the game came from his father, who officiated high school and college games for over 30 years. After graduating from Villanova, Donaghy was unsatisfied with his career until he followed his heart and became a basketball referee, first in the CBA and then the NBA, where he officiated for 13 seasons: 772 regular-season games and 20 playoff games. He loved his job, his family, his life. He felt like he had everything. And then, suddenly, he had nothing. He succumbed to a gambling addiction and to intimidation from well-connected criminals—and began using inside information to win bets for them. Following an FBI investigation, Donaghy pled guilty to two federal charges, and on August 15, 2007, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison. He was released on November 4, 2009, after serving his sentence. This is his story, which provides a stunningly candid admission of his mistakes, as well as his insider’s account of the world of professional basketball. With a foreword by Phil Scala, the FBI special agent who worked the Gambino case, Personal Foul reveals how the fast life of professional sports can tempt and trap the unwary and unwise. Donaghy has written an unforgettable page-turner, one of the most controversial sports books ever published. It will confirm your suspicions about the influence of the front offices of major league sports, while examining the corrosive power of money and fame. From the Introduction: I’m guilty. For 13 years I was a referee in the National Basketball Association, living a glamorous life on and off the court, rubbing elbows with superstar players and celebrity A-listers. I suppose many would say that I had it all—a great job, money, a wonderful family—but it was all an illusion. You see, during my last four years in the NBA, I led a secret life that would ultimately cost me everything: my integrity, my reputation, my career, my livelihood, my marriage, my family, and my freedom.