Baseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century. <I>The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers</I> analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single professional team, the Hanshin Tigers. For over fifty years, the Tigers have been the one of the country’s most watched and talked-about professional baseball teams, second only to their powerful rivals, the Tokyo Yomiuri G ...
The essential guidebook to the 105-mile Tour of Mont Blanc trek in the Alps. One of the best of the world's classic walks, which circumnavigates the Mont Blanc massif in about eleven days through France, Switzerland and Italy. The walk has all the excitement of the high mountains yet none of the worry of altitude sickness. It crosses numerous cols with stunning views of spectacular snow and rock peaks and accommodation along the route is ...
Cycling is the new sport for networking, CEOs, and busy executives.This book is the top-selling guide—of any format—in the use of power meters in cycling.This book is from the top power-based coaches in the sport.Cycling power meters have fallen in price from $20,000 10 years ago to $500 today. ...
Peter Sagan, at just 29 years of age, is already one of cycling’s greatest riders of all time. With six Tour de France points jersey victories, three road race world championships, the 2018 Paris-Roubaix, and multiple spring classics among Sagan’s palmares, the world of cycling agrees that this intense, yet fun-loving rider is among the most dominant and fun-to-watch riders of his generation. In My World , for the very first time, bike raci ...
Первые две книги о детском фитнесе были ознакомительными. В этой мы говорим о выручке, продвижении, мотивации команды, оформлении зон детского клуба, технологиях акций. Детский фитнес в фитнес-клубе может быть прибыльным. Не знаете, что делать – это книга для вас.
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Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from Europe’s Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe, where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for skiing across the world. Denning offers a fresh, sophisticated, and engaging cultural and environmental history of skiing that alters our understanding of the sport and reveals how leisure practices evolve in unison with our changing relationship to nature ...
Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed capable of stimulating tremendous pleasure, its globalization went hand in hand with the blood and repression of the long twentieth century. <br& ...
Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the <i>jogo bonito</i>. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazil ...
In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game’s social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to «civilize» and modernize Taiwan’s Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine populations. After World War II, the game was tolerated as ...
