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This book provides a definitive and comprehensive contribution to
the expanding body of research related to sport/physical culture
and the COVID-19 global pandemic. By examining the generative
complexities that simultaneously link and shape sport/physical
culture and COVID, the book develops a collection of multi-faceted
readings. The anthology is framed by an ontological understanding
prefigured on relationality, liminality, and perpetual becoming.
The contributions theoretically, methodologically and
representationally explore COVID-sport assemblages as a dynamic and
diverse "ad hoc grouping"of interpenetrating affecting elements,
encompassing material and expressive forms, human and non-human,
animate and inanimate matter. The book will be of interest to
advanced undergraduate and students and scholars of kinesiology,
sociology of sport, critical studies of the body, physical
education, sport and social issues, public health, physical
cultural studies, sociology, foreign policy studies, and
international studies.
The book examines a period when football underwent a seismic and
ineradicable change brought about by the determination of the
Victorian Football League to wrest control of the game's
development and destiny from the various state controlling bodies
and the Australian Football Council. Whereas the VFL had initially
been the first among equals, it gradually assumed the role of the
sole and undisputed guardian of the code. The AFC, once football's
ostensible national controlling body, became an irrelevance.
Instead of a national sport with a national remit we ended up with
an expanded VFL with a majority of Victorian member clubs
supplemented by a token sprinkling of teams from interstate. Such
teams were in most cases created from scratch and could in no way
be said to derive directly from the states' unique and distinctive
football traditions and culture. For some, it was a brave new
world, but evolution does not inevitably entail improvement.
This fascinating early work will delight cardsharps and historians
of the game. A comprehensive guide to a multitude of card tricks
accompanied by a history of the pack of cards provides a complete
how-to guide. Contents Include: 24 Stunts with Cards; 17 Magic
Tricks with Cards; 25 Puzzles with Cards; Solutions to Puzzles with
Cards; 20 Solitaires. Many of the earliest books, particularly
those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce
and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works
in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original
text and artwork.
Follow the true life story of Sue Sally Hale (1937-2003) who is
credited with breaking the gender barrier in American polo. Going
where no woman had gone before, Sue Sally played Sunday polo with
the men. At times disguising herself as a man, she persevered when
she was neither wanted nor accepted, her chosen sport certainly not
prepared for her. Overcoming all odds and with a passion for polo
that guided and sustained her throughout her life, she lived
incredible highs and debilitating lows. Through wealth, poverty,
joy, heartbreak, discipline, sacrifice and hard work, Sue Sally
Hale became "Polo's Grande Dame". This is an inspirational story
about living an unthinkable dream.
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