Sportuality is an examination of sports at all levels from a Western perspective, focusing on how it reflects our cultural belief in separation and dualistic thinking, as well as how sports can grow peace, understanding, and joy. Sportuality crosses disciplines of sports and spirituality to help readers--athletes, coaches, parents, and fans--evolve a higher consciousness within sports and competition. Using a journal and questions for self-reflection--called a "box score" and "time-out"--readers can reflect upon and create their own sportual stories. By examining words traditionally used within sports, Sportuality helps the reader think critically about competition, community, communication, spirit, humor, enthusiasm, education, religion, holiness, sanctuary, sacrifice, and victory. Sportuality can also expose our learned beliefs in war and violence so we might be willing to choose the alternatives of joy and peace.

Originally published in 1875. This early works is a comprehensive and informative guide to the art of shooting. 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.

Originally published in 1877, this early work on The hunting grounds of the great west is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Chapters include; The Plains, Game and Indians as well as many more also extensively illustrated through out. 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.

Fielding Harris Yost (1871-1946) was an American football coach best known for his long tenure at the University of Michigan. Yost was a lawyer, author, and businessman in addition to being a well known football coach. After four single-season stints at Ohio Wesleyan, Nebraska, Kansas, and Stanford, Yost served as the head football coach for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1901 through 1923, and again in 1925 and 1926. After retiring from coaching, Yost remained at Michigan as the schools athletic director, a position he held until 1942. Yost initiated the concept of coaching as an actual profession near the turn of the century when he was paid as much as a UM professor. His works include: Football for Player and Spectator (1905).

This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights the importance of sports for different individuals and how the function and use of sports can be brought into the consulting room. Passionate interest in actively engaging in sports is a universal phenomenon. It is striking that this aspect of human life, prior to this volume, has received little attention in the literature of psychoanalysis. This edited volume is comprised largely of psychoanalysts who are themselves avidly involved with sports. It is suggested that intense involvement in sports prioritizes commitment and active engagement over passivity and that such involvement provides an emotionally tinged distraction from the various misfortunes of life. Indeed, the ups and downs in mood related to athletic victory or defeat often supplant, temporarily, matters in life that may be more personally urgent. Engaging in sports or rooting for teams provides a feeling of community and a sense of identification with like-minded others, even among those who are part of other communities and have sufficient communal identifications. This book offers a better psychoanalytic understanding of sports to help us discover more about ourselves, our patients and our culture, and will be of great interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, or anyone with an interest in sport and its link to psychoanalysis and mental health.

Originally published in 1826, this very early work on fox hunting is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. This is a fascinating read for any fox hunting enthusiast or historian, and also contains much information that is still useful and practical today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 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 artwork and text.

Mike is a sixty three year old goalie who has played at nearly every level of hockey. Moreover, he has also coached on various levels of hockey for over twenty years. This night, he celebrates his final OHH team appearance, and the Commisioner of the OHH declares the retiring of his number. Be there for the celebration, and for 32 years of stories and tales from behind the mask and in the crease...from the perspectives of friends, family, peers, adversaries, and himself.

In recent years, mixed martial arts, also known as "ultimate fighting," has become the fastest-growing sport in American society, but it is also considered the most controversial. Based on interviews conducted with forty mixed martial arts athletes, Fighting for Acceptance answers these questions:

• Who are the ultimate fighters?
• How did they become involved in the sport?
• What goes on in their heads while competing?
• Do the fighters feel a social responsibility to preach nonviolence out of the sport?
• How do they see themselves fitting into today's society?

This book is a MUST read for all of baseball nation. Baseball, politics, money grabbers, and the people that have almost ruined the game. Critical, sarcastic, funny, and factual. Trendsetting, rule changing, mind boggling ideas from a lover of the game. Family informative. Learn how to save big bucks and still watch the game in comfort. Mantle, Pujols, Bonds, Gibson, Musial and many more. Read about the 28 million dollar man, 16 million DH? Are we talking playing just for the money or the love of the game? You decide after reading this very riveting, controversial book. Your mind will be changed about many things. Should Bud Selig or Bob Costas be in the Commissioner's office? Wrong people voting in wrong places!! Yogi Berra ran thru it a couple of times. Help campaign for the new Commissioner. You the FAN decide what is best.

In the early 1970s, the United States was much the same as in the radical '60s; Americans dying in Vietnam, anti-war demonstrations on college campuses, conflict between blacks and whites in most major cities. In predominantly white Dolton, a south Chicago suburb, busing had come to Thornridge High School. Black students from nearby Phoenix now attended school with whites from Dolton and South Holland. They were not warmly received. Then, the Thornridge basketball team started winning... Fans in black and white communities came together as Thornridge captured consecutive Illinois championships. Led by the national high school athlete of the year, Quinn Buckner, the Falcons stormed to a perfect season in 1972. No team even came close. This is their story told in their own words. THORNRIDGE is about prejudice and acceptance, adversity and triumph, and a team that changed attitudes while the players were having the time of their lives.

This early work on Pigeon Racing is an engrossing read for any pigeon racer of historian of the sport, but also contains much information that is still pertinent and practical today. Recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of the pigeon fancier. 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.

This early work is an absorbing read for any fishing enthusiast or historian, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical today. Contents Include: The Genesis of an Angler - Tackle and Equipment - The Way of a Trout - Wet-Fly Fishing for Trout - Dry-Fly Fishing for Trout - Playing a Hooked Trout - Casting for Trout and Salmon and Care of Tackle - Trout and Salmon Biology - Low-Water Fishing for Salmon - Wet-Fly Fishing for Salmon - Dry-Fly and Still-Water Fishing for Salmon - Playing a Salmon - Bait Fishing - Sea Trout - Salmon Fishermen - Feathered Anglers - Where Nature Speaks - Bibliography - Appendices: Salmon Angling Regulations in Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain, and Ireland - Analysis of Twenty Years' Catch of Salmon on a Gaspe Private Club Water - Particulars of Lines - Some Useful Knots - Leader Data - Arthur Hutton's and Sturdy's Scales for Estimating the Weight of Salmon by Its Length - Tables of Hook Sizes - and an Index. 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.

This early works is a comprehensive and informative guide to Amature Boxing. Extensively illustrated throughout, it is thoroughly recommended to any boxing enthusiast with much of the information still useful and practical today. 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.

This early work is a collection of familiar essays written in a relaxed and graceful style by an expert angler. His tales of adventure on lake and stream will reward philosophers with thought, and naturalists with beauty. Thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any fishing enthusiast or historian. Contents Include: The Brotherhood of Peter; Trout and the Old Gentleman; The purist and the Dub; In Defense of Worms; The Supercilious Salmon; Heart or Belly; Men I Won't Fish With; Worse and Less of It; Water-Borne; and Rivers. 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.

This early work is a fascinating read for amateur and professional ballroom dancers and enthusiasts of the dance. Compiled by an examiner of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing it comprises a comprehensive collection of questions used for examinations. Contents Include: Preface; General Notes; The Waltz; The Quickstep; The Foxtrot; The Tango. 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.

Coming Back is not just the story of Jeff " Grandpa" Coffey's amazing return to play college basketball at the age of forty six. It is a book about faith. Faith that God will not only provide for entire civilizations and countries but faith that He is there when we as individuals need Him most. Through his own experiences of COMING BACK from setbacks, injuries, heart attacks, job losses, a false arrest, and all of life's curveballs Jeffery has maintained a happy and positive attitude. Jeffery examines why these things happened to him and how he came back from each of these instances. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do seemingly good things happen for bad people? Jeffery explains that life will never be perfect so live each day for what it is, just one more gift from God. See how Jeffery L. Coffey despite all the obstacles he faced did return to Caldwell Community College in 2006 at age forty six and became Grandpa "oldest college basketball player."