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This edited anthology, another fine work from Greenwood Press,
should be of acute interest to those responsible for managing or
studying outdoor recreation in the US. Unlike most works on this
subject, which are written by those active in the field, the
contributors to this book are largely political scientists. Their
perspectives about policy relevant to the recreational use of
public lands are new and make a significant contribution. . . . The
19 contributors examine important topics such as planning for
recreational uses of natural resources, citizen participation in
outdoor recreation policy making, the measurement of service
provision and data needs, bureaucratic value structures, and
economic/financial concerns. . . . A must for any collection
addressing natural resources management. Choice This book includes
chapters by some of the leading analysts in outdoor recreation
research. Experts in the fields of natural resource management,
geography, economics, political science, forestry, and leisure
sociology address current issues in outdoor recreation policy. The
underlying themes of all chapters are the preservation/use dilemma
inherent in outdoor recreation policy and the management of natural
resources. Extremely comprehensive and current, the volume focuses
on the economic, social, attitudinal, and demographic
considerations pertinent in today's outdoor recreation policy
formulation. The first section of the book defines the dimensions
of the preservation/use dilemma as well as key concepts in outdoor
recreation research. The next two sections focus upon the
measurement of the benefits of recreational resources and the
financing of maintenance and management of natural resource areas.
Another section includes chapters on the assessment of public
preferences and the outdoor recreation demands/needs of various
constituencies. The fifth section of the book includes chapters
which focus upon federal agencies' approaches to the implementation
of recreation resource policies. The final section includes
chapters which describe management techniques that may be utilized
in attempting to balance the demands of preservation and use.
Accessible to a wide audience, the book makes valuable reading for
policymakers, administrators, and scholars in the areas of
recreation and natural resources.
Although English public schools project an image of clean, polite,
and uniformed boys living together in collective worship of God,
team games, and academic standards, the early years of these
schools had a reality that was far different. The public school
that existed before the Clarendon Commission reforms of 1862-64 was
a jungle inhabited by a warlike tribe of self-governing boys, into
whose social, sporting, and moral lives the masters were not
admitted. Boys were chiefly educated by street fighting, poaching,
and rioting, and, according to the political enemies of the
schools, acquiring a taste for liquor and "a passion for female
society of the most degraded kind." In this engrossing book, John
Chandos examines the public schools in the last half century before
their reform. Using journals, letters, and autobiographies of the
time, he provides revealing anecdotes about all aspects of public
school life-from academics and sports to vice, discipline, fagging,
and religion. Chandos not only illuminates the harsh treatment boys
experienced but also shows why parents continued to commit their
sons to this system. Parents were persuaded-the fathers usually
from personal experience-that the public schools gave a realistic
preparation for the wicked and treacherous world that lay ahead,
and that a boy who had weathered the ordeal of a public school was
a confirmed survivor. Boys Together is essential reading for
students of life and values in nineteenth-century England; it is
also enthralling entertainment for the general reader.
This book focuses on the teaching and philosophy of the pioneering
performing arts teacher and educator Marjorie Barstow. She is one
of the best and brightest exponents of the Alexander Technique
(AT), an approach to awareness and movement widely deployed and
valued in the performing arts and outside artistic circles. By
comparing her approach to the educational philosophy of John Dewey,
this book resurrects Marjorie Barstow's name, and gives her
pedagogy and legacy the attention it deserves.
Originally published between 1920-70, the aim of the general
editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings
and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and
sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in
the following groupings: "Prehistory and Historical Ethnography"
set of 12: 0-415-15611-4 (u800); "Greek Civilization" set of 7:
0-415-15612-2 (u450); "Roman Civilization" set of 6: 0-415-15613-0
(u400); "Eastern Civilizations" set of 10: 0-415-15614-9 (u650);
"Judaeo-Christian Civilization" set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: (u250);
"European Civilization" set of 11: 0-415-15616-5 (u700).
In Heart of Dart-ness, TV's Ned Boulting sets out to answer the
forty-something year old question: What exactly is darts? Is it a
sport, a freak show, a side-show, a pantomime, a riot or a party?
From Purfleet to Minehead, Milton Keynes to Frankfurt, Ned embarks
on a journey back to the beginning of the modern game. He tracks
down some of the household names who graced childhood television
screens and are still among us; names such as Andy Fordham, whose
fifty bottles of Pils a day habit led to his near death on the
oche, Cliff Lazarenko, whose prodigious drinking was the stuff of
legend even among his not exactly abstemious peer-group, Phil
Taylor, the greatest of all time, as well as the Europeans, Michael
van Gerwen, and Raymond van Barneveld. Is it entertainment, or
exploitation? To answer that question, as well as every other, he
learns that all roads lead to the Heart of Dart-ness, and the
biggest character the game has ever produced, Eric Bristow. Perhaps
darts is after all, just exactly what it sets out to be; an
anti-sport sport, a two-fingered salute to the establishment, a
piss-up in a brewery, the ultimate escape. The best night out.
WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 - SPORT 'This book is a work of art
about football's works of art... Loved it.' - Kevin Day,
broadcaster 'A beautiful showcase of such a distinctive part of the
game's culture... impossible not to get lost in the book' - Miguel
Delaney, The Independent 'Gorgeous to behold... Unmissable' - Danny
Kelly, TalkSPORT radio presenter 'I absolutely love this book' -
Jules Breach, football presenter On high-rise buildings, street
corners and stadium walls in countries around the world,
eye-catching murals pay tribute to footballing greats. From Messi
and Ronaldo to Rapinoe and Cruyff, these striking displays are
remarkable testaments to the awe and affection fans feel for these
football legends and cult heroes. Join renowned football writer and
broadcaster Andy Brassell as he explores this fascinating
phenomenon. Offering a fresh, highly visual perspective on the
global game, Football Murals is the first book to celebrate these
towering works of art. Beckenbauer and Cruyff, Rooney and
Ronaldinho, Totti and Salah, Zlatan and Zidane - being honoured
with a mural cements a player's place in a club's heritage and
links them to the heart of the community. This richly illustrated
book showcases the most impressive examples, explores their
inspirational qualities and examines what they say about these
icons and their sport. Written and curated by respected football
writer Andy Brassell, this ground-breaking book features more than
100 murals from around the world, capturing the scale, grandeur and
wit of this powerful and popular art form. Through a series of
short essays and extended captions, Andy shares the players'
stories, discusses the cultural politics and explains just why
these men and women have been immortalised in mural form. Covering
such diverse topics as Home Town Glory, Football Fame and The Cult
of the Coach, Football Murals addresses the issues important to
fans worldwide. It spans Marcus Rashford's inspirational mural in a
Manchester suburb, the George Best tribute on the East Belfast
estate where he was born, the 15-foot depiction of Megan Rapinoe in
St Paul, Minnesota, and the Naples 'shrine' to Diego Maradona.
We know that a supportive family is the key to a person's
success. It is fascinating to read a history of military wives that
begins to give them the credit they deserve for service to their
country and their families.
"Patricia Schroeder U.S. Representative, Colorado"
"Campfollowing" opens an important page in history for the
military and for the role of women in the military. The women
described in this book were not only devoted wives and mothers who
brought a few of the comforts of home to forlorn military outposts,
but they were also nurses who cared for the sick and wounded, as
well as soldiers who fought bravely next to their soldier-husbands.
They served their country with great love, dignity, and honor, and
they deserve this long overdue recognition. I believe this book
will be both an inspiration and a model for present military
spouses as they follow their loved ones throughout the world or
wait patiently at home for them when they are apart. "Timothy E.
Wirth U.S. Senator, Colorado"
Campfollowers themselves, Betty Alt and Bonnie Stone have
collected published and unpublished memoirs, diaries, and letters
and have conducted personal interviews to present this
comprehensive history of the military wife from the Revolutionary
War through the post-Vietnam years. The first work to concentrate
on the unique hardships and rewards known to these women, this book
considers both the traditional and modern roles of the military
wife, with particular attention to her place as second in line to
her husband's career and the military establishment's reluctant
acceptance of her as integral to the success of its mission.
Resilience and flexibility, loneliness and companionship, and
danger and loyalty are all components of the military wife's life
described in these revealing pages. The chapters are organized
chronologically, outlining the experience during peacetime and war,
stateside and overseas. Throughout, the focus remains on the
strength of this sisterhood as it copes with separation and fear by
fostering its sense of community, and faces the indifference of the
military by constantly asserting its identity. This look at the
many different facets of life as a military wife, described from a
personal perspective within a historical framework, is a thoughtful
analysis, a complete chronicle, and a true adventure with all its
joys and perils.
The expectations of the Catholic Church and the demands of the
state are a precarious balancing act that have been apparent
throughout the history of Catholic education. It is a relationship
that is under scrutiny, even in the contemporary context. Drawing
on the works and lives of key figures in the history of teacher
preparation in Catholic education internationally, this important
text illuminates the contributions they made and the challenges
they faced. In providing this rich historical synthesis, the
authors invite further reflection on the most appropriate methods
of teacher preparation for contemporary Catholic schools and on
possible contributions to wider teacher preparation from cogitating
the history of the Catholic tradition. This book addresses teacher
preparation for Catholic schools at both the 'pre-service' and
'in-service' levels by looking at the Church and its relationship
with the state. The former will allow opportunities for a deep
study of the role of 'faith' in Teacher Preparation, while the
latter focuses on how a distinctive faith-based model of education
can be in dialogue with the expectations of civil society. By using
this multi-layered framework, the book offers exciting and
innovative opportunities to inform contemporary practice from
international examples, proving an invaluable text for researchers
in the fields of comparative education, theology and the sociology
of religion.
South Africa's transition to democracy has seen massive changes in
the field of teacher education aimed at integrating its previously
raced and gendered character. This book provides a comprehensive
historical overview and relational understanding of the patterns of
teacher preparation supporting South Africa's unequal formal
education system. It shows how emerging patterns, policies and
pedagogies were deeply entangled with the country's position within
a broader international and colonial order as well as with dominant
national political and economic social frameworks. Using rich
archival and oral evidence, this book illuminates how successive
policies restricted and enabled access to different institutions,
while differentiated curricula prepared teachers to teach students
intended to play different roles in a society marked by class, race
and gender division. It explores the location and control of
teacher provision for black and white teachers provided by mission
societies and the state in colleges and universities.
Post-apartheid governments sought to reverse entrenched racial
legacies in education through closure of the colleges and
incorporation of teacher preparation into universities, altered
admission criteria and new curricula. These have resulted in new
tensions which have arisen in relation to a world of competing
pressures on universities and teachers. By shedding new light on
these tensions from a historical perspective, this book will prove
an invaluable resource for education leaders and researchers in the
field of global and comparative education.
This book documents Japan's psychological deterioration caused by
its defeat in August 1945. Also, Japan's traumatic transformation
from authoritarianism to democracy is detailed. The study exposes
an ideological war between the Soviet Union and the USA within
American-occupied Japan, which triggered violent polarization among
the Japanese. Under General MacArthur's tutorage, the defeated
Japanese were expected to become a peace-loving people, but the
Cold War derailed Japan's progress toward freedom and democracy.
The "Red Purge," instituted by MacArthur's Headquarters (GHQ) from
1949 to 1950, triggered the devastating side effects on Japan's
academic freedom and freedom of speech. Stanford University
Professor Dr. Walter C. Eells (1886-1962) served at the GHQ as an
influential education adviser and became the most vocal advocate of
the Red Purge. Japanese Marxist historians have constructed the
popular postwar narrative of the Red Purge, blaming the GHQ for
every failure. The vast archival materials, including the GHQ
papers, Eells papers, and Japanese-language documents, revealed
that the Red Purge was a serious propaganda battle between the
Americans and the Soviets in a war-torn Japan. This propaganda war
engendered the violently polarized political climate, in which the
conservative Japanese government behaved according to the dictates
of US Cold War policy. By revealing feverish tensions within the
GHQ regarding communist influences in Japanese universities, this
study sheds bright new light on the Red Purge and its lasting
impact on Japan's political future.
The informal economy did not disappear, nor did it decrease.
Despite early predictions of its eventual demise, it has not only
grown worldwide, but also emerged in new forms and unexpected
places. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific
informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic
approach, the Author shows the social and economic processes that
allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex
and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal
parts of economy. Throughout detailed descriptions of informality
in action, the book provides interesting starting-points to
investigate the renewed dilemmas of the informal economy and its
linkages with globalization processes.
The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed
national research journal devoted to the examination of educational
topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The
editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from
numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions, and backgrounds.
Authors come from a variety of disciplines including political
science, curriculum, history, philosophy, teacher education, and
educational leadership. Acceptance for publication in AEHJ requires
that each author present a well-articulated argument that deals
substantively with questions of educational history.
No other high school in Nebraska evokes as much pride, passion,
inspiration, and devotion as Pius X High School. The school that
was started in 1956 and remains today Nebraska's largest
co-educational parochial school, is a beacon for success and
leadership. Thunderbolt athletics has been a bench mark for
programs to follow, and only those privileged few student athletes
who have had the opportunity to don the Pius X uniform can begin to
understand why that is so. Pius X's undeniably rich tradition and
success over the past fifty years are enough to separate it from
other schools: 54 state titles in both boy and girl sports, 12 all
sports awards, nine state football championships, and countless
academic all state athletes. Coaches such as Aldrich, Kelley,
Aylward, Moore, and Forycki, as well as many others, have set the
standard of excellence, and have created the feelings of honor and
utmost pride associated with Pius X and being a Thunderbolt. Travel
back with us as we take a look at Past great athletes and teams and
why they make Pius X such a special and magical place. This is a
must read for all past and present Thunderbolt athletes, and for
Pius X fans and foes alike. Now read the stories and accounts of
past Pius X athletes as they attempt to define the significance of
being a part of the storied tradition that is a Pius X Thunderbolt.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SPORTS BOOK OF 2022 A football fan's dream
come true - every complete UK PANINI sticker album 1978-1985
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70s and 80s, when player stickers were bought, bartered and
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all those 'I had that one', 'I'd forgotten about him' and 'look at
that haircut!' memories as well as providing in-depth details on
all the players and teams of the era. Licensed by PANINI, this is a
comprehensive collection of PANINI'S UK domestic football albums
from 1978 to 1985 inclusive. Covering all English First Division
and Scottish Premier teams, it features not only all the great
teams and players of the era, but the one-season wonders and the
also-rans as well. Inside the book: - Nearly 5,000 images of iconic
PANINI stickers, album covers and sticker packet designs. -
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Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Aberdeen
and West Ham United. - Photographs and pen portraits of the great
players of the day, such as Bryan Robson, Glenn Hoddle, Kevin
Keegan, Ossie Ardiles, Ian Rush and John Barnes, plus World Cup
winners in the twilight of their careers and young stars in the
making, like Peter Beardsley, Chris Waddle, Mark Hughes and Gary
Lineker.
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