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GOLFLAND describes each one of Scotland's golf courses. It is the
detailed, definitive guide to the country's courses. It's the first
book of its kind in more than a decade, an ambitious celebration of
Scotland's embarrassment of golfing riches. Useful and informative,
it is a practical reference work. Beautifully designed, with
stunning photography by David Cannon, it is also a highly desirable
gift. GOLFLAND is an appropriate name for a book about the courses
of Scotland, the country recognised as the birthplace of the game.
Scotland is a mecca for golf tourists worldwide, who come to play
its most celebrated courses, such as Carnoustie, Muirfield and the
historic links of St Andrews. Yet for all of Scotland's most
distinguished courses, like those which host The Open, there are
hundreds of others, some known to aficionados, some so far-flung as
to be familiar to only a few. GOLFLAND records and celebrates them
all. If you are planning a trip to Scotland or simply want to
explore the richness of the country's golfing landscape, GOLFLAND
is essential. For dreaming about some future game, or else
remembering one played long ago, it is equally invaluable. GOLFLAND
will answer almost all the questions you might have about Scottish
golf courses. GOLFLAND is also the answer to a commonly asked
question: what is the perfect gift for the golfer in my life?
This book provides practical and buildable solutions for the design
of foundations for housing and other low-rise buildings, especially
those on abnormal or poor ground. A wealth of expert information
and advice is brought together dealing with the key aspects a
designer must consider in order to achieve effective and economic
foundation designs. This second edition of Structural Foundations
Manual for Low-Rise Buildings has been completely updated in line
with the new government guidelines on contaminated land and
brown-field sites. The book includes well-detailed design solutions
and calculations, actual case histories, illustrations, design
charts and check lists, making it a user-friendly reference for
contractors, structural engineers, architects and students who have
to deal with foundations for low-rise buildings on sites with
difficult ground conditions.
Many myths surround male bodies and associated bodywork, especially
when such bodywork is labelled culturally or socially atypical or
'problematic'. Bodybuilding, for example, has been explained in
terms of gender inadequacy and an 'Adonis complex' akin to reverse
anorexia, while men electing to undergo aesthetic cosmetic surgery
are deemed 'too concerned' about their appearance and thus
woman-like. Myths also discredit men and boys who do not engage in
appropriate bodywork when this is expected. For instance, amidst
public health concerns surrounding a so-called 'obesity epidemic',
men and boys who resist physical activity and/or attempts to
promote a 'healthy weight' are deemed ignorant, apathetic and in
need of correction. Drawing on extensive field research conducted
in North America and Britain over a twenty year period, this book
challenges such masculine myth making. Mindful of a rich
sociological tradition that seeks to understand the social world as
lived and experienced, the authors provide insights that are likely
to challenge common perceptions of various groups of men and boys,
their diverse physical cultures, shared ways of being and
identities. Presenting empirically grounded understandings of
diverse bodily practices and discourses including bodybuilding,
cosmetic surgery, dieting and nightclub security, Challenging Myths
of Masculinity will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and
cultural studies, with interests in gender, embodiment and
masculinities.
Traceable as far back as the work of the path-breaking ???Chicago
School??? of Sociology in the 1920s and 1930s, ???subculture??? and
???counterculture??? have long been conceptual staples of the
discipline. Implemented originally to designate and describe
smaller, often deviant or delinquent, groups within larger social
communities, the terms gained pace in their use in mid-twentieth
century criminological research, and especially with the
development of Cultural Studies in the United Kingdom in the 1970s,
where they became widely used to describe processes of social
class-based opposition, resistance and protest. More recently,
sociologists have moved beyond a strict conformity-resistance model
in accounting for the behaviour of sub-communities that coalesce
around particular values, behaviours, or preferences. Indeed,
contemporary sociological research has raised the possibility that
the term ???subculture??? in particular may have entirely outgrown
its usefulness. While the term ???counterculture??? has also
languished, there is no doubt that the sorts of social groups to
which these terms have historically referred are more extensive and
colourful than ever. Certainly this is the case in sport. Put
simply, all societies are replete with their own versions of
???Tribal Play??? which encompass and represent wider social
patterns, processes, and struggles.
This volume is a collection of 16 readings on aspects of
sub-community life in sport that showcases the breadth and depth of
sport subcultural research by a group of international scholars
representing varied theoretical and methodological orientations.
Some of the sport communities examined include soccer hooligans,
enduranceathletes, disabled athletes, environmentally conscious
surfers, and X-Games participants. This fourth volume in the
Research in the Sociology of Sport series is edited by two
sociologists whose academic training, research and teaching span
three of the subdisciplines in which the concepts of
???subculture??? and ???counterculture??? have been most avidly
used and critically tested (Criminology/Youth/Sport), and whose
???subcultural??? ventures both in sport and as sociologists are
extensive. Michael Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of
Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University in the UK,
and Kevin Young is Professor of Sociology at the University of
Calgary, Canada.
Many myths surround male bodies and associated bodywork, especially
when such bodywork is labelled culturally or socially atypical or
'problematic'. Bodybuilding, for example, has been explained in
terms of gender inadequacy and an 'Adonis complex' akin to reverse
anorexia, while men electing to undergo aesthetic cosmetic surgery
are deemed 'too concerned' about their appearance and thus
woman-like. Myths also discredit men and boys who do not engage in
appropriate bodywork when this is expected. For instance, amidst
public health concerns surrounding a so-called 'obesity epidemic',
men and boys who resist physical activity and/or attempts to
promote a 'healthy weight' are deemed ignorant, apathetic and in
need of correction. Drawing on extensive field research conducted
in North America and Britain over a twenty year period, this book
challenges such masculine myth making. Mindful of a rich
sociological tradition that seeks to understand the social world as
lived and experienced, the authors provide insights that are likely
to challenge common perceptions of various groups of men and boys,
their diverse physical cultures, shared ways of being and
identities. Presenting empirically grounded understandings of
diverse bodily practices and discourses including bodybuilding,
cosmetic surgery, dieting and nightclub security, Challenging Myths
of Masculinity will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and
cultural studies, with interests in gender, embodiment and
masculinities.
Contents: Preface. Examples. 1. Site Investigations. 2. Foundation design. 3. Foundations in cohesive soils. 4. Foundations in sands and gravels. 5. Building in mining localities. 6. Sites with trees. 7. Developing on sloping sites. 8. Building on filled ground. 9 Ground improvement. 10. Building up to existing buildings. 11. Contaminated land.
This volume takes a fresh approach to qualitative research on sport
and physical culture by presenting "student friendly" engaging
chapters that clearly articulate the significance and practice of
qualitative and/or critical methods in plain and convincing
language. It outlines contemporary, cutting-edge approaches in
qualitative research methods that students in undergraduate
programs in sociology and sociology of sport, as well as, for
instance, sport, exercise, kinesiology, or health, can understand
clearly. Chapters revolve around one principal method in
qualitative methodology, and look at why certain methodological
choices were made, what problems were faced, and how these were
overcome. Classic issues in methodology, contemporary issues in
research methods and innovative trends in qualitative research are
addressed through case study examples from emerging and exciting
areas of research in sport studies. Topics covered include:
historical methods; ethnography; auto-ethnography; embodied
methods; interviewing; narratives; participatory action methods;
interpretative phenomenological analysis; media analysis; and
visual methods.
For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a
unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical,
visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a
mysteriously symbolic and subterranean 'cult' movie that
nevertheless has recognisable stars and was broadly distributed; a
genre piece with the ambience of a fearsome, hyper-composed
nightmare; an American 'art film' by Hollywood's only reputable
'art film' director. Michael Atkinson's intricate and layered
reading of the film shows how crystallises many of Lynch's chief
preoccupations: the evil and violence underlying the surface of
suburbia, the seedy by-ways of sexuality, the frightening
appearance of the adult world to a child's eyes, presenting it as
the definitive expression of the traumatized innocence which
characterizes Lynch's work. In his afterword to this new edition,
Atkinson situates Blue Velvet within a culture that has changed
drastically in the 35 years since its release, and in doing so, he
considers the film's lasting significance as it slowly turns from
contemporary phenomenon to an interpretable artifact.
This resource comprises a collection of papers from participants at
the IMCS Workshop on Computational and Geometric Aspects of Modern
Algebra, held at Heriot-Watt University in 1998. Written by leading
researchers, the articles cover a wide range of topics in the
vibrant areas of word problems in algebra and geometric group
theory. This book represents a timely record of recent work and
provides an indication of the key areas of future development.
It all started with Charles the assassin. If he hadn't tried and
failed to murder Princess Catrina, she wouldn't have sought out his
employer, Vladimir the Marauder. If she hadn't done that, she
wouldn't have gotten killed and sent to Character Heaven, and she
never would've learned that she was a story character and not a
real person. And all her many adventures after that might never
have happened. This book contains all those events and more, in a
collection of the first episodes of the Catrina Chronicles. These
stories explain just how Catrina came to be, how she first met her
love interest Perry, and how she fought her first battle against
her arch-nemesis, Susan, leader of Character Hell. There's also the
first Zombie Penguin Apocalypse, Velociraptors in helicopters,
Gaseous Girl, and even Santa Claus
Captain Happily Married, the heroic and dutifully wedded defender
of Edison City, believes life is going well. Super Soccer Mom
fights by his side, he wields incredible strength, flight, and the
ability to hurl a unity candle with deadly accuracy, and, for the
moment, he doesn't have any really serious enemies. All that's
about to change. The Malevolent Med-Student has hatched a
diabolical scheme to wreck the good Captain's marriage to Super
Soccer Mom, so that he can claim their secret superhero base by
intestacy Can he be stopped? Will Captain Happily Married be able
to retain his title? Will their marriage survive the onslaught of
supervillainy? Who knows?
Princess Catrina knows she's a story character, and she's learned
to love it. Almost too much. She knows she's the heroine, which
means she always wins and her arch-nemesis, Susan, always loses.
Even when she gets killed, her author always finds a creative way
to resurrect her. She's got mad sword-fighting skills, and she's
saved her world at least twice. She's even started a relationship
with her sidekick, Perry, cousin of the librarian of Shmirmingard
Castle. Princess Catrina believed that her story was destined for a
happy ending. But then Susan shows up, and Catrina is suddenly
plunged into an entirely different story. Now she must face a
nemesis that makes Susan look like a cuddly snuggle bunny, not just
a Big Bad, but a Bigger Bad. Her only chance is to join forces with
the valiant hamsters of the starship Dangling Participle, in a
desperate attempt to withstand the peril before it becomes really
perilous. But even with the space hamsters, Catrina isn't sure if
she'll survive. Because now, the rules have changed. Now the
heroine doesn't always win. Now, if she wants a happy ending, she's
going to have to earn it.
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