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  • THE FOUR-MINUTE MILE
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    THE FOUR-MINUTE MILE
    JOHN BALE / DAVID HOWE
    Breaking records and challenging the limits of human ability are central to much of our understanding of athletic track and field sports, with a world record title arguably as valued as an Olympic gold medal. Some particular limits and records take on greater significance, however, as in the case of the Four-Minute Mile which was roundly believed to be impossible until Roger Ba...

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  • POST-OLYMPISM
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    POST-OLYMPISM
    JOHN BALE / ‎METTE KROGH CHRISTENSEN
    The Olympic ideal and the Olympic Games stand as symbols of global cooperation, international understanding and the bonding of individuals through the medium of sports. However, throughout the twentieth century, Olympic rhetoric was often confronted by a different reality. The Games have regularly been faced by crises that have threatened the spirit of Olympism and even the Gam...

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  • SPORT AND POSTCOLONIALISM
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    SPORT AND POSTCOLONIALISM
    JOHN BALE / ‎MIKE CRONIN
    Compared with modes of representation such as literature, drama, poetry and dance, the world of sport has been largely neglected in postcolonial studies. At both local and global levels, however, sport has been profoundly affected by the colonial legacy. How are individual nations and different sporting cultures coping with this legacy? What does the end of colonialism mean wit...

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  • GEOGRAPHY IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    GEOGRAPHY IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JOHN BALE
    First published in 1987, this title provides primary school teachers with ideas by which geographical skills and ideas can be introduced in the primary school. John Bale shows how teachers can build on children’s ‘private geographies’ with practical learning strategies, examining approaches to the teaching of map skills, the ways in which the locality can be used and how inform...

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  • KENYAN RUNNING
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    KENYAN RUNNING
    JOHN BALE / JOE SANG
    1997 British Society of Sports History - Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History The record-breaking achievements of Kenyan athletes have caught the imagination of the world of sport. How significant really is Kenya in the world of sports? This book, the first to look in detail at the evolution and significance of a single sport in an African country, seeks to answer th...

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  • ROGER BANNISTER AND THE FOUR-MINUTE MILE
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    ROGER BANNISTER AND THE FOUR-MINUTE MILE
    JOHN BALE
    Roger Bannister was the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. Fifty years on, his status, not just as a champion athlete but also as a true British hero, a gentleman and an amateur from a 'golden era' in sport, retains its unblemished appeal. Until now there has been little criticism and even less close historical study of Bannister and his achievement. This book ...

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  • ANTI-SPORT SENTIMENTS IN LITERATURE
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    ANTI-SPORT SENTIMENTS IN LITERATURE
    JOHN BALE
    This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from the world of literature. The book commences with a review of exiting pro- and anti-sport discourses and then proceeds to examine, in turn, the written works of five eminent authors, excavating from their w...

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  • RUNNING CULTURES
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    RUNNING CULTURES
    JOHN BALE
    Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the natural sciences. John Bale brings the sport into the realm of the humanities by drawing on sources including literature, poetry, film, art and sculpture as well as statistics and training manuals to highlight the tensions, ambiguities a...

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  • SITES OF SPORT
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    SITES OF SPORT
    BALE, JOHN / VERTINSKY, PATRICIA
    The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered and sexualised body, the body's capabilities, needs and desires. It illuminates the tensions between the globalising tendencies of sport and the importance of local culture and a sense of place. This c...

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  • BODY CULTURES
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    BODY CULTURES
    JOHN BALE
    Body Cultures explores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's provocative essays into 'body culture'. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now attracting considerable interest from Anglo-American soc...

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