Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael silk

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  • RE-THINKING LEISURE IN A DIGITAL AGE
    EMMA RICH / BRAD MILLINGTON / MICHAEL SILK
    Digital worlds and cultures—social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps—dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer ‘just’ consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook, twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding ...

    $1,200.00

  • ALEXANDRIA, REAL AND IMAGINED
    ANTHONY HIRST / MICHAEL SILK
    Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsi...

    $1,240.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PHYSICAL CULTURAL STUDIES
    MICHAEL L. SILK, DAVID L. ANDREWS AND HOLLY THORPE
    Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries, preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS, drawing on transdisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as sport studies,...

    $1,360.00

  • STANDARD LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE STANDARDS – GREEK, PAST AND PRESENT
    MICHAEL SILK
    Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of ...

    $1,480.00

  • THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
    MICHAEL SILK / INGO GILDENHARD / ROSEMARY BARROW
    The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument...

    $888.00

  • THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
    MICHAEL SILK
    The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument...

    $888.00

  • THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF POST-9/11 AMERICAN SPORT
    MICHAEL SILK
    Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, in providing ‘official’ understandings and interpretations of the event, and setti...

    $1,360.00

  • SPORTS COACHING RESEARCH
    ANTHONY BUSH / MICHAEL SILK / DAVID ANDREWS / HUGH LAUDER
    This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, whi...

    $1,560.00