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  • California and the Making of Modern Sport

    by Joel S. Franks ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    This book examines the importance of California - a socio-cultural, economic and political powerhouse - in the history of modern sport. It argues that California has had a profound influence, for better or worse, on the way that not only America but also the wider world plays sport and spends money to watch others play.The book traces the history of sport in California from the mid-nineteenth ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Zeroes and Ones

    by Blaze Ward, Bryan Chaffin, Frank Zanca, Joel Ewy, Sonia Orin Lyris, Chuck Anderson, M. E. Owen, Tami Veldura, Kristine Smith ...
    Series Book 32 - Boundary Shock Quarterly
    AI stories. Are you with the Resistance? Programming a better android? Homo Technologus? Or worshiping your eternal God-Emperor Machine?What does a future look like when machines can be made truly sentient?Boundary Shock Quarterly. The science fiction you want to read. ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures

    Sport and Asian Pacific American Cultural Citizenship

    by Joel Franks ...
    Since Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures was originally published in 2000, new findings in Asian Pacific American sports have come to light. Moreover, Americans of Asian Pacific ancestry have made the sports world incredibly more exciting than before. Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures tells intriguing tales of athletes, now often forgotten-such as aquatic legend Duke Kahanamoku, diving gold ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Creating Wealth Starts With Financial Health

    Discover and Overcome Behavioral Risks in Your Financial Life

    by Joel L. Franks ...
    Do you recall in your youth when your parents would tell you not to touch something very hot? You stared right into their eyes, your index finger pointing straight out toward the object you were not to make contact with, and as your hand slowly continued its journey...your parents continued to give you disapproving looks. They once again repeated the verbal warning. Yet in spite of knowing this ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • From Honolulu to Brooklyn

    Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i

    by Joel S. Franks ...
    From 1912 to 1916, a group of baseball players from Hawaiʻ i barnstormed the U.S. mainland. While initially all Chinese, the Travelers became more multiethnic and multiracial with ballplayers possessing Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and European ancestries. As a group and as individuals the Travelers' experiences represent a still much too marginalized facet of baseball and sport history. Arguably, ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Asian American Basketball

    A Century of Sport, Community and Culture

    by Joel S. Franks ...
    When Jeremy Lin began to knock down shots for the New York Knicks in 2012, many Americans became aware for the first time that Asian Americans actually play basketball. Indeed, long before Lin shook up the NBA, Asian Americans played the game with passion and skill, and many excelled at high school, college and professional hoops. This comprehensive history of Asian American basketball discusses ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football

    Historical and Contemporary Experiences

    by Joel S. Franks ...
    Series series Sport, Identity, and Culture
    This book sheds light on experiences relatively underrepresented in academic and non-academic sport history. It examines how Asian and Pacific Islander peoples used American football to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism. Through their participation and spectatorship in American football, Asian and Pacific Islander people crossed ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • The Ethics of Behaviour Change Technologies

    Beyond Nudging and Persuasion

    Edited by Joel Anderson, Lily E. Frank, Andreas Spahn ...
    Series series Philosophy, Technology and Society
    This book investigates behaviour change technologies (BCTs) from an ethical perspective, examining the broader societal and philosophical implications of these types of technologies. These technologies-ranging from fitness trackers and smart home systems to digital nudging and persuasive AI-are increasingly shaping our choices, habits, and lifestyles. This book moves beyond nudging and persuasion ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Complicity

    How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

    by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, Jenifer Frank ...
    A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery“The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco ChronicleThe North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Soul Framed in Christ

    Stephen Charnock on the Renewal of God’s Image

    by Frank L. Bartoe IV ...
    There is a particular pressing question that seems to permeate the whole of Charnock's works: "If the greatest or highest degree of excellence is found in this imitable perfection of God, this conformity to holiness, then what does this conformity look like in the soul that has been regenerated?" This book undertakes a detailed analysis of the various components of Charnock's doctrine of ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So As I Was Saying . . .

    My Somewhat Eventful Life

    by Frank Mankiewicz, Joel Swerdlow ...
    "I first met Robert Kennedy because I spoke Spanish. I spoke Spanish because the U.S. Army taught me that before sending me to France, Belgium, and Germany to fight Hitler's Army. This makes complete sense if you are familiar with military bureaucracy."Such is the trademark wit of Frank Mankiewicz. With his dry sense of humor and self-deprecating humility—despite his many accomplishments—Frank's ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible

    Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score (Dave Pelz Scoring Game)

    by Dave Pelz, James A. Frank ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...
    Series series Dave Pelz Scoring Game

    Unabridged

    13 hours 54 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Internationally revered golf instructor Dave Pelz's bestselling classic can show you the way to lower scores by improving your short game. With a Foreword by Lee Janzen, two-time U.S. Open winner and eight-time winner on the PGA Tour."He who rules the short game collects the gold."— Dave Pelz's Golden Rule of GolfFed up with trying to imitate the pros, buying the latest ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD