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“michael buma”

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  • Refereeing Identity

    The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels

    by Michael Buma ...
    Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testosterone-fuelled bastion of masculinity. However, recent decades have also been a period of uncertainty and change for the game, where players and teams have been exported to the US and traditional gender assumptions in hockey have increasingly been questioned. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Meaning Of Sports

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Fail Better

    Why Baseball Matters

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failure—a very successful batter manages a base hit in just three of every ten attempts—Mark Kingwell argues that there is no better tutor of human failure’s enduring significance than this strange, crooked game of base, where geometry becomes poetry.Weaving elements of memoir, philosophical reflection, sports writing, and humour, Fail Better ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Is Bill Cosby Right?

    Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the spring of 2004. The comedian-cum-social critic lamented the lack of parenting, poor academic performance, sexual promiscuity, and criminal behavior among what he called the "knuckleheads" of the African-American community. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Artistic Impressions

    Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport

    by Mary Louise Adams ...
    In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Canadian Hockey Literature

    by Jason Blake ...
    Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, examining five common themes - nationhood, the hockey dream, violence, national identity, and family - as they appear in hockey ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Canada's Game

    Hockey and Identity

    by Andrew C. Holman ...
    Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Baseball and Philosophy

    Thinking Outside the Batter's Box

    Edited by Eric Bronson, William Irwin ...
    Series Book 6 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Baseball and Philosophy brings together two high-powered pastimes: the sport of baseball and the academic discipline of philosophy. Eric Bronson asked eighteen young professors to provide their profound analysis of some aspect of baseball. The result offers surprisingly deep insights into this most American of games.The contributors include many of the leading voices in the burgeoning new field of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Boxing, Masculinity and Identity

    The 'I' of the Tiger

    by Kath Woodward ...
    Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent contradictions of extreme violence and beauty and of discipline and excess have long been a source of inspiration for writers and film makers.Essential reading for anyone interested in the sociology of ... Read more

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  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    by Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Stickhandling through the Margins

    First Nations Hockey in Canada

    by Michael A. Robidoux ...
    Some of hockey’s fiercest and most passionate players and fans can be found among Canada's First Nations populations, including NHL greats Jordin Tootoo, Jonathan Cheechoo, and Gino Odjick. At first glance the importance of hockey to the country's Aboriginal peoples may seem to indicate assimilation into mainstream society, but Michael A. Robidoux reveals that the game is played and understood ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Football and Philosophy

    Going Deep

    by Michael W. Austin ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    "Vince Lombardi—who relished his undergraduate studies in philosophy—would have loved this book." — BooklistFootball and Philosophy: Going Deep investigates many of the issues surrounding the nation's biggest sport. From a review of the flaws of the Bowl Championship Series, to a study of the violence inherent in the game, to an examination of Vince Lombardi's views on winning, to the problems ... Read more

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