LIBROS DEL AUTOR: tim delaney

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  • The Sociology of Sports
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan / Tim W Delaney
    This third edition takes a fresh approach to the study of sport, presenting key concepts such as socialization, race, ethnicity, gender, economics, religion, politics, deviance, violence, school sports and sportsmanship. While providing a critical examination of athletics, this text also highlights many of sports’ positive features. This new edition includes significantly up...
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    59,45 €

  • Beyond Sustainability
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan / Tim W Delaney
    This book approaches environmentalism via two academic disciplines, sociology and philosophy. Both have concerns about the environment’s ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The authors argue that rather than simple sustainability, we must promote thrivability for the sake of protecting the environment and all living things. In this greatly expanded second ed...
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    58,83 €

  • Friendship and Happiness
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan
    This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle’s three categories of friendship--friends of utility, friends of pleasure and friends of the good. Modern variations--casual friends, close friends, best friends--are described, along with the growing phenomena of virtual friendships and cyber socialization in the Internet ...
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    42,59 €

  • Sportsmanship
    Tim Delaney
    Sportsmanship is a broad concept: ethics, fairness, honor and self-control. Some people find it difficult to define what makes a 'good sport,' but state 'I know one when I see one.' This collection of new essays brings together the work of more than two dozen contributors from around the world who teach sportsmanship in a range of academic disciplines including sociology, ps...
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    51,57 €

  • Beyond Sustainability
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan
    This book approaches the study of the environment from two academic disciplines: both sociologists and philosophers have concerns about our environment's ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The book examines the differences between 'sustainability' and 'thrivability.' Such topics as the sixth mass extinction (now underway), fracking, plastics, food waste and d...
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    47,11 €

  • Sports
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan
    Why do billions of people around the world love sports? This informative book attempts to find out why-by examining sports in all its facets, providing an overview of the history of sports, with a constant focus upon the social conditions through which sport arises. ...
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    63,99 €

  • Sports
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan
    Why do billions of people around the world love sports? This informative book attempts to find out why-by examining sports in all its facets, providing an overview of the history of sports, with a constant focus upon the social conditions through which sport arises. ...
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    123,52 €