LIBROS DEL AUTOR: tim madigan

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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 €

  • Bertrand Russell’s Life and Legacy
    Nancy CDoubleday / Tim Madigan
    Almost five decades after his death, there is still ample reason to pay attention to the life and legacy of Bertrand Russell. This is true not only because of his role as one of the founders of analytic philosophy, but also because of his important place in twentieth-century history as an educator, public intellectual, critic of organized religion, humanist, and peace activist....
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    70,36 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 de...
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    51,39 €

  • 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 €