Author: Ben Groundwater Publisher: Hardie Grant Books ISBN: 9781741176919 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
Destination Sport is your guide to one of the world's great obsessions: to the teams, the games, the venues, the histories and the personalities that all come together to form something amazing. Matches that freeze economies. Races that stop nations. Rivalries that stretch back through centuries. This is the world of sport, electrifying and fascinating, thrilling and endlessly revealing. You can't hope to understand a nation without understanding its pastimes and passions, and that, so often, is sport. Organized into sections by world region, Destination Sport features a line-up of sports, events and sporting venues that are both familiar and obscure, from world-famous match-ups to little known quirks. There's also a focus on the world's best stadiums and a calendar of sporting events. This is the ideal book for sports lovers who want to understand the full gamut of sports around the world, watch them all on TV and perhaps even travel to join the locals in their passion. Illustrations by UK artist Paul Reid.
Author: Paula S. Wallace Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing ISBN: 9780836836622 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
Book Description
Children in Egypt play a bowling game with bricks. Kite flying is a competitive sport in India. From unusual sports such as kabaddi to familiar games such as marbles, tag, and hopscotch, children all over the world love to play games. Discover many more exciting facts about sports around the world as you learn how to make an Australian boomerang and play games such as ishikeri from Japan, morabaraba from South Africa, queimada from Brazil, and plumpsack from Germany. Take a closer look at the world we share and have fun! Book jacket.
Author: John Hillman Publisher: David C Cook ISBN: 9780781430333 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
Using sports heroes from the past and present, it gives real people and situations as examples for devotional thought. Sports included are football, baseball, basketball, Olympic sports, hockey, tennis, and others.
Author: Andrew Luke Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers ISBN: 9781422234587 Category : Basketball Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
No major sport is as uniquely American as basketball. The sport has come a long way since students at a Massachusetts YMCA started throwing balls into peach baskets nailed to the wall. Today, some of the world's most spectacular athletes soar through the air in feats of athleticism on the basketball court. With the advent of the shot clock and the three pointer, the game became more exciting over the years. The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is one of the most popular sporting events in the United States, and the NCAA superstars go on to thrill NBA audiences as professionals. Kids play basketball across the country, from urban playgrounds in New York and L.A. to the gyms of Chicago and dusty farmland courts in Indiana. All that is needed is a ball, a hoop, and a dream. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about basketball's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game. Each title in this series contains color photos throughout and back matter including: a chronology, glossary of terms for each sport, an index, and further reading lists for books and internet resources. Key Icons appear throughout the books in this series in an effort to encourage library readers to build knowledge, gain awareness, explore possibilities and expand their viewpoints through our content rich non-fiction books. Key Icons in this series are as follows: Educational Videos are offered throughout the first chapter, through the use of a QR code that when scanned takes the student to an online video showing a greatest moment in sports' history. This gives the readers additional content to supplement the text. Words to Understand are shown at the front of each chapter with definitions. These words are set in boldfaced type in that chapter, so that readers are able to reference back to the definitions--building their vocabulary and enhancing their reading comprehension. Text-Dependent Questions are placed at the end of each chapter. They challenge the reader's comprehension of the chapter they have just read, while sending the reader back to the text for more careful attention to the evidence presented there. Research Projects are provided at the end of each chapter as well and provide readers with suggestions for projects that encourage deeper research and analysis.
Author: Paul Beashel Publisher: Nelson Thornes ISBN: 0174387539 Category : Physical education and training Languages : en Pages : 140
Book Description
This photocopiable resource includes worksheets and project ideas to support progression through GCSE PE and is specifically designed to accompany the student textbook. Enables students to work independently using the worksheets provided, whilst summary sheets reinforce understanding. Includes mark schemes for the exam style questions in each section of the textbook. Adapts to suit personal teaching requirements and enables students to compile a personal revision guide for GCSE PE. Offers invaluable revision support by providing differentiated checklists for students of varying abilities.
Author: Andrew Luke Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers ISBN: 9781422234655 Category : Soccer Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Around the world, soccer is known as "the beautiful game." It is the biggest and most popular sport on the planet, and its signature event, the World Cup, is the most watched televised event, even more than the Olympics or the Super Bowl. The sport can be found almost everywhere in the world. From children on the playgrounds of modern cities to those in the remote fields of developing countries, the love of the simple act of kicking the ball back and forth has spanned generations. As a professional sport, soccer has exploded in Europe and South America, where the top athletes are among the highest paid in the world. In the U.S., soccer is much less popular, but Major League Soccer has become America's first successful professional league, where homegrown stars have the chance to shine. Each book in the Inside the World of Sports series takes you from the very beginning of a sport to a look at its future. Inside these pages, learn more about soccer's greatest moments, iconic athletes, and what the future holds for the game. Each title in this series contains color photos throughout and back matter including: a chronology, glossary of terms for each sport, an index, and further reading lists for books and internet resources. Key Icons appear throughout the books in this series in an effort to encourage library readers to build knowledge, gain awareness, explore possibilities and expand their viewpoints through our content rich non-fiction books. Key Icons in this series are as follows: Educational Videos are offered throughout the first chapter, through the use of a QR code that when scanned takes the student to an online video showing a greatest moment in sports' history. This gives the readers additional content to supplement the text. Words to Understand are shown at the front of each chapter with definitions. These words are set in boldfaced type in that chapter, so that readers are able to reference back to the definitions--building their vocabulary and enhancing their reading comprehension. Text-Dependent Questions are placed at the end of each chapter. They challenge the reader's comprehension of the chapter they have just read, while sending the reader back to the text for more careful attention to the evidence presented there. Research Projects are provided at the end of each chapter as well and provide readers with suggestions for projects that encourage deeper research and analysis.
Author: Kidsbooks Publisher: That's Facts-Inating ISBN: 9781628856965 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
What is the national sport of China? Who was the first woman ever to play golf? Kids will love discovering the answers to these questions and learning hundreds of other awesome facts about the wonderful world of sports in this fun and colorful That's Facts-inating! book!
Author: Robert Lipsyte Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813593239 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
Tough and witty, SportsWorld is a well-known commentator’s overview of the most significant form of mass culture in America—sports. It’s a sweaty Oz that has grown in a century from a crucible for character to a complex of capitalism, a place where young people can find both self-fulfillment and cruel exploitation, where families can huddle in a sanctuary of entertainment and be force fed values and where cities and countries can be pillaged by greedy team owners and their paid-for politicians. But this book is not just a screed, it’s a guided visit with such heroes of sports as Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Joe Namath, who the author knew well, and with some he met in passing, like Richard Nixon, who seemed never to have gotten over missing the cut in college varsity football, a major mark of manhood. We see how SportsWorld sensibilities help elect our politicians, judge our children, fight our wars, and oppress our minorities. And now featuring a new introduction by the author,SportsWorld is a book that will provide the foundation for understanding today’s world of sports and the time of Trump. In the America of 2017—where the SuperBowl is worth billions, athletes are penalized or forced out of sports for political and anti-racist activism, and Title IX is constantly questioned and undermined—Robert Lipsyte’s 1975 critique remains startlingly and intensely relevant.
Author: Bruce Berglund Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520303725 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
Played on frozen ponds in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game to gain a global following. But from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, the sport has drawn from different cultures and crossed boundaries––between Canada and the United States, across the Atlantic, and among different regions of Europe. It has been a political flashpoint within countries and internationally. And it has given rise to far-reaching cultural changes and firmly held traditions. The Fastest Game in the World is a global history of a global sport, drawing upon research conducted around the world in a variety of languages. From Canadian prairies to Swiss mountain resorts, Soviet housing blocks to American suburbs, Bruce Berglund takes readers on an international tour, seamlessly weaving in hockey’s local, national, and international trends. Written in a lively style with wide-ranging breadth and attention to telling detail, The Fastest Game in the World will thrill both the lifelong fan and anyone who is curious about how games intertwine with politics, economics, and culture.
Author: Sam Duncan Publisher: Anthem Press ISBN: 1785275070 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
This book is about how new media, and in particular, digital and social media, has changed the world of sports forever. The way fans receive information, communicate and form communities now predominantly lives online. But perhaps even more significant is the evolution of the sports media industry, where digital media has impacted the broader media industry, stimulated new media organisations, changed old media organisations and altered old conventions of journalism in equal measure. Drawing on the expertise of academics, scholars, experts and professionals at the forefront of the sports, media, and journalism fields, the book suggests that new media has turned the sports industry on its head with profound implications – both exciting and disturbing.
Author: Ben Groundwater
Author: Paula S. Wallace
Author: John Hillman
Author: Andrew Luke
Author: Paul Beashel
Author: Andrew Luke
Author: Kidsbooks
Author: Robert Lipsyte
Author: Bruce Berglund
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