Jim Thorpe, the Legend Remembered
Title | Jim Thorpe, the Legend Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Updyke, Rosemary K. |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Track and field athletes |
ISBN | 9781455606740 |
A biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner and as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.
Jim Thorpe, The Legend Remembered
Title | Jim Thorpe, The Legend Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary K. Updyke |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1997-12-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780613995320 |
Jim Thorpe, the Legend Remembered
Title | Jim Thorpe, the Legend Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary K. Updyke |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1997-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781565542129 |
A biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner and as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.
Studies of Life Positioning
Title | Studies of Life Positioning PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Martin |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2024-06-21 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1040048110 |
This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography. Life positioning psychobiography studies lives as they unfold within a world of interactivity. It recognizes and portrays us as social beings embedded and developing within our life relationships and circumstances and striving to make something of our lives. Here, Jack Martin presents both single-subject and dual-subject studies of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, existential humanist Ernest Becker, American heiress and child advocate Dorothy Burlingham and her life partner, renowned psychoanalyst Anna Freud, and indigenous athlete Jim Thorpe and his college coach Glenn “Pop” Warner. These case studies provide vividly memorable demonstrations of how we are positioned by circumstances and others, and come to position ourselves as socioculturally constituted, psychological persons. In so doing, they offer a systematic framework for studying the lives of people that shows sociocultural and social psychological development without resorting to mentalistic theories, concepts, and interpretations. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in areas related to sociocultural and developmental psychology, the psychology and sociology of personhood, theoretical psychology, qualitative methodology, and social science and life writing more generally.
Sports around the World [4 volumes]
Title | Sports around the World [4 volumes] PDF eBook |
Author | John Nauright |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 2668 |
Release | 2012-04-06 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have transcended their sports. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport, international relations and sport, and tourism and sport, as well as essays on sports history, culture, and practice in world regions—for example, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and Oceania—in order to provide a more global perspective. These essays are followed by entries on specific sports, world athletes, stadiums and arenas, famous games and matches, and major controversies. Spanning topics as varied as modern professional cycling to the fictional movie Rocky to the deadly ball game of the ancient Mayans, the first three volumes contain overview essays and entries for specific sports that have been and are currently practiced around the world. The fourth volume provides a compendium of information on the winners of major sporting competitions from around the world. Readers will gain invaluable insights into how sports have been enjoyed throughout all of human culture, and more fully comprehend their cultural contexts. The entries provide suggestions for further reading on each topic—helpful to general readers, students with school projects, university students and academics alike. Additionally, the four-volume Sports Around the World spotlights key charismatic athletes who have changed a sport or become more than just an outstanding player.
Native Americans and Sport in North America
Title | Native Americans and Sport in North America PDF eBook |
Author | C. King |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2007-11-07 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 113676917X |
This text offers a considerate and critical account of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics exploring social categories, particularly gender and race and their implications.
All American
Title | All American PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Crawford |
Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2008-04-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0470322713 |
"All American is riveting and grand-that rare pairing of exquisite writing and unassailable research. Crawford delivers you to an age when iconic titans like Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner marched across the planet, and he is the perfect guide to their enormous triumphs and tragedies. This is epic American history at its page-turning finest." -Bill Minutaglio, author of City on Fire and First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty He was the greatest football running back of his era, leading his Carlisle Indian Industrial School team to victory over all the great college powerhouses. King Gustav of Sweden called him "the greatest athlete in the world" after he won gold medals for the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games. Yet Jim Thorpe was also at the center of the greatest sports scandal of the twentieth century-a scandal that took away his Olympic medals and banned him forever from intercollegiate sports. Now, in this revealing new biography, Bill Crawford captures Jim Thorpe's remarkable rise and fall. From his youth on Oklahoma's Sac and Fox Indian reservation to his astounding feats on the gridiron, from his Olympic triumphs to his complex relationship with coach "Pop" Warner, who mentored, exploited, and ultimately betrayed him, All American brings you up close and personal with the greatest athlete of the twentieth century.