The Chicago Sports Reader
Title | The Chicago Sports Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Steven A. Riess |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 025207615X |
A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history
Women and Sports in the United States
Title | Women and Sports in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Jean O'Reilly |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1555537871 |
The only anthology available documenting 100 years of women in American sports
Called Out
Title | Called Out PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Faris |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2020-04-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1493425242 |
Too often we lean into the wrong things and burn out. We buy society's lie that our worth is our work, our value is our vocation, our calling is our career. Confusing what we do with who we are wreaks havoc on our bodies, our souls, and our relationships. Called Out is a deeply personal book from Paula Faris, the beloved on-air reporter for ABC News and former co-host of The View. She shares her journey through conquering fears that nearly kept her from the high-profile, high-stakes world of broadcast journalism, and then the dangers when that world threatened to consume her. She burned out and faced public humiliation, physical breakdowns, and family struggles. But along the way, she heard God gently calling her out of that dangerous place. As she struggled to find who she was outside of what she did, she discovered her true purpose and true calling. Today, she is the host of ABC's popular podcast Journeys of Faith. Written with passion and conviction, this book reflects on what it truly means to be called, how to move past the fear holding you back, and how to walk in God's path for you.
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bears, 2nd Ed.
Title | The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bears, 2nd Ed. PDF eBook |
Author | Chicago Tribune |
Publisher | Agate Midway |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-09 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781572842939 |
A beautiful and detail-rich hardbound collection of Chicago Bears history, containing essays, box scores, original reporting, archival photographs, and various memorabilia for one of NFL's marquee franchises.
Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport
Title | Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald R. Gems |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2024-07-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1666955078 |
Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport explores the historical role of sport in the prescription for mental and physical health through the epidemic of neurasthenia, a debilitating neurological disorder that afflicted American society throughout the latter nineteenth century. Gerald R. Gems argues that the practice of sport and sport spectatorship, which grew concomitantly with the onset and spread of neurasthenia, provided both a physical preventative and a psychological escape to redress the perceived causes of the epidemic. Sports such as baseball, boxing, cycling, and football offered psychological relief from the stresses of a rapidly changing economic and social order. Cycling, in particular, provided women with the means to challenge the prescribed gender order of female domesticity, male hegemony, and the dictates of physically restrictive fashion. In the process, sport became a key component in the rise of feminism and a prescription for the epidemics that followed over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Sports in American History
Title | Sports in American History PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald R. Gems |
Publisher | Human Kinetics |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2022-04-19 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 1718203039 |
Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Third Edition, journeys from the early American past to the present to help students grasp the compelling evolution of American sporting practices
A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry
Title | A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Huggins |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2022-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350283088 |
A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920. Over this period, sport become increasingly global, some sports were radically altered, sports clubs proliferated, and new team games - such as baseball, basketball and the various forms of football - were created, codified, commercialized, and professionalized. Yet this was also an age of cultural and political tensions, when issues around the role of women, social class, ethnicity and race, imperial relationships, nation-building, and amateur and professional approaches were all shaping sport. At the same time, increasing urbanization, population, real wages and leisure time drove demand for sport ever higher, and the institutionalization and regulation of sport accelerated. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport and its ever-changing social, cultural, political, and economic context and impact. The themes covered in each volume are the purpose of sport; sporting time and sporting space; products, training and technology; rules and order; conflict and accommodation; inclusion, exclusion and segregation; minds, bodies and identities; representation. Mike Huggins is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cumbria, UK. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Sport set General Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson, and John McClelland