Spoilsports
Title | Spoilsports PDF eBook |
Author | Celia Brackenridge |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2002-08-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135802076 |
Sexual exploitation in sport is a problem that has beset both male and female athletes privately for decades but which has only recently emerged as a public issue. Spoilsports is the first comprehensive review of this issue, integrating pioneering academic research, theoretical perspectives, and practical guidelines for performers, coaches, administrators and policy-makers. Key topics include: * 'moral panic' * children's rights * masculinity and power * making and implementing policy * leadership in sport. Spoilsports draws extensively on the personal experiences of athletes and those involved in sport. Challenging and controversial, this book represents an important step towards tackling a difficult issue. It is essential reading for coaches, athletes, parents, policy-makers and all those with a personal or professional interest in sport.
Confessions of a Spoilsport
Title | Confessions of a Spoilsport PDF eBook |
Author | William C. Dowling |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0271032936 |
The author recounts his failed efforts, along with other professors, students and alumni, to get Rutgers University out of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A during the mid-1990s, maintaining the colleges today sacrifice academics in order to build nationally competitive athletic programs.
Spoilsport
Title | Spoilsport PDF eBook |
Author | Belinda Williams |
Publisher | Belinda Williams |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2021-10-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0645169412 |
A SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER Nadia Alvarez likes men, but not relationships. Love she can definitely do without. What she really needs is a builder to rescue her fixer-upper house that’s threatening to fall down, and she’s desperate enough to hire a man she’d vowed never to see again. Divorced father, Luke Pierce, takes life seriously. He’s never forgotten the dark-haired beauty he’d fallen hard for during an uncharacteristic one-night stand, but Nadia makes it perfectly clear that sweeping their past under the rug is a requirement of the job. The only problem is Nadia’s wicked sense of humour. Getting Luke to let his guard down and see the fun side of life is becoming a pastime for Nadia. If she’s not careful, he’ll fall harder for her than he did before. And this time he might take her with him . . . no matter what her opinion on love may be. Spoilsport is the second book in the Pierce Brothers series. Each book can be read as a stand alone and features four brothers who are as equally nice as they are naughty.
Spoilsport
Title | Spoilsport PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Van-Pottelsberghe |
Publisher | Jolly Learning Ltd |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2019-06-30 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1844147479 |
Spoilsport is part of the Jolly Phonics Orange Level Readers Set 7. It is the seventh of seven sets of early decodable readers providing a gradual and structured start for children who are just starting to learn to read. Set 7 contains decodable regular words made up from all seven groups of letter sounds: s, a, t, i, p, n c k, e, h, r, m, d g, o, u, l, f, b ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or z, w, ng, v, oo, oo y, x, ch, sh, th, th qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar Other titles included in Set 7 are: Mervin's Garden Spoilsport In the Attic Comprehension questions and discussion topics are provided at the end of the book, as well as guidance for teachers and parents. Light type is used as a guide for those few letters that should not be sounded out, such as the /b/ in ‘lamb’.
The Pursuit of an Authentic Philosophy
Title | The Pursuit of an Authentic Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | David Egan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2019-03-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192568876 |
Superficially, Wittgenstein and Heidegger seem worlds apart: they worked in different philosophical traditions, seemed mostly ignorant of one another's work, and Wittgenstein's terse aphorisms in plain language could not be farther stylistically from Heidegger's difficult prose. Nevertheless, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and Heidegger's Being and Time share a number of striking parallels. In particular, this book shows that both authors manifest a similar concern with authenticity. David Egan develops this position in three stages. Part One explores the emphasis both philosophers place on the everyday, and how this emphasis brings with it a methodological focus on recovering what we already know rather than advancing novel theses. Part Two argues that the dynamic of authenticity and inauthenticity in Being and Time finds homologies in Philosophical Investigations. Here Egan particularly articulates and defends a conception of authenticity in Wittgenstein that emphasizes the responsiveness and reciprocity of play. Part Three considers how both philosophers' conceptions of authenticity apply reflexively to their own work: each is concerned not only with the question of what it means to exist authentically but also with the question of what it means to do philosophy authentically. For both authors, the problematic of authenticity is intimately linked to the question of philosophical method.
Game Based Organization Design
Title | Game Based Organization Design PDF eBook |
Author | Jeroen van Bree |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2013-11-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1137351489 |
There is a widening gap between the current organizational reality and the tools and methods available to managers for addressing its challenges. Game Based Organization Design shows that one of the ways to bridge this gap is to introduce insights and approaches from video game design into the design of organizational systems.
Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development
Title | Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Gibson Bond |
Publisher | Addison-Wesley Professional |
Pages | 944 |
Release | 2014-07-04 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0133439623 |
Learn Game Design, Prototyping, and Programming with Today’s Leading Tools: Unity™ and C# Award-winning game designer and professor Jeremy Gibson has spent the last decade teaching game design and working as an independent game developer. Over the years, his most successful students have always been those who effectively combined game design theory, concrete rapid-prototyping practices, and programming skills. Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development is the first time that all three of these disciplines have been brought together into a single book. It is a distillation of everything that Gibson has learned teaching hundreds of game designers and developers in his years at the #1 university games program in North America. It fully integrates the disciplines of game design and computer programming and helps you master the crucial practice of iterative prototyping using Unity. As the top game engine for cross-platform game development, Unity allows you to write a game once and deliver it to everything from Windows, OS X, and Linux applications to webpages and all of the most popular mobile platforms. If you want to develop games, you need strong experience with modern best practices and professional tools. There’s no substitute. There’s no shortcut. But you can get what you need in this book. COVERAGE INCLUDES In-depth tutorials for eight different game prototypes Developing new game design concepts Moving quickly from design concepts to working digital prototypes Improving your designs through rapid iteration Playtesting your games and interpreting the feedback that you receive Tuning games to get the right “game balance” and “game feel” Developing with Unity, today’s best engine for independent game development Learning C# the right way Using Agile and Scrum to efficiently organize your game design and development process Debugging your game code Getting into the highly competitive, fast-changing game industry