Author : Géraldine Cosneau
Publisher : Tate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781849764100
"8 huge fold-out scenes with over 300 reusable stickers."
Author : Victoria R. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
With hundreds of books dedicated to conventional sports and activities, this encyclopedia on the weirdest and wackiest games offers a fresh and entertaining read for any audience. Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing focuses on what many would consider abnormal activities from across the globe. Spanning subjects that include individual games, team sports, games for men and women, and contests involving animal competitors, there is something for every reader. Whether researching a particular country or region's traditions or wanting an interesting read for pleasure, this book offers an array of uses and benefits. Though the book focuses on games and sporting activities, the examination of these topics gives readers insight into unfamiliar places and peoples through their recreation—an essential part of the human experience that occurs in all cultures. Such activities are not only embedded in everyday life but also indelibly interconnected with social customs, war, politics, commerce, education, and national identity, making the whimsical topic of the book an appealing gateway to insightful, highly relevant information.
Author : Wray Vamplew
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781789147759
Now in paperback, this first global history of sports offers all spectators and participants a reason to cheer—and to think. Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sports. The book shows how sports have been practiced, experienced, and made meaningful by players and fans throughout history. It assesses how sports developed and diffused across the globe, as well as many other aspects, from emotion, discrimination, and conviviality; to politics, nationalism, and protest; and how economics has turned sports into a huge consumer industry. It shows how sports are sociable and health-giving, and also contribute to charity. However, it also examines their dark side: sports’ impact on the environment, the use of performance-enhancing drugs, and match-fixing. Covering everything from curling to baseball, boxing to motor racing, this book will appeal to anyone who plays, watches, and enjoys sports, and wants to know more about their history and global impact.
Author : John Nauright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2056 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 159884301X
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.
Author : Victoria R. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1610696409
With hundreds of books dedicated to conventional sports and activities, this encyclopedia on the weirdest and wackiest games offers a fresh and entertaining read for any audience. Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing focuses on what many would consider abnormal activities from across the globe. Spanning subjects that include individual games, team sports, games for men and women, and contests involving animal competitors, there is something for every reader. Whether researching a particular country or region's traditions or wanting an interesting read for pleasure, this book offers an array of uses and benefits. Though the book focuses on games and sporting activities, the examination of these topics gives readers insight into unfamiliar places and peoples through their recreation—an essential part of the human experience that occurs in all cultures. Such activities are not only embedded in everyday life but also indelibly interconnected with social customs, war, politics, commerce, education, and national identity, making the whimsical topic of the book an appealing gateway to insightful, highly relevant information.
Author : Debjani Chatterjee
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781847803702
The sports featured are: cricket, football, American football, baseball, basketball, running, relay race, tobogganing, skating, swimming, diving, netball, pole vault, shotput, kung fu, judo, boxing, tennis, table tennis, ÿkite flying, hockey, surfing, riding, horse racing. The games include: skipping, swinging, circle game, computer game, scrabble, chess, snakes and ladders, clapping game. The illustrations portray games and sports being played all over the world, by children and adults of many different cultures.
Author : Géraldine Cosneau
Publisher : Tate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781854379764
All Around the World: Animal Kingdom is a charmingly illustrated journey of discovery through different environments, including the ocean, forest, jungle, desert, and Arctic. Each is shown in a giant fold-out panorama, ready to be populated with the four hundred reusable animal stickers that bring the landscapes to life. Children will love Géraldine Cosneau's quirky illustrations and have fun deciding which animals belong in each panorama. On the reverse side of the panoramas are large outline pictures of animals to complete. When finished, the panoramas can be detached and hung on the wall or left in the book to be used again. With eight large fold-out scenes and hundreds of charming reusable stickers, this book lets young children discover a whole new world of adventure and fun and make it their very own.
Author : Maria Le
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 166595728X
Whether it is basketball, chess, or hopscotch, sports and games bring people together--and children love to play.
Author : Bartosz Prabucki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 152757928X
This book presents a captivating story about traditional sports and games in the current world. It moves from Denmark to the Basque Country and to Scotland, exploring traditional games in their local contexts. It highlights the numerous, practical functions of traditional games, showing that these games are very valuable, necessary, and actually fit the needs of our times! It offers an original perspective on traditional sports and games, providing captivating stories from personal trips to these countries and numerous practical descriptions and inspirational ideas about how to use traditional games in practice.
Author : Doris Corbett
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2000-09-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780313361012
One way to interest students about a culture and to help them understand it is to introduce them to the culture through one of its games. Games and sports are central to human cultures all around the world and they reflect various cultural preferences. This unique ready-reference collection describes and provides the rules for over 300 diverse games and sports from many different countries worldwide. Students and teachers can use this resource to discover the place of games in various cultures and to try playing the games from the cultures they are studying. Emphasis is placed on rare and original games and sports, providing a unique perspective on countries from every continent. Each entry provides information on who typically plays the game in that culture, what the object of the game is, what the symbolism behind the game is, the equipment needed to play the game, and the rules for playing it. Those games that are appropriate for classroom replication are noted. Students will use this volume to enlighten their understanding of cultural diversity while having fun and educators will find new games to add to their lesson plans to keep their students' interest levels high.
