On Boxing
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0061846872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0061846872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.
Author: Mike Silver
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-03-04
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1630761400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than sixty years—from the 1890s to the 1950s—boxing was an integral part of American popular culture and a major spectator sport rivaling baseball in popularity. More Jewish athletes have competed as boxers than all other professional sports combined; in the period from 1901 to 1939, 29 Jewish boxers were recognized as world champions and more than 160 Jewish boxers ranked among the top contenders in their respective weight divisions. Stars in the Ring,by renowned boxing historian Mike Silver, presents this vibrant social history in the first illustrated encyclopedic compendium of its kind.
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kasia Boddy
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 1861897022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, Kasia Boddy throws new light on an elemental struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boddy explores the ways in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media. Boddy pulls no punches, looking to the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding and Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin and Philip Roth, James Joyce and Mae West, Bertolt Brecht and Charles Dickens in an all-encompassing study that tells us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.
Author: Todd Snyder
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781946684127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuestions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, comes a passionate commentary on these themes in a family memoir set in West Virginia coal country. 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym is the story of the author's father, Mike "Lo" Snyder, a fifth generation West Virginia coal miner who opened a series of makeshift boxing gyms with the goal of providing local at-risk youth with the opportunities that eluded his adolescence. Taking these hardscrabble stories as his starting point, Snyder interweaves a history of the region, offering a smart analysis of the costs--both financial and cultural--of an economy built around extractive industries. Part love letter to Appalachia, part rigorous social critique, readers may find 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym--and its narrative of individual and community strength in the face of globalism's headwinds--a welcome corrective to popular narratives that blame those in the region for their troubles.
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 844
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 848
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ken Brooks
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-12-11
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1476620237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIngemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed "The Hammer of Thor"--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport's classic rivalries. Yet most fans know little about the Swedish playboy who won the world heavyweight championship with a shocking third round knockout of Patterson and held it for six days short of a year (1959-1960). During his reign, the raffish "Ingo" hit fashionable nightspots on two continents, romanced Elizabeth Taylor, and refused to kowtow to the mobsters who controlled boxing. This first-ever biography of Johansson chronicles his fistic triumphs as a Goteborg teen prodigy, his humiliating disqualification for "cowardice" at the 1952 Olympics, his storybook romances with Birgit Lundgren and Edna Alsterlund and his post-career life and tragic early dementia.
Author: Takashi Hayashi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-07-21
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9811635412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates. It is also intended as an introduction for those with other intellectual and academic backgrounds who may not necessarily agree with “mainstream” economists but at least are interested knowing how they think and see things. The book provides thorough explanations of definitions and assumptions that the theory is based upon. It provides comprehensive accounts of motivations and reservations behind the theory. As well, it precisely presents the logical process of how the assumptions lead to the conclusion, conveying the intuition and the key of the arguments. An abundance of topics is included here: individual choice, general equilibrium, partial equilibrium, game theory, imperfect competition, transaction under incomplete information, market failures, welfare economics, social choice and mechanism design. The book is a valuable resource for any reader studying or simply interested in microeconomic theory.