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Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and ...
John HobermanDARWIN'S ATHLETES focuses on society's fixation with black athletic achievement. Hoberman argues that this obsession has come to play a troubling role in African American life and our country's race relations.
Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping
John HobermanThis book will be essential reading as we move inexorably toward the wide-open, libertarian pharmacology that is now making these drug regimes available to a wider and wider clientele.
Trespassing Boundaries: Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction
PreviewTRESPASSING BOUNDARIES © Kathryn N. Benzel and Ruth Hoberman 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this ... Data Trespassing boundaries :Virginia Woolf's short fiction / edited by Kathryn N. Benzel and Ruth Hoberman p. cm. Includes ...
Sport and Political Ideology
John M. Hoberman" Taking this phenomenon as its point of departure, this provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of the twentieth century as distinct expressions of political doctrine.
Amateurism in Sport: An Analysis and Defence
Lincoln AllisonJohn Hoberman, Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport (Free Press, 1992). 19. I am indebted to Ellis Cashmore for this speculation and to Ivan Waddington for pointing out that, when the Dutch TVM and ...
Fastest, Highest, Strongest: A Critique of High-Performance ...
Rob BeamishSee also Chapter One for additional evidence that the use of performance- enhancing substances was widespread by the 1960s. 16 See John Hoberman, “ A Conspiracy So Vast: The Politics of Doping,” Mortal Engines (New York: The Free ...
Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and ...
John Milton HobermanA provocative, disturbing, and important look at society's distorted fixation on African-American athletic achievement discredits the American myth that sports provide an escape from the ghetto and many other common beliefs about athletics ...
Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the ...
John M. HobermanWill it be read by those who have the power to influence events?" -- Allen Guttmann, International Journal of the History of Sport 11 (1994): 516, 517 "Mortal Engines is a horror story.
The Oxford Handbook of Sports History
Robert EdelmanJohn Hoberman, “Sport and Ideology in the Post-Communist Age,” in The Changing Politics of Sport, ed. Lincoln Allison (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993), 15. 2. Richard Pringle, “Examining the Justifications ...
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine: Critical ...
PreviewSee, for example, John Hoberman, “How Drug Testing Fails: The Politics of Doping Control,” in Doping in Elite Sport: The Politics ofDrugs in the Olympic Movement, ed. Wayne Wilson and Edward Derse, 241–274 (Champaign, IL: Human ...
Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
John HobermanW. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton, An American Health Dilemma, vol. II. Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States 1900–2000 (New York and London: Routledge, 2002): 84. 4. Emily Singer, “Beyond Race-Based Medicine,” ...
Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from ...
Daniel M. RosenA History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today Daniel M. Rosen. 39. John Hoberman, Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) , p.189. 40.
Midnight Movies
J. HobermanThese are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades.
Art and Ethical Criticism
PreviewImmensely Divided',” in Kathryn Benzel and Ruth Hoberman, eds., Trespassing Boundaries: Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 139–56. With Lacanian notions in tow, Emily Dalgarno stretches the ...
English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History
Chris Hopkins6 In fact, Diana Wallace cites Ruth Hoberman as drawing 'attention to the way in which Bentley herself was silenced as critics misunderstood Freedom Farewell!, seeing it as an attempt to cash in on the success of Robert Graves's /, Claudius' ...
Modernizing Lives: Experiments in English Biography, 1918-1939
Ruth HobermanBetween the wars a number of discoveries, general currents, personalities, and theories made traditional biography seem inadequate. No longer was the compilation of letters and autobiographical fragments enough.
Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism
Ruth Hoberman... the turn-of-the-century museum. More recently, my Tuesday morning research group—Dagni Bredesen, Terri Fredrick, Christopher Hanlon, Jeannie Ludlow, Robin Murray, and Angela Vietto—has kept me focused, caffeinated, and laughing.
Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible
Chris Dumas... Norman Gendelman, Zac Harmon, Todd Haynes, J. Hoberman, Lawrence Levi, Kenneth MacKinnon, James Moran, Marcia Pally, Amy Rust, David Weintraub, and Linda Williams. Each of these good people contributed to this project in ways ...
Selling in a Skirt: The Secrets Women Don't Know They Know ...
Judy HobermanAre you a sales professional stuck in a rut?Are you a sales manager trying to direct women to your company?Selling In A Skirtaddresses the differences in sales techniques between men and women, and how using a female-focused approach can ...
Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of ...
Juliette AtkinsonDonald Stauffer's work on eighteenth-century biography, A. O. J. Cockshut's selective but useful account of Victorian biography, and Ruth Hoberman's study of early twentieth-century 'new biographers', are all important works. Richard Altick's ...
Gendering Classicism: The Ancient World in Twentieth-Century ...
Ruth HobermanGendering Classicism explores the intersection of feminism, historical fiction, and modernism through the work of six writers, all of whom wrote historical novels set in ancient Greece or Rome: Naomi Mitchison, Mary Butts, Laura Riding, ...
The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of ...
Jay KinsbrunerJayKinsbruner, Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. 5. Louisa Schell Hoberman, Mexico's Merchant Elite, 1590–1660, 140– 141. 6. The Mexico City information for 1813 is from ...
Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story
C. ReynierBenzel, Kathryn N. and Ruth Hoberman, eds, Trespassing Boundaries: Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction, New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Bernard, Catherine, “Virginia Woolf essayiste ou l'écriture sans pédigrée”, Virginia ...
List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...
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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
Read... John • Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John - Wilson, John, the younger Wilson, John Edwards Wilson, John Gray - Wilson, John Jowitt - Wilson, John Nathaniel Wilson, John Richard Shepherd.
The American Shropshire Sheep Record
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An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...
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Official Register of the United States
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Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)
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Journal
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