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Endurance Running A Socio-Cultural Examination

Endurance Running A Socio-Cultural Examination

Running is a fundamental human activity and holds an important place in popular culture. In recent decades it has exploded in popularity as a leisure pursuit with marathons and endurance challenges exerting a strong fascination. Endurance Running is the first collection of original qualitative research to examine distance running through a socio-cultural lens with a general objective of understanding the concept and meaning of endurance historically and in contemporary times. Adopting diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to explore topics such as historical conceptualizations of endurance lived experiences of endurance running and the meaning of endurance in individual lives the book reveals how the biological historical psychological and sociological converge to form contextually specific ideas about endurance running and runners. Endurance Running is an essential book for anybody researching across the entire spectrum of endurance sports and fascinating reading for anybody working in the sociology of sport or the body cultural studies or behavioural science. | Endurance Running A Socio-Cultural Examination

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Endurance Performance in Sport Psychological Theory and Interventions

Endurance Performance in Sport Psychological Theory and Interventions

Athletes participating at all levels of endurance performance can relate to the impact of psychological factors. Whether it is motivation self-belief feeling nervous before a race exercise-induced pain sticking to a pacing strategy or thoughts around what to focus on there are a vast number of psychological factors which can affect endurance performance. Bringing together experts in the field from around the world this is the first text to provide a detailed overview of the psychology of endurance performance where there is a research and an applied focus looking at both main theoretical models as well as how interventions can support an athlete’s efficacy and well-being. The authors look at regulatory processes around pain decision-making self-belief emotions and meta-cognition before examining a range of cognitive strategies including the use of imagery goals self-talk and mindfulness techniques. With a final section of the book outlining issues related to mental health that are relevant to endurance performance the book shows that the future of research and application of psychological theory in endurance performance in sport is bright and thriving. Aimed at researchers students coaches and athletes themselves this is essential reading for anyone wishing to better understand how our minds experience endurance in performance arenas and what psychological techniques can be used to make us more efficient. | Endurance Performance in Sport Psychological Theory and Interventions

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The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The objectives of this study first published in 1982 are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among economic forces determining the distribution of income in a peasant economy in the early stages of transition to industrialization. It also examines the development of the ‘dual economy’ an economy composed of a large peasant agricultural sector with its ancillary handicraft sector both traditional in techniques and institutions and a small but growing modern industrial sector. | The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

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Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

Originally published in 1988 this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. The essays bridge the gap in the conceptualisation and organisation of field research by 2 sets of social scientists – demographers and social anthropologists – who share an interest in the explanation of particular patterns of population composition and change. | Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

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Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c. 1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private and commercial and domestic as well as the relationship between representations and lived experiences. Part II delves into the street as a thoroughfare connecting the city but also as a site of contestation over the control and character of urban spaces. Part III draws attention to the neighbourhood as a residential grouping and as a series of spaces connecting flows of people integrating the urban space. Drawing on a range of methodologies from space syntax and axial analysis to detailed descriptions of individual buildings this book blends spatial theory and ideas of place with micro-history. With its fresh perspectives on the Western city created through the built environment and the everyday actions of city dwellers the book will interest historical geographers urban historians and architects involved in planning of cities across Europe and North America. | Micro-geographies of the Western City c. 1750–1900

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Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become micro-entrepreneurs or self-employed street vendors. The work and everyday life experiences of these ethnic minority migrants are situated at the intersections of tourism migration and the informal sector. This book investigates the social economic and political embeddedness of street vendors in urban tourist contexts in Thailand. Based on extensive field research it presents a detailed analysis of urban-directed mobility patterns and revealing strategies and dilemmas in the urban souvenir business. Focusing on the development of urban ethnic minority souvenir stalls run mostly by people belonging to the highland group of Akha the author explains the spatial expansion of ethnic businesses and assesses the economic and political obstacles micro-entrepreneurs are confronted with. The book offers an understanding of the everyday practices and social relations of and between unequally powerful actors related to ethnic minority tourism in urban contexts and systematically integrates individual and collective action into socio-economic and politico-institutional contexts. A significant contribution to migration and ethnic minority studies in the Thai and Asian urban tourism context the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Southeast Asian studies tourism migration and ethnic minority studies. | Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

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Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a low-budget film. Drawing on his own experience case studies from films such as Primer Coherence and Reservoir Dogs as well as the perspectives of working screenwriters such as Joe Swanberg and Alex Ross-Perry Greenberg explores common pitfalls screenwriters face and suggests practical solutions. This book lays the groundworks of the realities of low-budget filmmaking and also talks through the practical aspects such as story structure and genre considerations. Greenberg makes the process of writing a screenplay for a low-budget film accessible and creative allowing student and independent filmmakers to tailor their writing for their films. This book is ideal for aspiring screenwriters independent filmmakers and students of screenwriting. | Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

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The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries with Bangladesh being one of the countries which has pioneered microcredit and implemented it most widely. This book based on extensive original research explores how microcredit works in practice and assesses its effectiveness. It discusses how microcredit usually channelled through women is often passed to the men of the family a practice disapproved of by some but regarded as acceptable by borrowers who have a communal approach to debt rather than viewing debt as something held by single individuals. The book demonstrates how the rules around microcredit are often seem as irksome by the borrowers how lenders often charge high rates of interest and work primarily to preserve their institutions thereby going against the spirit of the microcredit movement and how borrowers often end up on a downward spiral deeper and deeper in debt. Overall the book argues that although microcredit does much good it also has many drawbacks. | The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

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Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought and of microsociology more generally. The introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic papers by Randol Contreras using data from New York and Philippe Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart using data from Philadelphia examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins’ microsociological account of the features of social situations that tend to engender violence. In the second section of the book a study by Paul DiMaggio Clark Bernier Charles Heckscher and David Mimno tackles the question of whether electronically mediated interaction exhibits the ritualization which according to Collins is a common feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that at least under certain circumstances digitally mediated interaction may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins’ work in the sociology of knowledge examining multiple ways in which social network structures can engender intellectual creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology. Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive paradigm one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes suggesting that Collins’ model of interaction ritual can only partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins’ theory of interaction by including in it encounters that depart from the ritual model in important ways. In a final reflective chapter Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of microsociology. Clearly written these pieces offer cutting-edge thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in sociology today. | Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

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Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU ASEAN ECOWAS or MERCOSUR. In contrast this book offers a nuanced analysis of the important field of sub-regionalism and sub-national cross-border cooperation. Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to ‘region-making’ through cooperation activities at the micro-level across national borders in Europe Southeast Asia Latin America Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to explore the role that institutional dynamics play at the micro-level in shaping local and global ties investigate what the formal and informal integration factors are that bolster regionalism and regionalization processes and to clarify to what extent and under what conditions cooperation at the micro-level can be instrumental to solving common problems. Scholars and students within politics sociology geography and economics would find this book an important guide to regionalism at a micro-local level perspective. | Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

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Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

Drawing on debates about intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding at the local and international levels Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention explores the theoretical and practical implications of the intertwinement between these policy fields. Considering how sustainable development (SD) priorities are influencing representations of ICH the volume questions how they are expanding the frontiers of the heritage realm and unsettling accepted understandings of the social uses of heritage. The contributing authors who hail from a variety of different contexts and disciplinary backgrounds explore these issues from a unique vantage point as both scholars and actors of the processes they analyze. Playing different roles in the implementation of the Convention their positioning as insiders allows for a unique analytical perspective that is based on first-hand engagement with the practices of the Convention. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention sheds light on the complexity potential and consequences of combining ICH and SD at the policy-making level and in heritage practices on the ground. It will be of interest to academics and students working in heritage studies development studies anthropology archaeology international law political science international relations and sociology. | Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

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Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

In the pursuit of more muscle enhanced strength sustained endurance and idealised physiques an increasing number of elite athletes recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS). In many instances such use occurs with little regard for the health social and economic consequences. This book presents a nuanced evidence-based examination of PIEDS. It provides a classification of PIEDS types physical impacts rates of use user profiles legal and sporting status and remedial program interventions covering both elite and recreational use. It offers the perfect guide to assist students government policy makers and sport managers in understanding the complex issues surrounding PIEDS consumption. | Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

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The Competitive Strength Of European Japanese And U.s. Suppliers On Asean Markets

The Competitive Strength Of European Japanese And U.s. Suppliers On Asean Markets

Originally published in 1987. This study evaluates micro- and macroeconomic determinants for the export performance of European suppliers to the markets of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). By comparing marketing strategies and the respective economic environment of suppliers from ElHope Japan and the U S - the major exporter | The Competitive Strength Of European Japanese And U. s. Suppliers On Asean Markets

GBP 125.00
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Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage Separation and Legal Controversies

Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage Separation and Legal Controversies

The documents contained in Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage Separation and Legal Controversies tell a story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce its resolution and the ongoing dispute between Mistress Bourne and her husband about their marriage and separation and subsequently between Mistress Bourne and Sir John Conway both for custody of her daughters and her financial security. The letters capture the contradiction between married women’s official legal limitations and the often messy and complicated avenues of redress available to them. Elizabeth’s narratives and desire for divorce challenge literary representations of patient endurance where appropriate feminine behavior restores a husband’s devotion. The Bourne case offers a unique set of documents heretofore unavailable except through the British Library National Archives’ State Papers and Hatfield House. Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne is tremendously important to early modern scholars and our knowledge about and view of women’s negotiations for legal autonomy in the sixteenth century. | Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage Separation and Legal Controversies

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Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

Published in 1999. This book provides an analytical framework of the way culture influences entrepreneurial ethics and trust in a semi-industrial society. Culture provides rules and norms that govern societal behaviour. Yet it differs greatly in the way it influences economic performance across societies. The book which embodies both general and micro-institutional perspective on economic behaviour addresses the core question how does culture influence entrepreneurial ethics and trust in a developing society? | Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

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Mothering Education and Ethnicity The Transformation of Japanese American Culture

Mothering Education and Ethnicity The Transformation of Japanese American Culture

This postmodern feminist study explores changes in Japanese American women's perspectives on child rearing education and ethnicity across three generations-Nisei (second) Sansei (third) and Yonsei (fourth). Shifts in socio-political and cultural milieu have influenced the construction of racial and ethnic identities; Nisei women survived internment before relocating to the midwest Sansei women grew up in white suburban communities while Yonsei women grew up in a culture increasingly attuned toward multiculturalism. In contrast to the historical focus on Japanese American communities in California and Hawaii this study explores the transformation of ethnic culture in the midwest. Midwestern Japanese American women found themselves removed from large ethnic communities and the development of their identities and culture provides valuable insight into the experience of a group of Asian minorities in the heartland. The book explores central issues in studies of Japanese culture the Japanese sense of self and the Japanese family including amae (mother-child dependency relationship) gambare (perseverance) and gaman (endurance). | Mothering Education and Ethnicity The Transformation of Japanese American Culture

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The Science of Motorsport

The Science of Motorsport

Despite its worldwide following high levels of investment and scientific complexity there is a lack of evidence-based literature on the science of human performance in motorsport. Focusing on the physiological psychological and sport medicine aspects of training performance injury and safety The Science of Motorsport is the first book to provide an accessible and up-to-date resource for stakeholders at all levels of motorsport. Addressing the physiological and psychological stresses of racing across a full range of sports from Formula 1 and IndyCar to NASCAR and endurance racing the book includes chapters on: • nutritional and physical training strategies for drivers; • the driver’s neck; • injury rates and pathologies of open-wheel driving; • return to competition from concussion; • driver safety; • and considerations for pit crews and safety staff. Accessibly written and made up of contributions from world-leading authorities in motorsport science research this is a crucial resource for racing drivers physical trainers pit crew members and safety personnel as well as researchers and students with an interest in applied sport physiology applied sport psychology or sport medicine.

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The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

This title was first published in 2001. A classic ethnographic study of the interactions between paediatricians and parents of children thought to be neurologically handicapped. Strong used this work to systematize the often chaotic ideas of Erving Goffman to explore the connections between micro and macro analysis in sociology and to reflect on the nature of medical practice in modern liberal societies. The book stands as a testament to Strong’s pursuit of methodological rigour in qualitative sociology. | The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

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The Transformation of Rural Africa

The Transformation of Rural Africa

Contemporary discussions of Africa’s recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data. However the micro-level processes driving this transformation are still unclear and remain the subject of debate. This collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular growth processes at work within the region’s rural areas and in so doing provides important insights for policy action. The book provides valuable household- and farm-level evidence about the drivers of rural labour productivity improvements in access to markets investment in food value chains and indeed the role of rural economic growth in Africa’s ongoing rural transformation processes. Some of the features of Africa’s ongoing rural transformation are similar to those of agricultural transformation as experienced in Asia and elsewhere. However other features of Africa’s rural transformation are unique and pose important challenges for development policy and planning. Together the studies compiled in this volume provide an updated evidence-based and policy-relevant understanding of where African countries are in their developmental trajectories and the region’s prospects for achieving inclusive forms of development over the next several decades. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies. | The Transformation of Rural Africa

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Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

This volume explores how educational policy is changing as a result of neoliberal restructuring and how these issues affect educators’ practice. Evidence-based chapters present a sharp analysis of neoliberal education policy while also offering suggestions and recommendations for future action to bring about change consistent with more robust understandings of democracy. Covering issues relating to historical context philosophical assumptions policy implementation accountability teacher professionalism and standardization Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times critically engages the ways micro- and macro- neoliberal politics shapes the purposes and implementation of schooling. | Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

GBP 42.99
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Children and Families in the Social Environment Modern Applications of Social Work

Children and Families in the Social Environment Modern Applications of Social Work

The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's micro-systems taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's behavior Garbarino has staked out an intermediate position between the psychoanalytic and the systems approach to human development. Taking cognizance of new research and of changes in American society Garbarino has once again carefully analyzed the importance of children's social relationships. For this wholly revised second edition he has incorporated a greater emphasis on ethnic cultural and racial issues. | Children and Families in the Social Environment Modern Applications of Social Work

GBP 145.00
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