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Sports & Recreation, History

Sports

by Tim Delaney, Tim Madigan
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Synopsis

Why do billions of people around the world love sports? This informative book attempts to find out why—by examining sports in all its facets, providing an overview of the history of sports, with a constant focus upon the social conditions through which sport arises.

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Book Details

Published
May 1, 2009
Publisher
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780761844969

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