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Author | : Jules Boykoff |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1784780731 |
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A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
Author | : John Sugden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136402055 |
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Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport and between sport and society. The book draws upon the disciplines of politics, sociology, history and philosophy to provide a critical analysis of power relations throughout the world of sport, while offering important new case studies from such diverse sporting contexts as the Olympics, world football, boxing, cricket, tennis and windsurfing. In the process, it addresses key topics such as: * nations and nationalism * globalisation * race * gender * political economy. Power Games can be used as a complete introduction to the study of sport and society. And will be essential reading for any serious student of sport. At the same time, it is a provocative book that by argument and example challenges those who research and write about sport to make their work relevant to social and political reform.
Author | : Asi Burak |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1250089344 |
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The phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception--from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power Play, Asi Burak and Laura Parker explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world. As the former executive director and now chairman of Games for Change, Asi Burak has spent the last ten years supporting and promoting the use of video games for social good, in collaboration with leading organizations like the White House, NASA, World Bank, and The United Nations. The games for change movement has introduced millions of players to meaningful experiences around everything from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the US Constitution. Power Play looks to the future of games as a global movement. Asi Burak and Laura Parker profile the luminaries behind some of the movement's most iconic games, including former Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O’Connor and Pulitzer-Prize winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. They also explore the promise of virtual reality to address social and political issues with unprecedented immersion, and see what the next generation of game makers have in store for the future.
Author | : Ian Bogost |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2010-08-13 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0262261944 |
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An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties. Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzes rhetoric's unique function in software in general and videogames in particular. The field of media studies already analyzes visual rhetoric, the art of using imagery and visual representation persuasively. Bogost argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of procedurality (rule-based representations and interactions), open a new domain for persuasion; they realize a new form of rhetoric. Bogost calls this new form "procedural rhetoric," a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation. He argues further that videogames have a unique persuasive power that goes beyond other forms of computational persuasion. Not only can videogames support existing social and cultural positions, but they can also disrupt and change these positions themselves, leading to potentially significant long-term social change. Bogost looks at three areas in which videogame persuasion has already taken form and shows considerable potential: politics, advertising, and learning.
Author | : Jules Boykoff |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 178478074X |
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The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event's nineteenth-century origins, through the Games' flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers' Games and Women's Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
Author | : May Sage |
Publisher | : Madam's Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1912415690 |
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Yesterday, he had it all, a beautiful woman at his side, more money than he knew what to do with, and a real shot at the Oval Office. Today, he's a murderer. Yesterday, she was America's sweetheart; the wholesome first daughter of a beloved former president, a rising star without so much as a whisper of a scandal attached to her name. Today, she's an accomplice. Vanessa doesn't know why these words flew out of her mouth when Charles is accused of murdering his wife in cold blood, but she's said them, and she isn't taking them back. "He was with me all night." Power Games is unsuitable for sensitive readers.
Author | : Suhas Inamdar |
Publisher | : Partridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2013-06-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1482800624 |
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Four childhood friends separate after school life to pursue different careers. They are all successful in their chosen fields. Amit is an ambitious person. His meteoric growth in the corporate world propels him to quit the job and become an entrepreneur. Srikant accidentally joins politics and becomes a minister. He enjoys power and gels with the system. Vikram becomes an engineer and gets disillusioned with the monotonous lifestyle in a manufacturing industry. He quits, becoming a successful motivational speaker. Pankaj is working in an ordinary job when he discovers his flair for teaching and starts coaching classes. But then, what have they sacrificed to attain this success? Are they really happy? In spite of his huge success, why does Amit feel that there is a vacuum in his life? As a motivational speaker, Vikram improves the life of many people, yet why does he suffer in his personal life? Why does Pankaj leave the successful coaching classes and take an entirely different path? Why does Srikant want to leave politics and retire? They all meet in their sixties and evaluate who has been happiest among them. This is a book on human passions and their changing ideologies. It talks about the power games of life.
Author | : Erez Yoeli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781541619470 |
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Two MIT economists show how game theory--the ultimate theory of rationality--explains irrational behavior We like to think of ourselves as rational. This idea is the foundation for classical economic analysis of human behavior, including the awesome achievements of game theory. But as behavioral economics shows, most behavior doesn't seem rational at all--which, unfortunately, to cast doubt on game theory's real-world credibility. In Hidden Games, Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli find a surprising middle ground between the hyperrationality of classical economics and the hyper-irrationality of behavioral economics. They call it hidden games. Reviving game theory, Hoffman and Yoeli use it to explain our most puzzling behavior, from the mechanics of Stockholm syndrome and internalized misogyny to why we help strangers and have a sense of fairness. Fun and powerfully insightful, Hidden Games is an eye-opening argument for using game theory to explain all the irrational things we think, feel, and do.
Author | : Nazrin Mehdiyeva |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857720988 |
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union into independent states was among the most momentous political phenomena of the twentieth century. This book provides the first comprehensive study of Azerbaijan's post-independence foreign policy in relation to its much stronger neighbours - Russia, Turkey and Iran - and the role that the West brought to bear in helping Azerbaijan to counterbalance the influence of Russia. Complex and subtle diplomatic negotiations enabled the exploitation of Azerbaijan's substantial oil and gas resources and the implementation of transit projects that Azerbaijan's leadership considered critical - the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline bypassing Russia being one example. The case of Azerbaijan demonstrates how in the post-Cold War order a small state has been able to advance its interests internationally even when they contradicted those of the hegemon. The book includes a wealth of new sources and extensive interviews with national policymakers and experts.
Author | : Brynley Blake |
Publisher | : Kairos Publishing |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2023-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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She'll do anything to win the games. He'll do anything to win her. Roman The Power Games was my idea to promote my new hotel in Las Vegas, where guests can indulge their darkest fantasies. I never intended to be a contestant. Then I saw her. Now all bets are off. Enigmatic and impossibly beautiful, her feistiness intrigues me as much as her innocence. Ava’s a girl with infinite layers, and I’m determined to peel away each one until she’s bared to me. Until she’s mine. I want her. And I’ll do anything to possess her—body and soul. Ava When my best friend Emmett suggested I compete on The Power Games with him, I thought he was crazy. Until I realized the BDSM-themed reality show was the perfect opportunity to ruin my stepfather’s political career like he ruined my life. All I have to do is pretend to be a submissive. Then I’m paired with Roman Castile. Gorgeous as sin with a sadistic streak, he’s as intimidating as he is dangerous, yet my body is drawn to his like there’s a physical force pulling me in. He says he can help me win…if I’m willing to give him everything. The Power Games is a multi-part novel published in five installments: Pregame, Mind Game, Game Plan, Game Point, and Endgame.