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A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of Americ...
$10.11
Sports in America, particularly big-time collegiate and professional sports, have never been more popular. Modern sports events bring us breathtaking demonstrations of grace and power and provide the focal point for the leisure time of hundreds of thousands of Americans. But the world of sports is a..
Finding Meaning in Life, at Midlife and Beyond: Wi...
$29.56
Having been mentored by Viktor E. Frankl, the founder of logotherapy, Emeritus Professor David Guttmann authored this book so general readers may understand this approach to finding meaning in life at the point when most of us begin deeply wondering over that question, at midlife and beyond. Especia..
From ritual to record: The nature of modern sports
$26.25
Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, ha..
The Erotic in Sports
$12.31
In The Erotic in Sports, Allen Guttmann illuminates a topic commonly hidden in the shadows, drawing upon literature, art, modern mass media, and traditional historical sources to describe and comment upon its importance across nearly three millennia of Western history.Investigating aesthetic ideals ..
The Games Must Go on
$57.73
Allen Guttmann is a professor of American Studies at Amherst College and author of,"From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports" (1978). In his new book, "The Games Must Go On", Guttmann provides an assessment of Brundage’s role in shaping the modem Olympic games. This work is both a biograph..
The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games (Illin...
$9.55
The classic account of the modern Olympic movementThis second edition of Guttmann's critically acclaimed history discusses the intended and actual effects of the modern Olympic Games from 1896 to 2000. The glories and fiascoes, the triumphs and tragedies--Guttmann weaves them all into a vivid and en..