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The rise of the National Basketball Association
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ISBN: 1283712695 0252094247 9780252094248 9780252037139 9780252078668 9781283712699 0252037138 0252078667 Year: 2012 Publisher: Urbana

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Today's National Basketball Association commands millions of spectators worldwide, and its many franchises are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But the league wasnAEt always so successful or glamorous. This book chronicles the league's growing pains from 1946 to 1961.


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The chosen game
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ISBN: 1496204743 149620476X 9781496204769 9781496204745 9781496204752 1496204751 9780803255432 0803255438 Year: 2017 Publisher: Lincoln

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Crazy basketball
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ISBN: 1283099454 9786613099457 0803220375 9780803220379 9781283099455 9780803217935 0803217935 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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Crazy Basketball is the story of Charley Rosen's unlikely and crazy basketball journey--from the CBA to his role as commentator for Foxsports.com


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Sugar
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ISBN: 1496206142 9781496206145 9781496206121 1496206126 9781496202161 1496202163 9781496206138 1496206134 Year: 2018 Publisher: Lincoln

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"Sugar considers aspects of the league's dysfunction in light of basketball's rapidly increasing popularity during the 1970s and 1980s"--


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King of the Court
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ISBN: 1282763903 9786612763908 052094576X 9780520945760 9780520258877 0520258878 0520269799 9780520269798 9781282763906 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first black superstar. From the moment he stepped onto the court of the Boston Garden in 1956, Russell began to transform the sport in a fundamental way, making him, more than any of his contemporaries, the Jackie Robinson of basketball. In King of the Court, Aram Goudsouzian provides a vivid and engrossing chronicle of the life and career of this brilliant champion and courageous racial pioneer. Russell's leaping, wide-ranging defense altered the game's texture. His teams provided models of racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s, and, in 1966, he became the first black coach of any major professional team sport. Yet, like no athlete before him, Russell challenged the politics of sport. Instead of displaying appreciative deference, he decried racist institutions, embraced his African roots, and challenged the nonviolent tenets of the civil rights movement. This beautifully written book-sophisticated, nuanced, and insightful-reveals a singular individual who expressed the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. while echoing the warnings of Malcolm X.


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The Prepared Leader : Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before.
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ISBN: 1613631626 Year: 2022 Publisher: Philadelphia : Wharton School Press,

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The next crisis might be here now, or it might be around the corner. In The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before, two history-making experts in crisis leadership—James, dean of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Wooten, president of Simmons University—forcefully argue that the time to prepare is always.In no other time in recent history have leaders in every industry and on every continent grappled with so many changes that have independently and simultaneously undermined their ability to lead. The Prepared Leader encapsulates more than two decades of the authors’ research to convey how it has positioned them to navigate through the distinct challenges of today and tomorrow. Their insights have implications for every leader in every industry and every worker at every level.In their fast-reading and actionable book, James and Wooten provide tools and frameworks for addressing and learning from crises, and they provide insight into what you need to know to become a Prepared Leader, including:The five phases of crisis management and the skills you need for each phase. They examine how the National Basketball Association and its commissioner, Adam Silver, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.Making the right decisions under pressure and how to avoid common mistakes. They reveal how Burger King CEO Jose Cil began planning for the aftermath of a crisis right in the middle of one.Building a crisis leadership team and how to lead one that you’ve inherited. They detail how Wonya Lucas, CEO and President of the Crown Media Family Networks, aligned and mobilized an executive team during a time of crisis.James and Wooten argue that—in addition to people, profit, and the planet—prepared leadership should be the fourth “P” in a company’s bottom line. They bring decades of world-renowned research on crisis leadership, diversity and inclusion, management strategy, and positive leadership to the table to help leaders better prepare themselves to lead through crises—and for whatever lies around the corner.


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Improving Practice and Performance in Basketball
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ISBN: 3039216953 3039216945 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Despite being one of the most popular sports worldwide, basketball has received limited research attention compared to other team sports. Establishing a strong evidence base with high-quality and impactful research is essential in enhancing decision-making processes to optimize player performance for basketball professionals. Consequently, the book entitled Improving Performance and Practice in Basketball provides a collection of novel research studies to increase the available evidence on various topics with strong translation to practice in basketball. The book includes work by 40 researchers from 16 institutions or professional organizations from 9 countries. In keeping with notable topics in basketball research, the book contains 2 reviews focused on monitoring strategies to detect player fatigue and considerations for travel in National Basketball Association players. In addition, 8 applied studies are also included in the book, focused on workload monitoring, game-related statistics, and the measurement of physical and skill attributes in basketball players. This book also has a strong focus on increasing the evidence available for female basketball players, who have traditionally been under-represented in the literature. The outcomes generated from this book should provide new insights to inform practice in many areas for professionals working in various roles with basketball teams.


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The worldwide movement against child labour
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ISBN: 9221200175 9221200183 9789221200185 9789221200178 9789222200177 9222200179 9789222200184 9222200187 Year: 2007 Publisher: Geneva International Labour Office

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This study provides the first systematic analysis of the worldwide movement against child labour. It argues that the intellectual and policy frameworks first articulated by the ILO in the 1980's remain important departure points for developing a more coherent, more sustained global effort against child labour. The study also emphasizes that they need re-visiting and more certain application and examines areas of divergence and convergence within the movement...

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Child labor -- Prevention. --- Child labor. --- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour. --- Child welfare. --- Child protective services --- Child protective services personnel --- Children --- CPS (Child protective services) --- Humane societies --- Protection of children --- Employment of children --- Charities --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Protection --- Employment --- Family policy --- Public welfare --- Social work with children --- Social work with youth --- Labor --- Age and employment --- Child labor --- Prevention --- E-books --- AĬPEK --- Āīpeka --- BIT/IPEC --- ILO-IPEC --- International Labour Office. --- International Labour Organisation. --- International Labour Organization. --- International Programme for Elimination of Child labour --- International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour --- International Program on the Elimination of Child Labour --- IPEC --- IPEC/ILO --- IPEC Programme --- IPEK --- IPEK I --- Jamanaw ka baarabolodato̳nba denmise̳nninw ka baara banni kama --- Mezhdunarodna programa za premakhvane na detskii︠a︡ trud --- Mezhdunarodnai︠a︡ programma po iskorenenii︠u︡ detskogo truda --- Mezhdunarodnai︠a︡ programma po iskorenenii︠u︡ detskogo truda Mezhdunarodnoĭ Organizat︠s︡ii Truda --- OIT/IPEC --- Programa Internacional para a Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil --- Programa Internacional para a Eliminação do Trabalho Infantil --- Programa Internacional para la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil --- Programme international pour l'abolition du travail des enfants


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How to Play Video Games
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ISBN: 1479830402 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture What does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building?From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving technological reality. Unlike other media technologies, video games demand engagement like no other, which begs the question—what is the role that video games play in our lives, from our homes, to our phones, and on global culture writ large? How to Play Video Games brings together forty original essays from today’s leading scholars on video game culture, writing about the games they know best and what they mean in broader social and cultural contexts. Read about avatars in Grand Theft Auto V, or music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. See how Age of Empires taught a generation about postcolonialism, and how Borderlands exposes the seedy underbelly of capitalism. These essays suggest that understanding video games in a critical context provides a new way to engage in contemporary culture. They are a must read for fans and students of the medium.

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Video games --- Popular culture. --- Social aspects. --- Design. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Age of Empires. --- Authorship. --- Avatar. --- BioShock Infinite. --- Bioshock. --- Borderlands. --- Capitalism. --- Casual game. --- Civilization. --- Clash Royale. --- Colonialism. --- Conquest. --- Cookie Clicker. --- Donkey Kong. --- Don’t Starve. --- Empathy. --- Environmental storytelling. --- Ethics. --- FIFA. --- Fatherhood. --- Feminism. --- Feminist game studies. --- First-person shooter. --- Free-to-play. --- Game Dev Tycoon. --- Game criticism. --- Game design. --- Game developers. --- Game industry. --- Game studies. --- Gameplay. --- Gaming capital. --- Gender. --- Grand Theft Auto. --- Heterosexual masculinity. --- Hideo Kojima. --- Immersion. --- Imperialism. --- Independent games. --- Indies. --- Interactivity. --- Inventory. --- Jonathan Blow. --- Ken Levine. --- Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. --- LGBTQ. --- Labor. --- Legend of Zelda. --- Leisure Suit Larry. --- Lucas Pope. --- Magic circle. --- Masculinity. --- Media studies. --- Metal Gear. --- Mobile game. --- Monetization. --- Morality. --- NBA 2K16. --- Narrative. --- Naughty Dog games. --- Nintendo. --- PaRappa the Rapper. --- Papers, Please. --- Planescape Torment. --- Player character. --- Point-and-click adventure. --- Post-apocalyptic. --- Postcolonial. --- Puzzle games. --- QGCon. --- Queer gaming. --- Queerness and Games Conference. --- RPG. --- Race. --- Real-time strategy. --- Realism. --- Role-playing game. --- Shigeru Miyamoto. --- Sid Meier. --- Sierra Online. --- Simulation. --- Sniper Elite III. --- Sound. --- Spike Lee. --- Sports video games. --- Strategy. --- Super Mario Bros. --- Temporality. --- Tetris. --- The Last of Us. --- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. --- User-created content. --- User-generated content. --- World-building.

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