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A brief theology of sport /Lincoln Harvey. Sport is extremely popular. This ground-breaking book explains why. It shows that sport has everything to do with our deepest identity. It is where we resonate with the most-basic nature of reality. A Brief Theology of Sport sweeps across the fields of church history, philosophy and Christian doctrine, drawing the reader into a creative vision of sport.
Already gone: why your kids will quit church and what you can do to stop it /Ken Ham & Britt Beemer with Todd Hillard. The study found that we are losing our kids in elementary, middle school, and high school rather than college, and the “Sunday school syndrome” is contributing to the epidemic, rather than helping alleviate it. This is an alarming wake-up call for the church, showing how our programs and our approaches to Christian education are failing…and our children are paying the price. Though the statistics reveal a huge disconnect taking place between our children and their church experience, Already Gone shows how to fight back for our families, our churches, and our world. We can make a difference today that will affect the statistics of tomorrow in a positive and Christ-focused way!
An economist goes to the game: how to throw away $580 million and other surprising insights from the economics of sports /Paul Oyer An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field. Oyer shows the many ways economics permeates the world of sports. His topics range from the business of sport to how great athletes use economic thinking to outsmart their opponents to why the world’s greatest sports powerhouse (at least per capita) is not America or China but the principality of Liechtenstein. Economics explains why some sports cannot stop the use of performance-enhancing drugs while others can, why hundred-million-dollar player contracts are guaranteed in baseball but not in football, how one man was able to set the world of sports betting on its ear-and why it will probably never happen again. This book is an entertaining guide to how a bit of economics can make you a better athlete and a more informed fan.
Before Brooklyn: the unsung heroes who helped break baseball’s color barrier /Ted Reinstein. This book tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country. It also reminds us that the first black player in professional baseball was not Jackie Robinson but Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, and that for a time integrated teams were not that unusual. And then, as segregation throughout the country hardened, the exclusion of blacks in baseball quietly became the norm, and the battle for integration began anew.
Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants /Robin Wall Kimmerer. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings–asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass–offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.
Buying in: big-time women’s college basketball and the future of college sports /Aaron L. Miller. Buying In juxtaposes women’s college sports with the historical transformations that set the stage for contemporary big-time college sports. Miller draws on positive psychology to create a framework he calls positive anthropology. He uses this lens to highlight athlete exploitation, pay-for-play, and other issues that affect college sports teams.
Cold War Olympics: the games as a new battlefront in psychological warfare, 1948-1956 /Harry Blutstein. The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games when each side engaged in psychological warfare, exploiting sport for political ends. In Helsinki, the Soviet Union nearly overtook the United States in the medal count. Caught off guard, the U.S. hastened to respond, certain that the Soviets would use a victory at the next Olympics to broadcast their superiority over the Western world. Following the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian uprising, a Soviet athlete struck a Hungarian opponent in the Melbourne water polo semifinals, turning the pool red. The United States covertly encouraged Eastern Bloc athletes to defect, communist Chinese agents nearly succeeded in goading the Taiwanese government into withdrawing from the games, and a forbidden romance between an American and Czech athlete resulted in a politically complex marriage. This history describes those stories and more that resulted from the complicated relationship between Cold War politics and the Olympics.
Cultural appropriation /Heather C. Hudak. Explores how non-Indigenous people have taken aspects of Indigenous culture and used them differently than their original purpose. Often these uses are seen as offensive or disrespectful to Indigenous people
Darkness now visible: patriarchy’s resurgence and feminist resistance /Carol Gilligan, New York University; David A.J. Richards, New York University. Darkness Now Visible: explains how patriarchy and its embrace of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and violence are starkly visible and must be recognized and resisted. Gilligan and Richards offer a bold and original thesis: that gender is the linchpin that holds in place the structures of unjust oppression through the codes of masculinity and femininity that subvert the capacity to resist injustice. Feminism is not an issue of women only, or a battle of women versus men – it is the key ethical movement of our age.
Debating Calvinism / Dave Hunt and James White. A centuries-old belief system is put to the test as two prominent authors examine and debate the subject of Calvinism from opposing viewpoints. White takes the Calvinist position. Hunt opposes him. The exchange is lively and at times intense as these two articulate men wrestle over what the Scriptures tell us about God’s sovereignty and man’s free will. This thought-provoking, challenging book provides potent responses to the most frequently asked questions about Calvinism.
Discredited: the UNC scandal and college athletics’ amateur ideal /Andy Thomason. Based on dozens of original interviews and thousands of pages of documents, Discredited demonstrates just how far a university will go to preserve the athletic status quo: tolerating tarnished careers, ruined reputations, and years of scathing media criticism-all for a shot at competitive glory. Thomason provides a gripping and authoritative retelling of a scandal through the eyes of four of its key participants: the secretary who presided over fake classes, the professor who directed players toward them, the literacy specialist turned whistleblower who sought to expose the system, and the chancellor who found his career suddenly on the line. The heart-stopping narrative reveals the toll of a college’s investment in major sports, and the amateurism myth upon which it is based.
Drawing thought: how drawing helps us observe, discover, and invent /Andrea Kantrowitz. Kantrowitz makes a case for drawing as a way of thinking, and as an essential complement to words and numbers in our cognitive toolkit
Driftwood days /written by William Miniver ; illustrated by Charles Vess. A tree branch in the mountains travels through the seasons and across rivers and oceans until it becomes a piece of driftwood on the beach.
English grammar troubleshooting: for students of English as an additional language /Norma G. Scobie. This resource will help readers make corrections in their writing and speaking, and help them gain confidence in their use of English.
Every square inch: a Nigeria missionary memoir, 1966-1996 /Jan H. Boer & Frances A. Boer. Boer and his wife Boer-Prins dedicated three decades of their lives to the mission field in central Nigeria. Raised in the Reformed Calvinist tradition of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd, the Boers brought to their mission work an approach anchored on the total gospel and left an impermeable legacy in Nigeria.
Faith and works: Cranmer and Hooker on justification /Philip Edgcumbe Hughes.
Getting back into place: toward a renewed understanding of the place-world /Edward S. Casey. A study on the importance of place in people’s lives, reflecting on the development of the field of environmental philosophy and presenting Edward S. Casey’s current thinking on place and home in our increasingly troubled world.
Hidden city: poems of urban wildlife /written by Sarah Grace Tuttle ; illustrated by Amy Schimler-Safford. The perfect blend of science and poetry, Hidden City demonstrates that nature can thrive anywhere, even in highly populated areas. In this graceful collection of poems, skyscrapers serve as perches for falcons, streetlights attract an insect buffet for hungry bats, and an overgrown urban lot offers shelter to both flora and fauna. Hidden City also includes engaging supplementary materials, which provide scientific information about the animals and plants featured in the book. Coupled with beautiful collage illustrations, the poems in Hidden City offer readers the perfect reminder to notice and care about their environment
Hoops: a cultural history of basketball in America /Thomas Aiello. This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional men’s and women’s competition, chronicling the relationship between the sport and American society.
How to do media and cultural studies /Jane Stokes. How to Do Media and Cultural Studies provides readers with all the knowledge and practical expertise they need to carry out their project or dissertation. Giving them hands-on guidance on managing the whole process. How to Do Media and Cultural Studies has inspired thousands of students and researchers to understand why studying media texts, industries and audiences is so important.
Humanistic values in English literature: five radio talks as heard on CBC University of the air /by William Robins.
Justice for all: the courage to overcome /Marja Bergen. Justice for All recounts the inspirational achievements of twelve of history’s greats, all of whom overcame personal challenges and gave their lives to fighting the injustices of their times. People like William Wilberforce, who helped abolish slavery in Britain; Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian leader who was shy about public speaking but became one of the most influential leaders of modern times; and Mother Teresa, who saw Christ’s suffering in the poor she ministered to. Bergen encourages the reader to identify what helped these leaders do what they did and to foster similar qualities in themselves, along with confidence in a God who tells them that they are of value to their community and their world.
To mark the celebration of World Water Day on Wednesday, March 22, a six-minute, noon-hour concert will include water-related tunes and melodies composed and arranged by TWU music students. The campus campanile will again sound out the concert at 8:00PM that evening.
A new pre-chapel bell melody will ring out this Tuesday at 10:55 – and weekly after that. Robbie Down composed Return to rest, my soul as part of his work as the recipient of this year’s Alloway Chime Award funded by Heather Alloway, daughter of the library’s namesake.
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