Fighting Scholars

Fighting ScholarsFighting Scholars presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loc Wacquants Body and Soul: the construction of a carnal sociology that constitutes an exploration of the social world from the body.

As students develop skills in map analysis and interpretation

An examination of the Conservative Party’s period in opposition between 1974 and 1979

This topical book comprehensively draws together diverse perspectives from key leaders in the field to address critical issues for children in relation to their rights

accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media

and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility

Breathing by W

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this presents a new and dynamic information literacy curriculum developed for the 21st century information professional

This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets