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Big game, small world : a basketball adventure /
"During the late 1990s, eminent basketball journalist Alexander Wolff traveled the globe to determine how a game invented by a Canadian clergyman became an international phenomenon. Big Game, Small World presents Wolff's dispatches from sixteen countries spread across five continents and m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2022.
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| Edición: | [Revised and expanded twentieth anniversary edition.]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fall : founding myths, conflicting cultures
- Almonte, Ontario : duck on a rock
- Lithuania : Forest brothers in short pants
- Poland : the sultans of Zloty
- Switzerland : please do not air your dirty laundry
- Celebration, Florida : communities of three
- Italy : strength vs. virtue
- Sarajevo Airport : prisoners of war
- Bosnia : the woman who sells men
- Winter : the American game and her far-flung offspring
- Peoria, Illinois : crossover dreamers
- Eastern Kansas : driving Mister John
- El Paso : the bear in winter
- Whiteriver, Arizona : shoots from the sky
- Boone, North Carolinia : Mayberry friends
- Ireland : to build a gym
- Israel : the long arm of the law of return
- The Philippines : madness and mimicry
- China : Qiao Dan, celestial citizen
- Spring : the game within
- Philadelphia : Quaker meeting house
- Brazil : women of the laughing blood
- Des Moines : unguarded moments
- Japan : a journey of a thousand miles, begun with a single shot
- Bhutan : gross national hoopiness
- Summer : fast break to the future
- Washington, D.C. : going to the next level
- France : the "I Love This Game" theory of conflict prevention
- Angola : Lasme's plane will be arriving shortly
- Kansas City : to rest, rather than to mischief
- Princeton, New Jersey : through the back door.