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Tennis and Philosophy : What the Racket is All About /
Tennis smashed onto the worldwide athletic scene soon after its modern rules and equipment were introduced in nineteenth-century England. Exciting, competitive, and uniquely accessible to people of all ages and talent levels, tennis continues to enjoy popularity, both as a recreational activity and...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Federer as religious experience / David Foster Wallace -- Why Roger Federer is the best: or is it McEnroe? / David Baggett -- Why are all tennis films bad? / Mark R. Huston -- Excuses, excuses: inside the mind of a complainer / Kevin Kinghorn -- Authoritarian tennis parents: are their children really any worse off? / Kevin Kinghorn -- "You cannot be serious!" The ethics of rage in tennis / David Detmer -- Love-love: a fresh start at finding value and virtue in tennis / Tommy Valentini -- A court conversation / Robert R. Clewis -- Stabbing Seles: fans and fair play / Mark W. Foreman -- The "Kournikova phenomenon" / Helen Ditouras -- Losing beautifully / Mark R. Huston -- Arthur Ashe: philosopher in motion / Jeanine Weekes Schroer -- The ridiculous meets the radical in the battle of the sexes / Maureen Linker -- Friendship, rivalry, and excellence / David Baggett and Neil Delaney Jr. | |
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