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| Author | : Paula E. Morton |
| Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2019-02-22 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0826355501 |
Paula Morton provides a fun, concise introduction to jai alai, a fast-paced ball game with ancient roots that is admired by fans for the sport’s power and spectacle. Cesta punta, as the game is known in its Basque homeland, became a phenomenon during the twentieth century as organized jai alai spread from Spain into the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, and Asia. This book outlines the multifaceted history of the sport, from its beginnings in Basque country to its North American “unveiling” at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition and World’s Fair and to its rise and fall in popularity in the United States. Guest essays and historic photographs offer extensive insight into the sport’s fascinating history. Morton further explores the players and venues, providing a carefully crafted and thoroughly researched look into jai alai. Sports lovers and cultural history enthusiasts will marvel at the sport’s unique history and reach.
| Author | : Steven S. Skiena |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2001-08-06 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 9780521009621 |
A story of using computer simulations and mathematical modeling techniques to predict the outcome of jai-alai matches and bet on them successfully.
| Author | : Lynne Barrett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2019-09-21 |
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| ISBN | : 9781940806136 |
Transportation focused Anthology Edited and with an introduction by Lynne Barrett
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| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1979-05 |
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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
| Author | : David Asa Schwartz |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 515 |
| Release | : 2021-06-14 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
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Modern Sports around the World focuses on the history, geography, sociology, economics, and technological advancements of 50 sports played from India to Ireland. Sports have become an international spectacle that influences nations' foreign policy, world economies, and regional morale. Hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake as governments and multinational corporations rush to make sure they have a place at the table. And yet, sports come from humble beginnings. We are fascinated by who can run the fastest, lift the most weight, jump the highest, swim the farthest, and act with the most precision. The history of sports is the history of the world. Modern Sports around the World examines 50 of the world's most popular sports. Each chapter features one sport and details that sport's origins, global migration, economic forces, media influences, political environment, pop-culture inspirations, scandalous moments, and key individuals. Sports history is a tapestry of sociological variables; Modern Sports around the World weaves them together to create a unique history book that explains not only where humanity has been, but where it might be going.
| Author | : Gerard Walen |
| Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2014-04-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0811758699 |
The craft brew revolution has spread south. This all-new guidebook profiles the Sunshine State's 66 breweries and brewpubs.
| Author | : Wendy Brenner |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2011-08-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0820342904 |
The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone: survivors negotiating between logic and faith who look for mysterious messages and connections in everyday life, those sudden transformations and small miracles that occur in mundane, even absurd settings. Brenner's stories range in setting from the rural and southern (a rotating country music bar, a dog track/jai alai compound, a grocery store, a natural cold springs sinkhole) to the urban and high-tech (absurdly bureaucratic companies and academic departments and a food irradiation plant). Often young and tough women seeking to hone their survival sensibilities, Brenner's characters are a mix of the everyday and the fantastic: frustrated secretaries and scientists, a young supermodel, precocious children, fierce plumbers and mechanics, a psychic grandmother, an unhappy lottery winner, a desperate grocery-store mascot in an animal suit. And then there are the animals—real ones of all kinds who turn up at unlikely moments and often seem to be trying to help.
| Author | : Mark Kurlansky |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2011-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1448113229 |
The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the world. Whilst inward-looking, preserving their ancient language and customs, the Basques also struck out for new horizons, pioneers of whaling and cod fishing, leading the way in exploration of the Americas and Asia, were among the first capitalists and later led Southern Europe's industrial revolution. Mark Kurlansky, the author of the acclaimed Cod, blends human stories with economic, political, literary and culinary history to paint a fascinating picture of an intriguing people.
| Author | : Sarah Trudgeon |
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| Release | : 2015-11-17 |
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| ISBN | : 9781940806044 |
| Author | : California. Legislature. Assembly |
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| Total Pages | : 1288 |
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