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  Passion Plays - How Religion...

  Randall Balmer

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  Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balmer couldn't help but wonder how the fervor he heard related to religious practice. Houses of worship once railed against Sabbath-busting sports events, but today most willingly accommodate Super Bowl Sunday. On the other hand, basketball's inventor, James Naismith, was an ardent follower of Muscular Christianity and believed the game would help develop religious character. But today those religious roots are largely forgotten. 
   
  Here one of our most insightful writers on American religion trains his focus on that other great passion—team sports—to reveal their surprising connections. From baseball to basketball and football to ice hockey, Balmer explores the origins and histories of big-time sports from the late nineteenth century to the present, with entertaining anecdotes and fresh insights into their ties to religious life. Referring to Notre Dame football, the Catholic Sun called its fandom "a kind of sacramental." Legions of sports fans reading Passion Plays will recognize exactly what that means.

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  Always a Little Further - A...

  Alastair Borthwick

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  Alastair Borthwick's classic tale of camping, hiking and climbing tells of the freedom and fellowship enjoyed by climbers in Scotland in the 1930s. His beautiful, vivid descriptions of the landscape are only rivalled by his colourfully drawn, highly entertaining cast of characters, all of whom are passionate about the outdoors and their place within it. Borthwick takes his reader - via road, campsite and bothy - from Arrochar to Glencoe; from the Cuillin to Lairig Ghru. Encounters with tramps, tinkers and hawkers, and of hitching to Ben Nevis in a lorry full of dead sheep, are all described in Borthwick's light-hearted style. He weaves a hilarious tale, aided by the eccentric folk he meets, and this light-hearted read continues to delight, decades after it was first published. Always A Little Further is essential reading for any climber, or indeed anyone, who longs to be transported from the mundane day to day to the wilds of Scotland.

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  Cycling Plus: The Cyclist's...

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  Words to help everyday riders become slimmed-down, upgraded cyclists.

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  The American Adrenaline Narrative

  Kristin J. Jacobson

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  The American Adrenaline Narrative considers the nature of perilous outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they simultaneously promote and hinder ecological sustainability. To explore these themes, Kristin J. Jacobson defines and compares adrenaline narratives by a range of American authors published after the first Earth Day in 1970, a time frame selected as a watershed moment for the contemporary American environmental movement. The forty-plus years since that day also mark the rise in the popularity and marketing of many things as "extreme," including sports, jobs, travel, beverages, gum, makeovers, laundry detergent, and even the environmental movement itself.Jacobson maps the American eco-imagination via adrenaline narratives, grounding them in the traditional literary practice of close reading analysis and in ecofeminism. She surveys a range of popular and lesser-known primary texts by American authors. She also discusses such narratives as they appear in print and online articles and magazines, feature-length and short films, television shows, amateur videos, social networking site posts, fiction, advertising, and blogs.These narratives provide important insight into the American environmental imagination's connection to masculinity and adventure.

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  Bicycling Guide The: The...

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  The Bicycling Guide: The Ultimate Cycling Guide for Fun and Fitness, Get all the Useful Tips on How to Enjoy Cycling While Getting in ShapeCycling, as a sport, has grown tremendously in the last decade. And, thanks to stationary bikes, depending upon where you live, is a year-around activity. When we think of exercise, we don’t often consider biking as a form of exercise. Many may consider it as only a fun activity, but it truly involves exercising. Among the advantages include that you may bike solo, with family members of all ages, with friends or even competitively. In addition, there are opportunities to bike for a good cause. In doing this, you may raise money for that cause, thus helping someone else and yourself at the same time. It’s a sport that you may enjoy for your entire lifetime. This audiobook will teach you everything you need to know about biking. It can be biking for fun or biking as a form of exercise or biking as a sport. You will learn the benefits and how to get started. This audiobook will discuss the following topics:- Bicycle Apparel and Gear- Bicycle Types- Bicycle Seats and Comfort Bikes Make Cycling for Life Easier- Biking Accessories Make Cycling for Life Easier- Biking Trailers and Cargo Bags Make Cycling for Life Easier- Competitive Cycling is a Phenomenon- Cycling as a Family Activity- Cycling as an Excellent Form of Exercise- Cycling to Better Health- Cycling for Cardio Health- Cycling for Life By Biking to Work- Making the Most of Cycling With Organized Bike Rides- Making the Most of Cycling With Biking Events- The Health Benefits of Cycling for Life- The Environmental Benefits of Cycling for Life- And many more!If you approach the sport as a lifelong experience, you’ve taken a great leap in several positive directions for yourself. If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  Power Cycling: Volume 2 - Team...

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  Smith Show Media presents Power Cycling: Volume 2 written by Antonio Smith. This collection of fitness music is perfectly mixed, set at just the right pace to help you perform a high-energy, body-moving workout.

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