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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 128 pp. Digest format. Volume 25, number 7. Light edge and corner wear. This issue contains: You Get What You Deserve by William Bankier; The Whisper of Gold by Edward Wellen; The Maiden Aunt by Patricia L. Schulze; That Kind of World by John Lutz; The Real Story by Dorothy Benjamin; Furberry's Banana by M. G. Frost; Dream Heist by Carroll Mayers; The Last Quarter by Mary Braund; The Body Snatcher by Gary Alexander; Take One at Bedtime by Jeffry Scott; Death of a Dream by James Holding; The Mechanical Heart by Pauline C. Smith; and Bottomed Out by Robert Twohy; along with Crime on Screen by Peter Christian. Size: 12mo. Book. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Original issue. Original waps show minor wear and creasing, soiling, loss on the spine. Pages tanned. Picture of a woman in blue skiing on the cover.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New. The sports world's attention was focused on Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The years-long buildup to and aftermath of the games occurred in the midst of the global pandemic, which delayed the event until 2021. Given all of this, there is perhaps no better time to delve into an often overlooked but critical facet of sport in Japan-namely religion.Religion has long been a part of the Japanese sport tradition-from Shugendo practitioners offering sumo bouts to the gods to soccer players of all ages praying for success at Shinto shrines; from the use of meditation and ritual in martial arts to gain focus or superhuman abilities to religious organizations sponsoring sporting events and teams and school sports clubs. Religion and Sport in Japan brings together historians and sport and religious studies specialists from Japan, the US, and Europe to address sport's ties to corporate and national identity, politics, environmentalism, ritual, and sacred space. Major themes discussed include the spiritual geographies of sport, sport as invented tradition, technologies of self, material culture, and civil religion. The chapters are written so that sport historians with no background in the study of Japan or religious studies scholars who have never before examined the world of sport will find the material accessible. To provide further grounding for non-field specialists, the volume begins with two background chapters that introduce sport studies in Japan and the study of religion and sport.…

Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with color illustration. Gilt lettering and design on spine. 712 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations. Chronicles Mark Twain's 1895 round-the-world lecture tour where he wrote stories about the people and places he encountered along the way. VG-. Toning to the spine, light wear to boards, with a little fraying around the edges. Front joint a little loose and beginning to crack. Lancaster lodge book plate inside front cover.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 258 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Hardback. Condition: New. The sports world's attention was focused on Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The years-long buildup to and aftermath of the games occurred in the midst of the global pandemic, which delayed the event until 2021. Given all of this, there is perhaps no better time to delve into an often overlooked but critical facet of sport in Japan-namely religion.Religion has long been a part of the Japanese sport tradition-from Shugendo practitioners offering sumo bouts to the gods to soccer players of all ages praying for success at Shinto shrines; from the use of meditation and ritual in martial arts to gain focus or superhuman abilities to religious organizations sponsoring sporting events and teams and school sports clubs. Religion and Sport in Japan brings together historians and sport and religious studies specialists from Japan, the US, and Europe to address sport's ties to corporate and national identity, politics, environmentalism, ritual, and sacred space. Major themes discussed include the spiritual geographies of sport, sport as invented tradition, technologies of self, material culture, and civil religion. The chapters are written so that sport historians with no background in the study of Japan or religious studies scholars who have never before examined the world of sport will find the material accessible. To provide further grounding for non-field specialists, the volume begins with two background chapters that introduce sport studies in Japan and the study of religion and sport.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full leather cover with extensive gilt decoration shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, edgewear, discoloration. All edges gilt. Pages tanned and clean. Contemporary name of former owner dated 1843 in the prelims. 8 plates. Scarce.