Bo was a legendary Russian basketball player. It had been five years since he retired from the EuroLeague. Now he ran an international business that sold anything and everything related to basketball. He was absolutely charming. And for a price, he'd deliver anything. ~ Someday, Bo would settle down and marry Zella, his Romanian sweetheart. In the meantime, he had a girl in every port. The money was rolling in. He was on top of the world. ~ Then suddenly, everything changed. Out of the blu...

Empower students to feel capable and confident as they prepare to enter the dynamic world of sport marketing.Sport Marketing, Sixth Edition, is the leading resource for undergraduate and graduate students, offering the foundational knowledge essential for success in the field of sport marketing. This introductory text features an authoritative authorship team of academic scholars and professionals. The sixth edition features update...

How this book can help you:· Understand your health better — Learn how your microbiome affects digestion, immunity, mood, and overall resilience.· Use practical strategies — Get clear, science-based guidance on how to support your microbiome in everyday life.· Use food as medicine — Explore culinary medicine and learn how specific foods and dietary habits can help rebuild and nourish your microbiome...

"All the ingredients to become the next important book in the field of postcolonial studies with the emphasis on French Caribbean culture and literature."—Daniel Desormeaux, University of ChicagoIn Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the Fre...

Sport marketing is more accessible than ever, with sport business professionals, companies, the media, athletes, teams, coaches, and fans connecting in new ways and with new experiences. Sport Marketing, Fifth Edition With HKPropel Access, presents a modernized, current-day approach to the dynamic industry of sport marketing. A full-color presentation brings this vibrant field to life with comprehensive coverage—balanced between theoretical and practical—to provide an understandin...

This is a book of Poetic philosophy that will increase your awareness in thought, through-being aware of how to be aware. My Poetry reaches into the cognitive self, leaving you with a higher awareness. I discovered that the inward thought of what is known to be unknown could be known through the insight that these poems can give. We are knowing beings and the process of Poetic Art in the science of soul discovery, will allow our subjective minds "I" "eye" to be born and brought to life. Th...

This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the ongoing debate on taxation and austerity in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland illuminates a neglected aspect of Irish history, and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, ...

The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many historians of eighteenth-century England. Yet even at the time of its publication the book caused controversy, and the essays in this volume demonstrate how recent work on fiscal structures, military and naval contractors, on parallel developments in Scotland and Ireland, and on the wider political context, has challenged the fundamentals of this model in increasin...

Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This volume, edited by Máirtín Ó Catháin and Mícheál Ó hAodha, develops many of the oral history themes of the first book and concentrates more on issues surrounding the adaptation of migrants to new or host environments and cultures. These new places often have a jarring effect, as well as a welc...

This book tracks post 9/11 developments in national security and policing intelligence and their relevance to new emerging areas of intelligence practice such as: corrections, biosecurity, private industry and regulatory environments. Developments are explored thematically across three broad sections:applying intelligenceunderstanding structuresdeveloping a discipline.Issues explored include: understanding intelligence models; the ...

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved place of gravity in quantum theory.Albert Einstein did nothing of note on May 29, 1919; yet that is when he became immortal. On that day, astronomer Arthur Eddington and his team observed a solar ecl...

John Seibert Farnsworth’s delightful notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well.In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. We follow him to a series of field stations where he teams up with scientists, citizen scientists, rangers, stewards, and grad students engaged in long-term ecological study, all the while scribbling down what he sees, hears, and feels in the moment. With humor and insight, Farnsworth explores how ...