| To the Extreme: Alternative Sports, Inside and Out Contributor(s): Rinehart, Robert E. (Editor), Sydnor, Synthia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791456668 ISBN-13: 9780791456668 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 796.046 |
| LCCN: 2002042646 |
| Series: Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.2" W x 9.22" (1.21 lbs) 450 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg, look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity throughout the world. For each sport, an interpretation is presented through two essays: one written by a scholar active in some aspect of research for the given activity, and another by a practitioner/athlete who writes from the inside out. The juxtaposed essays confront questions about the essence of sport such as, What is sport?; How does it originate?; and What is its use, value, and function? This book offers a fascinating look at how twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport forms emerge, proliferate, and take hold in a sport-crazy world. |
