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For All the Stars Across the Sky
  • Language: en

For All the Stars Across the Sky

In a tender bedtime ritual, a parent elicits wishes from her little one, sparking imaginary journeys together before it’s time to sleep. For all the stars across the sky, Big and little and bright, Here’s a wish from me to you, Before we say good night. “I wish that we could fly like birds!” says Luna when Mama asks her for her nightly wish. So off they go on an imaginary flight together, past mountaintops and fields and over the deep blue sea. Then Luna wishes they could swim like fish through the corals, shrink as small as ants on the vines, and grow as big as giants, stomping down the lane that leads to Luna’s very own bed. In a quintessential bedtime story, gentle art and a lyrical text take listeners on lighthearted flights of fancy and offer an ode to the unconditional love between parent and child.

For All the Stars Across the Sky
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

For All the Stars Across the Sky

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-02
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A beautiful new bedtime classic, which celebrates the immeasurable love between a mummy and her baby.For all the stars across the sky, big and little and bright. Here's a wish from me to you, before we say goodnight...Every evening, when the sun is fading, Luna and her mother play a game. They close their eyes, make a wish, and imagine themselves on the most incredible of adventures - swimming with the sound of whale song, flying like birds, and gazing over the tallest treetops...Glowing with lyricism, intimacy and love, this beautiful bedtime story celebrates the bond between parent and child, and is brought majestically to life by illustrator Chiaki Okada.

Sport, Social Development and Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Sport, Social Development and Peace

This volume is part of the early systematic inquiry into the analysis of sport as a developmental device. The book features an international roster of global experts. The chapters represent three groups: theory and philosophy, empirical research in 'on-the-ground' case studies, and those using circumspection to construct cases regarding evaluation.

Family and Sport
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

Family and Sport

Highlighting the microlevel of the family to grapple with contemporary social issues at the macrolevel of society, this volume charts new territory to advance a valuable understanding of family and sport issues.

The History and Politics of Sport-for-Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

The History and Politics of Sport-for-Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-04
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been understood, organized, and contested in an effort to engender social change. Integrating the history of international development with the history of modern sport, the authors examine the underpinnings of sport-for-development from the mid-19th through the early 21st centuries. Including both archival research and extensive interviews with more than 15 individuals who were central to the institutions and movements that shaped sport as a force for development, this book will be of particular interest to the growing number of scholars, students, practitioners, advocates and activists interested in the possibilities and limitations of sport-for-development.

The Fit Shall Inherit the Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

The Fit Shall Inherit the Earth

What does it mean, as a person of faith, to maintain and even strengthen one’s physical body? What does it mean to “glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:20) in a time when bodily perfection is popularly defined by advertising firms, while food degradation has led to the worldwide obesity epidemic? This work addresses those questions and many others through theological engagement with fitness and sport, offering a critical examination of the two and their theological intersections. Where is God in sport and fitness? What value might sport and fitness have for the Christian Church? Is there a good to be found?

Athletic Activism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Athletic Activism

Rooted in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity across various social location, but foster institutional change that advances social justice.

Gambling and Sports in a Global Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Gambling and Sports in a Global Age

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Establishing a scholarly platform to inform interventions in research and policymaking, this book demonstrates the importance of sociology in understanding sports gambling in a global age.

Reflections on Sociology of Sport
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Reflections on Sociology of Sport

In this tenth celebratory volume, ten recognized and influential sport scholars from around the world reflect on their respective academic journeys within the subfield Sociology of Sport.

Cripping Intersex
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Cripping Intersex

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-10-22
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Intersex and/as/is/with disability. The connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex human rights claims and understand the experiences of intersex people living with the disabling consequences of medical intervention. Cripping Intersex explores three key themes: the medical management of people with intersex characteristics; the mainstream fascination with sport sex-testing policies; and the eugenic implications of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. This necessary work offers radical new understandings of intersex-with-disability by investigating how intersex and interphobia intersect with disability and ableism, and pushes analyses of intersex experience further than feminist or queer theory can do alone.