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Download and Read Sports Finance Online Book PDF ByBrian P. Soebbing Total Download 38 I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Synopsis This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue |Sports Finance| that was published in IJFS Book Preview

Download and Read Sports and Understanding Organizations Online Book ByDaniel J. Svyantek Total Download 29 “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” –Haruki Murakami Synopsis This volume provides readers with a rich source of sports metaphors for understanding organization and management processes and how to use metaphors to become more effective leaders and managers within their organizations. Each chapter discusses how sports may be used to help improved organizational productivity and effectiveness. These chapters each strive to present new ways of understanding organizational constructs using sports as a metaphor. It is this volume’s hope that these chapters may provide insight into the important role sports plays in understanding organizations across the world. Organizational science profits from taking new perspectives that may be found when sports is used as a lens for this study. Book Preview

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Download Superheroes of the Round Table Online Book PDF ByJason Tondro Total Download 33 “A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” –Edward Morgan Synopsis Few scholars nursed on the literary canon would dispute that knowledge of Western literature benefits readers and writers of the superhero genre. This analysis of superhero comics as Romance literature shows that the reverse is true--knowledge of the superhero romance has something to teach critics of traditional literature. Establishing the comic genre as a cousin to Arthurian myth, Spenser, and Shakespeare, it uses comics to inform readings of The Faerie Queene, The Tempest, Malory's Morte and more, while employing authors like Ben Johnson to help explain comics by Alan Moore, Jack Kirby, and Grant Morrison and characters like Iron Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, and the Justice League. Scholars of comics, medieval and Renaissance literature alike will find it appealing. Book Preview

Get Download The Comics Come Alive Book PDF ByRoy Kinnard Total Download 28 So many books, so little time. Synopsis A comprehensive history of the various theatrical films and television shows adapted from the plethora of comic strips and comic books Americans have loved for most of the century_from Archie, Barbarella, Batman, and Blondie, to The Vigilante and Wonder Woman, and everyone in between, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The author provides extensive cast and credit information on every film and television adaptation of comic strips in which the characters have been portrayed by live performers. Hundreds of entries for some 90 characters are arranged in alphabetical order by comic strip title, with brief historical backgrounds, critiques, background information on the various movie and TV versions, and vintage photos. Book Preview

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