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Title: Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer by Loïc Wacquant ISBN: 0-19-516835-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Close and personal
Comment: Having searched and read close to what I can find on the subject featured in this book, I can honestly say that it covers close to everything I was looking for. It is well written, a page-turner (which I rarely find a "scientific" book to be), in depth, and has a nice personal touch. Wacquant shows great understanding for the sport, as well as the interpersonal and mystified aspects of the gym, and is able to put this together in sociological terms and aspects. I have myself traveled around the world, and in several major cities (and small towns) visited different gyms with the purpose of training. But also because I am interested in the differences of the gyms and the poeple there. I can relate to Woodlawn Boys Club because I spent a few weeks in Minnapolis, and frequented a "similar" kind of gym there, and I find great interest in reading about his findings in "his" gym. One of the main reasons I read - and liked - this book, is my search for validating boxing as professional youth work, and I discovered many findings, which can also be applied in my small country, which is totally different when it comes to the urban life. The principles are nevertheless the same. So for every person interested in boxing, youth work or/and the mystique surrounding the sport and the gym (as a phenomena) this is a must. Or if you merely want interesting reading from a modern and gutsy sociologist, you will probably like it as well. Enjoy!
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Title: Deadly Symbiosis (Themes for the 21st Century) by Loic Wacquant ISBN: 0745631231 Publisher: Polity Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Cut Time: An Education at the Fights by Carlo Rotella ISBN: 0618145338 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market by Pierre Bourdieu ISBN: 1565847385 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 12 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (Music/Culture) by Murray Forman ISBN: 0819563978 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Refashioning Futures by David Scott ISBN: 0691004862 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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