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1 online resource (xxxii, 389 pages) |
| Contents |
Fall : founding myths, conflicting cultures -- Almonte, Ontario : duck on a rock -- Lithuania : Forest brothers in short pants -- Poland : the sultans of Zloty -- Switzerland : please do not air your dirty laundry -- Celebration, Florida : communities of three -- Italy : strength vs. virtue -- Sarajevo Airport : prisoners of war -- Bosnia : the woman who sells men -- Winter : the American game and her far-flung offspring -- Peoria, Illinois : crossover dreamers -- Eastern Kansas : driving Mister John -- El Paso : the bear in winter -- Whiteriver, Arizona : shoots from the sky -- Boone, North Carolinia : Mayberry friends -- Ireland : to build a gym -- Israel : the long arm of the law of return -- The Philippines : madness and mimicry -- China : Qiao Dan, celestial citizen -- Spring : the game within -- Philadelphia : Quaker meeting house -- Brazil : women of the laughing blood -- Des Moines : unguarded moments -- Japan : a journey of a thousand miles, begun with a single shot -- Bhutan : gross national hoopiness -- Summer : fast break to the future -- Washington, D.C. : going to the next level -- France : the "I Love This Game" theory of conflict prevention -- Angola : Lasme's plane will be arriving shortly -- Kansas City : to rest, rather than to mischief -- Princeton, New Jersey : through the back door |
| Summary |
"During the late 1990s, eminent basketball journalist Alexander Wolff traveled the globe to determine how a game invented by a Canadian clergyman became an international phenomenon. Big Game, Small World presents Wolff's dispatches from sixteen countries spread across five continents and multiple US states, in which he asks: What can the game tell us about the world? And what can the world tell us about the game? Whether traveling to Bhutan to challenge the King to a pickup game, exploring the women's game in Brazil, or covering the Afrobasket tournament in Luanda, Angola, during a civil war, Wolff shows how basketball has the power to define an individual, a culture, and even a country.This updated twentieth anniversary edition features a new preface in which Wolff outlines the contemporary rise of athlete-activists while discussing the increasing NBA dominance of marquee international players like Luka DoncÌ⁺ic̹ and Giannis Antetokounmpo. A loving celebration of basketball, Big Game, Small World is one of the most insightful books ever written about the game."-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Wolff, Alexander, 1957- -- Travel
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| SUBJECT |
Wolff, Alexander, 1957- fast |
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Basketball.
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basketball (court ball games)
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Basketball.
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Basketball
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Travel
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781478023456 |
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1478023457 |
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