SPORTS & RECREATION

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Decolonizing Sport

Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize. Spanning several lands — Turtle Island, the US, Australia, Aotearoa/New ...

Skating on Thin Ice

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.

Why is it that professional ...

A Whole New Game

Par (auteur) Neil Longley
Catégories: Hockey

Hockey used to be Canada’s game. What happened? A renowned sports expert details the sellout of a sport Canada once dominated to big-money U.S. corporatization and enumerates the effects, including ...

Sporting Justice

Par (auteur) Miriam Wright
Catégories: Baseball

Although many know about Jackie Robinson’s experiences breaking major league baseball’s colour barrier in 1947, few are familiar with the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, a Black Canadian team from 1930s ...

Business the NHL Way

Par (auteur) Norm O'Reilly & Rick Burton
Avant-propos de Gary Bettman
Postface de Hayley Wickenheiser
Catégories: Direction d’entreprise

Business the NHL Way draws on hockey-inspired stories to show how brands, institutions, and individuals associated with the NHL have consistently survived a variety of challenges and thrived as a result ...

Team Chemistry

Explores what is needed to foster a healthy culture—the common element in winning teams—and provides coaches and sports administrators, at all levels, with action plans for developing a positive environment that ...

Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap

Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey’s norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary ...

Canada's Holy Grail

Par (auteur) Jordan B. Goldstein
Catégories: Hockey

In 1892, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley donated the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup – later known as the Stanley Cup – to crown the first Canadian hockey champions.

Canada’s Holy Grail documents Lord ...

Edward Feuz Jr.

Par (auteur) D. L. Stephen
Catégories: Escalade et alpinisme

Finalist for The Jon Whyte Award – Mountain Literature (non-fiction) at the 2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition

 

An intimate look at the life and climbs of Swiss alpine guide Edward Feuz Jr., patriarch ...

Honouring High Places

Par (auteur) Helen Y. Rolfe & Junko Tabei
Traduit par Yumiko Hiraki & Rieko Holtved
Catégories: Escalade et alpinisme

A collection of stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei (1939–2016), the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.

New in paperback, Honouring High Places is a compelling ...