{"product_id":"to-the-extreme-alternative-sports-inside-and-out-9780791456668","title":"To the Extreme: Alternative Sports, Inside and Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert E. Rinehart | Synthia Sydnor\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInsider and outsider narratives on the essence of modern \"extreme\" sports.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg, look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity throughout the world. For each sport, an interpretation is presented through two essays: one written by a scholar active in some aspect of research for the given activity, and another by a practitioner\/athlete who writes \"from the inside out.\" The juxtaposed essays confront questions about the essence of sport such as, What is sport?; How does it originate?; and What is its use, value, and function? This book offers a fascinating look at how twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport forms emerge, proliferate, and take hold in a sport-crazy world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46897477779607,"sku":"9780791456668","price":3160.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780791456668.webp?v=1770362902","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/to-the-extreme-alternative-sports-inside-and-out-9780791456668","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}