{"title":"Alan M Klein","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"little-big-men-book-alan-m-klein-9780791415603","title":"Little Big Men","description":"\u003cp\u003eLittle Big Men is a study of competitive bodybuilders on the West Coast that examines the subculture from the perspective of bodybuilders' everyday activities. It offers fascinating descriptions and insightful analogies of an important and understudied subculture that has risen to widespread popularity in today's mass culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Klein conducted his field study of bodybuilding in some of the world's best-known gyms. In studying the social and political relations of bodybuilding competitors, Klein explores not only gym dynamics but also the internal and external pressures bodybuilders face. Central to his examination is the critique of masculinity. Through his study of \"hustling\" among bodybuilders, Klein is able to construct a social-psychological male configuration that includes narcissism, homophobia, hypermasculinity, and fascism. Because they exist as exaggerations, these bodybuilder traits come to represent one end of the continuum of modern masculinity, what Klein terms comic-book masculinity. This study is a rare foray into the critique of contemporary American macho.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50138353271057,"sku":"CIN0791415600G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51317752856849,"sku":"GOR005932544","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52348595732753,"sku":"NLS9780791415603","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":54080447349009,"sku":"GOR013508248","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0791415600.jpg?v=1751448570"},{"product_id":"baseball-on-the-border-book-alan-m-klein-9780691011981","title":"Baseball on the Border","description":"From 1985 to 1994 the Tecolotes de lod Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional baseball to represent two countries - they had home parks in Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo in Mexico. This is the story of the demise of this surprising team.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50358960750865,"sku":"CIN0691011982G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0691011982.jpg?v=1751105502"},{"product_id":"growing-the-game-book-alan-m-klein-9780300110456","title":"Growing the Game","description":"Offers a study of baseball in the process of globalizing. Looking at the international activities of big market and small market baseball teams, as well as the Commissioner's Office, this book examines the ways in which Major League Baseball operates on a world stage that reaches from the Dominican Republic to South Africa to Japan.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50429152788753,"sku":"CIN0300110456G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300110456.jpg?v=1751133794"},{"product_id":"baseball-on-the-border-book-alan-m-klein-9780691007441","title":"Baseball on the Border","description":"Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball), the Tecos had home parks on both sides of the US-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. This book tells the story of the rise and demise of this team.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50762624336145,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50762627252497,"sku":"CIN0691007446VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0691007446.jpg?v=1786441388"},{"product_id":"sugarball-book-alan-m-klein-9780300052565","title":"Sugarball","description":"To the average Dominican, baseball is a major source of cultural pride...'When you're born, the hospital puts a pink ribbon in your crib if you're a girl, and a baseball glove if you're a boy.'--from the Introduction. In the Dominican Republic baseball is not only a game but a national obsession. Exported from the United States and still controlled by it, the game is also a crucial arena of intercultural relations. \u003ci\u003eSugarball\u003c\/i\u003e describes how Dominican baseball fosters national pride and competition with the United States while at the same time promoting acceptance of the North American presence in the country. Alan M. Klein traces the introduction and development of baseball in the Dominican Republic, provides lively sketches of fans, stadiums, and players, and discusses such issues as the origin of the Dominican baseball academies and the growing international competition for Dominican players. Throughout, he evokes the wild enthusiasm that Dominicans have for the game and shows how it mirrors the conflict they feel between allowing and resisting American hegemony in their country. Klein relates the efforts of major league teams to seek talent in the Dominican Republic and shape the game to suit their own purposes--efforts that resemble other exploitative enterprises in the third world. These activities evoke little resentment, because for many Dominican young men baseball is the only way out of a life of unemployment or of hard labor in cities or cane fields. At the same time, their prowess at baseball encourages the Dominicans to oppose further interference from the Americans: having produced more major league baseball players than any other country apart from the Untied States, they feel they can make certain claims for the game as their own.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415600857361,"sku":"CIN0300052561VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300052561.jpg?v=1786109782"},{"product_id":"growing-the-game-book-alan-m-klein-9780300136395","title":"Growing the Game","description":"Chronicles attempts to develop baseball outside the United States, the strategies that teams such as the Los Angeles Dodgers have devised to recruit international talent and the ways baseball has been growing in other countries. This work assesses the obstacles that can inhibit or promote baseball's progress toward globalisation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325929652497,"sku":"CIN0300136390G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53029523849489,"sku":"CIN0300136390VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300136390.jpg?v=1786109246"},{"product_id":"sugarball-book-alan-m-klein-9780300048735","title":"Sugarball","description":"A description of how Dominican baseball fosters national pride and competition with the United States while at the same time promoting acceptance of the North American presence in the country. It also traces the introduction and development of baseball in the Dominican Republic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51694890516753,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694891827473,"sku":"CIN0300048734G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300048734.jpg?v=1750738377"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-alan-m-klein.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}