pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: TYSON
NURTURE OF THE BEAST
By: Ellis Cashmore
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £19.19


We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10: 0745657346
ISBN 13: 9780745657349
Publisher: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
Pub. date: 26 April, 2013
Series: Celebrities
Pages: 288
Synopsis: Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two decades. And still we remain fascinated. Why? Ellis Cashmore's answer is disturbing: white society has created Tyson as vengeance for the loss of privilege produced by civil rights. Cashmore's eviscerating analysis of Tyson's life and the culture in which he grew up, rose to prominence and descended into disgrace provokes the reader into re-thinking the role of one of the most controversial and infamous figures of recent history. Told as an odyssey-style homeward journey to Tyson's multi-pathological origins in the racially-explosive ghettos of the 1960s, Tyson's story is part biography, part tragedy and part exposition. His associations with people like Al Sharpton, Don King and Tupac Shakur shaped his life; and events, such as the O J Simpson trial and the Rodney King riots, formed a turbulent background for the Tyson psychodrama. Over the course of an epic boxing career, Tyson was transformed from the most celebrated athlete on earth to a primal, malevolent hate-figure. Yet, even after being condemned as a brute, Tyson retained a power - a power to captivate. Cashmore reveals that the sources of that power lie as much in us as in Tyson himself.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Polity Press
Returns: Non-returnable
Some other items by this author:
... AND THERE WAS TELEV!S!ON (PB)
... AND THERE WAS TELEVISION (HB)
A DICTIONARY OF CULTURAL THEORISTS (PB)
AND THERE WAS TELEVISION
AND THERE WAS TELEVISION
AND THERE WAS TELEVISION
AND THERE WAS TELEVISION
AND THERE WAS TELEVISION
BECKHAM (HB)
BECKHAM (PB)
BECKHAM (PB)
BEYOND BLACK
BEYOND BLACK
BEYOND BLACK
CELEBRITY CULTURE
CELEBRITY CULTURE
CELEBRITY CULTURE (HB)
CELEBRITY CULTURE (HB)
CELEBRITY CULTURE (PB)
CONCEPTIONS OF THE HUMAN MIND
DESTRUCTION AND CREATION OF MICHAEL JACKSON (HB)
DICTIONARY OF RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS
DICTIONARY OF RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS
DICTIONARY OF RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS
DICTIONARY OF RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS
DICTIONARY OF RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS (HB)
DICTIONARY OF RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS (PB)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR (HB)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR (PB)
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES (HB)
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES (PB)
ETHNIC MINORITY POLICE OFFICERS (INTERIM REPORT) (PB)
ETHNIC MINORITY POLICE OFFICERS (PB)
FOOTBALL'S DARK SIDE: CORRUPTION, HOMOPHOBIA, VIOLENCE AND RACISM IN THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
FOOTBALL'S DARK SIDE: CORRUPTION, HOMOPHOBIA, VIOLENCE AND RACISM IN THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
FOOTBALL'S DARK SIDE: CORRUPTION, HOMOPHOBIA, VIOLENCE AND RACISM IN THE BEAUTIFUL GAME (HB)
FOOTBALL'S DARK SIDE: CORRUPTION, HOMOPHOBIA, VIOLENCE AND RACISM IN THE BEAUTIFUL GAME (PB)
INTRODUCTION TO RACE RELATIONS
INTRODUCTION TO RACE RELATIONS
INTRODUCTION TO RACE RELATIONS
INTRODUCTION TO RACE RELATIONS
INTRODUCTION TO RACE RELATIONS
INTRODUCTION TO RACE RELATIONS (HB)
INTRODUCTION TO RACE RELATIONS (PB)
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS (HB)
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS (HB)
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS (HB)
MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS (PB)
MARTIN SCORSESE'S AMERICA
MARTIN SCORSESE'S AMERICA
MARTIN SCORSESE'S AMERICA
MARTIN SCORSESE'S AMERICA (HB)
MARTIN SCORSESE'S AMERICA (PB)
MIKE TYSON (PB)
RACISM
RACISM
RACISM (HB)
RACISM (PB)
SCREEN SOCIETY (PB)
SOCIETYNOW BOOK SET (2016-2019)
SPORT AND CRIME
SPORT AND CRIME (HB)
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY (HB)
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY (PB)
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS (HB)
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS (PB)
SPORTS CULTURE
SPORTS CULTURE
SPORTS CULTURE
SPORTS CULTURE
SPORTS CULTURE
SPORTS CULTURE
SPORTS CULTURE (HB)
SPORTS CULTURE (PB)
SPORTS CULTURE (PB)
STUDYING FOOTBALL
STUDYING FOOTBALL
STUDYING FOOTBALL
STUDYING FOOTBALL (HB)
STUDYING FOOTBALL (PB)
THE BLACK CULTURE INDUSTRY
THE BLACK CULTURE INDUSTRY
THE BLACK CULTURE INDUSTRY
THE BLACK CULTURE INDUSTRY
THE BLACK CULTURE INDUSTRY (HB)
THE BLACK CULTURE INDUSTRY (PB)
TYSON
TYSON

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Confessions Of An Advertising Man (Paperback)
Southbank Publishing
Our Price : £10.94
more details
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Paperback)
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Our Price : £9.07
more details
Gay People, Sex, and the Media (Hardback)
Routledge
Our Price : £130.95
more details
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £7.29
more details
Better Conversations (Paperback)
SAGE Publications Inc
Our Price : £21.59
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 REFERENCE, INFORMATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY SUBJECTS
 communication studies
 media studies


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket