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  • Ethnographies of the Videogame

    Gender, Narrative and Praxis

    by Helen Thornham ...
    Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues around new media, interaction, identity, performance, memory and mediation. Addressing questions of how we interpret, mediate and use media texts, particularly in the face of claims about the power of new media to continuously shift the parameters of lived experience, gaming is employed ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Gender and Digital Culture

    Between Irreconcilability and the Datalogical

    by Helen Thornham ...
    Gender and Digital Culture offers a unique contribution to the theoretical and methodological understandings of digital technology as inherently gendered and classed. The silences within, through and from the systems we experience every day, create inequalities that are deeply affective and constitute very real forms of algorithmic vulnerability. The book explores these lived and mundane ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Renewing Feminisms

    Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in Media Studies

    Edited by Helen Thornham, Elke Weissmann ...
    The feminist movement, we have been told, is history. This lively book reveals that on the contrary the feminist movement is alive and kicking, still as engaged with the concerns and ways of seeing as it was in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, still demanding its political place. Renewing Feminisms sets out the claim for a feminism that is renewed, re-invigorated and re-imagined. Renewing Feminisms offers ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Remake Television

    Reboot, Re-use, Recycle

    by William Proctor, James W. Martens, Matthew Paproth, Cristina Lucia Stasia, Karen Hellekson, Kimberley McMahon-Coleman, Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Lynnette Porter, Helen Thornham, Elke Weissmann, Jef Burnham, Peter Clandfield, Steven Gil, Ryan Lizardi, Heather Marcovitch, Paul Booth ...
    Remakes are pervasive in today’s popular culture, whether they take the form of reboots, “re-imaginings,” or overly familiar sequels. Television remakes have proven popular with producers and networks interested in building on the nostalgic capital of past successes (or giving a second chance to underused properties). Some TV remakes have been critical and commercial hits, and others haven’t made ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch

    by Jonathan Gottschall ...
    An English professor begins training in the sport of mixed martial arts and explores the science and history behind the violence of menWhen a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge, and an opportunity. Pushing forty, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the ... Read more

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  • The Club

    Living the Dream at the bottom of English Football

    by Simon Akam ...
    Series series Newsweek Insights
    English Football has over 92 fully professional clubs. Players in the Premier League teams now earn an average salary of £2.3 million per annum. Meanwhile, on the bottom rung, entire squads make less in a year than Wayne Rooney takes home in a month. An army of young players sacrifice their education and prospects outside of sport for the dream of football success, despite that fact that 85% will ... Read more

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  • GAAconomics

    The Secret Life of Money in the GAA

    by Michael Moynihan ...
    A unique sports book which will ensure you never again look at hurling and football the same way. Michael Moynihan talks frankly to current and recent players and gets the inside story on how money courses through the GAA. The greatest amateur sports association in the world? Michael Moynihan takes a look behind the scenes to reveal the truth about the GAA and looks for answers to the awkward ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knowing the Score

    What Sports Can Teach Us About Philosophy (And What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Sports)

    by David Papineau ...
    In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions of altruism, while sporting family dynasties reorient the nature v. nurture debate. ... Read more

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  • The Beauty of Birds

    From Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

    by Jeremy Mynott ...
    Series series Princeton Shorts
    Spring returns and with it the birds. But it also brings throngs of birders who emerge, binoculars in hand, to catch a glimpse of a rare or previously unseen species or to simply lay eyes on a particularly fine specimen of a familiar type. In a delightful meditation that unexpectedly ranges from the Volga Delta to Central Park and from Charles Dickens's Hard Times to a 1940s London burlesque show, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Being Extreme

    Thrills and Dangers in the World of High-Risk Sports

    by Bill Gutman ...
    As fast-paced as a freefall from a roaring airplane, as thrilling as a towering jump off a ski slope, Being Extreme is a fascinating examination of the adrenaline rush of extreme sports. Here is a world where living life on the edge is the only option, where you are only as good as your last jump . . . and where one false move can take you out of the game permanently.From mountain climbing and ... Read more

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  • Understanding Sport

    A socio-cultural analysis

    by John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel, Kath Woodward ...
    Series series CRESC
    In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and ... Read more

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  • Sport, Social Development and Peace

    Edited by Chiaki Okada, Kevin Young ...
    Series Book 8 - Research in the Sociology of Sport
    In recent years, sport has attracted considerable attention as an effective means of combating such local and global issues as war and conflict, poverty, ethnic reconciliation, and gender conflicts. Sport has been shown to be an effective tool or triggering device compared to the other development sectors, especially when donors can apply grassroots activities to the development contexts in ... Read more

    $203.99 CAD