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  • Gender Politics in US College Athletic Departments

    The Case of the University of Minnesota Merger

    by Sally Shaw, Vicki D. Schull, Lisa A. Kihl ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the gendered politics in the context of a merger of the women’s and men’s athletic departments at the University of Minnesota over a ten year plus span. Examining the athletic department merger helps us understand women's continual under-representation in University athletics despite Title IX legislation passing 40 years ago. Using interview with organizational stakeholders and ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • Game of Shadows

    Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports

    by Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams ...
    In the summer of 1998, two of baseball’s leading sluggers, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, captivated the nation in a race to break Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record. Sosa hit 66 home runs, while McGwire finished with 70. Three years later, San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds surpassed McGwire by hitting 73, in what was perhaps the greatest offensive display in baseball history. Over the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Boy Wonder

    Tales from the Sidelines of an Irish Childhood

    by Dave Hannigan ...
    A collage of personal memories passed over into family myth, Boy Wonder is a funny and moving account of a childhood spent, like countless others, on pitches, sidelines and stands, struggling to make sense of competition and the outsized role it plays in the lives of men and boys, fathers and sons. From tough lessons on the parish field and the politics of afterschool football to the euphoria of ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sport, Exercise and Social Theory

    An Introduction

    by John Kelly, Győző Molnár ...
    Why are sport and exercise important?What can the study of sport and exercise tell us about wider society?Who holds the power in creating contemporary sport and exercise discourses?It is impossible to properly understand the role that sport and exercise play in contemporary society without knowing a little social theory. It is social theory that provides the vocabulary for our study of society, ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Revolution in the Bleachers

    How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone CrazyOver Youth Sports

    by Regan McMahon ...
    A journalist and mother of two athletic kids exposes the physical and emotional dangers of our over-the-top youth sports culture—and offers practical solutions for positive change.A decade ago, Joan Ryan’s exposé, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, changed the way we look at elite sports, namely figure skating and gymnastics. Today, there is another crisis in youth sports. It may affect any child, from ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching

    Edited by Paul Potrac, Wade Gilbert, Jim Denison ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed into a coherent and substantial field of scholarly enquiry with a rich and sophisticated research ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • The Game's Not Over

    In Defense of Football

    by Gregg Easterbrook ...
    Is there anything more universally American than NFL football?Love of the NFL runs deep and broad. It is a primetime TV event on multiple national networks, subsidized by public funds and popular from Mount Rainier to Miami Beach. The 2015 Super Bowl, a thriller between the Patriots and Seahawks, was the most-watched program in the history of television, with more than a third of the country ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport

    Edited by Mike McNamee, William Morgan ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport is a landmark publication in sport studies. It goes further than any book has before in tracing the contours of the discipline of the philosophy of sport and in surveying the core themes, approaches and theories that form its disciplinary fabric. The book explores the ways in which an understanding of philosophy can inform our understanding of ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Fitness Culture

    Gyms and the Commercialisation of Discipline and Fun

    by Roberta Sassatelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and distinction dynamics within contemporary cultures of consumption. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • In Black and White

    Race and Sports in America

    by Kenneth L Shropshire ...
    An examination of the problems surrounding race and diversity in the front offices of the American sports industry.From the years of the Negro Leagues in baseball up to today, when college basketball programs entice and then fail to educate young Black men, sports in America have long served as a barometer of the country's racial climate. Just as Black employees are often barred from the upper ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sport and Social Exclusion

    Second edition

    by Tess Kay, Mike Collins, Michael Collins ...
    Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of any civilised social policy. In this meticulously revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of new evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how the effects of social exclusion are as evident in sport as they are in any area of society.The book ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles

    by Udo Merkel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international scholars, this book offers a diverse range of exciting case studies, including sports competitions, music festivals, exhibitions, fashion shows and royal celebrations. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD