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  • Personal Training

    by Mark Ansell ...
    Series series Active Learning in Sport Series
    This is a key text for all those on sport science courses. It covers all the essential areas for a study of personal training including fitness testing, nutrition, psychology, training principles, health and fitness, training in different contexts and business issues. Students therefore gain all the required multi-disciplinary knowledge with an understanding of how to apply this in practice. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • What Doesn't Kill Us

    How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

    by Scott Carney ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover how harnessing our body’s evolutionary adaptations to environmental stressors can help us unlock its full capabilities—now with a new preface and afterword“Informative, fun, and with a healthy degree of danger, this is a book for the adventurer in all of us.”—Gabrielle Reece, co-founder of XPT (Extreme Performance Training)Our ancestors crossed deserts, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Twin Tracks

    The Autobiography

    by Roger Bannister ...
    It was a blustery late spring day in 1954 and a young Oxford medical student flung himself over the line in a mile race. There was an agonising pause, and then the timekeeper announced the record: three minutes, fifty-nine point four seconds. But no one heard anything after that first word - 'three'. One of the most iconic barriers of sport had been broken, and Roger Bannister had become the first ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

    by Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss ...
    “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Perfect Rivals

    by Jeff Carroll ...
    College football is a sport of rivalries—and no two teams were ever more perfectly matched than the Miami Hurricanes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In Perfect Rivals, award-winning sportswriter Jeff Carroll takes us inside the locker rooms and onto the gridiron, as two storied programs with very different cultures battle for national supremacy, school pride, and the soul of the game itself ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Best American Sports Writing 2017

    by Glenn Stout, Howard Bryant ...
    Series series Best American
    For a quarter century, the annual Best American Sports Writing has showcased the greatest sports journalism of the previous year. This year’s guest editor, acclaimed author Howard Bryant, continues the tradition, seeking out writing that best captures the unpredictable journey of sports. Triumphantly and painfully, these stories reflect on that journey, asking difficult questions about who we are, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The War on Drugs in Sport

    Moral Panics and Organizational Legitimacy

    by Vanessa McDermott ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book is an innovative and compelling work that develops a modified moral panic model illustrated by the drugs in sport debate. Drawing on Max Weber’s work on moral authority and legitimacy, McDermott argues that doping scandals create a crisis of legitimacy for sport governing bodies and other elite groups. This crisis leads to a moral panic, where the issue at stake for elite groups is ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

    $2.99 USD

  • Match-Fixing in Sport

    Comparative Studies from Australia, Japan, Korea and Beyond

    Edited by Stacey Steele, Hayden Opie ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport and Corruption
    Match-fixing represents a greater potential threat to the integrity of sport than doping. It has been linked to organised crime, illegal drugs and money-laundering. Law enforcement and sporting authorities are struggling to establish legal and regulatory responses to this emerging threat, particularly in light of cross-border internet gambling.This book examines match-fixing and the legal ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • 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

    $73.99 USD

  • Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society

    Edited by C. Richard King ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress this pattern of neglect, presenting a comprehensive perspective on the history and significance of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon

    An Introduction

    by Eric Bain-Selbo, D. Gregory Sapp ...
    Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion – including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology – and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of ... Read more

    $30.79 USD