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  • Living with London's Olympics

    An Ethnography

    de I. Lindsay ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The quadrennial summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event. This mega-event attracts a live audience of millions, a television audience of billions, and generates incredible scrutiny before, during, and after each installment. This is due to the fact that underpinning the 17 days of spectacular sporting events is approximately a decade worth of ... Leer más

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  • The Dirtiest Race in History

    Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final

    Series series Wisden Sports Writing
    'A captivating and detailed account ... it reads like a thriller, which is exactly the right tone to adopt by author Richard Moore for a story dripping with skulduggery and intrigue ... compelling' The Sunday ExpressThe 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics ... Leer más

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  • Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF

    They Have Style, They Have Violence... The Intercity Firm Are All Your Worst Nightmares Come True

    de Cass Pennant ...
    The Inter City Firm…hard, terrifyingly vicious, brilliantly organised, tremendously feared and hihgly fashionable. They were the most notorious firm of the Seventies and Eighties football hooligans this country has ever seen. For the first time ever, all the aces of the West Ham firm reveal their memories and thoughts about the violence, the battles, the campaigns, the run-ins with the authorities ... Leer más

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  • Steel City Rivals - One City. Two Football Clubs, One Mutually Shared Hatred

    de Steve Cowens ...
    Football rivalry is a common factor anywhere in the world where the sport is played. But some take it far more seriously than others. In Sheffield, the traditional capital of Britain's steel manufacturing industry, there is no greater tribal divide than that between fans of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday. The two clubs' supporters berate each other with a venomous passion, their long ... Leer más

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  • The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement

    A Biocultural Perspective

    The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these activities have served throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture for any ... Leer más

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  • Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

    Edición de Adam Locks, Niall Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship available on contemporary bodybuilding. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to ... Leer más

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  • Rising Tide

    Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter

    The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime.During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and Joe Namath-two of the most iconic and controversial figures in American sports-changed the game of college football ... Leer más

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  • The Making of Les Bleus

    Sport in France, 1958-2010

    The Making of Les Bleus traces the Fifth Republic’s quest to create elite athletes in two global team sports, football and basketball, primarily at the youth level. While the objective of this mission was to improve performances at international competitions, such programs were quickly seized upon to help ease domestic issues and tensions.The onset of the Cold War forced countries of all sizes to ... Leer más

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  • The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
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  • Superfans

    Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom

    A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America’s most obsessive sports fans.There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what distinguishes an ordinary, everyday enthusiast from that special breed of supporter known as the superfan. In ... Leer más

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  • Study Skills for Sports Studies

    Starting university can be a daunting prospect, as students come to grips with new ways of working, learning and thinking. Studying sport at university poses particular challenges, with students often engaged in playing or coaching sport alongside their studies and having unconventional working patterns.Study Skills for Sport Studies is the only complete guide to degree-level study to be written ... Leer más

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  • Critical Race Theory: Black Athletic Sporting Experiences in the United States

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the role of race in athletic programs in the United States. Intercollegiate athletics remains a contested terrain where race and racism are critical issues often absent in the public discourse. Recently, the economic motives of intercollegiate athletic programs and academic indiscretions have unveiled behaviors that stand to tarnish the images of institutions of higher education ... Leer más

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