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  • Sport, Education and Social Policy

    The state of the social sciences of sport

    Series series ICSSPE Perspectives
    This important study brings together world-leading researchers to reflect upon the state of the social scientific study of sport. Addressing three core themes in sport studies – equality, education and policy – the book looks back over the development of sport research in recent decades and offers new insights into future lines of enquiry.Presenting a unique collection of authoritative ... 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

    $13.99 USD

  • 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

    $7.99 USD

  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Fit for Consumption

    Sociology and the Business of Fitness

    This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture.Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes, or measures of body mass index and cardiovascular endurance. Fit for Consumption conceptualizes fitness as a field within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether reconcile - the ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • The Arena of Masculinity

    Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex

    de Brian Pronger ...
    Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive growth of gay sporting leagues, a puzzle.Pronger explores the paradoxical position of the gay athlete ... 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

    $48.99 USD

  • Event Sponsorship

    This introduction to Event Sponsorship provides students with an essential understanding of the important role of sponsorship in an event, how this can be gained and successfully managed to the benefit of both the sponsor and sponsee.The text starts with an investigation of the origins of sponsorship and then considers all important elements of Events sponsorship management. It considers what ... Leer más

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  • Unwinding Madness

    What Went Wrong with College Sports and How to Fix It

    A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sportsUnwinding Madness is the most comprehensive examination to date of how the NCAA has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics—and why it is incapable of achieving reform and must be replaced. The NCAA has placed commercial success above its responsibilities to ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

  • Discourses of Olympism

    From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The book also analyzes discourses of Olympism concerned with youth, governance, sport for development and international relations. ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Sport Policy in Canada

    Edición de Lucie Thibault, Jean Harvey ...
    Series series Open Access
    Sport Policy in Canada provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012. In light of this new policy, the authors, top scholars in the field, provide detailed accounts of the most salient sport policies and programs, while also discussing issues and challenges facing policy makers.In Canada and around the world, the last decades have known a sharp ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD