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  • Developing Government Policy Capability

    Policy Work, Project Management, and Knowledge Practices

    de Dr. Chivonne Algeo, Dr. James Connor, Henry Linger, Dr. Vanessa McDermott, Dr. Jill Owen ...
    The creation of public and government policy presents a "wicked" problem because it tends to be highly contested, involves many different stakeholders, and yields outcomes that change and evolve over time.Developing Government Policy Capability examines the role project management plays in supporting how policy work is conducted. Using Australia's controversial Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 as ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The War on Drugs in Sport

    Moral Panics and Organizational Legitimacy

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • From Lance to Landis

    Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France

    de David Walsh ...
    For eight years, the Tour de France, arguably the world’s most demanding athletic competition, was ruled by two men: Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis. On the surface, they were feature players in one of the great sporting stories of the age–American riders overcoming tremendous odds to dominate a sport that held little previous interest for their countrymen. But is this a true story, or is there a ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Muck City

    Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town

    de Bryan Mealer ...
    In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds.The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much of the nation's vegetables, often on the backs of roving, destitute migrants. Many of these were children who ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • Cheer!

    Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders

    de Kate Torgovnick ...
    Think cheerleading is just pom-poms, "gimme an 'R,'" and pleated skirts? Not anymore. Take an exhilarating trip through the rough-and-tumble world of competitive college cheerleading....College cheerleaders are extreme athletes who fly thirty feet in the air, build pyramids in which a single slip can send ten people crashing to the ground, and compete in National Championships that are won by ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Food

    de Alan Davidson ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    the best food reference work ever to appear in the English language ... read it and be dazzled' Bee Wilson, New Statesman First published in 1999, the ground-breaking Oxford Companion to Food was an immediate success and won prizes and accolades around the world. Its blend of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, was and remains unique. Interest in food, cooking, ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Mannings

    The Fall and Rise of a Football Family

    de Lars Anderson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports.What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero–turned–New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and Peyton’s younger ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • It Takes a Tribe

    Building the Tough Mudder Movement

    de Will Dean ...
    “Who on earth wants to jump into ice baths and run through fire and wallow in mud on a Sunday afternoon, just for the hell of it?” my professors asked. My gut feeling was—plenty of people.Will Dean, founder of extreme obstacle course Tough Mudder, shares the thrilling inside story of how a scrappy startup grew into a movement whose millions of members feel like co-owners. He shows how other ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Aborigines and the 'Sport of Kings'

    Aboriginal jockeys in Australian racing history

    de John Maynard ...
    Aboriginal jockeys have played a small but vital part in the Australian racing industry. As stockmen, their talent in the saddle and their intimate knowledge of their country, made them invaluable. Over time, some graduated from the stock route to the racecourse despite the quite rigid racial barriers in place. Maynard explores the history and evolution of Aboriginal involvement in racing. The ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Sport Management Cultures

    Edición de Vassil Girginov ...
    This is the first book to address the link between culture and sport management. The aim is to demonstrate that culture profoundly affects how we research, teach and practice sport management. The book engages with the concept of culture both as an abstract analytical category and specific beliefs and practices. It recognizes that a single best way of managing does not exist; that the ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Media Representations of Footballers' Wives

    A Wag's Life

    de J. Bullen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books explores how the generic and stereotypical 'Wag' has been created by newspaper and magazine coverage, auto/biographies and influential television programmes. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Cultures of Boxing

    Edición de David Scott ...
    Series Libro 4 - Sport, History and Culture
    Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport.This collected volume investigates what is at stake in boxing in the modern world by exploring different aspects of boxing culture and problematic concepts attached to the sport such as ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD