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  • Great Golf Tournaments Great Golf Tournaments
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    Great Golf Tournaments

    In Great Golf Tournaments - Volume 1, I share with you the experience of re-living classic golf tournaments that featured some of the top golfers in the game's history. Each chapter is written as a short story covering a tournament that was played...
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  • Watching the Olympics Watching the Olympics
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    Watching the Olympics

    With particular focus on the London Games in 2012, this book casts a critical eye over the bidding process, Olympic finance, promises of legacy and development, and the consequences of hosting the Games for the civil rights and liberties of those living...
    $126.00

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  • The Urban Geography of Boxing The Urban Geography of Boxing
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    The Urban Geography of Boxing

    This fascinating analysis of power relations embedded in sport, culture, and society combines ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and theoretical analysis to offer a timely interdisciplinary perspective to existing scholarship on boxing. It will be of...
    $385.00

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  • Physical Literacy Physical Literacy
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    Physical Literacy

    What is physical literacy? What are the benefits of being physically literate? The term 'physical literacy' describes the motivation, confidence, physical competence, understanding and knowledge that individuals develop in order to maintain physical...
    $145.00

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  • Ignorant Man's Son Ignorant Man's Son
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    Ignorant Man's Son

    Victor James Hill saw himself in his community's kids. As a child of the Projects, he'd witnessed deadly shootings, heroin addiction, and brutal violence by the age of thirteen. He bottled up his emotions, longing for a father figure to guide him. By...
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  • Policing Football Policing Football
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    Policing Football

    This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football matches. Megan O'Neill not only sheds light on a topic of intense media interest, football hooliganism, but also presents the police in...
    $220.00

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  • Olympic Exclusions Olympic Exclusions
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    Olympic Exclusions

    Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is known about the realities of marginalized young people living in host cities. Do they benefit from social...
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  • Athletes, Sexual Assault, and Trials by Media Athletes, Sexual Assault, and Trials by Media
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    Athletes, Sexual Assault, and Trials by Media

    This book details how popular conceptions of masculinity and femininity inform the way footballers' bodies, team bonding, women, sex and alcohol are portrayed in the media, and connects stories relating to the cases with sports reporting generally...
    $147.00

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    Routledge Handbook of Global Sport

    The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This...
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    Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice

    This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums, and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color. Offering a series of review articles and global case studies, it illustrates what happens when sport...
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    Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Organizations

    This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which people differ - including race, gender identity, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and social class - and the importance of these differences for sport organizations.Now in a...
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    Football, Family, Gender and Identity

    This book presents a cross-disciplinary examination of the lived experiences of girls and women football players using theoretical insights from sports studies, psychology, sociology and gender studies.It examines the concept of 'the football self' -...
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  • Routledge International Handbook of Outdoor Studies Routledge International Handbook of Outdoor Studies
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    Routledge International Handbook of Outdoor Studies

    The 'outdoors' is a physical and ideological space in which people engage with their environment, but it is also an important vehicle for learning and for leisure. The Routledge Handbook of Outdoor Studies is the first book to attempt to define and...
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  • Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play
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    Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play

    This groundbreaking text explores the various ways in which young people experience sport, physical activity and play as part of their everyday lives, and the interventions and outcomes that shape and define those experiences. It covers a range of...
    $410.00

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  • The Gay Games The Gay Games
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    The Gay Games

    This book explores the significance of the Gay Games in the context of broader currents of gay and lesbian history, and addresses a wide range of key contemporary themes within sports studies, including the cultural politics of sport, the politics...
    $121.00

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  • Sport for Development Sport for Development
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    Sport for Development

    Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development. In this comprehensive introduction to the area of 'sport-for-development', leading researcher Fred Coalter critically evaluates the strengths and weaknesses and successes and...
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  • Sport and Protest Sport and Protest
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    Sport and Protest

    Sporting mega-events habitually spawn protests from local groups discommoded by the building of new infrastructure, environmental lobbies contesting the long-term legacies of such events, and expressions of outrage at the expenditure of public funds on...
    $111.00

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  • Global Markets and Global Impact of Sports Global Markets and Global Impact of Sports
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    Global Markets and Global Impact of Sports

    This book is a concept we use to explain the invasive and pervasive role of sport in global society and in each country around the world. From the origins of modern sports to today, sports have become more and more commercial, global, and universally...
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  • Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age
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    Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age

    Digital worlds and cultures-social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps-dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer 'just' consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook,...
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  • Women's Football Women's Football
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    Women's Football

    Women's Football provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis of the key physiological, biomechanical and social-psychological issues that can be applied to achieve women's footballing development.
    $105.00

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  • Gender and Power in Strength Sports Gender and Power in Strength Sports
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    Gender and Power in Strength Sports

    This book explores strength sports as a site of political contestation and a platform for insurgent gender practices. It contributes to our understanding of key themes in the study of sport, such as feminism, power, the body and identity.Drawing together...
    $347.00

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  • Sport, Medicine, Ethics Sport, Medicine, Ethics
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    Sport, Medicine, Ethics

    The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics. This timely collection of articles explores the conceptual and practical issues that shape and define ethics in sports medicine. Examining central topics such as...
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  • Sport and Social Exclusion Sport and Social Exclusion
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    Sport and Social Exclusion

    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...
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  • Scoring Off the Field Scoring Off the Field
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    Scoring Off the Field

    This book examines how football, as a mass spectator sport, came to represent a novel, unique cultural identity of Bengali people in terms of nation, community, region/locality and club, contributing to the continuity of everyday socio-cultural life. It...
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  • Human Enhancement Drugs Human Enhancement Drugs
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    Human Enhancement Drugs

    Despite increasing interest in the use of human enhancement drugs (HEDs), our understanding of this phenomenon and the regulatory framework used to address it has lagged behind. Encompassing public health, epidemiology, neuroethics, sport science,...
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  • Sailing and Social Class Sailing and Social Class
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    Sailing and Social Class

    This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical framework based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that sailing is, still, an upper-middle-class activity that has much to...
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  • Social Control and Disorder in Football Social Control and Disorder in Football
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    Social Control and Disorder in Football

    This is the first book to focus on the interrelated issues of social control and disorder in football. It shows how the 'beautiful game' illuminates our understanding of the mechanisms and techniques of social control and regulation in contemporary...
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  • Women's Football, Culture, and Identity Women's Football, Culture, and Identity
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    Women's Football, Culture, and Identity

    This book examines the experiences of amateur players in women's football, challenging conventional discourses that centre male, masculine and heterosexual identities and offering a new narrative that re-positions women's voices.
    $373.00

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  • Strategic Sport Development Strategic Sport Development
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    Strategic Sport Development

    The field of sports development is becoming ever more professional, with the levels of expertise in planning and efficiency required of those working in private or national sports institutions higher than they have ever been. In response to this,...
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  • The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts
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    The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts

    Mixed martial arts (MMA)-unarmed fighting games permitting techniques derived from a variety of martial arts and combat sports- has exploded from the fringes of sport into a worldwide phenomenon, a sport as controversial as it is compelling. This is the...
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  • Before the Picture Fades Before the Picture Fades
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    Before the Picture Fades

    By creating many student-driven organizations and activities, the principal empowered the student body and faculty to embrace a dynamic spirit of the soul. Removing all obstacles, including the football team, basketball became the centerpiece for the...
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  • European Football and Collective Memory European Football and Collective Memory
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    European Football and Collective Memory

    Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective...
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  • Running across Europe Running across Europe
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    Running across Europe

    Analysing in-depth data from 11 European countries, this collection explores the rise of the European running market, the reasons and motives for running, and the most important players in the field. The volume sets out policy challenges and marketing...
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  • 21st Century Jocks 21st Century Jocks
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    21st Century Jocks

    Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that...
    $92.00

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  • Sport Migrants, Precarity and Identity Sport Migrants, Precarity and Identity
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    Sport Migrants, Precarity and Identity

    This book takes a close look at the experiences of migrant athletes, their precarious careers, and at what this can tell us about wider themes of globalisation, identity, race, gender, and the body.
    $373.00

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  • Football and Risk Football and Risk
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    Football and Risk

    This is the first book to look closely at the concept of 'risk' in elite and professional football from a social scientific perspective. Drawing on the wider sociological, criminological and management literature on risk, it shows how football helps us...
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  • Health and Elite Sport Health and Elite Sport
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    Health and Elite Sport

    Health and Elite Sport is the first book to critically examine the relationship between participation in high performance sport and health outcomes. Drawing on theory and empirical data from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, developmental...
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  • Philosophy and Nature Sports Philosophy and Nature Sports
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    Philosophy and Nature Sports

    Nature sports such as skiing, climbing, and surfing have had a significant influence on Western popular culture since the mid-twentieth century and participation in such sports continues to grow. Written in a clear and accessible style, this...
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  • Games Are Not the Same
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    Games Are Not the Same

    Australians are intensely proud of their sporting traditions, and have always had a passion for football in its various forms: Australian football, rugby league, rugby union and soccer. But how does a nation of only 21 million people sustain the...
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  • DEPORTE Y MISTIFICACIÓN DEPORTE Y MISTIFICACIÓN
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    DEPORTE Y MISTIFICACIÓN

    ¿Qué es en realidad lo que hoy llamamos “deporte”?A pesar de ser ubicuo, es un fenómeno poco comprendido y, siempre por encima de cualquier sospecha, logra gozar de una opinión pública favorable o, al menos,...
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  • Sport. Faith. Life. Sport. Faith. Life.
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    Sport. Faith. Life.

    Sport is something we do, an experience that is hard to describe because it captures our whole selves. Sport draws us in and brings us back, day after day, season after season. We love to play—and yes, to win. Sport can train us, educate us, change...
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