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  • A Wider Social Role for Sport

    Who's Keeping the Score?

    by Fred Coalter ...
    Sport is perceived to have the potential to alleviate a variety of social problems and generally to ‘improve’ both individuals and the communities in which they live. Sport is promoted as a relatively cost effective antidote to a range of social problems – often those stemming from social exclusion - including poor health, high crime levels, drug abuse and persistent youth offending, educational ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Freedom and Constraint

    The Paradoxes of Leisure

    Edited by Fred Coalter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Leisure Studies
    First published in 1989. In the climate of long-term unemployment, early retirement, and technology that is seen to threaten jobs, 'leisure’ has been presented as the solution to a multitude of social problems. The essays in this collection represent the most important arguments on the problems, myths, and misunderstandings of leisure. Arguing from a range of positions, some sceptical, others more ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Court Justice

    The Inside Story of My Battle Against the NCAA

    by Ed O'Bannon, Michael McCann ...
    "Like Curt Flood and Oscar Robertson, who paved the way for free agency in sports, Ed O'Bannon decided there was a principle at stake… O'Bannon gave the movement to reform college sports…passion and purpose, animated by righteous indignation." —Jeremy Schaap, ESPN journalist and New York Times bestselling authorIn 2009, Ed O'Bannon, once a star for the 1995 NCAA Champion UCLA Bruins and a first ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arena of Masculinity

    Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Victor's Crown

    A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium

    by David Potter ...
    The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a dozen centuries--from Archaic Greece through to the late Roman and early Byzantine empires--David Potter's lively narrative shows how sport, to the ancients, was not just a dim reflection of religion and politics but a potent social force in its own right. The passion for sport among the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping

    Redeeming the Soul of Sport?

    by Verner Møller ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Møller argues that the fight against doping – promoted as an initiative to cleanse sport of cheats – is at heart nothing less than a battle to save sport from itself, located on the fault-line between the will ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

    States, media and markets 1950-2010

    Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young, Richard Holt ...
    Series series CRESC
    In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport and its cultural and economic impacts in the context of the supra-state formations and global markets ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Fanaticus

    Mischief and Madness in the Modern Sports Fan

    by Justine Gubar ...
    In 2011, the San Francisco 49ers hosted the Oakland Raiders in a preseason matchup that would become a seminal moment for fan violence. During the game, seventy fans were ejected from the stadium, one person was beaten unconscious in the men’s room, and two men were shot in the parking lot after the game. This is hardly an isolated incident. At any given game, fans get kicked out and arrested for ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Serious Leisure Perspective

    An Introduction

    by Sam Elkington, Robert Stebbins ...
    The "Serious Leisure Perspective" (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience. Bringing together the study of serious leisure, casual leisure and project-based leisure, it is an essential component of the Leisure Studies curriculum and an invaluable tool for exploring the significance of leisure in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Education, Travel and the 'Civilisation' of the Victorian Working Classes

    by Michele M. Strong ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprentices and clerks, who travelled abroad as participants in an educational reform movement spearheaded by middle-class liberals. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Suicide Squeeze

    Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse

    by William C. Kashatus ...
    Appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs—specifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs)—provide a tempting competitive advantage for amateur baseball players. But this shortcut can exact a fatal cost on talented athletes. In his urgent book Suicide Squeeze, William Kashatus chronicles the experiences of Taylor Hooton and Rob Garibaldi, two promising high school baseball players who abused APEDs in the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • European Football and Collective Memory

    Edited by W. Pyta, N. Havemann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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 Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD