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    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

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  • The Power Within: How to Create a High Performance Mind

    Ever wondered what it really takes to succeed in life?Those who have achieved their own success in life know that following the path of luck and chance is full of dead ends, failed journeys and disappointments. Success is a result of application and effort. What enables successful people to achieve their desired goals and more where so many others have come up short is their strength of mind, ... Read more

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    Sports and Resistance in the United States

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  • Sports in America

    Originally published in 1976, James A. Michener’s explosive, spectacular Sports in America is a prescient examination of the crisis in American sports that is still unfolding to this day. Pro basketball players are banned for narcotics use, while a Major League pitcher is arrested for smuggling drugs across the Mexican border. The NFL’s “injury report” grows longer every Sunday. Corruption and ... Read more

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  • British Asians and Football

    Culture, Identity, Exclusion

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    In spite of a great passion in the game and significant involvement at amateur level, British Asians are under-represented in professional football. This book asks how and why this situation has developed, using extensive interviews with British Asian football players to offer an insider’s assessment of the difficulties and conflicting demands faced every day. In addition, the book also critically ... Read more

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    Series series Law and Current Events Masters
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    Indigenous Peoples and Sports in the Post-Colonial World

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    Series Book 7 - Research in the Sociology of Sport
    Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity. This volume compares and conceptualises the sociological significance of Indigenous sports in different international contexts. The contributions, all written by Indigenous scholars and those working ... Read more

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  • Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space

    Lasting Legacies?

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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