Sociology: sport & leisure books

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Sport and Neoliberalism: Politics, Consumption, and Culture

Sport and Neoliberalism: Politics, Consumption, and...
Author: David L. Andrews , Michael L Silk ISBN: 9781439905036 Format: Hardback	$241.56
How neoliberal politics appropriates sports for its own ends Read More >>

Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies

Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies
Author: Roger Bartlett (University of Otago, New Zealand) , Chris Gratton (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ISBN: 9786613902030 Format: Electronic book text	$532.07
<p>Now available in paperback, the Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies is the most authoritative and comprehensive... Read More >>

A Wilder West: Rodeo in Western Canada

A Wilder West: Rodeo in Western Canada
Author: Mary-Ellen Kelm ISBN: 9780774820301 Format: Paperback	$81.71
Challenging the well-worn images of rodeo as a white man's sport, A Wilder West shows how rodeo brought together... Read More >>

Immortality in Sports

Immortality in Sports
Author: Wib Leonard ISBN: 9781594519604 Format: Hardback	$336.00
A sociological account of sport using the idea of the 'postself' - how individuals regard themselves and want to... Read More >>

Planet Sport

Planet Sport
Author: Kath Woodward (The Open University, UK) ISBN: 9780415681117 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Planet Sport

Planet Sport
Author: Kath Woodward (The Open University, UK) ISBN: 9780415681124 Format: Paperback	$79.99
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Sport and Politics in Modern Britain: The Road to 2012

Sport and Politics in Modern Britain: The Road to 2012...
Author: Kevin Jefferys (University of Plymouth, Plymouth) ISBN: 9780230291874 Format: Paperback	$69.99
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Tales from the Angels Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Angels Stories Ever Told

Tales from the Angels Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest...
Author: Steve Bisheff ISBN: 9781613210819 Format: Hardback	$34.99
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Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague

Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague
Author: Marc Perelman , John Howe ISBN: 9781844678594 Format: Paperback	$19.99
Globalized sport as savage spectacle and ""opium of the people"". Read More >>

The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy

The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy
Author: Beatriz Garcia (University of Liverpool, UK) ISBN: 9780415995634 Format: Hardback	$315.00
This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games.... Read More >>

Planet Sport

Planet Sport
Author: Kath Woodward (The Open University, UK) ISBN: 9786613859785 Format: Electronic book text	$316.80
<p>Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but... Read More >>

The Power Within: How to Create a High Performance Mind

The Power Within: How to Create a High Performance Mind...
Author: John Newcombe , Michael Duff ISBN: 9781743340639 Format: Paperback	$22.99
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Host Cities and the Olympics: An Interactionist Approach

Host Cities and the Olympics: An Interactionist Approach...
Author: Harry Hiller (University of Calgary, Canada) ISBN: 9780415522410 Format: Hardback	$315.00
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this... Read More >>

Sex, Power and the Games

Sex, Power and the Games
Author: K. Woodward ISBN: 9780230283190 Format: Hardback	$263.97
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International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement

International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement
Author: Aaron Beacom ISBN: 9786613844422 Format: Electronic book text	$269.28
This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic movement, charting both its continuity... Read More >>

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the...
Author: Lawrence Culver (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Utah State University) ISBN: 9780199891924 Format: Paperback	$73.95
The Frontier of Leisure examines the centrality of leisure to the history of Southern California, and how the region's... Read More >>

Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility...
Author: Barbara Segaert , Marc Theeboom ISBN: 9780415522496 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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The Dodgers Encyclopedia

The Dodgers Encyclopedia
Author: William McNeil ISBN: 9781613210666 Format: Hardback	$65.87
A book on Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball. It traces the history of one of major league baseball's most... Read More >>

Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World: New Perspectives

Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World: New Perspectives...
Author: Zinon Papakonstantinou ISBN: 9780415641166 Format: Paperback	$118.00
From the early origins of the ancient Olympics to gladiatorial shows in late antiquity, the chapters, written by... Read More >>

Alcohol, Violence, Feasts and Fairs

Alcohol, Violence, Feasts and Fairs
Author: P. W. Randell ISBN: 9781780033433 Format: Paperback	$23.26
The Victorian middle classes took their leisure time very seriously and believed that it must be used towards self-improvement,... Read More >>

Sociology of North American Sport

Sociology of North American Sport
Author: Professor Emeritus George H Sage , D Stanley Eitzen (Colorado State University) ISBN: 9781612052045 Format: Paperback	$139.00
2019, 2016, 2013 by Oxford University Press --T.p. verso. Read More >>

Bike Tribes: A Field Guide to North American Cyclists

Bike Tribes: A Field Guide to North American Cyclists...
Author: Mike Magnuson , Danica Novgorodoff ISBN: 9781609617431 Format: Hardback	$29.99
A Preppy Handbook for the two-wheeled crowd, this hilarious and essential illustrated field guide to the various... Read More >>

The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City: Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York

The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the...
Author: Laam Hae (York University, Canada) ISBN: 9780415890359 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Host Cities and the Olympics

Host Cities and the Olympics
Author: Harry H H Hiller ISBN: 9786613714527 Format: Electronic book text	$427.68
<p>Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance,... Read More >>

The Gay Games: A History

The Gay Games: A History
Author: Caroline Symons (Victoria University, Australia) ISBN: 9780415688666 Format: Paperback	$96.99
This book explores the significance of the Gay Games in the context of broader currents of gay and lesbian history,... Read More >>

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