Sociology: sport & leisure books

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Legendary Lionesses: The England Women’s Football Team, 1972–2022

Legendary Lionesses: The England Women’s Football Team,...

Author: Jean Williams
ISBN: 9783031367595
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This is the first academic history of the FA England women’s national football team. Based on unprecedented access...  Read More >>

A Plague on All Our Sports: When Covid and Sport Collided

A Plague on All Our Sports: When Covid and Sport Collided...

Author: Bill Ribbans ,  Mark Saggers
ISBN: 9781801506687
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A Plague on All Our Sports is the story of what happened when Covid-19 and sport collided. What was the psychological...  Read More >>

Women’s Club Football in Brazil and Colombia: A Critical Analysis of Players, Media and Institutions

Women’s Club Football in Brazil and Colombia: A Critical...

Author: Mark Biram
ISBN: 9781802073621
Format: Hardback
$245.81

The first women's football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary Analyses of Professional Basketball: Investigating the Hardwood

Interdisciplinary Analyses of Professional Basketball:...

Author: Till Neuhaus ,  Niklas Thomas
ISBN: 9783031416552
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This edited collection conceptualizes professional basketball not just as a sport but as an historically, culturally,...  Read More >>

Project-Based Leisure: Toward Personal Well-Being and Community Involvement

Project-Based Leisure: Toward Personal Well-Being and...

Author: Robert A. Stebbins
ISBN: 9783031470516
Format: Paperback
$90.54

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Breaking Boundaries: A Student's Guide to International Marketing Strategy

Breaking Boundaries: A Student's Guide to International...

Author: Lincoln
ISBN: 9788119669844
Format: Paperback
$62.12

The Importance of International Marketing StrategyIn today's globalized world, businesses are increasingly expanding...  Read More >>

Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game

Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities...

Author: Jeffrey W. Kassing (Arizona State University, USA) ,  Sangmi Lee (Arizona State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032366043
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This is the first book to examine football (soccer) through the lens of diaspora studies. Presenting case studies...  Read More >>

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Author: Lauren Fleshman
ISBN: 9780593296806
Format: Paperback
$47.52

* A New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award * A Financial Times Best...  Read More >>

Far Better Self-Discy Through

Far Better Self-Discy Through

Author: Miranda Bush
ISBN: 9781637553312
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Why race if you know you will not win? To keep learning more about yourself. Racing is truly a metaphor for life--you...  Read More >>

Women’s Football in Latin America: Social Challenges and Historical Perspectives Vol 1. Brazil

Women’s Football in Latin America: Social Challenges...

Author: Jorge Knijnik ,  Ana Costa
ISBN: 9783031079788
Format: Paperback
$343.17

The chapters in the Women’s Football in Latin America two volumes will look at the social and historical means of...  Read More >>

In the Big Inning: Where Faith Meets Sports: A Christian Sportswriter's Perspective

In the Big Inning: Where Faith Meets Sports: A Christian...

Author: John Strege
ISBN: 9781959099536
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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Modern Sport Ethics: A Reference Handbook

Modern Sport Ethics: A Reference Handbook

Author: Angela Lumpkin (University of Kansas, USA)
ISBN: 9798765115114
Format: Paperback
$44.99

"""First published in the United States of America by ABC-CLIO 2017""--Title page verso"  Read More >>

Sports and Society in the Middle East: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 2

Sports and Society in the Middle East: Cairo Papers...

Author: Nicholas S. Hopkins ,  Sandrine Gamblin
ISBN: 9781649032324
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A set of studies looking at the history, politics, and sociology of sports in the Arab world The sociology of sports...  Read More >>

Cricket in the 21st Century

Cricket in the 21st Century

Author: Souvik Naha (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Dominic Malcolm (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032662107
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions...  Read More >>

Fans Have More Friends

Fans Have More Friends

Author: Ben Valenta ,  David Sikorjak
ISBN: 9798874640446
Format: Audio
$124.05

In Fans Have More Friends, sports fans, dads, and data analysts David Sikorjak and Ben Valenta argue that fandom...  Read More >>

When It Mattered Most: The Forgotten Story of America's First Stanley Cup Champions, and the War to End All Wars

When It Mattered Most: The Forgotten Story of America's...

Author: Kevin Ticen
ISBN: 9798987407622
Format: Hardback
$99.69

NEW UPDATED EDITION FOR FANS OF HOCKEY AND SPORT EVERYWHERE This commemorative 2nd Edition is one of the most...  Read More >>

Gambling and Sports in a Global Age

Gambling and Sports in a Global Age

Author: Darragh McGee (University of Bath, UK) ,  Christopher Bunn (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781801173056
Format: Hardback
$177.99

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Establishing a scholarly platform to inform interventions in research...  Read More >>

Corruption and Scandal in American Sports: Causes and Consequences

Corruption and Scandal in American Sports: Causes and...

Author: Jimmy Sanderson (Texas Tech University, USA)
ISBN: 9781440878374
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Scandals about cheating and corruption have dogged amateur and professional sports in the United States since the...  Read More >>

Hate Crime in Football

Hate Crime in Football

Author: Imran Awan (Birmingham City University) ,  Irene Zempi (Nottingham Trent University)
ISBN: 9781529227185
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This is the first edited collection on the lived experiences of footballers and the wider football community as...  Read More >>

Lost & Found: Reflections on Travel, Career, Love and Family

Lost & Found: Reflections on Travel, Career, Love and...

Author: Dustin Grinnell
ISBN: 9781803741840
Format: Paperback
$49.16

Using the same adventurous spirit that took him all over the world, a writer looks inward to embark on a journey...  Read More >>

LGBT Football Fans: Authenticity, Belonging and Visibility

LGBT Football Fans: Authenticity, Belonging and Visibility...

Author: Rory Magrath (Southampton Solent University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032390765
Format: Hardback
$284.00

While recent years have seen the emergence of a significant body of research on LGBT inclusion in sport, little...  Read More >>

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