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Hardcover. This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JFSL; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137291141
- ISBN
- 9781137291141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.38
€ 77.38
Hardback. Editor(s): Thorpe, Holly; Olive, Rebecca. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 387 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JHBS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457967
- ISBN
- 9781137457967
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.77
€ 128.77
Rethinking Sport and Exercise Psychology Research: Past, Present and F...
Hassmén, Peter, Keegan, Richard, Piggott, Da...
Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; JMB; JMS; WSDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483379
- ISBN
- 9781137483379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.19
€ 128.19
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bryant, Chad; Burns, Arthur; Readman, Paul. Num Pages: 347 pages, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBLL; HBTB; WSZC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484970
- ISBN
- 9781137484970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.51
€ 117.51
Hardcover. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBS; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137594815
- ISBN
- 9781137594815
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. This book provides the first dedicated introduction to the cultural writings and analyses of the radical West Indian thinker C.L.R. James. It lays out James' account of the way in which games, books, music and film become a part of the politics and history of popular struggles. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHBA; JHBS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349305773
- ISBN
- 9781349305773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
Paperback. Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this bookuncovers why East Germany was for two decades runningone of themost successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics, exploring how the central elite sports system was beset by internal tensions and disputes." Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JHB; JHBS; JPA; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349309801
- ISBN
- 9781349309801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.13
€ 138.13
Paperback. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHBS; JPQB; RN; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349310180
- ISBN
- 9781349310180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Paperback. In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. Thisbook offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union." Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHBS; VFX; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349310722
- ISBN
- 9781349310722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBS; JPQB; JPS; JPSD; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349316793
- ISBN
- 9781349316793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 139.14
€ 139.14
Paperback. The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which they came about. Editor(s): Wagg, Stephen. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; JFD; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349316939
- ISBN
- 9781349316939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Paperback. This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them. Editor(s): Hayes, G.; Karamichas, John. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBS; JPQB; RN; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349318810
- ISBN
- 9781349318810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Paperback. This book tackles issues of globalization in the English Premier League and unpicks what this means to fan groups around the world, drawing upon arange of sociological theories to tell the story of the local and global repertoires of action emanating from the popular protests at Liverpool and Manchester United football clubs." Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHBS; KNS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349324422
- ISBN
- 9781349324422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Paperback. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games, examining gender and sport, the inequalities between nations and people and at what the Games offer and how they are changing, in relation to spectacles, spectatorship and culture, including the links between art and sport. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349328789
- ISBN
- 9781349328789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JHBS; JPQB; JPS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349331048
- ISBN
- 9781349331048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 149.83
€ 149.83
Paperback. This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the sporting world including football, cricket, horse racing and boxing. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; JKV; LNJS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335428
- ISBN
- 9781349335428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.65
€ 65.65
Paperback. This book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relation to cultural, political and economic changes in the Arab World, including nation-state building, the formation of national identity and international relations in post-colonial context. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHBS; JPA; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338849
- ISBN
- 9781349338849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.70
€ 65.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSL; JP; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349424603
- ISBN
- 9781349424603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. By participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of learning. The authors consider how physical, psychological and cultural knowledge about health and the body is incorporated into people's identity in a local and global gym and fitness context. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JHBS; PDZ; WSDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467044
- ISBN
- 9781349467044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.74
€ 65.74
Paperback. Focusing on a number of contemporary research themes and placing them within the context of palpable changes that have occurred within football in recent years, this timely collection brings together essays about football, crime and fan behaviour from leading experts in the fields of criminology, law, sociology, psychology and cultural studies. Editor(s): Hopkins, M.; Treadwell, James. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JKV; JMS; LNF; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467587
- ISBN
- 9781349467587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.49
€ 127.49
Paperback. The economics of the NCAA Division I men's basketball league are peculiar because it fails to hire the best college-aged players and does little to enhance competitive balance within the league. The league's policy decisions and its ability to remain economically viable, despite its short-sighted governance decisions, are discussed. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCC; KCD; KCK; KCZ; KN; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480944
- ISBN
- 9781349480944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international scholars, this book offers a diverse range of exciting case studies, including sports competitions, music festivals, exhibitions, fashion shows and royal celebrations. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHBS; JMS; PDZ; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349484058
- ISBN
- 9781349484058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. 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 possibilities and addresses issues of participation, cost and health. Editor(s): Scheerder, Jereon; Breedveld, Koen; Danchev, Alex. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; JPQB; KJ; KNS; WSDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349496013
- ISBN
- 9781349496013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Pyta, Wolfram; Havemann, Nils. Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFD; JHB; JHBS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349496952
- ISBN
- 9781349496952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82