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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hardcover. Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explore movement, bodies, sports reporting, memory, disability, technology and the role of the past and the future in sport. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Num Pages: 114 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBS; WSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137275356
ISBN
9781137275356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.62

Hardback. Num Pages: 112 pages, 4 colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: WSBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 192 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781101906996
ISBN
9781101906996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.99

Paperback. The is the story of lifetime adventure between man and boat, capturing some of the best elements of traditional sail. The narrative moves through a backcloth of change from the area of Liverpool Docks to Felixstowe and the forging of strong links with Holland in joint classic boat events. Illustrator(s): Kemsley, Walter; Wainwright, Jon. Num Pages: 336 pages, line drawings, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: BG; WSSN3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953818037
ISBN
9780953818037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.70

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