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Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 600 colour photos. BIC Classification: WSTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 214 x 12. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Black Belt Communications United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780897501767
- ISBN
- 9780897501767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.62
€ 29.99
€ 25.62
Hardcover. How can the diffusion and development of women's cricket as a global sport be explained? Women's Cricket and Global Processes considers the emergence and growth of women's cricket around the world and seeks to provide a sociological explanation for how and why the women's game has developed the way it has. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBS; WSJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323514
- ISBN
- 9781137323514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.78
€ 63.78
Hardcover. Analysing the politics of the 2012 London Olympics, Stephen Wagg examines the framing of London's bid to host the Games, arguments about the Games' likely impact and the establishment of 'Fortress London' to protect the Games. The book asks who won, and who lost out, in this important event as well as exploring its media coverage and legacy. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JMG; JHBS; JPFC; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326331
- ISBN
- 9781137326331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Hardcover. 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, Matthew; Treadwell, James. Num Pages: 328 pages, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBS; JKV; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347961
- ISBN
- 9781137347961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.28
€ 123.28
Hardcover. The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as gender, identity, nationalism, history, cyber-fandom, the media and fan radicalization. Editor(s): Onwumechili, Chuka; Akindes, Gerard. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFD; JHBS; WSBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355805
- ISBN
- 9781137355805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Hardcover. Since its creation the British Olympic Association (BOA) has been one of the most important institutions in sports governance. In spite of its prominence there has hitherto been no single-volume history of the Association. This scholarly yet accessible study fills that gap, assessing the origins, evolution, strengths and shortcomings of the BOA. Num Pages: 150 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJ; HBTB; WSBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363411
- ISBN
- 9781137363411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Hardcover. This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil). Editor(s): Grix, Jonathan. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; KNSP; WSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371171
- ISBN
- 9781137371171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. 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: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KNSP; WSBM; WSJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384553
- ISBN
- 9781137384553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Hardcover. Ryan examines outdoor recreation through the lens of ecological theory, providing a unique, alternative framework to the dilemmas of user impacts on nature, and the paradoxes inherent within this. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; RNK; RNT; WSZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385079
- ISBN
- 9781137385079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBS; KNSP; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137392220
- ISBN
- 9781137392220
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.18
€ 65.18
Hardback. 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: JFCA; JFFP; JHBS; WSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394927
- ISBN
- 9781137394927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.95
€ 64.95
Hardcover. Most sociological work on football fandom has focused on the experience of men, and it usually talks about alcohol, fighting and general hooliganism. This book shows that there are some unique facets of female experience and fascinating negotiations of identity within the male-dominated world of men's professional football. Num Pages: 146 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ1; JHBS; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137398192
- ISBN
- 9781137398192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57
Hardcover. This book examines Russia's 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics. Lenskyj argues that Putin's Russia and the International Olympic Committee wield power in similar ways, as evident in undemocratic governance, fraudulent voting processes, hypocrisy and absence of accountability. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBS; KNSP; LNJS; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399755
- ISBN
- 9781137399755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Hardcover. Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores questions of commerciality and sporting identity, tackling the sport's controversial handling of the shift into 'the commercial age'. It is essential reading on combining sporting heritage and commercial progress. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; KNSP; WSB; WSPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405432
- ISBN
- 9781137405432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardback. Editor(s): Darcy, Simon; Frawley, Stephen; Adair, Daryl. Num Pages: 302 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, 9 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: KNSP; WSBB; WSBM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137435200
- ISBN
- 9781137435200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.62
€ 134.62
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 304 pages, 46 black & white tables, 74 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; KNSP; WSKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446367
- ISBN
- 9781137446367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.58
€ 64.58
Hardback. Num Pages: 164 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; JFFJ; JFSJ; JNB; WSBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485083
- ISBN
- 9781137485083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
Hardback. Commemoration of war is done through sport on Anzac Day to remember Australia's war dead. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of this sporting tradition at Gallipoli in 1915, and how it has evolved from late Victorian and Edwardian ideas of masculinity extolling prowess on the sports field as fostering prowess on the battlefield. Series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics. Num Pages: 141 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBLX; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 141
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487599
- ISBN
- 9781137487599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Hardcover. This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 229 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1H; HBTQ; JFSJ; KCZ; WSXH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137494429
- ISBN
- 9781137494429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.03
€ 123.03
Hardcover. Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 focuses upon the presentation and descriptions of identity that are presented through the depictions of the Olympics in the national press. This book breaks Britain down into its four nations and presents the debates that were present within their national press. Series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; WSBB; WSBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137498618
- ISBN
- 9781137498618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.47
€ 123.47