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  • When Baseball Isn't White, Straight and Male
    Lisa Doris Alexander
    This book analyzes how sportswriters have discussed issues of race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual identity, age and class within professional baseball from 1998 to the present. Each chapter looks at the media representations of a specific controversy—the 1998 home-run chase, Alex Rodríguez’s historic contract signing, Barry Bonds’ home runs, Mike Piazza’s “I am not gay” press ...
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    39,37 €

  • An ethnography of English football fans
    Geoff Pearson
    Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years’ participant observation ...
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    157,52 €

  • Teatre popular i art compromés a València, capital cultural de la República
    Ricardo Bellveser Icardo
    Per tal de comprendre com va ser la vida quotidiana de València durant la Segona República és de gran utilitat conèixer els mecanismes interns que van regir el panorama de la cultura popular i, d'una manera singular, la vida teatral. Aquest volum reuneix treballs inèdits especialment vinculats amb la València capital cultural de la República, centrats en el debat sobre la funci...
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    18,00 €

  • Commodified and Criminalized
    Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena W...
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    47,35 €

  • Big-Time Sports in American Universities
    Charles T. Clotfelter / Charles TClotfelter
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    36,67 €

  • The Native American Mascot Controversy
    Sports mascots have been a tradition for decades. Along with the usual lions and tigers, many schools are represented by Native American images. Once considered a benign practice, numerous studies have proved just the opposite: that the use of Native American mascots in educational institutions has perpetuated a shameful history of racial insensitivity. The Native American Masc...
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    91,56 €

  • Learning Culture through Sports
    In today’s culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book’s sections e...
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    73,28 €

  • Theory of International Physical Education and Sports Studies for the Achievement of Peace
    Noriaki Osada
    Noriaki Osada, teacher and philosopher, wrote the Theory of International Physical Education and Sports Studies for the Achievement of Peace with 'three bold intentions' in mind: to awaken the physical education and sports scholars of the world to their social, nationalistic and global responsibilities; to promote the study of physical education and sports as a study of peace i...
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    20,13 €

  • Principles of Physical Education and Sports Studies, and Research in All Nations
    Noriaki Osada
    Noriaki Osada, teacher and philosopher, first published his revolutionary book Theory of International Physical Education and Sports Studies for the Achievement of Peace. With the offering before you, Principles of Physical Education and Sports Studies, and Research in All Nations, Mr. Osada continues his quest, elaborating on the theory of enlisting sports in the service of m...
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    25,97 €

  • Sports
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan
    Why do billions of people around the world love sports? The popular media is increasingly dedicated to the heated rivalries of sports teams, academic institutions are held in its thrall, sports metaphors are commonplace in our language, and most individuals participate in athletics or follow a team sport in some variation. This entertaining and informative book attempts to find...
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    63,99 €

  • God Save the Fan
    Will Leitch
    Arch and unrepentant, Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin.com, is the mouthpiece for all the frustrated fans who just want their games back from big money, bloated egos, and blathering sportscasters. Always a fan first and a sportswriter second, Leitch considers the perfection of fantasy leagues and the meaninglessness of the steroids debate as he exposes Olympic fetishes,...
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    12,49 €

  • Four Years of Rants and Raves
    Ryan K Spear
    For many sports fans, sporting events set milestones in a person’s life. Ryan Spear used these as a basis for his work as a radio broadcaster while stationed in the Air Force at Lajes Field in the Azores, located on a Portuguese-owned island in the middle of the Atlantic. In Four Years of Rants and Raves, Spear compiles four years of monologues delivered over Armed Forces Radio...
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    19,88 €

  • Four Years of Rants and Raves
    Ryan K Spear
    For many sports fans, sporting events set milestones in a person’s life. Ryan Spear used these as a basis for his work as a radio broadcaster while stationed in the Air Force at Lajes Field in the Azores, located on a Portuguese-owned island in the middle of the Atlantic. In Four Years of Rants and Raves, Spear compiles four years of monologues delivered over Armed Forces Radio...
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    31,13 €

  • Fighting for Acceptance
    David T Mayeda
    In recent years, mixed martial arts, also known as 'ultimate fighting', has become thefastest-growing sport in American society, but it is also considered the mostcontroversial. Based on interviews conducted with forty mixed martial arts athletes,Fighting for Acceptance answers these questions:Who are the ultimate fighters?How did they become involved in the sport? What goes on...
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    34,43 €

  • Fighting for Acceptance
    David T. Mayeda
    In recent years, mixed martial arts, also known as 'ultimate fighting', has become thefastest-growing sport in American society, but it is also considered the mostcontroversial. Based on interviews conducted with forty mixed martial arts athletes,Fighting for Acceptance answers these questions:Who are the ultimate fighters?How did they become involved in the sport? What goes on...
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    23,18 €

  • Who Killed English Football?
    K. P. C. Exall / Kpc Exall
    'Who Killed English Football?' is the product of personal research born out of a mixture of curiosity and frustration. This book was prompted by the inexorable decline of English football performance at European and World Cup events.Analysing the causes of such deterioration, simple but worrying truths are unearthed and laid bare. Club vs Country rivalry, a surfeit of money, a ...
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    21,81 €

  • Heroes Afar
    John Durbin Husher
    Like every youngster, John Durbin Husher had many heroesgrowing up, and they continued to inspire him into adulthood.If he saw Muhammad Ali knock out an opponent, he was thrilled.When he learned about Winston Churchill and how he stood upto the Nazis, he knew what it meant to be a leader.And of course,when he heard John F. Kennedy speak, he felt proud to be anAmerican.Many of t...
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    37,82 €

  • Heroes Afar
    John Durbin Husher
    Like every youngster, John Durbin Husher had many heroesgrowing up, and they continued to inspire him into adulthood.If he saw Muhammad Ali knock out an opponent, he was thrilled.When he learned about Winston Churchill and how he stood upto the Nazis, he knew what it meant to be a leader.And of course,when he heard John F. Kennedy speak, he felt proud to be anAmerican.Many of t...
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    26,58 €

  • Sports Fan Violence in North America
    Jerry M Lewis / Jerry M. Lewis / Jerry MLewis
    This extensively researched book addresses sports fan violence sociologically, using both theoretical models and empirical data. Lewis draws from the theoretical approaches based on the collective behavior models of Neil J. Smelser and Clark McPhail in order to show how to study fan violence using the intensive case history method. This method is then applied to an in-depth ana...
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    46,29 €

  • Sports Fan Violence in North America
    Jerry M Lewis / Jerry M. Lewis / Jerry MLewis
    This extensively researched book addresses sports fan violence sociologically, using both theoretical models and empirical data. Lewis draws from the theoretical approaches based on the collective behavior models of Neil J. Smelser and Clark McPhail in order to show how to study fan violence using the intensive case history method. This method is then applied to an in-depth ana...
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    129,32 €

  • Fourth Down and Twenty Five Years to Go
    Donald Maurice Jackson
    In a book that is destined to generate heated debate and social analysis, notedsports attorney Donald Maurice Jackson attacks the high incidence ofcriminality and irresponsible conduct among African American athletes aswell as the root causes of their inappropriate behavior. Discrimination,selectively harsh treatment, outright racism, irresponsible conduct, breakdownin the Afri...
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    32,18 €

  • Fourth Down and Twenty Five Years to Go
    Donald Maurice Jackson
    In a book that is destined to generate heated debate and social analysis, notedsports attorney Donald Maurice Jackson attacks the high incidence ofcriminality and irresponsible conduct among African American athletes aswell as the root causes of their inappropriate behavior. Discrimination,selectively harsh treatment, outright racism, irresponsible conduct, breakdownin the Afri...
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    20,94 €

  • Nitoichido
    Gerald W. Goble
    A single influence is cast like a giant shadow over the entire art of Japanese Sword. This is the influence of the Samurai Myamoto Musashi, a legendary warrior that pursued a single philosophy. Musashi put down his philosophy as a guide for the student to study in The Book of Five Rings. Along with techniques and strategy, Musashi challenged his reader to use two swords, saying...
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    16,44 €

  • Through My Eyes
    Roderick Van Daniel
    Through My Eyes points out certain issues in sports from a minority perspective, addresses the chess analogy of the industry, and the need for diversity. Are minority-athletes just pawns in sports? They’re the ones in the battles, but are treated like underclass-citizens after completing their athletic careers for their institutions. Opportunity is the master key for unlocking...
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    19,87 €

  • Learning Culture through Sports
    Sandra Spickard Prettyman
    This book provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical venue by which to examine contemporary issues and controversies surrounding sport. In this text, authors take up the challenges faced by sport in our world, especially as it relates to the lives of young people, providing multiple perspectives on the issue...
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    68,05 €

  • This Side of the Mic
    Jeff Gorman
    Jeff Gorman grew up dreaming of a career as a sportscaster, but he never imagined that he would land in the pro wrestling ring. Join Jeff on a bizarre trip through the minor leagues of wrestling and follow his rise up the ladder. Learn about the inner workings of a business filled with bikers and bullies, heroes and hillbillies. It’s more real than you would think. Find out wha...
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    15,34 €

  • N.F.L. Black Quarterbacks Underrated
    Billy Joe Jordan
    The reason I wrote this book about black quarterbacks being underrated and some being denied the opportunity to play as quarterbacks in the NFL is because of how people still perceive the black quarterbacks. There are at least six starting black quarterbacks playing in the NFL. Racism against the black quarterbacks is alive and well. I feel that white and black people need to w...
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    11,60 €

  • The 2012 Bid
    Chetan Dave
    The race to secure the bid for the Summer Games of 2012 is among the most intense in history. Five of the world’s most prominent cities have tossed their hat into the ring for the right to host the most prestigious international event in sports. They have consciously chosen to saddle the immense responsibility that comes with a winning bid. It seems that, more than any impendi...
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    16,43 €

  • Sports and Courts
    Frederick J. Day
    In this follow-up to his popular book, Clubhouse Lawyer: Law in the World of Sports, author and attorney Frederick Day delivers an insightful and compelling look at the sports cases that make the headlines.Day brings the law into the arenas and onto the playing fields with his in-depth discussions about legal issues that directly affect those involved in the sporting world. The...
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    17,49 €

  • The Frailty Myth
    Colette Dowling
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    16,49 €


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