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How football explains America
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Sal Paolantonio |
Here at last is the first book to fully explain how and why the game of football became America's most powerful and financially successful entertainment phenomenon--and how this country's pioneers of… |
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Sports and their fans
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Kevin G. Quinn |
"Exploring such topics as the role of sports in the creation of mass culture, cheating, the abuse of illegal drugs, the strange and fascinating role that numbers play in sporting events, and the futu… |
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What sport tells us about life
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E. T. Smith |
Ed Smith explains the impact of the free market on football, argues that the issue of cheating is not as clear-cut as it might seem, and addresses many other fascinating areas where sport appears as … |
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Africa United
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Steve Bloomfield,Steve Bloomfield |
Africa United is the story of modern-day Africa told through its soccer. Traveling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, Steve Bloomfield meets players and fans, politicians and rebel le… |
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Football, Violence and Social Identity
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Richard Guilianotti |
As the 1994 World Cup competition in the USA will again demonstrate soccer is one of the most popular participant and spectator sports around the world. The fortunes of teams can have great signific… |
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Golf and the American country club
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Richard J. Moss |
"In this entertaining cultural history, Richard J. Moss explores the circumstances that led to the firm establishment of the country club as an American social institution and its inextricable connec… |
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Inclusion and exclusion through youth sport
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Symeon Dagkas |
""We can reach far more people through sport than we can through political or educational programmes. In that way, sport is more powerful than politics. We have only just started to use its potential… |
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Rome 1960
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David Maraniss |
Author Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Olympics. Along with the unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those d… |
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The most expensive game in town
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Mark Hyman |
"Building on the eye-opening investigation into the damaging effects of the ultra-competitive culture of youth sports in his previous book Until It Hurts, Mark Hyman's new book takes a look at the bu… |
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The Olympic games and cultural policy
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Beatriz Garcia |
"This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the rec… |
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Sport and democracy in the ancient and modern worlds
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Paul Christesen |
"This book explores the relationship between sport and democratization using sociological and historical methodologies and case studies of ancient Greece and nineteenth-century Britain"-- |
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The Meaning of Sport
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Simon Barnes |
Why is sport so profoundly important to us? In a journey from the Olympic Games in Athens to the World Cup finals in Germany - via the Ashes, the Ryder Cup and Wimbledon - Simon Barnes ponders such m… |
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Sports governance, development and corporate responsibility
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Barbara Segaert |
"The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social inter… |
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Rugby union and globalization
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John Harris |
"In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This_book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the r… |
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Soccer vs. the State
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Gabriel Kuhn |
Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-… |
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Home and away
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Dave Bidini |
Recounts the 2008 Homeless World Cup, in which homeless persons from around the world compete in a soccer tournament, and relates the Canadian team players' disappointments, joys, and triumphs. |
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American sports
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Benjamin G. Rader |
ix, 374 p. : 24 cm |
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Football in Africa
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Richard Giulianotti |
xi, 301 p. ; 23 cm |
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Against football
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Steve Almond |
Argues that not only is American football hazardous to players' health, and especially to their brains, but also that American support of the sport encourages violence, prejudices, and other ethicall… |
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Fourth and long
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John U. Bacon |
For the millions of fans who celebrate the game-day heroics of the student athletes that give college football its heart and soul, bestselling author John U. Bacon's "Fourth and Long," a warts-and-al… |
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