Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
How football explains America	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…	OL11952437W
Sports and their fans	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…	OL13740270W
Inclusion and exclusion through youth sport	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…	OL15901859W
Rome 1960	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…	OL16055603W
The most expensive game in town	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…	OL16168020W
The Olympic games and cultural policy	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…	OL16263169W
Rugby union and globalization	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…	OL16964508W
Home and away	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.	OL17692707W
American sports	Benjamin G. Rader	ix, 374 p. : 24 cm	OL1807633W
Against football	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…	OL19666987W
How we can save sports	Ken Reed	From disturbing new research about the long-term impact of sports concussions to publicly financed stadiums that drive profits to team owners but not communities, author Ken Reed argues that much of …	OL20001563W
Friday night lights	Buzz Bissinger	H. G. Bissinger's exquisitely written account brings into sharp focus the bitter struggle between sports and education in Odessa, Texas, as well as in high schools and colleges nationwide.	OL20012050W
The soccer tribe	Desmond Morris	"A lavishly illustrated revised edition of the '70s cult book, updated by the author and with a bold new design and contemporary images. Before Franklin Foer, Bill Bryson, and Simon Kuper wrote about…	OL20044169W
Sport and Ireland	Paul Rouse	xiv, 375 pages : 24 cm	OL21105430W
Fanatics	Adam Brown	While football has never been more popular, the rapidly-changing cultures of its supporters take an ever greater variety of forms, from the New Lad culture which produced Three Lions and Fantasy Foot…	OL2365197W
Arab soccer in a Jewish state	Tamir Sorek	Over the last two decades soccer has become a major institution within the popular culture of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. They have attained disproportionate success in this field. Given…	OL24813964W
Sportsex	Toby Miller	"Sportsex examines the landscape of sports writ global. And it is about the way sport allows men and women - but mostly men - to consider their looks, their vitality, and their relationship to their …	OL2690551W
Home Team	Michael N. Danielson	Most books that study professional sports concentrate on teams and leagues. In contrast, Home Team studies the connections between professional team sports in North America and the places where teams…	OL3296649W
Consuming sport	Garry Crawford	Consuming Sport is the first book to explicitly and comprehensively address how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers, th…	OL5724805W
Sport In American Culture	Joyce Duncan	Sport in American Culture is the first and only reference work to provide an in-depth and up-to-date exploration of sport and its impact on American culture. Essays from more than 200 scholars, profe…	OL8924870W