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This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and...

Women in many Westernized countries encounter a wider variety of career opportunities than afforded in previous decades, and the percentage...

Like the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with...

Why do billions of people around the world love sports? This informative book attempts to find out why-by examining sports...

This book looks closely at college sports and how they shape the athletic and personal landscape for girls and young...

Today, in a world quite different from the one that existed just thirty years ago, both girls and boys play...

Teaching the skills necessary to play sport depends partly on transmitting knowledge verbally, yet non-verbal or tacit knowledge also has...

Expanded and updated throughout, the fourth edition explores America's love of sport just as it reveals sport's darker side-the influence...

Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work...

Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but also the...

Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the...

In this provocative new book, Tony Blackshaw argues that Leisure Studies is in a quiet but deep state of crisis....

Civic pride and personal identity in local sports teams Editor: Nathan, Daniel A. Publisher: University of Illinois Press Illustration: N Language: ENG Titl......

The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book, Sportista, Andrei...

The sixth edition of Fair and Foul features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction, and...

This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms...

Football has traditionally been an institution hostile toward sexual minorities. Boys and men in the sport have deployed high levels...

The state of Israel is a home for a widely diverse population from many different ethnic, religious, cultural and social...

Sport has become an important avenue in how we interpret, remember, and maintain our heritage. Whether it is being applied...