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  • SPSS for Social Scientists

    by Robert Miller, Ciaran Acton, Deirdre Fullerton, John Maltby ...
    This clear, student-friendly text offers a step-by-step introduction to the use of SPSS - easily the most widely used data analysis computer package in the social sciences. Supported by four datasets taken from the well-known British Social Attitudes Survey on the topics crime, health, politics and poverty, it offers an eminently practical approach to its subject, while still setting its ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Sport and Contested Identities

    Contemporary Issues and Debates

    Edited by David Hassan, Ciaran Acton ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Identity is one of the most theorised and contested of all sociological concepts and sport is fertile ground for an examination of its complexities. This book offers a wide-ranging and up-to-date exploration of the sport-identity nexus, drawing examples from a variety of sporting contexts and geographical locations, and incorporating a diversity of perspectives including players, spectators, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Secret Race

    Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France

    by Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle ...
    “The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans . . . The book’s power is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity. . . . The Secret Race isn’t just a game changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. It’s the game ender.”—OutsideNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Judo

    An Introductory Guide for Beginners

    by Rodolfo Tello ...
    Displaying the most impressive throws, compelling armbars, dominant pins, and decisive chokes, judo is a particularly powerful sport and martial art that can bring opponents into submission in highly effective ways. With determination and perseverance, such tremendous power could be yours. Designed with safety considerations in mind, judo allows people of all ages to be involved in a long-term ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Frailty Myth

    Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

    by Colette Dowling ...
    Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger?These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety. It ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Why Football Matters

    My Education in the Game

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its menFootball teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic beauty and physical excellence. But football damages young bodies and minds, sometimes permanently. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Rising Tide

    Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter

    by Randy Roberts, Ed Krzemienski ...
    The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime.During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and Joe Namath-two of the most iconic and controversial figures in American sports-changed the game of college football ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Genealogy of Male Bodybuilding

    From classical to freaky

    by Dimitris Liokaftos ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Bodybuilding has become an increasingly dominant part of popular gym culture within the last century. Developing muscles is now seen as essential for both general health and high performance sport. At the more extreme end, the monstrous built body has become a pop icon that continues to provoke fascination. This original and engaging study explores the development of male bodybuilding culture from ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Managing and Developing Community Sport

    Edited by Rob Wilson, Chris Platts ...
    Can sport and physical activity (PA) be used to improve the communities we live in? How do community groups manage facilities that provide sport and PA? How can managers ensure the services they deliver meet the needs of their community? What role should community sport schemes play in society? Answer these questions and more in this, the first textbook to focus on the theory and practice of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Outdoor Studies

    Edited by Barbara Humberstone, Heather Prince, Karla A. Henderson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The ‘outdoors’ is a physical and ideological space in which people engage with their environment, but it is also an important vehicle for learning and for leisure. The Routledge Handbook of Outdoor Studies is the first book to attempt to define and survey the multi-disciplinary set of approaches that constitute the broad field of outdoor studies, including outdoor recreation, outdoor education, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The European Ritual

    Football in the New Europe

    by Anthony King ...
    Football constitutes a vivid public ritual in contemporary European culture through which emergent social solidarities and new economic networks have come into being. This fascinating and unique volume traces the transformation of European football from the 1950s to the present, focusing in particular on the dramatic changes that have occurred in the last decade and linking them to the wider ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Social History of Tennis in Britain

    by Robert Lake ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History.From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain’s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical account ... Read more

    $65.99 USD