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  • Doping in Cycling

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Bertrand Fincoeur, John Gleaves, Fabien Ohl ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    Doping in Cycling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives provides an up-to-date overview of the knowledge about doping and anti-doping in the sport that has dominated doping headlines for at least two decades. It critically addresses overarching questions related to doping and anti-doping, and topical issues being raised in the agenda of policy-makers at the global level.The book features cross ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe

    Edited by Margaret Groeneveld, Barrie Houlihan, Fabien Ohl ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Although there is significant interest in the social role of sport in fostering civil society from both policymakers and academics, there is a lack of evidence of the specific role of sport federations in this system. This book critically presents the mechanisms and structures in a selection of sport federations within a variety of European countries that illuminate the varied relationships ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Masters

    Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia

    by Curt Sampson ...
    The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. It is the toughest ticket in sports, with black-market tickets selling for $10,000 and more. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestselling Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum façade of this famous ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hand-Me-Down Dream (Essay)

    Father, Son, and the Burden of Basketball

    by George Dohrmann ...
    In this eBook exclusive essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist George Dohrmann follows a father and son separated by prison bars—but bonded by their pursuit of basketball glory.The dream of playing big-time basketball never came true for Bruce Nelson, so he passed it on to his son Roberto. His every waking moment as a father was devoted to securing Roberto a Division I scholarship. ... Read more

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  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves

    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    by William C. Rhoden ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

    Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship available on contemporary bodybuilding. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Unwinding Madness

    What Went Wrong with College Sports and How to Fix It

    by Andrew Zimbalist, Donna A. Lopiano, Gerald S. Gurney ...
    A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sportsUnwinding Madness is the most comprehensive examination to date of how the NCAA has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics—and why it is incapable of achieving reform and must be replaced. The NCAA has placed commercial success above its responsibilities to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Blood and Guts to Glory--a History of Sports

    Sport Science Series

    by Gerald Gems ...
    Series series Sport Science Series
    Dr. Gerald Gems is one of the premier sports historians in the world. In this book, the first video text in sport history, we can see videos of how ancient and modern games have been played. But he goes beyond the sport, looking at the cultural background in which the sports have been played. We see ancient sports from China, India and the Americas and we follow the evolution of sports through the ... Read more

    $2.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Discourses of Olympism

    From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012

    by D. Chatziefstathiou, I. Henry ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The book also analyzes discourses of Olympism concerned with youth, governance, sport for development and international relations. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Sport, Theory and Social Problems

    A Critical Introduction

    by Eric Anderson, Adam White ...
    In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new edition of Sport, Theory and Social Problems, authors Eric Anderson and Adam White examine how the structure and culture of sport promotes inequality, injury, and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play in Anglo-American countries. By introducing students to a research-led perspective on sport, it highlights the operation of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Prevention and Treatment of Sports Injuries

    by Dr. Rajeev Kumar ...
    Every physical activity gives us something to learn, increases our fitness components (one or the other) makes one confident and refresher or recharges us to lead life happy. On other side participation in games and sports may lead to injury. The injury can be the minor one, serious, career ending or even some times life threatening. An athlete can face injuries at any time i.e. during main ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Body and Senses in Martial Culture

    by H.L.L Loh, Lionel Loh Han Loong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This ethnographic study of a mixed martial arts gym in Thailand describes the everyday practices and lived experiences of martial art practitioners. Through the lived realities and everyday experiences of these fighters, this book seeks to examine why foreigners invest their time and money to train in martial arts in Thailand; the linkages between the embodiment of martial arts and masculinity; ... Read more

    $40.49 USD