Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jay scherer”
Skip side bar filters

  • Power Play

    Professional Hockey and the Politics of Urban Development

    by Jay Scherer, David Mills, Linda Sloan McCulloch ...
    When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews, the authors present an absorbing account of the machinations that got the arena and the adjacent Ice District built, with a price tag of more ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship

    Signal Lost?

    Edited by Jay Scherer, David Rowe ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book examines the political debates over the access to live telecasts of sport in the digital broadcasting era. It outlines the broad theoretical debates, political positions and policy calculations over the provision of live, free-to-air telecasts of sport as a right of cultural citizenship. In so doing, the book provides a number of comparative case studies that explore these debates and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Bad Sports

    How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love

    by Dave Zirin ...
    A THOUGHT-PROVOKING LOOK AT THE BIG BUSINESS AND IMMORAL PRACTICES BEHIND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS BY ACCLAIMED SPORTSWRITER DAVE ZIRIN, HAILED AS THE “CONSCIENCE OF AMERICAN SPORTSWRITING” (THE WASHINGTON POST )The fastest-growing sector of today’s sports audience is the alienated fan. Complaints abound: from inflated ticket prices, $6 hot dogs, and $9 beers to owners endlessly demanding new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Banking On America

    How TD Bank Rose to the Top and Took on the U.S.A.

    by Howard Green ...
    Since its beginning, when its predecessor, the Bank of Toronto, was founded by a group of flour millers and grain dealers, TD Bank has evolved into one of the most proactive financial institutions on the planet. Today, it is a cross-border colossus. The bank’s expansion into the United States could yet prove to be one of its most successful ventures, with the familiar TD logo and its green ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • How to Kill a City

    Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

    by PE Moskowitz ...
    “An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the processThe term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • The NHL

    100 Years of On-Ice Action and Boardroom Battles

    by D'Arcy Jenish ...
    The National Hockey League -- born in a Montreal hotel room on November 26, 1917 -- has much to celebrate as it approaches its centenary. Millions of fans from Montreal to Miami and Edmonton to Anaheim attend NHL games leach year, millions more watch on TV and the league pays its best players multi-million annual salaries.Over the course of its first century, the NHL's fortunes have ebbed and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • My Turn At Bat

    by Stephanie Myles and Claude Brochu ...
    The decline and fall of the Montreal Expos. In 1969 the Montreal Expos played their first game. Thirty-two years later the team that once boasted baseball’s best farm system is nearly dead. In this book former Expos president Claude Brochu gets to the bottom of the Expos’ story. From his successful marketing career at Seagram’s Claude Brochu was thrust into the role of Expos president in 1986. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

    How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

    by Davarian L Baldwin ...
    Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

    by Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss ...
    “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Red Mittens & Red Ink: The Vancouver Olympics

    by Bob Mackin ...
    The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics ended with a bang, when the country that gave the game of hockey to the world was on top of the world. On home ice.Canadians celebrated coast-to-coast-to-coast the record 14 gold medals won by their Olympians in Vancouver and Whistler. The politicians and sponsors who staged the event were quick to declare it a grand success. But was it?The Games of the Great ... Read more

    $7.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus