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  • Never Say Die

    The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football

    The inspirational story of the past, present and future of Australian women's football – its players, fans, and the game they love. Australian women's football rides high on the sporting landscape now, but this book shows that success has been one-hundred years in the making. It shares stories of triumph in the face of overwhelming odds, and tales of heartbreak and obstacles that seem ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Literary Sports Journalism

    HISTORIES, FUTURES, AND THE CONTESTS IN BETWEEN

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers new perspectives on the practices and production of contemporary literary sports journalism, considering the form within theoretical frameworks related to critical studies in sports media, sports journalism, creative writing, and literary studies. The book’s approach to innovative literary sports journalism and its scholarship offers a unique academic interrogation of contemporary ... Read more

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  • Intersections of Sport and Society in Creative Writing

    Edited by Lee McGowan, Kasey Symons ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection is positioned at the nexus of sports, society and creative writing. In its explorations of the intersections of sports writing, analysis of literary contributions and examinations of craft, it offers rare consideration of a rich diversity of form in narratives that occur in, and as creative practice. Included in the collection are dynamic academic investigations into ... Read more

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  • Beach Soccer Histories

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Beach Soccer Histories is the first text to consider the sport as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon, to define its traditions, and present leading research on the development and significance of football played on sand.Following a period of expansive, rapid growth, beach soccer is an internationally governed professional sport, which has come a long way from its origins in Rio de ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Women’s Football in Oceania

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book presents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women’s football in Oceania and is the first to examine the game’s historical development alongside social, political, and cultural issues, weaving origin stories with players’ day-to-day challenges.Alongside presentation of the contemporary state of play and its overarching narrative of women’s game in the region, the book ... Read more

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  • Football in Fiction

    A History

    by Lee McGowan ...
    Series series Critical Research in Football
    Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction’s uncertain – and until now – only partially explored terrain.Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, catalogues, ... Read more

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  • The Radical Right in Germany

    1870 to the Present

    by Lee Mcgowan ...
    Series series Themes In Modern German History
    The Radical Right has represented a major element in German politics and society throughout the history of the united country (i.e. since the 1870s), though the understandable concentration on the Third Reich (1933-45) has tended to distort the wider picture.This book explores the history of the radical right through the full span of Germany's life as a nation, thus putting the Third Reich in its ... Read more

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  • Preparing for Brexit

    Actors, Negotiations and Consequences

    by Lee McGowan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book studies the developments of the Brexit process between June 2016 and June 2017. The British electorate’s decision to leave the European Union in June 2016 marks a major point in post war British politics, for it overturns the core policy of all preceding British governments since the early 1960s. The referendum brought down one Prime Minister, David Cameron, and bequeathed to his ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of the European Union

    This unique collection of data includes concise definitions and explanations relating to all aspects of the European Union. It explains the terminology surrounding the EU and outlines the roles and significance of the institutions, member countries, foreign relations, programmes and policies, treaties and personalities. It contains over 1,000 clear and succinct definitions and explains acronyms ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of the European Union

    Providing concise definitions and explanations on all aspects of the European Union, this new edition also includes details of the ten states which became full members of the European Union in May 2004. The dictionary: * contains over 1,000 entries * explains the terminology surrounding the EU and outlines the roles and significance of the institutions, member countries, programmes and policies, ... Read more

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  • Globalizing Sport

    How Organizations, Corporations, Media, and Politics are Changing Sport

    Sport is enjoyed by millions of people across the world, and both watching and playing sport constitutes a major part of modern leisure time. But sport is also a huge worldwide industry. In Globalizing Sport, George Sage invites readers to explore a deeper understanding of the global dynamics of sport - not only competitions but of the big businesses of money, media coverage, athletic apparel and ... Read more

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