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  • Community Sport and Social Inclusion

    Enhancing Strategies for Promoting Personal Development, Health and Social Cohesion

    Edited by Marc Theeboom, Hebe Schaillée, Rudi Roose, Sara Willems, Lieve Bradt, Emelien Lauwerier ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book examines sport as an inclusive and developmental environment, exploring the conditions by which community sport initiatives can promote personal development, health and social cohesion, particularly for at-risk youth.At the empirical core of the book is a multiple disciplinary study of community sport programmes in Flanders, Belgium, involving researchers from social sport sciences, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

    Edited by Barbara Segaert, Marc Theeboom, Christiane Timmerman, Bart Vanreusel ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social constructions of peace, integration and managing diversity are studied from the perspective of sport ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won

    by Tobias Moskowitz, L. Jon Wertheim ...
    In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow ... Read more

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  • Leading

    Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

    by Alex Ferguson, Michael Moritz ...
    **After an astonishing career, soccer coach Sir Alex Ferguson analyzes the pivotal leadership decisions of his time as a manager and, with his friend and collaborator Sir Michael Moritz, draws out lessons for success in both business and life."A case study in leadership." —Financial Times**From hiring practices to firing decisions, from dealing with transition to teamwork, from mastering the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Ashes Diary

    by Michael Clarke ...
    In his role as Australian captain, Michael Clarke has introduced a very different dynamic into the traditions of captaincy. Open, inclusive and articulate, Clarke is a refreshing change from the often gruff and monosyllabic leaders of the past. 2013 has produced his greatest challenge to date - leading an Australian team of uncertain quality against the might of a resurgent England. But ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • 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

  • Money and Soccer: A Soccernomics Guide

    Why Chievo Verona, Unterhaching, and Scunthorpe United Will Never Win the Champions League, Why Manchester City, Roma, and Paris St. Germain Can, and Why Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United Cannot Be Stopped

    by Stefan Szymanski ...
    Modern soccer is big business. From the ill-received takeover of Manchester United by the Glazer family to Paris Saint Germain's current shopping spree for the best footballers on the planet, soccer finance has become an increasingly important part of the game.Barely a summer goes by now without a cherished club going into administration or a wealthy businessman funding a mid table team's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Billion Dollar Game

    Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Day In American Sport - Super Bowl Sunday

    by Allen St. John ...
    A fascinating portrait of the National Football League, the Super Bowl, and all the position players who come together to create the biggest cultural phenomenon in American sports.Think the Super Bowl is only about two teams of titans clashing on the field? Think again. The Super Bowl is about fans, hundreds of millions of fans. It’s about money, more money than the GDP of twenty-five sovereign ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Green Bay Packers

    Trials, Triumphs, and Tradition

    by William Povletich ...
    On the field, legends like Don Hutson, Ray Nitschke, and Brett Favre made the Green Bay Packers into a professional football powerhouse. But the history of the NFL’s only small-town franchise is as much a story of business creativity as gridiron supremacy. Behind every Packer who became a legend on the field, there was an Andrew Turnbull, Dominic Olejniczak, or Bob Harlan, leaders whose dedication ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Cricket War

    The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    One of The Times' 50 Greatest Sports BooksIn May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised 'World Series'. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen.In helmets, under lights, with white balls, ... Read more

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  • The GAA v Douglas Hyde

    by Cormac Moore ...
    On 13 November 1938, just months after his inauguration, President Douglas Hyde attended a soccer match between Ireland and Poland. In a passionate reaction, the GAA declared that by attending a 'foreign game', he had broken Rule 27 – the Ban – and they removed him as patron. One of the most controversial incidents in recent GAA history, it strained relations between the GAA and Éamon de Valera's ... Read more

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  • Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport

    by Mr Rob Steen ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD****2014Spectator sport is living, breathing, non-stop theatre for all.Focusing on spectator sports and their accompanying issues, tracing their origins, evolution and impact, inside the lines and beyond the boundary, this book offers a thematic history of professional sport and the ingredients that magnetise millions around the globe ... Read more

    $24.99 USD