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  • Seven Parents, Daughter to None

    A Memoir

    by Melanie Hope Lang ...
    How does one overcome a lifetime of trauma and deception? Melanie Hope Lang's early life was one of hardships, abuse, and difficulties on multiple levels. She suffered through a string of six fathers and an indifferent mother. During this formative period, she learned an important truth: we hold the keys to our destiny. This book confronts the demons lurking deep within. By finishing this tale, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Handbook of Athlete Welfare

    Edited by Melanie Lang ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport. This comprehensive volume features cutting-edge research from around the world on issues that can compromise the welfare of athletes at all levels of sport and on the approaches taken by sports organisations to prevent and manage these.In recent years, sports organisations have increased their efforts to ensure athlete health, safety, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Safeguarding, Child Protection and Abuse in Sport

    International Perspectives in Research, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Melanie Lang, Mike Hartill ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The safeguarding of children and young people participating in sport has become an increasingly prominent concern in policy-making and research communities around the world. Major organisations such as the IOC and UNICEF now officially recognize that children in sport can be at risk of exploitation and abuse, and this concern has led to the emergence of new initiatives and policies aimed at ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Eugenetic Imagination

    Eugenics and Genetics in Early 21st-Century Anglo-American Fiction

    by Melanie Schrage-Lang ...
    Series Book 28 - MeLiS. Medien – Literaturen – Sprachen in Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Germanistik und Romanistik
    This book addresses a research gap in the study of eugenics in fictional literature: the analysis of the nexus of eugenics and genetics in 21st-century novels, detached from their authors’ ideological beliefs. It is based on an understanding of literature as an interdiscourse in Jürgen Link‘s sense. The study employs categories developed by Rabinow and Rose in the context of Foucault‘s concept of ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

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    Enriched edition. An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption

    by Thorstein Veblen, Joel Foster ...
    Thorstein Veblen's 'The Theory of the Leisure Class' is a seminal work that critiques the social norms and practices of the upper class in the late 19th century America. Veblen's sharp and satirical writing style sheds light on the concept of 'conspicuous consumption' and 'pecuniary emulation' that govern the lifestyle of the leisure class. Through a blend of economics, sociology, and anthropology ... Read more

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  • The Captain Class

    A New Theory of Leadership

    by Sam Walker ...
    **A bold new theory of leadership drawn from elite captains throughout sports—named one of the best business books of the year by CNBC, The New York Times, Forbes, strategy+business, The Globe and Mail, and Sports Illustrated“The book taught me that there’s no cookie-cutter way to lead. Leading is not just what Hollywood tells you. It’s not the big pregame speech. It’s how you carry yourself every ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cracking the Cube

    Going Slow to Go Fast and Other Unexpected Turns in the World of Competitive Rubik's Cube Solving

    by Ian Scheffler ...
    Ian Scheffler, journalist and aspiring “speedcuber,” attempts to break into the international phenomenon of speedsolving the Rubik’s Cube—think chess played at the speed of Ping-Pong—while exploring the greater lessons that can be learned through solving it.When Hungarian professor Ernő Rubik invented the Rubik’s Cube (or, rather, his Cube) in 1974 out of wooden blocks, rubber bands, and paper ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • GAAconomics

    The Secret Life of Money in the GAA

    by Michael Moynihan ...
    A unique sports book which will ensure you never again look at hurling and football the same way. Michael Moynihan talks frankly to current and recent players and gets the inside story on how money courses through the GAA. The greatest amateur sports association in the world? Michael Moynihan takes a look behind the scenes to reveal the truth about the GAA and looks for answers to the awkward ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Psychology of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

    by Bakari Akil ...
    Grappling is a smash-mouth activity. It is a put your beer down and let’s settle this type of martial art. Man vs. man, woman vs. man, child vs. man, it is one of the ultimate ‘prove it’ combat sports. Yet, once you get past the rough and challenging aspect of submission wrestling it’s easy to see that grappling is much more than that. It is also a very cerebral activity.Psychology is the study of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

    by Jules Boykoff ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions.In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sport Marketing

    by Paul Blakey ...
    Series series Active Learning in Sport Series
    This is a highly accessible text that provides detailed coverage of the key concepts, ideas, principles and techniques of sport marketing. It combines clear and concise explanations with applied case studies, supported by clear objectives, learning activities and points for reflection. UK-based examples are used throughout and the book successfully combines both theory and practice.The field of ... Read more

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  • Sport for Development

    What game are we playing?

    by Fred Coalter ...
    Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development. In this comprehensive introduction to the area of ‘sport-for-development’, leading researcher Fred Coalter critically evaluates the strengths and weaknesses and successes and failures of sport-for-development policies and programs.Beginning with an outline of the historical development of policies of sport-for ... Read more

    $68.99 USD