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  • Sport in Underdeveloped and Conflict Regions

    Edited by Meredith A. Whitley, William V. Massey, Simon C. Darnell, Brett Smith ...
    Over the past two decades, scholars and practitioners have taken a keen interest in the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP). These efforts have largely focused on and debated the merits of sport as a tool for development, diplomacy, and peacebuilding in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions. Making sense of the positive contributions that sport can offer to such complex ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

    Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies

    by David Andrews, Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark, Simon C Darnell0, Samantha Frost1, Simone Fullagar2, Pirkko Markula3, Mary G. McDonald4, Jennifer Sterling5, Christopher McLeod6, Matthew G. Hawzen7, Richard Pringle8, Oliver Rick9, Jacob J. Bustad0, Samantha King1, Shannon Leigh Jette2, Katelyn Esmonde3, Carolyn Pluim4, Gavin Weedon5 ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The History and Politics of Sport-for-Development

    Activists, Ideologues and Reformers

    by Simon C. Darnell, Russell Field, Bruce Kidd ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been understood, organized, and contested in an effort to engender social change.Integrating the history of international development with the history of modern sport, the authors examine the underpinnings of sport-for-development from the mid-19th through the early 21st centuries. Including ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace

    Edited by Holly Collison, Simon C. Darnell, Richard Giulianotti, P. David Howe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sport Development
    Sport and physical activity are now regularly used to promote social and economic development, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, on an international scale. The emergence of the ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ (SDP) sector, comprised of governments, NGOs, sport organizations and others, reveals a high level of institutionalization of this activity, while SDP now constitutes an important ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Our Story, Our Politics, Our Future

    by Ken Dryden ...
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  • How Canadians Communicate IV

    Media and Politics

    Edited by David Taras, Christopher Waddell ...
    Substantial changes have occurred in the nature of political discourse over the past thirty years. Once, traditional media dominated the political landscape, but in recent years Facebook, Twitter, blogs and Blackberrys have emerged as important tools and platforms for political campaigns. While the Canadian party system has proved surprisingly resilient, the rhythms of political life are now very ... Read more

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  • Our Media, Not Theirs

    The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media

    by Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols ...
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    Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational conglomerates that use their immense political and economic power to saturate the population with ... Read more

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  • Is the EU Doomed?

    by Jan Zielonka ...
    Series series Global Futures
    The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future.In this compelling essay, leading scholar of European politics, Jan Zielonka argues that although the EU will only survive in modest form - deprived of many real powers - Europe as an integrated entity will grow stronger. Integration, he ... Read more

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  • 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada

    by Aaron W. Hughes ...
    Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites readers to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political, social, cultural, and demographic forces that have shaped the modern nation. The diverse episodes include the enactment of the War Measures Act, hockey’s Summit ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

    Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur ...
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    At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Diplomacy remains a salient activity in today's world in which the basic authoritative actor is still the state. At the same time, in some respects the ... Read more

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  • The Political Origins of Inequality

    Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All

    by Simon Reid-Henry ...
    This far-reaching study examines how political policies and paradigms have deepened global inequality, and how to reframe the debate to address it.Inequality is the defining issue of our time—one in which the global 1% now owns half the world's wealth. In this magisterial study, Simon Reid-Henry rewrites the story of globalization as one about the management of inequality. Reaching back to the ... Read more

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  • Lessons Learned

    Reflections of a University President

    by William G. Bowen ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    An insider's account of higher education from a legendary university leaderLessons Learned gives unprecedented access to the university president's office, providing a unique set of reflections on the challenges involved in leading both research universities and liberal arts colleges. In this landmark book, William Bowen, former president of Princeton University and of the Andrew W. Mellon ... Read more

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