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  • Accessibility in Sport Management

    International Venue Perspectives

    by Simon Darcy, Paul J. Kitchin, Tracey J. Dickson, Juan Luis Paramio-Salcines ...
    Series series European Association for Sport Management Series
    This book introduces the fundamental principles of accessible and inclusive sport venue management, with a focus on people with disability. It offers a social‑ecological analysis of how governments, businesses, the disability social movement, sports organisations, and their stakeholders can, and should, make sport more accessible and inclusive.Using a critical disability studies perspective, this ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Disabled Tourist

    Navigating an Ableist Tourism World

    by Brielle Gillovic, Alison McIntosh, Simon Darcy ...
    Series series The Tourist Experience
    This book addresses a growing demand to hear the authentic voices and understand the lived tourist experiences of people with disability. The latest volume in The Tourist Experience series challenges what is arguably an exclusionary, marginalising, discriminatory, and ableist (tourism) world. By drawing attention to the ‘dis/’ in ‘disabled’, the authors provoke the need to change binary thinking ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Exploring the Leisure - Health Nexus

    Pushing Global Boundaries

    by Lynn Anderson, Holly Bowen-Salter, Nina Burridge, Simon Darcy, Katherine Dashper, Christina Davies, Leila Gholizadeh, Simone Grabowski, Tonia Gray, Sara Karacsony, Alexis Marcoux Rouleau, Danielle McDonald, Annette Michelsen La Cour, Emma Milanese, Torben Nielsen, Carmel Nottle, Jenny Onyx, Michelle O’Shea, Victoria Paraschak, Sonya Pearce, Melanie Pescud, Arianne Reis, Joyce Simard, Zoei Sutton ...
    By exploring past, current, and future intersections between leisure and health, this book considers research and academic thought to reveal and critique the nuanced ways that leisure impacts health as well as considering how health professions use leisure as a 'tool'. Aided by the diverse chapters, readers will be challenged to explore future intersections between leisure and health using an ... Read more

    $102.29 USD

  • Research Methods in Sport Studies and Sport Management

    A Practical Guide

    by A.J. Veal, Simon Darcy ...
    Research can be a challenging but rewarding activity. All degree-level students studying sport, and all effective professionals working in the sport sector need to have a sound understanding of research methods and how to critically interpret research findings. This broad-ranging, in-depth and practical textbook introduces research methods for students on sport-related degree courses, outlining ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Managing the Paralympics

    Edited by Simon Darcy, Stephen Frawley, Daryl Adair ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world’s premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the Paralympics explores how the organizers ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • 'Cultural Life', Disability, Inclusion and Citizenship

    Moving Beyond Leisure in Isolation

    Edited by Simon Darcy, Jerome F. Singleton ...
    Disability is a complex multidimensional social construct where the type of disability and the level of support of individuals needs to be considered within leisure provision. In a leisure context, people with a disability often face a multitude of constraints to participation. However, when leisure is possible, the benefits are substantial and worth pursuing. While other marginalised populations ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Accessible Tourism

    Concepts and Issues

    Edited by Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis, Dr. Simon Darcy ...
    Series Book 45 - Aspects of Tourism
    Inclusion, disability, an ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore and document the current theoretical approaches, foundations and issues in the study of accessible tourism. In drawing together the contributions to this volume the editors have applied broader social ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Best Practice in Accessible Tourism

    Inclusion, Disability, Ageing Population and Tourism

    Edited by Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis, Dr. Simon Darcy, Ivor Ambrose ...
    Series Book 53 - Aspects of Tourism
    This volume presents an international selection of invited contributions on policy and best practice in accessible tourism, reflecting current practices across a range of destinations and business settings. It brings together global expertise in planning, design and management to inform and stimulate providers of travel, transport, accommodation, leisure and tourism services to serve guests with ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    In his book, Graham Black argues that museums must transform themselves if they are to remain relevant to 21st century audiences – and this root and branch change would be necessary whether or not museums faced a funding crisis. It is the result of the impact of new technologies and the rapid societal developments that we are all a part of, and applies not just to museums but to all arts bodies ... Read more

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  • Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy

    Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders

    Edited by Kelly-Ann Allen, Andrea Reupert, Lindsay Oades ...
    Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders provides an extensive set of free-to-use policies for building better schools.The policies included in this book cover a broad range of popular topics for schools that are not readily accessible, and each policy is built on theory, driven by research, and created by experts. Each policy is based on ... Read more

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  • Social Work and Domestic Violence

    Developing Critical and Reflective Practice

    by Lesley Laing, Cathy Humphreys, Kate Cavanagh ...
    Domestic violence affects all areas of social work. This book shows how social workers can intervene in everyday practice with victims, their families and perpetrators of domestic abuse. It provides students with knowledge of theory, research and policy to put directly in practice across a variety of legal and service-user contexts.Topics covered include:Child protectionInterprofessional ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Open Space: People Space

    Edited by Catharine Ward Thompson, Penny Travlou ...
    Highly visual and containing contributions from leading names in landscape, architecture and design, this volume provides a rare insight into people’s engagement with the outdoor environment; looking at the ways in which the design of spaces and places meets people’s needs and desires in the twenty-first century.Embracing issues of social inclusion, recreation, and environmental quality, the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD