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“stephen robson”

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  • Strategic Sport Development

    by Stephen Robson, Kirstie Simpson, Lee Tucker ...
    The field of sports development is becoming ever more professional, with the levels of expertise in planning and efficiency required of those working in private or national sports institutions higher than they have ever been. In response to this, strategic sports development has emerged as a means of applying business strategies to the context of sports development. Strategic Sports Development is ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF

    They Have Style, They Have Violence... The Intercity Firm Are All Your Worst Nightmares Come True

    by Cass Pennant ...
    The Inter City Firm…hard, terrifyingly vicious, brilliantly organised, tremendously feared and hihgly fashionable. They were the most notorious firm of the Seventies and Eighties football hooligans this country has ever seen. For the first time ever, all the aces of the West Ham firm reveal their memories and thoughts about the violence, the battles, the campaigns, the run-ins with the authorities ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Taboo

    Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

    by Jon Entine ...
    In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sport, Exercise and Social Theory

    An Introduction

    by John Kelly, Győző Molnár ...
    Why are sport and exercise important?What can the study of sport and exercise tell us about wider society?Who holds the power in creating contemporary sport and exercise discourses?It is impossible to properly understand the role that sport and exercise play in contemporary society without knowing a little social theory. It is social theory that provides the vocabulary for our study of society, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Sport in Australian National Identity

    Kicking Goals

    by Tony Ward ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    For many Australians, there are two great passions: sport and ‘taking the piss’. This book is about national identity – and especially about Australia’s image as a sporting country. Whether reverent or not, any successful national image has to reflect something about the reality of the country. But it is also influenced by the reasons that people have for encouraging particular images – and by the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Victor's Crown

    A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium

    by David Potter ...
    The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a dozen centuries--from Archaic Greece through to the late Roman and early Byzantine empires--David Potter's lively narrative shows how sport, to the ancients, was not just a dim reflection of religion and politics but a potent social force in its own right. The passion for sport among the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Discourses of Olympism

    From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012

    by D. Chatziefstathiou, I. Henry ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The book also analyzes discourses of Olympism concerned with youth, governance, sport for development and international relations. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport

    On Becoming an Elite Athlete

    by Kenneth Aggerholm ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    'Why don’t young athletes in sport just quit?’ Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of being a talented young sportsperson striving to become an elite athlete.As an alternative to conventional approaches to talent development governed by ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Fitness Culture

    Gyms and the Commercialisation of Discipline and Fun

    by Roberta Sassatelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and distinction dynamics within contemporary cultures of consumption. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Prevention and Treatment of Sports Injuries

    by Dr. Rajeev Kumar ...
    Every physical activity gives us something to learn, increases our fitness components (one or the other) makes one confident and refresher or recharges us to lead life happy. On other side participation in games and sports may lead to injury. The injury can be the minor one, serious, career ending or even some times life threatening. An athlete can face injuries at any time i.e. during main ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Critical Race Theory: Black Athletic Sporting Experiences in the United States

    Edited by Billy J. Hawkins, Akilah R. Carter-Francique, Joseph N. Cooper ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the role of race in athletic programs in the United States. Intercollegiate athletics remains a contested terrain where race and racism are critical issues often absent in the public discourse. Recently, the economic motives of intercollegiate athletic programs and academic indiscretions have unveiled behaviors that stand to tarnish the images of institutions of higher education ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Sport, Media and Society

    by Eileen Kennedy, Laura Hills ...
    Sport is an integral component of today's media, from prime-time television to interactive websites. This book is a theoretical and methodological guide to analysing sport in its diverse mediated forms. Students of media sport are taken through techniques of analysis for film, TV, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, spaces such as stadia and museums, and the internet. The ambiguous and shifting ... Read more

    $42.99 USD