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  • Games People Played

    A Global History of Sport

    by Wray Vamplew ...
    Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sport. Wray Vamplew shows how sport has been practised, experienced and made meaningful by players and fans, and assesses how sports have developed and diffused across the globe. He examines not only how sport is sociable and health-giving, but how economics has turned sport into a huge consumer industry. Sport’s dark side – its ... Read more

    Was $28.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Sports Economics for Non-Economists

    by Wray Vamplew ...
    This book cuts through the jargon and complicated formulae to focus on the key concepts in sports economics, introducing the fundamentals in a concise and engaging way to give the reader without a background in economics the tools with which to read and apply sports economics in their work.Full of real-world cases and stories, the book offers a short economic history of sport and explains the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Numbers and Narratives

    Sport, History and Economics

    by Wray Vamplew ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This volume argues for a more quantitative, economic and theoretical approach to sports history. The author notes that sport can have peculiar economics as in no other industry do rival businesses have to cooperate to produce a sellable output. He also demonstrates, via a case study of early gate-money football in Scotland, that sports producers were not always seeking profits, and often put ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sport, History, and Heritage

    Studies in Public Representation

    by Jeffrey Hill, Jean Williams, Jed Smith, John K. Walton, Kevin Moore, Matthew Taylor, Max Dunbar, Mike McGuinness, Neil Skinner0, Ray Physick1, Richard Holt2, Santiago De Pablo3, Stephen Done4, Tim O'Sullivan5, Wray Vamplew6, Jason Wood8, Andrea Titterington9, Anthony Bateman0, Daphné Bolz1, David Storey2, Honor Godfrey3 ...
    Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life. Although its importance has been recognised by academic historians, sport has yet to be fully appreciated in the growing and related fields of heritage and museum studies. Sport and heritage have operated as seemingly separate spheres, yet together they can convey powerful messages; convergence between them is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sport and Physical Education: The Key Concepts

    by Tim Chandler, Tim Chandler, Wray Vamplew, Mike Cronin, Mike Cronin ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An accessible and fully cross-referenced A-Z guide, this book has been written specifically for students of sport studies and physical education, introducing basic terms and concepts. Entries cover such diverse subjects as coaching, drug testing, hooliganism, cultural imperialism, economics, gay games, amateurism, extreme sports, exercise physiology and Olympism.This revised second edition, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of British Football

    Edited by Richard Cox, Dave Russell, Wray Vamplew ...
    This reference work aims to provide sports enthusiasts, journalists, librarians, students and scholars with an authorative source of information on a comprehensive range of subjects covering the history and organization of football in Britain. Over 250 entries focus on key organisations or individuals, famous clubs, major competitions, events, venues and incidents, institutions and organisations ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sport and Entrepreneurship

    Edited by Dilwyn Porter, Wray Vamplew ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport.This important volume offers clearer definitions of both sports products and sports entrepreneurship, gives due regard to social entrepreneurs, and assesses the continuing relevance of Hardy’s pioneering ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Methodology in Sports History

    Edited by Wray Vamplew, Dave Day ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    The process of converting the ‘past’ into ‘history’ involves engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and sports historians inevitably participate in the same debates over approaches and methodologies as their counterparts in other historical disciplines. At its heart, history remains a genre of empirical knowledge that is based upon the remains of the past, and without ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing

    Edited by Dr Joyce Kay, Professor Wray Vamplew ...
    Series series Routledge Sports Reference Series
    The Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing offers an innovative approach to one of Britain's oldest sports. While it considers the traditional themes of gambling and breeding, and contains biographies of human personalities and equine stars, it also devotes significant space to neglected areas. Entries include:social, economic and political forces that have influenced racingcontroversial historical ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

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  • What Money Can't Buy

    The Moral Limits of Markets

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society.Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our ... Read more

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  • Liverpool v Manchester United: Seeing Red (A Short Pass)

    by Andy Mitten ...
    ‘Seeing Red’ is an exclusive extract from the best-selling ‘Mad For It’, published in association with FourFourTwo magazine. It examines one of the greatest sporting rivalries from the viewpoint of the people that matter; the fans.‘Mad For It’ proves that some football matches are far more than just a game.These short extracts, from the original book published in association with FourFourTwo ... Read more

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  • Pray

    Notes on a Football Season

    by Nick Hornby ...
    Nick Hornby, author of the bestselling soccer classic Fever Pitch, offers an insightful account of an extraordinary sports season. Concentrating on a number of significant games in British soccer during the 2011–2012 season, Hornby chronicles the emotional, political, and societal highlights and woes that played out on the field. There were alleged racist clashes, revealing the deep cultural ... Read more

    $2.99 USD