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An ethnographic study exploring the role of cricket in maintaining cultural connections between Canadians and other members of the Caribbean diaspora. -- .

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A comprehensive and lively introduction to the politics of sport. Introducing the key areas of the subject, it examines how governments around the world have increasingly invested in, promoted and used sport as part of their political agenda.

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Examines the relationship between sport and education from both social and moral points of view. The text argues that sport has such a vital role to play in society that it should be an integral part of the curriculum. It presents guidelines for an effective teaching of sports in schools.

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An anthropology of sport, which looks at how different sports are used by a wide variety of peoples to express, manipulate and negotiate their identities, and to challenge the way they are identified by others.

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An anthropology of sport, which looks at how different sports are used by a wide variety of peoples to express, manipulate and negotiate their identities, and to challenge the way they are identified by others.

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A guide to analysing sport in its diverse mediated forms. It features the techniques of analysis for film, TV, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, spaces such as stadia and museums, and the internet. It explores the ambiguous and shifting cultural politics of sport through case studies, drawn from across the UK and USA.

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Sport is an integral component of media, from prime-time television to interactive websites. Analysing sport in its diverse mediated forms, this book covers techniques of analysis for film, TV, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, spaces such as stadia and museums, and the internet. It is suitable for students of media and sports studies.

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The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936.

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The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936.

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Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explore movement, bodies, sports reporting, memory, disability, technology and the role of the past and the future in sport.

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A timely, unbiased look at the positive and negative effects of school-sponsored sports on the American education system.

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Sports are inspiring and uplifting. They can also bring out some of the worst characteristics in human nature: narcissism, prejudice, greed. This book looks at the major sports scandals in modern American history, from the Black Sox fix of 1919 to the current concussion crisis in the NFL.

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This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the states international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

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This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the states international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

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This book is intended to provide guidance to parents, guardians, educators, and community recreation professionals regarding the importance of increased physical activity beyond the school day for children with disabilities.

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This book explains how a teaching system focused on identifying and stoking each student's strengthsrather than concentrating on deficitscan bring remarkable academic improvement and achievement.

It's a familiar and seemingly logical model: to improve performance, identify weaknesses and target these problem areas.

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This book traces the creation and circulation of the heroic myth of Spring Man, legendary Czech phantom of the Second World War often described as a superhero who fights against the Nazis, through national and international popular culture from the late 19^th through the late 20^th century

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Provides an examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. This work shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. It argues that after the Cold War ended, the CIA and FBI failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism.

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This book examines the realities of living in the United States after the events of September 11th, 2001, and evaluates the challenges in gathering internal intelligence without severely compromising personal liberties.

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An exploration of the the FBI's five COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Programme) operations, which directed its efforts against social and political protest movements, from the Communist Party to the Ku Klux Klan, and increasingly employed questionable, even unlawful, methods.

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They shed new light on questions raised in earlier interpretations of the early Cold War years and reveal the origins of a surveillance activity that is implied, but not explained, in today's headlines.

This book provides the first documented description of the genesis and institutionalization of America's nuclear surveillance system.