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Previous edition: Aboriginal stars of the turf: jockeys of Australian racing history / John Maynard, 2002.

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From the sports documentarian and executive producer of The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about how sports provide meaning and purpose in peoples lives all over the world.

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African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectories of youth and young men across the continent.

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African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectories of youth and young men across the continent.

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A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

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A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

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Gleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson--the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since become one of New York's wealthiest residential areas--Brooklyn's DUMBO. G

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"Football Italia examines the development of Italian football in relation to the wider global transformations impacting football, and addresses the reasons for Serie A's initial success and current malaise"--

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"Analyzes paratextual board games--particularly games based on film, television, and books--as unique media texts"--

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"Analyzes paratextual board games--particularly games based on film, television, and books--as unique media texts"--

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Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional te

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This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.

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This book investigates the integration of media and sport over the last century. At a time when the stability of the Western media sport order is under challenge, it analyzes a range of key structures, practices and issues, whose ramifications extend far beyond the fields of play and national contexts in which sport events take place.

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This book uses boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It considers to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and how it contributes to those transformations. Woodward provides new ways of thinking critically about our everyday assumptions and social world.

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This book uses boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It considers to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and how it contributes to those transformations. Woodward provides new ways of thinking critically about our everyday assumptions and social world.

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Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport's key points of development, the diffusion of cricket through colonization, and its impact on the changing notions of English national identity.

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Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport's key points of development, the diffusion of cricket through colonization, and its impact on the changing notions of English national identity.

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This book examines the rapid rise and slow decline of greyhound racing in Britain, focusing on the 1920s to the 1960s. It examines the way in which the middle classes sought to ban or control a sport and gambling opportunity which became a niche part of British working-class culture. -- .

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Curran maintains that movies reflected and influenced their viewers' perceptions of the Irish and that both the movies and the Irish who made them facilitated the assimilation of the Irish ethnic group into American society.

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'Japanese Women and Sport' aims to explore both why and how in the past century athletics have stood out as an arena in which excellence by Japanese women is so actively encouraged.

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The way we organise our free time can reveal a great deal about our identities and ideology. This book explores what our sports and leisure choices can tell us about the society in which we live. Comprehensive, cutting edge and packed with global examples it covers all the essentials for students of sports and leisure sociology.