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By: David J. Leonard

ISBN: 9781442206779
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racis...


(Paperback)

By: David J. Leonard

ISBN: 9781442206786
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racis...


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By: Douglas T. Putnam

ISBN: 9780313305580
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Analyzes the background and current status of a specific controversy illuminating how the games we play and watch affect, and are affected by, the world beyond the playing fields.


(Hardback)

By: Jimmy Sanderson

ISBN: 9781440878374
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Jay Correia

ISBN: 9781483566702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Larry Writer

ISBN: 9781743319383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A team of thirty-three Australian athletes competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Poorly prepared and with limited support, they bravely faced formidable competition. Larry Writer recreates their experience so vividly we can imagine ourselves in the famous stadium surrounded by swastikas.


(Paperback)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The best value sports science book on the market.


(Paperback)

By: Nick Mitchell

ISBN: 9781483590608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)

By: Daniel M. Rosen

ISBN: 9780313345203
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From the use of amphetamines and other stimulants in the early 20th century, to the use of testosterone and steroids by both the USSR and the United States during Cold War-era Olympics games, to blood doping and EPO, to designer drugs, the history of doping in sports closely follows the medical and technological advances of our times.


(Hardback)

By: John L. Fizel

ISBN: 9780275980337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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These entities generate revenues comparable to professional sports, practice and play in facilities that rival those found in professional sports, and pay their top coaches salaries comparable to the salaries paid to coaches of professional sports teams.


(Hardback)

By: Richard Cox

ISBN: 9781851093441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This overview of sport in Britain includes A-Z entries on sports, organizations and events. The volume provides outline histories of each sport and identifies key organizations, individuals, famous clubs, major competitions, events, venues and incidents. It also looks at key concepts, themes and terminology.


(Hardback)

By: John E. Findling

ISBN: 9780313322785
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Covering specific games from the 1896 Olympics in Athens to the 2002 games in Salt Lake City, this volume also presents plans for the 2004 Athens games, 2006 Turin games, and the 2008 summer games.

Enhanced with new illustrations, this book includes sections on both the Summer and Winter Games.


(Hardback)

By: Nicole Mitchell

ISBN: 9780313335877
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Title IX is a legislation prohibiting sex discrimination in schools, whether in academics or athletics. From the passing of Title IX in 1972 to the debates surrounding compliance, this encyclopedia explores the individuals, events, key concepts, controversies, and legal cases revolving around Title IX and its application in collegiate athletics.


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By: Doreen L. Greenberg

ISBN: 9780897749930
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The challenges and achievements of female athletes in the U.S. are the focus of this collection of nearly 300 articles and biographies that portray the diversity, depth, and meaning of their sports experiences.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Borgatti

ISBN: 9781667838199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Stephen Venables

ISBN: 9781560252894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Venables shares this rousing account of his 1988 climb of the East Face of Mount Everest, where he led three unknown American climbers up a sheer avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice -- without a supply of oxygen. Photos.


(Paperback)

By: Bob Costas

ISBN: 9780767904667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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From his perspective as a journalist and a true fan, Bob Costas, NBC's award-winning broadcaster, shares his views on the forces that are diminishing the appeal of Major League Baseball and proposes realistic changes that can be made to protect and promote the game's best interests.


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By: Peter FitzSimons

ISBN: 9781760529482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Fitzy at his passionate best with chest-puffing tales of great sportsmanship and fair play.


(Paperback)

By: Peter FitzSimons

ISBN: 9781760876920
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Fitzy at his passionate best with chest-puffing tales of great sportsmanship and fair play.


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By: Justine Gubar

ISBN: 9781442273047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Fanaticus: Mischief and Madness in the Modern Sports Fan explores the roots of extreme fanaticism, from organized thuggery to digital hate speech. Outrageous and often shocking incidents are divulged, as are firsthand accounts from both the transgressors and victims.


(Paperback)

By: Mark McClusky

ISBN: 9780147516473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2015
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Bill Geist

ISBN: 9780446678476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Bill Geist, who had never picked up a club before, sets off determined to learn the game and to uncover what accounts for America's infatuation with this "royal and ancient" sport. Geist's unique approach provides uproarious insight into the nuances of the game that will ring true for any golf lover.


(Hardback)

By: Barry Sheehy

ISBN: 9780316591898
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1995
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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(Paperback)

By: Coach Mickey Marley

ISBN: 9781543936100
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: BookBaby
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