The Basketball Expatriate
 When is a story about a basketball player not even about basketball? When the basketball player spends a couple hundred pages trying to convince you that it is. The time is July 1987. A nameless man boards a plane in Los Angeles, headed for London. A ... [... more]
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'Race', Sport and British Society
`Race',Sport and British Society challenges the view that sport is one part of society where 'good race-relations' are developed. The book offers a wealth of research material and a strong theoretical view on contemporary British sports. -- Download ... [... more]
$53.95
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Shoeless Joe
W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie, Field of Dreams. It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing catch with ... [... more]
$5.99
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MediaSport
Mediasport is a comprehensive introduction, written by leading experts from around the world in the field of sports studies, sports journalism and leisure studies to the ways in which sport and the media interact. -- Download Description
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$56.95
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Values in Sport
This book provides the reader with a deep insight into the moral and ethical value we place on sport in today's society. It urges us to think again about current sports practices and the future of sport as a cultural phenomenon. -- Download Description
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$53.95
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The Economics of Professional Team Sports
This book is unique in that it offers the first truly rigorous application of economic principles to its subject. The authors analyse: * the economic literature on sporting leagues * the demand for professional team sports * the players' labour market. ... [... more]
$80.00
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Heroines of Sport
Heroines of Sport looks closely at different groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism. It focuses on five specific groups of women from different places in the world South African women; ... [... more]
$59.95
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Sports Geography
In this fully revised and updated edition of his classic, discipline-defining text, John Bale comprehensively explores the relationships between sport, place, location and landscape. Drawing on examples from around the world, the book addresses key ... [... more]
$47.95
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Caught Me A Big 'Un and then I Let Him Go: Jimmy ...
Anyone who loves fishing -- on a lake, pond, river, or ocean -- is guaranteed to love Jimmy Houston's insightful, instructive, and laugh-out-loud funny tips and tales. Whether he's fishing with sports or political celebrities or his children, Jimmy ... [... more]
$11.99
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Fair Play in Sport
Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive sport. By linking general moral principles and practical cases, the book develops a contemporary theory of fair ... [... more]
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Surviving the Extremes
Surgeon, VP of the Explorer's Club, veteran of Everest climbs (such as the one documented in Into Thin Air, on which he was attending physician), NASA consultant, Ken Kamler knows what happens when bodies are pushed to their limits. He has been to and ... [... more]
$18.95
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The Lost Explorer
On June 8, 1924, George Mallory was last seen climbing toward the summit of Mount Everest. Did he reach the summit twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? On May 1, 1999, Conrad Anker discovered Mallory's body on Everest's north face, ... [... more]
$9.99
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