Sportscasters/Sportscasting

Principles and Practices

By Linda Fuller

A comprehensive introduction to the workings of the business, Sportscasters/Sportscasting: Principles and Practices explains all of the information essential to anyone looking to begin a...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-7890-1826-7 (Routledge)

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American Sports

An Anthropological Approach

Edited by Alan Klein

This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. While rooted in anthropology, these essays consider American sports in their...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44830-7 (Routledge)

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The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement

Through an Anthropological Lens

By P. David Howe

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from pastime to...

February 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28887-3 (Routledge)

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Culture, Politics and Sport

Blowing the Whistle, Revisited

By Garry Whannel

'Whannel is a foundational figure in the study of sports and the media. …For 20 years his writing has set a high standard …and it...

January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41707-5 (Routledge)

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Sport, Civil Liberties and Human Rights

Edited by Richard Giulianotti, David McArdle

What is the relationship between sport and human rights? Can sport protect and enhance the human rights of competitors and sport workers? Can it also...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46419-2 (Routledge)

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The Political Economy of Global Sporting Organisations

By John Forster, Nigel Pope

At the global level, sport is ruled by a set of organizations including giants such as the IOC (Olympics), FIFA (soccer), and the IAAF (athletics)...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45931-0 (Routledge)

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A History of Drug Use in Sport: 1876–1976

Beyond Good and Evil

By Paul Dimeo

This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35772-2 (Routledge)

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Sport and American Society

Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’

Edited by Mark Dyreson, J. A. ManganJ. A. ManganBoria Majumdar

A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America....

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39964-7 (Routledge)

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Cricket and the Law

The Man in White is Always Right

By David Fraser

Cricket, law and the meaning of life ...

In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket’s defining controversies – bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8285-3 (Routledge)

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British Football & Social Exclusion

By Stephen Wagg

This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is written by a range of concerned academics and writers,...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8204-4 (Routledge)

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