Sportscasters/Sportscasting

Principles and Practices

By Linda Fuller

Sport Psychology, 4th Edition

By Arnold LeUnes

This new, updated, fourth edition of Arnold LeUnes’s textbook has comprehensive coverage of sport psychology with a healthy balance between theory and application. The strong...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-6266-9 (Psychology Press)

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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 International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System

The governance of world sport

By Jean-Loup Chappelet

When the athletes enter the stadium and the Olympic flame is lit, the whole world watches. Billions will continue to follow the events and to...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43168-2 (Routledge)

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Hispanic Perspectives on Sport, Text and the Body

Edited by David Wood, P Louise JohnsonJ. A. ManganBoria MajumdarMark Dyerson

The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world, a key site of cultural experience for...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45762-0 (Routledge)

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Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts

By Ellis Cashmore

Now including exercise psychology terms for the first time in its new edition, Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers a highly accessible introduction...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43866-7 (Routledge)

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Sports, Virtues and Vices

Morality Plays

By Mike McNamee

Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19409-9 (Routledge)

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Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain

By James Lee

This book tells the story of ‘the Lady Footballers’. It covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the largely unsympathetic British press....

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42609-1 (Routledge)

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Rusticus or the Future of the Countryside Diogenes or the Future of Leisure Hanno, or the Future of Exploration Atalanta or the Future of Sport

By Joad, Mitchell, Sandilands, Briggs

Rusticus

Or

The Future of the Countryside

Martin S Briggs

Originally published in 1926

"Few of the fifty volumes, provocative and brilliant as most of them have been,...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46422-2 (Routledge)

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Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement

By Sandra Collins

By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambitions and anxieties...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37317-3 (Routledge)

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