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Sport and Policy is the first book of its kind to critically analyse the regulatory role of the state and its impact on sport and the intersections of sport with other areas of government policy. Offering a unique and comprehensive examination of how sport is affected by a range of government policy, each chapter uses an international comparative approach in order to facilitate a broad understanding of sport and policy in a global context.

This book is essential reading for any student or practitioner studying or working in policy today, and is:

• The first book...

It's 1977. Youth unemployment is at an all-time high and the pound is at an all-time low. Paul, Jan and Louis are bored, broke and demoralized by the hand that they've been dealt. How will these young lads fair with the odds stacked against them? How will they cope?

Cut off from society with no-where to turn, the play resonates with a modern audience who will no doubt recognize the disaffected youth of 1970s Britain. Barrie Keeffe's tragically dark play crackles with tension throughout, building to a twisted and dramatic end.

This programme text edition was published to...

Women who should know better, but don't. Characters who occupy both urban America and rural Wales - sometimes at the same time.

Mothers and daughters; husbands and lovers - these are some of the tensions and fusions explored in this surprising collection by Barrie Llewelyn, a writer who is interested in the way each authentic voice can be startling and, sometimes, disturbing.

"Moving and powerful. Llewelyn writes with a quiet elegance reminiscent of the best of Amy Hempel or Raymond Carver. Sublime." Mike Thomas

"Tightly crafted with an immediate and intriguing voice, which is no...

When originally published in 1991 this was the first book to tackle the UK policy process of sport and to provide a political science analysis of some of the key issues facing sports administrators today. The volume identifies the parties involved: central government, local government, the Sports Council, the Central Council of Physical Recreation, and the individual sports governing bodies. It examines their effect on sport's policy and administration through an analysis of three important current sport issues - football hooliganism, drug abuse among athletes and sport opportunities and...

James Barrie's My Mayenne is an account of the author's love affair with a part of Fraoce that has escaped mass tourism. In the late eighties, Barrie and his wife began their search for a house in France, a task which is not as easy as it may sound. This is the story of the house they fond, the trials and tribulations of renovating what was at first an uninhabitable dwelling, and their adventures in a new country.

With loving detail, and in a conversational and intimate style, Barrie offers his readers a collection of anecdotes, recounting incidenlS as varied as his first meeting with...