The Paralympic Games Explained: Second Edition
ISBN: 9781138927162 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Paralympic Games is the second largest multi-sport festival on earth and an event which poses profound and challenging questions about the nature of sport, disability and society. The Paralympic Games Explained is the first complete introduction to the Paralympic phenomenon, exploring every key aspect and issue, from the history and development of the Paralympic movement to the economic and social impact of the contemporary Games. Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, it includes new material on hosting and legacy, Vancouver 2010 to Rio 2016, sport for development, and... The Paralympic Games is the second largest multi-sport festival on earth and an event which poses profound and challenging questions about the natu... |
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657,46 zł |
Fighters, Girls and Other Identities: Sociolinguistics in a Martial Arts Club
ISBN: 9781783093984 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author relates analyses of their interactions to discussions of relevance to the sociology of sports, anthropology and education, ultimately providing an analytically nuanced contribution to the study of contemporary sociolinguistic processes and identity practices. The author explores how the young participants negotiate their place in the social order, create and maintain friendship groups and relate to different social categories using the... This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The aut... |
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532,09 zł |
Digital Leisure, the Internet and Popular Culture: Communities and Identities in a Digital Age
ISBN: 9781137405869 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities have become part of everyday leisure. Covering a range of issues from social media and file-sharing to romance on the Internet, this book presents new theoretical directions for digital leisure.
Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities have b...
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194,08 zł |
Phenomenology and Pedagogy in Physical Education
ISBN: 9781138024083 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Phenomenology is a philosophical approach to the study of consciousness and subjective experience. In recent years it has become a more prominent element of the social scientific study of sport and a core component of the important emergent concept of physical literacy. This book is the first to offer a philosophically-sound investigation of phenomenological perspectives on pedagogy in physical education. The book argues that phenomenology offers a particularly interesting theoretical approach to physical education because of the closely embodied relationship between the... Phenomenology is a philosophical approach to the study of consciousness and subjective experience. In recent years it has become a more prominent e... |
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733,31 zł |
Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life
ISBN: 9781138923157 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class football cultures and the rapid media globalisation of 'the people's game'. Drawing on international empirical research and a unique and ground-breaking study of football hooligan memoirs, the book delves into a wide array of... In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relat... |
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708,03 zł |
International Sports Betting: Integrity, Deviance, Governance and Policy
ISBN: 9781138784758 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the development of communication technologies, sport betting has become a truly global phenomenon. Far from the traditional small local betting operator, the current dynamic sees vast sums of money being bet by punters in one country to a betting operator located in a second for a match located in yet another jurisdiction. As a consequence, the development of deviances, from match-fixing to money laundering has accelerated. This new reality has numerous implications, for the regulation of this billion dollar industry as well as for the very integrity of sport, sport financing and... With the development of communication technologies, sport betting has become a truly global phenomenon. Far from the traditional small local bettin... |
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262,93 zł |
Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring Movement Cultures
ISBN: 9781138793446 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form a central part of our understanding and experience of sport and movement cultures. Researching Embodied Sport explores the political, social and cultural significance of embodied approaches to the study of sport, physical activities and dance. It explains how embodied approaches fit with existing theory in studies of sport and movement cultures and makes a compelling case for incorporating an embodied approach into the study of sporting... Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form... |
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708,03 zł |
Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781138806672 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debates around the 'sport for development and peace' (SDP) movement have entered a new phase, moving on from simple questions surrounding the utility of sport as a tool of international development. Beyond Sport for Development and Peace argues that critical research and new perspectives and methodologies are necessary to balance the local aspects and global influences of sport and to better understand the power relations embedded in SDP on a transnational scale. As the era of the Millennium Development Goals gives way to a new agenda for sustainable development, this book considers... Debates around the 'sport for development and peace' (SDP) movement have entered a new phase, moving on from simple questions surrounding the utili... |
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733,31 zł |
Football in Neo-Liberal Times: A Marxist Perspective on the European Football Industry
ISBN: 9781138826519 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an original Marxist critique of the European football business. It argues that the Marxist account of the difference between profits and surplus value is crucial to an understanding of the fluid and contradictory nature of the commodification of football. Section one analyses the nature of modern professional football and section two highlights attempts, via government agency and football clubs, to corral fans into ever greater identification with business logic aimed at breaking traditional social relations. Section three draws on a number of cases studies across Europe,... This book offers an original Marxist critique of the European football business. It argues that the Marxist account of the difference between profi... |
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657,46 zł |
Documenting the Beijing Olympics
ISBN: 9781138880573 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the key stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes? Which clashes were highlighted and how? What sorts of stories did the notion of human interest generate? Did politics take a backseat or was the topic highlighted repeatedly? Thus, the focus was not on the success or failure of this event, but on the ways in which the Olympics Games, as international... This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word ... |
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237,65 zł |
The Politics of In/Visibility: Being There
ISBN: 9780230302556 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Visibility matters in contemporary societies; online, in the media and in the public eye. But who is seen and how? Are women still seen through a male gaze? This book explores the politics of looking and being looked at, and the relationship between actual and virtual worlds, for example in sport, art and cinema.
Visibility matters in contemporary societies; online, in the media and in the public eye. But who is seen and how? Are women still seen through a male...
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194,08 zł |
The Interrelationship of Leisure and Play: Play as Leisure, Leisure as Play
ISBN: 9781137513014 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Augmentative play is a special activity that substantially aids the pursuit of a larger, encompassing leisure activity. This approach to the study of play is unique. It recognizes the hundreds of activities in which play and leisure come together.
Augmentative play is a special activity that substantially aids the pursuit of a larger, encompassing leisure activity. This approach to the study of ...
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194,08 zł |
Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781472506108 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion - including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology - and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern), football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national identity,... Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion - including sociology, philosophy, psych... |
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657,46 zł |
Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781472514059 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion - including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology - and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern), football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national identity,... Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion - including sociology, philosophy, psych... |
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136,50 zł |
Endurance Running: A Socio-Cultural Examination
ISBN: 9781138810426 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Running is a fundamental human activity and holds an important place in popular culture. In recent decades it has exploded in popularity as a leisure pursuit, with marathons and endurance challenges exerting a strong fascination. Endurance Running is the first collection of original qualitative research to examine distance running through a socio-cultural lens, with a general objective of understanding the concept and meaning of endurance historically and in contemporary times. Adopting diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to explore topics such as historical... Running is a fundamental human activity and holds an important place in popular culture. In recent decades it has exploded in popularity as a leisu... |
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733,31 zł |
Skateboarding: Subcultures, Sites and Shifts
ISBN: 9781138829824 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the cultural, social, spatial, and political dynamics of skateboarding, drawing on contributions from leading international experts across a range of disciplines, such as sociology and philosophy of sport, architecture, anthropology, ecology, cultural studies, sociology, geography, and other fields. Part I critiques the ethos of skateboarding, its cultures and scenes, global trajectory, and the meanings it holds. Part II critically examines skateboarding in terms of space and sites, and Part III explores shifts that have occurred in skateboarding's history around... This book explores the cultural, social, spatial, and political dynamics of skateboarding, drawing on contributions from leading international expe... |
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632,16 zł |
Sport in a Changing World
ISBN: 9781612058573 / Angielski / Miękka / 14 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful "golden triangle" of sports, media, and business interests with social, cultural, economic, and political forces shapes sport in a changing world. This edition is a condensed and updated version of the first edition, with an emphasis on current social issues in sport. It also has more global content. The golden triangle concept is more developed and applied more extensively. Other key themes of the first edition-power, status, and inequality-are also more developed. New "Stop and Think Questions" have been added to challenge students... This book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful "golden triangle" of sports, media, and business interests with social, cultural, economic,... |
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288,21 zł |
The Business of Leisure: Tourism, Sport, Events and Other Leisure Industries
ISBN: 9781137428172 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whereas leisure was once treated as a social service, a business culture has swept through what remains of the voluntary and public sectors today. Ken Roberts explains how and why this has happened, what it means for tourism, sport, the arts and broadcasting, and why events, in particular mega-events, have become prize acquisitions.
The Business of Leisure addresses the trend towards commercialisation in the provision of leisure that has not only continued but accelerated since the 2004 publication of The Leisure Industries. This updated second edition reflects how recent... Whereas leisure was once treated as a social service, a business culture has swept through what remains of the voluntary and public sectors today. Ken...
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606,88 zł |
The Business of Leisure: Tourism, Sport, Events and Other Leisure Industries
ISBN: 9781137428189 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whereas leisure was once treated as a social service, a business culture has swept through what remains of the voluntary and public sectors today. Ken Roberts explains how and why this has happened, what it means for tourism, sport, the arts and broadcasting, and why events, in particular mega-events, have become prize acquisitions.
The Business of Leisure addresses the trend towards commercialisation in the provision of leisure that has not only continued but accelerated since the 2004 publication of The Leisure Industries. This updated second edition reflects how recent... Whereas leisure was once treated as a social service, a business culture has swept through what remains of the voluntary and public sectors today. Ken...
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176,96 zł |
Leeds United, the Kids Are Alright!
ISBN: 9781849146951 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fifth book in the series as the author continues to follow Leeds United home and away. This is the story of the 2014/2015 season, another one full of controversy and chaos off the pitch and ultimately failure on it.
The fifth book in the series as the author continues to follow Leeds United home and away. This is the story of the 2014/2015 season, another one f... |
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75,59 zł |