Sociology: sport & leisure books

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The Safe Standing Movement in Football: Fan Networks, Tactics, and Mobilisations

The Safe Standing Movement in Football: Fan Networks,...

Author: Mark Turner (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032313214
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book tells the important story of the 30-year social movement against all-seated stadia in football in England...  Read More >>

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Author: Joe Posnanski
ISBN: 9780593472675
Format: Hardback
$72.00

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game- a countdown of 50 of...  Read More >>

The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023

The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023

Author: Richard Deitsch ,  Glenn Stout
ISBN: 9781637274453
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"""Selected from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and digital publications during the previous year, these...  Read More >>

Reasons why we love Baseball: A brief and concise history of incredible and fascinating moments

Reasons why we love Baseball: A brief and concise history...

Author: Dr Chris Niel
ISBN: 9798863027494
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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The Idealist: Jack Trice and the Battle for A Forgotten Football Legacy

The Idealist: Jack Trice and the Battle for A Forgotten...

Author: Jonathan Gelber ,  Seneca Wallace
ISBN: 9781637274644
Format: Paperback
$50.03

"An essential story of understated courage, the lasting power of a name, and the battle to honor a pioneering legacy....  Read More >>

Discourses of Globalisation, Human Rights and Sports

Discourses of Globalisation, Human Rights and Sports...

Author: Joseph Zajda ,  Yvonne Vissing
ISBN: 9783031383014
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book discusses major discourses of performing sports within human rights. There are both organizational, environmental...  Read More >>

The Politics of Football

The Politics of Football

Author: Christos Kassimeris (European University Cyprus, Cyprus)
ISBN: 9781032147789
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the deep connections between football and politics, and explains what those relationships can...  Read More >>

Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports

Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines...

Author: James N. Druckman (Northwestern University, Illinois) ,  Elizabeth A. Sharrow (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
ISBN: 9781009338363
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Fifty years after the passage of Title IX, the institutions that govern college sports undermine initiatives for...  Read More >>

Scheisse! We're Going Up!: The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club

Scheisse! We're Going Up!: The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's...

Author: Kit Holden
ISBN: 9780715654859
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Scheisse! recounts the extraordinary story of Union Berlin, the German Bundesliga's most spirited football club,...  Read More >>

China, Football, and Development: Socialism and Soft Power

China, Football, and Development: Socialism and Soft...

Author: Emanuel Leite Junior (Tongji University, China) ,  Carlos Rodrigues (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
ISBN: 9781032511160
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book uses football as a lens through which to examine China’s economic development, its political economy,...  Read More >>

Girls Don't Play Sport

Girls Don't Play Sport

Author: Chloe Dalton
ISBN: 9781761068751
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Sports Illustrated Tom Brady

Sports Illustrated Tom Brady

Author:
ISBN: 9781637275146
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Famously selected as the 199th pick, in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft, Tom Brady's career trajectory is...  Read More >>

Refuse to Lose: How to Win in the Game of Life

Refuse to Lose: How to Win in the Game of Life

Author: Travis Wilson
ISBN: 9798856715148
Format: Paperback
$42.21

"Travis Wilson delivers 52-weeks of life-changing devotionals to inspire and encourage. His love for Christ propels...  Read More >>

Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports

Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of...

Author: Robyn Ryle
ISBN: 9781538184172
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This book uses the world of sports in order to reveal the complicated history of gender, sexuality, race, and social...  Read More >>

The Ball in the Air: A Golfing Adventure

The Ball in the Air: A Golfing Adventure

Author: Michael Bamberger
ISBN: 9798885790635
Format: Hardback
$87.09

From Michael Bamberger, the New York Times bestselling author of Men in Green and our most celebrated contemporary...  Read More >>

Home, Family and Community

Home, Family and Community

Author: Kathleen Heasman
ISBN: 9781032533070
Format: Hardback
$183.00

Originally published in 1978, this book was written in response to the growing need for resource material for Home...  Read More >>

The Universal Sport: Two Years inside Boxing

The Universal Sport: Two Years inside Boxing

Author: Thomas Hauser
ISBN: 9781682262399
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Features Thomas Hauser’s coverage of 2021 and 2022 in boxing. As always, Hauser chronicles the big fights and gives...  Read More >>

Becoming a Sustainable Runner: A Guide to Running for Life, Community, and Planet

Becoming a Sustainable Runner: A Guide to Running for...

Author: Tina Muir ,  Zoë Rom
ISBN: 9781718214033
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Becoming a Sustainable Runner weaves together concepts of internal and external sustainability to help runners achieve...  Read More >>

The Bishop Sycamore Story: The Bishop Sycamore Story

The Bishop Sycamore Story: The Bishop Sycamore Story...

Author: Andrew King ,  Ben Ferree
ISBN: 9781637272237
Format: Hardback
$73.92

The riveting true story of a sham school run by longtime con men whose scheme crashed and burned live on television...  Read More >>

Mike: The Tigers of LSU

Mike: The Tigers of LSU

Author: David G. Baker
ISBN: 9780807180303
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Mike the Tiger - the only live tiger mascot in the US - is an iconic presence on LSU’s campus. From his sanctuary...  Read More >>

Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport: Post-Retirement Perspectives

Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport:...

Author: Luke Jones ,  Zoë Avner
ISBN: 9781032232720
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This edited collection bringS together sociologically informed accounts from former high-performance athletes about...  Read More >>

Events Management

Events Management

Author: Glenn A. J. Bowdin ,  Johnny Allen
ISBN: 9780367491888
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Cycling Activism: Bike Politics and Social Movements

Cycling Activism: Bike Politics and Social Movements...

Author: Peter Cox (University of Chester, UK)
ISBN: 9780367535018
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The first full-length treatment of cycling activism as a social movement, this book draws on social movement theory...  Read More >>

Cycling Activism: Bike Politics and Social Movements

Cycling Activism: Bike Politics and Social Movements...

Author: Peter Cox (University of Chester, UK)
ISBN: 9780367535025
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The first full-length treatment of cycling activism as a social movement, this book draws on social movement theory...  Read More >>

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