Product Description: World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at the heart of world football...read more

Product Description: When this book was first published the study of sport had been largely neglected by sociologists. The contributions to this volume bring the sports field, the leisure centre and everyday leisure activities to a more central position within the sociological enterprise...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate...read more

Founded in 1904 by representatives of the sporting organisations of six European nations then expanding into the Americas, Asia and Africa FIFA has developed to become one of the most high profile and lucrative businesses in the global consumer and cultural industry.  Recent years however have been characterised by a series of crises leaving the organisation open to critique and exposure, and creating a soap operatic narrative of increasing interest to the global media. In this critical new account of one of the world’s most important sporting institutions, Professor Alan Tomlinson investigates the history of FIFA and the underlying political dynamics characterising its growth. The book explores the influence of the men who have led FIFA, the emergence of the World Cup as FIFA’s exclusive product, FIFA’s relationships with other federations and associations, the crises that have shaped its recent history, and the issues and challenges that are likely to shape its future. Particular focus is given to selected moments in the post- Havelange administration and the way in which FIFA, its current president Joseph Blatter and some key close colleagues have responded to and survived successive scandals. The book provides a foundation for understanding the growth and development of what is widely accepted as the world’s most popular sport; sheds light on the shifting politics of nationalism in the post-colonial period; and reveals the opportunistic forms of personal aggrandizement shaping an increasingly media-influenced and globalizing world in which international sport was both a harbinger and an early reflection of these trends and forces. Fascinating and provocative, this is essential reading for anybody with an interest in soccer, sport and society, sports governance, or global organisations.

Product Description: This fully illustrated atlas charts and profiles the world’s major competitive sports and the profits that flow from their commercial development. From the U.S.A—baseball, football, basketball, boxing, car racing, and more—to Pelé’s “beautiful game” of international soccer, Alan Tomlinson paints sport’s big picture...read more

Product Description: Sports Studies is a fast-growing academic discipline, with programs across the country. The brand new Dictionary of Sports Studies contains over 1,100 clear, concise, and authoritative entries compiled by Alan Tomlinson, a leading expert in the field...read more

Product Description: "This anthology provides breadth, depth, and continuity in a thoughtfully presented selection of classic, current, and provocative readings. For instructors it is the "course pack" they’ve always wanted to prepare, and for students it is the readings they’ve spent untold hours seeking in libraries…Tomlinson’s introductions put each reading in a context that gives students reason to take it seriously and a framework to connect it with theory and research...read more

Explains why cities dig deep in their pockets to host the Olympics and countries breed teams for success on the world soccer stage.

Product Description: This topical book provides unprecedented analysis of football's place in post-war and post-reunification Germany. The expert team of German and British contributors offers wide-ranging perspectives on the significance of football in German sporting and cultural life, showing how it has emerged as a focus for an expression of German national identity and pride in the post-war era...read more

Product Description: A collection of essays that examine the positive and negative aspects of association football. This book concentrates on matters relating to the unfolding relationship between sport and identity formation, football finance and organization...read more

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Product Description: This title provides a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted sports studies media & organisations.Gathering together the most cutting-edge data and real-life case studies from around the world - including Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany and the United States - this volume presents a unique insight into the issues and continuing debate surrounding gender in sports and leisure cultures, and the future challenges they face...read more

Product Description: This volume offers a reflective, multi-disciplinary and partly inter-disciplinary collection of complementary articles concerning ethics, sport and leisure: I. ethical issues and ethics in sport and sports practiceII. ethical issues in research in sports science andIII...read more

Product Description: Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bringing a cultural and social dimension to the study of sport, this introductory guide will help students understand the context of sport and the place it has in the lives of individuals as well as in modern British society as a whole...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This accessible volume gathers together previously written articles on a range of themes, including sport and leisure, physical education, sociology and cultural studies. Combining case-study analysis with discussion of key conceptual and theoretical themes, sociology, and cultural studies, the helpful format of the book should lead to a clearer understanding of the sociological implications of "leisure". (view table of contents)

Product Description: Bringing a cultural and social dimension to the study of sport, this introductory guide will help students understand the context of sport and the place it has in the lives of individuals as well as in modern British society as a whole...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text is offered as a contribution to the debate on the continuities apparent in gendered sport and leisure cultures, and the impact of some of the most notable challenges to those continuities. The book is divided into four parts covering: participation; education; popular culture; and policy and action...read more

Product Description: This volume offers a reflective, multi-diciplinary collection of complementary articles concerning ethics, sport and leisure, and how such areas are investigated, researched and understood. Topics covered include: ethical procedures, assumptions and moral principles underlying the use of particular research strategies and techniques; ethical practice in sports science and applied sports techniques; nature of the research process; researcher-researched relationship; and the role of the researcher (covert or overt?) in qualitative work...read more

Product Description: Offers a cross-cultural analysis of the world's most popular game, which is intended to appeal to both academics and popular audiences. The analysis is set in the context of the fact that the 1994 World Cup is held in the USA, where soccer is low in the popularity polls.

Product Description: This is a clinical guide to the aetiology, appearance, cause and management of complications associated with contact lens wear. The information is presented so that the practitioner or student can view a complication as seen in the consulting room, define its cause and finally determine management...read more