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By Wray Vamplew (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415837477 | Routledge, April 2, 2014, cover price $1485.00

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Product Description: Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures is the first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource. This extensive volume traces the evolution of athlete career research through a cultural lens and maps the complex topography of athletes’ careers across national boundaries exploring how social and cultural discourses shape their development...read more
By Tatiana V. Ryba (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415505307 | Routledge, June 26, 2013, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures is the first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource.

Paperback:

9781848721678 | Routledge, June 24, 2013, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures is the first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource.

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Product Description: World Sports: A Reference Handbook covers a wide variety of sports-related controversies, including ethical, political, technological, business, and social issues related to the phenomenon of sports. Many of the larger topics are covered from multiple angles, often providing both a global and American perspective...read more

Hardcover:

9781598847789 | Abc-Clio Inc, July 19, 2012, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: World Sports: A Reference Handbook covers a wide variety of sports-related controversies, including ethical, political, technological, business, and social issues related to the phenomenon of sports.

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Hardcover:

9780415681117 | Routledge, August 10, 2012, cover price $100.00

Paperback:

9780415681124 | Routledge, August 14, 2012, cover price $23.95

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Product Description: Sportsmanship examines sporting traditions from around the world and explores the difference between following the rules and being a good sport. How do different cultures and sports define being a good sport? Are there different expectations for professional athletes than there are for amateurs? Exciting and varied case studies are used throughout this book to illustrate issues and concepts...read more

Paperback:

9781432959814 | Not Applicable, January 1, 2012, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Sportsmanship examines sporting traditions from around the world and explores the difference between following the rules and being a good sport.

Library:

9781432959760 | Heinemann/Raintree, January 1, 2012, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Sportsmanship examines sporting traditions from around the world and explores the difference between following the rules and being a good sport.

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By Mark Falcous (editor)

Hardcover:

9780153004216, titled "Dance to the Music" | Harcourt School, June 1, 1993, cover price $31.95 | also contains Dance to the Music
9780153013621, titled "Silver of the Moon" | Harcourt School, June 1, 1993, cover price $29.00 | also contains Silver of the Moon

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By Mark Falcous (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415498333, titled "Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings" | Routledge, November 23, 2010, cover price $165.00

Paperback:

9780415498340, titled "Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings" | Routledge, November 19, 2010, cover price $57.95

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Hardcover:

9781558494701 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, December 30, 2004, cover price $34.95

Paperback:

9781558496101 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: Focusing on such varied sites as British cinema, global celebrity, racialized education policy, and Disney, Sporting Pedagogies illustrates how trans/national sporting cultures, intermediaries, and institutions actively work as pedagogical sites to hegemonically re-inscribe and re-present neo-liberal discourses on sport, culture, nation, and democracy throughout the ascendant global capitalist order...read more

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9780820471341 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 2005, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Focusing on such varied sites as British cinema, global celebrity, racialized education policy, and Disney, Sporting Pedagogies illustrates how trans/national sporting cultures, intermediaries, and institutions actively work as pedagogical sites to hegemonically re-inscribe and re-present neo-liberal discourses on sport, culture, nation, and democracy throughout the ascendant global capitalist order.

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Product Description: The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity. This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By J. A. Mangan (editor)

Hardcover:

9780714651477 | Routledge, April 1, 2001, cover price $215.00 | About this edition: The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity.

Paperback:

9780714681719 | Routledge, April 1, 2001, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity.

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Product Description: One way to interest students about a culture and to help them understand it is to introduce them to the culture through one of its games. Games and sports are central to human cultures all around the world and they reflect various cultural preferences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Cheffers (editor), Doris Corbett (editor) and Eileen Crowley Sullivan (editor)

Hardcover:

9780313297786 | Greenwood Pub Group, January 30, 2001, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: One way to interest students about a culture and to help them understand it is to introduce them to the culture through one of its games.

Paperback:

9780313361012 | Greenwood Pub Group, January 30, 2001, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: One way to interest students about a culture and to help them understand it is to introduce them to the culture through one of its games.

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Product Description: This book provides a concise and comprehensive review of major developments in sport and physical activity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as viewed from an international perspective. Some of the world's leading experts in sports history identify and analyze the major global issues and concerns confronting sport and physical education today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9780205271580 | Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co, November 1, 1999, cover price $121.20 | About this edition: This book provides a concise and comprehensive review of major developments in sport and physical activity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as viewed from an international perspective.

In his major new work, Joseph Maguire develops a path-breaking account of sport in a global context, examining the changing nature of sport in relation to globalisation. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780745615318 | Polity Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $70.95 | About this edition: In his major new work, Joseph Maguire develops a path-breaking account of sport in a global context, examining the changing nature of sport in relation to globalisation.

Paperback:

9780745615325 | Polity Pr, September 29, 1999, cover price $26.95

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Hardcover:

9780415064132, titled "Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilization" | Routledge, July 1, 1999, cover price $215.00

Paperback:

9780415093781 | Routledge, July 1, 1999, cover price $62.95

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Product Description: Charts the cultural diffusion of British and American sports across the world, tracing the manner in which key sports have affected the cultural development of different countries from the 19th century to the present day. This includes the introduction of cricket to India and soccer to Africa...read more

Hardcover:

9780231100427 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $40.00

Paperback:

9780231100434 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Charts the cultural diffusion of British and American sports across the world, tracing the manner in which key sports have affected the cultural development of different countries from the 19th century to the present day.

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By Ralph C. Wilcox (editor)

Hardcover:

9780962792649 | Fitness Information Technology, June 1, 1994, cover price $26.00

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