Now available in paperback, this vital handbook marks the development of sports studies as a major new discipline within the social sciences. Edited by the leading sociologist of sport, Eric Dunning, and Jay Coakley, author of the best selling textbook on sport in the USA, it both reflects and richly endorses this new found status. Key aspects of the Handbook include: an inventory of the principal achievements in the field; a guide to the chief conflicts and difficulties in the theory and research process; a rallying point for researchers who are established or new to the field, which sets the agenda for future developments; a resource book for teachers who wish to establish new curricula and develop courses and programmes in the area of sports studies. With an international and inter-disciplinary team of contributors the Handbook of Sports Studies is comprehensive in scope, relevant in content and far-reaching in its discussion of future prospect.
The Handbook of Sport Studies reflects the development and consolidation of Sports Studies as a mature and vital field of study. An authoritative cast of international and inter-disciplinary contributors, the handbook represents the best of current thinking in sports studies. Handbook of Sport Studies is: - an inventory of the principal ......
A study of racism in American sport which offers solutions for bringing more minorities into coaching and administration. The author also wrote The Sports Franchise Game and Agents of Opportunity: Sports Agents and Corruption in Collegiate Sports.
Utah's Escalante country: a vast jigsaw puzzle of desert canyons, draws, defiles, gorges, slots, and washes demarcating upland expanses of slickrock, benches, and ridges, above which stand towers, pinnacles, and peaks. Inhabited for centuries by the ancient Puebloans and now managed primarily by various federal agencies, it is a land of stark ......
Discusses the institutionalized racism of college and professional team sports, where most owners are white, and most athletes are not, and suggests changes.
Scientists often test the claims of astrology. Efforts to prove the claims fall short. The one exception, according to backers of astrology, is the work of Michel and Francoise Gauquelin. This title presents a study that examines the birth data for 1,066 French sports champions culled from two leading Who's Who anthologies focusing on athletes.
Bridging the gap between scholarship and jou rnalism, this book takes on major contemporary topics, such as race, gender and violence, as they play out in the world of sports. The role of the media and some real life heroes a re also examined. '
