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  • Global Sport-for-Development

    Critical Perspectives

    by Daryl Adair ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problems and limitations – particularly if programs are not adequately planned, delivered or monitored. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Managing the Paralympics

    Edited by Simon Darcy, Stephen Frawley, Daryl Adair ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world’s premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the Paralympics explores how the organizers ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity

    Building Global Understanding

    Edited by Daryl Adair ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of 'race', ethnicity, and identity. For much of the twentieth century, sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were in many ways off the field. Today sport is much more inclusive, with athletic ability of greater importance than skin ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Wearing of the Green

    A History of St Patrick's Day

    by Mike Cronin, Daryl Adair ...
    The full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in The Wearing of the Green.Illustrated with photos, the book spans the medieval origins, steeped in folklore and myth, through its turbulent and troubled times when it acted as fuel for fierce political argument, and tells the fascinating story of how the celebration of 17th March was transformed from a stuffy dinner for ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Sport Tourism

    Interrelationships, Impacts and Issues

    Edited by Dr. Brent W. Ritchie, Dr. Daryl Adair ...
    Series Book 14 - Aspects of Tourism
    This book examines the economic, social and environmental impacts and issues associated with the development of sport tourism globally, including the lack of research and coordination between industry and government. The book suggests the need for a more balanced analysis of the impacts and issues associated with future sport tourism development. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    by Nick Cater ...
    A bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and a plea to keep Australia's famed open-mindedness, Cater tracks the seismic changes in Australian culture and outlook since Donald Horne published THE LUCKY COUNTRY in 1964. 'A great book.' Rupert MurdochA bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and how it is threatened by the rise of a ruling class. Nick ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place

    Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth

    by Noel Pearson ...
    Series Book 55 - Quarterly Essay
    The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia’s original peoples?Soon we will all decide if and how indigenous Australians will be recognised in the constitution. In the words of Professor Greg Craven: “We have a committed prime minister, and a committed opposition. We have a receptive electorate. There will never be a better time. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Coast to Coast

    Hockey in Canada to the Second World War

    Edited by John Chi-Kit Wong ...
    As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover, Canadian culture is not static, and hockey's place in it has evolved and changed.In Coast to ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Svend Robinson

    A Life in Politics

    by Graeme Truelove ...
    Few politicians have enraged opponents, frustrated colleagues and polarized Canadians like Svend Robinson — but few embraced the causes he did. Over his twenty–five years as a New Democrat MP, Robinson was imprisoned for blocking loggers from clear–cutting in Clayoquot Sound, assaulted by police while protesting at the 2001 Summit of the Americas, expelled from foreign countries for defending ... Read more

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  • Memoirs and Reflections

    by Roy McMurtry ...
    From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Playing on the Periphery

    Sport, Identity and Memory

    by Tara Brabazon ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why ‘working class’ English sports – such as football – have ... Read more

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  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Edited by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic ... Read more

    $67.99 USD