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  • Gym Bodies

    Exploring Fitness Cultures

    by James Brighton, Ian Wellard, Amy Clark ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Drawing on empirical research, this fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of ‘gym goers’ and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces.Gym Bodies offers a personal, interactive, ethnographic account of the multiplicity of contemporary gym practices, spaces and cultures, including bodybuilding, CrossFit and Spinning. It argues that gym bodies are ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sport, Fun and Enjoyment

    An Embodied Approach

    by Ian Wellard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    Sport, Fun and Enjoyment explores the pleasurable aspects of sport within the context of everyday recreational and competitive physical activities. While much recent work has focused on the relationships between physical activity, health and wellbeing, much less attention has been paid to pleasure and fun, key aspects of our engagement with sport but not so easy to measure in terms of specific ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Whose Body is it Anyway?

    A sociological reflection upon fitness and wellbeing

    by Ian Wellard ...
    There is a widespread interest in wellbeing, the healthy body and public health. However, there are also many simplistic and uncritical interpretations of what wellbeing or a healthy body should ‘look like’. By focusing upon wellbeing through examples taken from fitness-related activities, which are often considered unproblematic routes to achieving wellbeing and greater public health, this book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Researching Embodied Sport

    Exploring movement cultures

    Edited by Ian Wellard ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form a central part of our understanding and experience of sport and movement cultures. Researching Embodied Sport explores the political, social and cultural significance of embodied approaches to the study of sport, physical activities and dance. It ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Sport, Masculinities and the Body

    by Ian Wellard ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or unsuccessfully - and the consequences of these actions play a significant part in the ability of the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Rethinking Gender and Youth Sport

    Edited by Ian Wellard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    Much writing on gender and sport is focused upon the negative impact of girls’ exclusion from the arena, suggesting by inference that current practice in sport and physical education offers an uncomplicatedly positive sport experience for boys, and that gender, in and of itself, offers a simple starting point for research into young people’s experience of sport.Rethinking Gender and Youth Sport ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    The Science of Sports Obsession

    by Eric Simons ...
    In this accessible study, a journalist examines the science, philosophy, and sociology behind being a sports fan.Sports fandom is either an aspect of a person's fundamental identity, or completely incomprehensible to those who aren't fans at all. What is happening in our brains and bodies when we feel strong emotion while watching a game? How do sports fans resemble political junkies, and why do ... Read more

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  • The Mannings

    The Fall and Rise of a Football Family

    by Lars Anderson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports.What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero–turned–New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and Peyton’s younger ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • One Helluva Ride

    How NASCAR Swept the Nation

    by Liz Clarke ...
    From its raw beginnings on Southern dirt tracks, NASCAR smacked of a slightly depraved spectacle, as if nothing but trouble could come from the unbridled locomotion of a V8 engine. By the time NASCAR roared into the twenty-first century, it had grown into a billion-dollar sports and marketing colossus, its races attended by hundreds of thousands of fans on any given weekend from mid-February ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Physical Education

    A New Perspective

    by Steven Stolz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    The discipline area of physical education has historically struggled for legitimacy, sometimes being seen as a non-serious pursuit in educational terms compared to other subjects within the school curriculum. This book represents the first attempt in nearly thirty years to offer a coherent philosophical defence and conceptualisation of physical education and sport as subjects of educational value, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Research Process in Sport, Exercise and Health

    Case Studies of Active Researchers

    Edited by Rich Neil, Sheldon Hanton, Scott Fleming, Kylie Wilson ...
    What are the challenges and potential pitfalls of real research?What decision-making process is followed by successful researchers?The Research Process in Sport, Exercise and Health fills an important gap in the research methods literature. Conventional research methods textbooks focus on theory and descriptions of hypothetical techniques, while the peer-reviewed research literature is mainly ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Teaching Yoga

    Essential Foundations and Techniques

    by Mark Stephens ...
    Teaching Yoga is an essential resource for new and experienced teachers as well as a guide for all yoga students interested in refining their skills and knowledge. Addressing 100% of the teacher training curriculum standards set by Yoga Alliance, the world's leading registry and accreditation source for yoga teachers and schools, Teaching Yoga is also ideal for use as a core textbook in yoga ... Read more

    $11.99 USD