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“joanna cagan”

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  • Field of Schemes

    How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Neil deMause, Joanna Cagan ...
    Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers, forced to pay both higher taxes and higher ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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    The Sports Moment That Changed the World

    by Dave Zirin, John Carlos ...
    "A powerful and poignant memoir" of an African American athlete who defied the establishment—decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Race Matters).An NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/AutobiographyJohn Carlos was a bronze medalist in the two hundred-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, but he is remembered for more than his ... Read more

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  • The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends

    A Very Trippy Miscellany

    by Adriano Sack, Ingo Niermann ...
    Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, this informational book about drugs dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip.Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    by Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Authentic New Orleans

    Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy

    by Kevin Fox Gotham ...
    Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA’s Community and Urban Sociology SectionMardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter—all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In Authentic New Orleans, Kevin Fox Gotham explains how New Orleans became a tourist town, a spectacular locale known as much for its excesses as for ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Street Kids

    Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New Yorks Streets

    by Kristina E. Gibson ...
    Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • New York's New Edge

    Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

    by David Halle, Elisabeth Tiso ...
    The story of New York’s west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it’s a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York’s most dominant neighborhood for contemporary art, and the streets of the west side are filled with gallery owners, art collectors, and tourists. Developments like the High ... Read more

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  • London's Olympic Legacy

    The Inside Track

    by Gillian Evans ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a unique perspective on the behind the scenes planning of London's Olympic legacy. The author had unprecedented access to the legacy organisations, institutions, and individuals involved with the 2012 Games. This has allowed her, in a highly accessible and engaging style, to capture a sense of the unfolding drama as attempts were made in London to harness the juggernaut of ... Read more

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  • Baltimore Sports

    Stories from Charm City

    Edited by Daniel A. Nathan ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    To read a sample chapter, visit www.uapress.com.Baltimore is the birthplace of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the incomparable Babe Ruth, and the gold medalist Michael Phelps. It’s a one-of-a-kind town with singular stories, well-publicized challenges, and also a rich sporting history. Baltimore Sports: Stories from Charm City chronicles the many ways that sports are an integral ... Read more

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  • DC Sports

    The Nation's Capital at Play

    Edited by Chris Elzey, David K. Wiggins ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    Washington, DC, is best known for its politics and monuments, but sport has always been an integral part of the city, and Washingtonians are among the country’s most avid sports fans. DC Sports gathers seventeen essays examining the history of sport in the nation’s capital, from turn-of-the-century venues such as the White Lot, Griffith Stadium, and DC Memorial Stadium to Howard-Lincoln ... Read more

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  • The Urban Geography of Boxing

    Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

    by Benita Heiskanen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and boxing insiders in Texas, it discusses boxing from the vantage point of the sundry players, who are ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Come Out Swinging

    The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym

    by Lucia Trimbur ...
    A nuanced insider's account of everyday life in the last remaining institution of New York's golden age of boxingGleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson—the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since become one ... Read more

    $28.09 USD