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Dirtbag dreams
The first book to share the untold story of this unique sport, from its origins in the Victorian era to the present day.Over the past two decades, mountain, ultra and trail running has experienced a massive boom in participation, media attention and corporate consumerism. Once little more than an...
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Head in the game
Head in the game critically analyses the global concussion crisis in sport from sociocultural perspectives. This edited collection features essays from humanities, social science, and scientific scholars who analyse how the concussion crisis came to be and provide guidance for developing ethical ...
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Fighting in armour
A detailed exploration of armoured combat with sword, dagger, spear and axe. Filled with techniques, drills, explanation of armour and its component parts, and an overview of the various sources and their authors, the pages are illustrated with photographs, mainly in colour, of beautiful replica ...
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In 1857 Everard Digby published the first scientific treatise on swimming – and one of the first on any modern sport. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a pioneer of the history of sport. The book opens with a history of swimming in Britain from the Romans to the sixteenth century, which is fol...
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Tractado de la caualleria de la gineta
Originally published in 1551, Hernán Chacón's Tractado de la Cauallería de la Gineta reflects an era of radical changes in the chivalresque-military world of renaissance Spain. This new paperback volume in the Exeter Hispanic Texts series provides a text in the original Spanish, edited and introd...
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A snorkeller’s guide to the mediterranean
A snorkeller’s identification guide to the most frequently encountered marine species of the Mediterranean. Presented in an informative yet readable way, includes numerous tips on how to make the most of your snorkelling.
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Sporting systems and social harm
The book provides a critical, evidence-led account of how sport fails to deliver many of its promised social benefits, how it produces predictable social harms, and what policymakers, regulators, and sport leaders can do about it.
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The digital world of sport
The book analyses how new media, and in particular, digital and social media, has changed the world of sports forever, from its pivotal role in the evolution of the sports industry and its trailblazing impact on the broader media industry.
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Occupational devotion: finding satisfaction and fulfillment at work
The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, skilled trades, and small business proprietors. Devotee ...
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Beyond the metrics
This interdisciplinary book explores how fitness technology affects self-image, anxiety, and social identity, connecting sports science, psychology, and digital culture.
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Football in the americas
Football has always provided its players and fans with identity and belonging, whether to a nation or to a particular social group. It has been both a vehicle for the politically ambitious and an arena in which citizens can make sense of national failings and contest existing power structures. Th...
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Hidden in plain sight
Ellis Amdur's writing on martial arts is ground-breaking. Completely revised and substantially expanded second edition. New material includes discussion of the transfer of esoteric power training from China to Japanese jujutsu systems, Japanese swordsmanship from the Kurama traditions, Daito-ryu ...
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In the service of mars volume 1
In the Service of Mars, Volume One is both a compilation of some of the most popular and detailed lectures and class notes from Western Martial Arts Workshop's first decade (1999-2010), and a record of the growth of the Western martial arts community in depth and breadth over the same time.
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Revelations of rapier
Robert Childs' book seeks to bestow not just mechanical advice, but also to provide a philosophy of fencing that shows the swordsman not only the how, but the why. The book is both a primer on Childs' own eclectic system of rapier combat and an exploration of the wide variety of topics that fence...
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Lance, spear, sword, and messer
This book covers the fighting traditions of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, particularly as recorded by Johannes Liechtenauer (1300-1389), with sections on the two-handed sword, spear, poleaxe, wrestling, and the use of long shields. It also provides analysis and historical commentary on ...
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Fighting scholars
‘Fighting Scholars’ presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Bod...
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Historical fencing manual
A true, modern fencing manual for training in the tradition of the southern Italian school of the late Renaissance, written by a modern master of the art. The texts of the 17th- and 18th-century masters are broken-down, synthesized and arranged into a concise, modern pedagogy; a complete course u...
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Sport and technology
How do new technologies come to be used in sport? This book moves beyond the idea of functionality to explore the many other important factors that athletes and sporting bodies consider throughout the process of adoption. Few would question the difficulty of producing an elite athletic performan...
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Localizing global sport for development
This book draws on a decade of research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia to extend existing understandings of global sport for development.
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African football migration
African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectori...
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England and the 1966 world cup
England and the 1966 World Cup presents a cultural analysis of what is considered a key 'moment of modernity' in the nation's post-war history. Regarded as having an importance beyond its primary sporting purpose, the World Cup in England is examined within the complexity of the cultural,...
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Foreign players and football supporters
The first academic book to look at supporters’ reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support
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Mega-events and social change
Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.
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The greening of golf
This book is the first comprehensive study of the varyingresponses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as asport and as a global industry, drawing on literaturespertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutionalchange, corporate environmentali...
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Ultras
Ultras are the most prominent form of football fandom in the 21st century, from their origins in Italy in the 1960s, this style of fandom has spread across Europe and then across the globe. This book provides the first European-wide monograph on the ultras phenomenon.
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The price of football
This revised and updated second edition of the bestselling guide to understanding football club finance includes analysis of the most recent club accounts, as well as the impact of Covid-19 on the game's finances, the latest legal rulings on club affairs, and expanded coverage of "creative accoun...
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Foul play
Football has an integrity problem. Whether it is the reckless behaviour of players on or off the pitch, television commentators bad-mouthing decisions during the game, or the corrupt governance of the sport, football has a tarnished reputation. Dan Hough analyses why this is and how to tackle it.
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