Highlights from the 2009 World Superbike Championship. As the season got underway, all eyes were on Ducati's Nori Haga to deliver that long-awaited first championship title. However, US star Ben Spies was out to spoil the party in his debut season. Spies took his Yamaha R1 to a string of victories to ensure his battle with Haga would remain on a knife-edge as the pair left the rest of the field standing.

Highlights from every round of the 2010 MotoGP event, with action from all the biggest stars of the sport including Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa and Ben Spies.

The concept of social capital has been widely embraced by academics, activists and governments. It promises a language to unite economics and sociology, and a resource that will help explain poverty, social exclusion and civic distrust. Yet some suspect a sinister process of colonisation, where the methods and ideology of market economics are imposed upon the broader social sciences. This book argues the concept's origins lie within the rational choice tradition, but makes a distinction between the methodological and ideological development of the concept. While social capital theory may present an opportunity for social theorists to engage with and learn from economists, the development of the concept also suggests political commitments to individualism and a suspicion of the state that may cause progressive theorists to pause for thought. Looking to contemporary Australian politics, this book argues that these same dynamics help us understand the evolving debates around the impact of the market on community, from economic rationalism and community development to the recent Third Way debate.