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Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface
between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport
has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but
also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution,
reconciliation and peace-building. In this important study, John
Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international
experience of working with divided communities to develop a
methodological and theoretical model for peace-building in sport.
The book showcases original case studies from three regions of the
world in which sport has played a prominent role in social
deconstruction and reconstruction: Northern Ireland,
Israel/Palestine and South Africa. Combining a wealth of primary
and secondary data, the authors chart the rise of the contemporary
Sport for Development and Peace movement (SDP) and outline an
important new practice-based framework for understanding,
researching and working to achieve positive social change in the
SDP sector. This is essential reading for any student, researcher
or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport
development, international development, peace studies or conflict
resolution.
Details 59 brilliant games from the career of a correspondence
world champion with his own notes, and provides insights into the
processes of analysis and decision-making, as well as abundant
study material. Packed with general chess wisdom and pertinent
quotes from the great masters of chess.
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 product across all of its levels. The book
argues that the process of commercialization, directed by the IOC
itself, has enabled audiences to interpret its traditional objects
in non-reverential ways and to develop oppositional interpretations
of Olympism. The Olympics have become multi-voiced and many themed,
and the spectacle of the contemporary Games raises important
questions about institutionalization, the doctrine of
individualism, the advance of market capitalism, performance,
consumption and the consolidation of global society. With
particular focus on the London Games in 2012, the book casts a
critical eye over the bidding process, Olympic finance, promises of
legacy and development, and the consequences of hosting the Games
for the civil rights and liberties of those living in their shadow.
Few studies have offered such close scrutiny of the inner workings
of Olympism's political and economic network, and, therefore, this
book is indispensible reading for any student or researcher with an
interest in the Olympics, sport's multiple impacts, or sporting
mega-events.
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 product across all of its levels.
The book argues that the process of commercialization, directed
by the IOC itself, has enabled audiences to interpret its
traditional objects in non-reverential ways and to develop
oppositional interpretations of Olympism. The Olympics have become
multi-voiced and many themed, and the spectacle of the contemporary
Games raises important questions about institutionalization, the
doctrine of individualism, the advance of market capitalism,
performance, consumption and the consolidation of global
society.
With particular focus on the London Games in 2012, the book
casts a critical eye over the bidding process, Olympic finance,
promises of legacy and development, and the consequences of hosting
the Games for the civil rights and liberties of those living in
their shadow. Few studies have offered such close scrutiny of the
inner workings of Olympism s political and economic network, and,
therefore, this book is indispensible reading for any student or
researcher with an interest in the Olympics, sport's multiple
impacts, or sporting mega-events.
This book draws upon the disciplines of politics, sociology, history and philosophy to provide a critical analysis of power relations throughout the world of sport, while offering important new case-studies from such diverse sporting contexts as the Olympics, world football, boxing, cricket, tennis and windsurfing. Power Games can be used as a complete introduction to the study of sport and society, and will be essential reading for any serious student of sport. At the same time, it is a provocative book that by argument and example challenges those who research and write about sport to make their work relevant to social and political reform.
Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport and between sport and society. The book draws upon the disciplines of politics, sociology, history and philosophy to provide a critical analysis of power relations throughout the world of sport, while offering important new case studies from such diverse sporting contexts as the Olympics, world football, boxing, cricket, tennis and windsurfing. In the process, it addresses key topics such as: * nations and nationalism * globalisation * race * gender * political economy. Power Games can be used as a complete introduction to the study of sport and society. And will be essential reading for any serious student of sport. At the same time, it is a provocative book that by argument and example challenges those who research and write about sport to make their work relevant to social and political reform.
World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA
is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a
watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden
and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent
investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking
work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic
corruption at the heart of world football. It was a book that FIFA
and Sepp Blatter tried to ban. Now re-issued to combine the
original contents of Badfellas with new chapters covering the
current crisis, this book points to the ways in which FIFA's new
administration can learn from the Blatter story. The prequel traces
the course of Sugden and Tomlinson's game-changing investigation
into FIFA, while the sequel updates the FIFA story from 2002
onwards and provides a chronology of crises and scandals within the
FIFA narrative. Demonstrating the vital importance of critical
investigative methods in sport studies, Football, Corruption and
Lies: Revisiting Badfellas, the book FIFA tried to ban is essential
reading for anybody looking to understand Blatter's rise and fall.
World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA
is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a
watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden
and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent
investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking
work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic
corruption at the heart of world football. It was a book that FIFA
and Sepp Blatter tried to ban. Now re-issued to combine the
original contents of Badfellas with new chapters covering the
current crisis, this book points to the ways in which FIFA's new
administration can learn from the Blatter story. The prequel traces
the course of Sugden and Tomlinson's game-changing investigation
into FIFA, while the sequel updates the FIFA story from 2002
onwards and provides a chronology of crises and scandals within the
FIFA narrative. Demonstrating the vital importance of critical
investigative methods in sport studies, Football, Corruption and
Lies: Revisiting Badfellas, the book FIFA tried to ban is essential
reading for anybody looking to understand Blatter's rise and fall.
Questions of Modern Chess Theory is the lost masterpiece of Soviet
chess literature. It was written by a double Ukrainian Champion,
and published in the Soviet Union in 1956. Russian experts say it
is one of the most influential chess books of the 20th century, yet
it was never published in English.It has been edited to make it
useful for the 21st century and is now accessible for the first
time to an English-speaking audience.
"Nelson: A Dream of Glory" is the most comprehensive and thoroughly
researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to
international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public
man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly
vivid and compelling style.
Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface
between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport
has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but
also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution,
reconciliation and peace-building. In this important study, John
Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international
experience of working with divided communities to develop a
methodological and theoretical model for peace-building in sport.
The book showcases original case studies from three regions of the
world in which sport has played a prominent role in social
deconstruction and reconstruction: Northern Ireland,
Israel/Palestine and South Africa. Combining a wealth of primary
and secondary data, the authors chart the rise of the contemporary
Sport for Development and Peace movement (SDP) and outline an
important new practice-based framework for understanding,
researching and working to achieve positive social change in the
SDP sector. This is essential reading for any student, researcher
or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport
development, international development, peace studies or conflict
resolution.
The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate
life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array
of sailors and civilians, heroes and villains, husbands, wives and
lovers. Here are Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the
Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar as well as his lesser-known yet
equally gripping campaigns. But behind the military prowess is a
man riven with paradoxes and schisms: the fighting admiral and the
glory-hunter, the national hero and the indigent commoner, the
family man and the adulterer. This is an epic, triumphant and
tragic life, and a masterpiece of the biographer's art.
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Adam Brant is a charismatic and successful analyst, until he meets
the traumatised but beautiful patient Anne Marie, with whom he
falls in love and begins an illicit, passionate affair. The affair
leads him to ultimate disgrace via an alcoholic and violent
downfall, and her to the end he should have, but did not foresee.
And then there is Adam's former wife Shirley and her chaotic
relationships with men, but especially her inexplicable inability
to completely remove Adam from her life. Interspersed with Freudian
theory, and insights into complex behaviours, this book leads the
reader to a new and disturbing vision of human frailties inevitably
encountered during life's interactions.
How well do you know the life of one of Britain's great maritime
heroes? Discover the truth behind a man who remains a legendary
figure of history more than four hundred years after his death. Sir
Francis Drake's career is one of the most colourful on record. The
most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish
Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and cirumnavigated the
world to bring home the Golden Hind laden with Spanish treasure.
His attacks on Spanish cities and ships transformed his private war
into a struggle for surivival between Protestant England and
Catholic Spain, in which he became Elizabeth I's most prominent
admiral and marked the emergence of England as major maritime
nation. 'Excellent...It deserves to become the standard Drake life.
His scholarship is impeccable' Frank McLynn, Sunday Telegraph
In Northern Ireland every significant aspect of life is bound up
with the politics of division. Sport is no exception. Politics -
the politics of partition - is integral to the rivalry between
clubs, and indeed to the very choice of games to be played and
watched. After the church, the most important sources of communal
division are education, physical location and sports preference.
While the importance of education and community segmentation has
been recognized, the complex role which sport plays in civil and
political relations in the province has been neglected. By its very
nature sport provides a focus for sectarian identification and a
forum for confrontation which can exacerbate conflict.
State-sponsored attempts to use sport and recreation to diffuse the
volatile political situation seriously under-estimate the important
significance of these areas of popular culture in defining the
boundaries between two warring factions. This book, the first
examination of the political nature of sport and leisure in
Northern Ireland, is the product of a number of years of experience
and research into sport, leisure and socio-political relations in
the province. It fulfils three overlapping functions: it's a book
about the political sociology of sport in Northern Ireland; it's an
addition to the literature of political sociology of Northern
Ireland in general; finally it's an important contribution to the
growing body of knowledge about sport and politics in general. The
study is centred on an explanation of the relationship between the
state of Northern Ireland and the forces which determine the shape
and substance of its distinctive civil societies: sectarianism,
ethnicity, nationalism and social class.
Book & CD. The purpose of the book is to use Delphi as a
vehicle to introduce some fundamental algorithms and to illustrate
several mathematical and problem-solving techniques. This book is
therefore intended to be more of a reference for problem-solving,
with the solution expressed in Delphi. It introduces a somewhat
eclectic collection of material, much of which will not be found in
a typical book on Pascal or Delphi. Many of the topics have been
used by the author over a period of about ten years at Bond
University, Australia in various subjects from 1993 to 2003. Much
of the work was connected with a data structures subject (second
programming course) conducted variously in MODULA-2, Oberon and
Delphi, at Bond University, however there is considerable other,
more recent material, e.g., a chapter on Sudoku.
Blue Jacket (1743-1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the most
influential Native American leader of his time. He was the
galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled
scope that fought a long and bloody war against white encroachments
into their homeland in the Ohio River valley. Blue Jacket was an
astute strategist and diplomat who, though courted by American and
British leaders, remained a staunch defender of the Shawnees'
independence and territory. He fielded large forces (his warriors
inflicted greater losses upon the American army than those of
Cochise, Geronimo, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull
combined), won unprecedented military and diplomatic victories, and
during his later years inspired and mentored the legendary
Tecumseh.
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