Sports governing bodies Books
Headline Publishing Group Formula One 2024
Book SynopsisThe world's bestselling Grand Prix handbook is back revised and fully updated for the new season.This is the definitive guide to Formula 1 in 2024. A complete examination of all the teams racing this season, every driver and all the tracks featured in the packed Grand Prix calendar.Also including a full review of the 2023 season and a breakdown of the revised rules and regulations for 2024, this indispensable guidebook features last season's drivers' and constructors' world championship results - as well as a fill-in chart for 2024, so each book becomes your own personalised guide to the year's action.Written by bestselling F1 author Bruce Jones and containing dozens of breathtaking photographs and detailed circuit illustrations plus a statistics section highlighting the major records in F1 history, this is the only guide you'll need for the racing action ahead.
£13.59
Octopus Publishing Group Official Guide to the Rules of Golf
Book SynopsisThe essence of the Rules of Golf is simple...play the course as you find it and play the ball as it lies. However, given golf is played all over the world where the climate, topography and course conditions vary greatly, there are a myriad of situations that can happen when playing golf and players need to know how to deal with those. The Official Guide to the Rules of Golf is the Bible of Golf Rules. This edition is fully updated to include amendments that come into play from January 2023. The first section of the book contains the Rules of Golf with Clarifications, where the Clarifications provide additional explanations and in many cases examples to help the reader understand the more complex scenarios. The second section, titled "Committee Procedures", contains practical guidance for those involved in running day to day play at golf courses or running competitions at all levels of the game.
£22.50
Headline Publishing Group MotoGP: The Illustrated History 2023
Book SynopsisThe daring exploits of motorcycle race legends Valentino Rossi, Barry Sheene, Casey Stoner and John Surtees are all gloriously celebrated in MotoGP: The Illustrated History.Updated for 2023 and packed with more than 150 stunning photographs, this authoritative and long-overdue illustrated history celebrates high performance motorbike racing since the start of the world championship in 1949.Each racing decade is dissected and discussed, as are the big incidents, top personalities and technological innovations. To complete the book, motorcycle racing's greatest names – including John Surtees, Giacomo Agostini, Kenny Roberts, Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner and Marc Marquez – provide exclusive personal insights and accounts of what it is like to race at speeds of 200mph. MotoGP: The Illustrated History is a unique book which brilliantly conveys the exhilarating spirit of this stunning sport.Table of ContentsIntroduction • 1949-1958 Birth of the Series (Interviews with Geoff Duke and John Surtees) • 1959-1968 Japan and the First Golden Age (Interviews with Giacomo Agostini and Jim Redman) • 1969-1978 The Two-Stroke Takeover (interviews with Phil Read and Kenny Roberts) • 1979-1988 The Rooster-Tail Americans Hit Town (interviews with Wayne Gardner and Wayne Rainey) • 1989-1998 Beyond the Golden Age (interviews with Kevin Schwantz and Mick Doohan) • 1999-2013 The Return of the Four-Strokes (interviews with Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner) • 2014-2022 Good Times, Tough Times • MotoGP records.
£24.00
HarperCollins Publishers The Times World Cup Moments
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2023 Illustrated Sports Book of the YearThe ideal gift for football fansPairing epic sports photography with articles from The Times and The Sunday Times archive, this volume brings together 100 of the most iconic moments from World Cup history.With striking, full-colour photography, rarely seen archival images and sensational reporting on the action, The Times World Cup Moments tells the unofficial story of the world's largest single sporting event as it unfolded on and off the pitch. Featuring the greatest goals, most historic line-ups, heroic players and unforgettable controversies, these split-second moments have changed the course of World Cup history and generated a global sensation along the way.The perfect Christmas gift for any football fan, some of the best moments from this book include: The first World Cup, Uruguay 1930 North Korea's fairy tale, England 1966 David Beckham's perfect free-kick, France 1998 Brazil's golden line-up, Mexico 1970 The infamou
£28.50
Vintage Publishing The Fall of the House of Fifa
Book SynopsisDavid Conn is the author of The Beautiful Game? and multi-award-winning journalist for the Guardian. He has been awarded UK sports news reporter of the year three times, and sports journalist of the year in the British Journalism Awards. David has many years of unique experience carrying out original investigations into football and its modern relationship with money, and has been a key part of the Guardian's coverage of the Fifa crisis.Trade ReviewThis book has a cumulative power, piling betrayal on betrayal, until they even include one of Conn’s childhood idols from the 1974 World Cup, the German player Franz Beckenbauer * Guardian *We have known for so long that Fifa, world’s football’s governing body, is rank with institutionalised corruption… But then if we are to hand a rifle to anyone to shoot fish in a barrel, there could be no choice than David Conn, the dogged investigate reporter… The figures he uncovers in this book are breathtaking * Mail on Sunday *Even in age inured to corruption, the reign of Sepp Blatter over football’s global ruling body, Fifa, was jaw-droppingly spectacular… How did he do it? David Conn’s patient unravelling of Fifa’s tangled web provides the answer, and it makes for ugly but revealing reading… Conn, a sport journalist on the Guardian, negotiates the murky world of big money with confidence and dogged calm in this tale of the beautiful game gone bad * Observer *Excellent * Sunday Times *A very fine piece of reportage, probing to the organisation's dark and festering heart while also taking care to accentuate the good FIFA has done in the world * BALLS.ie *
£10.44
Penguin Books Ltd Champagne Football
Book SynopsisTHE NO.1 BESTSELLER!''I read it in one sitting, it''s a superb book'' Eamon Dunphy, The Stand ''An astonishing exposé'' Martin Ziegler, The TimesOver the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own personal fiefdom. He had his critics, but his power was never seriously challenged until last year, when Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan published a sequence of stories in the Sunday Times containing damaging revelations about his personal compensation and the parlous financial situation of the FAI. Delaney''s reputation as a great financial manager was left in tatters. He resigned under pressure, and the FAI was left hoping for a massive bail-out from the Irish taxpayer.In Champagne Football, Tighe and Rowan dig deep into the story of Delaney''s career and of the FAI''s slide into ruin. They show how he surrounded himself with people whose personal loyalty he could count on, and a board that failed to notice that the association''s finances were shot. They detail Delaney''s skilful cultivation of opinion-formers outside the FAI. And they document the culture of excess that Delaney presided over and benefited from, to the detriment of the organization he led.Champagne Football is a gripping, sometimes darkly hilarious and often enraging piece of reporting by the award-winning journalists who finally pulled back the curtain on the FAI''s mismanagement.____________''Excellent'' Irish Sun''A jaw-dropping story ... brilliant'' Irish Times''Essential reading'' Irish Daily Star''Astonishing ... Side-splittingly hilarious'' Guardian''A damning account'' Sunday Independent''An instant classic, one of the all-time great Irish sports books'' Alan English''Excellent ... includes staggering detail'' Daily Mail''A cracking read ... [An] incredible amount of jaw-dropping detail'' Matt Cooper ''One of the most hotly-anticipated sport books of the year'' Brendan O''Connor ''A masterpiece'' Tommy Martin''At last, the truth of his ruinous reign has been rigorously and painstakingly exposed'' Irish Daily Mail ''An absolutely extraordinary book'' Eoin McDevitt, Second Captains ''Remarkable. The desperate story of Irish football but also a book about how Ireland works. Outstanding'' Dion FanningTrade ReviewA jaw-dropping tale of power and ego going unchecked * Times, Best Sports Books of the Year 2020 *I read it in one sitting, it's a superb book ... I urge people to buy it and read it even if you're not interested in football -- Eamon Dunphy * The Stand *A cracking read ... [An] incredible amount of jaw-dropping detail -- Matt CooperThe most important Irish sports book of the year and most significant book on Irish life itself ... Exceptional * Irish Daily Mail *A superb piece of investigative journalism, in which a tale of tawdry venality is told with wit, verve, and just the right amount of disbelief -- Fintan O'Toole * Irish Times, Best Books of 2020 *
£10.44
Pearson Education Foundations in Sports Coaching
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£47.49
Hachette Australia Fighting for Hakeem
Book SynopsisFootball is the world game. It unites. At a grassroots level it creates communities and, in 2019, those communities helped save the life of one of its own.In 2012, Hakeem al-Araibi was a promising young player on Bahrain''s national football team when he was arrested for attacking a police station during the Arab Spring, despite television footage showing him playing soccer at the time of the alleged attack. After three months of torture and wrongful imprisonment, Hakeem was released. He fled the country and made his way to Australia, where he was granted refugee status. Hakeem made a life here and was playing for the suburban Pascoe Vale Football Club, in Melbourne. He thought he was safe.But, in November 2018, on a holiday to Thailand with his wife, Hakeem was again arrested. The Bahraini government wanted to extradite him to face a ten-year jail sentence, or worse. What happened next shows the best of what soccer can do, and the worst the governing body of FIFA br
£18.00
Hachette Australia The Boys Club
Book SynopsisThe Boys'' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and politics of the AFL, Australia''s biggest sport. Revealing how a fledgling state administrative body evolved into the Australian Football League and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest and most powerful organisations in the land, award-winning investigative journalist Mick Warner delivers a fascinating insight into key figures and their networks. Tracking the rise of the AFL and its supremos, The Boys'' Club lifts the lid on the scandals, secrets and deal-making that have shaped this iconic Australian game.''Cannot recommend this book highly enough ... The Boys'' Club reaches far and wide.'' Paul Kennedy
£9.49
Ebury Publishing The Rodchenkov Affair
Book SynopsisDr Grigory Rodchenkov is the former director of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory, which was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 2015 for facilitating Russia's elaborate state-sponsored doping program. He helped develop and distribute banned performance enhancing substances for thousands of Russian sports stars from 2005 to 2015. He made headlines in 2016 as a whistleblower, exposing the extensive nature of Russia's doping program, leading to Russia's 2016 & 2018 Olympics bans. Rodchenkov is currently in witness protection in the US.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary account of a decade-long quest by the USSR and then Russia to win by any means * Mail on Sunday *John le Carré meets Russian 21st-century interference. On steroids...extraordinary' * Nick Harris, Sporting Intelligence *A fascinating first-hand account of the biggest sporting scandal in history, and a worthy winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year * Telegraph *He was the doping kingpin who helped Russia's athletes top the medals tables. Then he blew the whistle. * Financial Times *An utterly incredible life story * Telegraph *
£13.49
McFarland & Company The Regulation of Boxing A History and
Book SynopsisA study of boxing regulations in the United States that offers an historical overview of the subject, from the earliest attempts at regulating the sport to present-day legislation that may create a national boxing commission. It also examines the disparity of regulations among states, as well as the reasons for some of these differences.
£20.89
British Museum Press Perfect Bodies
Book SynopsisBy presenting rigorous situated histories of changing training regimen in different cultures, this collection of papers collectively challenge orthodox notions of the perfect body and its pursuit. The introductory essay by the editor compares and contrasts the different methods and ideals.
£52.88
John Wiley & Sons Inc Footballs Secret Trade
Book SynopsisA no-holds-barred exposé on the financialtransactionsof the world''s favourite sport The transfer fees clubs pay to sign top players now top 4 billion a year but much of the money has been flowing out of the game. A small group of wealthy investors including Russian oligarchs, English racehorse owners and a former billionaire gold miner have seized the opportunity to enter this booming market. Some have moved in on the territory of banks and lent money to clubs in exchange for a share in fees generated by Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and dozens more of today''s stars. Others have acquired obscure teams to get a piece of the pie. Even as the global financial crisis sent fortunes tumbling this select group found a profitable place to park their money. The size of the transfer market has continued to rise - it increased seven-fold in value the last two decades, more than the FTSE share index. Between them, these wealthy investors haveamasseTable of ContentsPrologue 1 1 The Son of Jesús 9 2 The Chess Champion 23 3 The British Tax Exile 41 4 An East End Scandal 53 5 The Prime Minister’s Men 67 6 The 100-to-1 Shot 79 7 The Switzerland of South America 93 8 “Todo Pasa” 107 9 Buenos Aires to Manchester 121 10 “I Want 40% for the Boy” 137 11 The Pharmacist’s Medicine 151 12 Working on a Dream 161 13 The Baur au Lac 175 14 The End Game? 187 Epilogue 199 Bibliography 207 Acknowledgments 209 About the Authors 211 Index 213
£18.40
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Communication and Contradiction in the NCAA
Book SynopsisCommunication and Contradiction in the NCAA: An Unlevel Playing Field is a critical examination of the contradictory nature of the NCAA, and how the inherent contradictions impact the communication activities of its constituents, supporters, and challengers. At the heart of the NCAA is the student-athlete, born out of an idealistic collection of communal values that is often at odds with institutional practices. The rhetorical negotiation of the student-athlete's identity informs and confuses communication practices on a number of levels, from interpersonal interactions to organizational apologia. Because the student-athlete is critical to maintaining the collegiate athletics orientation, the NCAA works overtime in promoting, maintaining, and defending it in the face of public scrutiny. The NCAA and its member institutions, like any organization, are compelled to answer public accusations, often working to defend inconsistent policies to an increasingly hostile audience. InTrade Review"Communication and Contradiction in the NCAA is a unique, and in a lot of ways refreshing, take on the various competing values and narratives present around the largest collegiate governing body. The collection of studies approach this examination from a number of different theoretical, contextual and methodological perspectives that make for a great read for sports communication, sports management and sports sociology scholars. What results from this collection is a sometimes supportive, sometimes damning, and always thoughtful discussion on the struggles the NCAA faces with its narrative." Kenon A. Brown, University of AlabamaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Mike Milford: Introduction: The NCAA from Conception to Contradiction – The NCAA’s Field of Play – Mike Milford/Lauren Reichart Smith: Communication and Contradiction in the NCAA – Lauren Reichart Smith: Competition, Conflict, and the NCAA – The Mythos of the Student-Athlete – Karen L.Hartman: Contesting the Meaning of Collegiate Football: Competing Narratives at the Birth of the NCAA – Gregory A.Cranmer/Karlee A.Posteher: Athlete Socialization into the NCAA Division I Environment: Communicating Contradictions – Travis R.Bell: The NCAA’s Mythos of the Student-Athlete and Academic Clustering: Media Guides and/as Contradiction – Organizational Authority and Control in College Athletics – Jimmy Sanderson: Do as I Say, Not as I Do: The NCAA and Social Media Contradictions within Intercollegiate Athletics – Angela M.Jerome: The Function of Counter-Arguments Built on Charges of Absurdity and Ridicule: Compelling Change in the NCAA – Mike Milford: Penn State, the NCAA, and the Rhetoric of Accusation: Power through Victimage – Conflicting Values in College Athletics – Joseph R.Blaney: The Contradictory Relationship between Tuition Increases, Image Repair, and the NCAA: Take It to the Bank – David M.Castleman, Daniel L.Wann/Jana Hackathorn: The Contrasting Influence of Team Identification and Fan Dysfunction on the Hostile and Verbal Aggression of NCAA Fans: Lashing Out in Pride – Shawn N.Smith/Michael L.Butterworth: Exploiting Contradictions of Capital in the NCAA: Rhetoric and Economic Materialism in the University of Missouri Football Protest – Daniel A.Grano/Kenneth S.Zagacki: The "Plantation Mentality": Problems of White Antiracist Criticism of the NCAA – Andrew Dix: Critical Race Theory, the NCAA, and College Baseball: Contradiction on the Diamond – Katherine Lavelle: Striking a Middle Ground: A Neocolonialist Analysis of the NCAA’s Mascot Ban – Phillip Chidester/Joshua Fitzgerald: "I Need a Hero": Representation, Support and the NCAA’s Disruptive Role in the Fan Identification Formula – Mike Milford/Lauren Reichart Smith: The Future of the NCAA and Collegiate Athletics – Contributors – Index.
£83.16
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Communication and Contradiction in the NCAA
Book SynopsisCommunication and Contradiction in the NCAA: An Unlevel Playing Field is a critical examination of the contradictory nature of the NCAA, and how the inherent contradictions impact the communication activities of its constituents, supporters, and challengers. At the heart of the NCAA is the student-athlete, born out of an idealistic collection of communal values that is often at odds with institutional practices. The rhetorical negotiation of the student-athlete's identity informs and confuses communication practices on a number of levels, from interpersonal interactions to organizational apologia. Because the student-athlete is critical to maintaining the collegiate athletics orientation, the NCAA works overtime in promoting, maintaining, and defending it in the face of public scrutiny. The NCAA and its member institutions, like any organization, are compelled to answer public accusations, often working to defend inconsistent policies to an increasingly hostile audience. InTrade Review"Communication and Contradiction in the NCAA is a unique, and in a lot of ways refreshing, take on the various competing values and narratives present around the largest collegiate governing body. The collection of studies approach this examination from a number of different theoretical, contextual and methodological perspectives that make for a great read for sports communication, sports management and sports sociology scholars. What results from this collection is a sometimes supportive, sometimes damning, and always thoughtful discussion on the struggles the NCAA faces with its narrative." Kenon A. Brown, University of AlabamaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Mike Milford: Introduction: The NCAA from Conception to Contradiction – The NCAA’s Field of Play – Mike Milford/Lauren Reichart Smith: Communication and Contradiction in the NCAA – Lauren Reichart Smith: Competition, Conflict, and the NCAA – The Mythos of the Student-Athlete – Karen L.Hartman: Contesting the Meaning of Collegiate Football: Competing Narratives at the Birth of the NCAA – Gregory A.Cranmer/Karlee A.Posteher: Athlete Socialization into the NCAA Division I Environment: Communicating Contradictions – Travis R.Bell: The NCAA’s Mythos of the Student-Athlete and Academic Clustering: Media Guides and/as Contradiction – Organizational Authority and Control in College Athletics – Jimmy Sanderson: Do as I Say, Not as I Do: The NCAA and Social Media Contradictions within Intercollegiate Athletics – Angela M.Jerome: The Function of Counter-Arguments Built on Charges of Absurdity and Ridicule: Compelling Change in the NCAA – Mike Milford: Penn State, the NCAA, and the Rhetoric of Accusation: Power through Victimage – Conflicting Values in College Athletics – Joseph R.Blaney: The Contradictory Relationship between Tuition Increases, Image Repair, and the NCAA: Take It to the Bank – David M.Castleman, Daniel L.Wann/Jana Hackathorn: The Contrasting Influence of Team Identification and Fan Dysfunction on the Hostile and Verbal Aggression of NCAA Fans: Lashing Out in Pride – Shawn N.Smith/Michael L.Butterworth: Exploiting Contradictions of Capital in the NCAA: Rhetoric and Economic Materialism in the University of Missouri Football Protest – Daniel A.Grano/Kenneth S.Zagacki: The "Plantation Mentality": Problems of White Antiracist Criticism of the NCAA – Andrew Dix: Critical Race Theory, the NCAA, and College Baseball: Contradiction on the Diamond – Katherine Lavelle: Striking a Middle Ground: A Neocolonialist Analysis of the NCAA’s Mascot Ban – Phillip Chidester/Joshua Fitzgerald: "I Need a Hero": Representation, Support and the NCAA’s Disruptive Role in the Fan Identification Formula – Mike Milford/Lauren Reichart Smith: The Future of the NCAA and Collegiate Athletics – Contributors – Index.
£31.68
Hodder & Stoughton Rugby The Game of My Life
Book SynopsisAn exclusive look at England Rugby from Rob Andrew - a former England star with a unique perspective on the game.Trade ReviewAn excellent read * Rugby World *
£18.00
Hodder & Stoughton Rugby The Game of My Life
Book SynopsisAn exclusive look at England Rugby from a Rob Andrew - a former England star with a unique perspective on the game.Trade ReviewAn excellent read * Rugby World *
£10.44
Hodder & Stoughton Driven
Book SynopsisFormula One is speed, glamour, danger - and eye-watering wealth. Driven: The Men Who Made Formula One tells how a small group of extraordinary men transformed Formula One from a niche sport played out on primitive tracks surrounded by hay bales and grass verges into a 1 billion circus performing in vast theatres of entertainment all over the world.Led by Bernie Ecclestone, the billionaire ringmaster, this clique started by scraping a living to go racing and ended up creating space-age cars, turning drivers from amateur gladiators into multimillion-pound superstars, like Ayrton Senna and Lewis Hamilton, while the names of Ferrari, McLaren and Williams are now as familiar around the world as Manchester United or Real Madrid. For 20 years, Kevin Eason watched how these men operated like a sporting Mafia, protecting each other while squabbling over the vast wealth pouring into the sport. As motor racing correspondent for The Times and then with The SundaTrade ReviewThe book's many anecdotes make it fast-paced and difficult to put down. * Autosport *As a primer on how F1 got to the state it is in - and who got it there - you couldn't ask for much better. Driven tells you more about any of its subjects in a handful of pages then the last book I read on F1 managed in 300. * Racefans.net *
£11.69
McFarland & Co Inc Founding the ACC
Book Synopsis In 1953, seven universities seceded from the NCAA''s Southern Conference to form the Atlantic Coast Conference. Founding members Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina and Wake Forest were soon joined by Virginia. Inspired by national academic and gambling scandals, and a bowl game crisis in 1951, the ACC''s leaders hoped to reduce the commercialism and professionalism that permeated college athletics in the 1950s. This first ever full-length history examines founding of the ACC, the star athletes and coaches and football and basketball season highlights, along with the negotiations that led to the creation one of America''s most successful athletic conferences.Trade ReviewAn in-depth account of the rationale behind, and the machinations of, the creation of the Atlantic Coast Conference."—Adam Criblez, professor of history, Southeast Missouri State UniversityTable of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. The Schools and Men Who Built a Conference 2. Reform in the Era of National and Local Scandals 3. Banning Bowls 4. Southern Conference Football and the 1951 Bowl Crisis 5. The Everett Case Invitational: Southern Conference Basketball, 1951–1952 6. Conference Struggles and Ineffective Reforms in 1952 7. A Reduced League: Southern Conference Football, 1952 8. The Last Was the Best: Southern Conference Basketball, 1952–1953 9. The Atlantic Coast Conference Is Born 10. ACC Football: The First Season Conclusion Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
£30.59
Ebury Publishing All to Play For: How sport can reboot our future
Book Synopsis'A timely, engaging and thought-provoking read from an ideal guide to explore what the future may hold.' Dan Roan, Sports Editor, BBC News'Matt shows with great insight and wisdom how (sport) can form the foundations for future discovery, development and ultimately, happiness.'Ben Ryan, Olympic Gold Medal-Winning Rugby Coach and Author Sevens Heaven, Daily Telegraph Sports Book of the Year 2019Sport can save us.After a fractious decade following the 2012 Olympics, sport - one of our few remaining collective rituals - is entering its golden age. An increasingly powerful force for good, it is undergoing a dramatic transformation that will positively impact our lives, on and off the pitch.From the collective shared experience of a nationwide event and the individual benefits gained from lacing up your trainers and getting out there to the political power of a footballer's Twitter account, All to Play For is a roadmap for the way that sports can unite us in the worst of times. Illuminated by interviews with a diverse range of sports insiders, including fitness guru Joe Wicks, gold medalist Greg Searle, the mind behind the viral 'This Girl Can' campaign, Tanya Joseph, and running obsessed rockstar Johnny Marr, All to Play For dives into the past, present and future of the industry to show how sport will lead us out of the darkness and guide us in a post-pandemic world.Covering the rise of the athlete activist, the necessity of grassroots organisations, the secret recipe for making sport an effective tool for change and ten bold predictions on how it will guide us in the future, this is an examined look at why sport has the power to heal a divided world.Trade ReviewSport gives us all a platform to make change happen. This superb book shows why our time is now. -- Ugo Monye, England Men’s Rugby International, Guardian Journalist and BT Sport presenterSport has a unique ability to connect, inspire, and break down barriers. It is not just for elite athletes, it is for us all. This book beautifully shows us a positive way forward for our society, with sport at its centre. -- Alex Danson-Bennett, Olympic Gold Medallist, Team GB Women’s Hockey TeamAlmost reads as a love letter to the transformative power of sport and exercise. As engaging as it is important. -- Vassos Alexander, Sports Presenter, Author and Trustee of StormbreakA sensitive exploration of the role exercise, nutrition and lifestyle can play in enabling happy, healthy lives. -- Dr Tasmin Lewis, Medical Director at Wellgevity and Former Professional Triathlete
£18.00
University of Tennessee Press Strong Women, Better World: Title IX's Global
Book SynopsisEvery story has a hero, every hero has a superpower, and when used with intentionality, sport is an incredible superpower in the fight for gender equality.Strong Women, Better World celebrates the global superheroes who use the potent mix of sport and education to kick down social, cultural, or political barriers and build stronger, more equitable communities. The book highlights nine members and alumnae of the Global Sports Mentoring Program (GSMP) Sisterhood, an award- winning sports diplomacy and mentorship exchange program implemented by the University of Tennessee’s Center for Sport, Peace, and Society (CSPS) in partnership with the U.S. Department of State and espnW. The stories of these nine superheroes are captivating examples of Title IX’s global ripple effect and illustrate how helping empower women and girls worldwide to achieve their own Title IX moments provides multidimensional wins for us all.The Center for Sport, Peace, and Society at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville helps global leaders develop innovative solutions to socio-political challenges via sport, working to create a more peaceful, equitable, and inclusive world. Founded in 2012, the center works globally through higher education—and in partnership with the U.S. Department of State—to administer the Global Sports Mentoring Program, one of the Department’s flagship exchange programs.
£30.36
Sports Publishing LLC The (Inter) National Basketball Association: How
Book SynopsisFor most of its existence, the National Basketball Association was a league filled with (almost) all American-born players. Players from overseas were looked at as lesser skilled and not worth the risk. Americans playing overseas were looked at as those who couldn't cut it in the NBA, now playing in, essentially, the minor leagues of basketball. B
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Sport Governance
Book Synopsis'The notion of governance has gained significant currency and has become an inseparable part of sport organisations' strategies and practices. It is also a widely taught subject in academic institutions. This is an original and well-conceptualized book, which provides a comprehensive examination of governance at different levels of analysis. Written by established scholars, the text represents a great reference source and will complement nicely the library of academics and practitioners alike.'- Vassil Girginov, President, European Association for Sport Management (EASM) 'The timeliness of this Research Handbook is underscored by the fact that the topic of sport governance has become extremely relevant and important but also extremely complex in our time.' - Hallgeir Gammelsæter, Molde Specialized University in Logistics, Norway Recent scandals across the word of sport can be directly related to poor governance. This Research Handbook gathers the state-of-the-art research on sport governance by leading international scholars on various issues across various sports, offering a vital reference point for advancing research. Illustrating different approaches and perspectives such as good governance principles, systemic governance, political governance and network governance, chapters suggest research-informed practical solutions to current problems within sport organisations. Covering sport event governance, business implications, corporate social responsibility for enhancing good governance and extended board management, specific directions for further research are provided for each topic under examination. This is the essential reference for all sport governance researchers. It will also be insightful for sport governing bodies and administrators looking for advice on improving good governance in sport institutions.Trade Review'This important Research Handbook provides a scholarly, conceptually robust and evidenced based approach to critical aspects of sport governance, bringing together an impressive number of original contributions from leading governance researchers from around the world. This Research Handbook will assist readers to better understand the many different ways that governance is conceptualised, operationalised and measured. The complexity, environmental and cultural nuances of governance are highlighted through insightful illustrative case studies, whereby current model and frameworks of sport governance are not merely presented but are challenged and critiqued. This is essential reading for sport management researchers, students and practitioners.' --Tracy Taylor, UTS Business School, Australia'Congratulations to the Editors on compiling a rich and varied range of sport governance research from across the globe. This Research Handbook on Sport Governance collates the work of leading sport governance scholars from around the world providing a diverse and interesting array of views and perspectives on the theory and practice of sport governance. The chapters and information contained in this Research Handbook provide a unique audit of sport governance research to date as well as giving directions for future and necessary work in this domain in the years to follow. May this contribution stimulate further research in sport governance.' --David Shilbury, Deakin University, Australia'Good governance is the essence of good sport, hence it is a matter that demands the attention of everyone from athletes and fans to governing bodies and commercial partners. Yet we are living in an era where the principles of good governance are being challenged, raising numerous questions about its principles, application and management. As such, this is a timely text that addresses many of the most pertinent issues facing sports governance today. If sport is to effectively confront the governance challenges it faces, it is clear that Winand and Anagnostopoulos' Research Handbook must form a central part of our thinking about how we can ensure that sport is governed in an optimal way.' --Simon Chadwick, University of Salford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Research on sport governance: An introduction Christos Anagnostopoulos and Mathieu Winand Part I Principles of good Governance in sport 2. Assessing Sports Governance Principles and Indicators Jean-Loup Chappelet and Michaël Mrkonjic 3. Measuring Governance: the Sports Governance Observer Arnout Geeraert 4. Support the Implementation of Good Governance in Sport (SIGGS): A European Project for National Olympic Committees and National Sport Federations Thierry Zintz and Simon Gérard 5. SATSport Model: An Applied and Adaptive Approach to Grassroot Sport Organisation’ Governance Arrangements Simone Digennaro, Mark Lowther and Antonio Borgogni 6. A Cultural Perspective on Good Governance in Sport Vassil Girginov 7. Embedding Good Governance Principles in Sports Governing Bodies through a Code of Ethics: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and Good Practices Els De Waegeneer and Annick Willem 8. Intersections of Governance and Social Responsibility in Sport Jonathan Robertson, Stefan Walzel and David Shilbury Part II Systemic sport Governance 9. Governance of Sports in Lithuania: Empirical Findings Towards Challenging Implications Vilma Čingienė 10. Evolution and Reformation of China Sport Governance Keyu Li and Graham Cuskelly 11. International Governance of Action Sports: An Organisational legitimacy Perspective Mikhail Batuev and Leigh Robinson 12. The Governance of the Paralympic Movement: An Institutional Perspective Simon Gérard, David Legg and Thierry Zintz Part III Relationships governance in sport 13. Interorganisational Network Governance in Sport Hagen Wäsche and Anna Gerke 14. Breaking Down Barriers: Collaboration in Sport Governance Networks Ian O'Boyle, David Shibury and Lesley Ferkins 15. Examining board-executive relationship in team sport charitable foundations: Unpacking trust building through ‘exchange currencies’ Christos Anagnostopoulos and Mathieu Winand Part IV Sport Event Governance 16. Sport Event Governance Milena Parent and Michael Naraine 17. The governance of legacy in the Olympic Movement: A theoretical framework Becca Leopkey 18. Urban Governance of Non-Mega Sport Events: A Socio-Political Discourse Analysis James Anderson and Marijke Taks Part V SPORT GOVERNANCE AND BusinESSS IMPLICATIONS 19. The Supporter Ownership Governance Model: Empirical Insights from English Football Sara Ward and Dan Parnell 20. The Transformation of German Football Bundesliga Clubs from Members’ Associations towards Corporations and their Governance Implications—the Case of Hamburger SV Stefan Prigge 21. China: Emerging Football Nation, Emerging Governance Issues Simon Chadwick, Ian Gibson and Tao Jiang 22. Olympic Brand Governance: Future Research Directions Benoit Seguin and Gashaw Abeza Part VI Sport Board Governance 23. Strategies for Change: A Presidential Perspective on Governing the NCAA Jimmy Smith 24. What do you mean it hasn’t worked out, yet? The paradoxes of women in sport governance research Larena Hoeber and Sally Shaw 25. The Governance of the Board of National Governing Bodies in High Performance Sport Veerle De Bosscher and Popi Sotiriadou 26. Succession and Good Governance Tracy Taylor and Leigh Robinson 27. Board Dynamics in Nonprofit Sport Organizations: Contemporary Research Directions Shannon Kerwin and Alison Doherty Part VII Reflections 28. Directions for future research in sport governance Mathieu Winand and Christos Anagnostopoulos Index
£44.60
Headline Publishing Group The Formula One Record Book (2023): Grand Prix
Book SynopsisWith more than one thousand sets of Grand Prix results, this is the ultimate reference for Formula One fans.The Formula One Record Book is an essential resource for any motorsport fan. This massive stats and records bible includes the full results of every Grand Prix in F1 history and much more besides. Featuring detailed driver and constructor statistics sourced from the industry-leading data providers at Motorsport Stats, championship standings and season reviews, it offers a comprehensive overview of Formula One history in a single, strikingly designed package.Alongside the facts and statistics you'll also find fascinating trivia and commentary from Bruce Jones, author of the bestselling Formula One Grand Prix Guide. Add in all-time records for drivers and constructors, and you have have a complete Formula One chronicle spanning more than 70 years of incredible racing.Table of ContentsGrand Prix results for every season for the Formula One World Championship • Detailed driver and constructor statistics for every F1 race • Championship standings and season reviews • All-time records for drivers, manufacturers, circuits and more • Fascinating commentary that brings the data alive.
£36.00
Headline Publishing Group The Formula One Record Book 2024
Book SynopsisFully updated for the 2024 season, and with more than a thousand sets of complete Grand Prix results, this is the ultimate reference book for Formula One fans.The Formula One Record Book 2024 is the essential resource for any motorsport fan. This massive stats and records bible includes the full results of every Grand Prix in F1 history and much more besides. Featuring detailed driver and constructor statistics (sourced from industry-leading data providers Motorsport Stats), championship standings and season reviews, it offers a comprehensive overview of Formula One history in a single, strikingly designed package.Alongside the facts and statistics you''ll also find fascinating commentary from leading F1 writer Bruce Jones. Add in all-time records for drivers and constructors, and you have have a complete Formula One chronicle spanning more than 70 years of incredible racing.
£40.00
Headline Publishing Group Formula One 2023: The World's Bestselling Grand
Book SynopsisFormula One 2023, the world's bestselling Grand Prix handbook, is the essential resource for the season ahead.Formula 1 fans will be kept fully up to speed with detailed examinations of all the teams racing in 2023 (from Ferrari and Red Bull to Mercedes and Aston Martin), every driver in the competition (including Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton), and all the tracks featured on the packed Grand Prix calendar, including the new Miami street circuit. It also reviews the 2022 season with race-by-race reports and statistics; highlights changes to the rules and regulations for 2023, and discusses major talking points in F1. As well as the drivers' and constructors' world championship tables from 2022, there is a fill-in guide for 2023, so each book can become a personalised record of the Formula One season.Complementing Bruce Jones's insightful text are dozens of colour photographs, detailed circuit maps and a statistics section containing the major records from more than 70 years of the world's most thrilling and glamorous motor sport.Table of ContentsIntroduction • Team-by-team preview of the 2023 season • Detailed driver profiles • Guide to the 2023 season's tracks • Race-by-race review of the 2022 season with complete results • Final 2022 results • F1 records • 2023 fill-in chart.
£14.99
Headline Publishing Group The Official History of the FIFA World Cup
Book SynopsisFully updated - includes the full story of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar.The Official History of the FIFA World Cup is the definitive inside story of the 22 FIFA World Cups to have taken place since the inaugural tournament in 1930. Packed with stunning photography, unique official documents and in-depth statistics, it is a must-read for any football fan around the world.No other event in the sporting world can rival the glamour, impact, fervent following and universal appeal of the FIFA World Cup. This unique official book tells the stories behind the scenes, as well as analyzing the most famous incidents. It features the biggest stars and many previously unknown ones too, all with a unique worldwide point of view.
£29.75
Gill More than a Game
£16.19
CGI Publishing Limited Sports Governance
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£42.70
CGI Publishing Limited Sports Governance Handbook
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£47.45
Y Lolfa Welsh Rugby: What Went Wrong?
Book SynopsisThe glory days of Welsh rugby seem long ago now. Mortifying defeats, threatened strike action, institutionalised sexism, racism and homophobia in the WRU, bad financial management this book examines key events from the 1980s to today which have brought Welsh rugby to its present crisis.
£9.99
Birlinn General Dreaming the Impossible: The Battle to Create a
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2023 Sports Book Awards for Best Sports Writing of the Year The British, who are rightly proud of their sporting traditions, are now having to come to terms with the dark, unacknowledged, past of racism in sport – until now the truth that dare not speak its name. Conscious and unconscious racism have for decades blighted the lives of talented black and Asian sportsmen and women, preventing them from fulfilling their potential. In Formula One, despite Lewis Hamilton’s stellar achievements, barely one per cent of the 40,000 people employed in the sport are of ethnic minority heritage. In football, Britain’s premier sport, the number of non-white managers in the professional game remains pitifully small. And in cricket, Azeem Rafiq’s testimony to the Commons select committee has exposed the scandal of prejudice faced by Asian cricketers in the game. Veteran author and journalist Mihir Bose examines the way racism has affected black and Asian sportsmen and women and how attitudes have evolved over the past fifty years. He looks in depth at the controversies that have beset sport at all levels: from grassroots to international competitions and how the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has had a seismic impact throughout sport, with black sports personalities leading the fight against racism. However, this has also led to a worrying white fatigue. Talking to people from playing field to boardroom and the media world, he illustrates the complexities and striking contrasts in attitudes towards race. We hear the voices of players, coaches and administrators as Mihir Bose explores the question of how the dream of a truly non-racial sports world can become a reality. The Marcus Rashford mural featured on the cover was commissioned by the Withington Walls community art project, created by artist AskeP19 (@akse_p19) and based on photography by Danny Cheetham (@dannycheetham). To find out more about the Withington Walls project, you can follow them at @Withingtonwalls on both Twitter and Instagram, or visit their website: www.withingtonwalls.co.ukTrade Review'Bose’s book should be a wake-up call to all those running British sports' * The Times *'Bose has written a thought-provoking, worthwhile and at times fascinating analysis of how racism has blighted sport in Britain, and what might be done to change this' -- John O'Donnell * Irish Times *
£16.19
Sequoia Books Women Working in Sport
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£17.09
Duncker & Humblot Sportler, Arbeit Und Statuten: Herbert Fenn Zum
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£53.10
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd National Basketball Association, The: Business,
Book SynopsisThe National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in the United States and Canada. This book discusses the development, growth, and success of the 61-year-old NBA from a business perspective. Covering the late 1940s to 2009, it focuses on the league's expansions and mergers, team territories and relocations, franchise organizations and operations, basketball arenas and markets, and NBA domestic and international affairs. Readers will gain an insight into when, how, and why the NBA emerged, reformed, and gradually matured to become one of the world's most dominant, prosperous, and popular professional sports organizations today.Table of ContentsLeague Expansions and Mergers; Team Territories and Relocations; Franchise Organizations and Operations; Basketball Arenas and Markets; NBA Domestic and Foreign Affairs.
£85.50
