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  • The Frailty Myth

    Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

    by Colette Dowling ...
    Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger?These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety. It ... Read more

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    A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World

    by Mark Haskell Smith ...
    "A delightful and informative look at nudism throughout history and around the world." — The Seattle TimesPeople have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as Mark Haskell Smith reveals, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. "Nonsexual social nudism," as it's called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, ... Read more

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  • UFO Scotland

    The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon

    by Ron Halliday ...
    For over fifty years, from the Highlands to the Lowlands, and from the Western Isles to Orkney, witnesses have been reporting close encounters with UFOs and alien entities. Many cases have become notorious - the Livingston incident, the Lossiemouth alien, the A70 abduction, the extraordinary events in Bonnybridge and the 'Falkirk Triangle' - but the vast majority of cases have, until now, remained ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise

    Edited by Brett Smith, Andrew C. Sparkes ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise. The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is the first book to offer an in-depth survey of established and emerging qualitative methods, from conceptual first principles to practice and process.Written and edited by a team of world-leading researchers, and some of the best ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • The Sportsmen of Changi

    by Kevin Blackburn ...
    Australian prisoners of war playing sport, at times with their captors, does not fit the picture embedded in the popular imagination of horror and suffering in Japanese POW camps during WWII. But incredibly, sport flourished amidst the hellish conditions in these camps. The Sportsmen of Changi is a moving account of diggers for whom sport was not just a means to boost morale and an escape from a ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

    by D. Stanley Eitzen ...
    Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction that lays out the two themes of the book with fresh examples, and a significantly revised chapter on ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Computer Age Statistical Inference

    Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science

    by Bradley Efron, Trevor Hastie ...
    Series Book 5 - Institute of Mathematical Statistics Monographs
    The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology, both in scope and in influence. 'Big data', 'data science', and 'machine learning' have become familiar terms in the news, as statistical methods are brought to bear upon the enormous data sets of modern science and commerce. How did we get here? And where are we going? This book takes us on an exhilarating ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Visual Communication Research Designs

    by Keith Kenney ...
    Visual Communication Research Designs provides a step-by-step guide for designing research involving visuals relevant to communications media. This volume explains the process from conceptualization to research questions, instrumentation, analysis, and reliability and validity checks. It also addresses the lack of sufficient methods to answer theoretical questions attending visual communication. ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Qualitative Research for Physical Culture

    by P. Markula, M. Silk ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a guide to qualitative research methods in the multidisciplinary field of physical culture. Developing an approach based on the '7 Ps' of research, this text navigates a pathway through the research process that will be invaluable as a teaching tool and to experienced and inexperienced researchers alike. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Sport Management

    Edited by Karen Bill ...
    Series series Active Learning in Sport Series
    This is a core text for all those on Sport Management and Sports Studies courses. It examines both traditional business elements and the new functional areas of management in sport. Key chapters on marketing, finance, entrepreneurship, and event management are included, and the book as a whole provides a critical understanding of the complex and dynamic relationship between sport, business and ... Read more

    $89.59 CAD

  • Multilayer Social Networks

    by Mark E. Dickison, Matteo Magnani, Luca Rossi ...
    Multilayer networks, in particular multilayer social networks, where users belong to and interact on different networks at the same time, are an active research area in social network analysis, computer science, and physics. These networks have traditionally been studied within these separate research communities, leading to the development of several independent models and methods to deal with ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body

    Theory, Method and Praxis

    Edited by Michele K. Donnelly, Michael D. Giardina ...
    Series series Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity
    The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way we research physical culture, most evidently in the study of sport. This book brings together original insights on contemporary physical culture from key figures working in a variety of disciplines, offering a wealth of different theoretical and philosophical ways of engaging with the body while ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD