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  • Africa, Football and FIFA

    Politics, Colonialism and Resistance

    by Paul Darby ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds hinder the development of the game. The author shows convincingly how Africa's advance within ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • African football migration

    Aspirations, experiences and trajectories

    by Paul Darby, James Esson, Dr Christian Ungruhe ...
    Series series Globalizing Sport Studies
    The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men across the African continent who dream of following – literally and figuratively – in their footsteps. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research, African football migration captures and chronicles the aspirations, experiences and trajectories of ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Emigrant Players

    Sport and the Irish Diaspora

    Edited by Paul Darby, David Hassan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Ireland and its inhabitants have often been described as being ‘sports mad’. As a relatively small geographical entity, Ireland, north and south, has produced a disproportionately high number of world class sports men and women who have excelled at the highest levels of their chosen sport. The significance of sport in Ireland though extends far beyond the achievements of such individuals. Sport ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • New Perspectives on the Irish Abroad

    The Silent People?

    by David Convery, Barry Crosbie, Paul Darby, Juan José Delaney, Stephen Moore, Jason R. Myers, Sarah O'Brien, Gráinne O’Keeffe-Vigneron, Bernadette Sweeney, Bill Tobin ...
    The relationship between Ireland and the diversity of its diasporas has always been complex and multi-layered, but it is not until recently that this reality has really been acknowledged in the public sphere and indeed, amongst the scholarly community generally. This reality is partly a consequence of both “push-and-pull” factors and the relatively late arrival of globalization trends to the ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Spiritual Care with Sick Children and Young People

    A handbook for chaplains, paediatric health professionals, arts therapists and youth workers

    by Sally Nash, Paul Nash, Kathryn Darby ...
    Exploring both principles and best practice of the spiritual care of sick children and young people, this remarkable and inspiring book equips the reader to think critically and creatively about how to provide care in hospitals, hospices and other care contexts for ill and disabled children.Written for staff from any allied health discipline, the authors explore the potential spiritual needs and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    The Halter

    by Darby McDevitt ...
    Narrated by Paul Bellantoni ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    In a world where virtual addiction kills, Kennedy Stark is paid to pull the plug. A professional halter—part detective, part counselor—he trawls the world's darkest surrogate-reality feeds in search of the lost. When he isn't working, he's dreaming of a one-way ticket to Mars, where a new colony has been established as a hopeful alternative to an Earth in the early stages of climate collapse.One ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today

    by Michelle E. Brady, Paul A. Cantor, Thomas Darby, Stephen L. Gardner, Marc D. Guerra, Gregory R. Johnson, Joseph M. Knippenberg, Peter Augustine Lawler, Daniel J. Mahoney, James F. Pontuso, Paul Seaton, Ashley Woodiwiss, Henry T. Edmondson ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

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    A Long Reconstruction

    Racial Caste and Reconciliation in the Methodist Episcopal Church

    by Paul William Harris ...
    Narrated by Langston Darby ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? A schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The English Premier League

    A Socio-Cultural Analysis

    Edited by Richard Elliott ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Football
    The English Premier League (EPL) is one of the world’s most valuable and high-profile sports leagues, with millions of fans around the globe. The 2016/17 season marked the 25th anniversary of the EPL, providing a unique opportunity to reflect on how it has contributed, both positively and negatively, to key developments in football – and in sport and culture more broadly – at local, national and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

    by Jules Boykoff ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions.In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Globalization and Football

    by Richard Giulianotti, Roland Robertson ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the ′beautiful game′ Giulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion, as well as wider cultural, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Olympic Exclusions

    Youth, Poverty and Social Legacies

    by Jacqueline Kennelly ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is known about the realities of marginalized young people living in host cities. Do they benefit from social housing and employment opportunities? Or do they fall victim to increased policing and evaporating social assistance? This book answers these ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD