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  • Understanding Sport

    A socio-cultural analysis

    Collections series CRESC
    In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and ... En savoir plus

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  • Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

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  • Game Over

    How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down

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  • Steel Chair to the Head

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    How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports

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  • The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping

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