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The Economics of Professional Team Sportsby Paul Downward; Alistair Dawson
Routledge 2000; US$ 82.95This book is unique in offering the first truly rigorous application of economic principles to the subject of professional team sports. more...
Politics of Sports Developmentby Barrie Houlihan; Anita White
Routledge 2002; US$ 75.95This important new text address a range of issues central to understanding the character of sports development, from organisation and strategy within the public and volunatary sectors, to funding, networking and service evaluation. more...
Commercialisation of Sportby Trevor Slack
Routledge 2003; US$ 63.95Since the latter part of the nineteenth century sport has become increasingly commercialised. At no time has this process of commercialisation been more apparent and occurred more rapidly than over the past three decades. There are numerous manifestations of inextricable links that have developed between sport and business. This collection examines five of them in a global context: the growth of the sports industry; the commercialisation of amateur sport; sport sponsorship; public sector organisations and sport; and the contribution of television to the commercialisation of sport. more...
Political Economy of Global Sports Organisationsby John Forster; Nigel Pope
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95This book tackle such topics as the global sports economy, the global sports market and fringe sports with an accessible style. This book will be useful to those studing the economics of sport as well as those in the sports industry. more...
Megaevents and Modernityby Maurice Roche
Routledge 2000; US$ 62.95Explores the social history and politics of 'mega-events' from the late 19th century to the present. Case studies: 1936 Berlin Olympics, 1992 Barcelona Olympics, 1851 Crystal Palace Expo. A thoroughly new and ground-breaking analysis. more...
Sports Management and Administrationby David Watt
Routledge 2003; US$ 77.95Sports Management and Administration 2nd edition presents a comprehensive overview of the management of sport in the UK at every level, from the European context to the organisation of voluntary grass-roots sport. more...
Australian Sport - Better by Design?by Matthew Nicholson; Mark Peters; Aaron Smith; Bob Stewart; Hans Westerbeek
Routledge 2004; US$ 71.95Australian sports policy has pioneered and led the world. This new text, written by Australia-based academics, is the first single volume to review Australian sports policy and this text will be of significant interest both within and without more...
Olympic Games Explainedby Vassil Girginov; Jim Parry; Craig Reedle
Routledge 2004; US$ 51.95This new student textbook explores the history and meaning of the four-yearly phenomenon that is the modern Olympic Games. It provides a comprehensive overview of 'Olympism' from the Ancient Greeks origins through the beginnings of the International more...
Elite Sport Developmentby Mick Green; Barrie Houlihan
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 63.95The is the first book to examine the emergence, development and current status of elite sport development policy in the sports of swimming, track & field, and sailing in Australia, Canada and the UK. more...
Post-Olympism?by John Bale; Mette Krogh Christensen
Berg Publishers 2004; US$ 109.95The Olympic ideal and the Olympic Games stand as symbols of global cooperation, international understanding and the bonding of individuals through the medium of sports. However, throughout the twentieth century, Olympic rhetoric was often confronted by a different reality. The Games have regularly been faced by crises that have threatened the spirit of Olympism and even the Games themselves. Given the many changes that have occurred in the Olympic Games during the past century it seems reasonabl e to ask if this global event has a future and, if so, what form it might take. With this larger issue in mind, the authors of Post-Olympism? ask probing questions about the following: the infamous 1936 Olympics the effect of new technologies on ... more...









