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Football, Culture and Power
What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book brings together scholars and sport commentators to examine the relationship between American football, violence and the larger relations of power wi…
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- 1317410890, 9781317410898
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Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education :How to Make a Diff…
Within the overlapping fields of the sociology of sport, physical education and health education, the use of critical theories and the critical research paradigm has grown in scope. Yet what social impact has this research had?This book considers the capacity of critical research and associated social theory to play an active role in challenging social injustices or at least in ‘making a diff…
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- 1351333860, 9781351333863
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Valuing Nature The Roots of Transformation
When a group of liberal arts students embark on a university assignment about the natural environment, no one could have quite prepared them for the bewildering array of questions and provocations to confront them in their task. What starts out as an earnest attempt to understand nature in the modern world, turns into a philosophical and practical tangle that only a good transdisciplinary educa…
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- 1000428567, 9781000428568
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Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport: Shaming the Colour Line
In the decade since Kevin Hylton’s seminal book ‘Race’ and Sport: Critical Race Theory was published, racialised issues have remained at the forefront of sport and leisure studies. In this important new book, Hylton draws on original research in contemporary contexts, from sport coaching to cyberspace, to show once again that Critical Race Theory is an insightful and productive tool for i…
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- 1317504119, 9781317504115
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Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods
Research on real-world problems—like restoration of wetlands, the needs of the elderly, effective disaster response and the future of the airline industry—requires expert knowledge from a range of disciplines, as well as from stakeholders affected by the problem and those in a position to do something about it. This book charts new territory in taking a systematic approach to research integ…
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- 9781921536755
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Young People, Social Media and Health
The pervasiveness of social media in young people’s lives is widely acknowledged, yet there is little evidence-based understanding of the impacts of social media on young people’s health and wellbeing. Young People, Social Media and Health draws on novel research to understand, explain, and illustrate young people’s experiences of engagement with health-related social media; as well as th…
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- 9781138493957
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Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for…
This book provides collaborative research teams with a systematic approach for addressing complex real-world problems like widespread poverty, global
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- 9781922144270
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Metadata for semantic and social applicationsDC- 2008 Berlin - Proceedings of…
Metadata is a key aspect of our evolving infrastructure for information management, social computing, and scientific collaboration. DC-2008 will focus on metadata challenges, solutions, and innovation in initiatives and activities underlying semantic and social applications. Metadata is part of the fabric of social computing, which includes the use of wikis, blogs, and tagging for collaboration…
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- 9783940344496
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Towards a Climate-Neutral Europe Curbing the Trend
This book explains the EU’s climate policies in an accessible way, to demonstrate the step-by-step approach that has been used to develop these policies, and the ways in which they have been tested and further improved in the light of experience. The latest changes to the legislation are fully explained throughout. The chapters throughout this volume show that no single policy instrument can …
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- 9781000750713, 100075071X
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Central Asian Sources and Central Asian Research - Selected Proceedings from …
In October 2014 about thirty scholars from Asia and Europe came together for a conference to discuss different kinds of sources for the research on Central Asia. From museum collections and ancient manuscripts to modern newspapers and pulp fiction and the wind horses flying against the blue sky of Mongolia there was a wide range of topics. Modern data processing and data management and the prob…
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