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Written by European professors and focusing on the specificities of European sport, When Sport Meets Business analyses the growing commercialisation of professional sport in recent years and explains how it has developed into a major global industry. Structured into...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-10-19
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Sport can bring out the best in us… and the worst. The high-pressure world of competitive sport has been shaken over the years by a series of major scandals. Involving drugs, sex, violence, money or pure and simple cheating, these incidents have ruined reputations,...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-10-13
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The inside, in-depth and indiscreet story of a season with Britain's worst football club, East Stirlingshire.The Shire are lucky if all eleven players make it to a game, they have an average home attendance at their dilapidated Firs Park ground of 200 and they ended the...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-10-06
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The Sunday Times Bestseller and Number 1 Sport Book of 2016'A tale that's truly inspirational'The SunAn ordinary lad from Sheffield, Jamie Vardy has become known as an against-the-odds footballing hero the world over. Yet a few years ago, things couldn’t have been any...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-10-06
ePub
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The secrets behind the golf world's most successful young star. Lydia Ko's ascendency to the top of the women's golf world has been stunning.The youngest woman to win a golf major - and then the youngest player of either sex to go on and win two - Lydia Ko continues to...
Editeur :
Nz Epenguin
Parution :
2016-10-03
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'I've already had my nine lives on the bike...'Danny MacAskill lives on the edge. The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like 'The Ridge': nerve-jangling blurs of stunts and speed over towering buildings and mountain peaks. His life is one of thrills,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-09-29
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Former Republic of Ireland and Premier League footballer Jason McAteer shares the highs and lows from his long and colourful career ...The fighting McAteers: that's how the McAteer family of title-winning boxers were known throughout Birkenhead, across the Mersey from...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2016-09-29
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‘MASTERFUL’ Raphael HonigsteinThe story of superclub Bayern Munich by the critically acclaimed author of Tor!Bayern Munich is a team of extremes. They are the most passionately supported club in Germany and the most hated. There is no doubt that they are the most...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-09-22
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Ben Stokes is not cast in the same mould as the vast majority of English cricketers. Fiery, combative, gladiatorial - he plays the game hard and with great gusto. He is an all-rounder who bats, bowls and fields at full throttle.Stokes impresses with his physical stature...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-09-22
ePub
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Wrighty's characteristic honesty means his book is far more engrossing than most bland football memoirs' Sunday TimesIan Wright, Arsenal legend, England striker and TV pundit extraordinaire, is one of the most interesting and relevant figures...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2016-09-22
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As player, manager, and pundit, Donal Lenihan has seen it all in the world of rugby - and done much of it too. A victorious captain of Munster Junior and Senior Schools, he went on to skipper the Ireland team at the inaugural Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in 1987 and...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2016-09-22
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The definitive account of Leicester City's astonishing rise from relegation certainties to Premier League title winners: the greatest achievement in the modern football era.King Power Stadium, countdown to kick off. Out on the pitch a lone brass player sounds the...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-09-22
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Welcome to Vegas. You've got ringside seats to the world's hottest boxing match. Watch fearless champions. Meet the women that knock them off their feet. Fans of Katy Evans, Jamie McGuire and RJ Prescott - let's get ready to ruuummble. Trevor Redding has two families:...
Editeur :
Headline Eternal
Parution :
2016-09-20
Collection :
Ringside Series
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Sports governing bodies, governments and European institutions highlight the inclusive power of sport and its capacity to foster a sense of belonging among youth of immigrant background. At the same time, sport at youth and grassroots level can be as much an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-13
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How can one striker be better than three? Why do the best defenders never need to make a tackle? What's the secret of Tiki-taka?Welcome to Ruud Gullit's masterclass on how to 'read' a match.From his unrivalled perspective as player, manager and pundit, the Dutch...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Andrés Iniesta is the Barcelona and Spain legend, rated by the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Paul Scholes as one of the greatest footballers of all time. This is the thinking fan's footballer with a thinking fan's football book.Andrés Iniesta...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-09-08
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I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub. Andy Roddick on Roger Federer WhenI lost my decathlon world recordI took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours. Daley Thompson I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won....
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-09-08
ePub
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Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1974 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Running isn't a hobby, it's a way of life. Runners run to be the best they can be, to challenge who they are, to inspire others and to champion their cause. From the woman who ran for three and a half days without sleep, to the 61-year-old man who broke records in an...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Das Buch geht aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln der These nach, dass das (touristische) Reisen ein spezielles Fenster in eine Gesellschaft darstellt und damit eine Möglichkeit bietet, um über gewisse gesellschaftliche Mechanismen und Antriebskräfte Näheres zu erfahren....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-09-01
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