The Beautiful Games Scotland S Hidden Sports

Author : Henry Hepburn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781471782077

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The Beautiful Games - Scotland's Hidden Sports by Henry Hepburn Pdf

The Beautiful Games: Scotland's Hidden Sports is an immersion into little-seen worlds. Scotland is obsessed with football. Other sports live in its shadow, misunderstood or unheard of by all but a few, their compelling stories and characters ignored or disparaged. Henry Hepburn's growing disillusion with his one-sport country has driven him to explore what else is out there. Who are the diehards keeping their sport alive, the star players who fail to make the back pages? How perilous is their sport's future in Scotland? And, in a country where their efforts go unheralded, why bother at all? The Beautiful Games illuminates a sporting nation waiting to be discovered.

Author : Gerald Redmond
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Scots
ISBN : 0838630693

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The Sporting Scots of Nineteenth-century Canada by Gerald Redmond Pdf

This book examines the role of the Scots in the development of Canadian sport. The evidence from the wide range of primary and secondary sources cited by the author proves that the Scottish contribution was significant.

Author : James Glass Bertram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Hunting
ISBN : NYPL:33433066592142

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Out-door Sports in Scotland by James Glass Bertram Pdf

Author : David Pirie Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Games, Scottish
ISBN : 090306510X

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Scottish Highland Games by David Pirie Webster Pdf

Author : Thomas Dykes (sporting writer.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Hunting
ISBN : OXFORD:600070001

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Stories of Scottish Sports by Thomas Dykes (sporting writer.) Pdf

Author : Wladimir Andreff,Stefan Szymanski
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781847204073

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Handbook on the Economics of Sport by Wladimir Andreff,Stefan Szymanski Pdf

The editors should be commended for taking on such a big task, and succeeding so well. This book should be in the library of every institution where students have to write a paper that may be related to sport, or on the shelf of any lecturer teaching economics or public finance who has even a remote interest in sport. The material is very accessible, and useful in many different settings. Ruud H. Koning, Jahrbücher f. Nationalökonomie u. Statistik Edward Elgar s brilliant market niche is identifying a topic in economics, finding editors who know the area backwards and challenging them to assemble the best cross-section of relevant articles either already published or newly commissioned. Handbook on the Economics of Sport is Edward Elgar at its very best. If you love economics you ll find many fascinating insights here; if you love sport but know little economics then this book is mostly accessible and will teach you a lot; and if you are a sports-mad economist then you will be in hog heaven. Furthermore, if, like this reviewer, you are broadly very sceptical about the reports consultants produce for governments on the supposed economic windfall from hosting a big event or subsidising a stadium then you will get a lot of good counter-arguments in this volume. Indeed there are several chapters on the above theme that I m sure I ll be copying frequently to government officials in years to come. . . The demand for sport is a fascinating subject and it is hard to pick out just one chapter from the second section. Read them all they make a wonderful 65-page treat. . . Part VI was a real feast, a smorgasbord. . . This is a magnificent piece of work and the 36-page index rounds it all off splendidly. John Blundell, Economic Affairs The book covers the most important areas of research of an emerging economic sub-discipline spanning the past half a century. It serves admirably the purpose of an introduction into the rich and growing area of reflection for all concerned. . . the editors and authors of the Handbook have done a commendable job of accumulating sophisticated material for many economists, managers, politicians and self-conscious fans, who are sure to find excellent training ground for the whole heptathlon. . . This book will be invaluable for advanced students investigating professional sport. From the point of view of lawyers, particularly those engaged with the relationship between law and sports governance, the Handbook offers invaluable analysis of the economic issues that are alluded to in those debates but rarely examined in detail. . . These insights will also prove useful for policy analysts and sports administrators for whom many sections should be considered mandatory reading. Aleksander Sulejewicz, Journal of Contemporary European Research Over 800 pages on the economics of sport. What a feast! What a treat! The editors have done a wonderful job both in terms of breadth from David Beckham to child labour in Pakistan and depth, tournaments and luxury taxes for example. . . The 86 chapters are uniformly of a very high standard and illuminating. And there are real gems in some of the contributions. British Journal on the Economics of Sport This very interesting and comprehensive book achieves its objective, namely to present an overview of research in sports economics at an introductory level. . . [The editors] have produced an excellent reference book that belongs in all academic institutions libraries. It provides extensive introduction to the growing body of literature in the rising field of economics of sport. The book s relevant monographs should be read by institutions, cities and countries prior to their committing major resources towards sports facilities or a sporting event. James Angresano, Journal of Sports Economics One could think of this book as the sports-and-economics counterpart to Joy of Cooking, because it will satisfy the needs of those with a keen interest in such subjects as the

Author : Michael Collins,Mike Collins,Tess Kay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135165222

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Sport and Social Exclusion by Michael Collins,Mike Collins,Tess Kay Pdf

Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of any civilised social policy. In this meticulously revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of new evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how the effects of social exclusion are as evident in sport as they are in any area of society. The book uses sport as an important sphere for critical reflection on existing social policy and explores sport's role as a source of initiatives for tackling exclusion. It examines key topics such as: • What is meant by 'social exclusion' • How social exclusion affects citizenship and the chance to play sport • How exclusion from sport is linked to poverty, class, age, gender, ethnicity, disability, and involvement in youth delinquency, and living in towns or countryside • How exclusion is linked to concepts of personal and communal social capital. It uses four revised and five new major case studies as detailed illustrations, notably Be Active, Birmingham, the national PE and Youth/School Sport strategy, Positive Futures and Street Games. . Sport and Social Exclusion features a wealth of original research data, including new and previously unpublished material, as well as important new studies of social exclusion policy and practice in the UK and elsewhere. This revised edition surveys all the most important changes in the policy landscape since first publication in 2002 and explores the likely impact of the London Olympic Games on sport policy in the UK. The book concludes with some typically forthright commendations and critiques from the author regarding the success of existing policies and the best way to tackle exclusion from sport and society in the future. By relating current policy to new research the book provides an essential guidebook for students, academics and policy makers working in sport policy and development."

Author : Thomas Speedy,Tom Speedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Fishing
ISBN : PRNC:32101063695702

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Sport in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland with Rod and Gun by Thomas Speedy,Tom Speedy Pdf

Author : Stephen Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319777276

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The British Football Film by Stephen Glynn Pdf

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of British football as depicted on film. From early single-camera silents to its current multi-screen mediations, the repeated treatment of football in British cinema points to the game’s importance not only in the everyday rhythms of national life but also, and especially, its immutable place in the British imaginary landscape. Through close textual analysis together with production and reception histories, this book explores the ways in which professional footballers, amateur players and supporters (the devoted and the demonized) have been represented on the British screen. As well as addressing the joys and sorrows the game necessarily engenders, British football is shown to function as an accessible structure to explore wider issues such as class, race, gender and even the whole notion of ‘Britishness’.

Author : Lee McGowan,Elizabeth Ellison,Michele Lastella
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000960815

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Beach Soccer Histories by Lee McGowan,Elizabeth Ellison,Michele Lastella Pdf

Beach Soccer Histories is the first text to consider the sport as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon, to define its traditions, and present leading research on the development and significance of football played on sand. Following a period of expansive, rapid growth, beach soccer is an internationally governed professional sport, which has come a long way from its origins in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s. The sand-based variant is distinguished from football by a range of factors, including the dramatic impact of the playing surface. Yet, the game has undergone very little academic scrutiny. This research adopts and adapts qualitative methods related to oral history and football studies, including extensive archival research, semi-structured interviews, and textual and thematic analyses. As it looks beneath the game’s contemporary reach, it considers origins, organisations – including FIFA’s influence – and the beach cultures that underpin its sporting and historical development. This the most comprehensive exploration of beach soccer and a century of its existence. Beach Soccer Histories examines the game’s historical development, critical moments and movements in its progress, successes and contentions, and its contemporary state of play with a view to deepening and advancing our understanding of the game.

Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781568585079

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The Game of Our Lives by David Goldblatt Pdf

The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular culture, from an economic mess to a booming entertainment industry that has conquered the world. The changes in the game, David Goldblatt shows, uncannily mirror the evolution of British society. In the 1980s, soccer was described as a slum game played by slum people in slum stadiums. Such was the transformation over the following twenty-five years that novelists, politicians, poets, and bankers were all declaring their footballing loyalties. At one point, the Palace let it be known that the queen -- like her mother, Prince Harry, the chief rabbi, and the archbishop of Canterbury -- was an Arsenal fan. Soccer permeated the national life like little else, an atavistic survivor decked out in New Britain flash, a social democratic game in a cutthroat, profit-driven world. From the goals, to the players, to the managers, to the money, Goldblatt describes how the English Premier League (EPL) was forged in Margaret Thatcher's Britain by an alliance of the big clubs -- Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur -- the Football Association, and Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV. Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon traces the momentous economic, social, and political changes of post-Thatcherite Britain in a more illuminating manner than soccer, and The Game of Our Lives provides the definitive social history of the EPL -- the most popular soccer league in the world.

Author : John Mackay Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001484100

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Wilson's Tales of the Borders ... by John Mackay Wilson Pdf

Author : Thomas Thornton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : Cumbria (England)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:1000164119

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A Sporting Tour Through the Northern Parts of England, and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland by Thomas Thornton Pdf

Author : John Mackay Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Scottish Borders (Scotland)
ISBN : CUB:U183037289457

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Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland by John Mackay Wilson Pdf

Author : John Mackay Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10750896

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Tales of the Borders and of Scotland by John Mackay Wilson Pdf