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  • ETHICAL CITIES
    BRENDAN F.D. BARRETT / RALPH HORNE / JOHN FIEN
    Combining elements of sustainable and resilient cities agendas, together with those from social justice studies, and incorporating concerns about good governance, transparency and accountability, the book presents a coherent conceptual framework for the ethical city, in which to embed existing and new activities within cities so as to guide local action. The authors’ observatio...

    $1,100.00

  • UNDERSTANDING THE OLYMPICS
    JOHN HORNE / GARRY WHANNEL
    How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the Olympics after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical, and economic context of the Games. This thorou...

    $1,340.00

  • STATE OF THE UNION 1994
    RICHARD CAPLAN / JOHN FEFFER / GERALD HORNE / JOHN CAVANAGH
    Clinton rode into office on the promise of "change." It was a safe, content- free slogan. After all, in recent years, the most radical proposals for change have come not from the Democrats but from the Republican right. "Change" could mean the further downsizing of government and neglect of social problems, or, of course, the reversal of these trends. When they went to the poll...

    $1,060.00

  • LEISURE, CULTURE AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES
    JOHN HORNE
    This edited collection contains six refreshing critical assessments of the leisure-sport relationship from societies that have staged the Olympic and Paralympic Games and contains valuable information for those who live in societies that aspire to host the Games. The collection begins and ends with discussions of the Olympic Games as a platform for protest. The first and last c...

    $1,160.00

  • THE EXPERT WITNESS IN CONSTRUCTION
    ROBERT HORNE / JOHN MULLEN
    The role of the expert witness has long been important in the resolution of construction disputes. The specialist opinion brought by the expert can aid understanding and interpretation of the facts of the dispute, and may be influential in deciding the outcome. The variety of dispute resolution procedures and the requirement for the expert witness to be independent places a hea...

    $1,783.00

  • JAPAN, KOREA AND THE 2002 WORLD CUP
    JOHN HORNE
    The football World Cup is unquestionably the biggest sporting event in the world. This fascinating collection of papers examines the background to the 2002 World Cup Finals, held in Korea and Japan, and explores the event's profound social, cultural, political and economic significance. The book offers important insight into topics such as: * the development of professional foo...

    $1,600.00

  • UNDERSTANDING SPORT
    JOHN HORNE / ALAN TOMLINSON / GARRY WHANNEL / KATH WOODWARD
    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 conte...

    $1,420.00

  • FOOTBALL GOES EAST
    JOHN HORNE / WOLFRAM MANZENREITER
    Global popular culture and big business have revolutionised the East in a generation. Football, Sport of the masses and now commercial super power, has travelled with this tide of change in the East in its own right. The development of football as a major participatory sport in Japan, Korea and China makes it an ideal case study for analysis of the complex relationship between ...

    $1,600.00