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  • The Collegiate Athlete at Risk

    Strategies for Academic Support and Success

    Edited by Morris R. Council, Samuel R. Hodge, Robert A. Bennett ...
    There are numerous books documenting the challenges of student athletes and presenting recommendations for academic success. They primarily focus on understanding the issues of student-athletes and recommendations are oftentimes overly simplistic, failing to explicitly provide interventions that can be executed by student-athlete support personnel. In addition, the topic of supporting student ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Black Males and Intercollegiate Athletics

    An Exploration of Problems and Solutions

    Edited by James L. Moore III, Robert A. Bennett III, David L. Graham, Samuel R. Hodge ...
    Series Book 16 - Diversity in Higher Education
    This book is needed to help guide the conversation around ways to address the great disparities that impact African American males in intercollegiate athletics. In particular, scholars and practitioners have grappled with issues surrounding the climate and opportunities presented to African American males as student-athletes and coaches. Yet, there has not been a single text dedicated to ... Read more

    $150.99 USD

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    Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

    by Cheryl Cooky, Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder, Suzel Bozada-Deas, Shari Dworkin, Ranissa Dycus, Faye Linda Wachs, Michael A. Messner ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Organizations

    by George B. Cunningham ...
    *Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Organizations provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which people differ--including race, sex, age, mental and physical ability, appearance, religion, sexual orientation, and social class--and how these differences can influence sport organizations. It offers specific strategies for managing diversity in work and sport environments, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Is There Life After Football?

    Surviving the NFL

    by James A Holstein, Richard S Jones, George E Koonce ...
    An award-winning book that takes us "inside the lives of NFL players to show why so many wind up in dire straits after their time on the field" ( New York Post).2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of SportIn this book, two social scientists team up with former linebacker and University of Wisconsin athletic director George Koonce to put a human face on the realities of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethics of Sport and Athletics

    Theory, Issues, and Application

    by Robert C. Schneider ...
    Timely, accessible, and focused on practical application, Ethics of Sport & Athletics: Theory, Issues, and Applications, Second Edition, details the theories and mechanics of moral reasoning, ethical and unethical behavior in sport, and the development of moral education through sport. This well-organized, case-based approach to sport-related dilemmas teaches readers how to successfully apply ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

    Exploring the Fandemonium

    by Kelly Berg, Jeff Boone, Kathy Brady, David Fingerhut, Walter Gantz, Frederick Grieve, Allison Harthcock, John Heppen, Craig Hyatt, Mark Julien, Jennifer Marmo, Jessi McCabe, Sarah Porri, Greg G. Armfield, Nicholas D. Bowman, Phillip J. Chidester, Matthew J. Gill, Tom E. Isaacson, Ricard W. Jensen, Jason R. Lanter, Pamela Gayle Nadorff, Julie A. Partridge, John S. W. Spinda, Brian S. Titsworth, Amanda J. Visek, Daniel L. Wann, Ryan K. Zapalac, John A. Fortunato, William M. Foster, John P. McGuire, James R. Walker, Katherine L. Lavelle, Roger C. Aden, David E. Beard, Andrew C. Billings, John Harris, Lawrence A. Wenner ...
    Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Sports Marketing and the Psychology of Marketing Communication

    Edited by Lynn R. Kahle, Chris Riley ...
    Sports marketing is one of the fastest growing areas of marketing communication. This book advances understanding in this emerging area.It presents sports marketing in a scholarly and comprehensive way, covering major topics of discussion in sports marketing and the psychology of communication. Several new, innovative topics are introduced, such as SportNEST and consumption communities, and many ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Sport, Ethics and Leadership

    by Jack Bowen, Ronald S. Katz, Jeffrey R. Mitchell, Donald J. Polden, Richard Walden ...
    Everybody involved in sport, from the bleachers to the boardroom, should develop an understanding of ethics. Sport ethics prompt discussion of the central principles and ideals by which we all live our lives, and effective leadership in sport is invariably ethical leadership. This fascinating new introduction to sport ethics outlines key ethical theories in the context of sport as well as the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Learning Culture through Sports

    Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports

    by Doug Abrams, Cheryl Cooky, Rylee Dionigi, Keith Harrison, Jackson Katz, Kyle Kusz, Carwyn Jones, Mary McDonald, Leanne Norman, Genevieve Rail, Barbara Ravel, Ellen Staurowsky, Cheria Thomas, Sanford S. Williams, Jay Coakley, Angela J. Hattery, C. Richard King, Richard Lapchick, Earl Smith ...
    In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book's sections each address a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Unwinding Madness

    What Went Wrong with College Sports and How to Fix It

    by Andrew Zimbalist, Donna A. Lopiano, Gerald S. Gurney ...
    A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sportsUnwinding Madness is the most comprehensive examination to date of how the NCAA has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics—and why it is incapable of achieving reform and must be replaced. The NCAA has placed commercial success above its responsibilities to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Sport

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Arthur L. Caplan, Brendan Parent ...
    Sport is often thought of as simply "games," but it can in fact be much more. Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting city-wide riots, uniting countries, permanently injuring youth, revolutionizing views about race, gender and class, and producing several of the most successful global industries. Reports of ethical crises in athletics are constant fodder for popular ... Read more

    $44.99 USD