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Understanding the Universe The Physics of the Cosmos from Quasars to Quarks

Understanding the Universe The Physics of the Cosmos from Quasars to Quarks

Understanding the Universe: The Physics of the Cosmos from Quasars to Quarks explores how all areas of physics from the very smallest scales to the very largest come together to form our current understanding of the Universe. It takes readers on a fascinating journey from the Big Bang and how the Universe has evolved to how it appears now and the possibilities for how it will continue to evolve in the future. It also explores the latest exciting developments in the area and how they impact our understanding of the Universe such as quantum chromodynamics black holes dark energy and gravitational waves. Equally importantly it explains how we have come to know all of this about the Universe and details the limitations of our current understanding. This book is accessible to all introductory undergraduate students interested in the physical sciences. It prioritises a non-mathematical approach so it can be understood by all students with only two algebraic equations in the book and any numerical calculations shown are limited to simple arithmetic. Key Features: Combines current understanding of quantum physics and cosmology and includes the latest exciting developments from the field. Provides an accessible introduction to the topic focusing on a non-mathematical presentation. Presents a comprehensive narrative on the subject and a coherent story. | Understanding the Universe The Physics of the Cosmos from Quasars to Quarks

GBP 44.99
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The Astronomy Revolution 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos

The Astronomy Revolution 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos

Some 400 years after the first known patent application for a telescope by Hans Lipperhey The Astronomy Revolution: 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos surveys the effects of this instrument and explores the questions that have arisen out of scientific research in astronomy and cosmology. Inspired by the international New Vision 400 conference held in Beijing in October 2008 this interdisciplinary volume brings together expanded and updated contributions from 26 esteemed conference speakers and invited others. Looking beyond questions of science to the role of moral responsibility in human civilizations the book offers the unique vantage points of contributions from both Eastern and Western cultures. Extensively illustrated in full color this book consists of six parts. Aimed at young scientists the first part presents perspectives on creativity and technology in scientific discovery. In the second part contributors examine how the telescope has impacted our knowledge of the Universe—from the formation of galaxies to the death of stars. The third part of the book outlines some of the challenges we face in understanding dark matter dark energy black holes and cosmic rays and the fourth part discusses new technologies that will be useful in attacking new and unresolved questions. The fifth part of the book examines the intellectual impact that the telescope has had on society in China and in the West. The book concludes with an investigation of big questions: What is the origin of the laws of physics as we know them? Are these laws the same everywhere? How do these scientific laws relate to the moral laws of society? Does what we know depend on cultural ways of asking the questions? Is there life elsewhere? And what about the questions that science cannot answer? Celebrating the historical significance of the telescope this unique book seeks to inspire all those involved or interested i | The Astronomy Revolution 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos

GBP 59.99
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The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Politics Representation and Management

The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Politics Representation and Management

This book offers a critical examination of the 2023 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup being held in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on perspectives from sociology history political science and management it sheds new light on the development of women’s soccer and on women’s sport more broadly. This book examines the politics of the build-up to the tournament including the bidding process as well as how the tournament has been represented in the media the governance structures of the tournament itself and policy proposals designed to leave an enduring legacy for women and girls in sport. The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup is the first Women’s World Cup to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and the first to be held with an expanded 32-team format. This book shows why the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup represents a unique opportunity to enhance our understanding of women’s football gender-oriented sport development initiatives and strategies national sport policy and programming and the management of international sporting events. This book is fascinating reading for any student researcher or practitioner with an interest in sport development sport management sport policy sport sociology event management gender studies political science or the relationship between sport and wider society. | The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Politics Representation and Management

GBP 130.00
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Socio-Cultural Mobility and Mega-Events Ethics and Aesthetics in Brazil’s 2014 World Cup

Socio-Cultural Mobility and Mega-Events Ethics and Aesthetics in Brazil’s 2014 World Cup

In June 2014 Brazil opened the twentieth FIFA World Cup with a spectacular ceremony. Hosting the World Cup was a strategic developmental priority for Brazil: mega-events such as these allow the country to be ranked amongst the world’s political and economic leaders and are supposed to propel the country to its own unique modernity. But alongside the increased media attention and publicity came accusations of governmental ‘corruption’ and overspending. In Socio-Cultural Mobility and Mega-Events Tzanelli uses Brazil’s 2014 World Cup to explore how mega-events articulate socio-cultural problems. Critically examining the aesthetics and ethics of mobilities in the mega-event this book explores these socio-cultural issues and controversies: the background of staging mega-events including the bidding process and the host’s expectations for returns; ceremonial staging and communications between artistic representations and national symbolism; the clear reaction mega-events almost always generate in national regional and global activist circles including accusations of overspending and human rights violations. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars and students of the sociology of mobility sociology of globalisation cultural sociology social and anthropological theory as well as the sociology of sport human and cultural geography and leisure and tourism studies. | Socio-Cultural Mobility and Mega-Events Ethics and Aesthetics in Brazil’s 2014 World Cup

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Islam and Science

Islam and Science

This title was first published in 2002. This text seeks to provide the necessary background for understanding the contemporary relationship between Islam and modern science. Presenting an authentic discourse on the Islamic understanding of the physical cosmos Muzaffar Iqbal explores God's relationship to the created world and the historical and cultural forces that have shaped and defined Muslim attitudes towards science. What was Islamic in the Islamic scientific tradition? How was it rooted in the Qur'anic worldview and whatever happened to it? These are some of the facets of this account of a tradition that spans eight centuries and covers a vast geographical region. Written from within this ground-breaking exploration of some of the most fundamental questions in the Islam and science discourse explores the process of appropriation and transformation of the Islamic scientific tradition in Europe during the three centuries leading up to the Scientific revolution.

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Knots Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought

Knots Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought

Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan China Europe South America and in several Pacific Island societies granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual embodiment political authority and the cosmos as well as in social thought. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars concerned with metaphor and symbolism material culture and technology. | Knots Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought

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Black Holes Wormholes and Time Machines

Black Holes Wormholes and Time Machines

Bringing the material up to date Black Holes Wormholes and Time Machines Second Edition captures the new ideas and discoveries made in physics since the publication of the best-selling first edition. While retaining the popular format and style of its predecessor this edition explores the latest developments in high-energy astroparticle physics and Big Bang cosmology. The book continues to make the ideas and theories of modern physics easily understood by anyone from researchers to students to general science enthusiasts. Taking you on a journey through space and time author Jim Al-Khalili covers some of the most fascinating topics in physics today including: Black holes Space warps The Big Bang Time travel Wormholes Parallel universes Professor Al-Khalili explains often complex scientific concepts in simple nontechnical terms and imparts an appreciation of the cosmos helping you see how time traveling may not be so far-fetched after all.

GBP 180.00
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Religion and Outer Space

Religion and Outer Space

Religion and Outer Space examines religion in and on the final frontier. This book offers a first-of-its-kind roadmap for thinking about complex encounters of religion and outer space. A multidisciplinary group of scholarly experts takes up some of the most intriguing scientific spiritual trade/commercial and even military dimensions of the complex entanglements of religion and outer space. Attending to the historical reality that the interconnections between religion and the heavens are as old as religions themselves the volume starts with an examination of outer space elements in the most sacred writings of the world’s religions. It then explores some of the religious questions inevitable in this encounter analyzing cultural constructions (both literary and actual) of religion and outer space. It ends with examinations of the role of religion in the very real and very present business of space exploration. What might motivate the spread of religion (or at least fantasies of religion in its myriad possibilities) into new interior and exterior dimensions of the cosmos? Only the future will tell. Religion and Outer Space is essential reading for students and academics with an interest in religion and space religion and science space exploration religion and science fiction popular culture and religion in America.

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Capitalism Sport Mega Events and the Global South

Capitalism Sport Mega Events and the Global South

What are the social political and economic consequences of staging sport mega events such as the Olympics and the World Cup? Capitalism Sport Mega Events and the Global South presents a new approach to sport mega events and related issues exploring elements that are not present or are not developed in the existing literature. This book explores the socioeconomic impact of these events on host countries in the Global South. Drawing on a thorough case study of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil it examines how the residents of Porto Alegre perceived how they were affected and considers the relationship between sport mega events and the wider social sphere of global capitalism. Supported by original socioeconomic research conducted in the area this is fascinating reading for all students and scholars interested in sport mega events sport tourism international development sport geography and the sociology of sport.

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The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism

The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism

This handbook explores contextualises and critiques the relationship between anthropocentrism – the idea that human beings are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos – and international law. While the critical study of anthropocentrism has been under way for several years it has either focused on specific subfields of international law or emanated from two distinctive strands inspired by the animal rights movement and deep ecology. This handbook offers a broader study of anthropocentrism in international law as a global legal system and academic field. It assesses the extent to which current international law is anthropocentric contextualises that claim in relation to broader critical theories of anthropocentrism and explores alternative ways for international law to organise relations between humans and other living and non-living entities. This book will interest international lawyers environmental lawyers legal theorists social theorists and those concerned with the philosophy and ethics of ecology and the non-human realms. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. Funded by University of Gothenburg and Lund University. | The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism

GBP 205.00
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Sport and Architecture

Sport and Architecture

Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us. The role architecture plays in shaping buildings and societies has occupied historians for centuries. Likewise the cultural economic and political importance of sport is the subject of sustained academic inquiry. When sport and architecture converge as in the 2012 London Olympics or the 2014 World Cup in Brazil then the impact of these two forms of social activity is redoubled. This book presents a new and dynamic study of the complex relationship between sport and architecture. It explores the history of sport architecture and examines the buildings and events that create sites where sport and architecture converge in particularly telling ways. Its chapters discuss the following topics: sport architecture and urban redevelopment sport architecture and technology sport architecture and nationalism sport architecture as social activism sport architecture and global capitalism. By considering the importance of architectural form alongside these key themes this book represents a landmark study for anybody interested in the social and cultural significance of architecture or sport.

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Foundations of Flat Patterning and Draping For the Female Form

Foundations of Flat Patterning and Draping For the Female Form

Foundations of Flat Patterning and Draping: For the Female Form provides the foundational tools necessary for success in the techniques of flat patterning and draping clothes and costumes. This book begins with the basics of taking measurements preparing the fabric for draping and preparing the dress form. The following chapters explore flat patterning and draping practices for bodices skirts pants dresses sleeves collars cuffs and facings through detailed step-by-step instructions checklists and numerous diagrams. The bodice drafting instructions in this book specifically are a new method that accommodates all bust and cup sizes. There are instructions for small and large cup sizes allowing for a fit that does not gap at the armscye as typically happens with previous patterning methods and additional sections for bodices and sleeves and how to manipulate them to create alternate looks. The techniques in this book generalize across sizes and shapes making it universally applicable for the student technician as well as the person the garment is being developed for. Each method of drafting and draping has been class-tested and proven to produce well-fitting garments. Presented in an accessible format with clear instructions and detailed illustrations this book is well suited for use as a textbook for the undergraduate college instructor teaching costuming or fashion as well as for the student or individual learning on their own in theatre film or fashion industries. | Foundations of Flat Patterning and Draping For the Female Form

GBP 34.99
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Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics

Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics

Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is or should be untainted by the political. However there is a broad consensus among academics that sport is often at the heart of the political and the political is often central to sport. From the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany to the civil unrest that preceded the 2014 World Cup in Brazil sport and politics have remained symbiotic bedfellows. The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics goes further than any other book in surveying the complex embedded relationships between sport and politics. With sections addressing ideologies nation and statehood corporate politics political activism social justice and the politics of sports events it introduces the conceptual foundations that underpin our understanding of the sport-politics nexus and examines emergent issues in this field of study. Including in-depth case studies from North America South America Europe the Middle East Africa and Asia this is an essential reference for anybody with an interest in the social scientific study of sport.

GBP 51.99
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Plants People and Culture The Science of Ethnobotany

Plants People and Culture The Science of Ethnobotany

Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages two of the world’s leading ethnobotanists argue that our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants. Creating massive sea craft from plants indigenous shipwrights spurred the navigation of the world’s oceans. Today indigenous agricultural innovations continue to feed clothe and heal the world’s population. One out of four prescription drugs for example were discovered from plants used by traditional healers. Objects as common as baskets for winnowing or wooden boxes to store feathers were ornamented with traditional designs demonstrating the human ability to understand our environment and to perceive the cosmos. Throughout the world the human body has been used as the ultimate canvas for plant-based adornment as well as indelible design using tattoo inks. Plants also garnered religious significance both as offerings to the gods and as a doorway into the other world. Indigenous claims that plants themselves are sacred is leading to a startling reformulation of conservation. The authors argue that conservation goals can best be achieved by learning from rather than opposing indigenous peoples and their beliefs. KEY FEATURES • An engrossing narrative that invites the reader to personally engage with the relationship between plants people and culture • Full-color illustrations throughout—including many original photographs captured by the authors during fieldwork • New to this edition—Plants That Harm a chapter that examines the dangers of poisonous plants and the promise that their study holds for novel treatments for some of our most serious diseases including Alzheimer’s and substance addiction • Additional readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further exploration • Boxed features on selected topics that offer further insight • Provocative questions to facilitate group discussion Designed for the college classroom as well as for lay readers this update of Plants People and Culture entices the reader with firsthand stories of fieldwork spectacular illustrations and a deep respect for both indigenous peoples and the earth’s natural heritage. | Plants People and Culture The Science of Ethnobotany

GBP 42.99
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The Political Right and Equality Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity

The Political Right and Equality Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity

McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Patrick Deneen. Providing a comprehensive critical genealogy of the intellectual political right McManus traces its core to a nostalgia for the hierarchical cosmos of antiquarian and scholastic thinking. The yearning for a shared vision of the universe where each part of reality has its place maps onto the conservative admiration for orderly political and social stratification. It stamps even the more moderate forms of liberal conservatism which emerged in the aftermath of the revolutionary 18th century as the political right struggled to accept and later master first the politics of liberal capitalism and later universal suffrage. In its most radical forms this nostalgia for an orderly and hierarchical existence can harden into a resentment at the perceived shallowness of liberal modernity. McManus argues for those who support the project of modernity to commit themselves to better understanding the depth of the political right’s critiques many of which expose uncomfortable but solvable problems with the quest for equality and freedom. A critical guide to the history of conservative and reactionary thought for students and scholars of political science and political history. While there are a lot of competing explanations for the contemporary rise of right-wing forces Matt McManus’ new book suggests that it is hostility to equality that actually unites the right. Zeroing in on key intellectuals and writers McManus in a sharply written text offers a compelling explanation for the disproportionate intensity of right-wing grievance politics. | The Political Right and Equality Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity

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Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature Unsettling the Anthropocene

Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature Unsettling the Anthropocene

This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of ‘cosmos’—the order of the world—to foreground ideas of a good order and chaos reciprocity and more-than-human agency this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia focusing on notions of colonisation farming mining bioethics technology environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers ‘cosmological readings’ of a diverse range of authors—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—as a challenge to the Anthropocene’s decline-narrative. As a result it reactivates ‘cosmos’ as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Ecocriticism Environmental Humanities and postcolonial transcultural and Indigenous studies with a primary focus on Australian New Zealand Oceanic and Pacific area studies. | Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature Unsettling the Anthropocene

GBP 130.00
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Investigating Life in the Universe Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Investigating Life in the Universe Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

This textbook gives a lively introduction to the search for extraterrestrial life. It is a guidebook to understanding the possibility of life elsewhere pointing out landmarks and providing background information to facilitate further exploration of those areas of most interest to the reader. We are a planet of winners – winners of a cosmic lottery that has been in play since the universe began approximately 13. 7 billion years ago. Our winnings include sentience and an underlying unease that has driven us to contemplate our place in the universe and the possibility of finding kindred spirits in the cosmos spreading out before us. To understand our origins and the possibility of life beyond Earth we must look back and retrace the steps that have brought us to this point in space and time. In doing so we will find the investigation of life to be a unifying theme in nature requiring us to touch on all branches of the tree of knowledge. Using the Drake Equation as a theme we begin with an overview of the topic and then go into the story of how we have acquired or plan to acquire the knowledge to solve it. As we make our journey we will encounter some very interesting people – some you will likely know while others may be new to you. Keep an open mind and allow this text to be your guide. Written in an engaging style this textbook provides a foundational understanding of the rapidly advancing fields associated with the search for life in the universe. Each chapter includes illustrative figures and review questions for self-study. It will appeal to professionals researchers instructors and undergraduate students as well as anyone with an interest in astrophysics or astrobiology. | Investigating Life in the Universe Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

GBP 56.99
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Artificial Intelligence on Dark Matter and Dark Energy Reverse Engineering of the Big Bang

Artificial Intelligence on Dark Matter and Dark Energy Reverse Engineering of the Big Bang

As we prod the cosmos at very large scales basic tenets of physics seem to crumble under the weight of contradicting evidence. This book helps mitigate the crisis. It resorts to artificial intelligence (AI) for answers and describes the outcome of this quest in terms of an ur-universe a quintessential compact multiply connected space that incorporates a fifth dimension to encode space-time as a latent manifold. In some ways AI is bolder than humans because the huge corpus of knowledge starting with the prodigious Standard Model (SM) of particle physics poses almost no burden to its conjecture-framing processes. Why not feed AI with the SM enriched by the troubling cosmological phenomenology on dark matter and dark energy and see where AI takes us vis-à-vis reconciling the conflicting data with the laws of physics? This is precisely the intellectual adventure described in this book and – to the best of our knowledge – in no other book on the shelf. As the reader will discover many AI conjectures and validations ultimately make a lot of sense even if their boldness does not feel altogether human yet. This book is written for a broad readership. Prerequisites are minimal but a background in college math/physics/computer science is desirable. This book does not merely describe what is known about dark matter and dark energy but also provides readers with intellectual tools to engage in a quest for the deepest cosmological mystery. | Artificial Intelligence on Dark Matter and Dark Energy Reverse Engineering of the Big Bang

GBP 89.99
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Song of Two Worlds

Song of Two Worlds

In Alan Lightman's new book a verse narrative we meet a man who has lost his faith in all things following a mysterious personal tragedy. After decades of living hung like a dried fly emptied and haunted by his past the narrator awakens one morning revitalized and begins a Dante-like journey to find something to believe in first turning to the world of science and then to the world of philosophy religion and human life. As his personal story is slowly revealed little by little we confront the great questions of the cosmos and of the human heart some questions with answers and others without. | Song of Two Worlds

GBP 69.99
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Understanding Collective Pride and Group Identity New directions in emotion theory research and practice

Understanding Collective Pride and Group Identity New directions in emotion theory research and practice

Collective and group-based pride is currently covered across a number of disciplines including nationalism studies sociology and social psychology with little communication between fields. This multidisciplinary collection encourages interdisciplinary research and provides a unique insight into the subject stemming from a psychological perspective. The collection builds upon insights from collective emotion research to consider the relations between collective pride shame and guilt as well as emotions of anger empowerment and defiance. Collective pride is examined in contexts that vary from small groups in relatively peaceful competition to protest movements and large groups in divisive conflicts. In the book collective pride is a complex and positive emotional experience evident in the behaviour of groups that can lead to negative forms of collective hubris in which other groups are devalued or dominated. Emotions of Collective Pride and Group Identity brings together international contributors to discuss the theory research and practice surrounding collective pride in relation to other emotions and collective cultural and national identity. Divided into two parts part one explores the philosophy and theory behind collective pride and its extremes. Part two draws upon the latest quantitative and qualitative empirical research to focus on specific issues for example happiness national pride and the 2010 World Cup. Topics covered include: - cultural and national pride and identity - positive feelings of unity and solidarity- dynamic relationships between collective pride guilt and shame- theories of emotions in ritual symbolic and affective practices- collective pride and collective hubris in organizations- perspectives on national events from young people. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience in the area of affect studies and emotion research including social psychologists sociologists historians and anthropologists. | Understanding Collective Pride and Group Identity New directions in emotion theory research and practice

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Event Bidding Politics Persuasion and Resistance

Event Bidding Politics Persuasion and Resistance

Bidding contests for sporting and cultural events are attracting increasing media and public attention. Yet despite the cost size and scale of these bidding contests relatively little academic attention has been paid to the strategies and tactics used to develop successful bids. Event Bidding: Politics Persuasion and Resistance develops a comprehensive critical understanding of the bidding processes surrounding the award of major peripatetic events. This is achieved by drawing together existing knowledge on the subject of event bidding combining this with historical and contemporary examples to enable a critical commentary on the bidding process itself and the struggle for power that it represents. The text draws on case studies of ‘mega events’ including the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games as well as a range of smaller peripatetic events from across the world to analyse the bidding process and some of the increasingly controversial issues which emerge during often lengthy and expensive bid campaigns. Finally the text reflects on a range of critical issues of contemporary significance in bidding contests including the growing ethical and governance issues surrounding the development and award of events as well as the impact of growing oppositional movements surrounding each contest. This timely volume brings theory and practice together in one place to produce a critical appraisal of a phenomenon with a relatively recent history and is particularly suitable for students researchers and academics of sports events tourism and related subject fields focusing on the strategic and political dimensions of major events. | Event Bidding Politics Persuasion and Resistance

GBP 48.99
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Sport and Crime Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport

Sport and Crime Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport

This is the first book to explore fully the connections between sport studies and criminology opening up critical new frontiers in the study of sport and crime. Rooted firmly in established critical criminological traditions the book also employs insights from emerging theoretical frameworks such as cultural criminology governmentality theory and critical security studies to make better sense of a range of transnational and contemporary cases events and trends that reveal in different ways the crimes and harms that are present in sport. Empirically grounded including case studies of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games it explores emerging themes in contemporary sport including but not limited to corruption doping youth crime terrorism violence and transgression and human rights abuses. Sport and Crime consciously pushes the boundaries of what might be considered the critical criminology of sport. This is an essential text for any course on sport and crime and invaluable reading for any student or researcher with an interest in the sociology of sport sport development sport policy the politics of sport critical criminology or socio-legal studies. | Sport and Crime Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport

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Tourism in Brazil Environment Management and Segments

Tourism in Brazil Environment Management and Segments

Since the 1990s tourism has become a major driver of economic activity and community development in Brazil. New policies and approaches growing expertise and investment in tourism have brought significant transformation in tourism products destination development and community involvement. In addition Brazil will be hosting two major sport events in the years ahead i. e. the Soccer World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Brazil offers many cultural and natural attractions but similar to many other developing countries it still struggles with issues such as infrastructure accessibility product development service quality market access and workforce training. This book provides an in-depth examination of tourism in Brazil critically reviewing its development and management. The social economic political and environmental contexts of this emerging global power provide an intriguing backdrop. The book considers important development issues such as the changing policy context community benefit tourism and indigenous tourism. It explores the impacts of tourism on the environment changing community attitudes towards tourism transport infrastructure and sustainability issues in events. Particular segments are explored including backpacker tourism sensual tourism adventure tourism and ecotourism and the implications for tourism research and education are examined. The book draws from theoretical foundations and practical insights and gives voice to Brazilian researchers who are actively engaged in researching tourism. Drawing from cutting edge cross-cultural research this original and timely book will be of interest to students researchers and academics in the areas of Tourism Geography and related disciplines. | Tourism in Brazil Environment Management and Segments

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