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Can football become a force for liberation or is it just another 'opium of the masses'?

This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society.

Mollie Hughes is a world record-breaking sports adventurer, mountaineer, polar explorer and international motivational speaker. With reference to her all-extreme experiences, and backed with psychological research, Breathe encompasses tales of bravery, risk and pressure on an epic scale and expertly turns them into valuable lessons.

After moving from Washington, D.C. to the Jersey Shore, a former speechwriter for President Obama starts surfing at the age of thirty-five—the rough equivalent of beginning guitar lessons on your deathbed—and must turn for help to the only other surfer he knows: a tattooed, truck-driving, Joe Rogan superfan who happens to be his brother-in-law.

Cincinnati Soul resurrects the inspiring legacies of the Cincinnati Tigers, the Cincinnati Cuban Stars, and other Black baseball teams in Cincinnati.It sheds light on the players’ remarkable skills, what life was like as a Negro Leaguer, and the barriers they overcame, ensuring their stories are remembered and celebrated. By exploring the socioeconomic and cultural backdrop of Cincinnati during the era of the Negro Leagues, Cincinnati Soul provides a comprehensive understanding of the environment in which these teams thrived and how they were integral to the community and the broader civil rights movement.Cincinnati Soul weaves together the personal stories of the players, coaches, and fans, offering an intimate glimpse into the lives and experiences of those involved in Cincinnati’s Black baseball teams. It highlights the contributions these teams made to modern baseball within the city and nationally, the enduring legacy of these teams, and their role in shaping the sport as we know it today.

Now you can cheer for the Bruins every day of the year. The Boston Bruins are America's oldest NHL team, so there's no shortage of history with this storied franchise. For many, the Bruins have come to personify hard-nosed hockey, and while the team has evolved over the years, that tough approach to the game has been woven into the fabric of the team and embodied by its players. While the Bruins' stronghold is unquestionably in New England, they have supporters around the world, particularly in small Canadian towns where many of the club's early players hailed from. And even if you don't love the Bruins, you probably hate them. The club has been part of some of hockey's fiercest rivalries from the Habs to the Leafs to the Canucks. With Bruins 365, you can relive some of those memorable moments from more than a century of Bruins hockey. Filled with 366 short stories, one for every day of the year, from the team's origins in 1924 to Bobby Orr's gravity-defying championship-clinching goal in 1970 to its shocking first-round playoff exit in 2023, Bruins 365 has something for every Boston fan.

The book explores various social, cultural, political and economic issues through the lenses of various sport mega-events in the twenty-first century. This is a resource for students and researchers situated in sociology, sport management, event management, political science, sport studies, sport business, urban studies and leisure studies.

This book analyses how solidarity economy initiatives develop alternative spatialities as counterpower to mainstream economy.

This book seeks to better understand the processes and influences that have driven professionalization in the arts.

Immersed in history and myth, Damian Le Bas explores the meaning we find in sunken ruins around the worldThousands of years ago, an island off the Straits of Gibraltar went to war with ancient Athens. The battle was lost, and an earthquake cleaved the land in two. Overnight the island sank beneath the waves - or so legend tells.As a young boy, Damian Le Bas was captivated by the lost city of Atlantis. Even as an adult, he dreams about diving amid its ancient ruins, observing with his own eyes the remnants of an era that still reverberates in our own.After the death of his father, torn between his lifelong desire and the taboo his Romany culture places on the ocean, he comes by chance across a dive shop. He can't help but go in.Under the waves he enters a breathtaking world. As he masters the skills of this dangerous sport, diving with seals in the Farne Islands, exploring submerged Roman ruins in Naples and mapping the sunken city of Port Royal in Jamaica, he is entranced anew, by wonders both manmade and natural.Atlantis - from its first account by Plato, to the explorers who searched in vain and the discovery that might finally solve its mystery - takes on a new shape in Damian's quest. At once a spellbinding love letter to diving, The Drowned Places is also a profound examination of the power that myth has over us, and what happens when it crosses over into reality.