03455oam 2200649I 450 991078524750332120230207213846.01-135-27882-21-135-27883-01-282-88285-697866128828520-203-87269-X10.4324/9780203872697 (CKB)2670000000047621(EBL)574532(OCoLC)670411125(SSID)ssj0000422512(PQKBManifestationID)11304987(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422512(PQKBWorkID)10419018(PQKB)10590248(MiAaPQ)EBC574532(Au-PeEL)EBL574532(CaPaEBR)ebr10422081(CaONFJC)MIL288285(OCoLC)671949640(EXLCZ)99267000000004762120180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaking sense of sports /Ellis Cashmore5th ed.Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (601 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-55221-4 0-415-55220-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 530-552) and indexes.BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Back to Nature; CHAPTER 3 Built for Action; CHAPTER 4 A Very Different Animal; BURNING QUESTION #1 HOW OLD ARE SPORTS?; CHAPTER 5 The Hunt for Reasons; CHAPTER 6 In the Mind; CHAPTER 7 The Pursuit of Perfection; BURNING QUESTION #2 WHY DON'T MORE GAY ATHLETES COME OUT?; CHAPTER 8 Control of the Body; CHAPTER 9 Sports Emasculated; CHAPTER 10 Behind on Points; BURNING QUESTION #3 IS CHEATING FAIR?; CHAPTER 11 Champs and Cheats; CHAPTER 12 Not for the FaintheartedCHAPTER 13 Representing the ChallengeBURNING QUESTION #4 WHY DO WE LIKE TO BET ON SPORTS?; CHAPTER 14 A Match Made in Heaven; CHAPTER 15 Planet Murdoch; CHAPTER 16 The That Conquered the World; BURNING QUESTION #5 IS BEING LEFT-HANDED AN ADVANTAGE IN SPORTS?; CHAPTER 17 Buying into Celebrity Culture; CHAPTER 18 Morals and Medals; CHAPTER 19 Same Rules, Different Game; CHAPTER 20 Things to Come; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; TITLE INDEXUpdated, revised and enhanced with new features, the fifth edition of Making Sense of Sports is the strongest yet. Ellis Cashmore's unique multidisciplinary approach to the study of sports remains the only introduction to combine anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy, psychology, sociology with cultural and media studies to produce a distinct unbroken vision of the origins, development and current state of sports.New chapters on exercise culture and the moral climate of sports supplement an thoroughly overhauled text that includes fresh material on Islam, sports managSportsSocial aspectsPopular cultureSocial aspectsSportsSocial aspects.Popular cultureSocial aspects.306.4/83Cashmore Ernest.1088866MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785247503321Making sense of sports3809638UNINA