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Sport in consumer culture
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ISBN: 0333912861 0333912853 9780333912850 9780333912867 Year: 2004 Publisher: Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This text offers a distinctive introduction to sport in contemporary society, drawing on recent developments in sociological theory and research, particularly in relation to debates about culture and consumption. The book argues that sport can be seen as central to the "economies of signs and space" of late modernity in which a concern with the body as an object of contemplation and improvement, and not just an instrument for getting things done, increasingly informs images in the mass media, politics and everyday life.

Football goes east : business, culture and the people's game in China, Japan and Korea.
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ISBN: 0203619218 9780203619216 9780415318976 0415318971 9780415318983 041531898X 0415318971 041531898X 9781134365586 1134365586 9781134365531 1134365535 9781134365579 1134365578 0203347935 1280106646 Year: 2004 Publisher: London RoutledgeCurzon

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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.

America's curious botanist : a tercentennial reappraisal of John Bartram 1699-1777.
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ISBN: 087169249X 9780871692498 Year: 2004 Volume: 249 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.) American philosophical society

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