Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is still the only book to fully map the discipline of sports development, covering theory, policy, academic research and professional practice.
This book critically examines walking as a socially and politically situated leisure practice, exploring how movement through urban and rural spaces is shaped by broader structures of power and inequality.
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks tells the rags-to-riches story of two towering men – Shirley Crabtree and Martin Ruane – who rose from poverty and nightclub door work to become British TV icons. As millions tuned in to watch them clash, they became a pop culture phenomenon.
