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`The Economics of Association Football will earn a well-deserved spot on my bookshelf. In a technically competent and eminently readable style, with many new insights, Professor Gerrard provides the essential converge (demand, supply, labor, league structure, industrial performance) and much more. We get the first comprehensive treatment of betting market efficiency determined by actual match outcomes. And we are all better off from his impressive comparison of open leagues (promotion and relegation) and closed leagues (North American style). In the vernacular "a master on the sports business pitch scores a clear goal".' - Rodney D. Fort, Washington State University, US

Martha Honey

"Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise?" is the most comprehensive overview of worldwide ecotourism available today, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved over more than twenty-five years. Here Martha Honey revisits six nations she profiled in the first edition — the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya, and South Africa—and adds a fascinating new chapter on the United States. She examines the growth of ecotourism within each country’s tourism strategy, its political system, and its changing economic policies. Her useful case studies highlight the economic and cultural impacts of expanding tourism on indigenous populations as well as on ecosystems.

Thomas Kurz

"Science of Sports Training" explains the Eastern European principles and methods of sports training that lead to individual peak performances without resorting to harmful or illegal methods such as doping. A key principle to achieving peak performances is the development and control of the athlete's own rational individualized training regimen. Kurz describes the optimum sequence of types of exercises in a workout, in a weekly cycle of workouts, or for longer periods, carefully explaining the physiological basis for the sequence.

Will Hoon

A definitive photojournal of soccer culture in the modern era! Peter Robinson is considered one of the great soccer photographers of our time, and for over 30 years he has developed a reporting style that’s unique, informed, and questioning. For that reason, he has enjoyed unprecedented access to the game’s most legendary figures and events—even during private moments in the dressing room and at home. Robinson’s idiosyncratic perspective—and thrilling images of rawness and honesty—are showcased in eight chapters, each focusing on a distinctive element of the sport. Among the memorable pictures: a touching memorial to Colombian player AndrA©s Escobar, murdered after he accidentally scored a goal against his own team; the VIP area at the 1994 World Cup Final in Los Angeles; and tense Manchester United fans watching a crucial, final match.

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M. g. Missanelli

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At the beginning of the 1995 soccer season, Hans van der Meer set out to take photographs of the game that dodged the clichA»d traditions of modern sports photography. In an attempt to record the sport in its original form--a field, two goals and 22 players--he sought matches at the bottom end of the amateur leagues. He avoided tight telescopic details and the hyperbole of action photography, pulled back from the central subject of the pitch, and set the playing field and its unfolding action in the context of local elements. Over the last 10 years, Van der Meer has continued this project across the playing fields of Europe, traveling to every country with a significant history of the game. The Netherlands yielded 1998A­s Dutch Fields, and the odyssey that brings forth European Fields has since taken him from Bihariain, Romania to Sweden, from Torp, Norway to Hungary, from Bartkowo, Poland to Beire, Portugal, and to urban and suburban Greece, Finland, England, France, Germany,...

Ian Jeffreys

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The Beautiful Game evokes passion on the scale of religious fanaticism, and this book oozes the essence of football club loyalty and hero worship, captures and replays breathtaking and memorable goals, and bears witness to dastardly fouls and controversial send-offs. It's also a celebration of football ephemera-colorful scarves, treasured programs, proudly worn rosettes-that identify teams and supporters. Archive photographs present a gallery of the game's best-loved players, iconic managers, and the fervour of their adorning fans. 50 Years of Football in Focus is a fascinating, quirky, idiosyncratic, and intimate snapshot of the past fifty years of British football, selected from the Offside Sports Photography collection by a leading sports photographer.

Graeme Ross

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