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Events play an important part in our lives. Events in Society explores the social impact and sociological implications of designing, planning, and delivering events - cultural events like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; sporting events like the Olympic and Paralympic Games and FIFA World Cup; to music festivals like Glastonbury.

Events play an important part in our lives. Events in Society explores the social impact and sociological implications of designing, planning, and delivering events - cultural events like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; sporting events like the Olympic and Paralympic Games and FIFA World Cup; to music festivals like Glastonbury.

Artificial reefs, diver attractions, shipwrecks at varying depths, dramatic drop offs, a variety of undulating reefs, caves tunnels and arches, a huge variety of marine life, together with the underwater landscape around these beautiful Mediterranean Islands - scuba diving Malta, Gozo and Comino is a sheer delight.

This book analyzes the intricate relationship between football fans and clubs, presenting new approaches for those in charge to actively involve fans in club management¿a complex task often fraught with emotional tension. Fan communities are spaces for integration and identity formation, but also for exclusion and demarcation. Moreover, the author highlights the resistance of active soccer fan scene towards increasing commercialization of their sport and their skeptical view of powerful institutions. This book therefore emphasizes that the goal of club management should be to develop fans from stakeholders to stakeowners, so that they can take on responsibility as equal participants in club affairs. The author, Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, introduces the fundamentals of the "fan" phenomenon and outlines paths towards greater transparency and integrity, as well as productive dialogue between clubs and fan communities.This book is targeted at academics, sports managers, and soccer enthusiasts interested in the intersection of fan culture, club management, and the socio-political dimensions of sports.

In being crowned 2023/24 Premier League champions, Manchester City achieved something previously seen as impossible. Pep Guardiola's history-making side became the first men's team in the history of English football to win four top-flight titles in a row. This official club book is a must have for all City fans.

Scottish Hill Tracks is a unique resource describing 350 routes for walkers, cyclists, riders and runners to explore the paths, old roads and rights of way which criss-cross Scotland's hill country, from the Borders to Caithness and on the surrounding islands.

The Racing Post Cheltenham Festival Guide 2025 features a race-by-race guide by top tipster Paul Kealy with profiles of more than 100 leading contenders, plus verdicts and 'ones to watch' for every race. Alongside profiles of the leading horses, you'll get the lowdown on the top trainers, with tips on how to win at Cheltenham.

Standing Free is the funny, emotional, at times downright bizarre but always enthralling autobiography of 1980s and 90s Aberdeen FC hero Theo ten Caat. Theo's time at Aberdeen was certainly eventful. All is revealed in this no-punches-pulled chronicle of his career, both in Scotland and Holland, told in Theo's own words.

Football's Fifty Most Important Clubs journeys into the history of the beautiful game, exploring the successes, failures and innovations of the world's most influential clubs. This history of football's big teams helps us to better understand not only the current state of play, but the wider world around it.

Derek Underwood was one of Kent and England's finest-ever slow bowlers. In this first-ever biography of Underwood, Mark Peel assesses the qualities that made him such a formidable bowler, the reasons behind his signing for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket and the England rebel tour of South Africa in 1982, plus much more.

Harry and Jamie Redknapp's affectionate homage to football's most influential and intriguing characters.

The remarkable story of a man who eclipsed his own greatness to revolutionise rugby coaching. In the 1950s and 1960s one man dominated rugby coaching like no other: Roy Francis. He led teams to championships and Wembley finals, revolutionised the art of coaching, and inspired his players to incredible achievements. But even more amazingly for the time, he was a Black man. As the illegitimate child of a mixed-race couple who gave him up for adoption, his story recounts his upbringing in a Black family living in the Welsh coalfields, a childhood shaped by memories of the 1919 Welsh race riots and, foremost, his gift for rugby. Aged just seventeen, Roy went on to play professionally for Wigan, and despite facing racism, became the first Black player to play for the British Lions in either rugby code. Roy Francis became Hull rugby league club coach in 1950 where he introduced video-analysis, sports psychology and personalised training - revolutionary methods which turned a mediocre team into championship winners. His crowning glory came as his team triumphed in the famous 1968 'Watersplash' Wembley Cup Final, before heading down under in 1969 as North Sydney rugby league club coach. Through archives, family members' accounts and former players' memories, Roy Francis tells the story of a family's journey from slavery to sporting success, and of a remarkable man who eclipsed his own playing greatness by revolutionising coaching.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a novel about the power of love.Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination. Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie's life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger . . .'Compelling' Independent'Beautiful' Sunday Telegraph

This handbook, updated in 2024, by Nigel Williams, supports the Tutor Training Course for the National Navigation Award Scheme and complements the NNAS Outdoor Navigation Handbook for Tutors.

The Greatest of Great Escapes: Rotherham United's Finest Hour is the story of one of the most astounding comebacks in modern football - a true underdog tale that captured the imagination of football fans everywhere. The book relives the twists and turns that punctuated Rotherham's resurgence.

Outsiders takes you on a whirlwind 'away-day' footballing tour across 46 stadiums in 29 cities. It provides a critical portrait of contemporary South American football, revealing how the experience of being a fan has changed over the last three decades and presenting a unique perspective on a continent that is crazy about football.

Cup Finals weaves together tales of past and present heroes and villains, glory and tragedy, outrage and joy, thrills and scapegoats, plus 'David and Goliath' battles. Whether it's the World Cup or the Scottish Junior Cup, a final is a special spectacle that creates legends. But in today's corporate world, whose cup is it?

Deadlypoolexplores Liverpool FC's deadliest strike partnerships, from the 1960s to the modern day, revealing what made each one so special. Meticulously researched and featuring interviews with a wide range of Liverpool fans, the book uncovers fascinating stories of each player partnership and the successes theybrought.

Only the Real Thing is the story of how Aston Villa adapted and thrived in the changing world of early 1990s English football. The book dissects the cup-winning campaigns of 1994 and 1996 with a deep dive into the matches, players and management teams, while telling a wider story of the transitionary shift towards modern football.

The Dark Side of the Copa Libertadores uncovers the sinister, violent and corrupt goings on that bubble beneath the surface of this famous South American football tournament. This captivating book charts the successes and miseries, heroes and villains, laughter and tears, screams and silence that punctuate the tournament's history.

An Arsenal Life is the story of the lost world of Arsenal's post-war history told through the lens of lifelong super-fan Martin Wengrow, a friend and confidant to legendary players and managers from the 1960s to the late 1990s. The kind of access Martin enjoyed would be impossible in today's game. This is his Arsenal life!