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"In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and explain how sport remains an important agent and symptom of socio-cultural change. Fully integrating historical, sociological, political and cultural analysis, the book covers every key topic in the study of sport and society, including: - debate, interpretation and theory - sport and the media - sport and the body - sport and politics - commercialization - globalization. Retaining the accessibility and scholarly rigour for which Understanding Sport has always been renowned, this new edition includes entirely new chapters on global transformations, sports mega-events and sites, sporting bodies and governance, as well as a succinct guide to researching sport. With review and seminar questions included in every chapter, plus concise, helpful guides to further reading, Understanding Sport remains an essential textbook for all courses on sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport and social theory, or social issues in sport"--

Intro -- Preface -- A Note on Style and Criteria -- A Note on Sources and Their Uses -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Audience -- 1.2 The Turmoil We Are in -- 1.3 The Yellow Brick Road -- 1.4 Uniqueness of This Book -- 1.5 Presentation Method -- 1.6 The United States as a Paradigm -- References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022) -- Chapter 2: What Is Promoting Human Extinction? -- 2.1 About This Chapter -- 2.1.1 Scope -- 2.1.2 Rationale for Method -- 2.1.3 Rationale for Categories -- 2.1.4 Sourcing -- 2.2 The Categories -- 2.2.1 Individual -- 2.2.1.1 Alienation and Identity -- 2.2.1.2 The Liberal Democratic Response: Identity Politics -- 2.2.1.3 Health -- Health Care Overall -- Mental Health -- Substance Abuse -- Nutritional Compromise -- 2.2.1.4 Education and Lack of Basic Knowledge -- 2.2.1.5 Work -- Losing Oneself at Work -- Types and Conditions of Work Environments -- 2.2.2 Society -- 2.2.2.1 Social Institutional Decay -- Income Stratification: The Consequences -- And the Proletarians, the Bulk of Society? -- General Flaws in the Governing Document, the Constitution -- A Constitutional Action Plan of the Dark Variety -- 2.2.2.2 Infrastructure -- 2.2.3 Environment: Natural -- 2.2.3.1 Climate Change/Global Warming -- 2.2.3.2 Resource Depletion -- 2.2.3.3 Environmental Degradation and Major Reasons for It -- 2.2.4 Environment: Artificial -- 2.2.4.1 Ethos, Ethics, and Morals -- 2.2.4.2 Philosophy and Ideology -- 2.2.4.3 Telecommunications Vulnerabilities -- 2.2.4.4 Artificial Intelligences -- 2.2.4.5 Knowledge Quality -- Documentation -- Pseudoscience and on the Borderlands of Science -- Information Quality, Peer Review, and ``Fake News´´ -- 2.2.4.6 Socioeconomics: Mergers and Acquisitions -- 2.2.4.7 Technological Complexity -- 2.2.4.8 Overpopulation -- 2.3 Other Problems -- 2.4 The Prison Planet.

Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related. By allying Blomkvist's network-kingdoms with Sindbæk's nodal market-networks, it is argued that the political and economic character of Viking-Age Britain and Ireland - my 'Insular Scandinavia' - is best understood if Dublin and Jórvík are seen as being established as nodes of a market-based network kingdom. Based on a dataset relating to the then developing bullion economies of the central and eastern Scandinavian worlds and southern Scandinavia in particular, it is argued that war-band leaders from, or familiar with, 'Danish' markets like Hedeby and Kaupang transposed to Insular Scandinavia the concept of polities based on establishment of markets and the protection of routeways between them. Using this book, readers can think of interlinked Dublin and Great Army elites creating an Insular version of a Danish-style nodal market kingdom based on commerce and silver currencies. A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain will help specialist researchers and students of Viking archaeology make connections between southern Scandinavia and the market economy of the Uí Ímair ('descendants of Ívarr') operating out of the twin nodes of Dublin and Jórvík via the initial establishment of Hiberno-Scandinavian longphuirt and the related winter-camps of the Viking Great Army.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Problem -- 2. Social Relations: Controlling Disruptive Colleagues -- 3. Metanorms: Even Tyrants Care What Others Think -- 4. More on Metanorms: Political Correctness and the Excesses of Control -- 5. Metanorm Expectations: If Everybody's Doing It, Does That Make It Right? -- 6. Moving Out of the Lab: Sex, Crime, and Human Rights -- 7. Norms, Laws, and Markets: Implications for Policy -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Definitions -- Appendix 2: Methods -- Notes -- References -- Index

Approaching 1492 |Approaching Apocalypse -- Apocalypse Nearer -- Liquidation of Indigenes | Reliance on Africans -- |Tensions in London -- Florida Invaded -- Turning Point -- 1588: Origins of the U.S.A.? -- Origins of the U.S.A.: Indigenous Floridians -- Liquidated | Ditto for New Mexico -- Apocalypse Dawning.

The U.S. in southern Africa during the 19th & early 20th centuries --The U.S. lays the foundation for apartheid, 1906-1930 --Pretoria seeks alliance with Nazi Germany to complement ties with the U.S., 1930-1939 --Pro-Nazi sabotage in Pretoria, 1940-1945 --Washington as midwife as apartheid is birthed, 1945-1952 --"Where are the militant non-communist whites?" 1952-1956 --Emboldened Africans and Negroes, 1955-1957 --Turning point, 1957-1959 --In the shadow of Sharpeville, 1960-1962 --Pivotal years, 1963-1964 --Washington and Pretoria: can this marriage be saved? --Back to Black, 1967-1968 --Contradictions, 1968-1974 --Copernican changes in Portugal, 1973-1974 --Will Cuban troops invade Rhodesia, Namibia and South Africa? 1975-1976 --Soweto's reverberations, 1976-1978 --The U.S. unable to stem apartheid's crisis --The tide turns, 1980-1984 --The CIA cabal strikes back, 1984-1985 --Sanctions imposed on apartheid, 1986 --Endgame, 1987-1990 --Liberation, 1990-1994 --Epilogue: 1994-present.

"This book describes social systems as having life (organic) and the second box of how contemporary social problems are to be managed within the scope of this thinking. This book establishes that societies are a special type of system that can be described and managed in a correspondingly special way"--

Cover -- FACING THE RISING SUN -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Japan Rises/Negroes Cheer -- 2. Harlem, Addis Ababa- and Tokyo -- 3. Japan Establishes a Foothold in Black America -- 4. White Supremacy Loses "Face" -- 5. Pro- Tokyo Negroes Convicted and Imprisoned -- 6. Japanese Americans Interned, U.S. Negroes Next? -- 7. "Brown Americans" Fight "Brown Japanese" in the Pacific War? -- 8. Aftermath -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed. Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities addresses this gap by developing an interdisciplinary approach to urban decarbonisation, drawing upon more established, yet quite distinctive, fields of built environment policy and design, housing, and studies of social and economic change. Through this approach, policy and practices of housing affordability, equity, energy efficiency, resilience and renewables are critiqued and alternatives are presented. Drawing upon international case studies, this book provides a unique contribution to interdisciplinary urban and housing studies, discourses and practices in an era of climate change. This book is recommended reading on higher level undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in architecture, urban studies, planning, built environment, geography and urban studies. It will also be directly valuable to housing and urban policy makers and sustainability practitioners.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Values in theory -- 1 Respect for persons -- 2 Client self-determination -- 3 Social contexts, individualism and professional ethics -- Part II Values in practice -- 4 Mrs M - description and analysis -- 5 Sheila and David - description and analysis -- 6 'I will respect somebody's right to independence to the hilt, but... ' -- Part III Values in context -- 7 Social work and society -- 8 The social work role -- 9 Values, social work and contexts -- Bibliography -- Index