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  • Sport Policy in Canada

    Edited by Lucie Thibault, Jean Harvey ...
    Series series Open Access
    Sport Policy in Canada provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012. In light of this new policy, the authors, top scholars in the field, provide detailed accounts of the most salient sport policies and programs, while also discussing issues and challenges facing policy makers.In Canada and around the world, the last decades have known a sharp ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

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  • Canada Lives Here

    The Case for Public Broadcasting

    by Wade Rowland ...
    Canada Lives Here tells the tumultuous story of public broadcasting in Canada, from its inception in 1933 to the CBC’s current, controversial attempts to adapt to collapsing revenues and new technologies. It explores in detail the struggle to preserve public space and foster community in an environment devoted to profit-making, arguing that the ideals of public service broadcasting are more ... Read more

    $7.82 CAD

  • Understanding the Social Economy

    A Canadian Perspective

    by Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook, Ann Armstrong ...
    In Understanding the Social Economy, Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook, and Ann Armstrong integrate a wide array of organizations founded upon a social mission - social enterprises, nonprofits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development associations - under the rubric of the 'social economy.' This framework facilitates a comprehensive study of Canada's social sector, an area often neglected ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • Lessons Learned

    Reflections of a University President

    by William G. Bowen ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    An insider's account of higher education from a legendary university leaderLessons Learned gives unprecedented access to the university president's office, providing a unique set of reflections on the challenges involved in leading both research universities and liberal arts colleges. In this landmark book, William Bowen, former president of Princeton University and of the Andrew W. Mellon ... Read more

    $23.66 CAD

  • Educational Leadership at 2050

    Conjectures, Challenges, and Promises

    by Rosemary Papa, Fenwick W. English, Theodore Creighton ...
    This is a practical, bold, no-holds barred look at challenges facing educational leaders and the university programs that prepare them through mid-century. It examines key continuities and discontinuities of current times for school, education, and society. Both practice and preparation occur in contested social space, the implications of which are explored in a post industrial, digital age.The ... Read more

    $38.87 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Edited by Juan Luis Paramio Salcines, Kathy Babiak, Geoff Walters ...
    Series series Foundations of Sport Management
    As the role of sport in society becomes ever more prominent and as sports organisations become increasingly influential members of the global community, so it has become more important than ever for sport to consider its wider social responsibilities.The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of theories and concepts of CSR ... Read more

    $113.33 CAD

  • Globalizing Sport

    How Organizations, Corporations, Media, and Politics are Changing Sport

    by George H. Sage ...
    Sport is enjoyed by millions of people across the world, and both watching and playing sport constitutes a major part of modern leisure time. But sport is also a huge worldwide industry. In Globalizing Sport, George Sage invites readers to explore a deeper understanding of the global dynamics of sport - not only competitions but of the big businesses of money, media coverage, athletic apparel and ... Read more

    $73.91 CAD

  • Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

    Edited by Barbara Segaert, Marc Theeboom, Christiane Timmerman, Bart Vanreusel ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social constructions of peace, integration and managing diversity are studied from the perspective of sport ... Read more

    $102.25 CAD

  • Playing it Forward

    50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada

    Edited by Guylaine Demers, Lorraine Greaves, Sandra Kirby, Marion Lay ...
    Series series A Feminist History Society Book
    Over the last 50 years, the struggles to achieve equity in sport have become central to the feminist mission. This book contains an inspiring collection of stories from the women on the front lines: athletes, coaches, educators, and activists for women's sport, who have done so much to foster change. Many of the women profiled here reflect on their tough beginnings in sport: being isolated and ... Read more

    $12.23 CAD

  • The Inclusion Imperative

    How Real Inclusion Creates Better Business and Builds Better Societies

    by Stephen Frost ...
    The Inclusion Imperative showcases the inspiring commitment to inclusion the London Olympic and Paralympic Games' organizing committee espoused, and details the techniques and frameworks that enabled it to truly deliver a 'Games for everyone' at London 2012. Diversity and inclusion expert, Stephen Frost, challenges preconceived ideas and strives to inspire professionals to tackle inclusion in ... Read more

    $39.41 CAD

  • Cities and the Creative Class

    by Richard Florida ...
    In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative**Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent. ... Read more

    $80.07 CAD

  • Universities in the Marketplace

    The Commercialization of Higher Education

    by Derek Bok ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. ... Read more

    $41.39 CAD