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1. Leisure, Culture and the Olympic Games

   Edited by John Horne

   This edited collection contains six refreshing critical assessments of the leisure-sport relationship from societies that have staged the Olympic and Paralympic Games and contains valuable information for those who live in societies that aspire to host the Games. The collection begins and ends with...

   To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding Sport

   An Introduction to the Sociological and Cultural Analysis of Sport

   By John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel

   Bringing a cultural and social dimension to the study of sport, this introductory guide will help students understand the context of sport and the place it has in the lives of individuals as well as in modern British society as a whole. Theoretically rigorous yet accessible, Understanding Sport&...

   Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Understanding Sport

   A socio-cultural analysis

   By John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel, Kath Woodward

   Series: CRESC

   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...

   Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Understanding Sport

   A Socio-Cultural Analysis

   By John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel, Kath Woodward

   What is the significance of sport in contemporary society? To what extent can sport be seen as an agent of socio-cultural change? In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have experienced profound change. In this...

   Published July 31st 2011 by Routledge
5. Understanding the Olympics

   By John Horne, Garry Whannel

   The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event on earth, with television audiences measured in billions of viewers. By what process did the Olympics evolve into this multi-national phenomenon? How can an understanding of the Olympic Games help us to better understand international...

   Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge
6. Football Goes East

   Business, Culture and the People's Game in East Asia

   By John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter

   Global popular culture and big business have revolutionised the East in a generation. Football, Sport of the masses and now commercial super power, has travelled with this tide of change in the East in its own right. The development of football as a major participatory sport in Japan, Korea and...

   Published September 22nd 2004 by Routledge
7. Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup

   Edited by John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter

   The football World Cup is unquestionably the biggest sporting event in the world. This fascinating collection of papers examines the background to the 2002 World Cup Finals, held in Korea and Japan, and explores the event's profound social, cultural, political and economic significance. The book...

   Published April 24th 2002 by Routledge