This distinctive Handbook covers the breadth of sports and media scholarship. Organized into historical, institutional, spectator, and critical studies perspectives, this volume brings together the work of many researchers, defining the full scope of the subject area, including the development of sports media; production, coverage, and economics of sports media; sports media audiences; sports promotion; and race and gender issues in sports and media.

Bad Attitude is a collection of writings and graphics from the extraordinary Processed Word magazine. Dedicated it giving voice to the benumbed foot-soldiers of the information age it contains blistering first-hand accounts of life at the bottom of the ladder in big banks, defense contractors, computer manufacturers and food processing factories. In these pages the service economy and the new high tech jobs often touted in glowing terms by the mainstream media are exposed for their quotidian banality, their essential uselessness, and the catch-22 absurdity that permeates all corporate life under late capitalism. Moving at bike messenger speed between offices, Bad Attitude describes the hazards of the office computer and how to sabotage it, mutant culture in Silicon Valley, the new transiency undercutting links at work, the connections between time and money, bosses and secretaries, resistance and resignation. It provides a unique basis for new theoretical developments in the struggle for human liberation, and, above all, it assures the thousands of isolated rebels mired in dead-end and deadening jobs that they are not alone. The spark of revolt can and must be nurtured until the next wave comes along.

Mitch Marlow is Hollywood's hottest bad boy. But lately his reckless, real-life stunts have gotten very dangerous, making movie studio executives nervous about their investment. Smart and sassy, Molly Hill is the talent agent stuck with babysitting the arrogant star. It's her job to keep him alive until the Western he's shooting wraps. But will both of their Bad Attitudes rub together to spark a flame in the close quarters of a movie-set trailer?

Rudeness, laziness, apathy, backtalk, and self-centeredness....this description fits many teens, pre-teens, and younger children, but these behaviors may be helped or even halted by diet in as little as one week. Dr. Audrey Ricker, author of the bestseller Backtalk and Whining, realized that families fight over these issues, resulting in acrimony and doctors bills, when many foods and supplements can cure rudeness. Bad Attitude also includes strategies to help kids understand and accept these diet changes. Research studies support all the recommendations given by the authors, and Dr. Brian Cabin, a practicing pediatrician, shows clinical proof that kids can become the great youngsters you used to know once again. Getting your child to behave doesnt have to be a battle.

Now available in paperback, this vital handbook marks the development of sports studies as a major new discipline within the social sciences. Edited by the leading sociologist of sport, Eric Dunning, and Jay Coakley, author of the best selling textbook on sport in the USA, it both reflects and richly endorses this new found status. Key aspects of the Handbook include: an inventory of the principal achievements in the field; a guide to the chief conflicts and difficulties in the theory and research process; a rallying point for researchers who are established or new to the field, which sets the agenda for future developments; a resource book for teachers who wish to establish new curricula and develop courses and programmes in the area of sports studies. With an international and inter-disciplinary team of contributors the Handbook of Sports Studies is comprehensive in scope, relevant in content and far-reaching in its discussion of future prospect.