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The Sport of Kings
This unique "behind the scenes" description of British flat racing is based on first hand experiences in Newmarket, the Suffolk town regarded as the international headquarters of the sport. Cassidy offers an insider's look at the rituals of horseracing--including those on the racecourse and at the bloodstock auction--and shows how racing, betting and the bloodstock industry are connected. Her insightful descriptions of the class structure of Newmarket explain how racing professionals preserve both the sport and their status quo.
Horse People
Cassidy's investigation reveals the factors--ethical, cultural, political, and economic--that have shaped the racing tradition.
The Sport of Kings
'Behind the scenes' description of British flat racing based on Cassidy's experiences working in Newmarket.
Qualitative Research in Gambling
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and technologies, regulatory models, changing public attitudes and the sheer scale of the gambling enterprise necessitating innovative and mixed methodologies that are flexible, responsive and ‘agile’. This book seeks to demonstrate that researchers should look beyond the existing disciplinary territory and the dominant paradigm of ‘prob...
Vicious Games
Based on over ten years experience working in the industry, this is an exposé of the gambling business
Women at Work
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Where the Wild Things Are Now
An examination of the concept of domestication against the shifting background of relationships among humans, animals and plants. It explores the relevance of domestication for anthropologists and scholars in related fields who are concerned with understanding ongoing change in processes affecting humans as well as other species. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.
The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing
This text will provoke a discussion about the future of horseracing and is written in an accessible and scholarly style.
Vicious Games
Based on over ten years experience working in the industry, this is an exposé of the gambling business
Teaching the Animal
Split into three sections, Teaching the Animal provides in-depth analysis of the nature of the discipline, the resources available, expectations of students and faculty, and a number of sample curricula in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences.
