The art market is worth billions globally, despite the effects of the Covid-19 health pandemic. This book brings together a strong cast of contributors to explore contemporary and historical themes.

The art market is worth billions globally, despite the effects of the Covid-19 health pandemic. This book brings together a strong cast of contributors to explore contemporary and historical themes.

Examining the global creative and cultural industries (CCIs), this book seeks to help readers understand key policy challenges faced by the sector.

This book examines the role of media in the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Traversing nations and media formats, contributors offer insights into the manner in which the Olympics is conveyed to the masses and the impact arising from the mass consumption of Olympic media in its plethora of dimensions. It was published as a special section of

This book uses the case of football fandom in Hong Kong to shine new light on the globalization of sport and culture, and on the intersection of culture and society in a post-colonial territory. Based on in-depth interviews, textual analysis, and survey data, the book explores the lived experience of football fans in Hong Kong.

The fascinating biography of Abe Saperstein, a Jewish immigrant who took an obscure group of Black basketball players from Chicago’s South Side, created the Harlem Globetrotters, and turned them into a worldwide sensation.

The Glovesmen of Goodison explores the careers of every goalkeeper who has stood between the sticks for Everton, with exclusive insight from the keepers themselves. Featuring chapters on every period in the club's rich goalkeeping past, this book is a must-read for Evertonians and goalkeeping aficionados everywhere.