John Horne

A Canny Countryside. John Horne

Publisher Marketing: Title: A Canny Countryside. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Horne, John; 1896. 223 p.; 8 . 012627.ee.18. Contributor Bio:  Horne, John John Horne is Professor of Sport and Sociology, with the School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the Director of the International Research Institute for Sport Studies (IRiSS) at the same institution. He is author, co-author, editor and co-editor of over 140 books, edited collections, journal articles and book chapters. His books include" Understanding Sport: A Socio-Cultural Analysis, 2nd Edition "(Routledge, 2013), "Understanding the Olympics "(Routledge, 2012), and "Sport in Consumer Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He was selected as a member of the panel for 'Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism' in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) in 2012, is convenor of the British Sociological Association Sport Study Group, and is Founding Editor of the 'Globalizing Sport Studies' Book Series.