Books by Ian Jones

Chris Gratton is listed as the first author on the title page of the previous edition.

Designed especially for students in sport and physical activity, this book provides a detailed guide to planning, undertaking, and writing up qualitative research. It's a coherent and accessible guide through the research process, using numerous examples to bring research alive.

The study of consumption in social life is growing. This book addresses the rise of consumer culture and the various attempts to explain and account for it. Drawing on historical perspectives and comparative studies, it addresses social change with reference to generation effects and conflict.

The safety bicycle, with front-wheel steering and pedal-driven rear wheel, has existed since the experiments of Kirkpatrick Macmillan in 1839, but his ideas were forgotten when the front-wheel driven boneshakers and penny farthings reigned supreme. In the 1870s, experimental safeties appeared, culminating in Henry Lawson's Bicyclette of 1879.

The Role of Business Ethics in Economic Performance is a major edited collection of papers on why and how the conduct of business behaviour effects its commercial success. Maurie Cohen and Russell Sparkes look at the ethical consumers and ethical investors increasing influence on business conduct.