This book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution of Olympic and Paralympic sport, exploring the dynamic interplay between innovation, sustainability, and technology. This book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution...Loe edasi...
At Rio de Janeiros 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, where athletes were celebrated as symbols of national achievement, sex workers reclaiming the term puta mobilized their own bodily labour within neoliberal regimes of visibility and control...Loe edasi...
This provocative book makes the case for the complete removal of national symbolism in the Olympic Games. Focusing on the case of national flags at the Olympic Games, it explores the history of national symbols at the Olympics and asks what this iss...Loe edasi...
This book explores the relationship between sports law, the Olympic Movement and human rights. Examining the historical legal roots of contemporary Olympic law, including the ancient history of the Olympic Games and the legacy of Pierre de Coubertin...Loe edasi...
The Olympic Games have evolved from a sporting event into a perceived catalyst for urban transformation, enabling host governments to pursue legacies that position cities as global hubs. Yet aligning the Games demands with urban planning goals remai...Loe edasi...
This book examines the new era of the Olympic Movement as it is forced to navigate through old and new socioeconomic, geopolitical, and environmental challenges. This book examines the new era of the Olympic Movement as it is forced...Loe edasi...
This book examines how sport and leisure have the capacity to impact our understanding and experience of culture, protest, and social change. The temporal dimensions of sport and leisure across different but interdependently connected socio...Loe edasi...
Lessons in success from Sarina Wiegmans sports psychologist with the triumphant Lionesses This is a book for any Individual who wants to succeed. This is a book for any Team who wants to thrive. ...Loe edasi...
Since the 1980s, the Oxfam Trailwalker has emerged as one of Hong Kong’s most distinctive sports events, challenging teams to traverse a demanding 100-kilometer route along the MacLehose Trail within a 48-hour time frame. Its sustained success in...Loe edasi...
&;After years of rumors and speculation, Matt Hart sets out to peel back the layers of secrecy that protected the most powerful coach in running. What he finds will leave you indignant&;and wondering whether anything in the high-st...Loe edasi...
An eye-opening account of how Russia’s leaders have used sports as a political tool to solidify their global power “Victories in sport do more to cement the nation than a hundred political slogans.” This was the pep talk Russian athlet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252046971)
A superstar in both football and track and field Sol Butler pioneered the parlaying of sports fame into business prosperity. Brian Hallstoos tells the story of a Black athletes canny use of mainstream middle-class values and relationships with whit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089121)
A superstar in both football and track and field Sol Butler pioneered the parlaying of sports fame into business prosperity. Brian Hallstoos tells the story of a Black athlete’s canny use of mainstream middle-class values and relationships with...Loe edasi...
Events and Politics offer students a cutting-edge, intellectually stimulating, and accessible exploration of the deeply intertwined relationship between major events and political power. Events and Politics offer students a cutting-...Loe edasi...
Events and Politics offer students a cutting-edge, intellectually stimulating, and accessible exploration of the deeply intertwined relationship between events and political power.The book includes 30 chapters from global academics, structu...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the communication and content management strategies on social networks of major actors in world sport. This book analyses the communication and content management strategies on social networks of major actors in w...Loe edasi...
Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Paralympic Games Explained is the leading introduction to the Paralympic Games, one of the largest multi-sport mega-events in the world. The book explores every key aspect of the Games, from th...Loe edasi...
Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Paralympic Games Explained is the leading introduction to the Paralympic Games, one of the largest multi-sport mega-events in the world. The book explores every key aspect of the Games, from th...Loe edasi...
The Race offers an exhilarating, behind-the-scenes look at the cut-throat world of elite athletics. The Race offers an exhilarating, behind-the-scenes look at the cut-throat world of elite athletics. With vivid recall, David Gillick, one of I...Loe edasi...
From Olympic glory to the madness of midlife, Gail Emms shares the highs and lows of her journey – gruelling training, career-defining moments and the struggle of life beyond elite sport. With humour and honesty, she dives into parenting, raving a...Loe edasi...
This book examines the significance of the Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics, taking place in 2032, in the context of the history and future of the Olympic Movement.As an outlier host, Brisbane is an experiment towards a new Olympic and Par...Loe edasi...
This book examines the importance of California - a socio-cultural, economic and political powerhouse - in the history of modern sport. It argues that California has had a profound influence, for better or worse, on the way that not only America but...Loe edasi...
All hockey players dream of hoisting the Stanley Cup and winning a gold medal for their home country. Ken Morrow was the first to accomplish both feats in the same year, playing for the United States in the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980 at Lake Placid...Loe edasi...
Eve Muirhead changed her sport and will now change perceptions of what it took to become a leader, a role model and a national icon as one of Scotland’s most successful ever athletes. The road from child prodigy to best in the world wasn’t a straight...Loe edasi...
The inspirational autobiography from Asia’s first dinghy sailing gold medallist updated to the present day. A full-time athlete at 10, Lijia was taken away from her parents and enrolled on the gruelling Chinese training regime. A rare insight into a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Human Kinetics, ISBN-13: 9781718223165)
At its core, sport governance encompasses two key elements: power and decision making. To truly grasp a sport organization’s purpose and structure, it’s essential to understand who wields power and which decisions are made by those who possess it....Loe edasi...
Brushes with a Stroke is the inspirational account of how the human spirit need not be crushed by the debilitating effects of a stroke. Veteran sportswriter and stroke victim Neil Harman tells seven vivid sporting stories: tales of doubt, f...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to present a critical analysis of the concept of the European Model of Sport (EMS). The EMS concept is widely used by policy makers at national and EU level, and by some sports organisations, yet it has never been comprehens...Loe edasi...
Finalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by The New Yorker, NPR and BookPage.Michael Waters performs an Olymp...Loe edasi...
This book explores the impacts, issues, and legacies of the past century of the Olympic Winter Games. Grounded in sport history, the chapters in this volume draw on the disciplines of cultural history, diplomatic history, global history, environme...Loe edasi...
This book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution of Olympic and Paralympic sport, exploring the dynamic interplay between innovation, sustainability, and technology. This book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution...Loe edasi...
At Rio de Janeiros 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, where athletes were celebrated as symbols of national achievement, sex workers reclaiming the term puta mobilized their own bodily labour within neoliberal regimes of visibility and control...Loe edasi...
This provocative book makes the case for the complete removal of national symbolism in the Olympic Games. Focusing on the case of national flags at the Olympic Games, it explores the history of national symbols at the Olympics and asks what this iss...Loe edasi...
This book explores the relationship between sports law, the Olympic Movement and human rights. Examining the historical legal roots of contemporary Olympic law, including the ancient history of the Olympic Games and the legacy of Pierre de Coubertin...Loe edasi...
The Olympic Games have evolved from a sporting event into a perceived catalyst for urban transformation, enabling host governments to pursue legacies that position cities as global hubs. Yet aligning the Games demands with urban planning goals remai...Loe edasi...
This book examines the new era of the Olympic Movement as it is forced to navigate through old and new socioeconomic, geopolitical, and environmental challenges. This book examines the new era of the Olympic Movement as it is forced...Loe edasi...
This book examines how sport and leisure have the capacity to impact our understanding and experience of culture, protest, and social change. The temporal dimensions of sport and leisure across different but interdependently connected socio...Loe edasi...
Lessons in success from Sarina Wiegmans sports psychologist with the triumphant Lionesses This is a book for any Individual who wants to succeed. This is a book for any Team who wants to thrive. ...Loe edasi...
Since the 1980s, the Oxfam Trailwalker has emerged as one of Hong Kong’s most distinctive sports events, challenging teams to traverse a demanding 100-kilometer route along the MacLehose Trail within a 48-hour time frame. Its sustained success in...Loe edasi...
&;After years of rumors and speculation, Matt Hart sets out to peel back the layers of secrecy that protected the most powerful coach in running. What he finds will leave you indignant&;and wondering whether anything in the high-st...Loe edasi...
An eye-opening account of how Russia’s leaders have used sports as a political tool to solidify their global power “Victories in sport do more to cement the nation than a hundred political slogans.” This was the pep talk Russian athlet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252046971)
A superstar in both football and track and field Sol Butler pioneered the parlaying of sports fame into business prosperity. Brian Hallstoos tells the story of a Black athletes canny use of mainstream middle-class values and relationships with whit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089121)
A superstar in both football and track and field Sol Butler pioneered the parlaying of sports fame into business prosperity. Brian Hallstoos tells the story of a Black athlete’s canny use of mainstream middle-class values and relationships with...Loe edasi...
Events and Politics offer students a cutting-edge, intellectually stimulating, and accessible exploration of the deeply intertwined relationship between major events and political power. Events and Politics offer students a cutting-...Loe edasi...
