Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination. Since 1976, the defence of the... RRP: $110.48 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape... RRP: $128.27 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Unforgiving In this deeply personal memoir in the vein of Andre Agassi's Open and Megan Rapinoe’s One Life, the winningest snowboardcross rider of all time chronicles her career, a story of self-growth that reveals the secret of her resilience and how she overcame... RRP: $55.00 $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Strategic Sports Event Management This book provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to community sport. Introducing key theory and best practice, it offers a practical,... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Transition Playbook for ATHLETES Find out how the best athletes in the world WIN after sports.More than 100 former elite athletes, including 25 Olympians, share best practices for finding success after sports. These athletes reveal how to have a successful transition out... RRP: $38.66 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Evaluating the Local Impacts of the Rio Olympics This book evaluates the local impacts and legacies of the Olympics in Rio by comparing Rio2016 with other Olympic experiences and evaluating the ways in which the Games served the city.The 2016 Rio Olympic Games took place in a scenario of enormous... RRP: $110.48 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Disability in the Global Sport Arena Sport is often at the centre of battles for rights to inclusion linked to class, race and gender, and this book explores struggles centred on disability in different cultural settings in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It challenges... RRP: $99.31 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added India and the Olympics In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote. This book is a corrective. Drawing on newly available and hitherto unused archival sources, it demonstrates that India was an important strategic outpost in... RRP: $131.67 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Games of Discontent The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents. The Summer Olympic Games in Mexico were to be a moment of respite from chaos. But the image of peace... RRP: $49.80 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008 1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the... RRP: $131.67 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sport, Globalisation and Identity Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. This book explores the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a... RRP: $110.48 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added From Olympic Administration to Olympic Governance Lausanne, the Swiss city IOC (International Olympic Committee) President Juan Antonio Samaranch honored with the title "Olympic capital" in 1994, is now the administrative capital of world sport. The past century has presented Olympism with many... RRP: $115.45 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships... RRP: $91.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Olympic Games and the Environment Nowadays, sports Mega-events - with the Olympic Games leading the way - go to immense effort to showcase their environmental credentials. With that in mind, this book compares and contrasts the environmental credentials of four Olympic Host cities... RRP: $91.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Managing the Olympics The Olympics Games are the biggest and most significant mega-sport event in the world. Planning and then staging the Olympic Games is a highly complex task which is exasperated by the fact that the Games are continually moving and not held consecutively... RRP: $215.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective. Using the recent body of literature on diplomacy it explores the evolution of diplomatic... RRP: $219.36 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Total Olympics “An indispensable Olympic resource and a lot of pure fun.” – Jack McCallum, author of the New York Times bestseller Dream Team Faster! Higher! Stronger! Stranger! A glorious tapestry of legendary characters, forgotten records, crazy... RRP: $40.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Clyde the Glide Through his fifteen-year career as an NBA player, Clyde Drexler played with elegance and flair, leadership and poise, integrity and an ability to come through in the clutch. He led the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals twice and helped the Houston... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Brave Enough Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America's heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitterPyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the... RRP: $45.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Tessa & Scott Now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair's stunning performances at the Sochi and PyeongChang Olympic Games and beyond. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the world's most... RRP: $54.99 $54.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
