Author : John E. Findling
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Jeux olympiques - Histoire - Encyclopédies
ISBN : 9780275976590
This unique book provides information on the events surrounding the Olympics, such as political controversies, scandals, tragedies, economic issues, and peripheral incidents.
Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0195131959
Spanning the wide world of sports, this volume is packed with every conceivable fact that anyone would possibly want to know about nearly 300 sports, including history and practice worldwide.
Author : John E. Findling
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313322783
Revised & updated, this new edition offers a comprehensive account of the modern Olympic movement, including the political side of the tournament. Coverage of planning for the 2008 Summer Olympics is included.
Author : David Wallechinsky
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845136956
David Wallechinsky's compendious book has long been the preeminent point of reference for sports enthusiasts and journalists alike Every sports writer assigned to cover the Games ensures they have their early copy of this prodigious work of reference, packed with absorbing anecdotes and essential statistics. A treasure trove of 116 years of Olympic history, it is also an amazingly readable book, for in the course of recording every single Olympic final since 1896, it concentrates on the strange, the memorable, and the unbelievable. Who knew (until reading this book) that croquet was once an Olympic sport, or tug of war, or that a 72-year-old once won a silver medal for target shooting? This new edition also has every finals result, recorded by the top eight competitors in every event at the Beijing Olympics, and full descriptions of rules and scoring for every event included for 2012. It is the one truly essential Olympics book.
Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1583674829
For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in London in 1964, SR continues their commitment to independent and thought-provoking analysis, free of dogma or sectarian positions. Transforming Classes is a compendium of socialist thought today and a clarifying account of class struggle in the early twenty-first-century, from China to the United States.
Author : David Maraniss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1416534075
An account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reveals the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that pays tribute to such athletes as Cassius Clay and Wilma Rudolph while evaluating the roles of Cold War propaganda, civil rights, and politics. 250,000 first printing.
Author :
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1118609409
A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
Author : Pedersen, Paul M.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1800883285
Bringing together preeminent international researchers, emerging scholars and practitioners, Paul M. Pedersen presents the comprehensive Encyclopedia of Sport Management, offering detailed entries for the critical concepts and topics in the field.
Author : Heather L. Dichter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 100383129X
2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924, which is now recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games. As a globally watched quadrennial mega-event, the Winter Olympics is unique from both summer sport festivals and other winter festivals, such as the Winter X Games. 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, environmental history, and media history to analyze the continued allure of the Winter Olympics, a century after its origin, and in light of the sustained and significant problems facing the Olympic movement. Host cities’ efforts to create positive and lasting legacies are analyzed to highlight the challenges and complexities that have plagued the Olympic movement throughout the last century. The Olympic Winter Games at 100 is essential reading for any researcher, advanced student or scholar with an interest in Olympic Studies, sports development, sport policy and history. The chapters in this book were published as two special issues in The International Journal of the History of Sport.
