Olympics & Paralympics

History records that the Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece nearly three thousand years ago, died out around 393 AD, and were triumphantly reborn in 1896, in the Greek capital of Athens. Rather less well known is how, during the intervening...

Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe provides a focused, exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental health research, models, and approaches in elite sport to provide researchers, practitioners, coaches, and students with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449910030Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

It remains one of the most memorable moments in modern Olympic history. At the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles, a raucous crowd of ninety thousand saw their favorite in the women's 3,000-meter race, Mary Decker, go down. An audience of two billion...

In the early 1900s, the Olympic Games track and field throwing events were dominated by a group of Irish-born weight throwers representing the United States. These athletes came to be known as the "Irish Whales"-primarily because of their immense size...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931915Author Dara TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593512302Author Daniel James BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948007078Author Chris FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint VeloPressPublisher VeloPress

The US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics left German lawyer Thomas Bach unable to defend his fencing title. Instead, he devoted the next 20 years to climbing the sports administrative ladder. His mission was to protect athletes' independent rights, and...

The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed ""The Farcical Games."" The events were poorly organized and years later many of the competitors had no idea that they had actually competed in the Olympics. They only knew that they had competed in an...

The story of the fourteen men - largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book - who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to...

Having grown from 390 athletes from fourteen countries to nine thousand athletes from seventy-eight countries, the Maccabiah Games (or the "Jewish Olympics," as it has come to be known) continue to gain popularity. The Maccabiah Games, which take place...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847328458Author Neil WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 300g

The Olympics thrill the world with spectacle and drama. They also carry a cultural and social significance that goes beyond the stadium, athletes, and fans. The Games are arenas in which individual and team athletic achievement intersect with the...

In this "must-read for anyone concerned with race, sports, and politics in America" (William C. Rhoden, New York Times bestselling author), the inspirational and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476748412Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

5 September, 1972. 4.30 a.m. The Munich Olympic Village. Black September, a group of Palestinian terrorists, break into the Israeli team's apartments. It is the beginning of the most tragic event in Olympic history and, after twenty hours, the day will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732457Author Andrew ZimbalistFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm)...

Something in the Air is Richard Hoffer's gripping sports narrative that tells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mexico City in 1968, a year of dramatic upheaval around the world. Racial tensions were high on the U.S. Olympic team,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780971179Author Keir RadnedgeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing GroupDimensions(mm) 285mm * 217mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578500874Author Phil CostaFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Transition Playbook LLCPublisher Transition Playbook LLCWeight(grams) 345g

Beginning with prehumans running down prey, this book describes how ancient, medieval and modern runners have come to run ever faster. Writers of antiquity left few detailed accounts of running but in the early 1800s detailed accounts of running feats...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSean Murray is the founder and CEO of RealTime Performance (www.realtimeperformance.com), a consulting firm that helps companies develop the next generation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060874131Author Guy WaltersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415652Author Sami Jo SmallFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612294124Author Ian BrittainFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Common Ground PublishingPublisher Common Ground PublishingWeight(grams)...

On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his...

This 2nd edition of a highly successful book (published in 2000) provides a comprehensive, critical analysis of the Olympic Games using a multi-disciplinary social science approach. This revised edition contains much new data relating to the Sydney 2000...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439157664Author Michael PhelpsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788885202351Author Erich KamperFormat HardbackPage Count 700Imprint Vallardi & AssociatiPublisher Vallardi & Associati

The world of modern Olympic sport is a secretive, elite domain where decisions are taken behind closed doors, where money is spent on creating a fabulous life-style for a tiny circle of officials and funds destined for sport are siphoned away to offshore...

The Olympic Games is undoubtedly the greatest sporting event in the world, with over 200 countries competing for success. This important new study of the Olympics investigates why some countries are more successful than others. Which factors determine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013272813Author Eva Kassens NoorFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013273933Author Maike WeitzmannFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791454749Author Helen Jefferson LenskyjFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

A tale of an ordinary yet extraordinary girl who went on to inspire a nation. 'Never in my years as a wheelchair racer had I experienced anything like the tremendous blast of noise and energy that swept me home to an Olympic gold medal that Sydney...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791447567Author Helen Jefferson LenskyjFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791466155Author Alan TomlinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 253Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578457697Author Phil CostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Transition Playbook LLCPublisher Transition Playbook LLCWeight(grams) 204g