Olympics & Paralympics

The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games when each side engaged in psychological warfare. In the first three post-war Olympiads, this rivalry set the course for subsequent games, in which both sides ruthlessly exploited sport for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013272806Author Eva Kassens NoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Mexican leaders eagerly anticipated the attention that hosting the worldAEs most visible sporting event would bring, yet they could not have predicted the array of conflicts that would play out before the eyes of the world during the notorious 1968...

The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement presents a comprehensive history of the games from the first recorded history of the games in 776 B.C. to the present day. This is done through a chronology, forewords by Dan Jansen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692754610Author Robert D OberstFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Global Future PressPublisher Global Future PressWeight(grams) 299g

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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

Mexican leaders eagerly anticipated the attention that hosting the worldAEs most visible sporting event would bring, yet they could not have predicted the array of conflicts that would play out before the eyes of the world during the notorious 1968...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738523293Author George MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780635106186Author Carole MarshFormat PaperbackImprint Gallopade InternationalPublisher Gallopade InternationalWeight(grams) 68g

One. Two. Three. That's as long as it took to sear the souls of a dozen young American men, thanks to the craziest, most controversial finish in the history of the Olympics-the 1972 gold-medal basketball contest between the United States of America and...

Born in 1888 in what would soon be Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian Industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538192528Author Sean P MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913412135Author Michael PayneFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Vision Sports Publishing LtdPublisher Vision Sports Publishing Ltd

The book focuses on the Irish and Irish diasporal involvement in the Olympic Games. It discusses in detail the sporting involvement but, even more so, the political and national battles which accompanied the Irish Olympic journey prior to independence...

The book focuses on the Irish and Irish diasporal involvement in the Olympic Games. It discusses in detail the sporting involvement but, even more so, the political and national battles which accompanied the Irish Olympic journey prior to independence...

‘Athletes first’ is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world’s attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on...

In late 1998 and the early months of 1999, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was an organization in crisis. Revelations of a slush fund employed by Salt Lake City officials to secure votes from a number of IOC members in support of the city's bid...

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...

Over the years, host countries and cities have had to deal with a variety of concerns, problems, or criticisms, and Rio de Janeiro is no exception. Separately or collectively, a variety of issues might pose risks to the health, safety, and general...

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From track and field to swimming and diving, and of course basketball and soccer, Indiana University Olympians celebrates over a century of Indiana University Olympic competitors. Beginning in 1904, at the 3rd summer games in St. Louis, IU's first...

This anthology of essays, previously published in "Olympika: The International Centre for Olympic Studies", addresses key themes in the scholarly study of the Games. Part I presents seven articles devoted to Olympic history: the Games' legacy...

The Olympic Games bring together thousands of athletes, competing in over 40 sports, and representing over 200 nations. But that is just the surface, for none of this would be possible without the constant efforts of an incredible organization consisting...

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...

This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583228432Author Minky WordenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 402g

Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design, national identity, and citizenship. The "Olympic design milieu" fans out from the construction of the Olympic city and the creation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897277386Author J. Alexander PoultonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint OverTime BooksPublisher OverTime BooksWeight(grams) 244g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897277331Author J. Alexander PoultonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint OverTime BooksPublisher OverTime BooksWeight(grams) 198g

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...

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...

American photographers John Huet and David Burnett were commissioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to create a personal record ofthe Olympic Games in their own way; these new books are the result of that freedom and artistry. They capture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467104845Author Christopher N BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476686479Author Maria KajFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 178g

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...

Ever since 1968 a single iconic image of race in American sport has remained indelibly etched on our collective memory: sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos accepting medals at the Mexico City Olympics with their black-gloved fists raised and heads...

This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501162169Author Deborah Riley DraperFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 140g