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A Runner's Journey by Bruce Kidd
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.63In the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada's most celebrated athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe, participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance running and... -
Tom Longboat by Bruce Kidd 9781550418385
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550418385Author Bruce KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Fitzhenry & WhitesidePublisher... -
'Critical Support' for Sport by Bruce Kidd
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $163.96During more than forty years, Bruce Kidd has combined careers as an internationally ranked athlete, coach, sports administrator, professor and dean with critical scholarly and popular writing about... -
'Critical Support' for Sport Bruce Kidd 9781032924885
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08During more than forty years, Bruce Kidd has combined careers as an internationally ranked athlete, coach, sports administrator, professor and dean with critical scholarly and popular writing about... -
Historicizing the Pan-American Games by Bruce Kidd
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from... -
The Struggle for Canadian Sport by Bruce Kidd 9781487522315
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men's organizations which dominated Canadian sports since the mid-nineteenth century... -
Elite Sport and Sport-for-All: Bridging the Two Cultures? Richard Bailey 9781138707542
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $95.63Sport is often perceived as being divided into two separate domains: mass participation and elite . In many countries, policy and funding in these two fields are managed by separate agencies, and... -
Educating the Body: A History of Physical Education in Canada by M. Ann Hall 9781487508562
RRP: $128.70Booksplease Price: $94.22Educating the Body presents a history of physical education in Canada, shedding light on its major advocates, innovators, and institutions. The book traces the major developments in physical... -
Olympic Reform Ten Years Later by Heather Dichter
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $82.37In 1999, the International Olympic Committee approved far-reaching reforms to the appointment and terms of its members, the selection of host cities for the Olympic and Winter Olympic Games, the... -
Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace by Holly Collison 9780367520168
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52Sport and physical activity are now regularly used to promote social and economic development, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, on an international scale. The emergence of the 'Sport for... -
Winters of Discontent: The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance Russell Field 9780252088445
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57Every four years, the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance. But in the modern era, mere bids to host the Games have sparked fierce opposition from groups motivated by... -
Winters of Discontent: The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance Russell Field 9780252046377
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72Every four years, the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance. But in the modern era, mere bids to host the Games have sparked fierce opposition from groups motivated by... -
Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008: To Remember is to Resist by Russell Field
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.211968 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... -
Discourses of Olympism: From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012 by Dikaia Chatziefstathiou 9780230289574
RRP: $214.48Booksplease Price: $199.29This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The book... -
Lords of the Rinks: The Emergence of the National Hockey League, 1875-1936 by John Chi-Kit Wong 9780802085207
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $59.53No sport is as important to Canadians as hockey. Though there may be a great many things that divide the country, the love of hockey is perhaps its single greatest unifier. Before the latest labour... -
Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories by Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst 9781838678661
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $37.11The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. In a context where striving for gender equity in relation to achieving the... -
Lawrence Grassi: From Piedmont to the Rocky Mountains by Elio Costa 9781442626249
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83Lawrence Grassi was a trailblazer in every sense of the word. A working-class man of humble Italian origins who worked as a labourer and a coal miner for most of his life, Grassi had a deep passion... -
Sport, Culture and Society: An introduction Grant Jarvie (University of Edinburgh, UK) 9781138917521
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $98.85What can sport do to produce social change in our world today? It is impossible to fully understand contemporary society and culture without acknowledging the importance of sport. Sport is part of... -
Games People Played: A Global History of Sport by Wray Vamplew 9781789144574
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.43Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sport. The book shows how sport has been practiced, experienced and made meaningful by players and fans throughout history. It... -
More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics by Richard Menkis 9781442626904
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy. Should athletes and nations boycott the games to protest the Nazi regime? More Than Just Games is the history of Canada's... -
The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights by Barbara J. Keys
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $71.72"Sport has the power to change the world," South African president Nelson Mandela told the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo in 2000. Today, we are inundated with similar claims-from politicians,... -
Peter Pan, the Lost Child by Kathleen Kelley-Lainé 9781912691302
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.01Originally published in 1992 in French as Peter Pan ou l'Enfant Triste, the book was translated into English in 1997 and released as Peter Pan: The Story of Lost Childhood. This new English language... -
Games People Played: A Global History of Sport by Wray Vamplew 9781789147759
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $34.81Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sport. The book shows how sport has been practiced, experienced and made meaningful by players and fans throughout history. It... -
Climber'S Paradise: Making Canada's Mountain Parks, 1906-1974 by PearlAnn Reichwein 9780888646743
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.89The mountain parks are for all Canadians for all time and their value cannot be measured in terms of how many access roads, motels, souvenir shops and golf courses we've provided. -Bob Jordan, 1971...