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India and the Olympics
ISBN: 9780415804974 / Angielski / Twarda / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 the Olympic movement that started as a global phenomenon at the turn of the twentieth century. Among the questions the authors answer are: When and how did the Olympic ideology take root in India? Who were the early players and why did they appropriate Olympic sport to further their political ambitions? What explains India's eight... 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 avail... |
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657,15 zł |
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No Limits: The Will to Succeed
ISBN: 9781439157664 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fresh from his triumphant and extraordinary achievement at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Michael Phelps--up from working-class, born-in-the-USA roots--shows us the secrets to his remarkable success--from training to execution. For years the world has followed Michael Phelps's progress from teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenom in Athens. Now he's a living Olympic legend in Beijing with a peerless record of gold medals. In No Limits, Michael Phelps--the greatest competitor since Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods--will share the secrets to his remarkable success. Behind his tally...
Fresh from his triumphant and extraordinary achievement at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Michael Phelps--up from working-class, born-in-the-USA roots-...
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73,02 zł |
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The 1920 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
ISBN: 9780786440702 / Angielski / Miękka / 559 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers results for different competitors and events for the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium. This book contains appendices that include a schedule of events and festivities for the 1920 Olympics, information on World War I and Olympians, a tentative schedule of events that had been planned for the 1916 Olympic Games.
Offers results for different competitors and events for the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium. This book contains appendices that include a sched...
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409,82 zł |
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The 1912 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
ISBN: 9780786440696 / Angielski / Miękka / 587 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most 'modern' Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern Era to that date. This work on the early Olympics, provides information on the sites, dates, competitors, and nations of the Stockholm games.
The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most 'modern' Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern Era to tha...
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409,82 zł |
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The 1906 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
ISBN: 9780786440672 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents data on 29 nation and city-state participants in more than a dozen events in the Athens Games. This book provides scores and descriptions, and corrects many historical errors and omissions in other sources.
Presents data on 29 nation and city-state participants in more than a dozen events in the Athens Games. This book provides scores and descriptions, an...
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356,01 zł |
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The 1904 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
ISBN: 9780786440665 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1904 Olympic Games in St Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for Olympic scholars has been to determine which of the events at these Games were truly of Olympic caliber. This book demonstrates that 16 events of the 21 overall were truly Olympic sports and gives descriptions, scores, and analyses for each.
The 1904 Olympic Games in St Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for Olympic scholars has been to determine which of ...
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409,82 zł |
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The 1896 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
ISBN: 9780786440658 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the results of the Olympic Games, beginning in 1896. This work compiles the event results for track and field, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis (lawn), weightlifting, wrestling and other sports and events.
Presents the results of the Olympic Games, beginning in 1896. This work compiles the event results for track and field, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, ...
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409,82 zł |
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The 1900 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
ISBN: 9780786440641 / Angielski / Miękka / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based primarily on 1,900 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the 1900 Olympic Games, this work compiles the event results for the 1,900 Olympic events, including archery, track and field, cricket, equestrian, fencing, soccer, pelota basque, water polo, and rowing, among other sports.
Based primarily on 1,900 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the 1900 Olympic Games, this work compiles the event r...
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409,82 zł |
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Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement
ISBN: 9780415484169 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement' will be a revelation to those who have wondered what organizational challenges, intercultural conflicts, and global-local negotiations compose the backstage of the Olympic Movement's most popular and deceptively straightforward ritual.
'The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement' will be a revelation to those who have wondered what organizational challenges, intercultural conflicts, an...
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267,68 zł |
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The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement
ISBN: 9780415373173 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambitions and anxieties of being an Asian host in the continuing western Olympic hegemony. This original work explores the encounter between 'the East and the West' by analyzing the deliberate self-presentational cultural diplomacy historically required of Asian Olympic hosts. Exploring the relationship between Modern Asia and the Olympic Games, it focuses on the forgotten history of the 1940 Tokyo Olympics to reveal the complex and... By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the amb... |
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705,83 zł |
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Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey 1896-1924
ISBN: 9781859184585 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kevin McCarthy follows the story of Irish and Irish American Olympic involvement from its accidental beginnings in 1896 through to the very significant political issues which dominated Irish sports and Irish Olympic aspirations in the early 20th century. He has traced the role played by the Olympic Games in the evolution of a national identity in Ireland, and in the emergence of Irish America as a major sporting and political force in the USA.
The work highlights the divisions and complexities within Irish sport, as well as the significant influence of the British Olympic... Kevin McCarthy follows the story of Irish and Irish American Olympic involvement from its accidental beginnings in 1896 through to the very significan...
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217,90 zł |
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The International Olympic Committee, Law, and Accountability
ISBN: 9781138676398 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world. Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes and failures? This book examines the legitimacy and accountability of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This non-governmental organisation wields extraordinary power, but there is no democratic basis for its authority. This study questions the supremacy of the IOC, arguing that there is a significant accountability deficit. Investigating the conduct of the IOC from an international legal perspective, the book moves beyond a... The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world. Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes an... |
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705,83 zł |
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Gold Rush: Photographs of Olympic Athletes
ISBN: 9781899235339 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrating the Sydney Olympic Games, this book is a tribute to the great Olympic athletes past and present. Jason Bell has spent the last three years travelling to meet and photograph the leading sportsmen and women. This has given him unique access to their private worlds enabling him to present a side of them rarely seen by their audience. The photographs from the book will be exhibited at the Olympic Village during the games and at the Commonwealth Institute from September - December 2000. A magnificent work illustrated with 90 full-colour plates.
Celebrating the Sydney Olympic Games, this book is a tribute to the great Olympic athletes past and present. Jason Bell has spent the last three years...
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153,47 zł |
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Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008 : To Remember is to Resist
ISBN: 9780415488549 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume came out of a three-day conference on sports, human rights and social change hosted by the University of Toronto forty years after Mexico and eighty days before the Beijing Opening Ceremony. The contributions to this volume capture the memories of activists who were 'on the ground' using sport as a site for the struggle for human rights and provide scholarly examinations of past and current human rights movements in sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
This volume came out of a three-day conference on sports, human rights and social change hosted by the University of Toronto forty years after Mexico ...
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705,83 zł |
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John Apostal Lucas: Teacher, Sport Historian, and One Who Lived His Life Earnestly. A Collection of Articles and Essays with an Autobiogra
ISBN: 9780979551864 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lucas has dedicated his nearly half-century of academic life at Penn State University to researching and writing about his first love of sport, track and field, and the Olympics. From more than 200 monographs and articles, Lucas has selected a score of his articles written since 1953 for this anthology.
Lucas has dedicated his nearly half-century of academic life at Penn State University to researching and writing about his first love of sport, track ...
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171,95 zł |
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Snowball's Chance: The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games Squaw Valley & Lake Tahoe
ISBN: 9781439259047 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Snowball's Chance: The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games is the only book devoted solely to chronicling the historic events at Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe. The VIII Olympic Winter Games took place in February 1960 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. From 30 countries around the world, 665 athletes gathered over 11 days to engage in five recognized Olympic winter sports contested in 27 events. These sports and events included alpine skiing, Nordic combined, cross-country skiing, biathlon, figure skating, speed skating, ice hockey and ski jumping. You-are-there accounts of all...
Snowball's Chance: The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games is the only book devoted solely to chronicling the historic events at Squaw Valley and L...
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64,52 zł |
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Understanding UK Sport Policy in Context
ISBN: 9780415594684 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title examines whether the GB 'model' of sport is fit for purpose by investigating a range of comparative elite sport models.
This title examines whether the GB 'model' of sport is fit for purpose by investigating a range of comparative elite sport models.
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705,83 zł |
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Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia
ISBN: 9780231154918 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad? Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport in Asia....
The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present...
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143,47 zł |
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Watching the Olympics : Politics, Power and Representation
ISBN: 9780415578325 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This challenging and provocative new work explores the Olympic spectacle, from the the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic product across all of its levels.
This challenging and provocative new work explores the Olympic spectacle, from the the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the...
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705,83 zł |
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'Critical Support' for Sport
ISBN: 9780415488686 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During more than 40 years, Bruce Kidd has combined careers as an internationally ranked athlete, coach, sports administrator, professor and dean with critical scholarly and popular writing about sport, often on the issues in which he has been directly involved. Frequently called 'the conscience of Canadian sport', he defines his perspective as that of 'critical support': while he can be savage about the inequalities and abuses of power in contemporary sport, he seeks to reform sports so that many more people can enjoy their potential benefits. This special issue provides a sampling of...
During more than 40 years, Bruce Kidd has combined careers as an internationally ranked athlete, coach, sports administrator, professor and dean with ...
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438,05 zł |
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