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  • Sport Policy in Canada

    Editado por Lucie Thibault, Jean Harvey ...
    Séries series Open Access
    Sport Policy in Canada provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012. In light of this new policy, the authors, top scholars in the field, provide detailed accounts of the most salient sport policies and programs, while also discussing issues and challenges facing policy makers.In Canada and around the world, the last decades have known a sharp ... Leia mais

    R$ 126,29

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  • Patriot Hearts

    Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country

    de John Furlong ...
    A riveting behind-the-scenes account of the transformative 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games-an extraordinary story of visionary leadership, love of country and the ability to dream boldly.When John Furlong emigrated from Ireland in 1974, the customs officer greeted him with Welcome to Canada. Make us better”-an imperative that has defined Furlong’s life ever since. A passionate, ... Leia mais

    R$ 64,69

  • The Dirtiest Race in History

    Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final

    de Mr Richard Moore ...
    Séries series Wisden Sports Writing
    'A captivating and detailed account ... it reads like a thriller, which is exactly the right tone to adopt by author Richard Moore for a story dripping with skulduggery and intrigue ... compelling' The Sunday ExpressThe 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics ... Leia mais

    R$ 70,39

  • Unsportsmanlike Conduct

    College Football and the Politics of Rape

    de Jessica Luther ...
    A meticulously researched and powerful exposé on the epidemic of cover-up that surrounds sexual assault and college football players."Not to reckon with Luther's book would be an abdication not only of one's moral faculty but also of one's fandom . . . Luther doesn't just want to save future victims; she wants to save college football." — New York Times Book Review"Highly relevant, hard-hitting, ... Leia mais

    R$ 53,09

  • The Games

    de David Goldblatt ...
    “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics ... Leia mais

    R$ 63,59

  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Editado por John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic ... Leia mais

    R$ 352,09

  • Podium

    What Shapes a Sporting Champion?

    de Ben Oakley ...
    What does it really take to make the podium? Which of the biological, environmental and psychological factors really shape a champion's route to the top?To answer these questions, Ben Oakley has taken the original step of combining existing research with a study of leading athletes' autobiographies. Looking at the early histories and initial challenges of serial champions in their own words, ... Leia mais

    R$ 63,39

  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

    de Jules Boykoff ...
    Séries series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions.In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a ... Leia mais

    R$ 310,66

  • The Arena of Masculinity

    Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex

    de Brian Pronger ...
    Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive growth of gay sporting leagues, a puzzle.Pronger explores the paradoxical position of the gay athlete ... Leia mais

    R$ 43,49

  • Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

    Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

    Editado por J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson ...
    Séries series Sport in the Global Society
    For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the ... Leia mais

    R$ 403,88

  • Blood and Guts to Glory--a History of Sports

    Sport Science Series

    de Gerald Gems ...
    Séries series Sport Science Series
    Dr. Gerald Gems is one of the premier sports historians in the world. In this book, the first video text in sport history, we can see videos of how ancient and modern games have been played. But he goes beyond the sport, looking at the cultural background in which the sports have been played. We see ancient sports from China, India and the Americas and we follow the evolution of sports through the ... Leia mais

    R$ 15,28

  • 10 Amazing Olympic Lists

    Everything You Need to Know about the Olympics

    de Jack Goldstein ...
    Everything you need to know about the Olympics - and some amazing facts you wouldn't believe - are contained within this facsinating eBook. Who was the mascot for each games? What crazy sports are no longer events in the games? Who are considered to be the best athletes of all time? Were the winners always given gold medals? and how much gold is actually in one anyway? Find out about all of these ... Leia mais

    R$ 15,48