Olympic games books

Fans of the Olympic Games would find it difficult, if not impossible, to experience them without the media as intermediary....  Read More >>

Beginning with prehumans running down prey, this book describes how ancient, medieval and modern runners have come...  Read More >>

To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success. That year, the...  Read More >>

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history...  Read More >>

A team of thirty-three Australian athletes competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Poorly prepared and with...  Read More >>

Fueled by Failure: Dare to Fail. Dare to Succeed.  Read More >>

The winner of three gold medals in track at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Wilma Rudolph has been portrayed and...  Read More >>

More than Just Games brings to life the collision of politics, patriotism, and the passion of sport on the eve of...  Read More >>

More than Just Games brings to life the collision of politics, patriotism, and the passion of sport on the eve of...  Read More >>

This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and...  Read More >>

Jessica Hardy is one of the world's greatest athletes. She's set world records and broken her own records time and...  Read More >>

To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success. That year, the...  Read More >>

"László Tábori's dream to compete in the Melbourne Olympics became a reality but his hope of standing on the victory...  Read More >>

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This book critically examines the ways in which sport and peacekeeping, through the Olympic Games, are being played...  Read More >>

Olympic Aspirations is the companion volume to the well received Olympic Legacies and provides original, candid...  Read More >>

In 1999, the International Olympic Committee approved far-reaching reforms to the appointment and terms of its members,...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of international essays on ethical and philosophical issues surrounding the Olympic Games...  Read More >>

The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines...  Read More >>

Two books make up Lifting Weights & Growing Organs. Lifting Weights recounts how watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics...  Read More >>

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The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown - Summary & Analysis<b> </b></p><b>Preview</b> </p><i>The Boys in the...  Read More >>

Personal Journey through Olympic Games 1948-2008 is a collection of stories from the Olympic Games and the background...  Read More >>

Governance has become a hugely important issue within sport. Issues of corruption and ‘bad governance’ have become...  Read More >>