Olympic games books

1508 books were found.

Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

Author: Jules Boykoff (Pacific University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415821971
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional...  Read More >>

Olympics

Olympics

Author: Carole Marsh
ISBN: 9780635106186
Format: Paperback
$13.17

Common Core Lessons and Activities book allows you to immediately meet new CCSS for English Language Arts, as well...  Read More >>

Paralympics and Disability Sport

Paralympics and Disability Sport

Author: Brett Smith (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415826853
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Written by leading scholars, this book addresses a variety of topics in relation to the Paralympics and disability...  Read More >>

Unbridled Passion: Show Jumping's Greatest Horses and Riders

Unbridled Passion: Show Jumping's Greatest Horses and...

Author: Jeff Papows
ISBN: 9780989000161
Format: Hardback
$92.27

<em>Unbridled Passion: Show Jumping's Greatest Horses and Riders</em>, written by Jeff Papows, is a thrilling look...  Read More >>

London, 2012: How Was it for Us?

London, 2012: How Was it for Us?

Author: Mark Perryman
ISBN: 9781907103797
Format: Paperback
$38.81

The memories of London 2012 will remain with us forever, but what did those four weeks tell us about ourselves,...  Read More >>

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic...

Author: Daniel James Brown
ISBN: 9781410459541
Format: Hardback
$87.09

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100 of the Top Olympic Divers of All Time

100 of the Top Olympic Divers of All Time

Author: Vadim Kravetsky ,  Alex Trost
ISBN: 9781490967042
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Top Olympic Divers of All Time, along with funny...  Read More >>

Greatest Olympic Divers to Ever Compete Top 100

Greatest Olympic Divers to Ever Compete Top 100

Author: Vadim Kravetsky ,  Alex Trost
ISBN: 9781490967424
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Olympic Divers to Ever Compete: Top 100, along...  Read More >>

Coaching for Performance: Realising the Olympic Dream

Coaching for Performance: Realising the Olympic Dream...

Author: Sarah Lee ,  Martin Dixon
ISBN: 9780415826525
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking

The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking

Author: Ramón Spaaij (Victoria University, Australia) ,  Cindy Burleson (The International Sibling Society, USA)
ISBN: 9780415618786
Format: Hardback
$347.00

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

Leisure, Culture and the Olympic Games

Leisure, Culture and the Olympic Games

Author: John Horne (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
ISBN: 9780415826884
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This edited collection contains six refreshing critical assessments of the leisure – sport relationship from societies...  Read More >>

Running My Life - The Autobiography: Winning On and Off the Track

Running My Life - The Autobiography: Winning On and...

Author: Seb Coe
ISBN: 9781444732535
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic...

Author: Daniel James Brown
ISBN: 9780670025817
Format: Hardback
$79.20

"For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's ""Seabiscuit"" and ""Unbroken""...  Read More >>

The Pentathlon of the Ancient World

The Pentathlon of the Ancient World

Author: Frank Zarnowski
ISBN: 9780786467839
Format: Paperback
$43.95

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Best Olympians of All Time

Best Olympians of All Time

Author: Vadim Kravetsky ,  Alex Trost
ISBN: 9781489595232
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the, along with funny comments and a word puzzle?...  Read More >>

Top American Olympians of All Time

Top American Olympians of All Time

Author: Vadim Kravetsky ,  Alex Trost
ISBN: 9781489595409
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the, along with funny comments and a word puzzle?...  Read More >>

Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National Character: From London 2012 to Rio 2016

Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National...

Author: R. Tzanelli
ISBN: 9781137336316
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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On the Wrong Side of the Track?: East London and the Post Olympics

On the Wrong Side of the Track?: East London and the...

Author: Phil Cohen
ISBN: 9781907103629
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Examines the legacy of the 2012 Olympics for East London.  Read More >>

Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and...

Author: Jack McCallum
ISBN: 9780345520494
Format: Paperback
$45.00

Acclaimed sports journalist McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S....  Read More >>

Hitlers Angst VOR Dem Judischen Gold: Der Fall Bergmann, Die Verhinderte Olympiasiegerin

Hitlers Angst VOR Dem Judischen Gold: Der Fall Bergmann,...

Author: Christian Frietsch
ISBN: 9783848703494
Format: Paperback
$60.72

1936 war die heute 98-Jahrige Gretel Bergmann die groae Favoritin der deutschen Hochsprung-Frauenmannschaft fur...  Read More >>

Lost Olympics

Lost Olympics

Author: Ian Hugh McAllister
ISBN: 9781907140716
Format: Paperback
$47.39

This is a true story. What is the ultimate price of success? In 1924, swimming superstar Hilda James was a dead...  Read More >>

Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008: To Remember is to Resist

Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008: To...

Author: Russell Field (University of Manitoba, Canada) ,  Bruce Kidd (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415847742
Format: Paperback
$101.00

From the Mexico Olympics of 1968 to the events surrounding the Olympic torch relay leading up to Beijing 2008, sport...  Read More >>

The Olympics, Media and Society

The Olympics, Media and Society

Author: Kim Bissell (University of Alabama, USA) ,  Stephen Perry (Illinois State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415815963
Format: Hardback
$183.00

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

Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the...

Author: John J. Macaloon (University of Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9780415448321
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This extended ethnological research offers a rare case study of continuity and change in the Olympic torch relay,...  Read More >>

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