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The Olympic Dream and Spirit: Life Lessons from Olympic Journeys

The Olympic Dream and Spirit: Life Lessons from Olympic...
Author: Bob Schaller , Olympic Athletes and Coaches ISBN: 9781929478071 Format: Paperback	$23.73
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Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event: The Case of the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Norway

Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event: The Case...
Author: Arne Martin Klausen ISBN: 9781571812032 Format: Paperback	$52.67
Sports, and in particular the Olympic Games, are enjoying a rapid increase in interest among social scientists worldwide,... Read More >>

Staging the Olympics: The Event and Its Impact

Staging the Olympics: The Event and Its Impact
Author: Richard Cashman , Anthony Hughes ISBN: 9780868407296 Format: Paperback	$79.07
Staging the Olympics captures the process of realising the Games, it amplifies the debates and controversies along... Read More >>

Power, Politics and the Olympic Games

Power, Politics and the Olympic Games
Author: Alfred Eric Senn ISBN: 9780880119580 Format: Paperback	$73.79
Obscured by a mixture of pseudo-religious ritual and showbusiness, Alfred Senn reveals the Olympic games that have... Read More >>

Memories of a Fox

Memories of a Fox
Author: Harry Gallagher ISBN: 9781862544390 Format: Paperback	$19.95
Gallagher's memoir is a story of achievement and a unique love story. As a child of the Depression, Harry and his... Read More >>

The 1896 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary

The 1896 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors...
Author: Bill Mallon , Ture Widlund ISBN: 9780786403790 Format: Hardback	$250.80
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Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for Sydney Olympic Facilities

Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for Sydney Olympic Facilities...
Author: Sk Brown , J Immig ISBN: 9780643063556 Format: Paperback	$39.95
Indoor air quality is accepted as a key design input for Sydney Olympics structures, products and services. This... Read More >>

The 1900 Olympic Games: Complete Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary

The 1900 Olympic Games: Complete Results for All Competitors...
Author: Bill Mallon ISBN: 9780786403783 Format: Hardback	$250.80
The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed The Farcical Games. The events were poorly organized and years later many... Read More >>

Olympic Marathon: A Centennial History of the Games' Most Storied Race

Olympic Marathon: A Centennial History of the Games'...
Author: Charles Lovett ISBN: 9780275957711 Format: Hardback	$76.00
The story of the long struggle to establish a women's marathon begins with a lonely female who ran the marathon... Read More >>

Nation with Nation

Nation with Nation
Author: Geoffrey Ballard , Julius L. Patching ISBN: 9780867863666 Format: Paperback	$33.00
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Their Day in the Sun: Women of the 1932 Olympics

Their Day in the Sun: Women of the 1932 Olympics
Author: Doris Hinson Pieroth ISBN: 9780295975542 Format: Paperback	$44.75
The 1932 Olympic games took place in Los Angeles in the depths of the Great Depression; that they were held at all... Read More >>

Grace & Glory: A Century of Women in the Olympics

Grace & Glory: A Century of Women in the Olympics
Author: Triumph Books ISBN: 9781572431164 Format: Hardback	$34.99
In the past century, female athletes have overcome political, cultural, and racial barriers of many kinds to persevere... Read More >>

Australia & the Olympic Games: the Official History

Australia & the Olympic Games: the Official History...
Author: Harry Gordon ISBN: 9780702229268 Format: Paperback	$40.00
Revised and updated third edition. Every team, every record, every score and every time of Australia's involvement... Read More >>

Romanian Gymnastics

Romanian Gymnastics
Author: Kurt W Treptow , Nicolae Vieru ISBN: 9789735770310 Format: Hardback	$105.57
This limited edition, full-color album presents the history of Romanian gymnastics from the founding of the Romanian... Read More >>

The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal

The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their...
Author: David Halberstam ISBN: 9780449910030 Format: Paperback	$39.60
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Best and the Brightest profiles the struggles of four unknown... Read More >>

Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement

Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement...
Author: John E. Findling , Kimberly Pelle ISBN: 9780313284779 Format: Hardback	$114.00
The foremost sporting event in the world, the Olympic Games have grown from a quaint idea in the 1890s to a major... Read More >>

Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement
Author: Ian Buchanan , Bill Mallon ISBN: 9780810830622 Format: Hardback	$77.95
This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an... Read More >>

Olympic Black Women

Olympic Black Women
Author: Martha Plowden , Ronald Jones ISBN: 9781565540804 Format: Hardback	$50.03
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The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece - Ancient Olympia and the Olympic Games

The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece - Ancient Olympia...
Author: Nikolaos Yalouris , Otto Szymiczek ISBN: 9789602131329 Format: Hardback	$200.64
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Dishonored Games: Corruption, Money and Greed at the Olympics

Dishonored Games: Corruption, Money and Greed at the...
Author: Vyv Simson , Andrew Jennings ISBN: 9781561711994 Format: Paperback	$52.67
Every four years, the Olympics are celebrated with a flood of congratulatory coverage. This book explodes the image... Read More >>

Black Olympian Medalists

Black Olympian Medalists
Author: James A. Page ISBN: 9780872876187 Format: Hardback	$72.60
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The Political Olympics: Moscow, Afghanistan, and the 1980 U.S. Boycott

The Political Olympics: Moscow, Afghanistan, and the...
Author: Derick Hulme ISBN: 9780275934668 Format: Hardback	$131.00
Offers coverage from both a descriptive and analytical viewpoint of the events in 1980 surrounding the US decision... Read More >>

Beyond Victory

Beyond Victory
Author: New Liberty Films ISBN: 9780006174462 Format: Video	$26.27
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The Archaeology of the Olympics: Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity

The Archaeology of the Olympics: Olympics and Other...
Author: Wendy J. Raschke ISBN: 9780299113346 Format: Paperback	$52.67
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The Nazi Olympics

The Nazi Olympics
Author: Richard D. Mandell ISBN: 9780252013256 Format: Paperback	$84.99
The Nazi Olympics is the unsurpassed exposÉ of one of the most bizarre festivals in sport history. Not only does... Read More >>

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