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  • Global Sport Leaders

    A Biographical Analysis of International Sport Management

    Edited by Emmanuel Bayle, Patrick Clastres ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the careers, governance and management practices of some of the institutional sports leaders who have had the greatest impact on global sport in the 120 years since Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games. Through their positions in major sports organisations, their influence, the examples they set, their successes and failures, and their ability to bring about ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

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  • The Ball is Round

    A Global History of Football

    by David Goldblatt ...
    THE DEFINITIVE, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BOOK ABOUT FOOTBALL'Football conquered the world with its capacity to astonish, and this is its definitive history' The IndependentThere may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Fall of the House of Fifa

    How the world of football became corrupt

    by David Conn ...
    'A superb go-to guide for anyone seeking context on why Qatar won the 2022 World Cup bid' Daily ExpressThe Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen.For forty years Joao Havelange and then Sepp Blatter presided over a Fifa now plagued with scandal - dawn raids, FBI investigations, allegations of money laundering, industrial ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Circus Maximus

    The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup

    by Andrew Zimbalist ...
    Athletes compete for national honor in Olympic and World Cup games. But the road to these mega events is paved by big business. We all know who the winners on the field are-but who wins off the field?The numbers are staggering: China spent $40 billion to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and Russia spent $50 billion for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. Brazil's total expenditures are ... Read more

    $28.49 CAD

  • The Games

    A Global History of the Olympics

    by 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 ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

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  • Montreal Olympics

    An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-financing Games

    by Paul Charles Howell ...
    Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player in the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers an insider's perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive, and highly politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures from international and local special interest groups. He looks at both the struggles and what ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Britannica Guide to Soccer

    by Adam Augustyn ...
    Series series The World of Sports
    Although it assumes different monikers in various parts of the world and has appeared in various incarnations over time, the game of soccer has retained a great deal of its original character. While it is ostensibly simple in terms of equipment and rules, soccer has inspired skill, strategy, and pure athleticism that have allowed the professional sport to evolve. The history of soccer and the ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Circus Maximus

    The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup

    by Andrew Zimbalist ...
    Author Andrew Zimbalist looks beyond the headlines of two of the world's most beloved sporting events: the Olympics and the World Cup.In the expanded and updated edition of his bestselling book, Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Zimbalist tackles the bogus claim that the cities chosen to host these high-profile sporting events experience an economic ... Read more

    $23.39 CAD

  • Power Games

    A Political History of the Olympics

    by Jules Boykoff ...
    A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Football, Corruption and Lies

    Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban

    by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Olympics: The Basics

    by Andy Miah, Beatriz Garcia ...
    Series series The Basics
    The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games. Chapters explain how the Olympics transcend sports, engaging us with a range of contemporary philosophical, social, cultural and political matters, including:peace development and diplomacymanagement and economicscorruption, terror and activismthe rise of human enhancementethics and ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

    Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

    Edited by J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD