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  • History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity

    par R. Scott Kretchmar, Mark Dyreson, Matt Llewellyn, John Gleaves ...
    History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity, Second Edition, seamlessly blends the historical and philosophical dimensions of the study of human movement. The text follows a chronology of human movement from our origins as hunter-gatherers to the present, offering philosophical and ethical analyses alongside explorations of cultural shifts that have emerged from different ethnic, racial, ... En savoir plus

    $111.99 CAD

  • The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games

    Assessing the 30-Year Legacy

    Modifié par John Gleaves, Wayne Wilson, Matthew Llewellyn ...
    Collections series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

  • A Global History of Doping in Sport

    Drugs, Policy, and Politics

    Modifié par John Gleaves, Thomas Hunt ...
    Collections series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    From turn-of-the-century horseracing to the monolithic anti-doping attitudes now supported by sporting organizations, the development of anti-doping ideology has spread throughout modern sport. Yet heretofore few historians have explored the many ways that international sport has responded to doping. This book seeks to fill that gap by examining different aspects of sport’s global efforts to ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • Doping in Cycling

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Modifié par Bertrand Fincoeur, John Gleaves, Fabien Ohl ...
    Collections series Ethics and Sport
    Doping in Cycling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives provides an up-to-date overview of the knowledge about doping and anti-doping in the sport that has dominated doping headlines for at least two decades. It critically addresses overarching questions related to doping and anti-doping, and topical issues being raised in the agenda of policy-makers at the global level.The book features cross ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

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    par Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... En savoir plus

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  • Knowing the Score

    What Sports Can Teach Us About Philosophy (And What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Sports)

    par David Papineau ...
    In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions of altruism, while sporting family dynasties reorient the nature v. nurture debate. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Offside

    Soccer and American Exceptionalism

    par Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman ...
    Collections series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does most of the world ignore American sports in return? Offside is the first book to explain these peculiarities, ... En savoir plus

    $59.39 CAD

  • Sport

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Mike Cronin ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Sport is big business; international in nature and the focus of much media and cultural attention. In this Very Short Introduction, Mike Cronin charts the history of sport, from its traditional origins in folk football and cock fighting to its position as a global phenomenon today. Looking at a variety of sports from team games such as rugby, cricket, and football to games for individuals such as ... En savoir plus

    $7.59 CAD

  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

  • Drug Games

    The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008

    par Thomas M. Hunt ...
    Collections series Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
    On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensen's death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunt's ... En savoir plus

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  • Power Games

    A Political History of the Olympics

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Olympics: The Basics

    par Andy Miah, Beatriz Garcia ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $46.71 CAD