Author: Michael Payne
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: olympic, world, brand, extinction, stepped, turnaround, games, brink
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0275990303
ISBN-13: 9780275990305
Higher, faster, stronger... The Olympic motto conjures images of heroes whose achievements transcended their athletic prowess--Jesse Owens, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comanesci--but also of tragedy and disgrace--the Israeli hostages in Munich, the Salt Lake City bidding scandal, payola to influence scoring. By 1980, the modern Olympic movement was gasping for breath, bankrupt financially, politically, and culturally. But under the leadership of Juan Antonio Samaranch, and, subsequently, Jacques Rogge, the Olympics began a journey back from the brink. Michael Payne, who served as the International Olymp
Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Keywords: olympic, sport, culture, social, relations, series, propaganda, industry, resistance, challenging, power
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2008-06-05
List price: $56.50
ISBN-10: 0791474798
ISBN-13: 9780791474792
A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called "Olympic education" for schoolchildren.
Authors:Jim Parry, Vassil Girginov,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: student, games, olympic, sport, studies, modern, guide, explained, evolution
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-02-11
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0415346037
ISBN-13: 9780415346030
This multidisciplinary text is a comprehensive introduction to the central themes and background of the modern Games. The text considers a range of topics including: the ancient Olympics the modern revival of the nineteenth century the development of the Games throughout the twentieth century. the media and the Olympics Olympic marketing and sponsorship. Complemented by a dedicated website offering access to unique archive and other document sources, this book brings its audience the best Olympic educational expertise available.
Author: Leslie What
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Keywords: games, olympic
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1892391104
ISBN-13: 9781892391100
A modern-day tale of Greek mythological folly, this story follows the spoiled and vain Hera, who yearns for a family at any cost, as she pursues macho Zeus, still on the prowl in the 21st century. Meanwhile, Zeus, having given a family some cursory effort, is attempting to find himself in wine, women of all descriptions, and male rituals engaged in by his very own new age cult. Blind passion is truly a disaster when it involves the gods, leading to broken hearts, shattered dreams, and entomologically enhanced offspring. It is left to an unlikely band of mortals and one determined water nymph t
Author: Christopher R. Hill
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: politics, olympic
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1992-07-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0719037921
ISBN-13: 9780719037924
This is a study of the Olympic Games in political terms, examining the history of the Games from their revival by Baron de Couberin, himself a political animal, in the 1890s through the cities and turbulent national and international issues that have shaped them, to speculation on their future. The author emphasizes the inter-relationship between national attitudes to competitive, world-scale sport and political events and processes, calling upon examples of such issues as apartheid in South Africa, the division of the Korean peninsula and the two Germanies. At the same time, he argues that co
Author: Mike Weed
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: tourism, olympic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-12-25
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0750681616
ISBN-13: 9780750681612
Olympic Tourism is the first text to focus on the nature of Olympic tourism and the potential for the Olympic Games to generate tourism in the run up to and long after the hosting of a Games. The awarding of the 2012 Olympics to London will see an increasing interest in the phenomena of organising, managing and analysing the issues which surround mega-event sport tourism. This text will address these issues and using detailed case analysis of previous and future games, discuss how to maximise the success of managing tourism at these events. Written from an international perspective this text p
Author: Craig Romano
Publisher: Mountaineers Book
Keywords: day, peninsula, hiking, olympic
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 159485047X
ISBN-13: 9781594850479
Introducing next-generation trail guides for the Northwest. We asked hikers what they want in a trail guide today and this is what they said: more day hikes, with options for extending the trip; hike selection conveniently arranged by highway and travel corridors; more hikes close to urban centers; more year-round hikes at low elevation; clear driving directions; a portable size; and more use of color. To meet the needs of the modern hiker, The Mountaineers Books introduces its new Day Hiking guidebook series, written by Northwest residents with impressive hiking resumes. These guides provide
