Olympics category: 421 books
by John Horne, Garry Whannel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event in the world, with billions of viewers across the globe. How did the Olympics evolve into this multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and...
Activism and the Olympics
Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that bring together global cultures on ski slopes, shooting ranges, swimming pools, and track ovals. Given their scale in the modern era, the Games...
America's First Olympics
The St. Louis Games of 1904
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
America in 1904 was a nation bristling with energy and confidence. Inspired by Theodore Roosevelt, the nation’s young, spirited, and athletic president, a sports mania rampaged across the country. Eager to celebrate its history, and to display its athletic potential, the United States hosted the...
by Robert G. Weisbord
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Sports are the opiate of the people, particularly in the United States, Europe, and parts of South America. Globally, billions of fans feverishly focus on the summer and winter Olympics. In theory, international fraternalism is boosted by these "friendly competitions," but often national...
Ancient Greece and the Olympics
A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #16: Hour of the Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!!
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree...
Beijing Olympics
The Nation's Most Influential Sourcebook On Beijing Olympic Games, Beijing Summer Olympics, Beijing Olympic Medals, Beijing Olympic Stadium, Beijing Olympics Open Ceremony
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
With this top-rated guide learn about beijing olympics, beijing olympic games, beijing summer olympics, beijing olympic medals, beijing olympic stadium, beijing olympics open ceremony.
The Naked Olympics
The True Story of the Ancient Games
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
What was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games?
With the summer Olympics’ return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed author of Pagan Holiday brings attitude, erudition, and humor to the fascinating story of the...
The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics
Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambitions and anxieties of being an Asian host in the continuing western Olympic hegemony. This original work explores the encounter between ‘the East and...
by Ben Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
How do the Olympics make the world a better place? For more than 100 years, the Olympics have brought people together, proving that competition can create community. Packed with fascinating facts and sidebars about the Olympics, this informational text discusses the history of the Olympics, the Paralympics,...
Guide to Rio Olympics 2016
Tips for Staying Safe and Healthy for the Olympics, New Year and Carnival
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
“Brazil is not Europe or the USA and can seem like a foreign planet to the visitor, so be prepared”! This unique book has important information not detailed in other Guides to Rio and Brazil It tells you how to remain safe and healthy, avoiding disease, and at the same time enjoy a fantastic holiday....
Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended
Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
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...
Keeping the Torch Burning
Terror, Protest and the Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The Olympics and politics have never been far apart from one another. At the very first edition of the modern games, held in Athens in 1896, there was a protest at the exclusion of women from competition; during the Cold War era, every contest between the USA and the USSR was a metaphor for the geopolitical...
Onward to the Olympics
Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides...
The Jewish Olympics
The History of the Maccabiah Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Having grown from 390 athletes from fourteen countries to nine thousand athletes from seventy-eight countries, the Maccabiah Games (or the Jewish Olympics,” as it has come to be known) continue to gain popularity. The Maccabiah Games, which take place in Israel, first began in 1932, and the latest...