Olympics and Paralympics

The Triple Asian Olympics explores the realities of global transformation, regional ascendancy and metaphorical modernity of the East Asian Olympics and by extension East Asia. This is the first study to record, confront and examine this contemporary phenomena. For this reason as the global endorsem..

The Youth Olympic Games is essential reading for any researcher, advanced student or policy maker with an interest in Olympic Studies, sports development, sport policy, youth sport or event management._x005F_x000D_ It is the first book to be published on the Youth Olympic Games. It critically examin..

This Great Symbol is the definitive study of the origins of the modern Olympic Games and of their founder, Pierre de Coubertin, behind the blend of biography and history lies an impressive framework of cultural, social, and psychological theories...

This Great Symbol is the definitive study of the origins of the modern Olympic Games and of their founder, Pierre de Coubertin, behind the blend of biography and history lies an impressive framework of cultural, social, and psychological theories...

This book presents a range of fascinating case studies exploring the social, cultural, political and economic interdependencies between tourism and the Olympic Games. International and multidisciplinary in scope, the book provides unique, and often surprising insights, into the ways in which ‘Olympi..

This book presents a range of fascinating case studies exploring the social, cultural, political and economic interdependencies between tourism and the Olympic Games. International and multidisciplinary in scope, the book provides unique, and often surprising insights, into the ways in which ‘Olympi..

The Olympic Games are unquestionably the greatest sporting event on earth. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition that places Rio 2016 in the foreground, Understanding the Olympics explores the full social, cultural, political, historical and economic context to the Games. It traces the hist..

With particular focus on the London Games in 2012, this book casts a critical eye over the bidding process, Olympic finance, promises of legacy and development, and the consequences of hosting the Games for the civil rights and liberties of those living in their shadow. No other book has ever offere..