The Olympic Games : A Critical Approach [1 ed.] 9781838677756, 9781838677763

Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympics co

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The Olympic Games : A Critical Approach [1 ed.]
9781838677756, 9781838677763

Official posters of the summer and winter Olympic Games 1896-2004.

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This book offers a detailed account of the employment promises made to local East Londoners when the Summer Olympic Game

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The Olympic Games have had two lives--the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to

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This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Gar

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This book is the first longitudinal study that addresses language policy and planning in the context of a major internat

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With a thorough exploration of the political climate of the time and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, this bo

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On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games,

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This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and c

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Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices

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This Palgrave Pivot examines monotone games and studies incentives and outcomes when there are multiple players, and how

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