An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 1: Overview, Alford William P., Liao Mei, Cui Fengming
Автор: Spivey, Nigel Название: The Ancient Olympics ISBN: 0199602697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199602698 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11260.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were - fierce contests between bitter rivals, in which victors won kudos and rewards, and losers faced scorn and even assault. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means.
Автор: Parker Edward Harper Название: Burma with Special Reference to Her Relations with China ISBN: 9353601487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353601485 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: John Hughson Название: Costume: A Volume for the London Olympics ISBN: 1907975721 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781907975721 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 39800.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This volume, consisting of papers originally delivered at the Sport and Fashion symposium in 2011, celebrates the connection between sport and the clothes and fashion which are associated with certain sporting activities.
Автор: Matthew P Llewellyn, John Gleaves Название: The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism ISBN: 025204035X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252040351 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
For decades, amateurism defined the ideals undergirding the Olympic movement. No more. Today's Games present athletes who enjoy open corporate sponsorship and unabashedly compete for lucrative commercial endorsements.
Matthew P. Llewellyn and John Gleaves analyze how this astonishing transformation took place. Drawing on Olympic archives and a wealth of research across media, the authors examine how an elite--white, wealthy, often Anglo-Saxon--controlled and shaped an enormously powerful myth of amateurism. The myth assumed an air of naturalness that made it seem unassailable and, not incidentally, served those in power. Llewellyn and Gleaves trace professionalism's inroads into the Olympics from tragic figures like Jim Thorpe through the shamateur era of under-the-table cash and state-supported athletes. As they show, the increasing acceptability of professionals went hand-in-hand with the Games becoming a for-profit international spectacle. Yet the myth of amateurism's purity remained a potent force, influencing how people around the globe imagined and understood sport.
Timely and vivid with details, The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism is the first book-length examination of the movement's foundational ideal.
Автор: Kyle Keiderling Название: Olympic Collision: The Story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd ISBN: 0803290845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803290846 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
It remains one of the most memorable moments in modern Olympic history. At the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles, a raucous crowd of ninety thousand saw their favorite in the women’s 3,000-meter race, Mary Decker, go down. An audience of two billion around the world witnessed the mishap and listened to the instantaneous accusations against the suspected culprit, Zola Budd.
Just seventeen, the South African Budd had already been the target of a vicious and vocal campaign by the antiapartheid lobby after she transferred to the British team in order to compete at the games. Decker, at twenty-six, was America’s golden girl, ready to overcome years of bad luck and injuries to rightfully take the Olympic gold for which she had waited so long. With three laps to go, Decker and Budd’s feet became tangled. Decker went down and didn’t get up, wailing in primal agony as her gold medal hopes vanished. Decker’s stumbles continued in the race’s aftermath when she refused Budd’s apology and race officials found her, not Budd, at fault for the collision. Although both women found success after the Olympics, neither could escape the long shadow of the infamous event that forever changed both of their lives and defines them in popular culture to this day.
Olympic Collision follows Decker and Budd through their lives and careers, telling the story behind the controversy; the account that emerges is certain to revise the view Americans, in particular, have held since that fateful day in Los Angeles more than thirty years ago. Olympic Collision relives one of the most famous incidents in Olympic history, its legacy, and what has happened to both athletes since.
Автор: Bissell Kim, Perry Stephen D. Название: The Olympics, Media and Society ISBN: 1138944327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138944329 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 33670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Fans of the Olympic Games would find it difficult, if not impossible, to experience them without the media as intermediary. This book performs the important task of analysing ways in which the media serves as both an integral component and an arbiter of the Games for society. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication and Society.
Автор: Boria Majumdar, Nalin Mehta Название: India and the Olympics ISBN: 0415655110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415655118 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Olympic movement, including the relevant records and statistics, provides a unique prism to understand the complex evolution of modern Indian society. Drawing on hitherto unused archival sources, this book examines the relations between India`s place in the Olympic movement and the country`s quest for a national and international identity.
Автор: Schwier Jurgen, Kilberth Veith Название: Skateboarding Between Subculture and the Olympics: A Youth Culture Under Pressure from Commercialization and Sportification ISBN: 383764765X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783837647655 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Цена: 50050.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercialization and sportification. Is the tightly knit subculture in danger of losing its very identity? This anthology creates an analytical framework for understanding the fundamental conflict between skateboarding's core ethos and the tenets of institutionalized sports. Eleven acclaimed international authors from the fields of architecture, philosophy, sociology, sports sciences, and gender studies provide a unique perspective on the manifold manifestations of skateboarding previously ignored by academic discourse.
Автор: Alford William P., Liao Mei, Cui Fengming Название: An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 1: Overview ISBN: 9811551340 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811551345 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 37260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China.
Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China’s east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese landscape appreciation, literary and artistic expression, and tourism.
In the first in-depth English-language study of this picturesque locale, Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between human enterprise and the natural environment during the Song dynasty (960–1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou, making the area the national political and cultural center. West Lake became a model for idealized nature, fashioned by the diverse activities of its visitors. Duan shows how engagements in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors’ conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, highlighting how the natural landscape played a role in shaping social and cultural constructs.
Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, The Rise of West Lake explores the complexity of the lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones.
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