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Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics. -- .

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Explore the complex relationship between sports and mental health and discover the influence of biological and social factors on athletes' psychological wellbeing.

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The best sports stories written by Australia's best sportswriters uncover the hilarity, triumphs, sadness, excitement and controversy of our sport-mad nation.

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Martin Vinokur contends that sport has become an increasingly pervasive and visibly central element in Western culture and that its function as a political tool is likely to grow still more in the 1990s, as governments realize the full value of sports to the political socialization process.

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National Football League Franchises highlights and analyzes thirty-two teams historical regular-season and postseason performances and provides a financial profile of each as a profitable or unprofitable enterprise. This book reveals how effectively each team competes and operates from a business perspective.

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An acclaimed chronicle of the World Series in a seminal year finds the Yankees and Cardinals facing off as America confronts its feelings about race. From the author of Summer of '49. Reprint.

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The story of the long struggle to establish a women's marathon begins with a lonely female who ran the marathon course in 1896 and ends with the dramatic victory of American Joan Benoit in the first women's Olympic marathon in 1984.

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By 1980, the modern Olympic movement was gasping for breath, bankrupt financially and politically. Under the leadership of Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Jacques Rogge, the Olympics began a journey back from the brink. This work offers access to the people and negotiations behind one of the most dramatic turnarounds in business or sports history.

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Extremely comprehensive and current, the volume focuses on the economic, social, attitudinal, and demographic considerations pertinent in today's outdoor recreation policy formulation.

The first section of the book defines the dimensions of the preservation/use dilemma as well as key concepts in outdoor recreation research.

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The first major biography of Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao--the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and the only boxer to ever win seven world championships

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Looks at the people who have shaped Australian sport, becoming our local heroes. From Allan Langer to Dawn Fraser, this is both an historical account, with a view to the future in the Australian sporting arena.

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Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics. Billie Jean King takes on Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes. Title IX is passed. Some moments in sports-whether they take place on a track, on a tennis court, or in a courtroom-transcend the event itself. This book f...

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An indispensible guide for anyone involved in prescribing exercise programmes for clients or groups. Effective fitness tests are crucial to measure current fitness and then monitor progress to check the effectiveness of training. Includes both the theory and pratice of fitness testing in fitness and sports settings.