Olympics and Paralympics Books

New and Published Books

1. Managing Sport Organizations

   Responsibility for Performance

   By Daniel Covell, Sharianne Walker

   Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Managing Sports Organizations is still the most interesting, challenging, and student-focused introduction to sport management currently available. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book explores every key topic, issue and concept...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008

   "To Remember is to Resist"

   Edited by Russell Field, Bruce Kidd

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the Olympic Project for Human Rights used the ...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Olympics, Media and Society

   Edited by Kim Bissell, Stephen Perry

   When the general public follow the Olympic Games on television, on the internet, even in the newspapers, they feel like they have themselves experienced the performances of the athletes. This book explores whether it is ever possible to experience the Olympic Games as an athletic event without...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

   Edited by John J. Macaloon

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   In recent decades, five to ten times as many persons have turned out for the Olympic flame relay as have watched Olympic sports contests live. Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement: Bearing Light, the first anthropological analysis of the contemporary torch relay, exposes and...

   Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China

   Communists and Champions

   By Fan Hong, Lu Zhouxiang

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society. It explores the complexity...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Olympic Ethics and Philosophy

   Edited by Mike McNamee, Jim Parry

   This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games. The essays consider a range of topics including critical reflections on nationalism and internationalism within the Olympic movement, sexism in...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

   Volume One: Making the Games

   Edited by Vassil Girginov

   The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is an authoritative and comprehensive account of the world’s greatest sporting and cultural event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport

   'Walking the Line'

   By Joseph Maguire

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire’s work over the past three decades highlights how process sociology has a unique perspective on the relationship between sport, culture and society, and to the body,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Triple Asian Olympics - Asia Rising

   The Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Sandra Collins, Gwang Ok

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians. However, sport was an integral part of cultural diplomacy and the expression of national prowess for the three Games held in East Asia: 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing. It is time...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. India and the Olympics

    By Boria Majumdar, Nalin Mehta

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote. This book is a corrective. Drawing on newly available and hitherto unused archival sources, it demonstrates that India was an important strategic outpost in the Olympic movement that started as a...

    Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge