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Sporting events & management
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Sporting events & management
Paperback. In the past 100 years Old Trafford has hosted World Cup and European Championship matches, FA Cup Finals and a Champions League Final and has witnessed countless United wins, draws and defeats. Yet it endures, above all, as a monument to the vision of the club's founder and first patron John Henry Davies. Num Pages: 476 pages. Dimension: 212 x 211 x 11. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Empire Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901746600
- ISBN
- 9781901746600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Hardback. This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadoros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Num Pages: 178 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBS; KNSG; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 178
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336316
- ISBN
- 9781137336316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.53
€ 77.53
Hardback. Follows Mary Decker and Zola Budd through their lives and careers, telling the story behind the controversy of their collision at the 1984 Olympics. Olympic Collision relives one of the most famous incidents in Olympic history, its legacy, and what has happened to both athletes since. Num Pages: 352 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: BGS; WSBB; WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803290846
- ISBN
- 9780803290846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.18
€ 31.18
Hardback. This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them. Editor(s): Hayes, Graeme; Karamichas, John. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSG; JHBS; RN; WSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230244177
- ISBN
- 9780230244177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Paperback. Examines the production, content, and potential effects of NBC's Olympic telecasts. This book outlines the inner workings of the NBC Olympic machine; and offers a survey analyses, which interrogates the extent to which NBC's storytelling process affects viewer beliefs about identity issues. Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 black & white tables, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: APT; WSBB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415772518
- ISBN
- 9780415772518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.22
€ 73.22
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780911618
- ISBN
- 9781780911618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Hardcover. An exploration of how the Olympics are organised in response to risk. This book looks at the tension between the riskiness of mega-events, attributable to their scale and complexities, and the societal, political and organisational pressures that exist for safety, security and management of risk - leading to changes in how the Games are governed. Series: Executive Politics and Governance. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPH; JPP; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300064
- ISBN
- 9780230300064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.06
€ 161.06
Hardback. This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualization, nationalism, success, failure and the [in]visibility of women athletes in newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the USA. Editor(s): Markula, Pirkko. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ1; WSBB; WSBG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222847
- ISBN
- 9780230222847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Paperback. Behind the scenes at the 2010 Tour de France with Britain's greatest hope, Bradley Wiggins. Num Pages: 192 pages, 70. BIC Classification: WSB; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409131366
- ISBN
- 9781409131366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.10
€ 19.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WSBT; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493009091
- ISBN
- 9781493009091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.18
€ 21.99
€ 18.18
Hardcover.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Little, Brown London
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KNW0007616
- ISBN
- 9781408702079
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardcover. The first book to provide a broad look at how Operational Research methods can be applied practically to the field of sports, with applications including timetabling, scheduling, and strategy. Editor(s): Wright, Mike; Perry, Susan. Series: OR Essentials. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV6; KJT; WSBM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137534651
- ISBN
- 9781137534651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.70
€ 127.70
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Pitch Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905411818
- ISBN
- 9781905411818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.71
€ 13.99
€ 12.71
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Pitch Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905411597
- ISBN
- 9781905411597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.71
€ 13.99
€ 12.71
Paperback. A rigorous investigation of reform in college sports Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WSB; WSBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252077838
- ISBN
- 9780252077838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardcover. Peak Rock is a celebration of significant developments at the cutting edge of rock climbing in the Peak District, from the day that James W Puttrell first set foot on rock at Wharncliffe in the late 19th century, through to modern ascents on the area's gritstone and limestone crags. Meticulously researched and written by a team of local authors. Num Pages: 396 pages, Colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMD; 1DBKEY; WSBX; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 243 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2276.
- Publisher
- Vertebrate Graphics Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 396
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906148720
- ISBN
- 9781906148720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 46.02
€ 50.99
€ 46.02
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Czech Institute of Egyptology Czech Republic
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861591886
- ISBN
- 9780861591886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.43
€ 75.43
Paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white plates, colour plates. BIC Classification: BGS; WSBX; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589975354
- ISBN
- 9781589975354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.08
€ 18.08
Paperback. It used to be said that whenever a football manager needed a goal scorer all he had to do was travel to the North East, call down a mineshaft and up would pop a centre forward. This book guides the reader on a tour of the area's sporting treasures; from the site of the celebrated Blaydon Races in Newcastle to a cockfighting pit in Tynemouth. Series: Played in Britain. Num Pages: 200 pages, 110. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYN; AMGC; WSBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 212 x 14. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Publisher
- English Heritage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905624744
- ISBN
- 9781905624744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Series: Rowman & Littlefield Swimming Series. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: WSBX; WSSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442237018
- ISBN
- 9781442237018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 114.55
€ 114.55