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  • Nonlinear Vibration with Control

    For Flexible and Adaptive Structures

    de David Wagg, Simon Neild ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive discussion of nonlinear multi-modal structural vibration problems, and shows how vibration suppression can be applied to such systems by considering a sample set of relevant control techniques. It covers the basic principles of nonlinear vibrations that occur in flexible and/or adaptive structures, with an emphasis on engineering analysis and relevant control ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • East Plays West

    Sport and the Cold War

    Edición de Stephen Wagg, David Andrews ...
    The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two until the fall of the Berlin wall, and for much of that time the perception was that only on the Eastern side were politics and sport inextricably linked. However, this assumption underestimates the extent to which sport was an important symbol for both power blocs in their ongoing ideological struggle ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The History and Politics of Motor Racing

    Lives in the Fast Lane

    Edición de Damion Sturm, Stephen Wagg, David L. Andrews ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the history and politics of motor racing, one of the most popular and lucrative elements in the international sport industry. Written by a group of international scholars and motor racing specialists it discusses the sport’s origins, the relationship of motor racing to nation building and modernity (noting its links to fascism and dictatorship), the links between motor racing ... Leer más

    $179.99 USD

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  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    de Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

    de Jules Boykoff ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions.In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

    States, media and markets 1950-2010

    Edición de Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young, Richard Holt ...
    Series series CRESC
    In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport and its cultural and economic impacts in the context of the supra-state formations and global markets ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics

    Edición de Alan Bairner, John Kelly, Jung Woo Lee ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political. However, there is a broad consensus among academics that sport is often at the heart of the political and the political is often central to sport. From the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany to the civil unrest that preceded the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, sport and politics have ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation

    Kicking off a New Era

    de Fan Hong, J.A. Mangan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwide, in a global context, and analyzes its progress, challenges and problems it has faced.It shows how women's football has made a significant contribution to the emancipation of women's football in many countries. It also traces the evolution of ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies

    Edición de H. Lenskyj, S. Wagg ...
    A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers. ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • European Cultures in Sport

    de Arnd Kruger, James Riordan ...
    Sport occupies a key position in the cultural profile of a nation. This study forms a comparative guide to sport across Europe, in terms of its relative political and social status, its development, and the ways in which it has contributed to national achievement. Covering sport in ten major European states, each native contributor to the study presents: • a brief historical background: major ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Ice War Diplomat

    Hockey Meets Cold War Politics at the 1972 Summit Series

    de Gary J. Smith ...
    Discover a diplomacy mission like no other in Ice War Diplomat, the behind-the-scenes story of the historic 1972 Summit Series. Amid the tension of the Cold War, caught between capitalism and communism, Canada and the Soviet Union, young Canadian diplomat Gary J. Smith must navigate the rink, melting the ice between two nations skating a dangerous path.On his first overseas assignment, Smith is ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Four Walls and a Roof

    The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    de Reinier de Graaf ...
    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year“Sharp, revealing, funny.”—The Guardian“An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again… [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.”—The EconomistArchitecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form... ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD