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  • Les Jeux olympiques de 1892 à 2024

    Une aventure mondiale

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  • Sport, Société et culture XIXe à nos jours - Ebook epub

    Ce volume a pour objet d’explorer deux aspects importants de l’histoire de la France contemporaine mais néanmoins longtemps négligés par les historiens : le sport et, par extension, l’éducation physique.Le livre traite de l’émergence depuis la fin du XVIe siècle d’une attention nouvelle à un corps que l’on cherche à renforcer, pour arriver au sport actuel placé au cœur de la société de ... Leer más

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  • Global Sport Leaders

    A Biographical Analysis of International Sport Management

    Edición de Emmanuel Bayle, Patrick Clastres ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the careers, governance and management practices of some of the institutional sports leaders who have had the greatest impact on global sport in the 120 years since Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games. Through their positions in major sports organisations, their influence, the examples they set, their successes and failures, and their ability to bring about ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of the House of FIFA

    The Multimillion-Dollar Corruption at the Heart of Global Soccer

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  • The Games

    “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics ... Leer más

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  • Montreal Olympics

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    Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player in the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers an insider's perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive, and highly politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures from international and local special interest groups. He looks at both the struggles and what ... Leer más

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  • The Britannica Guide to Soccer

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  • The Olympics: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
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