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This handbook offers an important and timely contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Olympic studies.

Thomas Frühwirth hat aus einem harten Schicksal etwas Großes gemacht.

Essentials of Teaching Adapted Physical Education: Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion offers a wealth of knowledge for teaching today's diverse student population, including those with disabilities.

This is the first book to explore in breadth and in depth the complex intersections between sport, leisure, and social justice.

The application of the theoretical underpinnings of coaching to practice is a central concern in sport.

The Science of Basketball is the only book to examine the scientific principles underpinning preparation and performance in basketball, applied to both individual and team contexts.

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

Academic research on the Paralympics and disability sport is growing.

This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK's publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network, coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities.

Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form a central part of our understanding and experience of sport and movement cultures.

Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion is an accessible presentation of current European research on the most recent evolutions in sports for people with disabilities, demonstrating knowledge developed from the field of sports practices of people with disabilities.

The Science of Basketball is the only book to examine the scientific principles underpinning preparation and performance in basketball, applied to both individual and team contexts.

This empirically-grounded text examines the policy, planning, development and implementation of disability sport events.

There are more opportunities than ever before for young people with disabilities to participate in sport and adapted physical education.

Teaching Physical Education to Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities provides a thorough overview of the challenges and opportunities for inclusion in PE lessons.

This is the first book to offer an in-depth review of research pertaining to individuals with visual impairments across the full span of movement-related disciplines, from biomechanics and motor learning to physical education and Paralympic sport.

Essentials of Cerebral Palsy Football introduces the reader to the practice of Cerebral Palsy (CP) football.

This multidisciplinary book draws on sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and history, to explore the diversity, challenges and achievements of Latin American women in sport.

This ground-breaking book provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between sports (and leisure), religion and disability.

Despite campaigns to educate and increase awareness, discrimination continues to be a deep-rooted problem in sport.

Sports participation opportunities for individuals with impairments are increasing.

Social inequalities are often reproduced in sport and leisure contexts.

Blade Runner is the inspirational memoir of Oscar Pistorius.

Given sport's centrality in English society, what role does it play in symbolising contemporary English national identity?

This important study brings together world-leading researchers to reflect upon the state of the social scientific study of sport.

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

How can or does youth sport reconcile what seems to be a fundamental contradiction between understandings of sport and disability?

Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions.

Advances in technology have always had a significant impact on sport.

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

Sports coaches apply their skills in a wider variety of contexts, and with a more diverse range of athletes and participants, than ever before.

This provocative and challenging book argues for the vital importance of critical self-reflexion in the field of adaptive physical activity (APA).

This book presents research on disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education settings using empirical data gathered either with or from disabled children and young people, centring their experiences and amplifying their voices, while decentralising non-disabled voices in research about them.

This ground-breaking book provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between sports (and leisure), religion and disability.

A captivating narrative guidebook to inspire everyone, no matter their abilities, to get outside and experience the country's natural landscapes.

This interdisciplinary collection explores the nexus of social justice and sport to consider how sport and physical education can serve as a unique point of commonality in an era of religious, political, economic, and cultural polarity.

This pioneering book in elite athlete wellbeing brings together the narratives of athletes and wellbeing practitioners in high-performance sport with cutting-edge theorizing from world-leading academics to explore pertinent mental wellbeing matters that present for elite athletes both during and after their careers.

The London 2012 Paralympic Games - the biggest, most accessible and best-attended games in the Paralympics' 64-year history - came with an explicit aim to "e;transform the perception of disabled people in society,"e; and use sport to contribute to "e;a better world for all people with a disability.

This book examines the role that research plays in pedagogical practices when teaching disabled children and young people in physical education classes.

Key Themes in Youth Sport is a concise, easy to read guide to core concepts in the study of young people's relationship with sport, exercise and leisure.

This book introduces the fundamental principles of accessible and inclusive sport venue management, with a focus on people with disability.

Society is obsessed with categorising and treating individuals and groups according to their physical and non-physical differences, such as sex, gender, disability and race.

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games.

Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity goes beyond the content of introductory research methods texts to provide an insight into the methodological hurdles that are experienced when researching 'difference' in Sport and Physical Activity.

This book highlights the different roles of youth sport, from sport for all and community sport activities to elite sport and international competitions, to suggest significant new directions for youth sport research and practices.

"The Powerhouse of Mental Strength 2"Fortsættelsen af ​​​​​rejsen ind the mental forces verden med Sami Duymaz aka Samuel Samiris.

A high-octane memoir of unflappable determination from an X-Games and Paralympics champion When "e;Monster"e; Mike Schultz won snowboarding gold in Pyeongchang, South Korea, it was the culmination of a decade of reinvention, in every sense of the word.