Sporting events and management

The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia.

Drawing on first hand interviews from more than 75 British Lions tourists since the golden age of the fifties, this book captures what it means to be a British Lions rugby player - the historic victories, the glorious failures and the stories surrounding the icons of rugby such as Edwards, Bennett, Hastings, Guscott, Dallaglio and Johnson.

Everybody involved in sport, from the bleachers to the boardroom, should develop an understanding of ethics.

International Sport Business: Current Issues, Future Directions offers a contemporary and forward-looking survey of the global sport industry, introducing the key themes, trends and critical issues that will impact decision-making and strategy in sport business in the coming decade and beyond.

One of the greatest changes in the sports world in the past 20 years has been the use of mathematical methods to analyze performances, recognize trends and patterns, and predict results.

Sport Management: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to sport management which considers a range of contemporary philosophical, social, cultural and political matters as they impact on this growing field.

In the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada's most celebrated athletes.

This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of place event marketing in the Asia Pacific region.

The identification and development of talented young players has become a central concern of football clubs at all levels of the professional game, as well as for national and international governing bodies.

Despite many negative expectations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russia delivered one of the best World Cups in living memory.

The phenomenal international number one bestseller with exclusive interviews with Richie McCaw, Steve Hansen, Beauden Barrett and Dan Carter, The Jersey is the definitive story behind the greatest sports team on the planet.

'Arts, Entertainment and Tourism' is a pioneering text that, by focusing on the consumer, investigates the relationship between these 3 industries and how this relationship can be developed to its best competitive advantage.

Wolverhampton Wanderers FC was founded in 1877 as St Luke's Football Club, and became one of the founding members of the Football League.

'Contemporary Issues in Sport Management presents an extensive array of absorbing contemporary issues relevant to managing sport.

Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, Event Management in Sport, Recreation, and Tourism provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical framework for planning and managing events at all levels, from smaller local events to mega-events.

All successful marketing strategies in sport or events must take into account the complex behaviour of consumers.

On the fortieth anniversary of the historic "e;Miracle on Ice,"e; Mike Eruzionethe captain of the 1980 U.

Neeraj Chopra was born into a modest family in the village of Khandra, in Panipat district, where agriculture was the primary occupation.

With interest and participation in extreme and adventure sports growing year on year, the time is ripe for a thoughtful and analytical assessment of this phenomenon from a rigorous philosophical perspective.

Olympic Tourism is the first text to focus on the nature of Olympic tourism and the potential for the Olympic Games to generate tourism in the run up to and long after the hosting of a Games.

Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development.

This book explores sport marketing analytics, an essential and crucially important aspect of contemporary sport business.

Faced with a depleted planet and a series of connected crises, socially minded agents and entities within the world of culture and the arts are reacting from within.

As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast coverage becomes bigger, more complex, and more sophisticated.

Sport, Geld, Macht, Manipulation – Thomas BachDas Gesicht des IOC ist ein Deutscher.

The difference between getting the shot and missing the shot comes down to split seconds and how you manage your gear and your technique.

An updated guide and commentary to the rules which regulate anti-doping in sport, including numerous case studies.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018The uplifting, feel-good autobiography of Ben Ryan, the coach of the Olympic gold-medal winning Fijian rugby team It is late summer 2013.

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment.

Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen.

* WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*Discover this 100-year anniversary celebration of the hardest-earned and most sacred prize in sport, the Tour de France's Yellow Jersey.

One of the Boston Globe’s Best Sports Books of the Year: “Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny” (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man).

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

After the first ever intercontinental rally - the London-Sydney in 1968 - there was widespread enthusiasm for an even more difficult test.

The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport.

This insightful book addresses recovery as a comprehensive concept for prevention of health-threats in modern societies through active lifestyles.

Rising from the Wreckage is the definitive story of Manchester United's resurgence, from the ashes of a German runway to a balmy May evening at Wembley and the pinnacle of European football.

Management of Sports Development is the first book to offer a holistic approach to a field which has been growing in importance for some years.

The Olympic Games is undoubtedly the greatest sporting event in the world, with over 200 countries competing for success.

In 2016, after twenty years in St.

Sports betting has become a truly global phenomenon, facilitated by new communication technologies.

Events can be synonymous with a particular place, helping shape and promote a location.

Sport Startups: New Advances in Entrepreneurship examines the global growth of startup enterprises in the sports sector and addresses how they contribute to new developments in business innovation and entrepreneurship.

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.

Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.

During the boom years of the 1980s, the massed oil wealth of the princes of Dubai and Saudi Arabia were pitted against British millionaire Robert Sangster in a battle for control of one of the world's rarest, most precious and most unpredictable commodities: top-pedigree thoroughbred racehorses.

This is a complete, step by step, reader friendly introduction to leadership theories and their application in sport organizations.