Sporting events and management

All hockey players dream of hoisting the Stanley Cup and winning a gold medal for their home country.

Isn t it lovely to have moments in your life where you think, oh, nothing can beat that.

Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics.

Strategic Management in the Arts looks at the unique characteristics of organisations in the arts and culture sector and shows readers how to tailor a strategic plan to help these diverse organizations meet their objectives.

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

'A timely, engaging and thought-provoking read from an ideal guide to explore what the future may hold.

Drawing on the leading voices of international researchers and practitioners, Outdoor Therapies provides readers with an overview of practices for the helping professions.

Contemporary sport is shaped by wider society.

For managers, students and conference professionals this timely new book will provide a firm foundation for understanding and operating in one of the UK's fastest growing business areas.

This book explores sport communication in Africa and the African diaspora.

The international nature of the sport industry requires a global approach to sport marketing practices.

This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every aspect of our social, cultural, and commercial lives, including the world of sport.

The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations).

Now in a fully updated and expanded fifth edition, this textbook introduces the power and politics of sport organizations to the readers.

The "e;Serious Leisure Perspective"e; (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience.

An inside account of England's Ashes triumph in Australia 2010/11.

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

This volume offers new insight into an important and largely under-examined area of marine leisure and tourism: scuba diving tourism.

《精神力量的動力:遊戲中的心靈》是一部深刻的著作， 遠遠超越了膚淺的考慮。 薩米·杜伊馬茲（ Sami Duymaz） 探索了我們的思維和潛意識的程序， 這些程序經常被忽視， 指導著我們的行為和反應。 他解決了情緒困擾， 並展示了實現自我控制和紀律的方法， 以控制和利用一個人的思想。一個核心焦點是引導情緒並理解恐懼和懷疑是如何產生的能力。 透過這種理解， 我們可以學會控制它們， 以便壓力和恐懼不再對我們產生影響。 透過更好地控制我們的情緒， 我們可以獲得內心深處的平靜和安寧， 讓我們即使在充滿挑戰的情況下也能清晰地思考。本書不僅提供了見解和理論理解， 也提供了發展和加強這些技能的具體方法和練習。 對於任何尋求個人成長並準備好以內在力量和信心面對生活挑戰的人來說， 這都是一本指南。 透過掌握自己的思想， 我們可以充分發揮潛力並大幅提高績效， 即使在似乎一切都不起作用的情況下也是如此。"Jīngshén lìliàng de dònglì: Yóuxì zhōng de xīnlíng" shì yī bù shēnkè de zhùzuò, yuǎn yuǎn chāoyuèle fūqiǎn de kǎolǜ.

International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century.

Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political.

Mountain resort tourism is a competitive environment, experiencing increasing growth in new markets such as China, that require the knowledge and skills developed by mature markets.

Can sport and physical activity (PA) be used to improve the communities we live in?

This volume covers an aspect of Congress mostly untouched in literature, examining Congress through the lens of sports.

The Ashes away series is without doubt the toughest test of an English cricketers career.

This clear and accessible book is the first in-depth history of the role of the football manager in British football, tracing a path from Victorian-era amateurism to the highly paid motivational specialists and media personalities of the twenty-first century.

This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson.

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.

Any sports marketing student or prospective sports marketer has to understand in detail genuine industry trends and be able to recognise solutions to real-world scenarios.

This book is the first of its kind to discuss doping within Non-Olympic Sports.

Students have often commented on the need for a concise textbook on sports medicine that presents the essential information otherwise scattered across several much larger medical textbooks on other topics.

This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games.

* New chapter on sports gambling, plus coverage of eSports, social justice issues in sports and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sports industry * More international examples and sports figure bios * The examples and applications are clearly presented, and the tone and writing make it accessible even for non-economics majors * Uses three major areas of economics to organise the text: industrial organization, public economics and labor economics * End-of-chapter questions and videos to support students * Instructor resources include PPT slides and instructor manual

For the record-breaking third time London will be hosting the Olympic Games in 2012.

A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education.

Community-based research has recently gained attention within the sport and exercise sciences.

Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage.

Following the recent doping scandals that have brought the highest echelons of international sport into disrepute, this book examines the elitism at the core of the World Anti-Doping Agency and considers how the current World Anti-Doping Code might be restructured.

Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field opens a conversation that is much needed for anyone identifying arts management or cultural management as primary areas of research, teaching, or practice.

Contemporary society is highly media-saturated, and no sector more so than sport.

Football is arguably one of the most important sports in the world, and the marketing of football has become an increasingly important issue, as clubs and product owners need to generate more revenue from the sport.

This book provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to community sport.

Sport Psychology, 2nd Edition provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance.

Das Buch bietet erstmals empirisch fundierte Erkenntnisse zu inklusiven Entwicklungprozessen von Sportvereinen sowie konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für Vereine und Experten.

Leinster is one of the most successful and influential Irish sporting teams of all time.

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

The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936.

The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society.