En faisant partager l'expérience singulière des footballeuses, boxeuses et femmes haltérophiles de haut niveau, Christine Mennesson analyse les conséquences de l'entrée de femmes dans des mondes traditionnellement réservés aux hommes.
Using a range of interdisciplinary ideas, Major Reward and Recognition Events: Transformations and Critical Perspectives is an expert-led, informative volume exploring the global growth of major award shows and prize-giving ceremonies since the start of the twentieth century and outlining their key multimodal components, core functions and transformations over time.
Providing key data, insights, and ways of thinking about women and sports, this book is an excellent resource for high school and undergraduate students as well as for sport organizations serving girls and women.
Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, 2001, eighty-one years after the gathering of the founding members of the National Football League in Canton, Ohio, I walked onto the historic Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, as a member of the officiating chain crew to work the football game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, which is the oldest rivalry in the NFL.
A comprehensive summary of sport-related concussion for parents, coaches, and athletes that considers the physics behind the injury, identifies what can be done to reduce the risk of its occurrence, and describes how to respond to a suspected concussion.
Wearable devices are being used by an increasing number of elite-level sports teams to manage and control the health, performance, and productivity of their athletes.
This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse - from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of 'labour time' to 'life time'.
Depuis 2003, le Comité français Pierre de Coubertin organise, tous les deux ans, un colloque international sur une thématique traitant du sport dans ses dimensions culturelles et éducatives.
This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse - from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of 'labour time' to 'life time'.
Olympic Laws: Culture, Values, Tensions is the first book to analyse fully the Olympic legal framework and its application to the IOC and the Olympic Games through a socio-legal lens.
One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955-66, has become the definitive guidebook.
Initié en l'an 2000, le Centre MENA « Les Hirondelles » du Centre Public d'Action Sociale d'Assesse (Belgique) accueille de jeunes demandeurs de protection internationale identifiés comme vulnérables.
On the morning of August 5, 1984, four of the greatest marathoners of all time lined up for one of the most important and long-awaited races in history.
On the morning of August 5, 1984, four of the greatest marathoners of all time lined up for one of the most important and long-awaited races in history.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most controversial issues in modern society-steroid abuse among athletes-as well as to the ongoing debate over the use and misuse of illegal substances in amateur and professional sporting events.
Olympic Laws: Culture, Values, Tensions is the first book to analyse fully the Olympic legal framework and its application to the IOC and the Olympic Games through a socio-legal lens.
Au Sénégal, dans un contexte culturel réfractaire au sport féminin, des jeunes femmes musulmanes s’engagent dans des disciplines « masculines » (football, rugby et arts martiaux) et « féminines » (natation et gymnastique) au risque de s’inscrire dans une double « transgression » : sociale et religieuse.
Depuis 2003, le Comité français Pierre de Coubertin organise, tous les deux ans, un colloque international sur une thématique traitant du sport dans ses dimensions culturelles et éducatives.
Le plus illustre footballeur du XXe siècle, le Brésilien Pelé a déclaré à l'endroit de Sadio Mané qu'il "a déjà conquis les fans du monde entier pour son football.
Wearable devices are being used by an increasing number of elite-level sports teams to manage and control the health, performance, and productivity of their athletes.
Tracing the history of the National Football League during World War II, this book delves into the severe player shortage during the war which led to the merging of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, creating the "e;Steagles.
"e;This superbly written volume will appeal to sports and physical education students; researchers in foreign policy, gender studies, history, politics, sociology, and technology; and general high school and college readers who enjoy the odd sports history factoid.
Le sport participe à la mise en place des signes, pratiques et symboles qui dénotent une appartenance identitaire et fondent un type de relation (pouvoir, hiérarchie.
With hundreds of books dedicated to conventional sports and activities, this encyclopedia on the weirdest and wackiest games offers a fresh and entertaining read for any audience.
Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, Neil Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx chronicles the entire history of a stadium that has been home to the greatest dynasty in sports history, a stadium that will see its final Yankees game in 2008.
Le sport participe à la mise en place des signes, pratiques et symboles qui dénotent une appartenance identitaire et fondent un type de relation (pouvoir, hiérarchie.
In this thoroughly revised Fourth Edition, Glenn Wong provides a comprehensive review of the various sports law issues facing professional, intercollegiate, Olympic, high school, youth, and adult recreational sports.
