Fastest, Highest, Strongest

Fastest, Highest, Strongest
Author: Rob Beamish
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1135987092

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A challenging scholarly contribution to the debate surrounding performance-enhancing practices in sport, which roots the subject in its international social, political and historical context.

Fastest, Highest, Strongest

Fastest, Highest, Strongest
Author: Rob Beamish
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135987084

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Fastest, Highest, Strongest presents a comprehensive challenge to the dominant orthodoxy concerning the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport. Examining the political and economic transformation of the Olympic Movement during the twentieth century, the authors argue that the realities of modern sport require a serious reassessment of current policies, in particular the ban on the use of certain substances and practices. The book includes detailed discussion of: * The historical importance of World War II and the Cold War in the development of a high-performance culture in sport * The changing Olympic project: from amateurism to a fully professionalized approach * The changing meaning of "sport" * The role of sport science, technology and drugs in pursuing ever-better performance * The major ethical and philosophical arguments used to support the ban on performance-enhancing substances in sport. Fastest, Highest, Strongest is a profound critical examination of modern sport. Its straightforward style will appeal to under- and post-graduate students as well as scholars of sports ethics and history, policy makers and all those interested in the changing nature of sport.

Biggest, Strongest, Fastest

Biggest, Strongest, Fastest
Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 1997-08-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547349297

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An informative introduction to the "world records" held by fourteen members of the animal kingdom. Each spread portrays an animal that is the largest, slowest, longest lived. Readers can see the animal's size in relation to something familiar.

The Olympics

The Olympics
Author: David Arscott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016
Genre: Olympic athletes
ISBN:

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From back cover: 'The most important thing in the olympic games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.'

Find Your Strongest Life

Find Your Strongest Life
Author: Marcus Buckingham
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1418578495

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The World's Fastest Spookiest Smelliest Strongest Book

The World's Fastest Spookiest Smelliest Strongest Book
Author: Jan Payne
Publisher: Buster Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012
Genre: Curiosities and wonders
ISBN: 9781780551142

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This big book is stuffed with the fastest, brightest, longest, funniest, weirdest, wildest, wettest, saddest, brainiest, and fascinating-est (yikes!) things in the world. From the highest peaks to the murkiest depths, the fastest man to the slowest sloth, the oldest lake to the most venomous snake and much, much more!

Bigger Faster Stronger-3rd Edition

Bigger Faster Stronger-3rd Edition
Author: Shepard, Greg
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492545813

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Bigger Faster Stronger (BFS) remains the premier training program for high school and college athletes. The third edition of the Bigger Faster Stronger book includes the latest research; training protocols for strength, speed, power, flexibility, balance, and agility; and new content on balance, safety, and plyometrics.

A Global History of Doping in Sport

A Global History of Doping in Sport
Author: John Gleaves
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1317555279

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From turn-of-the-century horseracing to the monolithic anti-doping attitudes now supported by sporting organizations, the development of anti-doping ideology has spread throughout modern sport. Yet heretofore few historians have explored the many ways that international sport has responded to doping. This book seeks to fill that gap by examining different aspects of sport’s global efforts to respond to athletes doping. By incorporating cultural, political, and feminist histories that examine international responses to doping, this special issue aims to better articulate the narrative of doping. The work starts with the first mention of doping in any sport. It examines not only the first efforts to ban doping but also the athletes who sought performance enhancers. Focusing on specific framing events, authors in this issue examine how history of doping and how it has indelibly marked the sporting landscape. The result is a work with both breadth and focus. From stories of Japanese swimmers to Italian runners to American jockeys, the work spans the range of doping history. At the same time, the authors remain focused around one single issue: the history of doping in sport. This bookw as published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

The Social Organization of Sports Medicine

The Social Organization of Sports Medicine
Author: Dominic Malcolm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1136286772

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The Social Organization of Sports Medicine is the first book-length overview of the social scientific study of sports medicine, drawing together work from an international cadre of scholars who examine and provide interdisciplinary analysis of the dynamic and multi-faceted relationships between sports and medicine and within sports medicine. The book charts changing perceptions of sport within medical discourse, attempts by sports medicine providers to forge professional identities in response to these processes, the day-to-day experiences of deliverers of sports medicine and the reactions of recipients of that healthcare. The contents are organized in four sections, examining the competing and changing ways in which sports medicine is conceived, the ways in which it is organized, the ways in which it is practiced, and points of contestation between traditional and alternative and emerging forms of (sports) medicine. This collection of essays consolidates recent advances in this area of study and establishes a basis for the future development of the field.

The English Premier League

The English Premier League
Author: Richard Elliott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-06-14
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1317265793

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The English Premier League (EPL) is one of the world’s most valuable and high-profile sports leagues, with millions of fans around the globe. The 2016/17 season marked the 25th anniversary of the EPL, providing a unique opportunity to reflect on how it has contributed, both positively and negatively, to key developments in football – and in sport and culture more broadly – at local, national and global levels. Drawing on central themes in the social scientific study of sport, such as globalisation, celebrity, fandom, commercialisation, gender, sexuality and race, this book is the first to assess the historical development and current significance of the EPL. With original contributions from several of the world’s leading football scholars, it provides in-depth case studies of the multifaceted role of the EPL in the contemporary world of sport, as well as offering thought-provoking predications for the future challenges that it will face. The English Premier League: A Socio-Cultural Analysis is a fascinating read for any sport studies student or scholar with a particular interest in football and the sociology of sport.