Contained within the pages of this encyclopaedic book is everything anyone could wish to know about the Winter Olympics. With a complete statistical record for all events through the history of the Games, and now in its eighth edition, this is the authoritative book on the Winter Olympics. From speed skating to snowboarding, bobsleigh to ice hockey, the book gives the medals tables, timings, ...

Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation's geography. This book explores the role of stadiums in shaping urban identities, determining the economics of intercollegiate athletics, influencing local and national politics.

Analyses of the power of Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and beyond.

An interactive book on the Winter Olympic Games. It contains facsimiles of important memorabilia including important historical documents, tickets, programmes, collector cards, full-size posters, and a personal letter from a US President.

This work presents the moving story of Anne Williams, whose son Kevin died at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. It is the account of a mother's determination to discover the true circumstances of her son's death, and a description of the controversy that raged in the aftermath of the tragedy.

In over 100 years, the Summer Games have provided the sporting world with some truly historic moments, involving many of the greatest sportsmen and women of modern times. This book presents the reader with hundreds of facts about the Olympic Games on a range of topics, from individual competitors and famous teams to sports politics and scandals.

Recounts the bizarre, controversial, inept, heroic and plain unlucky from the first modern games in 1896 to the return of the games to their birthplace in Athens in 2004.

To mark the 2004 Olympics in Athens, this title recounts the bizarre, controversial, inept, heroic and plain unlucky from the first modern games in 1896 to the glories of Sydney 2000.

Covers all the major European football grounds, including all 12 of the German grounds which will be used in the 2006 World Cup finals. This book combines historic photographs with modern views, with entry including a short statistical section and an introduction that examines both the ground and its home team.

Offers insights into the players and personalities that linger long in the memory and presents a fresh look at the epic contests that turned Ireland's Games into a national soap opera. This book presents a celebration of the good, the bad and the beautiful of Gaelic Games.

The 2007 Tour de France started triumphantly in London but ended with yet another drugs furore, leading to four riders being excluded, and the intrusion of lawyers more interested in legal wrangling than sport. The author sets this year's scandal in the context of the event's remarkable history, which began in July 1903.

* The 'Bible' of Olympic history * The top eight finishers in every Summer Olympic event since 1896 * Full descriptions of rules and scoring for every event included in the 2008 Beijing Olympics * Plus hundreds of anecdotes - heroic, astonishing, amusing and just plain bizarre - and lore from 108 years of Olympic history

* Sales success and critically acclaimed in hardback * Already long listed for the William Hill * The Beijing Olympics massively increased the Olympics' profile in the UK * Sales appeal both to sports fans and to the Simon Garfield social history market * Foreword by Sebastian Coe

Explores global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's anticipated moment of glory on the world stage. This book demonstrates that sport is inseparable from politics.

Helps schools, community youth clubs, leisure centres and child care facilities to plan safe outdoor and indoor play areas. This book outlines the four main components of safe playground design: supervision, age-appropriate design, surfacing and equipment.

A guide which includes the stadia scheduled for use in the Euro 2008 competition in Austria and Switzerland.

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. This book presents the history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence.

Demonstrates that Olympism and the Olympic movement in the modern context is socially relevant and politically important. This book focuses on national encounters with Olympism and the Olympic movement. It also demonstrates that the essence of Olympism and the Olympic movement is important only in so far as it affects societies surrounding it.

Narrates the history of the Doonhammers. Beginning with the formation of the first team shortly after the First World War, this story dives head into the ups and downs, the promotions and relegations, that have made the history of Queens such an exhilarating journey. It celebrates the men who have played so memorably at Palmerston Park.