Fastest Highest Strongest

Author : Rob Beamish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135987084
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fastest, Highest, Strongest written by Rob Beamish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rob Beamish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135987092
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fastest, Highest, Strongest written by Rob Beamish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547349297
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biggest, Strongest, Fastest written by Steve Jenkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997-08-25 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jan Payne
Publisher : Buster Books
ISBN 13 : 9781780551142
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Fastest Spookiest Smelliest Strongest Book written by Jan Payne and published by Buster Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Author : John Gleaves
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317555279
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Global History of Doping in Sport written by John Gleaves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : S. Wagg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230320813
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport written by S. Wagg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which they came about.

Author : Editors of Portable Press
Publisher : Portable Press
ISBN 13 : 1645171639
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Fastest, Spookiest, Smelliest, Strongest Book written by Editors of Portable Press and published by Portable Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the most extreme things in the world on the pages of this kid-friendly collection of entertaining and educational articles. Kids will have a blast learning about the most extreme things in the world! The World’s Fastest, Spookiest, Smelliest, Strongest Book is full of weird, wild, and wonderful facts about the world. Readers will learn about the most amazing waterfalls, the fastest animals, and more while being entertained by quirky drawings throughout the book.

Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547349831
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest written by Steve Jenkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climb the tallest mountain, dive into the deepest lake, and navigate the longest river in Steve Jenkins' stunning new book that explores the wonders of the natural world. With his striking cut paper collages, Jenkins majestically captures the grand sense of scale, perspective and awe that only mother earth can inspire.

Author : Ed Viesturs
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767924711
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Shortcuts to the Top written by Ed Viesturs and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. “From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, No Shortcuts to the Top is fascinating reading.”—Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place and subject of the film 127 Hours For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go. A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.

Author : Jon Kester
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504973380
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Jaxson written by Jon Kester and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Jaxson: The Worlds Strongest Baby is an incredible story about a toddler who uses his superhuman strength to help others. Whether it is lifting a fallen tree off his friends swing set or wrestling a hungry bear away from a campsite, Jonathan Jaxson is always willing to use his mighty muscles to save the day.