Outstanding Olympics
Outstanding Olympics

Author: Clive Gifford

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780199117765

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The Olympics is with us at all times, with its build up, with vast coverage given to the competitors in over 30 different winter and summer sports looking to make the Olympic team and qualify, and with significant and substantial media time given to Olympians and the Games throughout all yearsof the four year cycle. BL The mere announcement of the winners of the hosting of the 2012 Olympics drew globally, the 10th largest TV audience of 2005 in the world - an estimated 900 million.

The Best Olympics Ever?
The Best Olympics Ever?

Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0791488101

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Despite International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samarach's proclaiming the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the "best ever," the truth of the matter is much less one-sided. In The Best Olympics Ever? Helen Jefferson Lenskyj discloses what the Sydney 2000 Olympic industry suppressed: the real costs and impacts.

The Archaeology of the Olympics
The Archaeology of the Olympics

Author: Wendy J. Raschke

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13:

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The Archaeology of the Olympics presents a stirring reevaluation of the Olympic Games (and related festivals) as they actually were, not as the ancient Greeks wished—and we still wish—they might have been. Historians, archaeologists, and classicists examine the evidence to ask such questions as, How did the athletes train? What did they eat? Can we trace the roots of the games as far back as the Bronze Age of Crete and Mycenae? Or even to Anatolia, where similar athletic activities occurred? Were the ancient games really so free of political overtones as modern Olympic rhetoric urges us to believe?

Sourcebook of Aid for the Mentally and Physically Handicapped
Sourcebook of Aid for the Mentally and Physically Handicapped

Author: Judith Norback

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13:

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Comprehensive directory of sources and services available to persons with physical or mental handicaps. Intended for interested laypersons and professionals, and focuses toward more independent living. Besides information relevant to specific handicaps or conditions (e.g., Huntington's disease), directory contains informationon federal assistance programs, research centers, rehabllitation facilities, services for college students, recreational facilities, career counseling and training, and fellowships, grants, etc., available. Topical arrangement. Index.

Design of High School Programs for Severely Handicapped Students
Design of High School Programs for Severely Handicapped Students

Author: Barbara Wilcox

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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"Encompassing vocational, leisure, and independent living domains across home, school, and community environments, Design of High School Programs for Severely Handicapped Students focuses on preparing students for functioning in future work and living environments and providing effective transition to those environments. Here in this book is a comprehensive framework for the provision of quality secondary education to adolescence with severe handicaps. Proposed new dimensions and qualities upon which education for severely handicapped high school students must be based confront the shortcomings of regular secondary education and the troubles of special education, and look to a future of productivity, independence, and participation in community life for these students" -- Back cover.