Catálogo de libros: Juegos olímpicos y paralímpicos

53 Catálogo de libros: Juegos olímpicos y paralímpicos

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  • Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?
    Ben Hunt-Davis / Harriet Beveridge
     With its winning mix of gripping narrative and easy-to-implement performance-raising tips, this book has become a best-selling classic. It’s garnered 5-star reviews and wide-ranging endorsements – from Sebastian Coe and Dame Kelly Holmes to Lord Digby Jones. The book tells the inspiring story of how Ben Hunt-Davis - an ordinary guy in an ordinary team – achieved something pret...
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    32,55 €

  • How To Fence
    Christine Tanner / HowExpert
    This guide, “Engaging in the sport of fencing” will allow anyone the knowledge they need to know to begin a new hobby in fencing. Including pictures of samples such as footwork, weapons and strategies this guide could help the beginning fencer with techniques and more. This guide can also give the person who would love to try a new hobby a glimpse into the benefits of a sport t...
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    37,11 €

  • Decathlon
    Ed Oleata
    This is a story of an Olympic decathlon competition through the eyes of one of the competitors.It started with the athletes waiting in the staging room just before being led out to the track to start the first event. Each event was described throughout the two-day competition, ending with the declared victor in the final event.There were biographical sketches of the major compe...
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    9,67 €

  • How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting
    HowExpert / Liam Rodgers
    This short book is a response to the increased popularity of Olympic weightlifting and the problems that have come with it: the quality of coaching in the sport has been diluted in the English-speaking world by increased demand. This book aims to provide a basic description of how to coach weightlifting effectively, based on some very simple principles and approaches that shoul...
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    37,24 €

  • Rude at Rowing
    R Bacon Whitney / R. Bacon Whitney
    R. Bacon Whitney is a professional writer of prehistory about the earliest Greeks, whose nation race emerged shortly after the Early and Late Helladic Periods of the Late Aegean Bronze Age, from the early fifteenth century BC onward. He writes his serializations and individual protohistories under the pseudonym of Saltonstall Weld Bardot—an author/translator of his contemporary...
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    34,31 €

  • Golden Glow
    Dan D'Addona / Dan D’Addona / Kaitlin Sandeno
    Swimmer Kaitlin Sandeno was a force in the pool, winning gold, silver, and two bronze medals in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. This book not only recounts her successes in the pool but also how she overcame struggles with injuries, a car crash, pressure, and doubt, and how since retiring she has found new meaning through helping and inspiring others. ...
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    42,31 €

  • Jack Beresford
    John Beresford
    Jack Beresford was the first British Olympian to win medals of any colour in five consecutive Olympic Games. His record of 3 Gold and 2 silver medals at the 5 Olympic Games held between 1920 and 1936 remained until Sir Steve Redgrave won gold at the 2000 Sydney Games.Historically, men have had two great chances to prove their mettle; in battle and in sport. While many are aware...
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    16,17 €

  • Jack Beresford
    John Beresford
    Jack Beresford was the first British Olympian to win medals of any colour in five consecutive Olympic Games. His record of 3 Gold and 2 silver medals at the 5 Olympic Games held between 1920 and 1936 remained until Sir Steve Redgrave won gold at the 2000 Sydney Games.Historically, men have had two great chances to prove their mettle; in battle and in sport. While many are aware...
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    29,08 €

  • The Glory of the Games - Olympic Tables and Records - 776 B.C - A.D 1948;With the Extract ’Classical Games’ by Francis Storr
    F. A. M. Webster / F.A.MWebster / FAMWebster
    'The Glory of the Games' contains a complete catalogue of the various records set by Olympic contestants in different events from 1896 to 1948. Contents include: 'Reinstauration of the Modern Games, Athens 1896', 'Paris, 1900', 'St. Louis, 1904', 'Athenian Celebrations, 1906', 'London, 1908', 'Stockholm, 1912', 'Antwerp, 1920', 'Paris, 1924', 'Amsterdam, 1928', 'Los Angeles, 19...
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    14,96 €

  • The Fencers
    Geza P Tatrallyay / Geza Tatrallyay
    The Fencers is the third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical Cold War Escape stories. It is both an immigrant's narrative of seeking a better life and a brighter future and a sports memoir focusing on two Olympic fencers, one representing Canada, the other Romania. Most of all, it is the account of the author’s friendship with Paul Szabó, a Romanian-Hungarian epée fence...
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    14,74 €

  • The Invincible Mogul Skier
    Michael L Mead
    The mogul skiing mechanics and strategies you will learn in this book are the same ones used by the very best competitive mogul skiers in the world. The author, a former competitive mogul skier himself, has spent over 15 years developing and refining the mogul skiing MECHANICS, APPLICATIONS, and PSYCHOLOGY that make up the bulk of this work.  The “New Mogul Method” is a systema...
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    30,84 €

  • The Invincible Mogul Skier
    Michael L Mead / Michael Lee Mead
    The mogul skiing mechanics and strategies you will learn in this book are the same ones used by the very best competitive mogul skiers in the world. The author, a former competitive mogul skier himself, has spent over 15 years developing and refining the mogul skiing MECHANICS, APPLICATIONS, and PSYCHOLOGY that make up the bulk of this work.  The “New Mogul Method” is a systema...
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    61,01 €

  • I Bet I Can Win at the Olympics! | Sports Coloring Book 8 Year Old
    Educando Kids
    Can your child tell what the characters in this coloring book are doing? Encourage your child to color regularly in order to enjoy the benefits of the activity. Coloring helps improve overall mental acuity. It also boosts the essential life skills of patience, confidence and self-determination. Encourage your child to begin coloring today. ...
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    11,45 €

  • Mega-events and social change
    Maurice Roche
    Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics. ...
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    54,93 €

  • Between a Rock and a Hard Race
    Robert M Deaves
    Between a Rock and a Hard Race takes the reader on a four-year journey through the eyes of the Finn class athletes who campaigned for and took part in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. It begins on a hill in Weymouth and follows the highs and lows of most of the sailors as they journey towards Rio.It offers some fascinating analysis of managing an Olympic campaign, with extensive com...
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    20,54 €

  • Between a Rock and a Hard Race
    Robert Deaves
    Between a Rock and a Hard Race takes the reader on a four-year journey through the eyes of the Finn class athletes who campaigned for and took part in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. It begins on a hill in Weymouth and follows the highs and lows of most of the sailors as they journey towards Rio.It offers some fascinating analysis of managing an Olympic campaign, with extensive com...
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    46,54 €

  • 100 Days of Technique
    Christopher Yang
    100 Days of Technique is a straightforward guide to improving Olympic weightlifting at any level. This book includes many ways to improve your set-up, first pull, second pull, third pull, squats and multiple variations of lifts. Through simple but critical steps, 100 Days of Technique provides lifters with cues, tips, and advice that has been used, tested and proven to work. It...
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    24,34 €

  • How To Play Water Polo
    Tracy Rockwell
    'How To Play Water Polo' was developed as a resource for both players and coaches and presents an ample variety of skills, tips and tricks to improve and master performance. The book is organised progressively with water polo competence being presented by way of a structured sequence of skills ranging from easy to more difficult and challenging, with the attainment of e...
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    21,12 €

  • Wheelchairs, Perjury and the London Marathon
    Tim Marshall
    The top wheelchair athletes of today enjoy the same high-profile exposure and admiration as their able-bodied counterparts. This has come about partly through wheelchair participation in mass fun-running events such as the Great North Run. Wheelchairs, Perjury and the London Marathon charts disability sports pioneer Tim Marshall MBE’s journey from the rock-climbing accident whi...
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    9,50 €

  • Rude at Olympics
    R Bacon Whitney / R. Bacon Whitney
    The Guy from Rude is fraught. Deeming shattered his dreams by the Rowing Sport for the 1964 Summer Olympics at Tokyo, he retreats into a summer job. That, however, is curtailed by the death of his beloved grandfather, his once and only greatest fan of his Alpine Skiing and Heavyweight Rowing talents. Having let Grampy down, and feeling otherwise remiss, he pitches his chance as...
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    26,81 €

  • Fame
    Darren G. Davis / Darren GDavis / Michael Troy
    A new biography comic featuring Tom Daley. British diver Tom Daley made quite a splash at the 2012 Olympic Games with his winning personality, boyish good looks and impressive physique. Writer Michael Troy and artist Alex Schumacher tell the inspiring young swimmer's tale of triumph and tragedy from his Olympic success to the loss of his father and his rise as a reality tv ...
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    8,65 €

  • Unwavering Perseverance
    Mary Wineberg
    LIFE IS FULL OF CHOICES, DECISIONS, AND OPPORTUNITIES. YOUR PERSEVERANCE DETERMINES YOUR DESTINY. I struggled and needed answers. I wanted to know why? I had to know why. Would the choices made for me determine my destiny? Who would raise me? Where would I go? What would happen to me? Could I ever overcome these circumstances? My life was not perfect, but with FAITH, this girl ...
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    17,80 €

  • Mega-events and social change
    Maurice Roche
    Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics. ...
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    169,45 €

  • Ancient Greece and The Olympics | Children’s Ancient History
    Baby Professor
    Did you know that the ancient Greeks were also the first ones to come up with the idea of the Olympics? The idea was originally crafted to honor Zeus. From then on, the world caught on and the Olympics is now the biggest and most prestigious sports gathering worldwide. Read more details in the pages of this book. ...
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    18,19 €

  • SPORTS AND MYSTIFICATION
    Massimiliano Angelucci
    What really is what we now call “sport”? Although ubiquitous, it remains a little-understood phenomenon, and - always above reproach - can enjoy a favorable or otherwise indulgent public opinion. However, in sports almost nothing is as it seems. The book therefore uses a rigorous analysis of the sociological, anthropological and historical aspects that characterize the sport ...
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    11,08 €

  • Body Lengths
    Leisel Jones
    From the moment I am born, I am like no-one else around me. I am a fish out of water. Even in the pool.’Leisel Jones is rightly regarded as one of the greatest breaststrokers ever. At just fifteen, she won two silver medals at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000; she went on to win gold at Athens and Beijing, and at London 2012 became the first Australian swimmer to compete at fou...
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    27,62 €

  • Zany Games
    Howard Burman
    The 1900 Paris Olympic Games were zany in many ways:            No opening or closing ceremonies were held.            Some competitors had no idea they had actually participated in the Olympics.            Competitions included swimming obstacle races, underwater swimming, motorcycle             racing, live pigeon shooting, tug-of-war, ballooning and firefighting.            ...
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    19,31 €

  • The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War
    Jenifer Parks
    This study examines the Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic sport during the Cold War. It analyzes how sport administrators used political savvy and professional pragmatism alongside ideological drive to expand participation, maximize chances of success, and achieve Soviet political and diplomatic aims. ...
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    135,93 €

  • Beyond the Finish Line
    Krista Guloien
    Are you an athlete transitioning from a career in sport and silently struggling along the way? Or perhaps you didn’t realize how you would feel when your athletic career ended and how difficult transitioning to life beyond would be.You are not alone. Krista’s forthright tell-all of her journey to the 2012 Summer Olympic rowing podium, as well as what came after, will help you f...
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    15,95 €

  • Judo
    Rodolfo Tello
    Displaying the most impressive throws, compelling armbars, dominant pins, and decisive chokes, judo is a particularly powerful sport and martial art that can bring opponents into submission in highly effective ways. With determination and perseverance, such tremendous power could be yours. Designed with safety considerations in mind, judo allows people of all ages to be involve...
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    12,21 €


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