Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event

Olympic Games as Performance and Public EventSports, and in particular the Olympic Games, are enjoying a rapid increase in interest among social scientists worldwide, who see them as important "public events." This volume offers the first analysis of the Winter Olympic Games, primarily based on the Lillehammer Games of 1994. The authors identify "olympism" as a key agent in the modernization process and, more specifically, ask how the winter games, as a mega event, relate to Norwegian culture

The emphasis is on skills of plan interpretation and an appreciation of the intellectual disposition of planners and various objective constraints confronting them

little is known about the internal relationship between Futurists and Fascists in the years 1918-22

Is philosophical truth a literary artifice

the nom de plume of Sara Payson Willis

This chapter examines the sources and fate of herbicides in the environment and the environmental effects of herbicides

with a multidimensional expansion in the geographical extent

Addressing problems relevant to phonology

and addresses the importance of bioethics to inform the integration of neuroscience into social work practice

and economic and social change within Turkey

Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad spectrum of personal

This book presents second generation issues in ethics

or Is Phenomenology Edifying