Week of August 4, 2008
News Item: The Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin this week in Beijing and will run through August 24th. A few of the recent problems associated with the event include the following: at least 20,000 people have cleaned up algal blooms along the coastlines of Qingdao where sailing events will be held; poor air quality plagues Beijing and nearby cities; the past and current treatment of Tibetans by the Chinese government prompted Students for a Free Tibet to disrupt the Olympic torch relay this past spring. Included here are titles related to the social history of the Olympics and its past games.
Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China
By Susan Brownell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Call Number: GV722 2008 .B76 2008
Berlin games: How the Nazis Stole the Olympic Dream
By Guy Walters. William Morrow, 2006
Call Number: GV722 1936 .W35 2006
The Best Olympics Ever?: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000
By Helen Lenskyj. State University of New York Press, 2002
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
The Great Olympic Swindle: When the World Wanted Its Games Back
By Andrew Jennings. Simon & Schuster, 2000
Call Number: GV721.3 .J46 2000
Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism
By Helen Lenskyj. SUNY Press, 2000
Call Number: GV721.5 .L42 2000 (Also available online through NetLibrary)
Marketing of Olympic Sport Organisations
By Alain Ferrand. Human Kinetics, 2005
Call Number: GV716 .F47 2005
Mega-Events and Modernity: Olympics and Expos in the Growth of Global Culture
By Maurice Roche. Routledge, 2000
Call Number: GV721.5 .R63 2000 (Also available online through NetLibrary)
Munich (DVD)
Directed by Steven Spielberg. Universal Pictures, 2006
Call Number: PN1997.2 .M865 2006 (At Jupiter Campus)
Not the Triumph But the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete
By Amy Bass. University of Minnesota Press, 2002
Call Number: GV722 1968 .B38 2002
The Olympic Games: A Social Science Approach
By K. Toohey. CABI Pub., 2000
Call Number: GV721.5 .T64 2000
The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games
By Allen Guttmann. University of Illinois Press, 2002
Call Number: GV721.5 .G85 2002
The Olympics in Athens 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games
By Michael Llewellyn Smith. Profile Books, 2004
Call Number: GV722 1896 .S65 2004
Olympism: Selected Writings
By Pierre de Coubertin. International Olympic Committee, 2000
Call Number: GV721.5 .C68 2000
Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games
By Alfred Erich Senn. Human Kinetics, 1999
Call Number: GV721.5 .S443 1999
Sport and Politics: The Olympics and the Los Angeles Games
By Bill Shaikin. Praeger, 1988
Call Number: GV722 1984 .S42 1988
Triumph: the Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics
By Jeremy Schaap. Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Call Number: GV697 .O9 S33 2007 (At Jupiter and Treasure Coast Campuses)