{"id":117,"date":"2008-08-04T18:21:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faulibraries.wordpress.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2010-08-30T09:34:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:34:20","slug":"int-the-news-2008-summer-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/int-the-news-2008-summer-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: 2008 Summer Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of August 4, 2008<\/strong><\/h3>\n

News Item<\/strong>: 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.<\/p>\n

Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Susan Brownell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
\nCall Number: GV722 2008 .B76 2008<\/p>\n

Berlin games: How the Nazis Stole the Olympic Dream<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Guy Walters. William Morrow, 2006
\nCall Number: GV722 1936 .W35 2006<\/p>\n

The Best Olympics Ever?: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000<\/strong><\/em>
\nBy Helen Lenskyj. State University of New York Press, 2002
\nCall Number: Available online through NetLibrary
\n
\nThe Great Olympic Swindle: When the World Wanted Its Games Back<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Andrew Jennings. Simon & Schuster, 2000
\nCall Number: GV721.3 .J46 2000<\/p>\n

Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism
\n<\/strong><\/em>By Helen Lenskyj. SUNY Press, 2000
\nCall Number: GV721.5 .L42 2000 (Also available online through NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Marketing of Olympic Sport Organisations<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Alain Ferrand. Human Kinetics, 2005
\nCall Number: GV716 .F47 2005<\/p>\n

Mega-Events and Modernity: Olympics and Expos in the Growth of Global Culture<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Maurice Roche. Routledge, 2000
\nCall Number: GV721.5 .R63 2000 (Also available online through NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Munich<\/em> (DVD)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Steven Spielberg. Universal Pictures, 2006
\nCall Number: PN1997.2 .M865 2006 (At Jupiter Campus)<\/p>\n

Not the Triumph But the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete<\/strong><\/em>
\nBy Amy Bass. University of Minnesota Press, 2002
\nCall Number: GV722 1968 .B38 2002<\/p>\n

The Olympic Games: A Social Science Approach<\/strong><\/em>
\nBy K. Toohey. CABI Pub., 2000
\nCall Number: GV721.5 .T64 2000<\/p>\n

The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Allen Guttmann. University of Illinois Press, 2002
\nCall Number: GV721.5 .G85 2002<\/p>\n

The Olympics in Athens 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games
\n<\/strong><\/em>By Michael Llewellyn Smith. Profile Books, 2004
\nCall Number: GV722 1896 .S65 2004<\/p>\n

Olympism: Selected Writings<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Pierre de Coubertin. International Olympic Committee, 2000
\nCall Number: GV721.5 .C68 2000<\/p>\n

Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Alfred Erich Senn. Human Kinetics, 1999
\nCall Number: GV721.5 .S443 1999<\/p>\n

Sport and Politics: The Olympics and the Los Angeles Games<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Bill Shaikin. Praeger, 1988
\nCall Number: GV722 1984 .S42 1988<\/p>\n

Triumph: the Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics
\n<\/em>By Jeremy Schaap. Houghton Mifflin, 2007
\nCall Number: GV697 .O9 S33 2007 (At Jupiter and Treasure Coast Campuses)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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