Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul dimeo

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  • THE ANTI-DOPING CRISIS IN SPORT
    PAUL DIMEO / VERNER MØLLER
    The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won. In this critical and provocative study of anti-doping regimes in global sport, Paul Dimeo and Verner Møller argue that the current system is at a critical historical juncture. Reviewing the recent history of anti-doping, this book highlights serious problems in the a...

    $1,160.00

  • SOCCER IN SOUTH ASIA
    PAUL DIMEO
    The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian game are considered. Future scenarios are explored and models for progression and ...

    $1,420.00

  • DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND SPORT
    PAUL DIMEO
    The use of alcohol and drugs seems contradictory to the popular ideal of sport as a healthy moral and physical pursuit, and yet it has been present in sports culture since clubs first became the focus for competitive games and social gatherings. Charting the changing patterns of the use of drugs and alcohol since the nineteenth century, this is a critical history that relates s...

    $1,320.00

  • A HISTORY OF DRUG USE IN SPORT: 1876 - 1976
    PAUL DIMEO
    This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been the crisis or ‘evil’ we now think it is. Instead, the late nineteenth century was a time of some experimentation and innovation largely unhindered by talk of cheating or health risks. By the interwar period, experiments had been modernised in t...

    $1,420.00