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

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This book includes a very strong collection of original case studies addressing two key themes of the impact of neo-liberalism on union-state relations

Bereavement

This chapter considers advances in the development and utilization of fruit tree rootstocks using apple as a case study

The first comprehensive study of all of Jackson's fiction

When his body is returned to his hometown for his burial

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Marxism is institutionalized

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and the history of ideas

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