Books

Miquel de Moragas Spà, emeritus professor at the UAB and founder of the Center for Olympic and Sports Studies at the UAB, reflects, with twenty-five …

Television has turned the Olympic Games into the biggest sports show in the world and is its main source of income. This book reveals the …

The book Olympic Idea Nowadays : perceptions and insights offers a vision of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games in relation to the Olympic values system …

An Olympic Mosaic tackles Olympic studies from the wealth and interconnection of the different phenomena that constitute them: media and the new media, economics, legacy, …

The book Barcelona: l’herència dels Jocs (1992-2002) offers a collection of studies and accounts of the Barcelona’92 Olympic Games written on the 10th anniversary of …

  The results of the photojournalism and research project entitled Immigration: A New Cultural View of Sport were published in the form of a book …

The results of the research project funded by the Spanish National Sports Council in 2002, the aim of which was to examine, in depth, how …

The book contains edited proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB), held in November 2002 at the Olympic Museum Lausanne. …

The book is a compilation of papers presented at the symposium organised by the International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB) and the Olympic Museum Lausanne, held …

The book is a compilation of papers presented at the Symposium on Television in the Olympic Games organised by the IOC Radio and Television Commission …

The book contains a selection of debates and a compilation of papers presented at the 2nd Symposium of the International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB) on …

The book contains a selection of debates and a compilation of papers presented at the 1st Symposium of the International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB) on …

Barcelona is a city of sport. And of culture. An of civility. And of much more than we have been able to bring to the …

For decades, scholars have studied the Olympic Games – the history, the sports, the politics, the cultures, and the economics involved – in order to …

Resulting from a university research project, this book provides an analysis of three themes relating to economic aspects of the Barcelona Olympic Games: the economic …

This book about Olympia contains Greco-Latin writings from Classical antiquity. Olympia and the Olympic Games are viewed from the writings of over 100 Greek and …

“The universal and cyclical phenomenon of the Olympic Games has, since they first began, gone far beyond the elementary dimension of a sporting event. At …

“In this book, Miquel de Moragas, Professor of Communication Theory at the UAB, Director of the CEO-UAB and Advisor to the Catalan Communication Research Centre …

This book is a compilation of papers presented at the Symposium on Olympic Games, Communication and Cultural Exchanges: the experience of the last four Olympic …

Esport i mitjans de comunicació a Catalunya is the result of research undertaken by a Catalan group of investigators that specialises in analysing the growing …