Stadium engineering

Table of Contents: “…Site appraisal / Tim Chapman -- Sustainable development : a strategy for the steel construction sector / Graham Raven -- Steel in stadium engineering / Peter Culley and John Pascoe -- Façade engineering : steel and glass façades / Roger Howick -- Detailing / Peter Culley and John Pascoe -- Blast engineering in sports stadia / Jurek Tolloczko -- Fire engineering in sports stadia / John Dowling, Brian Kirby, Ian Smith and Mick Green -- Dynamic performance of stands / Michael Willford -- Acoustics / Jim Griffiths -- Sight lines and seating / Peter Culley and John Pascoe -- Under terrace accommodation / Peter Culley and John Pascoe -- Stadium circulation / Allan Gooch -- Suites and club-type facilities / Peter Culley and John Pascoe -- Crowd safety and control / Gordon Harris -- Climate control / Peter Culley and John Pascoe -- Stadium signage / Peter Culley and John Pascoe -- Symbiosis between nature and advanced technologies / Kisho Kurokawa -- Case studies -- Design and construction of the Millennium Stadium roof, Cardiff -- Horseracing, Newmarket -- The construction of the City of Manchester Stadium roof -- The steel roof of No. 1 Tennis Court Stadium at Wimbledon AELTCC…”

21st century sports how technologies will change sports in the digital age

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- How technologies impact sports in the digital age -- Taxonomy of sportstech -- How Thesis Driven Innovation Radars could benefit the sports industry -- II. …”

Terror in France the rise of jihad in the west by Kepel, Gilles, Jardin, Antoine, 1985-

Japan through the lens of the Tokyo Olympics

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Japan through the lens of Tokyo 2020 / Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger -- Olympics and the media / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Skateboarding: "F*** the Olympics" / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Political games / Axel Klein -- Number games: The economic impact of Tokyo 2020 / Franz Waldenberger -- Climbing: New sport on the block / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Advertising the games: Sponsoring a new era / Isaac Gagné -- Karate: Bowing to the Olympics in style / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Herculean efforts: What the construction of the Olympic Stadium reveals about working conditions in Japan / Steffen Heinrich -- Tokyo 2020 and neighborhood transformation: Reworking the entrepreneurial city / Ralph Lützeler -- Ho(s)t city: Tokyo's fight against the summer heat / Jan Lukas Kuhn -- Tokyo's architecture and urban structure: Change in an ever-changing city / Florian Purkarthofer -- Success story: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics / Torsten Weber -- San'ya 2020: From building to hosting the Tokyo Olympics / Hanno Jentzsch -- Baseball/softball: One more homer for Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Outdoor sports in the periphery: Far from the compact games / Daniel Kremers -- Surfing: Taken with a grain of salt / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Tokyo's 1940 "Phantom Olympics" in public memory: When Japan chose war over the Olympics / Torsten Weber -- Upgrading Tokyo's linguistic infrastructure for the 2020 Games / Peter Backhaus -- Sexual minorities and the Olympics / Maki Hirayama -- The Paralympic Games: Enabling sports and empowering disability / Katharina Heyer -- Sex in the city / Maki Hirayama -- Games of Romance? …”