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Book Synopsis Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996 by :
Download or read book Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996 written by and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 100 years at regular four year intervals, the summer and winter Olympic games have taken place. Whatever political or economic crises may have occured, athletes from every continent have come together regularly for peaceful competition among nations. Only the two World Wars have stopped the Games from taking place.
Book Synopsis Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996 by : DK Publishing, Inc
Download or read book Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996 written by DK Publishing, Inc and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: strive to break records and win the gold. The unique chronological format takes readers back in time--as though they were reading a daily newspaper. Inlcudes more than 800 color illustrations and photos.
Book Synopsis Official Commemorative Book of the Centennial Olympic Games by : David Miller
Download or read book Official Commemorative Book of the Centennial Olympic Games written by David Miller and published by Woodford Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A day-by-day chronicle of the Games of the XXVIth Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 13 to August 4, 1996.
Book Synopsis The 1896 Olympic Games by : Bill Mallon
Download or read book The 1896 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, much of the world watched and celebrated as athletes broke world records and took home medals, fulfilling their Olympic dreams. The athletes’ scores were available instantaneously and are now easily accessible, but what about the performance records of the first modern Olympic athletes? The Modern Olympic Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece, but an official record of these Olympic games does not exist. This work is the first in a series of comprehensive reference works giving the results of the Olympic Games, beginning in 1896. Based primarily on 1896 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for track and field, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis (lawn), weightlifting, wrestling and other sports and events. Although mainly a statistical analysis, this work does include a short synopsis of the Sorbonne Congress and reprints of famous articles about the Olympics.
Book Synopsis Lindbergh's Artificial Heart by : Steve Silverman
Download or read book Lindbergh's Artificial Heart written by Steve Silverman and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents strange-but-true stories from history and science about such topics as the artificial heart invented by aviator Charles Lindbergh, dead whale disposal, the study of nose picking, and a man who makes instruments from burned wooden matchsticks.
Book Synopsis The First Modern Olympics by : Richard D. Mandell
Download or read book The First Modern Olympics written by Richard D. Mandell and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modem Olympic Games were held in Athens in April of 1896, and this volume is a description of the sporting and festive events of that occasion, with a large cast of athletes from various countries, including a contingent from Harvard and Princeton who won the hearts of the Athenians as they won most of the first place-medals. But the book is much more than a tale of athletes and organizers. We are given the first real insight into the birth of the modern Olympic movement, and into the personality of a French aristocrat, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, whose vision determined much of the form of international sport today. The author shows that although the modern Olympics have a sentimental bond with the ancient festival, the modern Games are a product of nineteenth century ideals, excesses, and ambitions. Richard Mandell has dispelled some myths, rediscovered forgotten sport heroes, and written a highly readable account of a landmark in modern sport history.
Book Synopsis Olympic Women and the Media by : P. Markula
Download or read book Olympic Women and the Media written by P. Markula and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualization, nationalism, success, failure and the [in]visibility of women athletes in newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the USA.
Book Synopsis The Entertainment Industry by : Michael J. Haupert
Download or read book The Entertainment Industry written by Michael J. Haupert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to imagine a day passing without most Americans enjoying some form of entertainment, whether it's going to a football game, watching television at home, or listening to the radio on the way to work. At the start of the 20th century, however, the only form of entertainment was live theater. With the advent of radio, television, and ultimately the internet, entertainment could be found in our homes, quite literally at our fingertips. As American society changed and the economy grew over the 20th century, the entertainment industry evolved from vaudeville theater to big screen movies to DVDs playing in the living room. This book focuses on popular American entertainment that both appeals to and is accessible to the masses. Six forms of entertainment are covered: vaudeville, recorded sound, radio, movies, television, and spectator sports. Some forms of entertainment have changed considerably throughout the years, while others have disappeared all together as technology allowed new ones to take their place, but the desire of people to be entertained has not waned. Concepts, organizations, and individuals such as the jukebox, the Screen Actors Guild, Ted Turner, satellite television, free agents, Charlie Chaplin, made-for-TV movies, iPod, Superbowl commercials, vaudeville circuits, Columbia, FCC, Hollywood, Title IX, Amos and Andy, MTV, and the Palace Theater, among many others, are discussed. Ideal for students and general readers interested in the development and history of one of the largest and most lucrative industries today. Biographies of notable individuals in the entertainment industry and suggestions for further reading are included.
Download or read book Offside written by Andrei S. Markovits and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does most of the world ignore American sports in return? Offside is the first book to explain these peculiarities, taking us on a thoughtful and engaging tour of America's sports culture and connecting it with other fundamental American exceptionalisms. In so doing, it offers a comparative analysis of sports cultures in the industrial societies of North America and Europe. The authors argue that when sports culture developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nativism and nationalism were shaping a distinctly American self-image that clashed with the non-American sport of soccer. Baseball and football crowded out the game. Then poor leadership, among other factors, prevented soccer from competing with basketball and hockey as they grew. By the 1920s, the United States was contentedly isolated from what was fast becoming an international obsession. The book compares soccer's American history to that of the major sports that did catch on. It covers recent developments, including the hoopla surrounding the 1994 soccer World Cup in America, the creation of yet another professional soccer league, and American women's global preeminence in the sport. It concludes by considering the impact of soccer's growing popularity as a recreation, and what the future of sports culture in the country might say about U.S. exceptionalism in general.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Materials Selection by : Myer Kutz
Download or read book Handbook of Materials Selection written by Myer Kutz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-07-22 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erstmals in einem Band werden Werkstoffe hier (in zwei getrennten Systemen) sowohl nach ihrer technischen Anwendung als auch nach ihren Eigenschaften geordnet. - Benutzer können deshalb zunächst nach der Gruppe von Materialen suchen, die für eine spezielle Anwendung geeignet sind, und anschließend Details über jedes einzelne Material finden - Suchkriterien sind Eigenschaften wie Wärmeleitfähigkeit, optisches Reflexionsvermögen, Elastizität usw. und Anwendungsgebiete wie Bauwesen, Biomedizin, Fahrzeugbau, Luftfahrttechnik, Elektrotechnik usw. - berücksichtigt werden sowohl herkömmliche Werkstoffe (Eisen- und Nichteisenmetalle, Kunststoffe, Klebstoffe) als auch Kompositwerkstoffe und synthetische Materialen wie Laminate, Fasern und Keramiken
Download or read book History Behind the Headlines written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides background information on long-term ethnic, religious, political, territorial and economic conflicts between nations today.
Download or read book Athens 1896-1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis America's Olympic Summer: Reflecting U.S. Values by :
Download or read book America's Olympic Summer: Reflecting U.S. Values written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Olympics in Athens 1896 by : Michael Llewellyn Smith
Download or read book Olympics in Athens 1896 written by Michael Llewellyn Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and entertaining work of history, Olympics in Athens 1896 brings together the following intriguing strands: the rise of amateur athletics in competing countries, each with its own particular stamp; the enormous interest aroused by the excavation of ancient Olympia, the site of the ancient Games; the determination of the eccentric French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin to embody the amateur athletic ideal in a revival of the Games; and a perception by politicians and the Greek royal family that hosting Coubertin's Games could help to put the young Greek state on the European map.
Book Synopsis Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-2000 by :
Download or read book Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-2000 written by and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicle of the Olympics is a comprehensive record of the last 100 years of the modern Olympic Games. Organized chronologically, the book takes an in-depth look at each Summer and Winter Games in turn. Chronicle of the Olympics is also an excellent instant reference source, featuring a complete listing of all the competitive events and medalists since the beginning of the Games. More than 100,000 words chart the complete story of the Olympic Games from Athens 1896 to Atlanta 1996; 750 photographs capture the key dramatic sporting moments as they happened; reveals the inside story of the Games - the hidden rivalries, the boycotts, the individual triumphs and tragedies; and features a comprehensive appendix, listing all the medalists since the beginning of the Games.
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sports, Exercise, and Fitness by : Mary Beth Allen
Download or read book Sports, Exercise, and Fitness written by Mary Beth Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For reference librarians and researchers seeking information on sports and fitness, this guide is an important first stop. For collection development specialists, it is an invaluable selection guide. Allen describes and evaluates over 1,000 information sources on the complete spectrum of sports: from basketball, football, and hockey to figure skating, table tennis, and weight training. Focusing on English-language works published between 1990 and the present, the guide thoroughly covers traditional reference sources, such as encyclopedias and bibliographies, along with instructional sources in print formats, online databases, and Web sites. To enable users in search of information on specific sports or fitness activities, chapters are organized thematically, according to broad- type aquatic sports, nautical sports, precision and accuracy, racket sports, ice and snow sports, ball sports, cycling, and so on, with subcategories for such individual sports as soccer, golf, and yoga. Within these categories, works are further organized by type: reference, instructional, and Web sites.
