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London, the City of Angels and Olympics

Author : Syrk
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466915986
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book London, the City of Angels and Olympics written by Syrk and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the next day, Granny and boys rushed towards the London Eye. Although cunningly planned to the last detail, the trip ended as nobody had intended. The life, as usual, had interfered with unexpected events. Yet Syrk is not the boy who would come to terms with any failure. He will pull out from any misfortune. Just watch him on the way to his greatness. Whats more, he is going to invite everybody to achieve this goal. During reading these books, you will grow your self-esteem, become aware that every moment of life with smile radiates sunshine to others. This is how to tighten family relationships and increase interpersonal skills backed up by pure intentions. Syrk remembers to share every useful advice with others, even at the moment of his personal distress. Books are motivational, creative; will pick you up instantly into higher vibration and mood. Pictures of Orbs and poetical inspiration bring for kids New Spirituality; increase inner light, awareness of angelic help available at every moment (thats true, Granny was able to thread the needle at first attempt without light at night, after successful sequence during afternoon and dusk). Our books guide you to spiritual life based on ethics & morals, acceptable by every religion; the Author intends to create one family on Earth, as everyone is equal a spark/part/cell of Gods ONE Body. Everyone is equal but before birth has chosen unique soul path; only there one can be truly happy and radiate joy. London, the City od Angels and Olympics will assure correct pattern of thinking and childs development. However, there is no illusion that life is easy, unless you take it easy by being able to transform every adversity into something beneficial. You may notice Bes and Syrk, even Granny the Angel, giving tips on denial, ego . . ., but at the same time, they all become victims of these human vices. The latter will always glide onto yur path as inseparable part of human growth. To notice these foibles and sins, you will have to try to be aware of them relentlessly, you will need to learn to be detached and watch yourself from higher perspective. And you need to learn to listen to your inner Self, to Angels, to your intuition and more then often you will need to invest Faith into the scene, but with practise you will learn when and how to discern. Books will also soar your spirit into higher frequency, whatever your age, as somebody said on amazon.es.com - it will pick you up instantly. These nonfiction, Self-Help books can be safely used as a tool for Personal Growth, as they are influenced by the wisdom of two Bibles: The Holy Bible and Christ Consciousness. The latter is a simplified version of A Course in Miracles the modern Bible dictated telepathically by Jesus to a Professor of Michigan University.

London, the City of Angels and Olympics

Author : Bes
Publisher : Bes & Syrk
ISBN 13 : 1469185954
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book London, the City of Angels and Olympics written by Bes and published by Bes & Syrk. This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was still daylight when we emerged from Underground and two police officers on horses were just passing us. "Let's follow them," said Granny, and then she whispered, "Everyone watching us may think that we are being escorted!" "What does it mean?" I was grateful that my younger brother asked this question. "It means that we are already so important!" Whoa! Imagine us: Granny in the middle-us leading her-her hands in our hands! You see, there were no hands free to take the picture of the whole scene.

LONDON, the City of Angels and Olympics

Author : Bes; Syrk
Publisher : Bes & Syrk
ISBN 13 : 1469138816
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book LONDON, the City of Angels and Olympics written by Bes; Syrk and published by Bes & Syrk. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That little mental exercise became our funny game and could have been continued without the end. We could invent something beneficial almost in every current discomfort, and find new opportunities sprouting from that not very pleasant condition. It is so easy; you can change everything on the spot by rearranging the point of view and allowing the brain to shoot a different thought. Make yourself bigger than your trouble, meet it with a smile, and watch it drop with the speed of avalanche, instead of tears down, down,,,, down. Obstacles – you are not going to threaten us!!! This is our new standpoint and we mean it!!!

London, the City of Angels and Olympics: Do Not Gamble

Author : Syrk
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469110768
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book London, the City of Angels and Olympics: Do Not Gamble written by Syrk and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 4 or 5, a tiny shy girl made a commitment to God that she would write books to influence the world. She has kept that moment in her memory being constantly aware of her broken promise. Now as her grandsons are at the same age, Granny decided to speak through them. Yet her greatest desire is that: May this book find its way into every pair of hands - from the age of 4 till 104. It will positively touch everybodys life.

London, the City of Angels and Olympics

Author : Bes
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469185962
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book London, the City of Angels and Olympics written by Bes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Olympic Cities

Author : John Gold
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021425
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Olympic Cities written by John Gold and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and much enlarged fourth edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides overviews of the urban legacy of the four component Olympic festivals: the Summer Games; Winter Games; Cultural Olympiads; and the Paralympics. The second part comprises systematic surveys of six key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics and Paralympics: finance; sustainability; the creation of Olympic Villages; security; urban regeneration; and tourism. The final part consists of ten chronologically arranged portraits of host cities from 1960 to 2032, with complete coverage of the Summer Games of the twenty-first century. As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics, with associated issues of democratic accountability and legacy, continues unabated, this book’s incisive and timely assessment of the Games’ development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading for a wide audience. This will include not just urban and sports historians, urban geographers, event managers, and city planners, but also anyone with an interest in the staging of mega-events and concerned with building a better understanding of the relationship between cities, sport, and culture.

City of Angels

Author : Cy Coleman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557830814
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book City of Angels written by Cy Coleman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Libretto Library). The libretto to the Tony winning musical featuring a book by Larry Gelbart, music by Cy Coleman, and lyrics by David Zippel. The book also includes an introduction by Larry Gelbart, illustrations by Al Hirschfeld, production photographs, and original costume designs.

Flyer

Author : Andrew White
Publisher : Fighting High Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838068767
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Flyer written by Andrew White and published by Fighting High Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain’s greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week. From a humble family background, he became a double Olympic medalist, European Champion, and Empire (Commonwealth) Champion; he also won the AAA 120 yards hurdles an unprecedented seven times in succession. Reporters ran out of superlatives to describe him. At the three Olympic Games in which he ran, he captained the British team twice, including the Berlin Games of 1936 in front of Adolf Hitler. An all-round sportsman, both track and field events came naturally to him as did football. He played for the country’s top amateur sides and turned out for Tottenham Hotspur in wartime matches. All the more remarkable is that Finlay competed at the very highest levels of international athletics at the same time as pursuing his demanding career as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot. Joining up as a boy apprentice in the mid-1920s, he qualified as a pilot before the start of the Second World War and found himself in the cockpit of a Supermarine Spitfire, commanding a squadron, during the Battle of Britain. Shot down and wounded in the Battle, he was soon back in the air and rose through the ranks to command a fighter wing in Burma, ending the war with several ‘kills’ to his name, as well as a Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Force Cross to add to the medals won under less lethal circumstances on the running track. As a commander, his insistence on strict discipline often led to conflict with his subordinates, but there is no doubt that his methods got results. After the war, still serving in the RAF, Don returned to competitive athletics and was as fast and successful, if not more so, than ever. By then he was in his 40s, but age was no barrier and several of his greatest hurdling victories came when others would have been long retired from the track, against athletes often twenty years his junior. Don Finlay’s life was to end prematurely, and under tragic circumstances, but his legacy lives on as one of the finest athletes ever to wear the vest of Great Britain, as well as one of ‘The Few’.

The Greatest Minor League

Author : Dennis Snelling
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488034
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Minor League written by Dennis Snelling and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, a small league in California defied Organized Baseball by adding teams in Portland and Seattle to become the strongest minor league of the twentieth century. Calling itself the Pacific Coast League, this outlaw association frequently outdrew its major league counterparts and continued to challenge the authority of Organized Baseball until the majors expanded into California in 1958. The Pacific Coast League introduced the world to Joe, Vince and Dom DiMaggio, Paul and Lloyd Waner, Ted Williams, Tony Lazzeri, Lefty O'Doul, Mickey Cochrane, Bobby Doerr, and many other baseball stars, all of whom originally signed with PCL teams. This thorough history of the Pacific Coast League chronicles its foremost personalities, governance, and contentious relationship with the majors, proving that the history of the game involves far more than the happenings in the American and National leagues.

LA Sports

Author : Wayne Wilson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756290
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book LA Sports written by Wayne Wilson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie and Mack Robinson, the importance of the Showtime Lakers, the origins of Muscle Beach and surfing, sport in Hollywood films, and more.

Dreamers and Schemers

Author : Barry Siegel
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520298586
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Dreamers and Schemers written by Barry Siegel and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) Garland, a prominent figure in early Los Angeles. In important respects, the story of Billy Garland is the story of Los Angeles. After arriving in Southern California in 1890, he and his allies drove much of the city’s historic expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then, from 1920 to 1932, he directed the city’s bid for the 1932 Olympic Games. Garland’s quest to host the Olympics provides an unusually revealing window onto a particular time, place, and way of life. Reconstructing the narrative from Garland’s visionary notion to its consequential aftermath, Barry Siegel shows how one man’s grit and imagination made California history.

Inventing Paradise

Author : Paul Haddad
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595807586
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Paradise written by Paul Haddad and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman. In the late 1870s, Los Angeles was a violent, dusty, 29-square-mile pueblo with a few thousand souls, largely unchanged since its founding in 1781. By 1930, its size had swelled to within 96% of its current 468 square miles, housing a staggering 1.2 million people. In just 50 years, L.A. had joined the ranks of other world-class cities. In the tradition of Mike Davis’s classic work City of Quartz, Paul Haddad (Freewaytopia and 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.) debunks many myths about the City of Angels with a wildly entertaining narrative that sheds new light on the fascinating birth of modern Los Angeles. Power came from a select few, whose triumphs, scandals, and correspondence are well documented in Inventing Paradise, along with other little-known facts about L.A. history, including: How Los Angeles Times chief Harry Chandler pushed eugenics and endorsed “white spots” Henry Huntington’s and Moses Sherman’s trolley systems and the extortion-type practices that led to their expansion When Los Angeles was so desperate for water, it hired a miracle worker who promised rain How L.A.’s power elite peddled the lie that the Owens River used to flow into Los Angeles and rightfully belonged to the city When Los Angeles annexed a city in which monkeys cast votes How Venice, California, was not the first Venice, California William Mulholland’s game-changing construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which raised the city’s population ceiling from 250,000 to 2.5 million Haddad also covers the heavy costs that came with creating paradise in such a short period of time, including car dependency, environmental problems, and deep-seated inequities between wealthy white Angelenos and people of color due to racist policies. All have left an imprint on present-day Los Angeles. Los Angeles is known as a city that should not exist—and yet it does. Through Inventing Paradise, Haddad shows readers that Los Angeles is not a paradise found, but a paradise that was willed into existence, owing to the collective vision of these six Gilded Era-born tycoons.

Passing the Baton

Author : Cat M. Ariail
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052366
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Passing the Baton written by Cat M. Ariail and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures—both white and Black—to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America's dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship. A rare exploration of African American women athletes and national identity, Passing the Baton reveals young Black women as active agents in the remaking of what it means to be American.

LONDON, the City of Angels and Olympics

Author : Bes; Syrk
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146690383X
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book LONDON, the City of Angels and Olympics written by Bes; Syrk and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granny invites brothers Bes and Syrk to London. It was a difficult decision but finally the boys agreed to travel intrigued by the description of black angels wielding black lamps to light London at night. Before their journey, the boys and Granny had made very strong commitments to be happy all the time. It is so easy; you can change anything on the spot, by allowing the brain to create another, more positive thought. They share tips how to sustain happy mood for good. This is how they intend to challenge every obstacle or discomfort – a game to entertain the brain: - This little mental exercise became our funny game and can be continued without end. We could invent something beneficial almost in every current discomfort, and find new opportunities sprouting from that not very pleasant condition. It is so easy; you can change everything on the spot by rearranging the point of view and allowing the brain to shoot a different thought. By BlueInk Review: “The authorship of London, the City of Angels and Olympics: Invitation to London is attributed to two young children, Bes and Syrk. The slim children’s book, illustrated with photos, seems to anticipate the boys’ journey to London to visit their grandmother and to celebrate both the city and the 2012 Olympics. The book also outlines the boys’ grandmother’s faith in angels, good deeds and positive energy. She believes that when we focus on good things in the world, the universe responds with a gift of even more positive energy. Good attracts good. On one level, the book seems to be an introduction to the delights of London: it outlines many of the city’s joys and attractions and invites readers to anticipate seeing them for themselves. The book also asks the reader to imagine the power of angels and good deeds in the world. To that end, simple interactive games are included in which the reader is asked to find angels’ orbs in photographs. The authors suggest that this playfully proves angels are always with us, looking over our shoulders and out for our good. London is an intimate celebration of a grandmother’s love for her grandchildren and a city she cherishes. It also wants to empower young children to take control of their behaviors and moods by focusing on the good in all things. While this message is worthy, it is unfortunate that the story is difficult for general readers to follow…” Well, we still invite readers to try their intelligence. In these series of books, we spread the message about everlasting presence of Divine energy, which always support everyone and slightly guide. According to guidance received by Granny, we passed the message that Olympics will be safe, no terrorist action would be successful (indeed miraculously prevented). We passed the message, that Cosmic Moment was a gate to greatest development on earth – at the time when the news about doomsday was being spread. “To that end, simple interactive games are included in which the reader is asked to find angels’ orbs in photographs” – this is not a game, Granny is not that dull – she just gives tiny hint where to look for subtle energy of Orbs, as their visibility during publishing is partly lost. In all books Syrk, the narrator, invites readers to come to London. Granny’s words are always in italics. Little Bes’s wisdom is distinctive thanks to quotation marks. In this way, we can avoid repetitive: she said, he answered… At present, after Olympics, Invitation to London becomes even a louder call for all people to visit London – the hero, the 12 star City of 2012 – to share great energy of celebration and success that will be anchored here forever.

SUMMER OLYMPICS

Author : NARAYAN CHANGDER
Publisher : CHANGDER OUTLINE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SUMMER OLYMPICS written by NARAYAN CHANGDER and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2024-02-04 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUMMER OLYMPICS MCQ (MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS) SERVES AS A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AIMING TO DEEPEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF VARIOUS COMPETITIVE EXAMS, CLASS TESTS, QUIZ COMPETITIONS, AND SIMILAR ASSESSMENTS. WITH ITS EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MCQS, THIS BOOK EMPOWERS YOU TO ASSESS YOUR GRASP OF THE SUBJECT MATTER AND YOUR PROFICIENCY LEVEL. BY ENGAGING WITH THESE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT, IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND LAY A SOLID FOUNDATION. DIVE INTO THE SUMMER OLYMPICS MCQ TO EXPAND YOUR SUMMER OLYMPICS KNOWLEDGE AND EXCEL IN QUIZ COMPETITIONS, ACADEMIC STUDIES, OR PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS. THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF EACH PAGE, MAKING IT EASY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO VERIFY THEIR ANSWERS AND PREPARE EFFECTIVELY.

Encyclopedia of World Sport

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195131959
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Sport written by David Levinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the wide world of sports, this volume is packed with every conceivable fact that anyone would possibly want to know about nearly 300 sports, including history and practice worldwide.

Racism and the Olympics

Author : Robert G. Weisbord
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412856345
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Racism and the Olympics written by Robert G. Weisbord and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports are the opiate of the people, particularly in the United States, Europe, and parts of South America. Globally, billions of fans feverishly focus on the summer and winter Olympics. In theory, international fraternalism is boosted by these “friendly competitions,” but often national rivalries eclipse the theoretical amity. How the Olympics have dealt with racism over the years offers a window to better understanding these dynamics. Since their revival in 1896, the modern Olympics have been periodically agitated by political and moral conundrums. Racial tensions, the topic of this volume, reached their apex under the polarizing presidency of Avery Brundage. Race in sports cannot be disentangled from societal problems, nor can race or sports be fully understood separately. Racial conflict must be contextualized. Racism and the Olympics explores the racial landscape against which a number of major disputes evolved. The book covers various topics and events in history that portray discrimination within Olympic games, such as the Nazi games of 1936, the black American protest on the victory stand in Mexico City’s Olympics, as well as international political forces that removed South Africa and Rhodesia from the Olympics. Robert G. Weisbord considers the role of international politics and the criteria that should be used to determine nations that are selected to take part in and serve as venues for the Olympic Games.