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The Pentathlon of the Ancient World

Author : Frank Zarnowski
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786467835
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Pentathlon of the Ancient World written by Frank Zarnowski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pentathlon, comprising competition in the discus, javelin, long jump, sprint, and wrestling, was hailed as the ultimate test of athletic versatility and remained a staple of the ancient Greek Olympic Games, Crown Games and Pan-Hellenic festivals for 1,200 years. Still, there is little scholarly consensus over many major aspects of the event. This detailed exploration of the ancient pentathlon discusses the nature of the spectacle, the method of determining a victor, the five sub-events and the order in which they occurred. It also chronicles the history of the event and its champions, the recognition of ancient pentathletes, and the pentathlon's 18-year modern Olympic history and its influence on its contemporary counterpart, the decathlon. A record book and glossary complete this fresh look at one of the ancient world's most renowned sporting competitions.

Assembly

Author : West Point Association of Graduates (Organization).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assembly written by West Point Association of Graduates (Organization). and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sports

Author : François Fortin
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9781552978078
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Sports written by François Fortin and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and numerous color graphics illustrate the equipment, techniques, rules, and history of 127 sports.

Athletics in the Ancient World

Author : E. Norman Gardiner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486424866
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Athletics in the Ancient World written by E. Norman Gardiner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text focuses mostly on athletics in classical Greece and Rome, emphasizing the relationship between athletics and religion, art, and education. Also discussed are such events as throwing the discus and javelin, the pentathlon, the stadium and the foot-race, jumping, wrestling, boxing, ball play, and a Greek athletic festival. According to the Times (London) Literary Supplement, the book "should command the attention not only of classical scholars but of all who are interested in athletics for their own sake; and for such readers, [the author] has spared no pains to make his work intelligible." Unabridged republication of Athletics of the Ancient World, originally published by the Oxford University Press, London, 1930. 137 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography. Index and Glossary.

The Republican Advocate

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Republican Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece

Author : Waldo E. Sweet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019536483X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece written by Waldo E. Sweet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-10-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at readers of all levels--from student to classics buff to serious scholars--this sourcebook looks at sport and recreation in ancient Greece through translated accounts of ancient Greek and Latin authors. It examines such diversions as the ancient Olympic Games, athletic clothing, women in sports, dining, dancing, and fishing. Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece offers a wide range of topics geared to students' interests, new translations into readable English that facilitate their introduction to the subject, and a rich assortment of illustrations. The questions following each translation help students understand the passages, while the presentation of contradictory evidence challenges them to evaluate different points of view, both in the study of ancient culture and in their own daily lives. Successfully tested in college classrooms for a ten years, this book provides an excellent springboard for the study of ancient Greek history, classical literature, or sports history.

Soldiers

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sport and the Emancipation of European Women

Author : Gigliola Gori
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134932499
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Sport and the Emancipation of European Women written by Gigliola Gori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and the Emancipation of European Women: the Struggle for Self-fulfilment explores the contributions of European women to the emancipation of women worldwide. It expands understanding of the need for their attitudes and actions and celebrates their achievements in freeing the female body from unwarranted political, cultural and social restraint in the courageous pursuit of the Enlightenment 's ' secular value system: ‘the unity of mankind and basic personal freedoms and {a} world of tolerance, knowledge, education and opportunity' (from Roy Porter, Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World, 2004). The Collection records the pulling down of European barriers via sport to women’s realisation of ability and release of talent and their conquest of crushing inhibitions, inexcusable irrationality, intolerable prejudice and denial of opportunity : no barriers came down without confrontation. The struggle to overthrow prejudice set for the first time in the context of recent European history and the recent evolution of European sport, is described in this pioneering Collection. It is the first publication to focus specifically on European women and their struggle for emancipation via sport. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Sport, Militarism and the Great War

Author : Thierry Terret
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135760950
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Sport, Militarism and the Great War written by Thierry Terret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in post-war European culture. Both are neglected topics. Sport, Militarism and the Great War deals with four significant aspects of the relationship between sport and war before, during and immediately after the 1914-1918 conflict. First, it explores the creation and consolidation of the cult of martial heroism and chivalric self-sacrifice in the pre-war era. Second, it examines the consequences of the mingling of soldiers from various nations on later sport. Third, it considers the role of the Great War in the transformation of the leisure of the masses. Finally, it examines the links between war, sport and male socialisation. The Great War contributed to a redefinition of European masculinity in the post-war period. The part sport played in this redefinition receives attention. Sport, Militarism and the Great War is in two parts: the Continental (Part I) and the "Anglo-Saxon" (Part II). No study has adopted this bilateral approach to date. Thus, in conception and execution, it is original. With its originality of content and the approaching centenary of the advent of the Great War in 2014, it is anticipated that the book will capture a wide audience. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

The 1912 Olympic Games

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476609535
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The 1912 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-16 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most "modern" Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern Era to that date. Much of the success is credited to the influence of Viktor Balck, who is remembered as "The Father of Swedish Sports." The 1912 Olympics also featured new innovations and events. A semiautomatic electrical timing device and a photo-finish camera were used, and the decathlon and modern pentathalon were new events. This work, the sixth in a series on the early Olympics, provides unusually extensive information on the sites, dates, competitors, and nations of the Stockholm games. Results for each event, including cycling, diving, fencing, rowing and sculling, shooting, tennis, water polo, and yachting, among others, are provided.

Encyclopedia of International Games

Author : Daniel Bell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615276
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of International Games written by Daniel Bell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympic Games, revived in 1896, are the most well known international multisport gathering--but since 1896, hundreds of other competitions based on the Olympic Games model have been established whose histories have not been well documented. The Encyclopedia of International Games captures (in one alphabetical sequence) the histories of these games, many of them for the first time. The work includes major regional events such as the African, Asian, Arab, South Pacific, and Pan American Games; competitions such as the Indian Ocean Island Games, Arctic Winter Games, Island Games, and Games of the Small Countries of Europe; specific populations or professions such as the North American Indigenous Games, Maccabiah Games, World Military Games, World Police and Fire Games, and World Medical and Health Games; and Special Olympics, the Paralympics, games for the blind, and other regional games. Eight appendices, notes, bibliography, index.

As Good as Gold

Author : Kathryn Bertine
Publisher : ESPN
ISBN 13 : 1933060735
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book As Good as Gold written by Kathryn Bertine and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine George Plimpton. Except with real athletic ability. And he’s a woman. And she’s taken on a challenge that makes Paper Lion look like a brisk game of Go Fish. Meet Kathryn Bertine, elite triathlete, former professional figure skater, and starving artist. Just as her personal and professional dreams begin to crumble in the summer of 2006, ESPN stakes her to a dream: Take two years to make the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. As Good As Gold is the heroic, hilarious account of Bertine’s serial exertions in the realms of triathlon, modern pentathlon, team handball, track cycling, road cycling, rowing, open water swimming, racewalking, and—fasten your seatbelts—luge. On her journey, the obstacles range from jet lag to jellyfish, flat tires to floundering relationships, repeated rejection to road rash. But, as time is running out, Bertine doesn’t sweat the small stuff, only the large—like scouring the globe for a tiny nation to adopt her, and pushing her body and mind as far as it will go. Maybe all the way to China. Between harrowing, often laugh-out-loud episodes of triumph and humiliation, Bertine takes short “Water Breaks” to contemplate the ins-and-outs of fan mail, failure, rehydration, nasal reconstruction, and how best to punish steroid users. Kathryn Bertine swims, runs, and rides—and writes—like a champion. In As Good as Gold, Bertine proves she has something more valuable than an Olympic medal. She’s got Olympic mettle. When it comes to the human heart, she takes the gold.

Letting Good Things Run Wild

Author : Greg Gilbaugh
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631957600
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Letting Good Things Run Wild written by Greg Gilbaugh and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, yet powerful resource that integrates personal faith with business interests to help readers deepen their faith while building a better business.

Pindar: Nemean and Isthmian Odes

Author : Pindar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108030033
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Pindar: Nemean and Isthmian Odes written by Pindar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1883 and revised in 1899, this edition is full of practical help for understanding the texts.

Olympism, Olympic Education and Learning Legacies

Author : Dikaia Chatziefstathiou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443862312
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Olympism, Olympic Education and Learning Legacies written by Dikaia Chatziefstathiou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is largely a collection of the papers presented at the symposium Olympism, Olympic Education and Learning Legacies, organised by the Comité Internationale Pierre de Coubertin (CIPC). It was held during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent, United Kingdom. The symposium drew together presenters and audience members from twenty-five nations on four continents to discuss current and future challenges of education and the Olympic Movement. While most books on the Olympics focus on economic issues or on aspects related to the management of the Games (such as legacies and impacts), this book remains faithful to Coubertin’s original vision about youth, sport and education. Olympism as a philosophical and educational idea is analysed in particular detail. Coubertin’s thoughts play a central role in many of the contributions of leading academics in the field, while historical perspectives unveil new insights. Young researchers are given a platform to publish their own accounts in interpreting the Olympics. The different insights of the book have something to offer to anyone with an interest in sport, education, and the Olympic Movement, either as a student, teacher, academic, athlete, coach or spectator.

Armed Forces Talk

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Armed Forces Talk written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pindar: the Nemean and Isthmian odes

Author : Pindar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Pindar: the Nemean and Isthmian odes written by Pindar and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: