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Author : Bŭlgarski olimpiĭski komitet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Why Will Not Bulgaria Participate in the 1984 Olympic Games written by Bŭlgarski olimpiĭski komitet and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip D’Agati
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137360259
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Games written by Philip D’Agati and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles. Using IR framework, D'Agati developes and argues for the concept of surrogate wars as an alternative means for conflict between states.
Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442248602
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement written by John Grasso and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that time. The Games were conducted as religious celebrations in honor of the god Zeus, and it is known that Olympia was a shrine to Zeus from about 1000 B.C. In modern time The Olympic Movement attempts to bring all the nations of the world together in a series of multisport festivals, the Olympic Games, seeking to use sport as a means to promote internationalism and peace. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on the history, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics, major organizations, the various sports, the participating countries, and especially the athletes. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about The Olympic Movement.
Author : J A Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135261385
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Sport in Europe written by J A Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe. As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its relationshop with politics, gender and class.
Author : The New York Times
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 1603763287
Total Pages : 1055 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)
Download or read book New York Times: The Times of the Eighties written by The New York Times and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 1055 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From our nation's best source of in-depth daily reporting comes this sweeping retrospective of the news, culture, and personalities of the decade of the 1980s, as told through hundreds of handselected articles and compelling original commentary in this unique and fascinating book. There is no better record of history than the archives of The New York Times. Now, more than 200 articles from the great decade of the 1980s are culled from these archives and carefully curated, by editor and Times writer William Grimes, to create one complete, compelling, historical and nostalgic collection. Organized by sections such as politics, business, science & health, sports, arts & entertainment, food, obituaries, and more, The Times of the Eighties covers the biggest stories that shaped the 1980s. Articles include coverage of historic events like Wall Street's "Black Monday," the Iran-Contra scandal, Tiananmen Square, the Challenger disaster, the Human Genome Project, the collapse of communism, and the introduction of the personal computer by IBM; cultural highlights like the launch of MTV, Ted Turner's establishment of CNN, the Cabbage Patch doll craze, reviews of movies like E.T., Terminator, Raging Bull, and Tootsie, and features on musicians like Michael Jackson, Joan Jett, U2, Wham, Blondie, and more; plus pieces on personalities like Mikhail Gorbachev, Princess Diana, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pete Rose, Bill Cosby, and more. The stories are penned by well-known Times writers like William Safire, Frank Rich, Anna Quindlen, Serge Schmemann, Russell Baker, Nan C. Robertson, Thomas L. Friedman, Linda Greenhouse, Bill Keller, Clyde Haberman, Paul Goldberger, Francis X. Clines, John Noble Wilford, Nicholas Kristof, Fox Butterfield, John Rockwell, Anthony Lewis, and many more. Grimes guides readers through the articles he's selected with commentary that puts the stories into historical context and explores the impact that these events and individuals eventually had on the future. Hundreds of color photographs from the Times and other sources illuminate the stories throughout.
Author : Paul Close
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113424889X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Beijing Olympiad written by Paul Close and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stage is set for the Beijing Olympiad to be the greatest mega-event, sporting or otherwise, in history. Still, the issues taxing many minds include whether the Beijing Games will be successful; whether they will be wrought with and wrecked by troubles; and who they will benefit. What value will the 2008 Games be to the people of China? Will they mainly serve the purposes of the dominant political, economic and cultural groups at and between the local, regional and global levels of modern social life? The Beijing Olympiad examines these among other questions, providing a range of original insights of interest to an array of scholars, researchers and students from Sports Studies to Sociology, Politics, Economics, International Relations and Legal Studies.
Author : Kim Un-yong
Publisher : Seoul Selection
ISBN 13 : 1624121403
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (241 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Olympics written by Kim Un-yong and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Olympics It calls 1988 Seoul Olympics as the greatest Olympics. The author, the Former IOC Vice President Kim Un-yong in his book, calls the 24th Seoul Olympics as the greatest festival of mankind. He says Seoul Olympics put the Olympic Games on a right track, contributing to the development and democratization of Korea. He further says the Seoul Games will be recorded in history as the Games which gave desire and hope to Eastern European countries.
Author : H. P. Willmott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Clausewitz Reconsidered written by H. P. Willmott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book assesses Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitz's famous theory on warfare in relation to historical and modern-day conflictand future trends. Carl von Clausewitz's On War is arguably the most important single work ever written on the theory of warfare and military strategy. In Clausewitz Reconsidered, two prominent military historians assess his theories, examining their viability at a time when asymmetric warfare and "war" conducted by and against nonstate actors is increasingly common and state control often ephemeral. The basis of the book's analysis is an examination of war over the last four centuries, since the Thirty Years' War, including the Cold War and subsequent conflicts. What is discovered is that war is far more endemic and brutal today than when Clausewitz tried to explain it. This volume explores that paradox and shows that if anything, we can anticipate further uncontrolled violence. The authors conclude that Clausewitz and On War have assumed a status akin to holy writ, but are obviously dated. The aim of Clausewitz Reconsidered is to bring the master's theories up to date, providing the current generation with a new basis for thought and analysis.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Korea Newsreview written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lester Brune
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000143724
Total Pages : 1507 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Chronology of the Cold War written by Lester Brune and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 1507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just a timeline, the Chronology of the Cold War is in-depth chronological narrative organized into sections. Each section carries a clear date and summary heading. The five major sections are I. Cold Peace, 1917-1940 II. The Strange Alliance, 1941-1945 III. Containment and Détente, 1946-1975 IV. Confrontation & Conciliation, 1976-1991 V. Epilogue Based on sections of the Chronological History of U.S. Foreign Relations (Routledge 2003), the book includes significant additional material on Russia, China, arms control, and the Cold War in the Third World. This easy-to-use reference also includes an introductory section reviewing the history leading up to the Cold War from 1917 to 1945, a general bibliography of resources on the Cold War and is illustrated with photographs from presidential libraries and 18 maps.
Author : Mary Ellen Williams
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578114461
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)
Download or read book TRIUMPH: Inspired by the true life story of legendary Coach Kay Yow written by Mary Ellen Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRIUMPH is an inspiring true-life story of a girl from a small town who became a world renowned legend. It begins in a time and place where women had few options and sports were a man's world. As a child Kay loved playing basketball but like many young women of that time she anticipated life as a teacher. Through the encouragement of her parents and principal, she changed her expectations and raised the bar on what women could accomplish. Kay defied these limitations to become a successful Basketball coach, a hall of fame inductee, and an Olympic gold coach. With her many successes there would be even bigger challenges. Her fiercest opponent would become her ongoing battle with breast cancer. Coach Yow faced these trials head on with grace, dignity, and her deep faith. Kay's love of people, her sense of humor, and her undying hope were contagious. She believed "When Life Kicks You, Let it Kick You Forward." This story will inspire you, give hope to you and let you find the hidden hero within yourself.
Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810878674
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Boxing written by John Grasso and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport since – to avoid unnecessary harm – it has been endowed with rules to keep it clean, referees to see the rules are obeyed, and organizations to regulate the sport. Boxing was once largely amateur, although the professional bouts attracted the most attention, but now it is also an Olympic sport. And, over the years, there has been one champion after another who symbolized what boxing was all about, such Joe Louis, Mohammad Ali and Cassius Clay. Naturally, these champions are the focus of the Historical Dictionary of Boxing as well, and they have the biggest entries in the dictionary section, but they had to fight against someone and there are dozens and dozens of other boxers with smaller entries. More of these boxers come from the United States than elsewhere, but there are others from Europe, Asia and Latin America, and there are also entries on the major boxing countries as well. Plus entries on the rules, on the organizations, and on the technical terminology and jargon you have to know just to follow the bouts. The introduction provides a broad view of boxing’s history while the chronology traces events from 688 B.C. to 2012 A.D. Not all that much has been written on boxing that is not ephemeral, but much of that literature can be found in the bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of boxing.
Author : Edmund Jan Osmańczyk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415939218
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: A to F written by Edmund Jan Osmańczyk and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and updated edition is the most comprehensive and detailed reference ever published on United Nations. The book demystifies the complex workings of the world's most important and influential international body.
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Total Pages : 1154 pages
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Author : Paula Edelson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438107897
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book A to Z of American Women in Sports written by Paula Edelson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents biographical profiles of important women in sports history, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.
Author : Juliana Tzvetkova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440844666
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Pop Culture in Europe written by Juliana Tzvetkova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating survey of popular culture in Europe, from Celtic punk and British TV shows to Spanish fashion and Italian sports. From One Direction and Adele to Penelope Cruz and Alexander Skarsgard, many Europeans are becoming household names in the United States. This ready-reference guide covers international pop culture spanning music, literature, movies, television and radio, the Internet, sports, video games, and fashion, from the mid-20th century through the present day. The organization of the book—with entries arranged alphabetically within thematic chapters—allows readers to quickly find the topic they are seeking. Additionally, indexing allows for cross-cultural comparisons to be made between pop culture in Europe to that of the United States. An extensive chronology and lengthy introduction provide important contextual information, such as the United States' influence on movies, music, and the Internet; the effect of censorship on Internet and social media use; and the history of pop culture over the years. Topics feature key musicians, songs, books, actors and actresses, movies and television shows, popular websites, top athletes, games, clothing fads and designers, and much more.
Author : Edmund Jan Osmańczyk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415939232
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: N to S written by Edmund Jan Osmańczyk and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and updated edition is the most comprehensive and detailed reference ever published on United Nations. The book demystifies the complex workings of the world's most important and influential international body.
