Global Games

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252026546
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Games by : Maarten van Bottenburg

Download or read book Global Games written by Maarten van Bottenburg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and coherent account of the social significance and the politics underlying sports, Global Games demonstrates that sports are not a trivial pursuit but are deeply embedded in the way individuals and nations wish to be perceived. Book jacket.

Car Safety Wars

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611477468
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Car Safety Wars by : Michael R. Lemov

Download or read book Car Safety Wars written by Michael R. Lemov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.

The Universal Code of Signals for the Mercantile Marine of All Nations

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Total Pages : 446 pages
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I Lay This Body Down

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820368199
Total Pages : 253 pages
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Book Synopsis I Lay This Body Down by : Lonneke Geerlings

Download or read book I Lay This Body Down written by Lonneke Geerlings and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosey E. Pool (1905–71) did not live an ordinary life. She witnessed the rise of the Nazis in Berlin firsthand, tutored Anne Frank, operated in a Jewish resistance group, escaped from a Nazi transit camp, published African American poets in Europe, operated a London “salon” with her partner, witnessed independence movements in Nigeria and Senegal, and took part in the American civil rights movement. I Lay This Body Down is the first study of Pool and her remarkable transatlantic life. A translator, educator, and anthologist of African American poetry, Pool corresponded, after World War II, with Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Naomi Long Madgett, Owen Dodson, Gordon Heath, and others who fostered her involvement in the Black Arts Movement, both in Britain and the United States. Though Pool was often cast as an outsider—one poet was amazed that “one so removed” was interested in the Black cause—she saw herself as part of a transatlantic struggle against oppression. For Pool, the “yellow Jew stars” the Nazis forced her to wear “were our darker skins.” Rosey E. Pool’s life allows Lonneke Geerlings to explore intersections of European and American history. As a Holocaust survivor and activist fighting against segregation in the Deep South, Pool connects stories that are often studied and told in isolation. Her life helps us understand the intersecting histories of Jewish Europe and Black America, but it also allows us to see how Pool dealt with tragedy, trauma, and loss. At its core, this book is about resilience and hope. Indeed, Pool’s life illuminates the power of reinvention for dealing with both challenging personal circumstances and the traumas of global history.

No Accident

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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554589657
Total Pages : 499 pages
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Book Synopsis No Accident by : Neil Arason

Download or read book No Accident written by Neil Arason and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada’s roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each person’s safety is dependent on a system in which millions of drivers must drive perfectly over billions of hours behind the wheel, failure on a massive scale has been the result. When we neglect the central role of the motor vehicle as a dangerous consumer product, the result is one of the largest human-made means for physically assaulting human beings. It is time for Canadians to embrace internationally recognized ways of thinking and enter an era in which the motor vehicle by-product of human carnage is relegated to history. No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies such as radar and camera-based sensors on vehicles that prevent crashes. This multi-disciplinary study demystifies the world of road safety and provides a road map for the next twenty years.

The Unknown Eros

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
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America's National Game

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Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849658724
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Book Synopsis America's National Game by : Albert G. Spalding

Download or read book America's National Game written by Albert G. Spalding and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in great demand by baseball enthusiasts. Having been connected with every department of the game from player to magnate, Mr. Spalding has contributed a very important work to the game's history. As the invincible pitcher of the Boston Club, previous to the formation of the National League, his book of so many pages is an interesting record of events dating from the beginning of the great American pastime. It is not exactly a history of the game, but deals largely with incidents during the author's career, who was a player in the late 1860s and early 1870s, and helped organize the National League in 1876. One chapter, devoted to sundry topics, gives an account of the sale of the immortal "King Kelly," the original "$10,000 beauty," by Chicago to the Boston Club in the late 1880s. Other Chapters are devoted to the literature of the game, quoting several instances of the baseball paragrapher's art and also specimens of the distinct poetry of the pastime, of which "Casey at the Bat" is probably the most widely known. The Cincinnati Red Stockings Mr. Spalding gives credit as being the pioneer professional organization. It was not, however, until 1871 that professional baseball playing, as recognized today, was instituted. Mr. Spalding shows how cricket could not do for Americans. He says it is suitable for the British temperament, but not for the Yankee hustling spirit. He also tells how he worked into the game through a one-handed catch when a small boy. To lovers of baseball, whose name is legion, and whose number increases yearly, this book comprises in itself a whole library of useful information.

Laughing to Keep from Crying

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Publisher : Amereon Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Book Synopsis Laughing to Keep from Crying by : Langston Hughes

Download or read book Laughing to Keep from Crying written by Langston Hughes and published by Amereon Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reprinted 1976 by special arrangement"--T.p. verso.

Lloyd's Register of American Yachts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Lloyd's Register of American Yachts written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Desire the Moon

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ISBN 13 : 9789080731448
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Looking Back

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ISBN 13 : 9781258887346
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Book Synopsis Looking Back by : Norman Douglas

Download or read book Looking Back written by Norman Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.

Sagitta's Books of the Nameless Love

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781419610851
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Sagitta's Books of the Nameless Love by : John Henry MacKay

Download or read book Sagitta's Books of the Nameless Love written by John Henry MacKay and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete translation of the volume of six “books” that John Henry Mackay published pseudonymously as Die Bücher der namenlosen Liebe von Sagitta in 1913. The project was begun in 1905 and soon had its own problems, as described by Mackay in his introduction, “The History of a Fight for the Nameless Love.” This—and the collection all together—is an important historical document of the beginning of the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany a century ago and of the role that boy-lovers played in it. At the same time it gives an insight into the heart and mind of an accomplished writer who knew personally the joys and pains of “the nameless love”—which Oscar Wilde called “the Love that dare not speak its name.”

The Book of Alphabets and Layouts, Designs, Scrolls, Panel Ends, Descriptive Matter

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Book Synopsis The Book of Alphabets and Layouts, Designs, Scrolls, Panel Ends, Descriptive Matter by : Al Imelli

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A Deep-water Voyage

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Book Synopsis A Deep-water Voyage by : Paul Eve Stevenson

Download or read book A Deep-water Voyage written by Paul Eve Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wall of Weeping

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Publisher : London : V. Gollancz ; New York : E.P. Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Book Synopsis The Wall of Weeping by : Edmond Fleg

Download or read book The Wall of Weeping written by Edmond Fleg and published by London : V. Gollancz ; New York : E.P. Dutton. This book was released on 1929 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twilight of the Gods

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ISBN 13 : 9781645250081
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Book Synopsis The Twilight of the Gods by : Élémir Bourges

Download or read book The Twilight of the Gods written by Élémir Bourges and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print in English, and here offered for the first time in a restored format, The Twilight of the Gods, Élémir Bourges' acknowledged masterpiece, was originally published in March, 1884, just two months before J.-K. Huysmans' groundbreaking À rebours. Both novels at once laid the groundwork for the Decadent Movement, and presented a striking challenge to Naturalism by, instead of depicting common existence, offering case studies of exceptional, extravagant beings. In Bourges' highly aesthetic work, we follow Charles d'Este, Duke of Blankenburg, who, along with his eccentric family, is exiled to Paris, where his excessive, luxurious lifestyle and the Wagnerian fate that follows him are like a chandelier falling from the sky.

Churchward International Typefaces

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ISBN 13 : 9780958298117
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (981 download)

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Book Synopsis Churchward International Typefaces by : David Bennewith

Download or read book Churchward International Typefaces written by David Bennewith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new publication presenting an overview of the work of Samoan-born New Zealand-based alphabet and advertising designer Joseph Churchward [1932]. The publication compiles archive material, correspondence, realised and un-realised designwork, alphabet designs and in-dispersed with essays surrounding aspects of Churchward's practice by New Zealand and overseas writers and designers. It attempts to tell a story in process of New Zealand's most prolific designer of letters to date.