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Author: Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: 9780751330137 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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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.
Author: Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: 9780751330137 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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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.
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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.
Author: Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 344
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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.
Author: Andrei S. Markovits Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400824184 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 381
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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.
Author: P. Markula Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230233945 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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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.
Author: Myer Kutz Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780471359241 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 1524
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An innovative resource for materials properties, their evaluation, and industrial applications The Handbook of Materials Selection provides information and insight that can be employed in any discipline or industry to exploit the full range of materials in use today-metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites. This comprehensive organization of the materials selection process includes analytical approaches to materials selection and extensive information about materials available in the marketplace, sources of properties data, procurement and data management, properties testing procedures and equipment, analysis of failure modes, manufacturing processes and assembly techniques, and applications. Throughout the handbook, an international roster of contributors with a broad range of experience conveys practical knowledge about materials and illustrates in detail how they are used in a wide variety of industries. With more than 100 photographs of equipment and applications, as well as hundreds of graphs, charts, and tables, the Handbook of Materials Selection is a valuable reference for practicing engineers and designers, procurement and data managers, as well as teachers and students.
Author: Michael J. Haupert Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1573566322 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 296
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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.
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