Author: Steve McManaman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780743256841
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
When Steve McManaman joined Real Madrid in 1999 he was, according to his former manager, 'the first of Los Galacticos' -- the nickname given to the increasingly starry line-up at the premier Spanish team. Soon the ex-Liverpool star was playing alongside Ronaldo, Figo, Zidane and Beckham. It was an astonishing turnaround for a club that had been struggling to live up to its enormous reputation, and Steve was there to witness the most intense and interesting period of its development -- winning the league and two European Cups along the way. Written with the DAILY TELEGRAPH's Sarah Edworthy, who contributes her own insights through original interviews with the key players at Madrid, EL MACCA is not just a highly entertaining memoir of four years at the biggest club in Europe. Thoughtful and candid, it is also a fascinating insight into the process of playing -- and succeeding -- overseas.
El Macca
Author: Steve McManaman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780743256841
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
When Steve McManaman joined Real Madrid in 1999 he was, according to his former manager, 'the first of Los Galacticos' -- the nickname given to the increasingly starry line-up at the premier Spanish team. Soon the ex-Liverpool star was playing alongside Ronaldo, Figo, Zidane and Beckham. It was an astonishing turnaround for a club that had been struggling to live up to its enormous reputation, and Steve was there to witness the most intense and interesting period of its development -- winning the league and two European Cups along the way. Written with the DAILY TELEGRAPH's Sarah Edworthy, who contributes her own insights through original interviews with the key players at Madrid, EL MACCA is not just a highly entertaining memoir of four years at the biggest club in Europe. Thoughtful and candid, it is also a fascinating insight into the process of playing -- and succeeding -- overseas.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780743256841
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
When Steve McManaman joined Real Madrid in 1999 he was, according to his former manager, 'the first of Los Galacticos' -- the nickname given to the increasingly starry line-up at the premier Spanish team. Soon the ex-Liverpool star was playing alongside Ronaldo, Figo, Zidane and Beckham. It was an astonishing turnaround for a club that had been struggling to live up to its enormous reputation, and Steve was there to witness the most intense and interesting period of its development -- winning the league and two European Cups along the way. Written with the DAILY TELEGRAPH's Sarah Edworthy, who contributes her own insights through original interviews with the key players at Madrid, EL MACCA is not just a highly entertaining memoir of four years at the biggest club in Europe. Thoughtful and candid, it is also a fascinating insight into the process of playing -- and succeeding -- overseas.
Handbook of South American Indians: The Marginal tribes
Author: Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Fear and Loathing in La Liga
Author: Sid Lowe
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568584512
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Fear and Loathing in La Liga is the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport: FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid. It's Messi vs. Ronaldo, Guardiola vs. Mourinho, the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs. Franco's fascists, plus majestic goals and mesmerizing skills. It's the best two teams on the planet going head-to-head. It's more than a game. It's a war. It's El Cláco. Only, it's not quite that simple. Spanish soccer expert and historian Sid Lowe covers 100 years of rivalry, athletic beauty, and excellence. Fear and Loathing in La Liga is a nuanced, revisionist, and brilliantly informed history that goes beyond sport. Lowe weaves together this story of the rivalry with the history and culture of Spain, emphasizing that it is "never about just the soccer." With exclusive testimonies and astonishing anecdotes, he takes us inside this epic battle, including the wounds left by the Civil War, Madrid's golden age in the fifties when they won five European cups, Johan Cruyff's Barcelona Dream Team, the doomed Galáico experiment, and LuíFigo's "betrayal." By exploring the history, politics, culture, economics, and language -- while never forgetting the drama on the field -- Lowe demonstrates the relationship between these two soccer giants and reveals the true story behind their explosive rivalry.
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568584512
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Fear and Loathing in La Liga is the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport: FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid. It's Messi vs. Ronaldo, Guardiola vs. Mourinho, the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs. Franco's fascists, plus majestic goals and mesmerizing skills. It's the best two teams on the planet going head-to-head. It's more than a game. It's a war. It's El Cláco. Only, it's not quite that simple. Spanish soccer expert and historian Sid Lowe covers 100 years of rivalry, athletic beauty, and excellence. Fear and Loathing in La Liga is a nuanced, revisionist, and brilliantly informed history that goes beyond sport. Lowe weaves together this story of the rivalry with the history and culture of Spain, emphasizing that it is "never about just the soccer." With exclusive testimonies and astonishing anecdotes, he takes us inside this epic battle, including the wounds left by the Civil War, Madrid's golden age in the fifties when they won five European cups, Johan Cruyff's Barcelona Dream Team, the doomed Galáico experiment, and LuíFigo's "betrayal." By exploring the history, politics, culture, economics, and language -- while never forgetting the drama on the field -- Lowe demonstrates the relationship between these two soccer giants and reveals the true story behind their explosive rivalry.
Migrar o perecer
Author: Laura Millan Lombraña
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8490648271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Migrar o perecer perfila la Australia que se esconde tras el brillo de las olas en la piel bronceada de los jóvenes surfistas. Los protagonistas de este reportaje abandonaron el lugar donde nacieron y emprendieron el viaje a Australia con la esperanza de labrarse un futuro mejor. Ellos son la historia viva de este país joven moldeado a base de oleadas migratorias. A los primeros colonos británicos les siguieron italianos, griegos y españoles, vietnamitas, libaneses, indios y chinos.Hoy Australia es uno de los países con más diversidad cultural, lingüística y religiosa del mundo. Entre sus ciudadanos se cuentan más de trescientas nacionalidades, más de doscientos países de origen y más de doscientas lenguas. Un tercio de los habitantes nació en otro país y un 45 % son hijos de inmigrantes.Sobre el papel, Australia parece un experimento migratorio que ha triunfado. En realidad, es el laboratorio de pruebas para un fenómeno global, el del multiculturalismo, que sigue en fase de ensayo.Los nueve retratos de Migrar o perecer hablan de racismo, islamofobia, manipulación mediática y marginación. También de individuos que trabajan duro, que luchan por salir adelante, por dejar huella en un país que forja día a día su identidad.
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8490648271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Migrar o perecer perfila la Australia que se esconde tras el brillo de las olas en la piel bronceada de los jóvenes surfistas. Los protagonistas de este reportaje abandonaron el lugar donde nacieron y emprendieron el viaje a Australia con la esperanza de labrarse un futuro mejor. Ellos son la historia viva de este país joven moldeado a base de oleadas migratorias. A los primeros colonos británicos les siguieron italianos, griegos y españoles, vietnamitas, libaneses, indios y chinos.Hoy Australia es uno de los países con más diversidad cultural, lingüística y religiosa del mundo. Entre sus ciudadanos se cuentan más de trescientas nacionalidades, más de doscientos países de origen y más de doscientas lenguas. Un tercio de los habitantes nació en otro país y un 45 % son hijos de inmigrantes.Sobre el papel, Australia parece un experimento migratorio que ha triunfado. En realidad, es el laboratorio de pruebas para un fenómeno global, el del multiculturalismo, que sigue en fase de ensayo.Los nueve retratos de Migrar o perecer hablan de racismo, islamofobia, manipulación mediática y marginación. También de individuos que trabajan duro, que luchan por salir adelante, por dejar huella en un país que forja día a día su identidad.
Julian Cato and the Four Immortals
Author: L.E. Harrison
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN: 1637891040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
An immortal diviner must navigate the multi-verse, as she joins forces with a Time Guardian to save her siblings from the clutches of a diabolical warlock wanted for crimes against spacetime in forty-two dimensions. Rainey El-Sullivan is a card-reader known as the Seer of Blandytown. She lives in an antique farmhouse in Monotheiston, DM-1, where technology is outlawed and superstition reigns. She is immortal, due to a vaccine given to her at birth by her father—the notorious doctor and Time Commander Carron Sullivan. Although she has been alive for 126 years, Rainey’s body has been genetically programmed to cease the aging process at age twenty-five. She agreed to be the caretaker of the family home, but after spending a hundred years in a territory deprived of modern advancements and forward-thinking, she has grown lonely and yearns for a more adventurous existence. Julian Cato is a Time Guardian in the employ of Commander Sullivan. Time Guardians are immortal, highly trained specialty soldiers capable of navigating all 55 dimensions in the MDV (Multi-Dimension-Verse). They are the keepers of time and technology for humanity, but are mostly hidden and incognito. On some dimensions, they are believed to be mythical. When Julian unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep with amnesia, Rainey has no choice but to return him to her father on the Outer-Dimensional Station. The Commander sends her on a mission to babysit Julian as he apprehends an escaped Gilladragon, and Rainey tries to resist her growing attraction to the handsome Time Guardian. Before they can complete the mission, they inadvertently rouse the enmity of Tony Molinaro—a fugitive warlock who wants to capture the dinosaur-like creature and use its godly powers for his own nefarious purposes. Tony kidnaps Rainey and her three siblings, threatening to kill them if the Commander does not give in to his demands. Can Rainey survive a deadly chase through spacetime and the fifty-five dimensions, while attempting to help Julian repair his fragmented psyche? Or will the warlock’s diabolical magic destroy her family and everything she holds dear?
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN: 1637891040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
An immortal diviner must navigate the multi-verse, as she joins forces with a Time Guardian to save her siblings from the clutches of a diabolical warlock wanted for crimes against spacetime in forty-two dimensions. Rainey El-Sullivan is a card-reader known as the Seer of Blandytown. She lives in an antique farmhouse in Monotheiston, DM-1, where technology is outlawed and superstition reigns. She is immortal, due to a vaccine given to her at birth by her father—the notorious doctor and Time Commander Carron Sullivan. Although she has been alive for 126 years, Rainey’s body has been genetically programmed to cease the aging process at age twenty-five. She agreed to be the caretaker of the family home, but after spending a hundred years in a territory deprived of modern advancements and forward-thinking, she has grown lonely and yearns for a more adventurous existence. Julian Cato is a Time Guardian in the employ of Commander Sullivan. Time Guardians are immortal, highly trained specialty soldiers capable of navigating all 55 dimensions in the MDV (Multi-Dimension-Verse). They are the keepers of time and technology for humanity, but are mostly hidden and incognito. On some dimensions, they are believed to be mythical. When Julian unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep with amnesia, Rainey has no choice but to return him to her father on the Outer-Dimensional Station. The Commander sends her on a mission to babysit Julian as he apprehends an escaped Gilladragon, and Rainey tries to resist her growing attraction to the handsome Time Guardian. Before they can complete the mission, they inadvertently rouse the enmity of Tony Molinaro—a fugitive warlock who wants to capture the dinosaur-like creature and use its godly powers for his own nefarious purposes. Tony kidnaps Rainey and her three siblings, threatening to kill them if the Commander does not give in to his demands. Can Rainey survive a deadly chase through spacetime and the fifty-five dimensions, while attempting to help Julian repair his fragmented psyche? Or will the warlock’s diabolical magic destroy her family and everything she holds dear?
Match of the Day 365
Author: Steve Wilson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473530172
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
For over half a century, Match of the Day has been essential viewing for football fans, whatever their allegiance – and no programme has captured the star-studded era of the Premier League better. From Wayne Rooney’s first stunning goal and Sergio Aguero’s last second title winning strike to England’s many penalty heartaches, the Match of the Day team has helped us all create indelible football memories. Written by Steve Wilson, one of the show’s leading commentators, Match of the Day 365 takes us day by day through the drama, glory and heartache of the Premier League era. Revisiting classics matches, thrilling goals, controversial decisions, game-changing transfers and more, Steve has created a fascinating portrait of modern football, and an essential addition to any football fan’s collection.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473530172
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
For over half a century, Match of the Day has been essential viewing for football fans, whatever their allegiance – and no programme has captured the star-studded era of the Premier League better. From Wayne Rooney’s first stunning goal and Sergio Aguero’s last second title winning strike to England’s many penalty heartaches, the Match of the Day team has helped us all create indelible football memories. Written by Steve Wilson, one of the show’s leading commentators, Match of the Day 365 takes us day by day through the drama, glory and heartache of the Premier League era. Revisiting classics matches, thrilling goals, controversial decisions, game-changing transfers and more, Steve has created a fascinating portrait of modern football, and an essential addition to any football fan’s collection.
Principles of Sustainable Energy
Author: Frank Kreith
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439894248
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
A transition from a fossil fuel–based economy to one that uses renewable energy has become inevitable; this transition will not only be an engineering challenge, but will also be an economic and environmental one. Offering an interdisciplinary, quantitative approach, Principles of Sustainable Energy presents a comprehensive overview of the major renewable energy technologies currently available, including biomass and biofuels, solar thermal conversion, photovoltaics, and wind energy conversion. Written by renowned expert Frank Kreith, the book emphasizes economics as well as energy return on investment analyses for each technology and integrates the need for energy conservation with the overall aspects of building a sustainable energy system with renewable sources. The author covers energy storage in depth, because it is considered one of the most important, and problematic, requirements for building a sustainable renewable energy system. Treatments of the economics of nuclear power and options for transportation systems are also included. The book contains worked-out example problems illustrating engineering analyses from a systems perspective and problem sets to reinforce concepts and applications. Examples and exercises relating to solar energy systems cover latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and use current worldwide solar radiation data. But this text is not merely academic: its clearheaded look at the energy picture from the ground up, and the environmental, economic, and sustainability benefits that renewable energy systems can provide, make it a resource for government and industry as well as a text for engineering students.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439894248
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
A transition from a fossil fuel–based economy to one that uses renewable energy has become inevitable; this transition will not only be an engineering challenge, but will also be an economic and environmental one. Offering an interdisciplinary, quantitative approach, Principles of Sustainable Energy presents a comprehensive overview of the major renewable energy technologies currently available, including biomass and biofuels, solar thermal conversion, photovoltaics, and wind energy conversion. Written by renowned expert Frank Kreith, the book emphasizes economics as well as energy return on investment analyses for each technology and integrates the need for energy conservation with the overall aspects of building a sustainable energy system with renewable sources. The author covers energy storage in depth, because it is considered one of the most important, and problematic, requirements for building a sustainable renewable energy system. Treatments of the economics of nuclear power and options for transportation systems are also included. The book contains worked-out example problems illustrating engineering analyses from a systems perspective and problem sets to reinforce concepts and applications. Examples and exercises relating to solar energy systems cover latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and use current worldwide solar radiation data. But this text is not merely academic: its clearheaded look at the energy picture from the ground up, and the environmental, economic, and sustainability benefits that renewable energy systems can provide, make it a resource for government and industry as well as a text for engineering students.
ICIFEB 2022
Author: Titi Dewi Warninda
Publisher: European Alliance for Innovation
ISBN: 1631903918
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Islamic Finance and Business (ICIFEB), held online in Jakarta, Indonesia, in July 19-20 2022. The 29 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers reflect the conference main and sub-themes namely: Islamic business, Islamic finance, corporate social and environmental sustainability, digital business, marketing and investment.
Publisher: European Alliance for Innovation
ISBN: 1631903918
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Islamic Finance and Business (ICIFEB), held online in Jakarta, Indonesia, in July 19-20 2022. The 29 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers reflect the conference main and sub-themes namely: Islamic business, Islamic finance, corporate social and environmental sustainability, digital business, marketing and investment.
Principles of Solar Engineering, Second Edition
Author: D. Yogi Goswami
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781560327141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
This second edition of Principles of Solar Engineering covers the latest developments in a broad range of topics of interest to students and professionals interested in solar energy applications. With the scientific fundamentals included, the book covers important areas such as heating and cooling, passive solar applications, detoxification and biomass energy conversion. This comprehensive textbook provides examples of methods of solar engineering from around the world and includes examples, solutions and data applicable to international solar energy issues. A solutions manual is available to qualified instructors.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781560327141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
This second edition of Principles of Solar Engineering covers the latest developments in a broad range of topics of interest to students and professionals interested in solar energy applications. With the scientific fundamentals included, the book covers important areas such as heating and cooling, passive solar applications, detoxification and biomass energy conversion. This comprehensive textbook provides examples of methods of solar engineering from around the world and includes examples, solutions and data applicable to international solar energy issues. A solutions manual is available to qualified instructors.
El Clasico: Barcelona v Real Madrid
Author: Richard Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408171082
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Barcelona and Real Madrid: two of the most powerful and popular clubs in world football, and one of the world's most bitter sporting rivalries. Going far beyond the boundaries of just sport alone, this is a rivalry at the heart of Spanish life, taking in politics and culture and splitting a country in two. El Clásico gets to the heart of that rivalry, investigating the intrigue, the larger-than-life characters, the key flashpoints and their consequences. From civil war bloodshed to 40 years of fascism and links with General Franco, the clubs' shared history is the stuff of a Robert Harris novel and includes: murdered presidents from both clubs, player kidnappings, acts of hooliganism - and that's before you start thinking of the volatile football matches themselves. The book contains numerous interviews with key figures such as Luís Figo and Hristo Stoichkov (two of the main hate figures from both clubs), Joan Laporta (Barcelona's most successful president and, having entered politics, Catalonian separatism's poster boy) and various ex-players, ex-managers, agents, referees, hooligans, editors, historians, sociologists, filmmakers, novelists, photographers, TV presenters and celebrity fans. The two clubs are packed with international superstar players - including the world's two best players in Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo - and 10 of the starting 11 players from Spain's 2010 World Cup final victory play with either Barcelona or Real Madrid. This is a story with resonance around the sporting world, with many instantly recognisable figures to an international audience such as Jose Mourinho. But it is also a tale of a country divided by a bitter rivalry.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408171082
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Barcelona and Real Madrid: two of the most powerful and popular clubs in world football, and one of the world's most bitter sporting rivalries. Going far beyond the boundaries of just sport alone, this is a rivalry at the heart of Spanish life, taking in politics and culture and splitting a country in two. El Clásico gets to the heart of that rivalry, investigating the intrigue, the larger-than-life characters, the key flashpoints and their consequences. From civil war bloodshed to 40 years of fascism and links with General Franco, the clubs' shared history is the stuff of a Robert Harris novel and includes: murdered presidents from both clubs, player kidnappings, acts of hooliganism - and that's before you start thinking of the volatile football matches themselves. The book contains numerous interviews with key figures such as Luís Figo and Hristo Stoichkov (two of the main hate figures from both clubs), Joan Laporta (Barcelona's most successful president and, having entered politics, Catalonian separatism's poster boy) and various ex-players, ex-managers, agents, referees, hooligans, editors, historians, sociologists, filmmakers, novelists, photographers, TV presenters and celebrity fans. The two clubs are packed with international superstar players - including the world's two best players in Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo - and 10 of the starting 11 players from Spain's 2010 World Cup final victory play with either Barcelona or Real Madrid. This is a story with resonance around the sporting world, with many instantly recognisable figures to an international audience such as Jose Mourinho. But it is also a tale of a country divided by a bitter rivalry.