Author: Alfred Eric Senn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781492575467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The e-book format allows readers to bookmark, highlight, and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the HK site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when your order is received.
The Olympic Record Book
Author: Bill Mallon
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN: 9780824029487
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN: 9780824029487
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games
Author: Alfred Eric Senn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781492575467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The e-book format allows readers to bookmark, highlight, and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the HK site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when your order is received.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781492575467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The e-book format allows readers to bookmark, highlight, and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the HK site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when your order is received.
The Complete Book of the Olympics
Author: David Wallechinsky
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9781845136956
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
David Wallechinsky's compendious book has long been the preeminent point of reference for sports enthusiasts and journalists alike Every sports writer assigned to cover the Games ensures they have their early copy of this prodigious work of reference, packed with absorbing anecdotes and essential statistics. A treasure trove of 116 years of Olympic history, it is also an amazingly readable book, for in the course of recording every single Olympic final since 1896, it concentrates on the strange, the memorable, and the unbelievable. Who knew (until reading this book) that croquet was once an Olympic sport, or tug of war, or that a 72-year-old once won a silver medal for target shooting? This new edition also has every finals result, recorded by the top eight competitors in every event at the Beijing Olympics, and full descriptions of rules and scoring for every event included for 2012. It is the one truly essential Olympics book.
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9781845136956
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
David Wallechinsky's compendious book has long been the preeminent point of reference for sports enthusiasts and journalists alike Every sports writer assigned to cover the Games ensures they have their early copy of this prodigious work of reference, packed with absorbing anecdotes and essential statistics. A treasure trove of 116 years of Olympic history, it is also an amazingly readable book, for in the course of recording every single Olympic final since 1896, it concentrates on the strange, the memorable, and the unbelievable. Who knew (until reading this book) that croquet was once an Olympic sport, or tug of war, or that a 72-year-old once won a silver medal for target shooting? This new edition also has every finals result, recorded by the top eight competitors in every event at the Beijing Olympics, and full descriptions of rules and scoring for every event included for 2012. It is the one truly essential Olympics book.
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
Author: David Goldblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393254119
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393254119
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.
Above and Beyond
Author: Bill Livingston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873389747
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Readers will discover how Tim Mack struggled and endured while working in a factory, and how he changed his training and revamped his body and mind in a three-year programme that made his Web site, Goldnathens, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873389747
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Readers will discover how Tim Mack struggled and endured while working in a factory, and how he changed his training and revamped his body and mind in a three-year programme that made his Web site, Goldnathens, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
United States Olympic Book
Author: United States Olympic Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Olympics
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Issues for include reports of the Olympic winter games.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Olympics
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Issues for include reports of the Olympic winter games.
Olympic Games Upsets
Author: Heather Rule
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1541589645
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This title offers high-interest subject matter sure to catch the attention of sports fans and reluctant readers alike.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1541589645
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This title offers high-interest subject matter sure to catch the attention of sports fans and reluctant readers alike.
The Dirtiest Race in History
Author: Richard Moore
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408181568
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The men's 100m final at the 1988 Olympics has been described as the dirtiest race ever - but also the greatest. Aside from Johnson's blistering time, the race is infamous for its athletes' positive drug tests. This is the story of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and Lewis, and the repercussions still felt almost a quarter of a century on.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408181568
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The men's 100m final at the 1988 Olympics has been described as the dirtiest race ever - but also the greatest. Aside from Johnson's blistering time, the race is infamous for its athletes' positive drug tests. This is the story of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and Lewis, and the repercussions still felt almost a quarter of a century on.
Today We Die a Little!
Author: Richard AskAdditional Writer
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568585497
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"Based on extensive research in the Czech Republic, interviews with people across the world who knew him, and unprecedented cooperation from his widow ... journalist Richard Askwith's book breathes new life into the man and the myth, uncovering a glorious age of athletics and an epoch-defining time in world history"--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568585497
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"Based on extensive research in the Czech Republic, interviews with people across the world who knew him, and unprecedented cooperation from his widow ... journalist Richard Askwith's book breathes new life into the man and the myth, uncovering a glorious age of athletics and an epoch-defining time in world history"--Dust jacket flap.
The Los Angeles Times Book of the 1984 Olympic Games
Author:
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Thirty-two articles introduce an Olympic event describing its rules, judging, and identifying likely contenders for medals in 1984.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Thirty-two articles introduce an Olympic event describing its rules, judging, and identifying likely contenders for medals in 1984.