Atlanta's Olympic Resurgence: How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City, Paperback - Michael Dobbins

Reducere. The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifli...

Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games - Michael Llewellyn

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Reducere. IN 1936, Adolf Hitler welcomed the world to Berlin to attend the Olympic Games. It promised to be not only a magnificent sporting event but also a ...

This first and only official children's book on the Olympics--created in association with the Olympic Museum in Lausanne--introduces kids to the gl...

Reducere. I grew up in Jamaica in the district of Burnt Savannah, St. Elizabeth, between Lacovia and Mountainside. That's about a twenty-minute drive from Sa...

Reducere. 'Catalogues what happens to sport horses in plain sight ... should be compulsory reading for all of us who care about horses.' - Professor Paul McG...

The origins of the Olympic Games in honour of Zeus - The formalities - Prize giving - closed down under Christianity.

Travel back in time to Ancient Greece to discover the origins of the Olympic Games

Get ready for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 by discovering the whole amazing range of Olympic events, their rules and memorable moments from Olympic h...

Reducere. This title gives a fascinating look at the modern Olympic Games, from Athens 1896 to the build-up to London 2012, via approximately 230 photographs...

Reducere. Asterix, Obelix, and their friends have entered the famous Olympic games in Athens. They're determined to taste victory, but the Gauls face formida...

Reducere. Shaul Ladany, in his time, has been a concentration camp prisoner, record-breaking athlete, patriot, professor and chairman of the Ben Gurion Unive...

From the origins of the games, to heroes of the past and present, the different sports played, records set, and more, here is everything kids need ...

Travel back in time to Ancient Greece to discover the origins of the Olympic Games

Publisher: Historical Images LtdAuthor(s): Paul Leslie LineNumber of pages: 145Collection: Armchair Time Travellers Street AtlasPublication date: 2...

Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of s...

This handbook offers an important and timely contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Olympic Studies. It provides a complete analysis of cur...

In this revised and all-colour edition of her indispensable guide to the ancient Games, Judith Swaddling traces their mythological and religious or...

A political science perspective on higher education reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Examines the impact of historical institutions and transn...

The Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984, reimagined the Olympic Games and reinvigorated a troubled Olympic movement. Its innovations incl...

Reducere. Tuzagi, which means "trap" in Turkish, is graphic novel comprised of 6 interlocking short stories set in Gallipoli, specifically at Suvla Bay on Au...

Reducere. In this compilation of spiritual discourses (sing. mudhākara), Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari offers a Sufi commentary on the functions, degrees ...

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Reducere. An essential primer from one of North America's largest urban farms. Urban farming has the power to change diets, economies, and lives. Yet startin...

Reducere. Mexican leaders eagerly anticipated the attention that hosting the world s most visible sporting event would bring, yet they could not have predict...

Reducere. A special film tie-in edition of one of the greatest Asterix adventures.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Rene GoscinnyIllustration(s):...

Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts we...

Reducere. Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, ...

Reducere. For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city. For natives, ...

Reducere. DescriptionLoving Lions provides readers with a glimpse into the darkness and confusion of addiction, both from the addict's perspective and the fa...

Reducere. Snowball's Chance: The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games is the only book devoted solely to chronicling the historic events at Squaw Valley an...

Reducere. On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Baby ProfessorDo you have a budding sports superstar? Then get him/her comfortable by reading this book of sports meant for...

Survivor, Scientist, Olympian - the Nary Ly StoryHow a Child of the Killing Fields Ran an Olympic Marathon and Inspired Her Broken Nationis a poign...

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Reducere. Moon City Press's most recent edition features an array of brand-new contemporary literature. Up-and-coming and established writers contribute shor...

Considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport responded ...