Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games, Paperback - Kevin Witherspoon

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

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 ...

Reducere. 01 I Drove All Night 02 Love Can Move Mountains 03 Because You Loved Me 04 I've Got The Music In Me 05 I'm Alive 06 We Will Rock You 07 To Love You...

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...

The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all contin...

Reducere. The 1968 US men's Olympic track and field team won 12 gold medals and set six world records at the Mexico City Games, one of the most dominant perf...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): James H. SmithIllustration(s): 12 halftonesNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): James H. SmithIllustration(s): 12 halftonesNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimension...

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

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

Reducere. As children, we searched for four-leaf clovers and carried a keychain with a rabbit's foot because we were told they were good luck. We were told n...

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

Reducere. On the heels of a pogrom of Eastern Nigerians (predominantly Igbos) in the Northern Region of Nigeria in 1966, and an unsuccessful attempt at Media...

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection by Bosnian expat Goran Simic, is as much a departure as it is a continuance. In this book...

The European Union through the eyes of the romanian youth - Mihaela Cozma

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

Reducere. Being able to detect black magic isn t all tea and crumpets and for Theodosia Throckmorton, it can be a decidedly tricky businessWhen Sticky Will d...

Reducere. DescriptionSomething in the Air is Richard Hoffer's gripping sports narrative that tells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mex...

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 ...

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 ...

The literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of sh...

Reducere. From critically acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize runner-up Frederick Buechner comes another powerfully honest memoir, The Eyes of the Heart. Ful...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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 ...

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

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

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. Rendered by women artists and writers, these portraits illuminate the most influential women of our time. Liv Ullman marvels at Anne Frank s faith ...

While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's eld...

Publisher: Blue Angel GalleryAuthor(s): Cheryl Yambrach (Cheryl Yambrach Rose) RosePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 172 x 36Cover type: Mixe...

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. 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, ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

The answer is a tale of operatic proportions, sweeping across continents from the 1848 European revolutions to the civil wars in Mexico and the USA...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Osagie ObasogieNumber of pages: 287Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 30Cover type: Hardb...

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

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. Over the centuries, man's journey on his way home to God has been characterized by many memorable and immortal events. From Noah's Ark to the Ark o...

Reducere. If you are reading this, it is because you know there is more to Christianity than what you have been taught. The title alone is quickening your sp...

The relationship between Mexico and Cuba grabbed international headlines early in the 21st century due to a rift in a relationship generally unders...

Publisher: Penguin Random House AustraliaAuthor(s): Jess BlackNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 26Cover type: Paper...

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

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...

Reducere. Before the Foundation of the World examines the nature of good and evil in God's creation. Using poetry and song lyrics, this collection offers a c...

The year 1968 encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. It was the year of sex and drugs and ro...