Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games. International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO, Paperback - Heather L. Dichter

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

Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War - Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

In the dying days of the USSR, battlelines have shifted from spycraft to the cut-throat capitalism and it's intellectual property, not state secret...

Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders playe...

A detailed examination of the events before and after the Battle of Angola, with several chapters covering the colonial struggle between Africa and...

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...

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

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 ...

Presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important ...

Reducere. It was billed as the greatest event in the history of pair skating: three of the best teams of all time battling for Olympic gold on one night in S...

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...

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. Revisiting an influential Cold War-era art competitionIn 1952 the ICA London organized an international competition around the theme of "The Unknow...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): James H WillbanksIllustration(s): Colour illustrations throughout, including 2d maps, photographs, 3...

Peace on Our Terms is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of women's activism to the Paris Peace Conference and the critical diplomatic ev...

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 this compelling compilation, Heather Kopp shares stories and insights from her own stumbling journey of addiction to recovery. With the humor an...

Reducere. Watch your child develop the skills to thrive--with occupational therapyOccupational therapy uses simple, fun activities to help kids learn the ski...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

Reducere. Play detective and crack these cold case puzzles! Solve more than 100 brain teasers that will test your verbal, visual, memory, and logic skills. T...

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

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. This coursebook with Cambridge Elevate edition covers Paper 3, HL option 2: History of the Americas, Topic 16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945-...

Reducere. Every day you strive to ensure that the library is working for its users--but how is it working for you? And what can we all do to make the library...

Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to atten...

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

In June 1941 a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a precious commodity--...

Reducere. Lyrans! Who and what are these beings, what is their connection with our planet. What is this Agenda that they are exposing and why now? How does i...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather L. HegleHave you thought about getting into Real Estate or Mortgage Lending but don't know where to start? If you w...

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...

Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have ...

Reducere. This coursebook with Cambridge Elevate edition covers Paper 2, World History Topic 12: The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries (20th centur...

DescriptionThe British Chieftain - designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion - was perhaps the best main battle tank in servi...

Reducere. Prescolares Lily y Niko descubren repentinamente cómo lidiar con lo inesperado cuando sus vacaciones cambian de natación y castillos de arena al pr...

Charts the development of the M60 from its origins in World War II to the Cold War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): David GrummittIllustr...

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...

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. 2018 Silver Medal Readers' Favorite Children's Social IssuesMom's Choice Award WinnerLily and Niko Rabbit's childcare class is at the elementary sc...

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...

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

What really happened when the world's two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the str...

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 ...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

Reducere. This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths not...

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 ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 3 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 22Cov...