Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960-2008, Paperback - Thomas M. Hunt

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. 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...

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. 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, ...

Offering an innovative account of Britain's counter-radicalisation policy, Prevent, this book provides a timely analysis of the UK's response to th...

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 ...

Clearly and accessibly written, Dixon provides a lively introduction to the nature and politics of the Northern Ireland conflict and of successive ...

A deftly crafted insider account of how congressional committees really work, updated for 2021Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s):...

This book is valuable to students, scholars, and researchers who are interested in international relations, international criminal justice, peace a...

This book examines the role of the United States of America in the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process. Featuring interviews with former go...

Reducere. This book outlines and summarizes the early years of the experience of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. "Short course" is an essential tool...

Reducere. Drawing from diary entries and work logs, official accounts, memoirs, personal reminiscences, and hundreds of photographs and reproductions, Jack R...

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

In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records. Prior to the 1990s, she was the ...

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

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

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

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

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. This literary work is an update of the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. for the period 1960 to 2008. This book humbly takes up where Omega ...

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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 ...

Contributor(s): Author: Thomas H. MurrayWhy are fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates accepted in sport - while performance-enhancing drugs a...

Thirty years of ``crisis, `` mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy...We have to see that the eco...

Reducere. The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, "The Politics of Heroin" includes meticulous documentation o...

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism - Jack Citrin, David O. Sears

People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate wedd...

Reducere. This literary work is an update of the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. for the period 1960 to 2008. This book humbly takes up where Omega ...

Reducere. The fourth volume of Thomas Merton's complete journals, one of his final literary legacies, springs from three hundred handwritten pages that captu...

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 ...

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...

In this book, Jennifer Jenkins, one of the leading proponents of English as a Lingua Franca explores current academic English language policy in hi...

This volume provides a documentary history of baptismal thought, practice, and preparations in Italy, North Africa, and Egypt from the early second...

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

Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality - Sundhya Pahuja

A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account...

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. When an international drug smuggler makes a life-changing decision, he finds himself pursuing a different type of thrill all the way into eternity....

DescriptionHan-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate r...

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

Reducere. In Jesus and the Politics of Mammon, Phelps uses contemporary critical theory, continental philosophy, and theology to develop a radical reading of...

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

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...

Publisher: Games Workshop LtdAuthor(s): VariousNumber of pages: 928Collection: Warhammer 40, 000Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 35Cov...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Guy DebordTranslator: John McHaleNumber of pages: 400Collection: Semiotext(e) / Foreign AgentsPublication date: ...

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...

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