Ricerca Veloce:     Ricerca Avanzata
 

Olympics

Going for the Gold: How the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Won at Lake Placid
Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey 1896-1924
Rethinking the Olympics: Cultural Histories of the Modern Games
Representing the Nation: Sport and Spectacle in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
American Decathletes: A 20th Century Whos Who
No Limits: The Will to Succeed

The Ohio State University at the Olympics: A Biographical Dictionary of Athletes, Alternates, Administrators, Coaches and Trainers
di Rusty Wilson
McFarland & Company, October 2009  
The Ohio State University at the Olympics: A Biographical Dictionary of Athletes, Alternates, Administrators, Coaches and Trainers
This biographical dictionary contains entries for each Ohio State University athlete that has competed at the Olympics. Also included are...
John Apostal Lucas: Teacher, Sport Historian, and One Who Lived His Life Earnestly. a Collection of Articles and Essays with an Autobiogra
di John Apostal Lucas
Eifrig Publishing, October 2009  
John Apostal Lucas: Teacher, Sport Historian, and One Who Lived His Life Earnestly. a Collection of Articles and Essays with an Autobiogra
Lucas has dedicated his nearly half-century of academic life at Penn State University to researching and writing about his first love of...
The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics
di David Wallechinsky, Jaime Loucky
Aurum Press, October 2009 Sconto 10%
The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics
In this gold-medal performance, Olympic-writer Wallechinsky combines comprehensive results, statistics, and records with photographs and the...
Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics
di Richard Hoffer
Free Press, September 2009  
Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics
The 1968 Mexico City Olympics reflected the spirit of their revolutionary times. Hoffer's work captures the turbulence and offbeat heroism...
Heatstroke: Why Canada's Summer Olympic Program Is Failing -- And How We Can Fix It
di Michael G. Simonson
BPS Books, September 2009  
Heatstroke: Why Canada's Summer Olympic Program Is Failing -- And How We Can Fix It
Simonson exposes the systemic causes of Canada's Summer Olympic failures against the backdrop of the country's increasing Winter Olympic...
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
di David Maraniss
Simon & Schuster, July 2009  
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
From bestselling author Maraniss comes a groundbreaking book that weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960...
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
di David Maraniss
Large Print Distribution, July 2009  
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Clemente" and "When Pride Still Mattered" comes the blockbuster story of the 1960 Summer...
John Apostal Lucas: Teacher, Sport Historian, and One Who Lived His Life Earnestly. a Collection of Articles and Essays with an Autobiogra
di John Apostal Lucas
Eifrig Publishing, May 2009  
John Apostal Lucas: Teacher, Sport Historian, and One Who Lived His Life Earnestly. a Collection of Articles and Essays with an Autobiogra
For this anthology, Lucas has selected a score of essays written since 1953 about sports and the Olympics.
The 1900 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
di Bill Mallon
McFarland & Company, February 2009  
The 1900 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed "The Farcical Games." The events were poorly organized and years later many of the competitors had...
The 1896 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
di Bill Mallon, Ture Widlund
McFarland & Company, February 2009  
The 1896 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
"Numerous interesting facts about the poorly documented early years of Olympic history"
The 1904 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
di Bill Mallon
McFarland & Company, February 2009  
The 1904 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for Olympic scholars has been to...
The 1912 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
di Bill Mallon, Ture Widlund
McFarland & Company, February 2009  
The 1912 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most "modern" Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern...
The Paralympic Games: Empowerment or Sideshow?
Redattore Keith Gilbert, Otto J. Schantz
Meyer & Meyer Fachverlag und Buchhandel GmbH, February 2009  
The Paralympic Games: Empowerment or Sideshow?
In particular the book develops the following five themes of the 'Public and Media Perceptions', 'A View of the Paralympics', 'Olympism...
Jamaican Athletics: A Model for 2012 Olympics and the World
di Patrick Robinson
Arcadia Books, September 2009  
Jamaican Athletics: A Model for 2012 Olympics and the World
The Montreal Olympics: An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-Financing Games
di Paul Charles Howell
McGill-Queen's University Press, August 2009  
The Montreal Olympics: An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-Financing Games
The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
di Bill Mallon, Ian Buchanan
McFarland & Company, June 2009  
The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
The Marathon Makers: A Century Ago Three Heroes Changed the Course of the Olympics. This Is Their Dramatic True Story
di John Bryant
John Blake, June 2009  
The Marathon Makers: A Century Ago Three Heroes Changed the Course of the Olympics. This Is Their Dramatic True Story
The 1906 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
di Bill Mallon
McFarland & Company, February 2009  
The 1906 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Winter Olympics, Vancouver Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Legends, the Lore, and the Games
di Ron C. Judd
Mountaineers Books, February 2009  
Winter Olympics, Vancouver Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Legends, the Lore, and the Games
American Women's Track and Field, 1981-2000: A History
di Louise Mead Tricard
McFarland & Company, December 2008  
American Women's Track and Field, 1981-2000: A History
This exhaustive history details every U.S. Olympic team, Olympic trial, national championship, Pan American Game and other significant meets...
The 1920 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
di Bill Mallon, Anthony Th Bijkerk
McFarland & Company, December 2008  
The 1920 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Until this volume was compiled, the results of the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium, have been far from complete. The Antwerp...
No Limits: The Will to Succeed
di Michael Phelps, Alan Abrahamson
Free Press, December 2008  
No Limits: The Will to Succeed
Featuring insights from the Beijing Games, the pool, and his record-breaking performance, "Built to Succeed" is Phelps's inspirational...
No Limits: The Will to Succeed
di Michael Phelps
Simon & Schuster Audio, December 2008  
No Limits: The Will to Succeed
Featuring insights from the Beijing Games, the pool, and his record-breaking performance, "Built to Succeed" is Phelps's inspirational...
The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement
di Sandra Collins
Routledge, October 2008  
The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement
Exploring the relationship between modern Asia and the Olympic Games, this original work focuses on the forgotten history of the 1940 Tokyo...
Spedizione gratuita
Moleskine

Per aspiranti vegetariani

Eating animals

Dietro una bistecca si può nascondere un mondo di atrocità e sofferenza: il viaggio di Jonathan Safran Foer nel mondo della produzione alimentare lo porterà alla decisione di diventare vegetariano. Perché, come amava ripetere sua nonna "se niente importa, non c'è niente da salvare".

» Acquista Eating animals

Stregati da James Patterson

Witch & Wizard

L'avvincente storia di due fratelli strappati ingiustamente alla loro famiglia e rinchiusi in prigione da un "Nuovo ordine" che governa il loro paese e controlla le loro vite, ma che, grazie a questa disavventura, scoprono i loro poteri soprannaturali per salvare loro stessi, i loro genitori e forse il mondo intero...

» Acquista Witch & Wizard