Author: Fred W. Foster
Publisher: Martino Pub
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781578984206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ryan Stevens
Publisher:
Published: 2023-11-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781738198214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If you love reading about figure skating, this is the book for you! "A Bibliography of Figure Skating" is quintessential guide to reading about the world's most exciting sport. This fascinating reference book highlights over a century of figure skating literature, including biographies, historical books and periodicals in over a dozen languages. Read about the first Bibliography of Skating, penned during the Victorian era by Frederick William Foster. Learn helpful tips and tricks to help you track down rare books and magazines, many of which are now out of print. Expand your knowledge of Olympic figure skating stars past and present and begin crafting your own ultimate figure skating library.
Author: Anthony G. White
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 5
ISBN-13: 9780880555791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James R. Hines
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011-04-22
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0810870851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 1908. No other sport creates such a perfect balance between athleticism and artistry, and the athletes—many of them household names like Oksana Baiul, Brian Boitano, Nancy Kerrigan, Evan Lysacek, Katarina Witt, and Kristi Yamaguchi—spend years in training to make it look effortless. The Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating relates the history of the sport through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, appendixes, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on hundreds of skaters, past and present, but also on skating countries, governing bodies, skating disciplines, technical elements, skating styles, and many other subjects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of figure skating.
Author: Richard Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1135287147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Author: B.A. Thurber
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 147667390X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ice skates made from animal bones were used in Europe for millennia before metal-bladed skates were invented. Archaeological sites have yielded thousands of examples, some of them dating to the Bronze Age. They are often mentioned in popular books on the Vikings and sometimes appear in children's literature. Even after metal skates became the norm, people in rural areas continued to use bone skates into the early 1970s. Today, bone skates help scientists and re-enactors understand migrations and interactions among ancient peoples. This book explains how to make and use them and chronicles their history, from their likely invention in the Eurasian steppes to their disappearance in the modern era.
Author: Konstantin Butz
Publisher: Walther Kanig, Kaln
Published: 2018-07-31
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783960983415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Skateboarding is not immediately associated with university research projects. It is first and foremost a physical activity, and no scholarly approach can substitute for the empirical knowledge gained through the act of skateboarding itself--the movement of the body with and on a skateboard.Nevertheless, the theoretical implications of this movement and its spatial, cultural, and social settings are ripe for exploration within a number of different academic disciplines. The publication provides a comprehensive insight into these discourses.Since skateboarding can influence and touch upon so many aspects of our everyday life through its unique appropriation of and relation to the urban environment, the theoretical reflections and discursive explorations it triggers can alter the way we think and move.