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Author: Pete Davies
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In time for the 1994 World Cup games that will take place across the U.S., this is the ultimate handbook for the serious soccer fan--a complete guide to the game, the World Cup, and USA '94. Charts throughout.
Author: Joyce D. Duncan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-11-19
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 1851095594
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A unique and timely exploration of the cultural impact of sport on American society, including lifestyles, language, and thinking. Sport in American Culture is the first and only reference work to provide an in-depth and up-to-date exploration of sport and its impact on American culture. Essays from more than 200 scholars, professionals, and sports enthusiasts address how sport has changed our lifestyles, language, and thinking. Arranged alphabetically, the work introduces key sport figures and national icons, with a focus on their cultural impact, examines individual sports and how they have influenced society, and discusses such phenomena as the billion-dollar athletic apparel industry, sport as big business, and the effect of sport on gender, racial views, pride, and nationalism. In addition to expected topics, the work also includes less studied areas such as myths, audience rituals, Wheaties, comic books, the hula hoop, and religion.
Author: Pete Davies
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1466862823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in American history. On July 7, 1919, an extraordinary cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of them lay 3,250 miles of dirt, mud, rock, and sand. Sixty-two days later they arrived in San Francisco, having averaged just five miles an hour. Known as the First Transcontinental Motor Train, this trip was an adventure, a circus, a public relations coup, and a war game all rolled into one. As road conditions worsened, it also became a daily battle of sweat and labor, of guts and determination. American Road is the story of this incredible journey. Pete Davies takes us from east to west, bringing to life the men on the trip, their trials with uncooperative equipment and weather, and the punishing landscape they encountered. Ironically one of the participants was a young soldier named Dwight Eisenhower, who, four decades later, as President, launched the building of the interstate highway system. Davies also provides a colorful history of transcontinental car travel in this country, including the first cross-country trips and the building of the Lincoln Highway. This richly detailed book offers a slice of Americana, a piece of history unknown to many, and a celebration of our love affair with the road.
Author: Pete Davies
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-10-15
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780805066227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1918, the Spanish flu killed up to 40 million people across the planet. From the remotest villages in Arctic climates to crowded U.S. cities to the battlefields of Europe, there were plague houses in which whole families lay sick or dead. In Madras, train services stopped running, as one-third of its workforce fell ill. In Calcutta, the postal service and the legal system ground to a halt. And in the United States, it killed more Americans than all the wars fought in the twentieth century put together. The disease did not discriminate. It took whom it pleased -- rich or poor, distinguished or humble, hungry or well nourished, healthy or infirm. It was a flu unlike any that the world had encountered before or that has come along since.
Author: Steve Redhead
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1134821131
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Soccer fandom has traditionally been seen as an important part of adolescent, generally male, identity making. In Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues , Steve Redhead shows how this tradition of youth culture of fandom has been eroded in the last years of the twentieth century by the more fleeting, style conscious allegiances inspired by television, films and music. The clubs that young people follow are determined by advertising and popular music; the games that they watch are brought to them by the globalized culture of television, as in the world cup staged in America; even their fears of so-called soccer hooliganism are determined by media-engendered moral panics at a time when the phenomenon itself seems to be dying away.
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Published: 1994-04
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).
Author: North American Society for Sport History
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 646
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tom Owens
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780761314004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What makes one team a winner and another a loser? Who develops game strateay? How have game plans changed over the years?
Author: Dennis H. Reid
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780964556218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pete Davies
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Framed by graphic and moving accounts of the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, this is the story of what happens when hurricanes come, how they arise, who's looking out for them, and what happens in their aftermath.
