Secret Vancouver 2010

Author : Alison Appelbe
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781554905645

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Secret Vancouver 2010 by Alison Appelbe Pdf

In 1963, Jimmy Wynn was the second most famous man in America. The comedian's uncanny impression of the President made him a star. But when the genuine article died in a hail of bullets on a sunny afternoon in New Orleans, Jimmy's career met a fate almost as grisly. What happened to the funny man afterward was a mystery no one cared to solve. Nearly 25 years later, Nathan Grant, an ambitious young journalist, discovers the trail Jimmy cut through the entertainment netherworld. He soon realizes this forgotten court jester may have played a very serious part in the country's favorite conspiracy theory. Grant's strange and increasingly dangerous odyssey takes him from a dingy New York record store to the showrooms of Las Vegas, a ghost town in the Mojave Desert, and even a dinner theatre in Niagara Falls. A dark comedy about the cost of fame, Jason Anderson's "Showbiz" is the story of a man who became a punchline and a writer who is desperate to find out how the rest of the joke goes.

Author : Alison Appelbe
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1459652037

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Secret Vancouver by Alison Appelbe Pdf

Revised and expanded for the 2010 Olympics. It's been said that Vancouver is a little superficial. Observers point to her great bones, pretty face, and fine outerwear of mountains, gardens, trees and water. But there's more to this Pacific coast city than good looks. Vancouver has character, warmth, brains and style - even some spunk. Consider funky, former - industrial Yaletown, where restaurants and tasting bars serve locally sourced and seasonal cuisine in an ultra - chic atmosphere, at prices so modest they'll shock the knowing American. Or visit the dramatic Museum of Anthropology, with its historic aboriginal totem poles still standing tall in the Great Hall. This revised and expanded edition of Secret Vancouver, just in time for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, includes even more secret sites, restaurants, bars, patios, bookstores, yoga classes, and other off - the - beaten - path finds. Where can you get good wireless internet? Where can you relax with a drink and the best ocean views? Whether you are a long - time local or casual vacationer, let Secret Vancouver introduce you to the sights, sensations and stories you'd never think to look for.

Author : Colin Bennett,Kevin Haggerty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136801587

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Security Games by Colin Bennett,Kevin Haggerty Pdf

Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "nothing should go wrong." There are, however, an almost infinite number of things that can "go wrong"; producing the perceived need for pre-emptive risk assessments, and an expanding range of security measures, including extensive forms and levels of surveillance. These measures are delivered by a "security/industrial complex" consisting of powerful transnational corporate, governmental and military actors, eager to showcase the latest technologies and prove that they can deliver "spectacular levels of security". Mega-events have thus become occasions for experiments in monitoring people and places. And, as such, they have become important moments in the development and dispersal of surveillance, as the infrastructure established for mega-events are often marketed as security solutions for the more routine monitoring of people and place. Mega-events, then, now serve as focal points for the proliferation of security and surveillance. They are microcosms of larger trends and processes, through which – as the contributors to this volume demonstrate – we can observe the complex ways that security and surveillance are now implicated in unique confluences of technology, institutional motivations, and public-private security arrangements. As the exceptional conditions of the mega-event become the norm, Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events therefore provides the glimpse of a possible future that is more intensively and extensively monitored.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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2010 Winter Olympics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melissa M. Littlefield
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421424668

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Instrumental Intimacy by Melissa M. Littlefield Pdf

By contextualizing and analyzing EEG wearables, Instrumental Intimacy provides a crucial intervention in an emergent consumer market and in the scholarly fields of STS, critical neuroscience, and the history of technology.

Author : H. Lenskyj,S. Wagg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780230367463

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The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies by H. Lenskyj,S. Wagg Pdf

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers.

Author : Hayley Wickenheiser
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781553655800

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Gold Medal Diary by Hayley Wickenheiser Pdf

In Gold Medal Diary, Hayley Wickenheiser, three-time Olympic gold medal winner and captain of the Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team, reveals her day-to-day experiences of the 2010 Games, including the six-month lead-up of intensive training and pre-Olympic tournaments. She shares the life of an Olympian — the behind-the-scenes stories, the highs and lows, physical and emotional challenges, struggles and triumphs of an elite athlete in a hyper-intense environment, including details of the public ceremonies and private moments, friendships and rivalries, community and isolation, media presence and security. For the first time ever, readers travel inside the storied Athletes’ Village and understand what it’s like to live through the most high-pressure, high-profile sporting event in the world.

Author : Estée Fresco
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228015147

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Red Mitten Nationalism by Estée Fresco Pdf

When Canada hosted the 1976 Montreal Olympics, few Canadian spectators waved flags in the stands. By 2010, in the run-up to the Vancouver Olympics, thousands of Canadians wore red mittens with white maple leaves on the palms. In doing so, they turned their hands into miniature flags that flew with even a casual wave. Red Mitten Nationalism investigates this shift in Canadians’ displays of patriotism by exploring how common understandings of Canadian history and identity are shaped at the intersection of sport, commercialism, and nationalism. Through case studies of recent Canadian-hosted Olympic and Commonwealth Games, Estée Fresco argues that representations of Indigenous Peoples’ cultures are central to the way everyday Canadians, corporations, and sport organizations remember the past and understand the present. Corporate sponsors and games organizers highlight selective ideas about the nation’s identity, and unacknowledged truths about the history and persistence of Settler colonialism in Canada haunt the commercial and cultural features of these sporting events. Commodities that represent the nation – from disposable trinkets to carefully curated objects of nostalgia – are not uncomplicated symbols of national pride, but rather reminders that Canada is built on Indigenous land and Settlers profit from its natural resources. Red Mitten Nationalism challenges readers to re-evaluate how Canadians use sport and commercial practices to express their patriotism and to understand the impact of this expression on the current state of Indigenous-Settler relations.

Author : Jacqueline Kennelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317337003

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Olympic Exclusions by Jacqueline Kennelly Pdf

Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is known about the realities of marginalized young people living in host cities. Do they benefit from social housing and employment opportunities? Or do they fall victim to increased policing and evaporating social assistance? This book answers these questions through an original ethnographic study of young people living in the shadow of Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. Setting qualitative research alongside critical analysis of policy documents, bidding reports and media accounts, this study explores the tension between promises made and lived reality. Its eight chapters offer a rich and complex account of marginalized young people’s experiences as they navigate the possibilities and contradictions of living in an Olympic host city. Their stories illustrate the limits to the promises made by Olympic bidding and organizing committees and raise important questions about the ethics of public funding for such mega‐events. This book will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in the Olympics, sport and social exclusion, and sport and politics, as well as for those working in the fields of youth studies, social policy and urban studies.

Author : Lenore Rowntree,Andrew Boden
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781927366547

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Hidden Lives by Lenore Rowntree,Andrew Boden Pdf

A revised and updated edition of a collection of personal essays that illuminate what life is like for those who live with mental illness, and how it impacts their family members. More than 4 million Canadians and 57 million Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness, and yet there are still considerable stigmas and a great deal of misunderstanding surrounding even the most common diagnoses—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and dissociative identity disorder. Rather than analyze the diagnoses and symptoms, these first-hand accounts focus on the very essence of a psycho-emotional breakdown, and respond to the mental, physical, and emotional turmoil it inevitably causes. What does a mother do when her teenage son's personality suddenly fractures? How does a police officer cope when his employer refuses to provide adequate care until he can prove his PTSD is work-related? How do children grow up under the care of a manic father whose illness lands him in and out of medical and social incarceration? Raw, honest, and painful, these essays communicate disappointment and despair, but also courage and compassion. They offer a lifeline for sufferers and support for their friends and family, and promote new and improved attitudes toward those with mental illness. With a foreword by respected physician, bestselling author, and renowned speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, Hidden Lives gives readers a place to turn, and provides a platform to share their struggle.

Author : Akhil Patel
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857198587

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The Secret Wealth Advantage by Akhil Patel Pdf

During your life you will make many important financial decisions. Their success will be significantly affected by the state of the economy and financial markets when you make them. Imagine if you had a guide to the future to help you anticipate periods of boom and bust and make decisions accordingly: when to invest and take risk, and when to sell or take measures to preserve your wealth. The Secret Wealth Advantage is that guide. To make better investment decisions at the right times, you need to understand the 18-year cycle. It is responsible for all of the periods of wild speculation and spectacular collapse that have been a feature of the modern economy for well over 200 years. At the heart of this cycle is the property market. Understand this and you will be able to forecast precisely what will happen next. Using a treasure trove of historical data and entertaining stories from the present and prior periods, The Secret Wealth Advantage reveals everything you need to know about the cycle: where we are within it, why it happens, why no one sees it and what you need to look out for. And, most importantly, The Secret Wealth Advantage provides you with a practical guide for what to do at each stage of the cycle. Put this into action and a world that appears complex and chaotic can be mastered. You will have an investment edge that seasoned professionals can only dream of.

Author : Hester Barnard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304057839

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Flash (Back) Forward - No Trim by Hester Barnard Pdf

Flash (Back) Forward is a reproduction of the Flash Forward (Emerging Photographers From 2010) catalogue. The text of the Flash Forward exhibition catalogue has been reproduced accurately, but no photographs have been included. Each image or graphic device has been substituted with its linguistic equivalent.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781784780739

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Power Games by Jules Boykoff Pdf

A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.

Author : David V. Barrett
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781849018111

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A Brief Guide to Secret Religions by David V. Barrett Pdf

This wide-ranging book explores the diversity of esoteric and occult beliefs. Neo-Paganism is one of the fastest-growing new religions in the western world where witchcraft or Wicca, Druidry, and Urban Shamanism are thriving. Alongside this there has been an upsurge in New Age ideas of an even wider variety, including astrology, Tarot, numerology, and many others. And then there are members of various schools of occult science, practising High Magic. Why this new interest in old beliefs? Why are millions of educated people today abandoning both the established religion of their parents and 21st century scientific rationalism and turning to magic and esoteric teachings? In their search for spirituality those who follow these paths claim to be applying ancient wisdom to the modern world. The Brief History of Secret Religions, a companion book to The Brief History of Secret Societies, looks at the history and variety of these esoteric movements, where they came from and what they tell us about the world today. Praise for The New Believers: 'an excellent guide to fringe religions that juxtaposes "respectable" movements and those conventionally dismissed as cults.' The Telegraph. 'no-nonsense, comprehensive survey packed with non-judgmental information about the beliefs, aims and activities of such movements. Daily Mail.

Author : Franz Konstantin Fuss,Aleksandar Subic,Martin Strangwood,Rabindra Mehta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136966590

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Routledge Handbook of Sports Technology and Engineering by Franz Konstantin Fuss,Aleksandar Subic,Martin Strangwood,Rabindra Mehta Pdf

From carbon fibre racing bikes to ‘sharkskin’ swimsuits, the application of cutting-edge design, technology and engineering has proved to be a vital ingredient in enhanced sports performance. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of contemporary sports technology and engineering, providing a complete overview of academic, professional and industrial knowledge and technique. The book is divided into eight sections covering the following topics : Sustainable Sports Engineering Instrumentation Technology Summer Mobility Sports Winter Mobility Sports Apparel and Protection Equipment Sports Implements (racquets, clubs, bats, sticks) Sports Balls Sports Surfaces and Facilities Written by an international team of leading experts from industry, academia and commercial research institutes, the emphasis throughout the book is on innovation, the relationship between business and science, and the improvement of sports performance. This is an essential reference for anybody working in sports technology, sports product design, sports engineering, biomechanics, ergonomics, sports business or applied sport science.