Tarnished Rings

Author : Stephen Wenn,Robert Barney,Scott Martyn
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780815655541

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Tarnished Rings by Stephen Wenn,Robert Barney,Scott Martyn Pdf

In late 1998 and the early months of 1999, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was an organization in crisis. Revelations of a slush fund employed by Salt Lake City officials to secure votes from a number of IOC members in support of the city’s bid for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games invited intense scrutiny of the organization by the international media. The IOC and its president, Juan Antonio Samaranch, staggered through the opening weeks of the scandal, but ultimately Samaranch and key actors such as IOC vice president Richard Pound, marketing director Michael Payne, and director-general François Carrard weathered the storm. They also safeguarded the IOC’s autonomy and subsequently spearheaded the push for reforms to the Olympic Charter, intended to better position the IOC for the twenty-first century. In Tarnished Rings, the authors delve into this fascinating story, exploring the genesis of the scandal and charting the IOC’s efforts to bring stability to its operations. Based on extensive research and unparalleled access to primary and source material, the authors offer a behind-the-scenes account of the politics surrounding the IOC and the bidding process. Wenn, Barney, and Martyn’s potent examination of this critical episode in Olympic history and of the presidency of Samaranch, who brought sweeping changes to the Olympic Movement in the 1980s and 1990s, offers valuable lessons for those interested in the IOC, the Olympic Movement, and the broader concepts of leadership and crisis management.

Author : Dylon Whyte
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1600592201

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Beaded Chain Mail Jewelry by Dylon Whyte Pdf

Bestselling author and chain mail expert Whyte presents his time-tested, time-saving techniques with more than 30 breathtaking projects, ranging from extremely simple to challenging. Illustrations throughout.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Matthew Llewellyn,John Gleaves,Wayne Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317502463

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The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games by Matthew Llewellyn,John Gleaves,Wayne Wilson Pdf

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and polarizing. On the one hand they have been heralded as an overwhelming, transformative success, ushering the Olympic movement into the modern commercial age. On the other hand, critics have repudiated the Games as a manifestation of commercial excess and a platform for western political and cultural propaganda. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Olympics, this volume examines their legacy. With an international collection of contributing scholars, this volume will span a range of global legacies, including the increasing commercialization of the Games, the changing participation of women, the Communist boycott movement, nationalism and sporting identity, and the modernization and California-cation of the Games. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118609408

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A Companion to American Sport History by Steven A. Riess Pdf

A Companion to American Sport History presents acollection of original essays that represent the firstcomprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing fieldof American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarshiprelating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars workingin the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonialtimes to the present day, including major sports such as baseball,football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and trackand field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization,technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sportsbiography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)

Author : Alice Karlsdóttir
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620554081

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Norse Goddess Magic by Alice Karlsdóttir Pdf

A practical guide to the magic of the feminine side of the Norse pantheon • Provides invocations and rituals to call each goddess forth for personal and group spirit work • Details the author’s trancework to discover the personalities and powers of Frigg the Allmother, wife of Odin, and the 12 lesser-known Aesir goddesses associated with her • Offers a comprehensive guide to tranceworking to connect with the deities Combining traditional research on folklore and the Eddas with trancework and meditation techniques, Alice Karlsdóttir was able to rediscover the feminine side of the Norse pantheon and assemble working knowledge of 13 Norse goddesses for both group ritual and personal spirit work. Detailing her trancework journeys to connect with the goddesses, the author reveals the long-lost personalities and powers of each deity. She explores the Norse goddess Frigg the Allmother, wife of Odin, along with the 12 Asynjur, or Aesir goddesses, associated with her, such as Sjofn the peacemaker, Eir the Healer, and Vor the Wisewoman. She shares their appearances in the Eddas and Germanic mythology and explains the meanings of their names, their relationships to each other, and their connections to the roles of women in Old Norse society. She provides detailed instructions for invocations and rituals to call each goddess forth for personal and group spirit work. She also offers a comprehensive guide to ritual tranceworking to allow anyone to directly experience deities and spiritual beings and develop spirit-work relationships with them.

Author : Tim Pratt
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780809557578

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If There Were Wolves by Tim Pratt Pdf

Author : Matthew P Llewellyn,John Gleaves
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780252098772

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The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism by Matthew P Llewellyn,John Gleaves Pdf

For decades, amateurism defined the ideals undergirding the Olympic movement. No more. Today's Games present athletes who enjoy open corporate sponsorship and unabashedly compete for lucrative commercial endorsements. Matthew P. Llewellyn and John Gleaves analyze how this astonishing transformation took place. Drawing on Olympic archives and a wealth of research across media, the authors examine how an elite--white, wealthy, often Anglo-Saxon--controlled and shaped an enormously powerful myth of amateurism. The myth assumed an air of naturalness that made it seem unassailable and, not incidentally, served those in power. Llewellyn and Gleaves trace professionalism's inroads into the Olympics from tragic figures like Jim Thorpe through the shamateur era of under-the-table cash and state-supported athletes. As they show, the increasing acceptability of professionals went hand-in-hand with the Games becoming a for-profit international spectacle. Yet the myth of amateurism's purity remained a potent force, influencing how people around the globe imagined and understood sport. Timely and vivid with details, The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism is the first book-length examination of the movement's foundational ideal.

Author : Robert Edelman,Wayne Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199858910

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The Oxford Handbook of Sports History by Robert Edelman,Wayne Wilson Pdf

Practiced and watched by billions, sport is a global phenomenon. Sport history is a burgeoning sub-field that explores sport in all forms to help answer fundamental questions that scholars examine. This volume provides a reference for sport scholars and an accessible introduction to those who are new to the sub-field.

Author : Trinie Dalton
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617750557

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Wide Eyed by Trinie Dalton Pdf

“A wonderfully eccentric and vibrant collection . . . Sometimes dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish, always riveting” (Jill McCorkle, New York Times–bestselling author of Life After Life). In “Hummingbird Moonshine,” a frustrated hunt for authentic religion in botanicas and science books culminates in a spiritual connection made with a hummingbird. In “Oceanic,” the narrator resolves to marry a manatee after a drunken pre-party for her best friend’s wedding. In “Tiles,” four vignettes about bloody accidents in tiled bathrooms intermingle with scenes from the author’s favorite scary movies. In Trinie Dalton’s tweaked vision of reality, psychic communications between herself and Mick Jagger, The Flaming Lips, Marc Bolan, Lou Reed, and Pavement are daily occurrences. Animals also populate this book: beavers, hamsters, salamanders, black widows, owls, llamas, bats, and many more are characters who befriend the narrator. This collection of stories is told by a woman compelled to divulge her secrets, fantasies, and obsessions with native Californian animals, glam rock icons, and horror movies, among other things. With a setting rooted in urban Los Angeles but colored by mythic tales of beauty borrowed from medieval times, Shakespeare, and Grimm’s fairy tales, Wide Eyed makes the difficulties of surviving in a contemporary American city more palatable by showing the reader that magic and escape is always possible. “A delightfully weird and disarming read.” —Publishers Weekly “Trinie Dalton’s voice is so charming in these stories and they fly right by, so it takes a little time to realize how deftly she is talking about death and sex and fear and love and fur and slumber parties, how lightly she touches upon heaviness, making an imprint so gentle you don’t know it’s there until later, when the story floats back up in your memory.” —Aimee Bender “These charming stories vibrate with innocence and awe. Trinie Dalton is an effortless purveyor of wonder, strangeness, and love. She is a writer of high spirits and unguarded vision, and this debut collection is an absolute pleasure to read.” —Ben Marcus

Author : Melissa Ford
Publisher : Que Publishing
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780134303109

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Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine by Melissa Ford Pdf

Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine: Play Inside a Story If you’ve ever dreamed about walking through the pages of a book, fighting dragons, or exploring planets then Twine is for you. This interactive fiction program enables you to create computer games where worlds are constructed out of words and simple scripts can allow the player to pick up or drop objects, use items collected in the game to solve puzzles, or track injury in battle by reducing hit points. If you’ve clicked your way through 80 Days, trekked through the underground Zork kingdom, or attempted to save an astronaut with Lifeline, you’re already familiar with interactive fiction. If not, get ready to have your imagination stretched as you learn how to direct a story path. The best part about interactive fiction stories is that they are simple to make and can serve as a gateway into the world of coding for the nonprogrammer or new programmer. You’ll find expert advice on everything from creating vivid characters to building settings that come alive. Ford’s easy writing prompts help you get started, so you’ll never face a blank screen. Her “Try It Out” exercises go way beyond the basics, helping you bring personal creativity and passion to every story you create! Get familiar with the popular Twine scripting program Learn how to design puzzles Build your own role-playing game with stat systems Maintain an inventory of objects Learn game design and writing basics Change the look of your story using CSS and HTML Discover where you can upload your finished games and find players

Author : William Thomson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mathematical and Physical Papers: Volume 2 by William Thomson Pdf

A six-volume collection of the scientific papers of Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), one of Britain's most eminent mathematical physicists.

Author : Electrochemical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electrochemistry
ISBN : UVA:X030156753

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Transactions of the Electrochemical Society by Electrochemical Society Pdf

Author : Andrew Zimbalist
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815727279

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Circus Maximus by Andrew Zimbalist Pdf

An updated and expanded analysis of the economic tensions behind the Olympics and the World Cup games. Andrew Zimbalist looks beyond the headlines of two of the world’s most beloved sporting events: the Olympics and the World Cup. In the updated and expanded edition of his bestselling book, Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Zimbalist tackles the bogus claim that cities chosen to host these high-profile sporting events experience an economic windfall. In this new edition he takes aim at the outrageous FIFA scandal, Boston’s bid for the 2024 summer Olympics, and the criticism surrounding the 2015 Women's World Cup. Circus Maximus focuses on major cities, like London and Barcelona, that have previously hosted these sporting events, to provide context for cities like Tokyo and Rio de Janerio, which are currently bearing the weight of exploding expenses, corruption, and protests. Zimbalist offers a sobering and candid look at the Olympics and the World Cup from outside the echo chamber.

Author : Cambridge Philosophical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015012112531

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Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society Pdf