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Author : Richard Kincaide
Publisher : Sports Pub
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1582616019
The Original Six Era, the most glorious and tumultuous time in Detroit hockey history, is brought to life through the words of many legendary players from the mid-1940s through the late '60s.
Author : Ludwig Drees
Publisher : Pall Mall Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015004813047
An account of the dramatic rise of Ancient Greek athletics, centering around its crowning achievement, the Olympic Games.
Author : Stefan Szymanski,Silke-Maria Weineck
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620974438
The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city's major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prizewinning cultural critic From Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to the Bad Boys, from Joe Louis and Gordie Howe to the Malice at the Palace, City of Champions explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes and most celebrated teams, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city's shifting fortunes. In an era when many teams have left rustbelt cities to relocate elsewhere, Detroit has held on to its franchises, and there is currently great hope in the revival of the city focused on its downtown sports complexes—but to whose benefit? Szymanski and Weineck show how the fate of the teams in Detroit's stadiums, gyms, and fields is echoed in the rise and fall of the car industry, political upheavals ushered in by the depression, World War II, the 1967 uprising, and its recent bankruptcy and renewal. Driven by the conviction that sports not only mirror society but also have a special power to create both community and enduring narratives that help define a city's sense of self, City of Champions is a unique history of the most American of cities.
Author : Ted Kulfan
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781600782404
If you're a through-thick-and-thin sports fan, The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly is especially for you. It will remind you of the great times and bring a smile to your face knowing you stuck with the team through the bad times, proving your loyalty. For everyone else, this warts-and-all portrait will provide countless fond memories, goose bumps, and laughs.
Author : Kelly McParland
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771056840
While the story of the Toronto Maple Leafs has been told many times, there has never been a full biography of the man who created, built and managed the team, turning it from a small-market collection of second-rate players into the hockey and financial powerhouse that dominated Canadian sports and created a collection of Canadian icons along the way. From the 1920s to the mid-1960s, Conn Smythe was one of the best-known, highest-profile figures in the country -- irascible, tempestuous, outspoken, and controversial. He not only constructed a hockey team that dominated the league for long stretches, but was critical to the growth and shaping of the NHL itself. By building Maple Leaf Gardens and hiring Foster Hewitt to fill Canada's living rooms with weekly broadcasts, he turned Saturday night into hockey night, creating institutions and habits that became central to Canada's character and remain with us today. Smythe's story is much deeper and richer than the tale of a cantankerous hockey owner. Smythe fought in both world wars, fighting at Ypres and Passchendaele in the first war and landing at Normandy in the second. He was wounded in both and spent two years as a POW in a German camp after being shot down in 1917. He grew up in poverty and vowed to escape the life that was so incredibly hard on his family. Smythe was active in politics and ignited a national crisis over conscription that split the Liberal government in two and brought Mackenzie King to the brink of resignation. This book tells the life of one of the country's great characters, a man who helped shape and define us and who left behind national habits and institutions that continue to lay at the heart of what makes Canada, Canada.
Author : Pat Gass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781683582571
So You Think You’re a Detroit Red Wings Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of Red Wings hockey. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you’ll get details behind each?stories that bring to life players and coaches, games and seasons. This book is divided into multiple parts, with progressively more difficult questions in each new section. Along the way, you’ll learn more about one of hockey’s Original Six teams. The book includes players and coaches of the past and present, from Gordie Howe to Steve Yzerman, Nicklas Lidström, Ted Lindsay, Terry Sawchuk, Chris Chelios, Chris Osgood, Red Kelly, Niklas Kronwall, Sid Abel, Marcel Pronovost, Alex Delvecchio, Dominik Hašek, Sergei Fedorov, and so many more. Some of the many questions that this book answers include: • Who was the first Red Wings coach to win the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s top coach? • Steve Yzerman was the captain of the Red Wings from 1986-2006. Who did he replace? • The Red Wings hold the NHL regular-season record with 62 wins. When did they set the record? • And many more! This book makes the perfect gift for any fan of the Red Wings!
Author : Jon Bream
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781627888028
This second edition of the history of rock's heaviest band gives you even more reasons to rock!This all-star tribute features many of today's top rock journalists from Rolling Stone, CREEM, Billboard, and more, as well as reflections on the band from some of rock's greatest performers, including members of the Kinks, Aerosmith, Heart, Mott the Hoople, the Minutemen, the Hold Steady, and many more.Glorious concert and behind-the-scenes photography cover the band from the first shows in 1968 as the New Yardbirds through today. More than 450 rare concert posters, backstage passes, tickets, LPs and singles, t-shirts, buttons, and more illustrate the book. A discography and tour itinerary complete the package, making a book as epic as the band it documents.Created from the ashes of the Yardbirds by guitarist and session wizard Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin featured virtuoso bass player John Paul Jones, gonzo drummer John Bonham, and Robert Plant, a vocalist like no other before him. The band single-handedly defined what rock 'n' roll could be, leaving in their wake tales as tall or as real as we wanted them to be.All of that, plus exclusive commentary from Ray Davies of the Kinks, Steve Earle, Kid Rock, Ace Frehley of Kiss, Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, Lenny Kravitz, Dolly Parton, and many more make this book one that no fan of Led Zeppelin will want to miss!
Author : George Cottrell
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534520295
Which civilization gave us the Olympic Games? It’s ancient Greece, and readers discover this and other fun facts as they explore one of the most influential ancient civilizations. As readers investigate the engaging main text, fact boxes, and sidebars, they uncover the Greek roots of theater, democracy, and philosophy, as well as many other contributions to the modern world made by the ancient Greeks. Detailed maps help readers develop their geography skills, and vivid photographs take readers into the heart of the ancient Greek world. This exciting look at a common social studies curriculum topic is sure to captivate readers.
Author : David Constantine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857719478
In the Footsteps of the Gods traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture, inspired those who travelled there. Gladiators and goddesses, philosophers and poets, epic battles and romantic landscapes: the classical world has for centuries captivated and inspired the west. But what provoked the shift from the western world's love-affair with classical Rome and its manifestation in the Renaissance, to the Hellenic world? The decisive switch in focus and taste from Rome to Greece began in the 17th century, when a succession of travellers - mainly from France and England - journeyed to Greece and what is now Turkey and rediscovered the Hellenic world. With lively accounts of their adventurous journeys and vivid descriptions of what they saw, discovered, collected and published about the remains of ancient Greece, In the Footsteps of the Gods reveals the extraordinary effects that these travellers' accounts had on the poets and scholars of the west, who in turn were influential in creating the idea and ideal of Greece, which became such a powerful force in the arts and politics of the 18th and early 19th centuries. At the heart of the book is, in the words of the classicist, Richard Stoneman, 'a poet's vision of Greece'.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990988521
Author : Norman Austin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299282738
Norman Austin brings both keen insight and a life-long engagement with his subject to this study of Sophocles’ late tragedy Philoctetes, a fifth-century BCE play adapted from an infamous incident during the Trojan War. In Sophocles’ “Philoctetes” and the Great Soul Robbery, Austin examines the rich layers of text as well as context, situating the play within the historical and political milieu of the eclipse of Athenian power. He presents a study at once of interest to the classical scholar and accessible to the general reader. Though the play, written near the end of Sophocles’ career, is not as familiar to modern audiences as his Theban plays, Philoctetes grapples with issues—social, psychological, and spiritual—that remain as much a part of our lives today as they were for their original Athenian audience.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : Mythology
ISBN : NYPL:33433003048083
Author : Polaris Lab
Publisher : Polaris Lab
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Ancient Greece is one of the most fascinating and important civilizations in history. Known for its art, philosophy, mythology, and politics, Ancient Greece has influenced the Western world for millennia. Its city-states, including Athens and Sparta, gave rise to forms of government such as democracy and oligarchy, while its writers, including Homer, Plato, and Aristotle, influenced Western literature and thought. But what is it that makes Ancient Greece so fascinating? Perhaps it is the idea of a society that, despite its antiquity, still seems modern. A society where art and culture were highly valued, where philosophy was practiced as a way of life, and where politics was the center of social life. Perhaps it is their mythology, with gods and goddesses who embodied beauty, wisdom, and strength, that continues to fascinate and inspire even today.
Author : John Bell
Publisher : London : Printed by and for J. Bell
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : Classical dictionaries
ISBN : UGA:32108004244185
Author : Tim Cooke
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0761478787
Examine the ancient Greek world through expertly designed maps and site drawings, bringing history to life.