The Marvellous Mania

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780141909189

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The Marvellous Mania by Alistair Cooke Pdf

Although Alistair Cooke called golf 'a method of self-torture, disguised as a game', from the first time he swung a club at the age of fifty-five, he was hooked for the rest of his life. This book brings together the best of Cooke's writings about his greatest sporting passion, which display the incomparable wit, the unexpected insights, the mischievous charm, the elegance and enchantment which made him famous for over sixty years as a broadcaster. Whether he is writing about the pleasures of a bout in the snow, how the 'senior golfer' secretly disguises their ageing swing, Arnold Palmer playing in 102-degree heat in San Antonio, dapper Gary Player winning the U.S. Open at Creve Coeur, Missouri, or Jack Nicklaus playing - and winning - almost anywhere, (not to mention a surprising and persistent tendresse for Raquel Welch), Alistair Cooke on his favourite sport is a rare and constant pleasure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112064259390

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Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MINN:319510020627265

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The Columbian Cyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ephraim Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433003242934

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Chambers's Encyclopædia by Ephraim Chambers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCAL:B2927673

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Chambers's Encyclopædia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HC41G4

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Medical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013080432

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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Scientific theories by Orestes Augustus Brownson Pdf

Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : MSU:31293010597908

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The Spirit-rapper by Orestes Augustus Brownson Pdf

Author : Kélina Gotman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190840440

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Choreomania by Kélina Gotman Pdf

When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the 'disorder' being described is choreomania. At once a catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly movements of crowds, 'choreomania' emerged in the nineteenth century at a time of heightened class conflict, nationalist policy, and colonial rule. In this book, author Kélina Gotman examines these choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of the choreomania concept as it moved across scientific and social scientific disciplines. Reading archives describing dramatic misformations-of bodies and body politics-she shows how prejudices against expressivity unravel, in turn revealing widespread anxieties about demonstrative agitation. This history of the fitful body complements stories of nineteenth-century discipline and regimentation. As she notes, constraints on movement imply constraints on political power and agency. In each chapter, Gotman confronts the many ways choreomania works as an extension of discourses shaping colonialist orientalism, which alternately depict riotous bodies as dangerously infected others, and as curious bacchanalian remains. Through her research, Gotman also shows how beneath the radar of this colonial discourse, men and women gathered together to repossess on their terms the gestures of social revolt.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027005498

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The Plays of Shakespeare. Edited by Howard Staunton; the Illustrations by John Gilbert; Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Drugs
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102979622

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Therapeutic Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Brodie,Carl Jungk,Francis Edward Stewart,John J. Mulheron,Albert Brown Lyons,Robert Meade Smith,Horatio C. Wood,Hobart Amory Hare,Edward Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Therapeutics
ISBN : CHI:73663935

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The Therapeutic Gazette by William Brodie,Carl Jungk,Francis Edward Stewart,John J. Mulheron,Albert Brown Lyons,Robert Meade Smith,Horatio C. Wood,Hobart Amory Hare,Edward Martin Pdf

Author : Brian MacArthur
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 155970442X

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Requiem by Brian MacArthur Pdf

Reprints over eighty journalistic tributes that appeared in the British press in response to the death of Princess Diana in August 1997.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781497697942

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Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke by Alistair Cooke Pdf

From Duke Ellington to Churchill Downs, championship golf to Greta Garbo, Alistair Cooke reports on the popular sports and entertainments he loved the most This delightful anthology, drawn from Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America BBC broadcasts as well as his reporting for the Guardian, showcases the legendary journalist’s wide range of sporting pleasures, which include golf, tennis, baseball, and horse racing, and records memorable fun he had with favorite movies, theater productions, and jazz performances. Included here are perceptive portraits of sports personalities such as Gabriela Sabatini, Arnold Palmer, and Sugar Ray Robinson, whom Cooke regarded as the best fighter in the history of boxing. “A Mountain Comes to Muhammad” captures Muhammad Ali in victory; “Come-Uppance for the ‘Onliest Champion’ ” portrays him in defeat. A “Revised (Soviet) History of Baseball” humorously details Russian misconceptions about America’s pastime, a.k.a. beizbol. In “The Road to Churchill Downs,” Cooke captures the sights and sounds of Kentucky’s crown jewel and delights in the joy that his young daughter, Susan, who appears with her father on the cover of this edition, takes in the sport of kings. Sharing the spotlight are celebrities of the Hollywood variety, including Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Groucho Marx, and Charlie Chaplin. Filled with Cooke’s infectious enthusiasm for fun and games of wide variety, the lighter side of the legendary journalist’s output will be enjoyed by devotees of popular culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UVA:X030760259

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Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopædia by Anonim Pdf