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Publisher: Lannoo Uitgeverij
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9789020965865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis stunning and emotional photography book shows through hundreds of images how football unites people all over the world, how much fun the great game can be and how many emotions surround it. For this project, photographer Levon Biss travelled all ove
Author: Ransford Tetteh
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clemente A. Lisi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-10-12
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 153815644X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first complete history of the FIFA World Cup with a preview of the 2022 event in Qatar. Every four years, the world’s best national soccer teams compete for the FIFA World Cup. Billions of people tune in from around the world to experience the remarkable events unfolding live, both on and off the field. From Diego Maradona’s first goal against England at the 1986 World Cup to Nelson Mandela’s surprise appearance at the 2010 final in South Africa, these unforgettable World Cup moments have helped to create a global phenomenon. In The FIFA World Cup: A History of the Planet's Biggest Sporting Event, veteran soccer reporter Clemente A. Lisi chronicles the tournament from 1930 to today, including a preview of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Lisi provides vivid accounts of individual games, details the innovations that impacted the sport across the decades, and offers biographical sketches of greats such as Pelé, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi. In addition, Lisi includes needed, objective coverage of off-field controversies such as the FIFA corruption case, making this book the only complete and impartial history of the tournament. Featuring personal interviews and behind-the-scenes stories from the author’s many years attending and covering the World Cup, as well as stunning color photography, The FIFA World Cup is the definitive history of this global event.
Author: Madalina Serban
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 147713140X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book about faith, breakthroughs and courage to live one s dreams. About those encounters that become milestones in someone s life. Equally full of emotions and introspections into the deepest thoughts, One Love Journey captures three months of the author s life spent in Nepal -- a destination found only to become a new beginning. If we were to let our minds rest within our hearts, we would find all the answers. When you meet Madalina, her uniqueness strikes you. Armed with a heart full of love and strength she leaves her work one day, packs up her flat and goes out into the world to follow an inner call. Truthful to herself through every new day, she finds her search to bring out the greatest of gifts, leading her closer to the innermost questions. Courageous and passionate in her dealings with life, Madalina lets us into her gentle soul through these stories. It is an inspiration to read her beautiful writing. Madalina will donate her paperback and e-book royalties to Nepal Volunteers Hand Children Home that hosted her for the last five weeks of her stay in Nepal. To learn more about the organization please visit www.volunteershandnepal.org
Author: Billy Sloan
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Published: 2023-09-28
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1785304801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWHEN legendary music journalist Billy Sloan was fifteen years old he saw The Who play an incendiary live show at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow. It was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with music. Just a few years later he was backstage interviewing the likes of Keith Richards and David Bowie, at the height of Ziggy-mania, and it has been a life and career full of extraordinary moments. In ONE LOVE, ONE LIFE, Billy now tells his stories from the stars, from skipping Christmas dinner to see The Sex Pistols at the peak of their notoriety to friendships and adventures with some of music's biggest names and scoops that have hit the headlines. As well as legendary music and gigs, there's Grace Jones in the bath, candid conversations with Rod Stewart, football in Brazil with Simple Minds, a tour of the White House with Paolo Nutini, close encounters with U2 and so much more. Plus, the interviews that definitely didn't go as planned. Brilliantly entertaining and searingly honest, ONE LOVE, ONE LIFE is an incredible insight into the music industry, the stars we love and an unmissable backstage pass for music fans everywhere.
Author: Jim Bresnahan
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2006-07-19
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0786425466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat if Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson had stood side by side in Cleveland's outfield? What if integration had taken place in the major leagues before 1947? Who would have won the World Series had a strike not shortened the 1994 season? In this compilation of fantasy scenarios, the history of baseball from 1869 to the controversial 2003 playoffs is literally rewritten by fifty journalists, historians, authors and former baseball players. Topics include playing for pay, Merkle's Boner, rival leagues, the 1919 Series, Mickey Owens and the dropped strike, and integration. Chronologically organized, the experts take up the major events of each era and speculate on the long-and short-term outcomes had history followed a different, but still likely, course. The book concludes with an appendix in which the panel members hold forth on general-interest topics such as star-crossed players who might have gone on to Hall of Fame careers, the greatest big-game players, and World Series pairings.
Author: Sébastien Tremblay
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-12-04
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 3111067718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Badge of Injury is a contribution to both the fields of queer and global history. It analyses gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. Following the journey of the Pink Triangle and its many iterations, A Badge of Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the creation of gay and lesbian transregional narratives of pride or the construction of the historical queer subject. Beyond a success story, the book dives into some of the shortcomings of Euro-American queer history and the power of the negative, writing an emancipatory yet critical story of the era.
Author: Darren Lilleker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-05
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 1040175473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning provides an essential, global, and timely overview of current realities, as well as anticipating the trajectory and evolution of campaigning in the coming years. Offering a comprehensive analysis, the handbook is structured into seven thematic sections, including the campaign environment; rhetoric and persuasion; campaign strategies; campaign tactics and platform affordances; news and journalism; citizens and voters; and civil society. The chapters within each section reflect on the latest societal, technological, and cultural developments and their impact on campaigning, on democratic culture within societies, and on the roles that campaigns might play in both facilitating and impeding political engagement. Key trends and innovations are examined alongside case studies and examples from a range of nations and political contexts. Issues around trust and representation are further reflected in a focus on the wider campaigning environment and the rise in importance of grassroots and pressure groups, social movements, and movements that coalesce within digital environments. The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning is an essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in political communication, media and communication, elections and voting behavior, digital media, journalism, social movements, strategic communication, social media, and more broadly to democracy, sociology, and public policy.
Author: Daniel Haxall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-10-04
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1501334581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world's most popular sport, soccer, has long been celebrated as “the beautiful game” for its artistry and aesthetic appeal. Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art is the first collection to examine the rich visual culture of soccer, including the fine arts, design, and mass media. Covering a range of topics related to the game's imagery, this volume investigates the ways soccer has been promoted, commemorated, and contested in visual terms. Throughout various mediums and formats-including illustrated newspapers, modern posters, and contemporary artworks-soccer has come to represent issues relating to identity, politics, and globalization. As the contributors to this collection suggest, these representations of the game reflect society and soccer's place in our collective imagination. Perspectives from a range of fields including art history, sociology, sport history, and media studies enrich the volume, affording a multifaceted visual history of the beautiful game.
Author: Howard Nixon II
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-24
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 131738377X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful "golden triangle" of sports, media, and business interests with social, cultural, economic, and political forces shapes sport in a changing world. This edition is a condensed and updated version of the first edition, with an emphasis on current social issues in sport. It also has more global content. The golden triangle concept is more developed and applied more extensively. Other key themes of the first edition—power, status, and inequality—are also more developed. New "Stop and Think Questions" have been added to challenge students to think about the meaning of what they have read. The book is now divided into five sections. The new sections highlight sociology and the sociology of sport; inequality and diversity; globalization and social deviance; major social contexts of sport, including the high school, college, and professional levels; and power, political economy, and global sports.
