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Author: Frank Zarnowski
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780810854239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This detailed book includes twenty-five photos and a wealth of statistical data. It will hold great appeal for sports historians as well as the fans, athletes, and coaches of modern-day track and field events."--Jacket.
Author: Patrick R. Redmond
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-07-30
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1476672393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the turn of the 20th century, track and field in the U.S. was the domain of the wealthy. While baseball and prize-fighting attracted athletes from the lower orders of society, athletic clubs generally recruited the top sporting graduates from private colleges--except one. New York's Irish-American Athletic Club was founded by and for immigrants. Membership was not exclusively Irish--Jews, African Americans, Scandinavians, Italians, and even a handful of Englishmen joined the club, which dominated local and national athletics for more than a decade. The I-AAC laid claim to the title of best athletic club in the world following the 1908 Olympic Games, bent the rules on amateurism and challenged the ban on Sunday entertainments before succumbing to aftereffects of World War I and Prohibition.
Author: Jimmy Hexter
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1422163415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina has matured as a market—and the game has changed. Yesterday, multinationals grappled with fundamental strategic choices: Do we go to China? Whom do we partner with? Where should we invest? Winning in China was all about achieving approval to enter the market, picking the right joint venture partner and selling in the right few cities to the right customers. Execution didn’t matter as much as privileged access—through government and partner relationships. Today, China is teeming with MNCs and local competitors. Government is no longer the main driver of deals. Barriers to entry have fallen. Regulations are less of a factor. Partners are no longer required in many industries. Winning now depends on great execution: effectively and efficiently developing, marketing, producing, and channeling goods to customers and growing and retaining a talent base. In Operation China, Jimmy Hexter and Jonathan Woetzel explain how you can achieve superior execution in China—through operations including talent management, product development, information technology, procurement, supply-chain management, manufacturing, and sales, marketing, and distribution. Based on over two decades of consulting experience for both local and multinational operations in China and extensive research on what drives success in operating in China, this book helps you get your operations right in the new competitive arena defining China today.
Author: Michael Foley
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
Published: 2020-07-06
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1788492293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of police and military rumbled through the city streets as hundreds of people clamoured at the metal gates of Dublin Castle seeking refuge. Some of them were headed for Croke Park. Award-winning journalist and author Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park and the 90 seconds of shooting that changed Ireland forever. In a deeply intimate portrait he tells for the first time the stories of those killed, the police and military personnel who were in Croke Park that day, and the families left shattered in its aftermath, all against the backdrop of a fierce conflict that stretched from the streets of Dublin and the hedgerows of Tipperary to the halls of Westminster. Updated with new information and photographs.
Author: William Bosworth
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2017-04-17
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1524587699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarold Cardinal Farley, a high-ranking American cardinal and archbishop, is asked by the pope, who happens to be a personal friend from seminary days, to serve on a worldwide commission of Church hierarchy that seeks to find a way to ease the cumbersome annulment requirements of the Catholic Church. Serving on this commission would press on him greatly in the decision he has to make as a conservative Catholic prelate. There are lives close to him that are affected by the very problem he is investigating. Most of all, however, it affects his growing love for Ann Lincroft, the attractive wife of wealthy banker Charles Lincroft, and a friend of his over many years. Circumstances in his life change radically while serving on the commission, and he is ultimately forced to make the most critical decision of his life.
