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Readings from the Works of Charles Dickens

By: Charles Dickens,John Andrew Jennings

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Readings from the Works of Charles Dickens

By: Charles Dickens,John Andrew Jennings

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385444403

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9783385444409

The Cases That Haunt Us

By: John Douglas,Mark Olshaker

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Certain criminal cases have a life of their own. Despite the passage of years they continue their hold on the public imagination, either because of the personalities involved, the depravity of the crime, doubts over whether justice was done, or the tantalizing fact that no one was ever caught... Now John Douglas, the foremost investigative analyst and criminal profiler of our time, turns his attention to eight of the greatest mysteries in the history of crime, including those of Jack the Ripper, The Boston Strangler and JonBenet Ramsey. Taking a fresh look at the established facts, Douglas and Olshaker dismantle the conventional wisdom regarding these most notorious of crimes and rebuild them - with astonishing results.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471108341

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9781471108341

The Modern Elocutionist

By: John Andrew Jennings

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The Modern Elocutionist

By: John Andrew Jennings

Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.

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3368634399

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9783368634391

Football, Corruption and Lies

Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban

By: John Sugden,Alan Tomlinson

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Football, Corruption and Lies

Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban

By: John Sugden,Alan Tomlinson

World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at the heart of world football. It was a book that FIFA and Sepp Blatter tried to ban. Now re-issued to combine the original contents of Badfellas with new chapters covering the current crisis, this book points to the ways in which FIFA’s new administration can learn from the Blatter story. The prequel traces the course of Sugden and Tomlinson’s game-changing investigation into FIFA, while the sequel updates the FIFA story from 2002 onwards and provides a chronology of crises and scandals within the FIFA narrative. Demonstrating the vital importance of critical investigative methods in sport studies, Football, Corruption and Lies: Revisiting Badfellas, the book FIFA tried to ban is essential reading for anybody looking to understand Blatter’s rise and fall.

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Routledge

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1134811748

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9781134811748

Understanding the Olympics

By: John Horne,Garry Whannel

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Understanding the Olympics

By: John Horne,Garry Whannel

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the Olympics after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical, and economic context of the Games. This thoroughly revised and updated edition discusses recent attempts at future proofing by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the face of growing global anti-Olympic activism, the changing geo-political context within which the Olympics take place, and the Olympic histories of the next three cities to host the Games – Tokyo (2020), Paris (2024), and Los Angeles (2028) – as well as the legacy of the London (2012) Olympics. For the first time, this new edition introduces the reader to the emergence of ‘other Games’ associated with the IOC – the Winter Olympics, the Paralympics, and the Youth Olympics. It also features a full Olympic history timeline, many new photographs, refreshed suggestions for further reading, and revised illustrations. The most up-to-date and authoritative textbook available on the Olympic Games, Understanding the Olympics is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympics or the wider relationship between sport and society.

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414

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Routledge

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1000049396

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9781000049398

Darwin's Athletes

How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race

By: John Milton Hoberman

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Darwin's Athletes

How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race

By: John Milton Hoberman

Argues that the prominence of African American athletes provides fuel for sterotypes.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395822920

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9780395822920

The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism

By: Matthew P Llewellyn,John Gleaves

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The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism

By: Matthew P Llewellyn,John Gleaves

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.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252098773

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9780252098772

Kinship, Church and Culture

Collected Essays and Studies by John W. M. Bannerman

By: John W. M. Bannerman

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Kinship, Church and Culture

Collected Essays and Studies by John W. M. Bannerman

By: John W. M. Bannerman

John Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century when the Scottish kingdom first began to take shape, but he also wrote extensively on the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, while his work on the Beatons, the notable Gaelic medical kindred, reached into the early eighteenth century. Across this long millennium, Bannerman ranged and wrote with authority and insight on what he termed the 'kin-based society', with special emphasis upon its church and culture, and its relationship with Ireland. This collection opens with Bannerman's ground-breaking and hugely influential edition and discussion of Senchus fer nAlban ('The History of the Men of Scotland'), which featured in his Studies in the History of Dalriada (1974), now long out of print. To this have been added all of his published essays, plus an essay-length study of the Lordship of the Isles which first featured as an appendix in Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in the West Highlands (1977). The book will be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the Gaelic dimension to Scotland's past and present.

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Birlinn Ltd

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1907909370

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9781907909375

A-League

The Inside Story of the Tumultuous First Decade

By: John Stensholt,Shaun Mooney

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A-League

The Inside Story of the Tumultuous First Decade

By: John Stensholt,Shaun Mooney

In November 2004, shopping centre billionaire Frank Lowy walked into a packed media conference and announced the creation of a new professional football league. Armed with $15 million of government funds, Lowy was about to wake the sleeping giant of Australian sport. The A-League kicked off in 2005. Over the competition's first decade it has seen more than its fair share of drama, on and off the field. International superstars have come to play, eccentric billionaires have bought and sold franchises, and clubs have folded after haemorrhaging millions of dollars. Yet the football has been passionate and captivating, and attendances and television audiences have grown as Australians have embraced the game as never before. Relying on unprecedented access to key figures in the code, John Stensholt and Shaun Mooney reveal the true story behind the A-League's first ten years- the egos, the power plays and the rows between some of Australia's richest men as they try to make the world game Australia's favourite sport. 'Once I started, I couldn't put it down. A wonderful and riveting insight into the first decade of the A-League.' Ray Gatt, The Australian 'There's enough in this for a 20-year period, such has been the last decade in Australian club football. Entertaining, informative, this covers it all - the good, the bad, the ugly.' Adam Peacock, Fox Sports

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Nero

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1925203468

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9781925203462

Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms

Can Oil Extraction and Nature Conservation Co-Exist?

By: Mark C.J. Stoddart,Alice Mattoni,John McLevey

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Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms

Can Oil Extraction and Nature Conservation Co-Exist?

By: Mark C.J. Stoddart,Alice Mattoni,John McLevey

This book examines the “oil-tourism interface”, the broad range of direct and indirect contact points between offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism. Offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism are pursued as development paths across the North Atlantic region. Offshore oil promises economic benefits from employment and royalty payments to host societies, but is based on fossil fuel-intensive resource extraction. Nature-based tourism, instead, is based on experiencing natural environments and encountering wildlife, including whales, seals, or seabirds. They share social-ecological space, such as oceans, coastlines, cities and towns where tourism and offshore oil operations and offices are located. However, they rarely share cultural or political space, in terms of media coverage, public debate, or policy discussion that integrates both modes of development. Through a comparative analysis of Denmark, Iceland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Norway, and Scotland, this book offers important lessons for how coastal societies can better navigate relationships between resource extraction and nature-based tourism in the interests of social-ecological wellbeing.

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Springer Nature

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3030559440

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9783030559441

Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

By: John Grasso,Bill Mallon,Jeroen Heijmans

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Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

By: John Grasso,Bill Mallon,Jeroen Heijmans

The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that time. The Games were conducted as religious celebrations in honor of the god Zeus, and it is known that Olympia was a shrine to Zeus from about 1000 B.C. In modern time The Olympic Movement attempts to bring all the nations of the world together in a series of multisport festivals, the Olympic Games, seeking to use sport as a means to promote internationalism and peace. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on the history, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics, major organizations, the various sports, the participating countries, and especially the athletes. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about The Olympic Movement.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442248602

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9781442248601

Varick

The Borden Years

By: John Gonzales

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Varick

The Borden Years

By: John Gonzales

Our beloved vampire Varick's quest to rebuild the human population in a world where the dead have become the dominant species has led him, and his recent companion, Henry, to an unassuming safe haven. As the two recuperate from the daily struggle to stay alive against the living and the dead, Varick shares an intriguing tale of Lizzie Borden. A tale that most are not familiar with and whose details have been altered to conceal the truths of New England society during the latter half of the nineteenth century. A region in the throes of the industrial revolution where traditional ideals were being encroached upon by progress and social change. Unfortunately for the weary travelers, their haven is not as safe as they assumed, and a menacing threat is gathering for the two of them as Varick spins his tale. Accompanied by the sound of shattering glass and feral screams, the unsuspecting danger closes in on them, along with the rising sun, and Varick and Henry are forced to fight for their lives once again.

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Page Publishing Inc

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166247542X

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9781662475429

Drugs & Doping in Sports

By: John O'Leary

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Drugs & Doping in Sports

By: John O'Leary

Doping is undoubtedly one of the most controversial issues within sport. Doping scandals wreck the careers of sportsmen and women,they can bankrupt governing bodies, infringe personal liberties, threaten livelihoods, tarnish images, galvanise the European Union, undermine the Olympic Movement and invoke invective from politicians. In recent years, sports law has developed into one of the most exciting and challenging legal disciplines and the importance of the law in doping matters has been heightened by the influx of money into sport and the development of sport as a global economy. Drugs and Doping in Sport brings together work from leading academics, practitioners and administrators, analyses contemporary socio-legal and political themes related to doping in sport. It provides a challenging and often controversial view of doping issues and confronts political and legal orthodoxy, supplying the reader with a unique insight into this fascinating area of academic study.

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Routledge

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1135338957

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9781135338954

The Physics of Low-dimensional Semiconductors

An Introduction

By: John H. Davies

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The Physics of Low-dimensional Semiconductors

An Introduction

By: John H. Davies

The composition of modern semiconductor heterostructures can be controlled precisely on the atomic scale to create low-dimensional systems. These systems have revolutionised semiconductor physics, and their impact on technology, particularly for semiconductor lasers and ultrafast transistors, is widespread and burgeoning. This book provides an introduction to the general principles that underlie low-dimensional semiconductors. As far as possible, simple physical explanations are used, with reference to examples from actual devices. The author shows how, beginning with fundamental results from quantum mechanics and solid-state physics, a formalism can be developed that describes the properties of low-dimensional semiconductor systems. Among numerous examples, two key systems are studied in detail: the two-dimensional electron gas, employed in field-effect transistors, and the quantum well, whose optical properties find application in lasers and other opto-electronic devices. The book includes many exercises and will be invaluable to undergraduate and first-year graduate physics or electrical engineering students taking courses in low-dimensional systems or heterostructure device physics.

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Cambridge University Press

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052148491X

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9780521484916

Weirdbook Annual: Zombies!

34 New Tales of the Undead

By: Lucy A. Snyder,Adrian Cole,Franklyn Searight,Andrew Darlington,D.C. Lozar,Erica Ruppert,John Linwood Grant,Scott Edelman

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Weirdbook Annual: Zombies!

34 New Tales of the Undead

By: Lucy A. Snyder,Adrian Cole,Franklyn Searight,Andrew Darlington,D.C. Lozar,Erica Ruppert,John Linwood Grant,Scott Edelman

Every year, WEIRDBOOK Magazine publishes a collection of short stories to thrill and delight readers worldwide. This year, we challenged authors to come up with memorable takes on the zombie theme, and the result is this fantastic collection of 34 original stories. Included are: The Meddler, by Matthew John Tiger Girls vs. the Zombies, by Lucy A. Snyder Dead Between the Eyes, by Adrian Cole Alive Again, by Franklyn Searight The Night Hans Kroeger Came Back, by Kenneth Bykerk The Marching Dead, by Andrew Darlington I Wished for Zombies, by D.C. Lozar O Mary Don’t You Mourn, by Mike Chinn To Die, To Sleep, No More, by Erica Ruppert Run, Monster, Run, by Teasha Seitz Another Night in Bayou Sauvage, by Chad Hensley Kifaro, by Dilman Dila But I Love Him, by Scott Wheelock Who Wants to Live Forever?, by Angela Yuriko Smith The Dead Are Always Hungry, by Christopher Alex Ray Zen Zombies, by R. A. Smith Cassius Max, by KT Morley A Nanotech Samsara, by J.N. Cameron Pine in the Soul, by John Linwood Grant “Welcome Home”, by Craig E. Sawyer Papa Hanco, by Ed Reyes They Shall Eat Dust, by Josh Reynolds In Shadow Valley, by Nick Swain Devil’s Bargain, by by J.F. Le Roux Right for You Now, by Andrew Jennings E’Zunguth, the Zombie God, by Maxwell I. Gold Lazy River, by Kelly Piner The New Human, by Shayne K. Keen This Little Piggy, by EV Knight Life Unworthy of Life, by Stephanie Ellis More Blood, by Carson Ray This Creeping Cold, by Kevin Rees The Body I Used to Be, by Scott Edelman Queen of Hearts, by S.E. Lindberg Plus poetry by Ashley Dioses, Avra Margariti, Josh Maybrook, Darrell Schweitzer, Lori R. Lopez, Allan Rozinski, K.A. Opperman, Gregg Chamberlain, Robert Borski, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Colleen Anderson, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479463132

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9781479463138

Public Policy and Professional Sports

International and Australian Experiences

By: John K Wilson,Richard Pomfret

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Public Policy and Professional Sports

International and Australian Experiences

By: John K Wilson,Richard Pomfret

øPublic Policy and Professional Sports _is a comprehensive analysis of public policy aspects of the economics of professional sports, supported by in-depth international case studies. It covers regulation and competition in the sports industry and its

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1782546243

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Readings from the Works of Charles Dickens

Readings from the Works of Charles Dickens

The Cases That Haunt Us

The Cases That Haunt Us

The Modern Elocutionist

The Modern Elocutionist

Football, Corruption and Lies

Football, Corruption and Lies

Understanding the Olympics

Understanding the Olympics

Darwin's Athletes

Darwin's Athletes

The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism

The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism

Kinship, Church and Culture

Kinship, Church and Culture

A-League

A-League

Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms

Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms

Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

Varick

Varick

Drugs & Doping in Sports

Drugs & Doping in Sports

The Physics of Low-dimensional Semiconductors

The Physics of Low-dimensional Semiconductors

Weirdbook Annual: Zombies!

Weirdbook Annual: Zombies!

Public Policy and Professional Sports

Public Policy and Professional Sports

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