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Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Год издания: 2008
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Страниц: 230
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Why is hosting the Olympic Games so important to China? What is the significance of a quintessential symbol of Western civilization taking place in the heart of the Far East? Will the Olympics change China, or will China change the Olympics? Susan Brownell sets the historical and cultural contexts for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games by placing it within the context of China's hundred-year engagement with the Olympic movement to illuminate what the Games mean to China and what the Beijing Olympic Games will mean for China's relationship with the outside world. Brownell's deeply informed analysis ranges from nineteenth-century orientalism to Cold War politics and post-Cold War China bashing. Drawing on her more than two decades of engagement in Chinese sports, the author presents evocative stories and first-person accounts to paint a human picture of the passion that many Chinese people feel for the Olympic Games. It will also be essential reading for journalists and sports enthusiasts...
For 50 years, Sports Illustrated has set the standard for sports writing and action photography. Now, for the culmination of the magazine's 50th Anniversary celebration, some of the finest writing and most memorable pictures from Sports Illustrated's archives have been collected in a lavish coffee-table book that will be treasured by the magazine's devoted readers for years to come. Along with the stunning photography, which includes every one of the magazine's covers since its launch in 1954, and the great writing that has appeared in Sports Illustrated's pages, this 288-page book will also be chock full of all-new facts and figures that will give readers an entertaining view of 50 years of American sports.
"Sey writes of her career in internationally competitive gymnastics, which culminated when she won the 1986 U.S. national championship at age 17. From the start Sey was an underdog, ever the second-best athlete on the team hoping to prove herself with tenacity and toughness. She endured numerous injuries - including a broken femur, which could have ended her career - as well as an eating disorder, depression, isolation and tremendous strain on her family. With each new sacrifice that her parents and brother made to support her, the stakes crept higher, inuring them all to gymnastics' inherent physical and psychological trauma. After claiming the U.S. title, Sey was shell-shocked and exhausted, suddenly robbed of her lifelong motivation. I'd always been a fighter, a come-from-behind girl. Now that I was on top, the battle would be unwinnable. The memoir's poignant glimpses at Sey's adult struggle to reckon with her past are regrettably sparse, and her prose occasionally lapses into...
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Vladislav Tretiak, Sergei Makarov, Jari Kurri, Viacheslav Fetisov, Alexei Kasatonov, Peter S?astny, Helmuts Balderis, Valeri Kharlamov, Vladimir Krutov, Glenn Anderson, Neal Broten, Pelle Lindbergh, Mats Naslund, Mark Johnson, Mike Ramsey, Mark Pavelich, Mike Eruzione, Milan Novy, Paul Maclean, Randy Gregg, Ken Morrow, Anton S?astny, Rob Mcclanahan, Hakan Eriksson, Boris Mikhailov, Aleksandr Maltsev, Buzz Schneider, Miroslav Dvo?ak, Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov, Henryk Gruth, Bob Suter, Petter Thoresen, Tomas Jonsson, Harald Luckner, Bo Berglund, Vladimir Myshkin, Sergei Starikov, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, Thomas Eriksson, Valeri Vasiliev, Tim Watters, Dick Decloe, Leif Holmgren, Harrie Van Heumen, Franz Reindl, Lars Molin, Ken Berry, Vincent Luka?, Larry Van Wieren, Henk Hille, Tapio Levo, Leo...
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