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A game of lies
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Rebecca Cantrell |
Set in 1936, Cantrell's well-paced third mystery featuring German crime reporter Hannah Vogel (after 2010's disappointing A Night of Long Knives) returns to the high level of her debut, 2009's A Trac… |
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The Olympic games and cultural policy
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Beatriz Garcia |
"This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the rec… |
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Gold
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Chris Cleave |
Zoe y Kate son dos deportistas de élite entregadas al ciclismo de pista, pero con unas vidas muy diferentes. Zoe, una chica explosiva y temperamental, doble campeona olímpica, es el rostro publicitar… |
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Showdown at Shepherd's Bush
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David Davis |
"The epic clash of an Irish-American, Italian, and Onondaga-Canadian that jump-started the first marathon mania and heralded the modern age in sports The eyes of the world watched as three runners--d… |
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1996 U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team
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Richard Rambeck |
Describes the accomplishments of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team in the 1996 Olympic games. |
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Olympic Sports
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Nick Hunter |
From basketball to athletics and many other team or individual sports inbetween, this book looks at the different sports that feature at the Olympics. |
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China
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Melanie Guile |
History of China timeline - People, culture and environment - Food, customs and traditions - Sport - Animals. |
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The first London Olympics, 1908
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Rebecca Jenkins |
In the summer that saw the first successful flight of the Zeppelin, a 140 acre site of scrubland in West London was transformed into the White City, which housed the 1908 Franco British Exhibition an… |
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Behind the scenes at the Olympics
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Nick Hunter |
Takes a comprehensive look at the Olympic Games of 2012 being hosted in London. Covers many aspects from behind the scenes and the sports, to the Paralympics and the main competitors. Suggested level… |
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Three-Year Swim Club
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Julie Checkoway |
The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileg… |
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Unsinkable
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Silken Laumann |
A surprising and inspiring story of courage, perseverance and the triumph of the human spirit by sculls rowing world champion Silken Laumann. |
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Amazing awaits
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Travis Lovell,Mark Hugo |
Through the pages of this highly illustrated volume, the images and stories of Team USA allow us to relive the spectacular moments in Beijing. |
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Olympic Games 2008
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Melanie Guile |
This book chronicles the history of the development of the Olympic Games as we know them today. The book travels back into antiquity when the Games first began in Ancient Greece and provides a detail… |
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Shawn Johnson, Olympic champion
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Shawn Johnson |
A biography of Olympic champion, Shawn Johnson. |
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Xini 2000
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Jinjun Wang |
Ben shu shi zuo zhe di er bu miao xie ao da li ya de zuo pin, jie shao le xi ni zhe zuo cheng shi he ju zhu zai zhe li de ren min, bing qie dui chou ban ao yun hui zhong xu duo yu hui qu zhe de gu sh… |
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Running for gold
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Owen Slot |
Everyone knows Danny Powell was born to run. But no one knows Danny dreams of beating the fastest man on the planet. Until one day Danny accidentally lets it slip, and that's it. His ambition is out … |
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The dream team
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James R. Rothaus |
Discusses that team of professional basketball players that the United States sent to Barcelona in 1992 to compete in the Summer Olympics. |
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The Best Olympics Ever?
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Helen Lenskyj |
"Despite International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samarach's proclaiming the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the "best ever," the truth of the matter is much less one-sided. In The Best Olympic… |
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Berlin Games
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Guy Walters |
In 1936, Adolf Hitler welcomed the world to Berlin to attend the Olympic Games. Visitors from all over the globe came to see not only a magnificent sporting event, but also a showcase for the newly r… |
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Not the Triumph but the Struggle
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Amy Bass |
"Jesse Owens. Muhammad Ali. Michael Jordan. Tiger Woods. All are iconic black athletes, as are Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the African American track and field medalists who raised black-gloved fis… |
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