Download or read book Winter Olympics Made Simple written by Dan Bartges and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Winter Olympics is one of the most watched events in America, yet the sports it showcases -- most of which are rooted in European tradition -- are among the least understood. Winter Olympics Made Simple is designed to make the games more entertaining by bridging the gap between fascination and understanding. Anyone interested in a quick, informative tutorial on Winter Olympic competitions can graduate "spectator literate" in just a few minutes' time. This guide features simplified explanations of the Winter Olympic sports along with insights on competitors and competitive strategies, descriptions of required equipment and training, and brief historical summaries recognizing the heritage behind each of the winter games.
Download or read book The Winter Olympics written by Larry Dane Brimner and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1997 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly discusses the international competition in winter sports, beginning with the Nordic Games in 1908, and describes some of the sports involved, including skiing, ice hockey, skating, and bobsledding.
Download or read book What Are the Winter Olympics written by Gail Herman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab your skis, ice skates, and snowboard and learn how the Winter Olympic Games became a worldwide phenomenal event watched by millions. Although fans the world over have been fascinated by the modern Summer Olympics since 1896, the Winter Olympics didn't officially begin until 1924. The event celebrates cold-weather sports, displaying the talents of skiers, ice skaters, hockey players, and, most recently, snowboarding. Like its summer counterpart, the Winter Games are dedicated to bringing together the world's top athletes to honor their talents and see who gets to stand on the medal podium. Gail Herman covers it all in a wonderful read--the highs, such as the 1980 US hockey team's unexpected gold medal grab, as well as the lows, including the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan figure-skating scandal in 1994. Includes 80 black-and-white illustrations and a 16-page photo insert.
Download or read book The Winter Olympics written by Jack C. Harris and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1990 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the Winter Olympics, the events, and outstanding athletes over the years.
Download or read book The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics written by David Wallechinsky and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics, photographs, and anecdotes from every Winter Olympic Games held from 1924-1998.
Download or read book Complete Book Winter Olympics written by David Wallechinsky and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book RDA Made Simple written by Amy Hart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a comprehensive, all-in-one guide to RDA that keeps it simple and provides exactly what you need to know? This book covers planning and training considerations, presents relevant FRBR and FRAD background, and offers practical, step-by-step cataloging advice for a variety of material formats. The new cataloging standard, Resource Description and Access (RDA), will have far-reaching impacts on your library in terms of how it approaches resource description and access. RDA has been in use at the U.S. Library of Congress since early 2013 and is being widely adopted in the international library community. Today's catalogers need to understand RDA's basic concepts and principles as well as how to apply its rules in order to provide relevant information services in the 21st-century. This book helps you tackle the challenges of implementing the new cataloging code (RDA/Resource Description and Access) in the MARC environment, providing emphasis on practical, straightforward RDA advice for today's busy cataloger. After a general discussion on planning and training for RDA, the author—a technical services/systems librarian with more than two decades' experience—presents a comprehensive review of RDA's conceptual basis in FRBR and FRAD before providing easy-to-follow, practical guidance on cataloging today's diverse library resources using the new code, covering print, audiovisual, and digital materials. The book is a must-have resource for librarians who catalog on a broad, general level, with or without authority work, and who may or may not be cataloging specialists, but are responsible for handling many different formats. Catalogers at busy libraries committed to getting their new materials out to their users as quickly as possible will also find this work extremely helpful.
Download or read book The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics written by David Wallenchinsky and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winter Olympics Gr 4 6 written by Melanie Komar and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Book of the Olympics written by David Wallechinsky and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Wallechinsky's compendious book has long been the preeminent point of reference for sports enthusiasts and journalists alike Every sports writer assigned to cover the Games ensures they have their early copy of this prodigious work of reference, packed with absorbing anecdotes and essential statistics. A treasure trove of 116 years of Olympic history, it is also an amazingly readable book, for in the course of recording every single Olympic final since 1896, it concentrates on the strange, the memorable, and the unbelievable. Who knew (until reading this book) that croquet was once an Olympic sport, or tug of war, or that a 72-year-old once won a silver medal for target shooting? This new edition also has every finals result, recorded by the top eight competitors in every event at the Beijing Olympics, and full descriptions of rules and scoring for every event included for 2012. It is the one truly essential Olympics book.
Download or read book Winter Games Made Simple written by Dan Bartges and published by Turner Pub. This book was released on 1993 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the biathlon, bobsled, figure skating, ice hockey, luge, skiing, and speedskating
Download or read book Turnaround written by Mitt Romney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics organizing committee describes how he assumed the leadership of the troubled organization and turned it around to present one of the most successful Olympic Games ever.
Download or read book The Olympic Factbook written by Martin Connors and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the same breadth of information offered in The Olympics Factbook--licensed by the US Olympic Committee and issued to every 1992 Winter American Olympian--this all-new guide launches the reader into February, 1994, with facts, stats, rules, and profiles of the athletes. 100 photos.
Download or read book Snowman Paul at the Winter Olympics written by Yossi Lapid and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snowman Paul hopes to win gold at the Winter Olympic Games. He trains hard and prepares thoroughly for his Olympic debut. However, how far will he go in pursuit of his Olympic dream? This book teaches children the valuable lessons of hard work, fair competition and telling the truth.
Download or read book The Winter Olympics written by Nick Hunter and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2014 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the Winter Olympics started, how they are organized, star performers, and what can be expected at the 2014 games in Sochi, Russia.
Download or read book Understanding the Olympics written by John Horne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
