Download or read book The Small Players of the Great Game written by Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian empire. The Great Game itself has been written about extensively, but never from a Persian angle and from the point of view of the local players in that game. Looking at the territorial consequences of the Great Game for the local players is a unique approach, which deserves a special place in the studies of history, geography, politics and geopolitics of the age of modernity.
Download or read book The Legends of the Big Game written by Suna Flores and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legends begin before time in an empty universe. Two young spirits, Spirit and Fighter, decide to play a game in which the winner will determine the fate of the universe for good or evil. During the beginning of the game, Spirit drops the special ingredient that is meant to give humans an understanding of right and wrong. This ingredient is secretly made into a small creature called Scraps. Spirit works to improve the fate of humans who are evil because they have no conscience or any understanding of goodness. Fighter gains strength for evil, and violence erupts in the early world, but Legend II shows promise when Spirit realizes that Scraps do have the understanding of right and wrong and could become a conscience for the evil humans. After near-death experiences, Scraps agree to help humans and themselves with this idea. There is hope for human goodness after all.
Download or read book Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran written by Assef Ashraf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses political practices and a socially-oriented approach to explain imperial formation under the Qajars in early nineteenth-century Iran.
Download or read book Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj 1942 45 written by Cao Yin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, British India had been taken as the main logistic base for China's war against the Japanese. Chinese soldiers, government officials, professionals, and merchants flocked into India for training, business opportunities, retreat, and rehabilitation. This book is about how the activities of the Chinese sojourners in wartime India caused great concerns to the British colonial regime and the Chinese Nationalist government alike and how these sojourners responded to the surveillance, discipline, and check imposed by the governments. This book provides a subaltern perspective on the history of modern India-China relations that has been dominated by accounts of elite cultural interaction and geopolitical machination.
Download or read book Creating the Big Game written by Wiley L. Umphlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-10-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John W. Heisman (1869-1936) was a man of many faces whose public image has suffered from a diffused, enigmatic, and mostly misunderstood private personality. Since his death the popular reception of the memorial trophy named in his honor has also obscured his identity. In singling out his many innovative contributions to the development of intercollegiate football, this book attempts to present a true picture of Heisman as both man and coach. Because he coached at schools throughout the country during some of the most eventful years in our history, Heisman's life relates to significant political, economic, and social developments that impacted on American society as well as sports. However, this book is much more than the story of John Heisman's 36-year coaching career. It is also the story of how an indigenous American public ritual--the Big Game---came about and how college football evolved into the complex, problematic, and highly structured big business that it is today.
Download or read book Big Game Small World written by Alexander Wolff and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Wolff canvasses the globe and travels to 16 different countries (and 10 states in the U.S.) to find out exactly why basketball has become a worldwide phenomenon. Whether it's in a pick-up game on the Royal court in Bhutan, in the heart of a former female college player of the year turned cloistered nun, in the tragedy of the legendary junior national team in war torn Yugoslavia, or in the life's work of one of the greatest players to ever play in the NBA, Alex Wolff discovers that basketball can define an individual, a race, a culture, and in some instances even a country. Fusing John Feinstein's talent for finding the human drama behind sport with Bill Bryson's travelogue style, Wolff shows how the power and love of basketball extends to the four corners of the earth and engages people of all cultures, races, genders, and generations.
Download or read book Big Game Small World written by Alexander Wolff and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1990s, eminent basketball journalist Alexander Wolff traveled the globe to determine how a game invented by a Canadian clergyman became an international phenomenon. Big Game, Small World presents Wolff’s dispatches from sixteen countries spread across five continents and multiple US states. In them, he asks: What can the game tell us about the world? And what can the world tell us about the game? Whether traveling to Bhutan to challenge its king to a pickup game, exploring the women’s game in Brazil, or covering the Afrobasket tournament in Luanda, Angola, during a civil war, Wolff shows how basketball has the power to define an individual, a culture, and even a country. This updated twentieth anniversary edition features a new preface in which Wolff outlines the contemporary rise of athlete-activists while discussing the increasing dominance within the NBA of marquee international players like Luka Dončić and Giannis Antetokounmpo. A loving celebration of basketball, Big Game, Small World is one of the most insightful books ever written about the game.
Download or read book European American Relations and the Middle East written by Victor Mauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the evolution of European-American relations with the Middle East since 1945. Placing the current transatlantic debates on the Middle East into a broader context, this work analyses how, why, and to what extent European and US roles, interests, threat perceptions, and policy attitudes in the region have changed, relating to both the region as a whole and the two main issues analysed: Gulf Security and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. The contributors then go on to discuss the implications of these developments for Western policymaking. The volume makes four key contributions. First, it examines the subject matter from a truly transatlantic perspective, with all chapters adopting a bi- or multilateral approach, taking into account the views from both the US and individual European countries or the EC/EU collectively. Second, the book takes a long-term view, covering a series of crises and developments over the past six decades. Third, it has a systematic structure, with the predominantly chronological order of the chapters being geared towards depicting trends and evolutions with regard to the key themes of the book. Finally, the book builds bridges between historians and political scientists/analysts, as well as between experts of transatlantic relations and Middle East scholars. This book will be of great interest to students of transatlantic relations, the Middle East, US foreign policy, European politics, international history and IR in general. Daniel Möckli is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich. He is also the editor of CSS Analyses in Security Policy. Victor Mauer is Deputy Director and Head of Research of the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, and Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at ETH Zurich.
Download or read book The Little Things That Matter in the Big Game written by Kathy Boehlert and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did a high school varsity basketball team and a nine-year-old boy with cancer have to do with each other during the 20102011 season? The basketball team encouraged and lifted up the nine-year-old. The nine-year-old encouraged and lifted up the basketball team. This is the story of how a local high school basketball team helped my son, Patrick, through the difficult chemotherapy he was receiving to treat stage three acute lymphoblastic lymphoma. They didnt know anything about Patrick other than that he was a big fan when the season started. As the season went on, all thirteen players began to reach out to Patrick; eventually he became part of the team. Their interactions and support gave Patrick windows of time when he was not a cancer patient. He was a fan and a teammate. Patrick served as an example to the team that there is more to life than basketball. He showed them that life is The Big Game and that the little things really do matter. I think this is a great story, and all young athletes should read this. It reminds us all that there is always somebody watching you and you are making a difference in their life, one way or another. Dan Harwood, teacher and basketball coach at Magruder High School
Download or read book Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris written by Christopher Snedden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called "Kashmir" - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen, but Britain's concerns lay elsewhere -- expansionist Russia, beguiling Tibet and unstable China "circling" J&K -- and their agents played the 'Great Game' in Afghanistan and 'Turkistan'. Snedden contextualizes the geo-strategic and historical circumstances surrounding the British decision to relinquish prestigious 'Kashmir', and explains how they and four Dogra maharajas consolidated and controlled J&K subsequently. He details what comprised this diverse princely state with distant borders and disunified peoples and explains the Maharaja of J&K's controversial accession to India on 26 October 1947 - and its unintended consequences. Snedden weaves a compelling narrative that frames the Kashmir dispute, explains why it continues, and assesses what it means politically and administratively for the divided peoples of J&K and their undecided futures.
Download or read book Afghanistan written by C. Heather Bleaney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz, the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and indexed.
Download or read book The Player of Games written by Iain M. Banks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life — and very possibly his death. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata
Download or read book Consciences And the Legends of the Big Game written by Suna Flores and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Complete Legends of The Big Game” is an amazing journey into an ancient universe and the attempt of two spirits to effect its future for Good or Evil...through a game. An inhabited world is created as a game piece. Fighter for Chaos (Fighter) strives to destroy it ...and destroy it... and destroy it again...until he wins the game. New creatures are formed by the Spirit of Good (Spirit) to combat lethal treachery, but Fighter finds repeated methods to ruin a developing earth. Fighter exploits all the violent tendencies of early humans to wreck it while Spirit’s supporters bemoan Spirit’s apparently inept play calling and sad results. Some supporters of Team Good will not live to tell the tale, but Spirit is counting on a secret weapon if it can get into the game before the 4th Quarter ...Legend IV. Animals and humans unite for a world-changing event on the field of play that cannot be anticipated. The Big Game must be won to save the universe! (Note: This book is a compilation and rewrite of two books with nearly the same name. This book is better!)
Download or read book A Great Game written by Stephen Harper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the game of hockey and the teams who pursued the first Stanley Cup during the early 1900's.
Download or read book The Best of Soccer Journal written by Jay Martin and published by Meyer & Meyer Sport. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NSCAA continues their successful book series "The Best of Soccer Journal" with this new highly anticipated entry in the instructional soccer book field. The book explores the Craft and Art of Coaching. The best coaches in the US describe how they get it done on the field. In addition, this book explores the 'Last Frontier' - the mental side of the game. Successful players and coaches must train the mind as well as the body to succeed and master the game!
Download or read book Great Games Local Rules written by Alexander Cooley and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over one of the volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching from Iran through Pakistan to Kashmir. In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's most respected Central Asia experts, explores the dynamics of the new competition over the region since 9/11. All three great powers are pursuing important goals: basing rights for the US, access to natural resources for the Chinese, and increased political influence for the Russians. But Central Asian governments have proven themselves powerful forces in their own right, establishing local rules that serve to fend off foreign involvement, enrich themselves and reinforce their sovereign authority. Cooley's careful and surprising explanation of how small states interact with great powers in this vital region greatly advances our understanding of how world politics actually works in this contemporary era.
Download or read book Is This a Great Game Or What written by Tim Kurkjian and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESPNUs Kurkjian combines his years of experience, uncanny knowledge, and deep love of the game to create a book filled with fascinating insight into Major League Baseball.
