The Oval World
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The Oval World
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Author : Tony Collins
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-08-27
The Oval World written by Tony Collins and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling last-minute Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to win the world cup or Jonah Lomu rampage down the touchline for a try, there has been a split, a feud or a controversy. The Oval World is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale – from its origins in the village-based football games of medieval times up to the globalised sport of the twenty-first century,now played in well over 100 countries. It tells the story of how a game played in an obscure English public school became the winter sport of the British Empire, spread to France, Argentina, Japan and the rest of the world and commanded a global television audience of over four billion for the last world cup final. And how American football – and other games such as Australian, Canadian and Gaelic football – emerged from rugby and highlight just how much the modern gridiron game owes to its English cousin. Featuring the great moments in the game's history and its great names – such as Jonah Lomu, David Duckham, Serge Blanco, Billy Boston and David Campese alongside Rupert Brooke, King George V, Boris Karloff, Charles de Gaulle and Nelson Mandela – The Oval World investigates just what it is about rugby that enables it to survive and thrive in countries with very different traditions and cultures. This is the the definitive world history of a truly global rugby.
A Room To Hold The World
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Author : Geert-Jan Janse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
A Room To Hold The World written by Geert-Jan Janse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Oval
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Author : Elvia Wilk
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2019-06-04
Oval written by Elvia Wilk and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with Fiction categories.
Bizarre weather. Unprecedented economic disparity. Artists employed by corporations. And the ultimate work of art: Oval, a pill that increases generosity. This unforgettable debut novel asks questions of empathy and power on every scale—from bodies to bureaucracies—to create an unsettling portrait of the future. In the near future, Berlin’s real estate is being flipped in the name of “sustainability,” only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants, and the weather is acting strange. When Anja and Louis are offered a rent-free home on an artificial mountain—yet another eco-friendly initiative run by a corporation—they seize the opportunity, but it isn’t long before the experimental house begins malfunctioning. After Louis’s mother dies, Anja is convinced he has changed. At work, Louis has become obsessed with a secret project: a pill called Oval that temporarily rewires the user’s brain to be more generous. While Anja is horrified, Louis believes he has found the solution to Berlin’s income inequality. Oval is a fascinating portrait of the unbalanced relationships that shape our world, as well as a prescient warning of what the future may hold. ”A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel." —Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne and Annihilation “Elvia Wilk’s Oval is a marvel. At the core of this seductive, acute, superbly-contemporary update of mid-period J.G. Ballard lies a deep-beating, deep-dreaming heart.” —Jonathan Lethem
Stenographer And Phonographic World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Stenographer And Phonographic World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Business education categories.
How Football Began
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Author : Tony Collins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-08-06
How Football Began written by Tony Collins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world. The book explores how the world’s football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry in the nineteenth century. Football, however and wherever it was played, was a product of the second industrial revolution, the rise of the mass media, and the spirit of the age of the masses. Important reading for students of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management, this book is also a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football in all its forms, as well as an engrossing read for anyone interested in the early history of football.
The Papers Of The Bibliographical Society Of America
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Author : Bibliographical Society of America
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
The Papers Of The Bibliographical Society Of America written by Bibliographical Society of America and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Bibliography categories.
The Oval Hour
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Author : Kathleen Peirce
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 1999-03
The Oval Hour written by Kathleen Peirce and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03 with Poetry categories.
In The Oval Hour Kathleen Peirce addresses the vulnerability of language—which is to say the vulnerability of our reality—when we are in extreme states of desire and loss, especially erotic desire and erotic loss. Central to the book is its series of "Confessions," twenty formally similar poems that contend with the Confessions of Saint Augustine.“Passing through innocence, I came either to experience / or guilt, or they came to me, displacing innocence”: these luminous poems explore the generation and overlapping of carnal and metaphysical identities.
From The Corner Of The Oval
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Author : Beck Dorey-Stein
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-07-10
From The Corner Of The Oval written by Beck Dorey-Stein and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One? “[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York Times RECOMMENDED READING theSkimm • Today • Entertainment Weekly • Refinery29 • Bustle • PopSugar • Vanity Fair • The New York Times Editors’ Choice • Paste In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist lands her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama’s stenographers. The ultimate D.C. outsider, she joins the elite team who accompany the president wherever he goes, recorder and mic in hand. On whirlwind trips across time zones, Beck forges friendships with a dynamic group of fellow travelers—young men and women who, like her, leave their real lives behind to hop aboard Air Force One in service of the president. As she learns to navigate White House protocols and more than once runs afoul of the hierarchy, Beck becomes romantically entangled with a consummate D.C. insider, and suddenly the political becomes all too personal. Against a backdrop of glamour, drama, and intrigue, this is the story of a young woman learning what truly matters, and, in the process, discovering her voice. Praise for From the Corner of the Oval “Who knew the West Wing could be so sexy? Beck Dorey-Stein’s unparalleled access is obvious on every page, along with her knife-sharp humor. I tore through the entire book on a four-hour flight and loved reading all about the brilliant yet hard-partying people who once surrounded the leader of the free world. Lots of books claim to give real insider glimpses, but this one actually delivers.”—Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada “Dorey-Stein . . . writes with wit and self-deprecating humor.”—The Wall Street Journal “Addictively readable . . . Dorey-Stein’s spunk and her sparkling, crackling prose had me cheering for her through each adventure. . . . She never loses her starry-eyed optimism, her pinch-me wonderment, her Working Girl pluck.”—Paul Begala, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
The Earth
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Author : Mathew Neil
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Earth written by Mathew Neil and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Travel the world to learn all about the most interesting things on our beautiful planet! Take look at the world's largest and most ferocious animals. Learn about our most interesting and impressive buildings! Read all kinds of facts in the book, then test your memory by assembling a 205-piece puzzle!
The World S Cyclopedia Of Science
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
The World S Cyclopedia Of Science written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Science categories.