Author: Wendy J. Raschke
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: olympics, studies, classics, wisconsin, antiquity, festivals, archaeology
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2002-03-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0299113345
ISBN-13: 9780299113346
"The Olympic Games went on for more than a thousand years, and all over the Greek world there were more and less large and celebrated local athletic contests. . . . [This] collection of essays gives a good idea of that range."—Jasper Griffin, New York Review of Books
Author: Jackie Gaff
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Keywords: olympics, ancient
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-04
List price: $29.29
ISBN-10: 1403446768
ISBN-13: 9781403446763
The first Olympic athletes stepped into the great stadium in Olympia in 776 b.c.e. Held every four years, the Olympic Games were the most important sporting events in ancient Greece. Wars and arguments of the Greek city-states were put aside while Greece’s
Author: Mark Stewart
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Keywords: ultimate, olympics
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2009-01
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0836891600
ISBN-13: 9780836891607
Author: John Escott
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Keywords: impact, olympics
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1999-05-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0435212338
ISBN-13: 9780435212339
Aiming to develop the confidence and reading ability of struggling readers aged 11-14, the "Impact" series encompasses a wide range of genres and writing styles. This is one of the non-fiction titles in Set C.
Author: Nigel Spivey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: history, olympics, ancient
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2006-06-08
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0192806041
ISBN-13: 9780192806048
The word "athletics" is derived from the Greek verb "to struggle or to suffer for a prize." As Nigel Spivey reveals in this engaging account of the Olympics in ancient Greece, "suffer" is putting it mildly. Indeed, the Olympics were not so much a graceful display of Greek beauty as a war fought by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were--fierce contests between bitter rivals, in which victors won kudos and rewards, and losers faced scorn and even assault. Victory was almost worth dying for, the author notes, and a number of athletes did just t
Author: Erik Molvar
Publisher: Falcon
Keywords: olympics, hikes, day, easy
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1560446064
ISBN-13: 9781560446064
Hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.
Author: Richard D. Mandell
Publisher: University of Illinois Pre
Keywords: society, sport, olympics, nazi
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0252013255
ISBN-13: 9780252013256
In an innovative blend of environmental and labor history, Workers and the Wild examines the changing terms on which battles over the proper use of nature were fought in the early twentieth century. Focusing on Oregon in the 1910s and 1920s, Lawrence M. Lipin traces labor’s shift in thinking about natural resources. They began with the ’producerist’ idea that resources and land, both rural and urban, should be put to productive use, and that those who do are most entitled to access to them. They later shifted to a ‘consumerist’ view under which resources should be ava
