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The Best I Remember
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No Ordinary Man
No Ordinary Man is the long-overdue biography of a remarkable New Zealander. Arthur Porritt was a multi-faceted New Zealander who achieved great things in several spheres. Among his achievements: A Rhodes Scholar in 1923. An Olympic sprint medallist, in 1924, in the 100m final made famous by the film Chariots of Fire. He remains New Zealand's only Olympic sprint medallist. A widely-respected and much-honoured surgeon, who became president of the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Medical Association, two of the two major medical organisations in Britain. A member of the International Olympic Committee for more than half a century, and chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation for ...
History, Religion and Identity in Modern Britain
They complement and elaborate themes developed in Keith Robbins' books
Benchmark Games
BENCHMARK GAMES is unique as there has been no previous study of an individual Paralympic Games. The book documents and analyses the new benchmarks that were set at the time of the successful Sydney Paralympic Games. BENCHMARK GAMES explores many questions about the appeal of the Games to the community and disability sport and the place of the disability community in Australian life. This book gives a wonderful insight into the background and running of the Sydney Paralympic Games and the legacy it has left (Karen Tighe, Foreword).
Hearings
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Sugar and the Making of International Trade Law
Michael Fakhri uses the transnational history of sugar to tell the multilateral institutional history of trade law.
Drug Games
On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensen's death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunt's thoroughly researched, chronological history of the modern relationship of doping to the Olympics. Utilizing concepts derived from international relations theory, diplomatic history, and administrative law, this work connects the issue to global political relations. During the Cold War, national governmen...
