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Love Game
The game of love -- A leisured class -- Healthy excitement and scientific play -- Real tennis and the scoring system -- The growth of a sporting culture -- On the Riviera -- What's wrong with women? -- A match out of Henry James -- The lonely American -- The four musketeers -- Working-class heroes -- Tennis in Weimar and after -- As a man grows older -- Three women -- This sporting life -- Home from the war -- Gorgeous girls -- Opening play -- Those also excluded -- Tennis meets feminism -- That's entertainment -- Bad behaviour -- Corporate tennis -- Women's power -- Vorsprung durch Technik -- Celebrity stars -- Millennium tennis -- The rhetoric of sport -- Back to the future.
Willing Seduction
Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich. This fascinating cultural history of The Blue Angel provides a new interpretive framework with which to approach this classic Weimar film and suggests that discourses on mass and high culture are integral to the film's thematic and narrative structure. These discourses surface above all in the relat...
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali: A Humanitarian Life is a unique biography of this iconic champion that chronicles his rise as a great humanitarian alongside his rise as a fighter, revealing the profound influence Ali had both in and out of the ring and that will endure for ages to come.
The Player
Boris Becker shot to fame in 1985 when at seventeen years old, he became the youngest player ever to win the men's final at Wimbledon. He went on to win two more Wimbledon titles, and a total of forty-nine singles and fifteen doubles crowns, making him one of the greatest players of the twentieth century. But his life off the court has always attracted as much attention as his triumphs on it. Now, in this remarkably candid and thought-provoking autobiography, Boris Becker tells the real story behind the headlines. He speaks of the seconds before the serve that made him the youngest Wimbledon winner of all time, and of the minutes after being sentenced as a tax evader. He talks about his marr...
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Historical Dictionary of Tennis
The sport of tennis has been played in one form or another for more than 800 years. It can trace its roots to games played by monks in the 12th century. Through the years the game has evolved from one in which the ball was struck with the hands to the modern game in which rackets are used to propel the ball in excess of 150 miles per hour. From the sport of the elite to the sport played by elite athletes, tennis has grown immensely in the past 135 years and it remains one of the few sporting pastimes thatis played extensively by people of all ages and all nationalities. The Historical Dictionary of Tennis presents a comprehensive history of the game through a chronology, an introductory essa...
Wasser unter Wüsten
Beim Ausbruch des 1. Weltkriegs ist Helmut Westphal 12 Jahre alt. Als sein Bruder eingezogen wird, will er mit an die Front, um den Misshandlungen durch seinen Vater zu entkommen. Um seine Familie zu ernähren und Geld für sein Studium zu verdienen, verdingt er sich in der Landwirtschaft. Nach Studienabschluss bekommt er Aufträge, landwirtschaftliche Betriebe im Ausland zu modernisieren, eine Kooperative deutscher Auswanderer im Regenwald von Paraguay, danach ein Meiereiprojekt in der mongolischen Steppe. Aber er reist vergeblich um die halbe Welt, beide Unternehmen stehen vor dem Ruin. Stattdessen bekommt er Aufträge als Karawanenführer, Dolmetscher und Forscher in der Mongolei und in T...
Proč jsou úspěšní lidé úspěšní
Proč jsou někteří lidé mnohem úspěšnější než ostatní? Co dělali zakladatelé firem jako Apple, Facebook či Ikea jinak než většina? Díky čemu pohádkově zbohatli Warren Buffet, Jack Welch nebo George Soros? Co stojí za úspěchem neuvěřitelné kariéry Borise Beckera, Garri Kasparova či Madonny? Jak můžete sami dosáhnout vyšších cílů, než o jakých jste si kdy troufli snít? Všechny úspěšné lidi spojují zcela konkrétní způsoby myšlení a životní postoje. Tajemství jejich úspěchu vám odhalí tato kniha. Její autor analyzoval životní cestu padesáti úspěšných osobností a nyní poutavě a zajímavě ukazuje, jak a díky čemu se lidé, kteří mnohdy pocházejí z obyčejných rodin, stali miliardáři nebo světově známými osobnostmi. Dozvíte se, jak úspěšní lidé dokážou proměnit nejtěžší porážky v neuvěřitelná vítězství. A naučíte se, jak používat strategii vítězů a jak sami dosáhnete vyšších cílů, než o jakých jste kdy snili.
