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The Christmas Match
After four months of intense fighting, the war in Flanders between German and British soldiers fell silent on Christmas Eve 1914. The soldiers started singing instead of shooting. On Christmas Day they came out of their trenches and met in No Man's Land. Some chased rabbits. Some played football. This true story is about two footballers and soldiers, one Saxon and one Scot, who were in units that played a match in a field between the French villages Houplines and Frelinghien. Scotsman Jimmy Coyle had played professional football before the war. Saxon Albert Schmidt played in the third team for his local club. On Christmas afternoon they each got the chance to defeat their opponents without weapons. Pehr Thermaenius has tracked both Jimmy's and Albert’s stories through military archives; from mobilization in August to the hard frozen mud in that field in Flanders that became a football field on Christmas Day. The story of the football match is a light in the darkness as the world remembers the tragic waste of a hundred years ago.
Historical Dictionary of Golf
Golf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in Scotland around the 15th century. However, there is historical evidence of games similar to golf being played in the low countries of Europe back in the 13th century. Over the many centuries of golf's evolution, the balls used have changed greatly, as have the clubs, the holes, the courses, and the entire game itself. The Historical Dictionary of Golf presents a comprehensive history of the game through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, photos, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on places, teams, terminology, and people, including Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Annika Sörenstam, Lorena Ochoa, Phil Mickelson, and, of course, Tiger Woods. Appendixes of the members of the World Golf Hall of Fame, the Major Championships of Golf, the International Team Events, and the Professional Tour Awards are also included.
Regulating America, Regulating Sweden
"This remarkable book...opens up new perspectives for the study of bureaucracy and the political institutions in which governmental bureaucracies are embedded.... This is one of those rare books that actually comparesgovernments...rather than simply offering descriptive accounts of two or more regimes.... Not only are the differences [Kelman] observes between the United States and Sweden striking, they are also in a way counterintuitive." —James Q. Wilson The book undertakes a comparative examination of two government agencies—the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the United States and the Arbetarskyddsverketor Worker Protection Board (ASV) in Sweden—that have the...
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Ryanair på svenska
Berättelsen om hur socialdemokratiskt styrda kommuner i Sverige stödjer ett fackföreningsfientligt flygbolag.
Hors-Jeu - 22 matchs de foot qui ont marqué l'histoire
À travers 22 matchs de football légendaires, ce livre raconte les liens étroits qu’entretient le foot avec l’histoire, depuis son apparition en France en 1872. Propagandes et dictatures, actes de résistance ou gestes héroïques, mondialisation et néo-libéralisme... Il fait le pari que 90 minutes et un ballon rond suffisent parfois à prendre le pouls d’une époque. On y rencontre des grandes figures comme Franz Beckenbauer, Michel Platini, David Beckham, Andrés Iniesta ou Zlatan Ibrahimovi , mais aussi les soldats du front de l’Yser en 1914, Benito Mussolini et les protagonistes de la guerre froide. 22 petites histoires du ballon rond qui racontent la grande histoire.
Women and Men in Sweden
Recoge estadisticas relativas a suecia sobre estos temas entre otros: 1.Igualdad sexual, 2.Poblacion, 3.Vivienda, 4.Sanidad, 5.Fumadores, 6.Causas de defuncion, 7.Cuidadoras-Es de niños, 8.Educacion, 9.Criminalidad, 10.Asistencia social, 11.Pensiones, 12.Impuestos, 13.Sueldos y salarios, 14.Riqueza, 15.Uso del tiempo, 16.Maestros de estuela, 17.Ocio, 18.Empleo, 19.Gasto, 20.Renta total.
Football on Christmas Day
The football match between England and Germany on No Man's Land to commemorate the Christmas truce on the Western front in 1914 has gone down in Great War legend. But who were the men who took part and how did the game come about? All this and more is revealed in this astounding new work. Also named are two footballers and soldiers, one Saxon and one Scottish, who took part in the game. The Scottish soldier was captain of the regimental football team before and after the war. He also played a few games for a club in the second division of the Scottish league in 1912. He was awarded the Military Medal in 1918 and he survived the war. The German soldier played for an amateur club in his home town before the war. He was killed in 1916 and buried in France. Football on Christmas Day follows the two soldiers from their homes, through the war to Christmas day.
