Two Planks And A Passion

Author : Roland Huntford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826423388
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Planks and a Passion written by Roland Huntford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth. Man is a travelling animal, and on these icy slopes skiing began as a means of survival. That it has developed into the leisure and sporting pursuit of choice by so much of the globe bears testament to its elemental appeal. In polar exploration, it has changed the course of history. Elsewhere, in war and peace, it has done so too. The origins of skiing are bound up in with the emergence of modern man and the world we live in today.

Author : Anthony Minghella
Publisher : Samuel French
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Planks and a Passion written by Anthony Minghella and published by Samuel French. This book was released on 1985 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cast size: large.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skiing Heritage Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skiing Heritage is a quarterly Journal of original, entertaining, and informative feature articles on skiing history. Published by the International Skiing History Association, its contents support ISHA's mission "to preserve skiing history and to increase awareness of the sport's heritage."

Author : Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781864700275
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theaters written by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In designing a theater, an architect must design a hub for the activities of actors, dancers, and musicians of every genre, and appease directors, producers, and the all-important public. This successful title has proved its practicality as a guide to building the modern theater, concert hall and cultural center designed for academic, civic and private use. Now in its first reprint edition, it has also been published in Chinese, and has proved a valuable resource for both architects and commissioning agents. The expertise of Hardy Holzman and Pfeiffer Associates (HHPA) is demonstrated time and again throughout this book, with color photography, and essays by performers, curators, artistic directors, actors, lighting designers, academic musicians, playwrights, and dancers amongst others. This book showcases their work through new buildings, old theater renovations and older building refitted as theaters.

Author : Laura Eason
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822234181
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Undeniable Sound of Right Now written by Laura Eason and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1992. Chicago. Hank is struggling to keep his legendary rock club going amid changing times and changing tastes. But when his beloved daughter, Lena, starts dating a rising-star DJ, Hank must contend with the destructive power of the Next Big Thing. Like a blast of feedback from a Fender amp, THE UNDENIABLE SOUND OF RIGHT NOW brings to hilarious and heartbreaking life the moment in popular culture when Kurt and Courtney ruled, but Moby was just around the corner…

Author : William D. Frank
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501756974
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyone to Skis! written by William D. Frank and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere in the world was the sport of biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship, taken more seriously than in the Soviet Union, and no other nation garnered greater success at international venues. From the introduction of modern biathlon in 1958 to the USSR's demise in 1991, athletes representing the Soviet Union won almost half of all possible medals awarded in world championship and Olympic competition. Yet more than sheer technical skill created Soviet superiority in biathlon. The sport embodied the Soviet Union's culture, educational system and historical experience and provided the perfect ideological platform to promote the state's socialist viewpoint and military might, imbuing the sport with a Cold War sensibility that transcended the government's primary quest for post-war success at the Olympics. William D. Frank's book is the first comprehensive analysis of how the Soviet government interpreted the sport of skiing as a cultural, ideological, political and social tool throughout the course of seven decades. In the beginning, the Soviet Union owned biathlon, and so the stories of both the state and the event are inseparable. Through the author's unique perspective on biathlon as a former nationally-ranked competitor and current professor of Soviet history, Everyone to Skis! will appeal to students and scholars of Russian and Soviet history as well as to general readers with an interest in skiing and the development of twentieth-century sport.

Author : Kathryn Walchester
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783083670
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway written by Kathryn Walchester and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ presents an account of the development of tourism in nineteenth-century Norway and considers the ways in which women travellers depicted their travels to the region. Tracing the motivations of various groups of women travellers, such as sportswomen, tourists and aristocrats, this book argues that in their writing, Norway forms a counterpoint to Victorian Britain: a place of freedom and possibility.

Author : William Faricy Condee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810842114
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatrical Space written by William Faricy Condee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condee has interviewed hundreds of prominent American and British directors, designers, and actors, and provides photographs and groundplans of major American theatres. Each chapter tackles a different set of problems, offering thoughtful solutions to common obstacles. Theatrical Space is a valuable resource for all directors and designers, both young and experienced. Paperback edition available April 2002.

Author : Shalan Joudry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781988286662
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elapultiek (We Are Looking Towards) written by Shalan Joudry and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in contemporary times, a young Mi'kmaw drum singer and a Euro-Nova Scotian biologist meet at dusk each day to count a population of endangered Chimney Swifts (kaktukopnji'jk). They quickly struggle with their differing views of the world. Through humour and story, the characters must come to terms with their own gifts and challenges as they dedicate efforts to the birds. Each "count night" reveals a deeper complexity of connection to land and history on a personal level. Inspired by real-life species at risk work, shalan joudry originally wrote this story for an outdoor performance. Elapultiek calls on all of us to take a step back from our routine lives and question how we may get to understand our past and work better together. The ideal of weaving between Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds involves taking turns to speak and to listen, even through the most painful of stories, in order for us all to heal. We are in a time when sharing cultural, ecological, and personal stories is vital in working towards a peaceful shared territory, co-existing between peoples and nature. "It's a crucial time to have these conversations," offers joudry. "The power of story can engage audience and readers in ways that moves them to ask more questions about the past and future."

Author : Joe Calarco
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822216797
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's R & J written by Joe Calarco and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Four young prep school students, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide to vary their very governed lives. After school, one breaks out a copy of William Shakespeare's Rom