Where Countries Come to Play
Title | Where Countries Come to Play PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Podnieks |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | 393 |
Release | 2013-11-26 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0771071140 |
Where Countries Come to Play chronicles each Olympic tournament, from the 1920 Antwerp games to Vancouver in 2010. Illustrated with photographs from the IIHF archives, the book features rare pictures of games and players, as well as memorabilia and artifacts. Each event is retold through a detailed narrative that will offer fans a complete history of Olympic hockey, including amazing stories from both on and off the ice, organizational challenges, bitter battles, player's tales, and spectacular hockey action. The book also contains a prelude to 2014 Sochi and a detailed appendix of Olympic hockey stats. As well, Where Countries Come to Play celebrates the IIHF's Triple Gold Club, whose members have each won an Olympic Gold Medal, a Stanley Cup, and a World Championship. For the first time in book form, the elite club's twenty-five members are profiled and the story of their accomplishments told. The book will be publsihed in advance of the Sochi Winter Games and is the must-have hockey book for all fans of the game and for anyone that has ever cheered for their nation as they skated out onto the ice.
IIHF where Countries Come to Play
Title | IIHF where Countries Come to Play PDF eBook |
Author | IIHF (Int'l Ice Hockey Federation) |
Publisher | Fenn-M&S |
Total Pages | 646 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0771095988 |
This colossal Guide includes information on every top level event, every IIHF member nation, and, indeed, every player to appear in even a single game since international hockey first took hold in 1920. In all, more than 12,000 players are included, as well as every coach, every referee, every linesman and every stat imaginable. The 2012 IIHF Guide and Record Book is the official and only complete source of information for international hockey. It covers all top-level events from the Olympics to World Championships to junior events, from men's hockey to women's hockey, from 1920 to the past and present seasons. At 640 pages, it contains the scores and standings for every international game and event ever contested, the statistics for every player, coach, and on-ice official in IIHF competition history, and the results and histories of every nation that has ever participated in an IIHF event. Full of information on every aspect of the international game, this is the one and only source fans will need if they are interested in the World Junior Championship, Team Canada, or any other aspect of the international game. With a special section on the World Junior Championships taking place in Alberta this Christmas, this is the most important book hockey fans will need this season.
Town & Country
Title | Town & Country PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 1921 |
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ISBN |
American Lawn Tennis
Title | American Lawn Tennis PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 854 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Tennis |
ISBN |
Think Level 4 Student's Book
Title | Think Level 4 Student's Book PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Puchta |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 129 |
Release | 2016-06-23 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1107573289 |
Challenge and inspire your teenage learners to think beyond language. Think is a vibrant course designed to engage teenage learners and make them think. As well as building students' language skills, it offers a holistic approach to learning: developing their thinking skills, encouraging them to reflect on values and building their self-confidence. Topics are chosen to appeal to and challenge teenagers, firing their imagination and ensuring effective learning. Exam-style exercises and tips help students prepare for Cambridge English Key, Preliminary, First and Advanced. Informed by the Cambridge English Corpus, the course reflects real language usage and 'Get it right' sections help students avoid common mistakes.
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Title | Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 782 |
Release | 1858 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Country Life
Title | Country Life PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Hodgman Saylor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 752 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Country life |
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