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The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making ...
Gregg Bocketti"In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as 'foot-ball' at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically ...
Argentina: What Went Wrong
Colin M. MacLachlanGregg Bocketti supplied information on Argentine soccer. Paul Lewis forced me to get to the point and sharpened my focus. Mim Graham Vasan selected the best publisher for the book. Colleagues in the history department rallied around with ...
A History of Modern Brazil: The Past Against the Future
Colin M. MacLachlanCourtesy of Gregg Bocketti Players were club employees — not members. They did not have access to club facilities such as swimming pools and dining rooms, nor did they participate in social activities. Thus, although the sport became a ...
Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil
David Goldblatt... Jean Williams andthe ICSHCatDe Montfort University. And to Gregg Bocketti in Transylvania and Jorge Knijnik in Australia. SpecialthankstoChris Gaffney; myguideto the protests wasalsoa generoushost andanendless source of information ...
The European Football Championship: Mega-Event and Vanity Fair
PreviewGregg Bocketti focused on migration and immigrant communities in Brazil and the Italian immigrants in São Paulo specifically in the early 20th century. He argues that, through football, Italians obtained agency in negotiating the process by ...
History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present
Teresa A. MeadeI want to thank Patricia Acerbi, Marc Becker, Cecilia Belej, Gregg Bocketti, Aviva Chomsky, Marshall Eakin, Brenda Elsey, Jeffrey Lesser, Deborah Levenson, Florencia Mallon, Guillermina Seri, Alejandra Vassallo, Barbara Weinstein, and Joel ...
Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the ...
David Simonelli... Don Wright, Keira and Lauren Williams, Ursula Vesala, Corey Andrews, Becca Livingstone, Four Meaher, Dave Dressing, Guillaume Aubert, Gregg Bocketti, members of the ix WORKING CLASS HEROES: Acknowledgments and Sources.
Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the ...
Melissa A. McEuen... Simona Fojtova, Peter Fosl, Kurt Gohde, Tasha Howe, Kim Miller, Belinda Sly, Bryan Trabold, Ingrid Walker, Scott Whiddon, Nancy Wolsk, and my devoted colleagues in the history program—Gregg Bocketti, Frank Russell, and Ken Slepyan.
Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern ...
Joseph Kip KosekRichard B. Gregg to Mary Van Kleek, March 17, 1936, Gregg Papers. 65. Richard B. Gregg to W. E. B. Du Bois, November 19, 1926, Reel 18, Du Bois Papers; and Richard B. Gregg to W. E. B. Du Bois, July 24, 1928, Reel 25, Du Bois Papers.
Gun Control in the United States: A Reference Handbook, 2nd ...
Gregg Lee CarterGregg Lee Carter, 659–663. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Kopel, David B. 2012b. “Product Liability Lawsuits.” In Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law, Vol. 2, ed. Gregg Lee Carter, 684–689.
Now That She's Gone
Gregg OlsenThere’s only way to stop a killer as brutal, brilliant, and twisted as this: beat her at her own game… “The fifth Waterman and Stark thriller from the very talented Gregg Olsen . . . it’s truly a great read.” —Mystery Scene ...
The Power of Non-Violence
Richard B. GreggThe idea of non-violence (passive-resistance) has always seemed beautiful but too good to be true. As a practical proposition it arouses scepticism and ridicule. But Mr Gregg is strangely convincing.
Gregg Toland
Jesse RussellGregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 - September 28, 1948) was an American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
Mysterious Journeys
Gary T. BrideauEyes red from crying, Yasu stared into Gregg's eyes and said, “Dad, no matter what happens, please don't abandon me.” “You have my word, as long as there is breath in me, I'll be by your side, night or day.” With that, Gregg kissed ...
Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition: The Ben Carson Story
Gregg LewisZONDERKIDZ Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition Copyright © 2013 by Gregg Lewis and Deborah Shaw Lewis Requests for information should be addressed to: ... Rev. ed.of:Gifted hands. c2009. ... Lewis, Gregg, 1951– Gifted hands. III. Title.
The Value of Voluntary Simplicity
Richard B. GreggIn turn Gregg was an influence on figures such as Martin Luther King Jr and Aldous Huxley. His book The Value of Voluntary Simplicity is a philosophical essay on the reasons for and benefits of living more simply.
Shared Stories, Rival Tellings: Early Encounters of Jews, ...
Robert C. GreggEarly Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims Robert C. Gregg ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gregg, Robert C. Shared stories, rival tellings: early encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims / Robert C. Gregg.
Republic of the Dispossessed: The Exceptional Old-European ...
Rowland BerthoffA Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer GREGG ANDREWS Gregg Andrews weaves together labor, social, business, immigration, and environmental history to tell the very real story of the exploitations and eventual destruction ...
Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory
B. Trezise1–33, p. 2. Ibid., p. 2. Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), p. 35. Italics in original. Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg, 'An Inventory of Shimmers' in Melissa Gregg ...
Trauma Controversy, The: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary ...
PreviewThe chapters in this first section, by Gregg Horowitz, Sara Beardsworth, and Kristen Brown Golden, evince the necessity and fecundity of pluridiscipli- narity. By asking what sort of loss can be identified in the analysis of trauma, Gregg Horowitz ...
Heart of Ice
Gregg Olsen. . Praise for Gregg Olsen: 'Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat' Lee Child 'Wickedly clever... twisted' Lisa Gardner 'Olsen is a top-notch writer' Michael Connelly 'Olsen keeps the tension taut and pages turning' Publishers Weekly
The Fear Collector
Gregg OlsenPraise for Gregg Olsen: 'Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat' Lee Child 'Wickedly clever... twisted' Lisa Gardner 'Olsen is a top-notch writer' Michael Connelly 'Olsen keeps the tension taut and pages turning' Publishes Weekly
The Substance of Things Hoped For, the Evidence of Things ...
Rhonda Mawhood LeeFor a discussion of Gregg's importance to FOR and to Martin Luther King, Jr., see Joseph Kip Kosek, “Richard Gregg, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Strategy of Nonviolence,” The Journal of American History 91 :4 (March 2005). King discussed ...
Victim Six
Gregg OlsenBut the dying has only just begun. And next victim will be the most shocking of all. . . Praise for Gregg Olsen's Novels "Grabs you by the throat." —Kay Hooper "Wickedly clever!
Diabetes Type 2 and You Fight Back and Win: There Is Hope
Gregg PelagioThis is a story of a 64 year everyday person who was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and how Gregg Pelagio battled this diabetes and has regained control of his sugar levels with and now without medicine.
The Girl in the Woods
Gregg OlsenAnd it's the only way Birdy and Kendall can find their way to a murderer who's ready to kill again. . . Praise for Gregg Olsen's novels "WICKEDLY CLEVER! GENUINELY TWISTED."--Lisa Gardner "OLSEN WRITES RAPID-FIRE PAGE-TURNERS.
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice
Gregg OlsenIn this true story-a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights-Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.
The Hurting Parent: Help for Parents of Prodigal Sons and ...
Gregg LewisThis updated Ebook version of the classic resource The Hurting Parent by Margie Lewis, written with her son, bestselling author Gregg Lewis, for the first time offers the rest of the story that inspired the original edition of this book.
Climate in Context: Science and Society Partnering for ...
PreviewScience and Society Partnering for Adaptation Adam S. Parris, Dr. Gregg M. Garfin, Professor Kirstin Dow, Dr. Ryan Meyer, Dr. Sarah L. Close. Section III: Innovating services 7 The making of national seasonal wildfire outlooks, 143 Gregg ...
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed ...
Tim Hashaw"Alexander Gregg, History of the Old Cheraws (New York: Richardson and Co., 1867). "Gregg, History of the Old Cheraws. "Thomas Goin was a private in the militia company of Capt. Turner Bynum of Greensville County, North Carolina.
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