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Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History

Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History

Andrew Denning

Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from Europe’s Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe, where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for skiing across the world.
Skiing Heritage Journal

Skiing Heritage Journal

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That brings us to this year's Skiing Legends and the Laurentian Lodge Club by Neil and Catharine McKenty. Neil is an award-winning writer and radio personality. Catharine is a research editor for the Reader 's Digest. The two put together a ...
Jet Skiing

Jet Skiing

Bob Italia

Examines the equipment and techniques of jet skiing and identifies magazines associated with the sport.
Science and Skiing V

Science and Skiing V

Erich Müller

The book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Science and Skiing.
Skiing

Skiing

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Avalanche < *yl Test Monkey, Nickheil 1 Gorbachev. CANADIAN SKIING EXPERIENCE: Numerous visits to Nelson, BC, via VW bus, from 1994 to 1999. TIES TO CANADA: Sports a mullet, insisting the style is "poised for a comeback.
The Culture and Sport of Skiing: From Antiquity to World War II

The Culture and Sport of Skiing: From Antiquity to World War II

E. John B. Allen

The date has recently been questioned, see Neil and Catharine McKenty, Skiing Legends and the Laurentian Lodge Club (Montreal: Price Patterson, 2000), 52– 55. For Shawbridge in the 1920s, see BSYB (1926): 507. 73. Ski Bulletin, 16 ...
Repetitorium Der Philosophischen Systematik

Repetitorium Der Philosophischen Systematik

Franz Kramer

Repetitorium für akademische Prüfungen und zur Selbstbelehrung für Gebildete über philosophische Probleme. Nachdruck des Originals von 1922.
Franz Marc, horses

Franz Marc, horses

Franz Marc

Like no other artist, Franz Marc pursued the representation of the horse--a central topic in the fine arts--as his life's work.
Skiing Heritage Journal

Skiing Heritage Journal

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In its First Issue 2001, Heritage reviewed two books on Vail, Triumph of a Dream by Peter Seibert and The Inventors of Vail by Dick Hauserman, plus Skiing Legends and the Laurentian Ski Lodge by Neil and Catharine McKenty. One section of ...
Skiing Heritage Journal

Skiing Heritage Journal

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In its First Issue 2001, Heritage reviewed two books on Vail, Triumph of a Dream by Peter Seibert and The Inventors of Vail by Dick Hauserman, plus Skiing Legends and the Laurentian Ski Lodge by Neil and Catharine McKenty. One section of ...
Neurologische Untersuchungs-Schemata: Periphere und Spinale ...

Neurologische Untersuchungs-Schemata: Periphere und Spinale ...

Franz Kramer

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
Thomas Carlyle of the Scottish Bar (1803-1855).

Thomas Carlyle of the Scottish Bar (1803-1855).

Franz Krämer

... vividness of idea, or electric action, is only to violate common sense, in refusing to look reality in the face. We have no alternative between the Spirit of God and 1 Pleadings, S. 87. 2 Henry John Marks, Narrative of H. J. Marks, formerly a Jew, ...
Skiing Heritage Journal

Skiing Heritage Journal

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Neil and Catharine McKenty's Skiing Legends and the Laurentian Lodge Ski Club quotes a long-time member of the club, Clee Dodge, relating that Foster in 1931 rigged a fairly short working model of the rope tow on a small slope just north of ...
HMM Dallas Music and Entertainment Memorabilia Auction ...

HMM Dallas Music and Entertainment Memorabilia Auction ...

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31450 Letters from President Clinton to Stanley and Karen Kramer. Three typed letters signed by President Bill Clinton to producer Stanley Kramer and his wife, actress Karen Sharpe Kramer. The first letter on White House stationery is dated  ...
Race, Language, and Culture

Race, Language, and Culture

Franz Boas

This volume is a collection of the most important essays written by Franz Boas on the science of anthropology. "Franz Boas is the father of American anthropology and one of the founders of the field of modern anthropology.
The Inspiration Motif in the Works of Franz Grillparzer: ...

The Inspiration Motif in the Works of Franz Grillparzer: ...

Gisela Stein

KRAUSKE, MARIE, 'Grillparzer als Epigrammatiker', Wissenschaftliche Frauenarbeiten, 1. Ból., Heft 1, Berlin, 1906. KUH, EMIL, Zwei Dichter Oesterreichs, Franz Grillparzer—Adalbert Stifter, Pest, 1872. KURz, FRANz, ' Grillparzers Sappho.
Writer to Writer

Writer to Writer

Bodie Thoene

Filled with personal anecdotes and humor, Writer to Writer can help a beginning writer, as well as give valuable tips to a published author.
The Kramer: A Play in Two Acts

The Kramer: A Play in Two Acts

Mark Howard Medoff

THE STORY: Self-assured and unyielding, Bart Kramer after accepting an important business position inexorably intrudes himself into the lives of his associates.
Franz Marc: the complete works. The oil paintings

Franz Marc: the complete works. The oil paintings

Franz Marc

Franz Marc was one of the most important members of the Blue Rider group of painters - this first volume of a three-part catalogue raisonné is devoted to the oil paintings.
Franz Marc: The Complete Works: Works On Paper, Postcards, ...

Franz Marc: The Complete Works: Works On Paper, Postcards, ...

Franz Marc

This volume, the second of a three-part catalogue raisonné of Franz Marc's work, is devoted to the watercolors, works on paper, sculpture and decorative arts.
Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge

Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge

Lawrence Kramer

"In this pathbreaking new book, Lawrence Kramer extends the theoretical and scholarly frontiers of musicology with every chapter, each of which explores a different case study in depth.
Hard Questions

Hard Questions

Ian Watson

Through the glass wall Perridge could see Jeff Kramer at the watercooler. Kramer ought to be stepping in here soon – he'd been due to call on that conference organizer last night. After Perridge cradled the phone ten minutes later, he was in  ...
Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

Kenneth Paul Kramer

Kramer shows that the power of Four Quartets is its ability to create a dynamic interaction between the poem and the reader that promotes a genuine connection with the natural world, with others, and with the Divine.

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