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Every runner's story is part of a great tradition of running stories. Running Throughout Time tells the best and most important of them. From Atalanta, the heroic woman runner of ancient Greece-when goddesses advised on race tactics-to the new legends of Billy Mills, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Allison Roe (the modern Atalanta), this book brings the greatest runners back to life. It's the perfect runner's bedside storybook. Colorful, dramatic...

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Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian's in-sight with vivid personal memories going back to just after World War II. From experiencing the 1948 "Austerity Olympics" in London as a young spectator to working as a journalist in the Boston Marathon media center at the moment of the 2013 bombings, Robinson offers a fascinating first-person account of the tragic and triumphant moments that impacted the world and ...

Takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian's insight with personal memories. From experiencing the 1948 "Austerity Olympics” to working as a journalist in the Boston Marathon media centre at the moment of the 2013 bombings, Robinson offers an account of the moments that impacted the world and shaped the modern sport.

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What is a conceptual model? How is conceptual modeling performed in general and in specific modeling domains? What is the role of established approaches in conceptual modeling? This book addresses these issues.

Writing from a place somewhere between Trinidad and Brixton, from a vantage point that is at once insider and outsider, these poems from acclaimed poet Roger Robinson lead to a state of alienation and unbelonging in black British London. Such a changing reality is all too evident to the periodic returnee, who is conscious of both his growing difference and the fragility of his memories of the world he has known. But these are far from bleak an...

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Als von zwei Teenagern nach ihrem Badeausflug nur mehr Fetzen übrigbleiben, stößt die ermittelnde Privatdetektivin Maggie McKeown im abgelassenen Becken auf hochaggressive und für den Einsatz im Vietnamkrieg gezüchtete Killerfische. Diese entkommen in den örtlichen Fluss und richten ein regelrechtes Blutbad an. Unter Einsatz ihres Lebens versuchen Maggie und ihre Helfer der tödlichen Bedrohung Herr zu werden. Wie mehrere nachfolgende Sequels u...

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The Walk, " a meditation on walking and on the literature of walking, ruminates on this pervasive, even commonplace, modern image. It is not so much an argument as a journey along the path of literature, noting the occasions and settings, the pleasures and possibilities of different types of walking--through the country or city, during day or night, alone or with someone--and the literatures--the poems, essays, stories, novels, and diaries--wa...

Politicians, the media and the public have perceived the concentration of asylum seekers and refugees in particular towns and cities, either near their port of entry or near communities of people from their own country, as a "problem, " and have demanded that the "burden" be spread more evenly. As a result, European governments are now engaging in one of the largest exercises in social engineering that the continent has seen since the Second W...

A follow up to "Suitcase".