David Miller

As a run-up to the Beijing Games, this lavishly illustrated history of the Olympics tells the story of both the organization itself since 1894 — its highs and lows — and also, the stories of many Oly

El mundo oceánico es un continuo cuerpo de agua salada que cubre un área de unos 140 millones de millas cuadradas, o más de dos tercios de la superficie de la Tierra. Esta enorme cantidad de agua es dividida por los geografos en un pequeño numero de oceanos grandes e individuales, y un numero de mares considerablemente mayor. Este magnifico libro nos retrata en espectaculares fotografias a color el inmenso poder y la dramatica belleza de los grandes oceanos del mundo, los cuales cubren dos tercios de la superficie de la Tierra, unos 225 millones de kilometros cuadrados. Las vastas areas oceanicas siguen relativamente inexploradas y poco explotadas, aunque a traves de ellas se realizan el 90% de los transportes comerciales mundiales, asi como los de petroleo y gas, y otros minerales, para beneficio de la humanidad. Tambien son el hogar de multitud de especies de flora y fauna, incluyendo billones de peces , majestuosos mamiferos como las ballenas y delfines, y una inmensa cantidad de aves. Existe, sin embargo, un lado oscuro de los oceanos: el imparable poder de grandes olas puede ser altamente destructivo cuando los oceanos se encuentran con la tierra firme; los navios mercantes pueden arrojar millones de galones de aceites putridos y toxicos productos quimicos, que pueden devastar la vida salvaje; los enormes barcos de guerra y los submarinos con misiles pueden llevar su poder militar bastante mas alla de las costas de un pais. Finalmente, este libro nos resalta el descuido y la negligencia que, si no se tiene en cuenta, podria llegar a deteriorar la magnificencia y los beneficios que aportan los oceanos, tan maravillosamente ilustrados aqui.

La ideología y la práctica del neoliberalismo, de la desregulación radical y del mercado sin pegas, conoció un gran apogeo a finales del siglo XX. Los resultados, en grandes partes del mundo, han sido catastroficos: aumento de la desigualdad y de las tensiones sociales, desarrollo de una enorme economia criminal, degradacion de la vida social y cultural. Los autores centran la atencion en los estudios culturales y sobre los medios de comunicacion y establecen elementos de comparacion y contraste critico entre la investigacion academica y los procesos sociales tal y como se viven al mundo real. La nueva derecha, los mercados, la politica de Thatcher al Reino Unido, el postmodernismo, las nuevas configuraciones corporativas en comunicacion social, el cambio de los publicos, los nuevos medios, son algunos de los aspectos analizados.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPEARS NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD August 1924. John Conrad arrives at his parents home on the outskirts of Canterbury, where family and friends are assembling for the bank holiday weekend. His crippled mother has been discharged from a nursing home, his brother drives down from London with wife and child. But as the guests converge, Johns father dies. Today follows the numb implications of sudden death: the surprise, the shock, the deep fissures in a family exposed through grief. But there is also laughter, fraud and theft### the continuation of life, all viewed through the eyes of Lilian Hallowes - Johns fathers secretary - never quite at the centre of things but always observing, the still point in a turning world. Today is a remarkable debut, an investigation of bereavement, family and Englishness, beautiful in its understatement and profound in its psychological acuity.

In a wonderfully nostalgic book, David Miller recaptures the heady days of summer 1966 when England won the World Cup in front of their own euphoric fans. Nearly fifty years on, he evokes the eager anticipation with which Britain awaited the arrival of the worlds best footballers; how the England team and its tactics took shape in the run up to the competition; the new wingless formation and the widespread criticism from the press and the public. This general pessimism gave way to mass adulation as England vindicated the revolutionary tactics of manager Alf Ramsey. The book includes profiles of the England players and their manager and assesses the major competition from Europe and South America. It details the progress of the team, their injuries and controversies, through to the sensational final against West Germany. Enriched with archive photographs and personal recollections from the players themselves, Miller reveals how Ramseys triumph changed the world game.

The greatest general of medieval timesKing Richard Is personal bravery on the battlefield won him the name Lionheart but as David Miller reveals, his battles and campaigns demonstrate a brilliant grasp of strategy and tactics. The Lionheart was no mere medieval head banger but a thoughtful military leader, the only Crusader commander who managed to get an army to Palestine without going bankrupt in the process.

Koreas Olympic Icon - Kim Un-yongs Resolute Odyssey is a critical biography of the late Dr. Kim Un-yong, the founder president of the World Taekwondo and of the Kukkiwon World Taekwondo Headquarters, and the former Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) president and International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president. This biography is of special significance as a work by David Miller, veteran sports journalist and awards winning author from Great Britain. The book provides profound insights into the exhilarating life of Kim Un-yong, a man whose light shone brightest on the international stage, leaving a huge footprint on sports history not only in South Korea and Asia but across the world. Whilst the focus of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) publication in 2017, A Big Man Who Embraced the World, Kim Un-Yong, recounted primarily Kims life and career as national sports hero, this latest work delves into his international impact. Miller and Kim interacted over many years and enjoyed a particular closeness; the author has stated that "there would never have been an Olympics in Seoul had it not been for Kim".Kim Un-yongs global influence was individually responsible for major events being hosted by South Korea, most notably the Seoul Olympics of 1988 and the FIFA World Cup of 2002 jointly with Japan. Further historic moments included the opening and closing ceremonies of Sydneys 2000 Olympics with joint marches of the North and South teams of the Peninsular arranged by Kim. It was also in the 2000 Sydney Olympics that Kim achieved Taekwondos inclusion as an Olympic sport for the first time: a hitherto little known domestic leisure sport.As IOC President Samaranchs privately intended successor, Kims mounting fame and senior appointments, as IOC vice-president and as president of the General Assembly of International Sports Federations (GAISF), attracted envy, both within sport and domestically within politics. Lamentable political revenge at home in the aftermath of Pyeongchangs unsuccessful first of three Winter Olympic bids in 2003, resulting in a contrived prison sentence challenged by the United Nations Human Rights Commission, but symbiotically mirrored by the IOC Ethics Commission, found Kim toppled from authority, forced to resign his IOC vice-presidency just months after being elected by a substantial majority.Kim would go on to resume his outside activities and sharing his sports administration acumen through a 2006 advisory role on the organising committee for the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon and a 2010 advisory role on the organising committee for the 2015 Universiade in Gwangju and taking on positions as an advisor to the KSOC and honorary chairman of the Korea Taekwondo Association. He would also share his ideas through lectures and talks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and various universities, whilst contributing columns to online and printed media. In 2016 he founded the Kimunyong Sport Committee (KUYSC) and launched the Kimunyong Cup International Open Taekwondo Championships (G1) shortly before his unexpected passing in October 2017.Detailing the passionate life story of Kim Un-yong as someone who represented South Koreas face in the world of global sports - taking on multiple roles over history as a soldier, diplomat, sports administrator, and politician - this critical biography is rich in messages of courage and hope that are worthy of sharing with younger readers. It also offer...

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A complete compendium of rifles and shotguns through the ages. A "rifled" firearm is one in which the projectile is made to spin as it travels up the bore. The term "rifle," however, was originally applied to muskets to differentiate them from the earlier smoothbore weapons and is used today to designate the infantrymans personal weapon, fired from the shoulder or the hip, or, in some modern weapons, from a bipod. The rifle has also been used by sportsmen to kill larger game and was also used as a working tool by cowboys and trappers during the period of Western Expansion. It progressed from being a muzzle-loader to a breechloading, bolt-operated weapon, then to a semi-automatic weapon, and finally to a lightweight "assault rifle." The emphasis throughout these developments has been in increasing the rate of fire, reducing the weight and making the weapons more accurate, simpler to fire, more reliable, and easier to maintain. The shotgun is a smoothbore weapon originally developed as a hunting device for killing fast moving, flying or running prey. Loaded with shot (many small projectiles) the chances of hitting a moving target was greatly enhanced. Like the rifle, the shotgun has undergone similar progression from muzzle-loader to breechloader, bolt action, and finally semi-automatic mode. The weapon has also seen military use in trench warfare and special operations as well as riot suppression by the police. The Illustrated Catalog of Rifles and Shotguns shows the reader over 500 longarms of all types form the early flintlocks of the revolutionary period, the percussion cap rifles and repeaters of the Civil War, the famous rifles and shotguns of the Wild West, the standard infantry rifles of two World Wars, to the present day with Assault Rifles, and combat shotguns, together with state-of-the-art sporting rifles and shotguns. Each entry has a color photo along with a description and a technical specification. It is arranged in alphabetical order within five historical periods: Historic, Civil War, The Frontier, Two World Wars, and Modern, plus a separate comprehensive Shotgun section.

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis we need to act rapidly Taking cues from progressive cities around the world including Los Angeles New York Toronto Oslo Shenzhen and Sydney this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1 5 degrees In Solved David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can and because they must Miller makes a clear eyed and compelling case that if replicated at pace and scale the actions of leading global cities point the way to creating a more sustainable planet Solved How the World s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis demonstrates that the initiatives cities have taken to control the climate crisis can make a real difference in reducing global emissions if implemented worldwide By chronicling the stories of how cities have taken action to meet and exceed emissions targets laid out in the Paris Agreement Miller empowers readers to fix the climate crisis As much a how to guide for policymakers as a work for concerned citizens Solved aims to inspire ho

El nacionalismo es una de las fuerzas dominantes de la política contemporánea. Sin embargo, la filosofía política se ha resistido tenazmente a discutir -y sobre todo a defender- las ideas nacionalistas. En este libro, por el contrario, David Miller defiende el principio de la nacionalidad y argumenta que las identidades nacionales son necesarias para la consecucion de una identidad personal, que esta justificado que contraigamos ciertos compromisos con nuestros compatriotas, e incluso que las razones para la autodeterminacion politica de los pueblos son casi siempre validas. Pero reconocer las demandas de la nacionalidad no implica suprimir otras fuentes de identidad personal, tales como la etnicidad, ni tampoco contemplar aquella como una fuerza de la naturaleza, fuera del control humano, a la que haya que someterse por obligacion. Estos son enfoques de la nacionalidad a los que Miller se opone con todas sus fuerzas y que le permiten, a su vez, analizar concienzudamente la muy habitual afirmacion de que las identidades nacionales se estan disolviendo con el final del siglo XX. La conclusion es mas bien un interrogante: ¿de que manera el hecho de abrazar el principio de nacionalidad altera la forma en la que pensamos politicamente? Y la obra, de rabiosa actualidad y abiertamente provocativa, acaba constituyendo la mas convincente defensa de la nacionalidad realizada hasta la fecha desde una perspectiva radical.

A captivating and wonderfully illustrated chronicle of one of the most influential and legendary names in gunsmithing history. John M. Browning was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1855, into a world of gunsmithing. His father was a gunsmith who was already well known for a number of innovations in the field. As a young boy, John spent hours in his fathers shop and allegedly knew the name of every part of a gun before he could read. Its hardly surprising that at age twenty-three, he was filing his first patent for the "J. M. Browning Single-Shot Rifle." Browning inherited his fathers gun making shop, and with funds of less than a thousand dollars, developed it into a highly successful business that developed several iconic firearms including the Colt Peacemaker. Browning also cooperated with Winchester to develop a whole range of small arms including semi-automatic pistols, single-shot rifles, repeater rifles, and machine guns. His enthusiasm and creativity have led many to believe he is the greatest firearm designer of all time. This fascinating book describes the Browning history, and in addition to covering the full range of inventions and designs, also shows various gun-making artifacts, copies of designers drawings, and interesting photographs of the weapons in the hands of users. The History of Browning Firearms makes a perfect addition to the libraries of Wild West buffs and firearms enthusiasts.

Written by a technical expert who has fired many of the guns featured, this book includes wide and varied assemblage of weapons from each of the worlds major manufacturing countries.The Illustrated Directory series provide readers with a fully illustrated, comprehensive reference book packed with timelines, historical facts, and images designed to inform and excite. At 512 pages packed with information and photographs, this book is a necessary addition to any enthusiasts library. Complete with full specification table with each entry including type, origin, caliber, and size, The Illustrated Directory of Guns is the most ambitious and lavishly illustrated history of guns for the collector and enthusiast. It shows in clear, detailed photographs and text over 1500 guns with separate sections on Pistols, Revolvers, Rifles, Shotguns (military and sporting), Machine Guns, and Submachine guns. A few featured include: Remington Smith & Wesson Winchester Glock Vickers Mauser Browning Colt Beretta And more Organized A-Z by country and gunmakers name, the book clearly shows the different types of gun which the world has used to hunt, wage war, break and defend its laws, hone its sharpshooting skills, and fire purely for the fun of it. The book also features an introduction on each section, which gives a brief history of the development of that particular kind of firearm.

The Ultimate Collectors Guide to 500 Handguns in Full Color!Ultimate Handguns brings together five hundred classic examples, organized from A-Z by country and gunmakers name, of handguns of all types, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, which makes it a serious reference book for collectors, enthusiasts, and sportsmen alike. It shows the different types of handgun which the world has used to wage war, break and defend its laws, and hone its sharpshooting skills. From historic pistols like flintlock English Collumbell holster pistol to modern revolvers like the Smith & Wesson Model 29 Magnum, made famous in the Dirty Harry movies, the full gamut is covered in Ultimate Handguns. Inside, you will find: Over five hundred handguns in full color, including close-up details of particular features of the weapon Full descriptions and technical specifications of each weapon Introductory passes to famous makers such as Colt and Smith & Wesson