If These Walls Could Talk: Toronto Maple Leafs: Stories from the Toronto Maple Leafs Ice, Locker Room, and Press Box, Lance Hornby

Название: Design city: Toronto
ISBN: 0470033169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780470033166
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A mosaic of architecture and culture, Toronto is a city learning to recognise and celebrate its diversity. This book showcases over thirty contemporary interior and architectural projects, both complete and underway. These range from hip restaurants by Toronto-based practices to institutional buildings completed by the likes of Will Alsop.

Автор: Sam Carchidi, Wayne Fish
Название: The Big 50: Philadelphia Flyers: The Men and Moments that Made the Philadelphia Flyers
ISBN: 1629376205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629376202
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: The Big 50: Philadelphia Flyers is a lively, comprehensive look at the 50 men and moments that made the Flyers the Flyers. Experienced sportswriters Sam Carchidi and Wayne Fish recount the living history of the franchise, counting down from No. 50 to No. 1. This collection brilliantly brings to life the team's remarkable story, from its growing pains as an expansion team to the Broadstreet Bullies era, to more recent stars like captain Claude Giroux.

Автор: Eddie Olczyk, Perry Lefko
Название: Beating the Odds
ISBN: 1629377287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629377285
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: Eddie Olczyk had built a life and career most people could only dream of. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, he fell in love with the game of hockey during an era when most kids preferred balls to pucks. Against all odds, he played on the 1984 U.S. Olympic hockey team as a 17-year-old, and four months later he was drafted in the first round by his hometown Chicago Blackhawks. During an illustrious 16-year career, he played for and alongside some of the greatest franchises and players in history, winning a Stanley Cup with the unforgettable 1994 New York Rangers. Years later, he coached former teammate Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby on the Pittsburgh Penguins before transitioning into the broadcast booth, where he has become one of the most recognizable voices of the sport. He then combined his skills as an analyst with his second passion-- horse racing--and became an integral part of NBC's coverage of thoroughbreds.

Away from the spotlight, Olczyk and his wife of three decades raised four adoring children. He was respected and admired by fans, friends, and peers. Life was sweet. Then, at 7:07 pm on August 4, 2017, his entire world turned upside down.

In Eddie Olczyk: Beating the Odds in Hockey and in Life, one of the biggest names in American hockey has written an inspiring and entertaining memoir of his life both on and off the ice. From shooting hundreds of tennis balls at a goal in his childhood living room to the ups and downs of his improbable hockey career to rollicking stories from the booth and the backstretch, Olczyk guides readers on his journey toward his ultimate test: a battle against Stage 3 colon cancer. For years, Olczyk's goal was to be the best husband, father, broadcaster, and handicapper he could be. Today he has a new one: to bring as much awareness and support to those fighting cancer as he possibly can. In this emotional but often hilarious autobiography, you'll learn why the people who know Eddie Olczyk best might describe him as "tremendously tremendous."

Автор: George Johnson, Peter Maher
Название: If These Walls Could Talk -- Calgary Flames: Stories from the Calgary Flames Ice, Locker Room, and Press Box
ISBN: 1629373516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629373515
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: As the radio voice of the Calgary Flames from 1980 until his retirement in 2014, Peter Maher has witnessed more than his fair share of Flames action up close and personal -- from the 1989 Stanley Cup championship to the individual brilliance of stars like Lanny McDonald, Al MacInnis, Theo Fleury, and Jarome Iginla. Through singular anecdotes only Maher can tell as well as conversations with current and past players, If These Walls Could Talk: Calgary Flames provides fans with a one-of-a-kind, insiders look into the great moments, the lowlights, and everything in between. No Flames fan will want to miss this book.

Автор: Jay Scherer, David Mills, Linda Sloan McCulloch
Название: Power Play: Professional Hockey and the Politics of Urban Development
ISBN: 1772124931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781772124934
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 41450.00 T
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Описание: Big money and municipal politics collide in the story of Edmonton`s Rogers Place hockey arena.

Автор: Helen Antoniou
Название: Le retour a la biere...et au hockey: L`histoire d`Eric Molson
ISBN: 0773553134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773553132
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Un regard personnel sur la quete d`un homme paisible afin de transformer Molson en un brasseur de classe mondiale.

Автор: Triumph Books
Название: 2019 Stanley Cup Champions (Eastern Conference Higher Seed)
ISBN: 1629376620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629376622
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: This commemorative book on the 2019 Stanley Cup champions provides a visual look at the winning teams road to championship glory. Through unique words and images, this celebratory book takes readers from the seasons first games and on through the 2018-19 NHL season and exciting playoff run. Including full color photographs and profiles of star players and the head coach, this keepsake book is an essential part of any fans collection.

Автор: Stephen Hardy, Andrew C. Holman
Название: Hockey: A Global History
ISBN: 0252042204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252042201
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Автор: D. Mitra Barua
Название: Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism: The Transmission of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Toronto
ISBN: 0773556567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773556560
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Immigrants often face considerable challenges when it comes to preserving their cultural and religious teachings. D. Mitra Barua argues that the Sri Lankan Buddhist community in Toronto has maintained its coherence and integrity not despite but because of the need for cultural adaptations. Drawing on survey data, over fifty in-depth interviews with temple monks, educators, parents, and children, and fieldwork conducted in Toronto and Colombo, Sri Lanka, Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism examines how a religious tradition is transmitted from one generation to the next in a new cultural setting, and what happens during that process of transmission. Barua demonstrates that Buddhists have passed on Buddhist beliefs, attitudes, and practices to their Canadian-born youth, who in turn have constructed their own distinct Buddhist identity, influenced by the individualistic, egalitarian, and secular cultural ambience in Toronto. Through creative fieldwork and translocal analysis – taking into account migrants' geographical, cultural, and familial ties to multiple locales – this book further explains that pre-migration experiences often shape and determine the success or failure of intergenerational transmission. An ethnographic religious study with an uncommon depth of perspective, Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism shows that first- and second-generation Sri Lankan Buddhists in Toronto are successfully practising Therav?da Buddhism within a Canadian context.

Автор: Nicholas Hirshon
Название: We Want Fish Sticks: The Bizarre and Infamous Rebranding of the New York Islanders
ISBN: 1496206533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496206534
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 25040.00 T
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Описание: The NHL’s New York Islanders were struggling. After winning four straight Stanley Cups in the early 1980s, the Islanders had suffered an embarrassing sweep by their geographic rivals, the New York Rangers, in the first round of the 1994 playoffs. Hoping for a new start, the Islanders swapped out their distinctive logo, which featured the letters NY and a map of Long Island, for a cartoon fisherman wearing a rain slicker and gripping a hockey stick. The new logo immediately drew comparisons to the mascot for Gorton’s frozen seafood, and opposing fans taunted the team with chants of “We want fish sticks!”

During a rebranding process that lasted three torturous seasons, the Islanders unveiled a new mascot, new uniforms, new players, a new coach, and a new owner, which were supposed to signal a return to championship glory. Instead, the team and its fans endured a twenty-eight-month span more humiliating than what most franchises witness over twenty-eight years. Fans beat up the new mascot in the stands. The new coach shoved and spit at players. The Islanders were sold to a supposed billionaire who promised to buy elite players; he turned out to be a con artist and was sent to prison. We Want Fish Sticks examines this era through period sources and interviews with the people who lived it.
 

Автор: William Jenkins
Название: Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916
ISBN: 0773550461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773550469
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Winner: Joseph Brant Award (2014), Ontario Historical Society Winner: Clio Prize (Ontario) (2014), Canadian Historical Association Winner: The James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize (2014), American Conference for Irish Studies Winner: Geographical Society of Ireland Book of the Year Award (2013-2015) In Between Raid and Rebellion, William Jenkins compares the lives and allegiances of Irish immigrants and their descendants in one American and one Canadian city between the era of the Fenian raids and the 1916 Easter Rising. Highlighting the significance of immigrants from Ulster to Toronto and from Munster to Buffalo, he distinguishes what it meant to be Irish in a loyal dominion within Britain's empire and in a republic whose self-confidence knew no bounds. Jenkins pays close attention to the transformations that occurred within the Irish communities in these cities during this fifty-year period, from residential patterns to social mobility and political attitudes. Exploring their experiences in workplaces, homes, churches, and meeting halls, he argues that while various social, cultural, and political networks were crucial to the realization of Irish mobility and respectability in North America by the early twentieth century, place-related circumstances were linked to wider national loyalties and diasporic concerns. With the question of Irish Home Rule animating debates throughout the period, Toronto's unionist sympathizers presented a marked contrast to Buffalo's nationalist agitators. Although the Irish had acclimated to life in their new world cities, their sense of feeling Irish had not faded to the degree so often assumed. A groundbreaking comparative analysis, Between Raid and Rebellion draws upon perspectives from history and geography to enhance our understanding of the Irish experiences in these centres and the process by which immigrants settle into new urban environments.

Автор: Pat MacAdam
Название: Gold Medal Misfits: How the Unwanted Canadian Hockey Team Scored Olympic Glory
ISBN: 1897453299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781897453292
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: For sports fans everywhere. The untold story of a team cobbled together at the last minute that was so severely trounced in an exhibition match that many Canadians were against sending them to the Olympics for fear of embarrassment. With little financial support, the team stayed in fleabag hotels and were widely ridiculed -- until they hit Olympic ice and made hockey history. A never-before-told story. Rare interviews with some of the original players and key people behind the scenes are skilfully woven into a breath-taking story of scorn, triumph and redemption. This is sports writing at its finest. Macadam breathes life into his characters and keeps our heart rates soaring as he skilfully helps us relive hockey history and masterfully builds tension to the breaking point.