Screen LibraryWhat are the Summer Olympics? /
An overview of the Summer Olympics from Grecian times through 2012.
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, N.Y. : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
An overview of the Summer Olympics from Grecian times through 2012. |
| Carrier Form: | 108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 108). Includes filmography. |
| ISBN: |
9780448488349 0448488345 9781484476505 1484476506 9781518213403 1518213405 9780606384131 0606384138 |
| Index Number: | GV721 |
| CLC: | G811.21-49 |
| Call Number: | G811.21-49/H551 |
| Contents: | What are the Summer Olympics? -- The ancient Games, 776 BC-AD 393 -- The modern Games begin: late 1800s -- The Olympics grow: the early 1900s -- New Games: news stars, the 1920s -- Politics enter the Games: the 1930s -- After the war: late 1940s and 1950s -- Time for change: the 1960s -- Munich and Montreal: the 1970s -- Dives and drugs: the 1980s -- Dreams lost and found: the 1990s -- A new century: the 2000s -- At the close -- Movies about the Olympics -- Timelines. |