Olympics

London

Week of July 30, 2012

In the News: LONDON

All eyes are on London as it hosts the 2012 Summer Olympics. (See our post from ‘08 when the Games were held in Beijing.)

 

All Is Song
By Samantha Harvey. Jonathan Cape, 2012
Call Number: PR6108 .A7875 A45 2012 (At Jupiter)

Bleak House
By Charles Dickens. Macmillan, 1954
Call Number: PR4556 .A1 1954

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London
Edited by Lawrence Manley. Cambridge University Press, 2011
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In the News: 2008 Summer Olympics

Week of August 4, 2008

News Item: The Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin this week in Beijing and will run through August 24th. A few of the recent problems associated with the event include the following: at least 20,000 people have cleaned up algal blooms along the coastlines of Qingdao where sailing events will be held; poor air quality plagues Beijing and nearby cities; the past and current treatment of Tibetans by the Chinese government prompted Students for a Free Tibet to disrupt the Olympic torch relay this past spring. Included here are titles related to the social history of the Olympics and its past games.

Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China
By Susan Brownell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Call Number: GV722 2008 .B76 2008

Berlin games: How the Nazis Stole the Olympic Dream
By Guy Walters. William Morrow, 2006
Call Number: GV722 1936 .W35 2006

The Best Olympics Ever?: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000
By Helen Lenskyj. State University of New York Press, 2002
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
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