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  • Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

    by John Grasso, Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that ... Read more

    $214.69 USD

  • Ernest Amory Codman: The End Result of a Life in Medicine

    by Bill Mallon, M.D. ...
    Here's the first book-length biography of Ernest A. Codman (1869-1940), "father of shoulder surgery" and pioneer in outcomes research. This book vividly recalls Codman's career, including his breakthrough idea that patients' progress should be followed long enough to determine if their treatments are working. This biography also chronicles the development of the first radiology department, the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Cycling

    by Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Racing on blocked off pieces of street or grass soon evolved into racing on special tracks called velodromes. This development marked the split into what are still the two main forms of cycling competition ... Read more

    $127.99 USD

  • Ernest Amory Codman

    by Bill Mallon ...
    Here's the first book-length biography of Ernest A. Codman (1869-1940), "father of shoulder surgery" and pioneer in outcomes research. This book vividly recalls Codman's career, including his breakthrough idea that patients' progress should be followed long enough to determine if their treatments are working. This biography also chronicles the development of the first radiology department, the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Golf

    by Bill Mallon, Randon Jerris ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Golf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in Scotland around the 15th century. However, there is historical evidence of games similar to golf being played in the low countries of Europe back in the 13th century. Over the many centuries of golf's ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

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  • When Death Becomes Life

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  • William Osler: A Life in Medicine

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