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Connecting, October 1999, Volume 2, Issue 1, Nova Southeastern University Libraries
Connecting, October 1999, Volume 2, Issue 1, Nova Southeastern University Libraries
Connecting: Nova Southeastern University Libraries Newsletter
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Tidings, Spreading The Word - Summer 1999, Nova Southeastern University Libraries
Tidings, Spreading The Word - Summer 1999, Nova Southeastern University Libraries
Tidings: A publication of Nova Southeastern University Libraries
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Connecting, June 1999, Volume 1, Issue 4, Nova Southeastern University Libraries
Connecting, June 1999, Volume 1, Issue 4, Nova Southeastern University Libraries
Connecting: Nova Southeastern University Libraries Newsletter
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Connecting, March 1999, Volume 1, Issue 3, Nova Southeastern University
Connecting, March 1999, Volume 1, Issue 3, Nova Southeastern University
Connecting: Nova Southeastern University Libraries Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Hallmark Events, Kevin M. Dunn, Pauline M. Mcguirk
Hallmark Events, Kevin M. Dunn, Pauline M. Mcguirk
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The modern Olympic Games have always been an international event: a celebration of sporting competition between athletes from many nations. In an era marked by the quickening pace of global integration of the world's economic and cultural systems, the Olympics can also be thought of as a globalised 'hallmark event'. Certainly, the Games have economic, cultural and political dimensions that mirror the various processes of globalisation. The impacts of the Games on its host city are similar to the impacts of globalisation processes. In this chapter we discuss the analogies between the Olympics, as a hallmark event, and the local …