Peter Mayer
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography.
(1936– ) US publisher.
At Avon Books in the 1970s, Mayer launched the trade paperback as an alternative to mass-market paperbacks. He brought a more commercial outlook to Penguin...
May, Peter Barker Howard (1929–94)
in A Supplementary Dictionary of Sports Personalities
P ublished online January 2014 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Sport and Leisure. 179 words.
Tall and powerful, with a preference for the on drive, he dominated bowlers throughout the 1950s, and seemed certain to
Tenzing Norgay
Overview page. Subjects: Sport and Leisure.
(1914–86) A Nepalese-Tibetan mountaineer who with Edmund Hillary achieved the first known ascent of Everest (29 May 1953), the world's highest mountain peak; he is often referred to as...
carnivalesque
Overview page. Subjects: Sport and Leisure — Literary Theory and Cultural Studies.
Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian linguist and literary critic writing in the first half of the 20th century, used this term to characterize writing that depicts the de-stabilization or reversal...
