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| Author | : Tammy Moore Harrison |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2017-01-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780692798263 |
The All American Red Heads was much more than a woman's basketball team; but rather, a testimony to what defines resilience. In 1936, forty years before 'Title IX' passed, the team was formed. A team(s) which traveled throughout the U.S.A.and neighboring countries playing men's teams by men's rules. They were a professional traveling women's basketball team on the road sixty years before the WNBA .The book begins at the induction of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and looks back on they many years of their existence. Oh how they could play the game. #AARH#lovethegame
| Author | : Bonnie M. Hagerman |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2023-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813949246 |
Skimpy Coverage explores Sports Illustrated’s treatment of female athletes since the iconic magazine’s founding in 1954. The first book-length study of its kind, this accessible account charts the ways in which Sports Illustrated—arguably the leading sports publication in postwar America—engaged with the social and cultural changes affecting women’s athletics and the conversations about gender and identity they spawned. Bonnie Hagerman examines the emergence of the magazine’s archetypal female athlete—good-looking, straight, and white—and argues that such qualities were the same ones the magazine prized in the women who appeared in its wildly successful Swimsuit Issue. As Hagerman shows, the female athlete and the swimsuit model, at least for the magazine, were essentially one and the same. Despite this conflation, and the challenges it poses, Hagerman also tracks the distance that sportswomen—including Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and Megan Rapinoe—have traveled both within Sports Illustrated’s pages and without. Blending sports with gender history, Skimpy Coverage profiles numerous sportswomen who have used athletics and the platform sport offers to push for empowerment, freedom, equality, and acceptance in ways that have complemented and inspired broader feminist agendas.
| Author | : Randy Pausch |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Cancer |
| ISBN | : 9780340978504 |
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
| Author | : Mimi Pockross |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2020-10-08 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1538131692 |
Talk about working from home. . . . Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat chronicles the story of how Mary Chase—a housewife with three children from a working-class Irish community in Denver, Colorado—became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright for Harvey, a Broadway comedy about a gentle soul and his invisible six-foot-and-one-half-inch-tall rabbit friend. This entertaining and inspiring account traces how Chase achieved her dream of becoming a famous playwright while remaining in Denver—where she worked for the Rocky Mountain News, married an editor, and raised a family. Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat includes many vignettes and unforgettable stories about the theater industry. It brings to life the history of Franklin Roosevelt’s Federal Theatre Project; provides readers with an insider’s view of the Broadway scene in the 1940s; and highlights the importance of theater personalities, including Brock Pemberton (Harvey’s producer), Antoinette Perry (Harvey’s director and namesake for the Tony Awards), and Frank Fay and Jimmy Stewart (actors who played Elwood Dowd, the amiable, slightly tipsy gentleman lead character). The author of fourteen plays, three screenplays, and two award-winning children’s books, Mary Chase created Harvey to counter sadness during the height of World War II. It would win the 1945 Pulitzer Prize (beating out Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie) and remain to this day one of the most beloved and underappreciated works of the twentieth century.
| Author | : Liz Murray |
| Publisher | : Hachette Books |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2010-09-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1401396208 |
In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.
| Author | : Malcolm Gladwell |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2013-10-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0241959608 |
Why do underdogs succeed so much more than we expect? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell, no.1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw, takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflicts in Northern Ireland, through the tactics of civil rights leaders and the problem of privilege, Gladwell demonstrates how we misunderstand the true meaning of advantage and disadvantage. When does a traumatic childhood work in someone's favour? How can a disability leave someone better off? And do you really want your child to go to the best school he or she can get into? David and Goliath draws on the stories of remarkable underdogs, history, science, psychology and on Malcolm Gladwell's unparalleled ability to make the connections others miss. It's a brilliant, illuminating book that overturns conventional thinking about power and advantage. 'A global phenomenon... there is, it seems, no subject over which he cannot scatter some magic dust' Observer
| Author | : Mark Herzlich |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2015-06-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0451468805 |
In 2011, he became starting linebacker for the New York Giants and triumphed in the Super Bowl—after being told his cancer diagnosis meant he would never play football again.... As a child, Herzlich found true meaning in football, eventually turning his passion into a first-team All-American spot at Boston College. But the budding star was sidelined by persistent, debilitating pain in his left leg. The shocking diagnosis: He had Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Doctors put his odds of survival as low as ten percent—and no one thought he would be able to run, much less play football, again. Then Herzlich learned of a radical treatment that would give him the best chance to regain his strength and maybe even play football again, but it could cost him his life. Relying on family, friends, faith, and deep wells of determination to help him through treatment, his plan worked. Not only could he run, but he was physically stronger than ever, and mentally ready to battle his way into the NFL. When he was passed over by all thirty-two teams in the draft, he dug deeper and continued his training, winning a spot in the Giants’ training camp and, eventually, on the team. Mark Herzlich fought a battle against cancer, against statistics, and some days against himself. Told with candor and raw emotion, What It Takes is a story for anyone who has ever fought to beat the odds, for anyone who has ever been told that what they are about to attempt is next to impossible. INCLUDES PHOTOS With a foreword by New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin
| Author | : David Finoli |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2020-04-24 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
On April 25, 1950 Boston Celtics Owner Walter Brown got up at the table and declared he was taking Chuck Cooper with the fourteenth pick in the draft. When someone reminded him that Cooper was black Brown declared "I don't care if he is striped, plaid, or polka dot, Boston takes Charles Cooper." Thus began the odyssey of Chuck Cooper as the Jackie Robinson of the NBA, as he was the first African American that the league drafted. Along with Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, and Earl Lloyd they cleared the lane for all who followed. The Cooper story begins though in 1926 and builds to his All-American career at Duquense University. It was there that he became the second player to score a 1,000 points in his career, set the school single season scoring record and became only the second African American to be named to a consensus All-American team before beginning his historic NBA career with the Boston Celtics. As impressive as his basketball career was, it was his second act in life that was even greater. He broke barriers as the first African American department head for the city of Pittsburgh and also as an urban affairs officer for Pittsburgh National Bank where he had the opportunity to help those in need. The story of Chuck Cooper is incredible and the pages written by David Finoli and Chuck Cooper III tell the complete story of this iconic figure in American sports history.
| Author | : Daniel Pinchbeck |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2003-08-12 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 0767907434 |
A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world. From the iboga of the Bwiti in Gabon, to the Mazatecs of Mexico, these plants are sacred because they awaken the mind to other levels of awareness--to a holographic vision of the universe. Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into this deep division. On one level, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the story of the encounters between the modern consciousness of the West and these sacramental substances, including such thinkers as Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, and Terence McKenna, and a new underground of present-day ethnobotanists, chemists, psychonauts, and philosophers. It is also a scrupulous recording of the author's wide-ranging investigation with these outlaw compounds, including a thirty-hour tribal initiation in West Africa; an all-night encounter with the master shamans of the South American rain forest; and a report from a psychedelic utopia in the Black Rock Desert that is the Burning Man Festival. Breaking Open the Head is brave participatory journalism at its best, a vivid account of psychic and intellectual experiences that opened doors in the wall of Western rationalism and completed Daniel Pinchbeck's personal transformation from a jaded Manhattan journalist to shamanic initiate and grateful citizen of the cosmos.
| Author | : Mark Titus |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2013-03-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307745384 |
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would be all over the highlight reels. You'd be wrong. In 2006, Mark Titus arrived on Ohio State's campus as a former high school basketball player who aspired to be an orthopedic surgeon. Somehow, he was added to the elite Buckeye basketball team, given a scholarship, and played alongside seven future NBA players on his way to setting the record for most individual career wins in Ohio State history. Think that's impressive? In four years, he scored a grand total of nine—yes, nine—points. This book will give readers an uncensored and uproarious look inside an elite NCAA basketball program from Titus's unique perspective. In his four years at the end of the bench, Mark founded his wildly popular blog Club Trillion, became a hero to all guys picked last, and even got scouted by the Harlem Globetrotters. Mark Titus is not your average basketball star. This is a wild and completely true story of the most unlikely career in college basketball. A must-read for all fans of March Madness and college sports!
