Those Who Love the Game

Those Who Love the Game
Author: Glenn Rivers
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1466885084

Glenn "Doc" Rivers, alongside award-winning author Bruce Brooks, tells us about the game he loves in this insightful player autobiography. Glenn "Doc" Rivers plays basketball the way an artist writes: he practices endlessly to perfect his technique, he constantly thinks of the whole, the game, ahead of himself; and in those moments of inspiration when "the ball starts to move," that's when the real fun starts. Beginning with schoolyard contests in Chicago against Isiah Thomas and clashes with an older brother who was his toughest one-on-one challenge, he shows us the determination, the competitive fire, and the brains he needed to succeed. We find out about mentors like Johnny Davis and Moses Malone, infuriating opponents like Michael Jordan and Kevin McHale--and coaches like Hank Raymond and Pat Riley, whose techniques Doc later uses as a championship-winning head coach and leader. Doc has a good life in the NBA, but he looks directly at the racial problems sports hides, at the distortion that comes when a game turns into a highlight film, at the pressure on himself and his family that comes from being a too-often-absent dad, and at the day every athlete dreads: retirement. Looking back to his past accomplishments and ahead to his bright future, Doc Rivers guides us on a thought-provoking, memorable journey into the mind of one special ballplayer--one of Those Who Love the Game.

Kings and the Beasts: War of Ten Kingdoms

Kings and the Beasts: War of Ten Kingdoms
Author: Ashutosh Mani
Publisher: Ashutosh Mani
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The story revolves around Ten Kings of East Kingdom. They all had formed an alliance to go against the Beasts of the dark forest of the planet. They made some rules for their descendants. They all live in in peace and harmony for over 500 years. The time for 11th descendants had started.A strange event occurred after their coronation day. It gave a never ending power source. All the Kings was warned for future events, but they did not take it seriously. After some time, they faced some problem that they had never faced before. A plot was setup by scar faced man, and put his plan into action. The wheel of uncertainty had started and things were going upside down.What will happen next?This is the first book of shadowbeasts universe. This book is one of the origin stories and first part King and the beasts: war of ten kingdoms.

Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line

Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line
Author: Rachel Carrico
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 025204715X

On many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines. These processions invite would-be spectators to join in, grooving to an ambulatory brass band for several hours. Though an increasingly popular attraction for tourists, parading provides the second liners themselves with a potent public expression of Black resistance. Rachel Carrico examines the parading bodies in motion as a form of negotiating and understanding power. Seeing pleasure as a bodily experience, Carrico reveals how second liners’ moves link joy and liberation, self and communal identities, play and dissent, and reclamations of place. As she shows, dancers’ choices allow them to access the pleasure of reclaiming self and city through motion and rhythm while expanding a sense of the possible in the present and for the future. In-depth and empathetic, Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line blends analysis with a chorus of Black voices to reveal an indelible facet of Black culture in the Crescent City.

Mackenzie King

Mackenzie King
Author: Bruce Hutchison
Publisher: London, Longmans. Green
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1953
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

Wanban Wideya

Wanban Wideya
Author: Stuart Robson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 331
Release: 1971
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004644164

Critical edition and translation of Wanban Wideya. In the extensive introduction, Robson introduces the term Middle Javanese and the Panji story, discusses this Middle-Javanese romance from a literary viewpoint and provides a summary of the plot. Following the text and translation a commentary, a glossary, and a list of names found in the text are given.

Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah

Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah
Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567032167

This volume of essays draws together specialists in the field to explain, illustrate and analyze this religious diversity in Ancient Israel.

In Search of R.B. Bennett

In Search of R.B. Bennett
Author: P.B. Waite
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2012-05-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0773587586

Writing a life of Bennett, who reportedly destroyed his correspondence every seven years, presents challenges for the biographer. Yet, as P.B. Waite shows, Bennett's lasting contributions to Canada are beyond doubt. He describes Bennett's bold initiatives, including his attempt to introduce unemployment insurance and a minimum wage, as well as his founding of the Bank of Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - achieved in the teeth of opposition from banking and media magnates. Waite also contemplates Bennett's friendships, his relationships, and his lifelong bachelorhood, shedding new light on his life and personality. With warmth, wit, and a deep knowledge of its subject, In Search of R.B. Bennett brings Bennett the man - his penchants, prejudices, weaknesses, and strengths - before the reader.

Complete Offensive Line

Complete Offensive Line
Author: Rick Trickett
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492581321

Developing dominating offensive linemen is Rick Trickett’s specialty. His accomplishments speak for themselves: 4 first-round draft selections, 20 NFL players, 13 All-Americans, and more than 30 all-conference selections. Now with Complete Offensive Line, he’s created the most in-depth guide ever on offensive line play. Today’s linemen must have skill, strength, power, quickness, agility, and intelligence to excel at the position. That is why Complete Offensive Line presents it all—from footwork and hand positioning to pulling and cutbacks. In this one-of-a-kind guide, Trickett takes you onto the practice field and into the trenches to learn these skills, among others: • Pass protection • Run blocking • Man and zone blocking • Combination blocks • Blitz pickup • Recognition of defensive sets such as 4-3, 3-4, and stack • Strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities against any defensive set • Techniques and schemes for formations such as spread, option, and the run and shoot With XX of the most effective drills, skill evaluation, line play assessments, scheme suggestions, and unparalleled coaching advice from one of the best in the game, Complete Offensive Line is simply the definitive book on football’s most demanding position.

Reborn Phoenix’s Counterattack

Reborn Phoenix’s Counterattack
Author: Bai Luoyou
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 1154
Release: 2020-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647876109

Yun Luoyou, who originally was a loser, was betrayed and tortured to death by her friend. At that moment she died, another powerful soul came across and poured into her body. The originally loser became a strong person. The first thing she was supposed to do is revenge. In the mean time, she met a charming man she had never saw. They started to conquer the world together.☆About the Author☆Bai Luoyou, a new internet novelist, is good at writing fantasy novels. Most of her works have ups and downs in plots, diversified narrative techniques, smooth writing. her novels are welcome by many readers.

Anglo-American Support for Jordan: The Career of King Hussein

Anglo-American Support for Jordan: The Career of King Hussein
Author: M. Joyce
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2008-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230611648

This book focuses on US-UK relations with Jordan for the entire period of King Hussein's reign, explaining Hussein's successes and failures, while emphasizing the declining influence of London and the rising influence of Washington.