Shock the World

Shock the World
Author: Peter F. Burns
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1555537936

How Jim Calhoun made the University of Connecticut a basketball powerhouse and became the greatest coach of his generation

Suffer the Children

Suffer the Children
Author: Richard P. Hiskes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0197565980

"This book begins with the recognition that continued practical denial of the human rights of children globally is due to the absence of any theoretical foundation justifying their reality. The goal of this book is to provide that foundation. Such a foundation departs from the eighteenth-century rationalist justification for human rights generally, and provides a new conceptualization for all human rights that embraces the facts of human vulnerability and capacity for promising as the real basis for rights. As such, children also qualify for full human rights, including those to a safe environment, to dignity, and to full participation as citizens, including voting rights. The theoretical foundation of children's human rights expands upon the "participation" rights included in the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Furthermore, full recognition of children's alters the composition and focus human rights to include the rights of future generations, group rights, and the pre-eminence of social and economic rights over civil and political rights"--

Greenes' Guide to Educational Planning:The Public Ivies

Greenes' Guide to Educational Planning:The Public Ivies
Author: Howard Greene
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2001-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 006093459X

Information is provided about thirty public colleges and universities at which students can receive an Ivy League education at a fraction of the price of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. --book cover.

Fugitives

Fugitives
Author: Danielle Pieratti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780990819370

Winner of the 2017 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2015 Idaho Prize for Poetry The poems in Danielle Pieratti's Fugitives are punctuated by avoidance, disguise, and sheltering of all kinds--escapes both from and to. They combine the magical and the mundane, shifting between dreams and the domestic, while exploring the nebulous confines of marriage, motherhood, and girlhood. Ultimately they learn a kind of tentative security in a 'strange, unyielding, ' and deserved present, one in which 'You are / safer than you thought. / You are almost / sleeping. And your body / is shaped like cloth and sounds / like a century.'

University of Connecticut Basketball Vault

University of Connecticut Basketball Vault
Author: Ken Davis
Publisher: Whitman Pub Llc
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2010-09-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780794828035

It took nearly a century for a tiny agricultural school in the hills to transform itself into the powerful state university that is UConn, and the game of basketball has been integral to the rise of Huskymania. In the University of Connecticut Basketball Vault: The History of the Huskies you will find the stories of all the heroes of the Husky hardwood, from Louis Alexander to Walt Dropo to Ray Allen and Khalid El-Amin. Author Ken Davis has spent more than 30 years covering college basketball, including 20 for The Hartford Courant, and here he combines great game coverage with behind-the-scenes anecdotes to present a view of Connecticut basketball you won't find anywhere else. UConn fans will also find never-before-published vintage photographs, artwork and memorabilia drawn from Connecticut's extensive campus archives, including reproductions of old game programs, historic tickets, stickers and other amazing replicas tucked into dozens of pockets.

Uconn Huskies Men's Basketball

Uconn Huskies Men's Basketball
Author: Wayne Norman
Publisher: Insiders' Guide (CT)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN: 9780762737857

A collection of terrific stories about UConn's men's basketball by veteran journalists.

The Unlikeliest Champion

The Unlikeliest Champion
Author: Aaron Torres
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781466363496

Entering the 2011 college basketball season, the only expectations on the UConn Huskies basketball team were no expectations at all. Just two years after reaching the Final Four, the club was young, mired in an NCAA investigation, and seemingly at the bottom of the college basketball barrel. Not only were they picked to finish tenth in their own conference, UConn didn't receive a single vote in either preseason poll. A once proud program had hit rock-bottom. Fortunately, no one told superstar Kemba Walker or his young teammates. From the beginning, this group of Huskies was different. They were hungry. They played for the name on the front of the jersey, instead of the back. They cared only about wins and losses, not ancillary stats in the box score. And it showed as the Huskies took their fans, and the college basketball world as a whole on a wild six-month ride. It started with an epic win at the prestigious Maui Invitational, through a historic five wins in five days at the Big East Tournament, and eventually culminating with a National Championship to end the year. Join author Aaron Torres as he takes you through the ups and downs of a college basketball season, and team that will resonate among fans forever. The 2011 UConn Huskies may not go down as the greatest team in the history of college basketball. But they just might be the best story ever.

UConn Huskies Women's Basketball

UConn Huskies Women's Basketball
Author: Terese Karmel
Publisher: Insiders' Guide (CT)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Basketball for women
ISBN: 9780762735013

A collection of great moments in the history of UConn's women's basketball by a veteran sportswriter.