Tennis Beyond Big Shots

Tennis Beyond Big Shots
Author: Greg Moran
Publisher: Mansion
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2006
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1932421041

Presents a bold back-to-the-future approach. A new game that moves away from power and big shots yet is more lethal to opponents than any booming serve. Greg Moran shows players of all ages and abilities that, with simple and small changes, you can not only maximise your tennis wins and play longer, but also have much more fun doing it. Features: How you can win big with small changes; Forgotten shots that will raise your game; Why good thinking tops great strokes; Secrets of the new 'power game' to win, play and enjoy more. A book for every tennis enthusiast!

Big Bad-Ass Book of Shots

Big Bad-Ass Book of Shots
Author: Paul Knorr
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-09-29
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780762419012

Here's a hip, authoritative guide to shots, shooters, and slammers, destined to become the twenty-something barfly's bible. Totally indulgent, unabashedly devoted to silly, free-spirited fun, it's packaged in a chunky format. And it's sure to eliminate the competition because of the astonishing volume and variety of recipes: more than 1,400 recipes include such college standards as the Body Shot, Jello Shot, Tequila Slammer, and Lemon Drop, plus hundreds of wild and crazy variations. Recipes are accompanied by photographs of highly collectible shot glasses, emblazoned with all manner of images and mottoes.

Big Shots

Big Shots
Author: Harvey Kubernik
Publisher: Insight Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781608872404

A stunning retrospective of noted celebrity and rock photographer Guy Webster’s work in 1960s Los Angeles. Visually striking and emotionally evocative, this unique volume includes both iconic and never-before-seen images as well as stories from Webster himself and the celebrities he worked with, including Brian Wilson, Michelle Phillips, and Ray Manzarek, among many others. “There was no handbook to navigating the sixties,” admits Guy Webster. It was a time of newfound creative freedom during which any guidebook, had there been one, would have quickly been discarded. From this experiential culture emerged icons who continue to inspire us to this day. Los Angeles was a polestar for the music and entertainment that gave expression to this remarkable time, and Guy Webster, Nikon in hand, bore witness to it all. Webster, an L.A. native, saw his childhood stomping grounds become the epicenter of a youthquake that not only shook up the music scene but also fashion, visual arts, and popular culture. With his controversial cover shot on the Mamas and the Papas’ first album, Webster firmly established his reputation as a photographer capable not only of capturing the emotional nuance of the era, but also of helping to define it. Musicians and actors—such as Simon & Garfunkel, Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan, Jane Fonda, Jim Morrison, Natalie Wood, Janis Joplin, Raquel Welch, Jimi Hendrix, and Mick Jagger—are among the hundreds of personalities Webster shot before they were legends. In this definitive volume, their early creative worlds and intimate stories come alive on the page.

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
Author: Keir Martin
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857458736

In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.

Big Shots

Big Shots
Author: Adam Shand
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1459621387

In 2003, Adam Shand naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. A few months' research, a guaranteed cover story. But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that. He became embroiled in a complex world where feuds raged between rival families, and where a new generation was clashing with the criminal Establishment. Before long, he found himself counted as a friend by those who sometimes ended friendships with a hail of bullets. In this fully updated edition, taking in the events of 2010, including the murder of Carl Williams, Big Shots takes the reader into the heart of the city's multibillion-dollar 'disorganised crime' scene, as Shand meets the key figures and suspects, including Carl and Roberta Williams, Mick Gatto and many others. He discovers the human drama behind the brutal slayings that were splashed across the front pages, and in the process comes to questions his objectivity.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot (Book 16)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot (Book 16)
Author: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0241396999

GREG HEFFLEY AND SPORTS JUST DON'T MIX. After a disastrous competition at school, Greg decides that he's officially retired from ANY kind of sport! That is, until his mom persuades him to give it one more go and makes Greg reluctantly agree to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a MESS, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look slim. But in sports, anything can happen. When everything is on the line and the ball is in Greg's hands, will he rise to the occasion? Or will he blow his big shot?

Big Shots

Big Shots
Author: Adam Shand
Publisher: Blake Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Murder
ISBN: 9781843583479

'People reckon my life has been glamorous. Well, if this is glamour, then they are just off their heads' Unbeknown to both of them, it was to be Carl Williams' last conversation behind bars with his unlikely confident, reporter Adam Shand. Shorlty after saying these words the notorious, murderous drug boss was once again in the papers ... but this time he was in a gold coffin. In the late 1990s, a feud raging between rival underworld families - a clash of a new generation with the criminal establishment - erupted in a spate of gangland slayings on Melbourne's streets. These 'gangland wars' are now familiar to everyone, largely due to the popular TV drama Underbelly. But this is the real story, as told to the author by the key figures - both the victims and the suspects - including Carl and Roberta Williams, and Mick Gatto. The author developed a surprising rapport with the Williams family and got closer than anyone to unravelling the complicated personal entaglements behind the shocking headlines. It wasn't a relationship without risks. Crackling with tension, Big Shots documents Shand's brave plunge into Melbourne's 'disorganised crime' scene. While uncovering the facts, he finds himself questioning his objectivity ... and even whether he is being used to further murderous ends. This, fully revised and definitive edition of the book, concludes with notorious criminals transformed into red-carpet celebrities, and the brutal murder that Carl Williams always knew was coming ...

Parker Looks Up

Parker Looks Up
Author: Parker Curry
Publisher: Aladdin
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534451862

A New York Times bestseller! A visit to Washington, DC’s National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry’s young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obama’s portrait. When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald’s transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, she didn’t just see the First Lady of the United States. She saw a queen—one with dynamic self-assurance, regality, beauty, and truth who captured this young girl’s imagination. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker, it became an internet sensation. Inspired by this visit, Parker, and her mother, Jessica Curry, tell the story of a young girl and her family, whose trip to a museum becomes an extraordinary moment, in a moving picture book. Parker Looks Up follows Parker, along with her baby sister and her mother, and her best friend Gia and Gia’s mother, as they walk the halls of a museum, seeing paintings of everyone and everything from George Washington Carver to Frida Kahlo, exotic flowers to graceful ballerinas. Then, Parker walks by Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama…and almost passes it. But she stops...and looks up! Parker saw the possibility and promise, the hopes and dreams of herself in this powerful painting of Michelle Obama. An everyday moment became an extraordinary one…that continues to resonate its power, inspiration, and indelible impact. Because, as Jessica Curry said, “anything is possible regardless of race, class, or gender.” **FOREWORD BY ARTIST AMY SHERALD**

Big Shots Club

Big Shots Club
Author: John Hopkins
Publisher: Hopart Publishing
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Bartholomew, a botany professor, wiling away his dull life teaching somnambulant students about plants at a New York City college, receives a mysterious invitation to join a top-secret club. Big Shots, the club’s name, wreaks wealth and privilege—two things the taciturn professor lacks in spades. Weighing his humdrum life and dead-end career choice, the circumspect scientist throws caution to the wind and accepts the unsolicited email offer with its dire subject line: Come with us if you want to live. How could anyone say no to a premise like that? However, upon entering the Manhattan high-rise clubhouse teeming with power brokers and glitterati, he discovers things are not as straightforward as the club’s name implies. Adding icing to the cake, membership requires abandoning his former life for good. The Big Shots Club is a pet project of Artemus Pennywell, The Powers That Be’s CEO. However, in this tale, the ageless man’s purpose leans toward grifting folks with a healthy sense of self-preservation from their limitless cash reserves. Recruits like Bartholomew give the grift an air of legitimacy because if the world does indeed end, someone will have to maintain the seeds.