50 Years In A Kids Game

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429963961

Get Book

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card Pdf

The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender’s Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind Ender’s Shadow series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Children of the Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm /The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts /First Meetings At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Ernest W. Baker
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814329101

Get Book

A 50-year Adventure in the Advertising Business by Ernest W. Baker Pdf

Ernie Baker elaborates on his lifelong career in the world of advertising, and provides an insiders perspective on the business. His experiences range from very small local firms to some of the world's largest advertising agencies, where he worked for a multitude of clients.

Author : Editors of Sports Illustrated
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781603204545

Get Book

Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing by Editors of Sports Illustrated Pdf

In the half-century since its birth, as Sports Illustrated grew from a struggling start-up to America's preeminent sports magazine, one thing has remained constant: the commitment to great storytelling. That part of the magazine's mission has always been easy to define: Identify the most compelling sports stories of our time and get the best writers in the business to tell them. This book brings together a lineup of writing talent worthy of the Hall of Fame and the classic stories they produced for Sports Illustrated over the past 50 years. Many of the writers whose work is collected here are longtime favorites of SI readers (Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, Steve Rushin, Gary Smith). Others are former SI staffers or contributors who left the fold, but not before making an indelible mark on SI's history (Dan Jenkins, Rick Telander, Mark Kram, Roy Blount Jr., William Nack). There are celebrated journalists (A.J. Liebling, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton), screenwriters (Budd Schulberg and Kenny Moore), renowned novelists (Thomas McGuane, Pete Dexter, Wallace Stegner, Don DeLillo) and even a couple of Nobel Prize winners in literature (William Faulkner and John Steinbeck). The stories themselves are a mirror of our times. Included in this volume are accounts of some of the most memorable athletic feats of our era (Secretariat's Belmont victory, the Thrilla in Manila, and Bobby Thomson's shot heard round the world). Profiles of the towering athletic figures of our time (Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, Ted Williams and Johnny Unitas). Good guys (Yogi Berra and Harry Caray) and bad guys (Sonny Liston and Mike Tyson). The fast (Roger Bannister) and the furious (Dick Butkus). The ridiculous (Howard Cosell) and the sublime (Josh Gibson). And the stories that simply touch our hearts and inspire us (Frank Deford's masterpiece on light heavyweight champ Billy Conn). This is the very best of the world's best sports magazine ¾ and it just doesn't get any better than that.

Author : Judy Blume
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689841583

Get Book

Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. by Judy Blume Pdf

Margaret Simon has a lot of things to think about--making friends in a new school, boys and dances and parties, growing physically "normal" and choosing a religion. "With sensitivity and humor, Judy Blume has captured the joys, fears, and uncertainties that surround a girl approaching adolescence."--"Publishers Weekly." Great Stone Face Award winner. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544340688

Get Book

The Giver by Lois Lowry Pdf

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

Author : Judy Blume
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481409940

Get Book

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume Pdf

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

Get Book

Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : John Hourihan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Baseball for children
ISBN : 9780595355891

Get Book

Play Fair And Win by John Hourihan Pdf

Every year, thousands of people volunteer their time and experience to become youth coaches. Play Fair and Win not only teaches the basic drills needed to run a successful team, but also demonstrates to prospective coaches how they can form a winning team while remaining true to the principles that made baseball America's favorite pastime. Drawing on his experience in coaching baseball and soccer at various levels, author John Hourihan provides valuable advice in every chapter, on topics such as: Molding your team (from before tryouts through setting up your defense) Teaching the basics Putting your team in a position to win Dos and don'ts Unfortunately, most novice youth baseball coaches settle into what they thought was going on when they were ten years old--the games where everyone got gum in the beginning and ice cream at the end. Today, there is a lot more to baseball that is being left out. If you're a youth league coach, to many players you are the game. It is your job to love the game, teach the basics, and remember that the players aren't part of the equipment. Play Fair and Win will help you to develop a successful strategy and accomplish that goal.

Author : Arlene Pullen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781499060171

Get Book

50* by Arlene Pullen Pdf

50* My Baseball Odyssey is one fan’s perspective on Major League Baseball stadiums, beginning with Shibe Park in Philadelphia and ending with Marlins Park in Miami. It offers a limited history of selected venues and relates some of the accomplishments of the men who played the game during the last one hundred years. It moves the reader’s attention from the games to the total experience of interacting with fans and observing their responses to plays on the field or people sitting beside them.

Author : Tim Kurkjian
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781429900331

Get Book

Is This a Great Game, or What? by Tim Kurkjian Pdf

ESPN's Tim Kurkjian has spent over twenty-five years covering almost 3,000 Major League Baseball games and interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers and executives. In Is This a Great Game, or What?, Kurkjian combines his years of experience, uncanny knowledge and deep love of the game, to create a book filled with some of the most fascinating insight into Major League Baseball this side of Jim Bouton's bestseller, Ball Four. Whether he's explaining what goes through a ballplayer's mind when he faces a fastball in the chapter "My Face Was Crushed by a Bowling Ball Going 90mph", detailing bizarre rituals and superstitions performed by some of baseball's greatest players, or taking us into the locker room to see what transpires in the clubhouse of a Major League team, Kurkjian's tales are at times hilarious, other times horrifying, yet always entertaining. Kurkjian has spoken to some of the greatest ballplayers ever over the years and they have revealed details about themselves and the game they love with a candor that readers won't find anywhere else. Filled with anecdotes and fascinating insight, this is an essential book for baseball fans or anyone curious about America's pastime.

Author : Patrick Hickey, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476671109

Get Book

The Minds Behind the Games by Patrick Hickey, Jr. Pdf

Featuring interviews with the creators of 36 popular video games--including Deus Ex, Night Trap, Mortal Kombat, Wasteland and NBA Jam--this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of some of the most influential and iconic (and sometimes forgotten) games of all time. Recounting endless hours of painstaking development, the challenges of working with mega publishers and the uncertainties of public reception, the interviewees reveal the creative processes that produced some of gaming's classic titles.

Author : E. Lockhart
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375984402

Get Book

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Don't miss the #1 New York Times bestselling prequel, Family of Liars. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE. "Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable." —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

Author : Bill Gutman,Tom Finnegan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1592570569

Get Book

Complete Idiot's Guide to Coaching Youth Basketball by Bill Gutman,Tom Finnegan Pdf

No Marketing Blurb

Author : Rodman Philbrick
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409591054

Get Book

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick Pdf

Max is used to being called Stupid. And he is used to everyone being scared of him. On account of his size and looking like his dad. Kevin is used to being called Dwarf. And he is used to everyone laughing at him. On account of his size and being some cripple kid. But greatness comes in all sizes, and together Max and Kevin become Freak The Mighty and walk high above the world. An inspiring, heartbreaking, multi-award winning international bestseller.

Author : Michael Calvin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781473537927

Get Book

State of Play by Michael Calvin Pdf

'For those of you missing your football fix, anything by Michael Calvin is worth a read – the hugely respected sports journalist writes eloquently about the modern game in page turner State of Play.' DAILY MIRROR _______________________________________________________ LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men, Living on the Volcano and No Hunger in Paradise returns with his magnum opus on the state of modern football First he revealed the extraordinary lives of football scouts in The Nowhere Men. Next he unearthed the pressures on football managers in Living on the Volcano. Then he chronicled the hardships of young players striving to make it in No Hunger in Paradise. Now in State of Play, in what marks the pinnacle of a career investigating the human stories of football, award-winning writer Michael Calvin turns his eye to the biggest story of all - the game itself. From mental health to money, concussion to Champions league, fan-owners to oligarchs, women's football to world cups, Calvin gets under the skin of the beautiful game, and reveals why it is truly the game of our lives. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with leading figures around the world, from Arsene Wenger to Steven Gerrard, Calvin reveals the winners, the losers, the politics, the pleasure, the hope, and the despair of the world's most popular sport.