But Didn T We Have Fun

Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781566638494

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But Didn't We Have Fun? by Peter Morris Pdf

The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. But Didn't We Have Fun? will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about baseball's origins. Peter Morris, author of the prizewinning A Game of Inches, takes a fresh look at the early amateur years of the game. Mr. Morris retrieves a lost eraand a lost way of life. Offering a challenging new perspective on baseball's earliest years, and conveying the sense of delight that once pervaded the game and its players, Mr. Morris supplants old myths with a story just as marvelous-but one that reallyhappened. With 25 rare photographs and drawings.

Author : Carol Polsgrove
Publisher : RDR Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Esquire (New York : N.Y.)
ISBN : 1571430911

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It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun? by Carol Polsgrove Pdf

Possibly the best book ever written about an American magazine editor, this biography offers a 3-D view of the assassinations, the student riots, the counterculture, the politicians, the pop icons and the war that made the 60s America's unforgettable decade. Under the aegis of former Marine Harold Hayes, Esquire helped turn journalists, editors and photographers like Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Raymond Carver, Michael Herr, John Berendt and Diane Arbus into celebrities in their own right. Polsgrove's brilliant book, often resembling an Esquire cover story, offers a warts and all portrait of Hayes. Afterword by Ben Bagdikian.

Author : Hilda Robinson,Jeff Kunkel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : African American families
ISBN : 1933987170

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Didn't We Have Fun! by Hilda Robinson,Jeff Kunkel Pdf

Hilda Robinson, artist and grandmother, shares the joys of growing up in a closely-knit African American family and neighborhood. She describes the games she played, the songs she sang, and chores she did long before television was invented.

Author : Pennie Wise
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780976217350

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Big Skies & Cowpies by Pennie Wise Pdf

If you've ever considered packing up and making a new start in life, then y you'll enjoy this faith-building, true story about a little family that decided to move from the city and build a log home in the mountains of Montana. Building and maintaining a successful home and family in today's world requires a foundation of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, and a willingness to work. As you read from the pages of my journals, written as it happened, you will experience with my family the trials, challenges, and successes of building our home and family in Montana. I chose the title "Big Skies and Cowpies" to emphasise that despite the beauty of Montana, building a home and family here can require dealing with the occasional "cowpie."

Author : Simon Chapple
Publisher : Sheldon Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781529357592

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How to Quit Alcohol in 50 Days by Simon Chapple Pdf

'AN INSPIRATIONAL MANIFESTO' - Annie Grace 'SIMON IS FABULOUS - YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE AND EVERYTHING TO GAIN!' - Clare Pooley Do you feel trapped by alcohol? Do you find yourself thinking about drinking too often? Do you put alcohol ahead of the most important things in your life? If so - here's some good news. You can quit drinking, and it's not as difficult as you think. Simon Chapple is a Certified Alcohol Coach who has helped thousands of people change the way that alcohol features in their lives. In How to Quit Drinking in 50 Days he'll give you a structured way to find complete freedom from alcohol - for now, or forever. This 50-day journey to freedom is split into two parts. Days 1-25 will ask you to take an honest look at the impact alcohol has had on your life, to examine the reasons for your drinking, and will arm you with the best strategy for quitting alcohol successfully. Days 26-50 will ask you to make the commitment to taking a break from alcohol - taking each step with one chapter a day, and answering the questions that come up. There are strategies for dealing with challenges and setbacks, and a wealth of resources for finding support and inspiration. Above all, there is a genuine passion for the sober adventure, and the huge rewards of an alcohol-free life - a life of freedom that's waiting for you. *Includes free downloadable workbook and journal* Download the workbook from the John Murray Learning Library website, or the free John Murray Learning app. PREORDERED? VISIT SIMON'S 'BE SOBER' WEBSITE TO CLAIM YOUR PLACE ON AN EXCLUSIVE WORKSHOP

Author : Carol Polsgrove
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Esquire (New York : N.Y.)
ISBN : UOM:39015071145885

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It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun? by Carol Polsgrove Pdf

"The sixties in America was a wild, giddy ride, an amazing Technicolor adventure, and no magazine caught the spirit of its apocalyptic fun as definitively as Esquire. Its brilliant, buccaneering editor Harold Hayes transformed the once-somnolent men's fashion magazine into a literary and cultural proving ground, where pure iconoclasm and blazing talent reigned. Art director George Lois put Sonny Liston on the cover as Santa Claus and Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian. Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Garry Wills, Michael Herr, and others virtually invented a "New Journalism" equal to the task of deconstructing celebrity, celebrating pop culture, comprehending wars and demonstrations and riots and assassinations. Diane Arbus captured photographic images that reflected a disturbing, hidden America, and fiction writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Raymond Carver did much the same in words." "Journalist and historian Carol Polsgrove has written the definitive history of this decade-long high-water mark in American magazine journalism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Hilton Coon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HX5F89

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The Widow from the West; Or by Hilton Coon Pdf

Author : Jessica Marks
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483633602

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On Moonlit Wings by Jessica Marks Pdf

For the last 300 years Fris Dekas, a 600 year old Centaur, has lived with the shame of failing the most important mission of his life, bringing the Tablet to safety. This Tablet signified the end of the endless battles, the end of the war, the beginning of peace, if only hed been able to finish this mission. Instead, hed dropped it in the middle of the Amazonhed failed. 25 year old Domica Gordon has worked for the Smithsonian as an Archeologist for two years, and never once was she allowed to go excavating on her own. However, after telling her boss to shove it, shes now in the Amazon. Her mission is to find a Tablet that can predict catastrophic events. Though shes up for an adventure, nothing could have prepared her for whats to come. Intercepting Domica on her mission to get the Tablet is Fris first issue, his secondkeeping his feelings for a human at bay. With the long trip up river, the two unsuspecting soul mates face Wandigas, Windegos and Tara Devils at every corner, and a growing attraction that could kill them both. With secrets revealed, death imminent, and a love so strong that the choices made to protect it are unforgivable. Will Fris be able to make the choice between saving his love and condemning the world or will he sacrifice his only mate, the only one to bare his children, in order to save the human race?

Author : B. E. Shawhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Charities
ISBN : OSU:32435054744529

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.. Sketches .. by B. E. Shawhan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015080095469

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Thought by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : United States
ISBN : IOWA:31858033603998

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The Outlook by Anonim Pdf

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000114914017

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The light princess. The giant's heat. The shadows by George MacDonald Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030032532428

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American Agriculturist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian Bogost
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465096503

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Play Anything by Ian Bogost Pdf

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1634 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015082310536

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American Agriculturist by Anonim Pdf