Following The Ball

Author : Todd Cleveland
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896804999

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With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal’s increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies. Cleveland zeroes in on the ways that players, such as the great Eusébio, creatively exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal’s empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as mere colonial pawns. To reconstruct these players’ transnational histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the components and processes of empire.

Author : David P. Penhallow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Blessing and cursing
ISBN : 0967414709

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After the Ball by David P. Penhallow Pdf

This award-winning novel tells the chilling, hilarious and touching tale of Percy, a seven year old boy in pre-World War II Hawaii, who creates ingenious ways of deal-ing with his parents' divorce in the face of an ancient Hawaiian curse placed on his family. This coming-of-age odyssey reads like a Salingeresque thriller of 1941's world of Hawaii, Hollywood film stars, movies, and celebrities of the day. You'll fall in love with little Percy, laugh at his escapades and cry at his misfortunes as he shares his quest to remove the ancient curse that he believes has destroyed his family, culminating with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Author : Patricia Beard
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781524526375

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After the Ball by Patricia Beard Pdf

Glamorous, cultured, and ambitious -- but fatally young and naive -- James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1899. Five years later, at the pinnacle of social and financial success, he made a fatal miscalculation, and set in motion the first great Wall Street scandal of the twentieth century. On the last night of January 1905, Hyde gave one of the most fabulous balls of the Gilded Age. Falsely accused of charging the party to his company, he was sucked into a maelstrom of allegations of corporate malfeasance that involved the era's most famous financiers and industrialists. The shocking revelations that followed commanded hundreds of front-page stories and led to a government investigation that became a nationwide obsession and changed the law. Set against a backdrop of magnificence, excess, and corrupting glamour, "After the Ball's" themes are stunningly fresh: greed and chicanery, flawed love between fathers and sons, and contradictory American attitudes about wealth.

Author : Ralph Henry Barbour
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387072600

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Follow the Ball by Ralph Henry Barbour Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Brian Pinkney
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368004466

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On the Ball by Brian Pinkney Pdf

Owen loves playing ball. But it doesn't always "love" him back. And after a particularly disastrous day on the field, Owen is benched. He is feeling so low that he doesn't even notice the ball rolling through a hole in the fence until it's gotten away. In his effort to get it back, he discovers that he has more skills than he realizes.

Author : Albertus T. Dudley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:958535253

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Following the Ball. (Football). by Albertus T. Dudley Pdf

Author : Pat Kirwan,David Seigerman
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781633192942

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Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0 by Pat Kirwan,David Seigerman Pdf

Renowned NFL analysts' tips to make football more accessible, colorful, and compelling than ever before More and more football fans are watching the NFL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. What does the offense's formation tell you about the play that's about to be run? When a quarterback throws a pass toward the sideline and the wide receiver cuts inside, which player is to blame? Why does a defensive end look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the practice squad the next? These questions and more are addressed in Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0, a book that takes readers deep inside the perpetual chess match between offense and defense. This book provides clear and simple explanations to the intricacies and nuances that affect the outcomes of every NFL game. This updated edition contains recent innovations from the 2015 NFL season.

Author : Matt Stanton,Beck Stanton
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781460705964

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Did you take the B from my _ook? (Books That Drive Kids Crazy, Book 2) by Matt Stanton,Beck Stanton Pdf

'Witty, silly, and interactive ... A rollicking read for children and adults alike' - Kirkus Reviews For the Grown-Ups: OK. Two things you need to know. Firstly, your favourite thing in the whole world is the letter B. And secondly, you're about to sneeze and all the Bs are going to be blown out of the book. So until you can get your favourite letter back, you're about to sound really, really silly ... And the kids will love it! PRAISE FOR THE BOOKS THAT DRIVE KIDS CRAZY SERIES 'The kids are having a ball (whoops, having fun) and a discussion is born' -- 4 stars, Good Reading 'Funny, clever, deliciously dry ... this book encourages kids to think outside the square, and hopefully, somewhere deep in that unlimited subconscious, understand that what we see is all about perception. What a powerful thought' -- Kids' Book Review

Author : Marshall Kirk,Hunter Madsen
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Gay liberation movement
ISBN : UCSC:32106011660427

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After the Ball by Marshall Kirk,Hunter Madsen Pdf

A compelling and compassionate work that never fails to stimulate. After the Ball is required reading for straights interested in understanding a minority that comprises 10% of the population and for gays who ar learning that the revolution is far from over.

Author : Tiffany Dufu
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781250071750

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Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu Pdf

A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go. Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed. Like so many driven and talented women who have been brought up to believe that to have it all, they must do it all, Dufu began to feel that achieving her career and personal goals was an impossibility. Eventually, she discovered the solution: letting go. In Drop the Ball, Dufu recounts how she learned to reevaluate expectations, shrink her to-do list, and meaningfully engage the assistance of others—freeing the space she needed to flourish at work and to develop deeper, more meaningful relationships at home. Even though women are half the workforce, they still represent only eighteen per cent of the highest level leaders. The reasons are obvious: just as women reach middle management they are also starting families. Mounting responsibilities at work and home leave them with no bandwidth to do what will most lead to their success. Offering new perspective on why the women’s leadership movement has stalled, and packed with actionable advice, Tiffany Dufu’s Drop the Ball urges women to embrace imperfection, to expect less of themselves and more from others—only then can they focus on what they truly care about, devote the necessary energy to achieving their real goals, and create the type of rich, rewarding life we all desire.

Author : Albertus T. Dudley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1332588581

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Following the Ball (Classic Reprint) by Albertus T. Dudley Pdf

Excerpt from Following the Ball This is a story of an American boy at an American school, where it is not considered necessary that pupils should study under inaccessible windows or sleep in cubicles, or play English games under a master's clumsy though kindly tuition. Whatever be their faults, the schools founded by our forefathers may still boast certain advantages which the more fashionable importations do not possess, - the higher standard of scholarship; the training in self-reliance and in bearing responsibility; the cosmopolitan character possible only where students gather from every quarter of the country; the democratic life in which rich and poor meet on equal terms and only personal merit wins distinction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Robert Reilly
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781586178338

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Making Gay Okay by Robert Reilly Pdf

Why are Americans being forced to consider homosexual acts as morally acceptable? Why has the US Supreme Court accepted the validity of same-sex "marriage", which, until a decade ago, was unheard of in the history of Western or any other civilization? Where has the "gay rights" movement come from, and how has it so easily conquered America? The answers are in the dynamics of the rationalization of sexual misbehavior. The power of rationalization-the means by which one mentally transforms wrong into right-drives the gay rights movement, gives it its revolutionary character, and makes its advocates indefatigable. The homosexual cause moved naturally from a plea for tolerance to cultural conquest because the security of its rationalization requires universal acceptance. In other words, we all must say that the bad is good. At stake in the rationalization of homosexual behavior is the notion that human beings are ordered to a purpose that is given by their Nature. The understanding that things have an in-built purpose is being replaced by the idea that everything is subject to man's will and power, which is considered to be without limits. This is what the debate over homosexuality is really about-the Nature of reality itself. The outcome of this dispute will have consequences that reach far beyond the issue at hand. Already America's major institutions have been transformed-its courts, its schools, its military, its civic institutions, and even its diplomacy. The further institutionalization of homosexuality will mean the triumph of force over reason, thus undermining the very foundations of the American Republic.

Author : Mary Sullivan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547681245

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Ball by Mary Sullivan Pdf

A dog with a ball is one of the most relentlessly hopeful creatures on Earth. After his best little-girl pal leaves for school, this dog hits up yoga mom, baby, and even the angry cat for a quick throw. No luck. Forced to go solo, the dog begins a hilarious one-sided game of fetch until naptime’s wild, ball-centric dream sequence. The pictures speak a thousand words in this comic book-style ode to canine monomania. Ball? Ball.

Author : Adrian Room
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786442263

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Dictionary of Sports and Games Terminology by Adrian Room Pdf

The specialized jargon of some sports can be quite esoteric. Non-Americans, for example, are likely puzzled by baseball terms such as bunt, cut-off man, and safety squeeze, while the non-British may pause over cricket's Chinaman, doosra, golden duck, off-break, popping crease, and yorker. This new dictionary gives the definitions of more than 8,000 terms used in sports and games from around the world, including mainstream sports like basketball and billiards alongside the more obscure netball and snooker. Entries cover sports equipment, strategies, venues, qualifying categories, awards, and administrative bodies, while a comprehensive system of cross-references offers assistance and clarification when needed. An appendix lists standard abbreviations of sports ruling bodies and administrative organizations.

Author : Marshall McClintock
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Balls (Sporting goods)
ISBN : 0394800109

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Stop that Ball! by Marshall McClintock Pdf

Illus. in color. A boy's madcap adventures as he tries to retrieve his bouncing ball are told in "lively rhyming prose. Humorous, repetitious situations will delight children. Recommended."--"School Library Journal.