Murder In The G Basketball League

Author : Richard Murphy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665550963

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Murder in the “G” Basketball League by Richard Murphy Pdf

This is a ‘Who-dun-it’ novel about a murder of a member of the Portland, Maine Flounders organization, a minor league basketball team, affiliated with Boston’s major league team, the Shamrocks. The Flounders were an eclectic ensemble of U.S. and foreign players, young and old, black and white, urban and city, ex-college and ex-high-school players. The reader will be treated to a modicum of basketball strategies, enough to understand the teams’ journey to the “G” League national championship, but will not be pulled into the weeds of basketball. The coach, Butch Baker, a farm boy who entered the Marines after graduating from Annapolis got shot in the arm from a Taliban sniper and upon recovery played several years for the Boston Shamrocks. The tension between the team and coach is gripping as the cultures and backgrounds clash.The coach does not understand the Woke culture and is oblivious to the triggering he causes with some of his draconian remarks and actions. The reader, teased by the title, knows a murder will happen but gets sidetracked by the personal interaction between players with players and the coach with players. The reader is attached to the wily coach, but knows his imperfections and awaits a foul play. Suspense continues in the book until late in the game when the culprit is finally revealed.

Author : Richard Murphy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1665550953

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Murder in the G Basketball League by Richard Murphy Pdf

This is a 'Who-dun-it' novel about a murder of a member of the Portland, Maine Flounders organization, a minor league basketball team, affiliated with Boston's major league team, the Shamrocks. The Flounders were an eclectic ensemble of U.S. and foreign players, young and old, black and white, urban and city, ex-college and ex-high-school players. The reader will be treated to a modicum of basketball strategies, enough to understand the teams' journey to the "G" League national championship, but will not be pulled into the weeds of basketball. The coach, Butch Baker, a farm boy who entered the Marines after graduating from Annapolis got shot in the arm from a Taliban sniper and upon recovery played several years for the Boston Shamrocks. The tension between the team and coach is gripping as the cultures and backgrounds clash.The coach does not understand the Woke culture and is oblivious to the triggering he causes with some of his draconian remarks and actions. The reader, teased by the title, knows a murder will happen but gets sidetracked by the personal interaction between players with players and the coach with players. The reader is attached to the wily coach, but knows his imperfections and awaits a foul play. Suspense continues in the book until late in the game when the culprit is finally revealed.

Author : Rebecca Ann Lind
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000846102

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Race/Gender/Class/Media by Rebecca Ann Lind Pdf

The fifth edition of this popular textbook considers diversity in the mass media in three main settings: Audiences, Content, and Production. The book brings together 55 readings – the majority newly commissioned for this edition – by scholars representing a variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Together, these readings provide a multifaceted and intersectional look at how race, gender, and class relate to the creation and use of media texts, as well as the media texts themselves. Designed to be flexible for use in the classroom, the book begins with a detailed introduction to key concepts and presents a contextualizing introduction to each of the three main sections. Each reading contains multiple 'It’s Your Turn' activities to foster student engagement and which can serve as the basis for assignments. The book also offers a list of resources – books, articles, films, and websites – that are of value to students and instructors. This volume is an essential introduction to interdisciplinary studies of race, gender, and class across both digital and legacy media.

Author : Richard Murphy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546241973

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No. 46 on the Greater Boston Hit List by Richard Murphy Pdf

This novel is a quick read that tells about a murder which was first thought to be a gangland slaying but it became more complicated leading to a trial that produced unexpected results.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1494 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : New York times
ISBN : UVA:X004994130

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The New York Times Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emmett G. Price III
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781851098682

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Hip Hop Culture by Emmett G. Price III Pdf

This work is a revealing chronicle of Hip Hop culture from its beginnings three decades ago to the present, with an analysis of its influence on people and popular culture in the United States and around the world. From Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message," to Jay-Z, Diddy, and 50 Cent, Hip Hop Culture is the first comprehensive reference work to focus on one of the most influential cultural phenomena of our time. Scholarly and streetwise, backed by statistics, documents, and research, it recounts three decades of Hip Hop's evolution, highlighting its defining events, recordings, personalities, movements, and ideas, as well as society's response. How did an inner-city subculture, all but dismissed in the early 1980s, become the ruler of the world's airwaves and iPods? Who are the players who moved Hip Hop from the record bins to the pinnacles of entertainment, business, and fashion? Who are the founders, innovators, legends, and major players? Authoritative and authentic, Hip Hop Culture provides a wealth of information and insights for students, educators, and anyone interested in the ways pop culture reflects and shapes our lives.

Author : John E. Douglas,Ann W. Burgess,Allen G. Burgess,Robert K. Ressler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118047187

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Crime Classification Manual by John E. Douglas,Ann W. Burgess,Allen G. Burgess,Robert K. Ressler Pdf

This is the second edition of the landmark book that standardized the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice system. It classifies the critical characteristics of the perpetrators and victims of major crimes—murder, arson, sexual assault, and nonlethal acts—based on the motivation of the offender. The second edition contains new classifications on computer crimes, religion-extremist murder, and elder female sexual homicide. This edition also contains new information on stalking and child abduction, the use of biological agents as weapons, cybercrimes, Internet child sex offenders, burglary and rape, and homicidal poisoning. In addition, many of the case studies and crime statistics have been updated.

Author : Facts on File Inc,Ross Gregory
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 9781438107981

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Cold War America, 1946 To 1990 by Facts on File Inc,Ross Gregory Pdf

Uses statistical tables, charts, photographs, maps, and illustrations to explore everyday life in the United States during the Cold War period.

Author : David L. Andrews
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780791490334

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Michael Jordan, Inc. by David L. Andrews Pdf

Michael Jordan, Inc. seeks to make sense of a celebrated figure whose public existence illuminates a late capitalist order defined by the convergence of corporate and media interests. Using Michael Jordan as a vehicle for viewing the broader social, economic, political, and technological concerns that frame contemporary culture, the contributors focus on celebrity economy, corporate culture, identity politics, and the global marketplace—foundational pillars of contemporary cultural existence. They provide an introduction to late capitalism's pervasive and invasive cult of celebrity, examine the innovative corporate connections (particularly Jordan's association with Nike) largely responsible for Jordan's aggressively commodified being, excavate the cultural politics imbued within the racialized and sexualized nature of Jordan's identity, and demonstrate the global reach and influence that has accompanied the concerted commodification of Jordan by transnational corporations. This anthology represents both an intellectual expression of, and a political commitment to, the fact that Michael Jordan matters.

Author : Daniel J. Levitin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780735236905

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Successful Aging by Daniel J. Levitin Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER SILVER MEDALIST for the 2022 Axiom Business Book Award for Success/Motivation/Coaching SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, what you can do to make the most of your seventies, eighties, and nineties today no matter how old you are now. Successful Aging uses research from developmental neuroscience and the psychology of individual differences to show that sixty-plus years is a unique developmental stage that, like infancy or adolescence, has its own demands and distinct advantages. Levitin looks at the science behind what we all can learn from those who age joyously, as well as how to adapt our culture to take full advantage of older people's wisdom and experience. Throughout his exploration of what aging really means, Levitin reveals resilience strategies and practical, cognitive enhancing tricks everyone should do as they age. The book is packed with accessible and discussable takeaways, providing great material for reading groups and media coverage. Successful Aging inspires a powerful new approach to how readers think about our final decades, and it will revolutionize the way we plan for old age as individuals, family members, and citizens within a society where the average life expectancy continues to rise.

Author : Mark K. Bauman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313376054

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Jewish American Chronology by Mark K. Bauman Pdf

This comprehensive and analytical history of American Jews and Judaism from the Colonial Era to the present explores the impact of America on Jews and of Jews on America. Covering more than four centuries from the Colonial Era forward, Jewish American Chronology offers an introduction to the history of American Jews and Judaism, using individual examples, personality profiles, and illustrations to bring fundamental patterns and major themes to life. Arranged chronologically, the entries illustrate how a variety of different Jewish groups and individuals have adapted to America, both changing in accordance with time and place and retaining tradition and culture, even as they became thoroughly American. Readers will learn how Jews have created community and institutions, confronted anti-Semitism, and interacted among themselves and with other groups. They will read about immigration, migration, and socioeconomic mobility. And they will discover how Jews have filled critical economic niches, contributed disproportionately in a variety of endeavors, and changed over time and in reaction to circumstances. In this wide-ranging work, Jewish Americans are depicted in a balanced and accurate manner, describing Nobel Prize winners and standout economic success stories as well as those who achieved fame and notoriety in other ways.

Author : National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (U.S.). National Criminal Justice Commission,Steven R. Donziger
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-07
Category : Current Events
ISBN : UOM:39015031878971

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The Real War on Crime by National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (U.S.). National Criminal Justice Commission,Steven R. Donziger Pdf

A board of criminal justice experts--including Harvard Law School professor Derrick Bell, former U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi, and Elaine Jones, the director of the NAACP's legal defense fund--confronts the #1 explosive issue in the nation--crime--examining all the conflicting ideas, facts, figures, and theories about crime, violence, and punishment to present a realistic and insightful analysis.

Author : Michael Serazio
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781479887316

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The Power of Sports by Michael Serazio Pdf

A provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of—and punctures the hype around—big-time contemporary American athletics In an increasingly secular, fragmented, and distracted culture, nothing brings Americans together quite like sports. On Sundays in September, more families worship at the altar of the NFL than at any church. This appeal, which cuts across all demographic and ideological lines, makes sports perhaps the last unifying mass ritual of our era, with huge numbers of people all focused on the same thing at the same moment. That timeless, live quality—impervious to DVR, evoking ancient religious rites—makes sports very powerful, and very lucrative. And the media spectacle around them is only getting bigger, brighter, and noisier—from hot take journalism formats to the creeping infestation of advertising to social media celebrity schemes. More importantly, sports are sold as an oasis of community to a nation deeply divided: They are escapist, apolitical, the only tie that binds. In fact, precisely because they appear allegedly “above politics,” sports are able to smuggle potent messages about inequality, patriotism, labor, and race to massive audiences. And as the wider culture works through shifting gender roles and masculine power, those anxieties are also found in the experiences of female sports journalists, athletes, and fans, and through the coverage of violence by and against male bodies. Sports, rather than being the one thing everyone can agree on, perfectly encapsulate the roiling tensions of modern American life. Michael Serazio maps and critiques the cultural production of today’s lucrative, ubiquitous sports landscape. Through dozens of in-depth interviews with leaders in sports media and journalism, as well as in the business and marketing of sports, The Power of Sports goes behind the scenes and tells a story of technological disruption, commercial greed, economic disparity, military hawkishness, and ideals of manhood. In the end, despite what our myths of escapism suggest, Serazio holds up a mirror to sports and reveals the lived realities of the nation staring back at us.

Author : Stephen G. Wieting
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135284138

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Sport and Memory in North America by Stephen G. Wieting Pdf

Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show the potency of sport's "cultural work". The book captures uplifting images which are stressed in the public performance and national and international broadcasting of sport, but also notes the omissions and distortions of social reality that persist in sport performance and mass marketing in North America.

Author : Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909676

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Sequels by Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband Pdf

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.