Sporting With The Gods

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041806669

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The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar Pdf

The Sport of the Gods is a novel set in the United States in the late nineteenth century. It chronicles the tribulations of the Oakleys, an African American family of four, as they struggle to survive and maintain their integrity in a Southern town and then in New York City. Prejudice, provincialism, and temptation take their tolls, and the justice system stands ever ready to grab the losers. This was Paul Laurence Dunbar’s final novel, published first in the May 1901 issue of Lipincott’s Monthly Magazine. In 1902, Dodd, Mead & Co. published it as a book.

Author : Tom Callahan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781324004288

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Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports by Tom Callahan Pdf

A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story. As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali–George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he’d tested positive for HIV. There are also little-known private moments: Joe Morgan whispering thank you to a virtually blind Jackie Robinson on the field at the 1972 World Series, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saying he was more interested in being a good man than in being the greatest basketball player. Brimming with colorful vignettes and enlivened by Callahan’s eye for detail, Gods at Play offers surprising portraits of the most celebrated names in sports. Roger Rosenblatt calls Callahan “the most complete sportswriter in America. He knows the most and writes the best."

Author : Paul Gogarty,Ian Williamson
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 190677918X

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Winning at All Costs by Paul Gogarty,Ian Williamson Pdf

Winning at all Costs: Sporting Giants and their Demons grapples with one of sport’s great conundrums: what raises outstanding champions above their rivals? What Gogarty and Williamson discover on their journey through the stadium of the mind is that the seed of greatness and domination can also be a curse. Why did Dean Karnazes head off on a 1000-mile ‘fun run’ after completing his 50th back-to-back marathon in the US? Why so many pranks and pratfalls for Gazza and how come Michael Jordan retired from basketball three times when he was already universally acknowledged as the greatest player of all time? What makes Jonny Wilkinson and David Beckham practice endlessly – it’s not just fitness. What made Mike Tyson graphically describe his aim in the ring to catch his opponent ‘right on the tip of the nose, because I try to push the bone into the brain.’ And just why is it that Romanian striker Adrian Mutu insists on wearing his underpants inside out? Winning at all Costs: Sporting Giants and their Demons is aimed at laymen who don’t think the unconscious is the place you reach on a Saturday night after sinking 15 pints. The book explores psychological triggers that just might have provided the electricity for some of the world’s most outstanding sporting successes. Those at the top are there for a reason, and as a defence for their more vulnerable selves, nowhere feels safer. Paul Gogarty is a journalist, television presenter, and award-winning author of The Water Road and The Coast Road. Ian Williamson is a practising Harley Street child and adolescent analyst. For 15 years, he played for and captained Blackheath and was on the fringes of the England rugby team. He is also a former Cambridge Blue and general sporting all-rounder and obsessive.

Author : Michael Oriard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-22
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 052139113X

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Sporting with the Gods by Michael Oriard Pdf

"Sporting with the Gods examines the rhetoric of "game" and "play" and "sport" in American culture from the time of the Puritans to the 1980s. Focusing on writers and public figures who dominated public discourse, Oriard shows how the trope of game and play in fiction and in religious, social, and economic writings can be used to graph changes in the religious and social climate from the Puritans through the Transcendentalists to the Social Darwinists and from the Beats and hippies to the New Age spiritualists of the present decade. He also uses the trope to graph the shifting attitudes toward work (and play) in the game of business, as the United States moved to industrial capitalism and then to a postindustrial society of consumerism and leisure. The result is a history of this country from its inception, through the lens of a single trope, resonating with implications at every strata of American culture." --from back cover.

Author : Ian Stafford
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 1840183713

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Playgrounds of the Gods by Ian Stafford Pdf

During the course of nine injury-ridden but wonderfully fulfilling months in 1998, British sports writer, broadcaster and author Ian Stafford lived out his own fantasies and played sport with the world's greatest individuals and teams in their own environments. In doing so, he put his physical and mental skills to the ultimate test as he attempted to mix with the best.

Author : Pedro Virgil
Publisher : Bruno Gmuender
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 386787154X

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Gods of Sport by Pedro Virgil Pdf

An exclusive collection of previously unseen images taken from the photo-shoots of the 'Naked for a cause: Australian footballers 2008/9' calendar, which was launched in Australia in September 2007 as part of a fundraising initiative in aid of 'The McGrath Foundation' - an Australian based charity.

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528792974

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The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar Pdf

First published in 1902, "The Sport of the Gods" tells the story of a black family forced to leave the South and face the harsh realities of life in a Northern city. A moving examination of the life of African-Americans post-emancipation, "The Sport of the Gods" represents a landmark in African-American literature that will appeal to those with an interest in this particular chapter of American history. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet during the start of the 20th century. Born to ex-slave parents, Dunbar began writing at a very early age and had even published his first poems by the age of 16 in a local newspaper. Much of his work was written in the "African-American Vernacular" associated with the antebellum South, although he also employed conventional English in his novels and poems. Dunbar was among the first African-American writers to garner international acclaim for their work. Contents include: "The Hamiltons", "A Farewell Dinner", "The Theft", "From a Clear Sky", "The Justice of Men", "Outcasts", "In New York", "An Evening Out", "His Heart's Desire", "A Visitor from Home", "Broken Hopes", "'All the World's a Stage'", etc. Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this novel now complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755379927

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American Gods by Neil Gaiman Pdf

AN ACCLAIMED, EMMY-NOMINATED TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO WINNER OF THE HUGO, LOCUS AND BRAM STOKER AWARDS 'To give him his full title: Neil Gaiman, Architect of Worlds, Svengali of Plot, Shaman of Character, Exploder of Cliché, Master Craftsman of Style, Dreamer Laureate of the Republic of Letters' DAVID MITCHELL 'Original, engrossing, and endlessly inventive' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 'Brilliant and unique' GUARDIAN --- 'This is about the soul of America, the idea that everyone came here from somewhere' NEIL GAIMAN --- After three years in prison, Shadow Moon is free to go home. But hours before his release, his beloved wife is killed in a freak accident. Numbly, he boards a plane where he meets an enigmatic stranger who seems to know Shadow and claims to be an ancient god - and king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange road trip across the USA, encountering a kaleidoscopic cast of characters along the way. But all around them a storm of unnatural proportions is gathering. War is coming, an epic struggle for the very soul of America. And Shadow is standing squarely in its path. NEIL GAIMAN. WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.

Author : Laurence Paul Dunbar
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1435362381

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The Sport of the Gods by Laurence Paul Dunbar Pdf

Author : Ric Chapman,Ross Clifford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 0732410495

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The Gods of Sport by Ric Chapman,Ross Clifford Pdf

Twelve interviews with Australian sports stars who are Christians in different churches, including charismatic, Uniting Church, Catholic and Anglican, telling of their careers and how their Christian experiences and values influence what they do. The players, in a wide range of sports, include Peter Warner, Tani Ruckle, Steve Lawrence and Craig Warren.

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442929371

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The Sport of the Gods (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by Paul Laurence Dunbar Pdf

Author : Paul Dunbar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : 1438189079

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The Sport of the Gods by Paul Dunbar Pdf

This eBook version of The Sport of the Gods;presents the full text of this literary classic.

Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879726709

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The Sports Immortals by Peter Williams Pdf

Explores the psychology of hero-worship in sports, covering the period from the late 19th century to the present. Offers an overview of the classic theorists, and demonstrates how the public creates heroes and villains in the same way the Greeks created archetypal deities. Topics include the archetypes of human myth, localized sports archetypes, origins of the baseball myth, the archetypes of baseball, and the sports press. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ann R. Hawkins,Erin N. Bistline,Catherine S. Blackwell,Maura Ives
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438485560

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Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America by Ann R. Hawkins,Erin N. Bistline,Catherine S. Blackwell,Maura Ives Pdf

A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.

Author : Ada A. Holman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1433103290

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Sports of the gods by Ada A. Holman Pdf