The Blind Side Evolution Of A Game

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393066223

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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis Pdf

"Lewis has such a gift for storytelling... he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."--Janet Maslin, New York Times When we first meet Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.

Author : Michael M. Lewis
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : College sports
ISBN : 0606144897

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The Blind Side by Michael M. Lewis Pdf

Its not a jock book. Its not a sociology book. Its a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393330472

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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis Pdf

Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.

Author : Michael Oher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101560037

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I Beat The Odds by Michael Oher Pdf

The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.

Author : H. G. Bissinger
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780306824227

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Friday Night Lights (25th Anniversary Edition) by H. G. Bissinger Pdf

Named Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, Pulitzer Prize winner H. G. Bissinger unforgettably captures a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires -- and sometimes shatters -- the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms. The inspiration for the hit television program and film of the same name, this anniversary edition features a new afterword by the author.

Author : Leigh Anne Tuohy,Sean Tuohy,Sally Jenkins
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429929014

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In a Heartbeat by Leigh Anne Tuohy,Sean Tuohy,Sally Jenkins Pdf

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words. For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all begins with family. Leigh Anne, the daughter of a tough-as-nails U.S. Marshal, decided early on that her mission was to raise children who would become "cheerful givers." Sean, who grew up poor, believed that one day he could provide a home that would be "a place of miracles." Together, they raised two remarkable children—Collins and Sean Jr.—who shared their deep Christian faith and their commitment to making a difference. And then one day Leigh Anne met a homeless African-American boy named Michael and decided that her family could be his. She and her husband taught Michael what this book teaches all of us: Everyone has a blind side, but a loving heart always sees a path toward true charity. Michael Oher's improbable transformation could never have happened if Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy had not opened their hearts to him. In this compelling, funny, and profoundly inspiring book, In a Heartbeat, the Tuohys take us on an extraordinary journey of faith and love—and teach us unforgettable lessons about the power of giving.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : 1606865358

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The Blind Side by Michael Lewis Pdf

In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393071382

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Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis Pdf

The New York Times bestseller: “Hilarious. No mushy tribute to the joys of fatherhood, Lewis’ book addresses the good, the bad, and the merely baffling about having kids.”—Boston Globe When Michael Lewis became a father, he decided to keep a written record of what actually happened immediately after the birth of each of his three children. This book is that record. But it is also something else: maybe the funniest, most unsparing account of ordinary daily household life ever recorded, from the point of view of the man inside. The remarkable thing about this story isn’t that Lewis is so unusual. It’s that he is so typical. The only wonder is that his wife has allowed him to publish it.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393082241

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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis Pdf

“Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation.”—Kyle Smith, Forbes The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393079029

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The Blind Side (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions) by Michael Lewis Pdf

The book behind the Academy award-winning film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw—over one million copies sold. When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read and write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability, his blind side.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393066234

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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis Pdf

"This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." —Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393066797

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The Money Culture by Michael Lewis Pdf

The classic warts-and-all portrait of the 1980s financial scene. The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment banker and later financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fueled the decade.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393066241

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Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis Pdf

The New York Times bestseller. "His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan."—BusinessWeek With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions in the history of the world, the Internet has become a weapon in the hands of revolutionaries. Old priesthoods are crumbling. In the new order, the amateur is king: fourteen-year-olds manipulate the stock market and nineteen-year-olds take down the music industry. Unseen forces undermine all forms of collectivism, from the family to the mass market: one black box has the power to end television as we know it, and another one may dictate significant changes in our practice of democracy. With a new afterword by the author.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393244663

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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis Pdf

Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.

Author : Michael M. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : College sports
ISBN : 0329907174

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The Blind Side by Michael M. Lewis Pdf