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Author : Frontier Press Company,Frontier Press Company Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 0912168137
This 20 Volume Set contains information and facts about great athletes of our time and more.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Athletes
ISBN : LCCN:73088671
Includes brief, alphabetically arranged biographies of five hundred sports personalities from around the world in more than fifty sports. Includes an alphabetical table of contents by sport and a glossary of sports terms.
Author : Lincoln Library Press, Incorporated, The
Publisher : Lincoln Library
Page : 1800 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 0912168196
Presents brief, alphabetically arranged biographies of nearly 300 great sports personalities, past and present, from around the world. Features a table of contents arranged by sport and a supplementary reading list.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 091216803X
Alphabetically arranged sketches stressing the 1974 accomplishments of men and women who are outstanding athletes in national and international competition.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0912168013
Includes brief, alphabetically arranged biographies of 500 sports personalities from around the world representing more than 50 sports. Includes an alphabetical table of contents by sport and a glossary of sports terms.
Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000944129
As we begin the third millennium there is cause for cautious optimism regarding the human prospect. Democratic revolutions and the doctrine of universal human rights have captured the imagination of large sectors of humanity, while major advances in science and technology continue to conquer disease and extend life, contributing to rising standards of living, affluence, and cultural freedom on a worldwide basis. Paradoxically, at the same time ancient authoritarian fundamentalist religions have grown in vitriolic intensity along with bizarre New Age, media-driven paranormal belief systems. Also surprising is the resurgence of primitive tribal and ethnic loyalties, unleashing wars of intolerance and bitterness. In Skepticism and Humanism, Paul Kurtz locates these threatening developments within a long-standing and largely unchallenged theological worldview. He proposes, as an alternative to religion, a new cultural paradigm rooted in scientific naturalism, rationalism, and a humanistic outlook. An estimated 60 percent of scientists are atheists or agnostics. However, the skeptical world view has been given little currency even in advanced societies, because of a cultural prohibition against the criticism of religion. At the same time, science has become increasingly narrow and specialized so that few people can draw on its broader intellectual and cultural implications. Skepticism and Humanism attempts to meet this need. It defends skepticism as a method for developing reliable knowledge by using scientific inquiry and reason to test all claims to truth. It also defends scientific naturalism-an evolutionary view of nature, life, and the human species. Kurtz sees the dominant religious doctrines as drawn from an agricultural/nomadic past, and emphasizes the need for a new outlook applicable to the postindustrial information age. At the same time, he rejects postmodernism for abandoning science and embracing a form of nihilism. There can be no doubt that as a new global civilization emerges, scientific naturalism, rationalism, and secular humanism have something significant to say about the meaning of life. Skepticism and Humanism shows how they can to foster democratic values and social prosperity. The book will be important for philosophers, scientists, and all those concerned with contemporary issues.
Author : Kendrick Frazier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781633889637
Headlines and television news reports feature accounts of reincarnation, the predictions of astrologers, and psychic "miracles." Citizens report UFO sightings. Police departments call on psychics to provide clues in baffling crimes. From every available information source, the public is bombarded with unsubstantiated claims of paranormal phenomena. How much of the evidence is reliable? What is the truth behind these claims? Paranormal Borderlands of Science is an exciting, well-informed examination of the most publicized and exotic claims of astrology, ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, UFOs, biorhythms, and other phenomena. Written by respected psychologists, astronomers and other scientists, philosophers, investigative journalists, and magicians, the 47 articles in this superb collection present a skeptical treatment of pseudoscientific claims - an aspect often sorely neglected in sensationalized media reports. This book is an effort to help readers sort fact from fiction and sense from nonsense among the astonishing variety of assertions labeled "paranormal." Never before published in book form, the essays in this anthology originally appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer, a leading magazine devoted to the critical investigation of pseudoscience from a scientific viewpoint. Among the contributors are: Isaac Asimov (distinguished science fiction author), Martin Gardner (Scientific American columnist), James Randi (The Amazing Randi), Philip Klass (noted UFO skeptic), Scot Morris (Omni), and James Oberg (NASA). An essential contribution to skeptical literature, this book will be of lasting value to all those wishing to balance the case for paranormal claims by reading the dissenting critics.
Author : Kelly Boyer Sagert,Steven J. Overman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798216100614
This collection of fascinating biographies of outstanding women athletes past and present including superstars such as Nadia Comaneci, Mia Hamm, Jackie-Joyner Kersee, Danica Patrick, and Serena and Venus Williams. Icons of Women's Sport identifies and examines the individuals who have impacted history, challenged the status quo, influenced sport culture, and garnered wide public interest. Including stars from the past and present, ranging from Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Billie Jean King to Dara Torres and Venus and Serena Williams, the featured athletes are iconic not only because of their achievements in the sports arena, but also because of their contributions to society: advancing cultural diversity and gender equity, breaking class barriers, and transcending stereotypes. The book contains biographies of 36 women athletes—American and international—who excelled in competitive sports from the post-World War I era through the modern era in a dozen different sports. Icons of Women's Sport spotlights athletes across a wide range of women's sports, with appropriate attention given to the major sports. Readers will enjoy learning about stars from both amateur and professional sports arenas, including Olympic athletes, as well as female competitors who have reached the top of their game in newer arenas such as golf and snowboarding.
Author : Douglas Putnam
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476694443
This work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their playing careers. From slugger Ed Delahanty's fatal plunge into the Niagara River in 1903 to the demise of Dwayne Haskins on a dark Florida highway in 2022, their untimely ends shocked and saddened millions of fans. Many died from injuries sustained in the course of competition. Others met their fate in airplane and motor vehicle crashes, by freak accident and through disease, drug overdose, drowning and suicide. Several were victims of cold-blooded murder. Regardless of how or why they perished, Dale Earnhardt, Len Bias, Thurman Munson, Flo Hyman, the Marshall Thundering Herd and all the rest faced the same merciless truth--there would be no next year.
Author : Brian A. Wynne,Jerry Cotter Wynne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015006206307
Author : David L. Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-10-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780313387586
African-American athletes have played a significant role in the development and popularity of American professional sports, and have encountered numerous obstacles on the road to athletic success. This is the first comprehensive multi-sport biographical dictionary of African Americans who reached the pinnacles of success in their sport. It contains more personal and career profiles of African-American sports greats than are found in any other single source. Biographical profiles of 166 noted athletes, coaches, and administrators in team and individual sports include both Ristorical figures such as Jesse Owens and Satchel Paige and contemporary stars such as Charles Barkley, Ken Griffey, Jr., Michael Jordan, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Shaquille O'Neal, and Emmitt Smith. Forty-four sports historians contributed the colorfully written biographies, which blend both personal background information and athletic career accomplishments. All information is current through the middle of 1995. The dictionary covers the contributions made by African-American greats in football, baseball, basketball, track and field, boxing, wrestling, auto and stock car racing, golf, thoroughbred racing, tennis, cycling, and figure skating. More than two-thirds of the entries represent team sports. The dictionary is organized alphabetically by person. Each colorfully written profile is 800-1,000 words in length and traces the subject's personal life, family and educational background, personal struggles, career accomplishments, records set, statistical data, awards and honors, and overall impact; and features lively quotations by and about the sports luminaries. Each entry contains a handy bibliography of books and articles about the subject. Biographies of managers, coaches, and club executives describe their teams, statistical achievements, accomplishments, strategy, and sports impact. A general introduction traces the historic struggle of African-American athletes in professional and Olympic sports and appendices provide alphabetical listings of biographical entries and entries by sport. A selection of photos complement the profiles. For the sports fan or librarian, this is a first stop for biographical information that captures the personality of the athlete and includes all the pertinent information about his or her accomplishments. It is an essential addition to the reference sections of junior high, high school, and public libraries.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39076001190516
Author : Arnold B. Cheyney
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0673586677
Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000004590248
Author : Arnold Cheyney
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781596473515
Meet 50 diverse athletes whose personal stories will inspire students and challenge them to consider their own potential for success. One-page biographical profiles are followed by reading and social studies activities that promote critical thinking and writing. Useful in many different school and home settings.
