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Author : Matthew Ross Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534420281
When Grant Falloon's dreams of winning the Babblemoney Games are hindered by his parents' alternative lifestyle, he creates his own Internet country to get back into the competition. --
Author : Kevin Houston
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244933883
From humble beginnings to world renowned boxing promoter, tattoo artist, pigeon racer and entrepreneur; Kevin Houston has lived the life of dreams. That is, until his world was shattered and evaporated in an instant.No one could have predicted Kevin's untimely fall from grace. One minute, rubbing shoulders with celebrities; the next, been thrown headlong into the sinister depths of the British prison system, serving a life sentence behind bars. ,,This book is an entertaining and revealing insight into the fascinating world of pigeon racing. A world that can be financially lucrative for the most successful of racers, with one particular series of annual* world-wide pigeon races carrying a winner's purse of an astronomical one million US Dollars.
Author : Kirk Hallowell
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608324019
Do you want to land your next mid- to senior-level management position? Get ready for the race of a lifetime! An outstanding resume and superior interview skills are just the beginning. You will need to set yourself apart from hundreds or even thousands of other well- qualified applicants. Social networking and web- based data mining have leveled the playing field and fundamentally changed the way companies source and hire candidates. Learn how companies use the latest technologies from a professional who has designed and implemented job candidate selection programs for dozens of organizations— from startups to elite Fortune 500 firms. The right training and tactics will position you for success as you build your personal online presence and run your own customized job-hunting and networking campaign. Whether it’s finding a position that enhances your career or increasing your compensation package, The Million-Dollar Race prepares you to compete and win in this remarkably tough job market. You will • Understand the new science of job selection • Discover dream opportunities that may save you months of time in your search • Know exactly what kind of company you want to work for • Elevate your performance on each hurdle of the race with a few key strategies • Prepare for the questions you’ll be asked and avoid traps that destroy interviews • Recharge your job campaign even if you hit a slump • Get what you deserve when you negotiate a job offer There are many obstacles ahead, but with the right preparation and inside information, you can beat the competition. The race begins now.
Author : D. Gutman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1417734205
Best friends Ouchie and Squishy, who love bowling and horror movies respectively, meet the eccentric owner of a local bowling alley and try to help him save Bowl-A-Rama from the wrecking ball and a destructive psychotic lunatic.
Author : Philip Maffetone
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1532871252
When Xi, a shepherd from one of the most remote parts of Tibet, flees across the Himalayas to India, he doesn't know what awaits. But his very act of fleeing-alone and on foot-demonstrates a unique skill. In Tibet, Xi had barely heard of the marathon, never raced against anyone other than himself. Now, with the help of the mysterious Mr. Singh, he sets out to do what nobody has ever done before: break 2 hours for the marathon-all while remaining true to who he is and where he came from. "A rare book that combines intimate knowledge of the sport of running and compelling fiction writing. Readers, especially those who run, will enjoy this imaginative but fully plausible tale of Xi, the Tibetan runner, and the quest for the sub two-hour marathon." - Jonathan Beverly, former editor of Running Times "Sport is about passion, dedication, and competition but it can also be a political statement. From the first page you will be rooting for Xi to find a place to run in peace." - Amy Begley, 2008 Olympian, 10,000 meters. "Million Dollar Marathon is a delightful read for runners and romantics. The background story of the humble Tibetan shepherd who makes his mark on the running world is skillfully woven with a forbidden romance. I read it in an afternoon and was left wanting more." - Pete Pfitzinger, US Olympic Marathoner "A joy to read for any runner, not just marathoners. I found my heart racing at the end. I couldn't put it down." - Lt. Amanda Rice, U.S. Navy; 2:38 marathoner, 2014 military division cross-country champion.
Author : Vincent Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985302976
Author : Derek Sherman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101598603
Who would you run one hundred miles for? Caleb Oberest is an ultramarathon runner, who severed all ties to his family to race brutal 100-mile marathons across mountains. Shane Oberest is a sales rep for a cutting-edge biotechnology firm, creating new cures for the diseases of our time. Shane has spent his life longing to connect with his older brother, but the distance between them was always too vast. Caleb’s running group live by strict rules, but Caleb is breaking one of them. He has fallen in love with a new member and her infant daughter. When Caleb discovers that the baby has a fatal genetic disease, he reaches out to Shane. On the verge of becoming a father himself, Shane devises a plan that could save this baby and bring his lost brother home. But to succeed, both brothers will need to risk everything they have. And so each begins a dangerous race that will push them past their boundaries, and take all of Caleb’s legendry endurance to survive. Derek Sherman’s authentic, compelling story of ultramarathons, biotechnology, and family takes us deep into new worlds and examines how far we will go for the people we love.
Author : Matthew Ross Smith
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534420250
“Ludicrous—and a whole lot of fun…an enjoyable sports fantasy.” —Kirkus Reviews “Infused with silliness and sugar, but the banter is fast and sassy…Funny and believable.” —BCCB A basketball-loving girl makes a wish to never miss a basket in this charming middle grade novel that pushes girl power to the max! Lizzy Trudeaux loves basketball. She doesn’t have much by way of money, but she has access to the community court and a worn ball named Ginger, and she practices constantly. After fighting to join the boys’ team at her school, Lizzy is finally given the opportunity to show off her hard-earned skills. When she answers what she believes is another bill-collecting phone call, Lizzy receives a magical wish: the ability to sink every shot. Pure Swish. Now eviscerating the competition in the boys’ league is small potatoes—she has the skills to dominate in the NBA. With the help of her BFF Toby and some viral video action, Lizzy goes all the way to the Philadelphia Bells’s starting lineup, making history and taking names. Then, just as she’s about to go face-to-face with her hero, the best player on the planet, things begin to fall apart. But Lizzy isn’t a quitter and she’ll play her hardest for the love of the game.
Author : Vali Chandrasekaran
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805087400
Author : Colin Jerolmack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226001920
The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance—if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also kept for pleasure, sport, and profit by people all over the world, from the “pigeon wars” waged by breeding enthusiasts in the skies over Brooklyn to the Million Dollar Pigeon Race held every year in South Africa. Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents, Colin Jerolmack traces our complex and often contradictory relationship with these versatile animals in public spaces such as Venice’s Piazza San Marco and London’s Trafalgar Square and in working-class and immigrant communities of pigeon breeders in New York and Berlin. By exploring what he calls “the social experience of animals,” Jerolmack shows how our interactions with pigeons offer surprising insights into city life, community, culture, and politics. Theoretically understated and accessible to interested readers of all stripes, The Global Pigeon is one of the best and most original ethnographies to be published in decades.
Author : Tessa McWatt
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735277441
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NON-FICTION Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction. Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and "black bitch," and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body--nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones and blood--which holds up a mirror to the way culture reads all bodies, she asks why we persist in thinking in terms of race today when racism is killing us. Her grandmother's family fled southern China for British Guiana after her great uncle was shot in his own dentist's chair during the First Sino-Japanese War. McWatt is made of this woman and more: those who arrived in British Guiana from India as indentured labour and those who were brought from Africa as cargo to work on the sugar plantations; colonists and those whom colonialism displaced. How do you tick a box on a census form or job application when your ancestry is Scottish, English, French, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, African and Chinese? How do you finally answer a question first posed to you in grade school: "What are you?" And where do you find a sense of belonging in a supposedly "post-racial" world where shadism, fear of blackness, identity politics and call-out culture vie with each other noisily, relentlessly and still lethally? Shame on Me is a personal and powerful exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story.
Author : Chase Purdy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780525536956
The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring lab-grown meat to the world. The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global animal agriculture is responsible for deforestation, soil erosion, and more emissions than air travel, paper mills, and coal mining combined. It also, of course, depends on the slaughter of more than 60 billion animals per year, a number that is only increasing as the global appetite for meat swells. But a band of doctors, scientists, activists, and entrepreneurs have been racing to end animal agriculture as we know it, hoping to fulfill a dream of creating meat without ever having to kill an animal. In the laboratories of Silicon Valley companies, Dutch universities, and Israeli startups, visionaries are growing burgers and steaks from microscopic animal cells and inventing systems to do so at scale--allowing us to feed the world without slaughter and environmental devastation. Drawing from exclusive and unprecedented access to the main players, from polarizing activist-turned-tech CEO Josh Tetrick to lobbyists and regulators on both sides of the issue, Billion Dollar Burger follows the people fighting to upend our food system as they butt up against the entrenched interests fighting viciously to stop them. The stakes are monumentally high: cell-cultured meat is the best hope for sustainable food production, a key to fighting climate change, a gold mine for the companies that make it happen, and an existential threat for the farmers and meatpackers that make our meat today. Are we ready?
Author : Jon Buller,Susan Schade
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cartoons and comics
ISBN : 0679873856
Illustrated in black-and-white. When Ron Rooney happens upon a page torn from a collector's guide that tells him "Larry the Lizard No. 1 is worth $1,250,000, he's ecstatic. He actually owns a copy! He races home, only to discover that his little sister has put the comic book in her class's space capsule on its way to Mars. But all's not lost yet. Maybe Harold Fishbone, the shrewd fanboy, has a copy and would be willing to part with it for a couple of dollars. All eyes are on the prize as readers follow Ron on a madcap race against a fellow comic collector and a strange man from the future. It's every comic-lover's dream come true...or is it? "From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Julian Guthrie
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780802121363
Expanded to include the behind-the-scenes story of the 34th America’s Cup and Team USA’s incredible comeback Down eight-to-one in the 34th America’s Cup in September 2013, Oracle Team USA pulled off a comeback for the ages, with eight straight wins against Emirates Team New Zealand. Julian Guthrie’s The Billionaire and the Mechanic tells the incredible story of how a car mechanic and one of the world’s richest men teamed up to win the world’s greatest race. With a lengthy new section on the 34th America’s Cup, Guthrie also shows how they did it again. The America’s Cup, first awarded in 1851, is the oldest trophy in international sports. In 2000, Larry Ellison, co-founder and billionaire CEO of Oracle Corporation, decided to run for the prize and found an unlikely partner in Norbert Bajurin, a car mechanic and Commodore of the blue-collar Golden Gate Yacht Club. After unsuccessful runs for the Cup in 2003 and 2007, they won for the first time in 2010. With unparalleled access to Ellison and his team, Guthrie takes readers inside the building process of these astonishing boats and the lives of the athletes who race them and throws readers into exhilarating races from Australia to Valencia.
Author : Patrick Smithwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1733026800
Racing Time is a book of searing intensity shining a healing light into the wounds of loss. Most of all, it is a celebration of life-long friendships with three men--each outspoken, authentic, and a lover of the out-of-doors. In a period of nine months, Smithwick delivers the eulogies of these three who have been his nexus to the world of steeplechasing and Thoroughbred racing. Written to stand on its own, Racing Time is the third of a trilogy, following the memoirs Racing My Father and Flying Change. It continues with the vivid prose and sensory descriptions of the first two books, then takes a different path, delving deeply into the psyche of men, showing one man's love and respect for another, sometimes his anger and disappointment, and always his sense of loyalty and wonder. Smithwick takes the reader through the joy and excitement of shared youthful experiences, into the camaraderie of adulthood, and ends with the clap of a thundercloud calling on us all to live life to the fullest.