posted
31/01/13
Book Description:
The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball’s most colorful and controversial decade
The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the ‘70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative sport to its very foundations. Outspoken players embraced free agency, openly advocated drug use, and even swapped wives. Controversial owners such as Charlie Finley, Bill Veeck, and Ted Turner introduced Astroturf, prime-time World Series, garish polyester uniforms, and outlandish promotions such as Disco Demolition Night. Hank Aaron and Lou Brock set new heights in power and speed while Reggie Jackson and Carlton Fisk emerged as October heroes and All-Star characters like Mark “The Bird†Fidrych became pop icons. For the millions of fans who grew up during this time, and especially those who cared just as much about Oscar Gamble’s afro as they did about his average, this book serves up a delicious, Technicolor trip down memory lane.
posted
27/01/13
Book Description:
Real Communication uses stories from real people and the world around us to present the best and most lively introduction to communication concepts. Professors and students alike have fallen in love with Real Communication’s down-to-earth writing style, its coverage of research, and its wealth of learning and teaching tools. They also appreciate how Real Communication strives to weave the discipline’s different strands together with the CONNECT feature that shows students how concepts work and apply across interpersonal, small group, and public speaking contexts.
posted
23/01/13
Book Description:
The tale begins long before I, and will linger long after I am forgotten. A tale of forbidden longings in so many forms. For power, for belonging, for love, for wealth, for control, for understanding, for independence, for lust and for what we cannot have. For there is a price. There is always a price.
She was running though the forest, to see a boy who claimed to be her beau, but he was not. He said he would marry her, but it was just a lure. She was here at night because he had told her to come. She was young, naive, and pretty, which is a dangerous combination, and a tempting lure. Though she was also bright and resourceful, which the boy was not aware of. Though she often did not think ahead, she thought quickly on her feet. Though she did not anger easily, when she was angered, beware. But he would learn and regret. But let me not get ahead of myself
