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Asphalt Gods

Author : Vincent M. Mallozzi
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385506767
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Asphalt Gods written by Vincent M. Mallozzi and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real basketball deal–the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous. Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. Richard “Pee Wee” Kirkland. These and dozens of other colorfully nicknamed men are the “Asphalt Gods,” whose astounding exploits in the Rucker Tournament, often against multimillionaire NBA superstars, have made them playground divinity. First established in the 1950s by Holcombe Rucker, a New York City Parks Department employee, the tournament has grown to become a Harlem institution, an annual summer event of major proportions. On that fabled patch of concrete, unknown players have been lighting it up for decades as they express basketball as a freestyle art among their peers and against such pro immortals as Julius Erving and Wilt Chamberlain. X’s and O’s are exchanged for oohs and aahs in one of the great examples of street theater to be found in urban America. Asphalt Gods is a streetwise, supremely entertaining oral history of a tournament that has influenced everything from NBA playing style to hip-hop culture. Now, legends transmitted by word of mouth find a home and the achievements of basketball’s greatest unknowns a permanent place in the game’s record.

Black Gods of the Asphalt

Author : Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541120
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Black Gods of the Asphalt written by Onaje X. O. Woodbine and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem." Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory into a force that opponents can feel in each bone-snapping drive to the basket. On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer, brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. He shows that big games have a trickster figure and a master of black talk whose commentary interprets the game for audiences. The beats of hip-hop and reggae make up the soundtrack, and the ballplayers are half-men, half-heroes, defying the ghetto's limitations with their flights to the basket. Basketball is popular among young black American men but not because, as many claim, they are "pushed by poverty" or "pulled" by white institutions to play it. Black men choose to participate in basketball because of the transcendent experience of the game. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, Onaje X. O. Woodbine composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes who use the court to mine what urban life cannot corrupt. If people turn to religion to reimagine their place in the world, then black streetball players are indeed the hierophants of the asphalt.

Asphalt Gods' MC

Author : Morgan Jane Mitchell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722794194
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Asphalt Gods' MC written by Morgan Jane Mitchell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Household Gods

Author : Judith Tarr
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812564662
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Household Gods written by Judith Tarr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-07-15 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a troubled housewife awakens one morning as a tavernkeeper in the Roman frontier town of Carnuntum around 170 A.D., she must face plague and war in order to survive and prosper in her new life.

Take Back What the Devil Stole

Author : Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552025
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Take Back What the Devil Stole written by Onaje X. O. Woodbine and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel, Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city. Take Back What the Devil Stole centers Donna’s encounters with the supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women’s religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed. Woodbine explores Donna’s religious creativity and her sense of multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic, Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions. Through the gripping story of one local prophet, this book offers a deeply original account of the religious experiences of Black women in contemporary America: their bodies, their haunted landscapes, and their spiritual worlds.

Asphalt

Author : Kenneth O'Reilly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496222075
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Asphalt written by Kenneth O'Reilly and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Asphalt: A History" provides a narrative history of asphalt and its effects from ancient times to the modern day. Although asphalt creates our environment, it also threatens it"--

The Gods of Asphalt - Book One

Author : H. E. Ellis
Publisher : H.E. Ellis
ISBN 13 : 0983952906
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book The Gods of Asphalt - Book One written by H. E. Ellis and published by H.E. Ellis. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When police search seventeen year-old Sawyer Hayden's wallet after he steals and crashes a vintage motorcycle they find just three things:The fake I.D. his brother bought him, his real ID without a motorcycle endorsement and the empty condom wrapper he saved from his first night with Sarah.What police don't find is his list. A list of the three things Sawyer blames for turning his once promising athlete of a father into a trucker who's life went nowhere. A list that before tonight he never left home without. Before tonight Sawyer lived his life by that list, like a map he used to avoid the same path his father traveled. A map he used to find a road of own, a road he knew for a fact would pave the way to a college scholarship and a future in basketball. But that was before tonight. Because despite all Sawyer's careful planning his map sends him down a road toward an obstacle he never sees coming. An obstacle that slams him head on and reveals a fate worse than failure. Success. Now broken, bleeding and running out of time Sawyer is forced to make a new list. A simple list with only one strategy. Live long enough to fail.

God

Author : Reza Aslan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0553394738
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book God written by Reza Aslan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large. In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, “Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless of whether we’re believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves.” But this projection is not without consequences. We bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature—our compassion, our thirst for justice—but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence. All these qualities inform our religions, cultures, and governments. More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives. Praise for God “Timely, riveting, enlightening and necessary.”—HuffPost “Tantalizing . . . Driven by [Reza] Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God . . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary life.”—The Seattle Times “A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[Aslan’s] slim, yet ambitious book [is] the story of how humans have created God with a capital G, and it’s thoroughly mind-blowing.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Aslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this intelligent survey.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Gods of Manhattan

Author : Scott Mebus
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101200693
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Gods of Manhattan written by Scott Mebus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old New Yorker Rory Hennessy can see things no one else can. When a magician's trick opens his eyes to Mannahatta, Rory finds an amazing spirit city coexisting alongside modern-day Manhattan. A place where Indian sachems, warrior cockroaches, and papier-mƒch‚ children live, ruled by the immortal Gods of Manhattan - including Babe Ruth, Alexander Hamilton, and Peter Stuyvesant. But Rory's power to see Mannahatta brings danger, and he is pursued by enemies, chasing history and trying to free those who have been enslaved. And when he is given the chance to right Mannahatta's greatest wrong, seeing Mannahatta may not be a gift after all. . . .

The Skin Gods

Author : Richard Montanari
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 009948689X
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book The Skin Gods written by Richard Montanari and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this electrifying sequel to "The Rosary Girls," Philadelphia detectives Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne are on the trail of a maniacal killer, who is recreating Hollywoods most famous murder scenes and casting real-life victims.

Free and Clear

Author : Howard Dayton
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1575674610
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Free and Clear written by Howard Dayton and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overwhelmed with debt? There is hope and freedom for you no matter how big your problem. Skyrocketing debt has crippled and divided millions in this age of rampant credit, interest-only mortgages, and record loan defaults. The way out from under debt burdens is not a declaration of bankruptcy, but surrender to the Word of God. Becoming debt-free may seem an impossible dream for many, but it is actually an attainable goal according to Howard Dayton, cofounder of Crown Financial Ministries. He overcame his own struggle with debt by applying God's principles to managing his finances, principles he lays out in this practical, encouraging, never-give-up book.

Royal Road

Author : Morgan Jane Mitchell
Publisher : Morgan Jane Mitchell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Road written by Morgan Jane Mitchell and published by Morgan Jane Mitchell. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today Bestselling Author, Morgan Jane Mitchell, Welcome to Royal Road, playground of the Royal Bastards MC, Nashville, TN Chapter Beau Strick aka Kingpin, President of the Royal Bastards MC in Nashville, Tennessee has never let his twin brother, Country Music star Beau Strick's use of his real name bother him. After all, he'd hate to be the one named Bubba. The fact most of his brother's hit songs are actually the soundtrack to his tragic life never truly fazed him either until he saw Maddy Mae on his brother's arm. Word travels fast in these parts. As soon as Maddy Mae moves home to Music City, she has a call from her high school sweetheart. She thinks twice about answering. Sure she knows he's famous now. He could finally be her ticket to success as a songwriter, but her heart shattered long ago when Beau went to prison. That heartache's something she never wants to experience again. Meeting up with his brother Bubba seems innocent enough until she finds herself falling for his persona. Bubba's like loving Beau without any of the baggage. Why did they ever head down Royal Road? Nashvegas is full of honky-tonks but none as infamous as Royal Road where the Royal Bastards MC rule. Confronted with her old flame, the real Beau Strick and all his demons, Maddy's torn between two identical brothers. Well, they used to be identical. Now, the real Beau looks nothing like the clean-cut Country Music star who sings about his hard knocks. Kingpin's long hair and tattoos, the rev of his Harley calls to something wild within her. Maddy Mae is the one thing about Kingpin that hasn't changed. His love for her is the last thing left of his soul. And she's the only thing he won't let his brother take from him. His twin has plenty of money and influence in Music City, but Kingpin controls its underbelly, not to mention an army of outlaws on Harleys. He'll go to war if he has to. Whether Maddy Mae agrees doesn't matter. Kingpin will do anything to convince her there's nothing better than the real thing. Even if that means seducing her adult daughter, Sky. Finding out Kingpin is not her real father, Sky agrees to help him win her mother's heart. She never thought she'd fall for a man so much older than her. But Sky falls, just as her mother gives in. Kingpin never thought he'd want someone as much as his old flame. Of all people, Sky proves him wrong. With everything he wanted from his past within reach, who will he choose for his future, and will she have him?

New York Sports

Author : Stephen Norwood
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682260593
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book New York Sports written by Stephen Norwood and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York has long been both America’s leading cultural center and its sports capital, with far more championship teams, intracity World Series, and major prizefights than any other city. Pro football’s “Greatest Game Ever Played” took place in New York, along with what was arguably history’s most significant boxing match, the 1938 title bout between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. As the nation’s most crowded city, basketball proved to be an ideal sport, and for many years it was the site of the country’s most prestigious college basketball tournament. New York boasts storied stadiums, arenas, and gymnasiums and is the home of one of the world’s two leading marathons as well as the Belmont Stakes, the third event in horse racing’s Triple Crown. New York sportswriters also wield national influence and have done much to connect sports to larger social and cultural issues, and the vitality and distinctiveness of New York’s street games, its ethnic institutions, and its sports-centered restaurants and drinking establishments all contribute to the city’s uniqueness. New York Sports collects the work of fourteen leading sport historians, providing new insight into the social and cultural history of America’s major metropolis and of the United States. These writers address the topics of changing conceptions of manhood and violence, leisure and social class, urban night life and entertainment, women and athletics, ethnicity and assimilation, and more.

Street Scriptures

Author : Alejandro Nava
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226819167
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Street Scriptures written by Alejandro Nava and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world of hip-hop is saturated with religion, but often this element is glossed over as secondary to hip-hop's other dimensions. In Street Scriptures, Alejandro Nava focuses our attention on this relationship in a fresh way, combining his profound love of hip-hop, his passion for racial and social justice, and his deep theological knowledge. The result is a journey through hip-hop's deep entanglement with the sacred. Street Scriptures examines the reasons behind the rise of a religious heartbeat in hip-hop, looking at the crosscurrents of the sacred and profane in rap, reggaeton, and Latinx hip-hop today. Ranging from Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Lauryn Hill, and Cardi B to St. Augustine and William James, Nava examines the ethical-political, aesthetic-spiritual, and prophetic in hip-hop, probing the pure sonic and aesthetic signatures of music, while also diving deep into the voices that invoke the spirit of protest"--

Facedown

Author : Aletha V. Smithson
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615666893
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Facedown written by Aletha V. Smithson and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I closed my eyes and turned the other cheek against the tarmac...the heat against the asphalt sweltered...the awareness of death, spit, and stench of urine was driven through my nostrils with every breath. I would still carry out my plan to end it all.' In this harrowing tale of abuse, addiction, and ultimate redemption, Aletha Smithson chronicles the life of Donnie Foster. Donnie lived his entire life Facedown. His abusive childhood taught him to keep his head down to avoid the wrath of his violent stepfather. He found solace in the prescription drugs he stole from his mother and the very same alcohol that made his stepfather belligerent. As Donnie got older, he turned to more powerful drugs: cocaine and meth. He was soon wrapped up in the dangerous world of vicious drug lords, acting as their minion. There wasn't anything he wouldn't do for them or his next hit. It was not long before Donnie found himself at Corcoran State Penitentiary, lying facedown on the asphalt and reexamining his life. God spoke to him then, and after years of running from the law and God, Donnie turned his life around to become a totally new creation through Christ, realizing that truly all things are possible with God. If you have somehow forgotten that God is in the business of changing lives, making beauty from ashes, this story will make you a believer again and cause you to fall facedown before the almighty God and glorify his Son forever. E. Scott Feather Dean of Chapel and Global Ministries Grace College Aletha Smithson is the author of From the Potter's Wheel and As He Was Known. She lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her husband.

When Giants Walked the Earth

Author : Mick Wall
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429985615
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book When Giants Walked the Earth written by Mick Wall and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first significant fresh reporting on the legendary band in twenty years, built on interviews with all surviving band members and revealing a never-before-seen side of the genius and debauchery that defined their heyday. Veteran rock journalist Mick Wall unflinchingly tells the story of the band that pushed the envelope on both creativity and excess, even by rock ‘n' roll standards. Led Zeppelin was the last great band of the 1960s and the first great band of the 1970s—and When Giants Walked the Earth is the full, enthralling story of Zep from the inside, written by a former confidante of both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Rich and revealing, it bores into not only the disaster, addiction and death that haunted the band but also into the real relationship between Page and Plant, including how it was influenced by Page's interest in the occult. Comprehensive and yet intimately detailed, When Giants Walked the Earth literally gets into the principals' heads to bring to life both an unforgettable band and an unrepeatable slice of rock history.

All God's Dangers

Author : Theodore Rosengarten
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525562850
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book All God's Dangers written by Theodore Rosengarten and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story of an “over-average” man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people—and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about.