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Coach Fitz

Author : Tom Lee
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925336921
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Coach Fitz written by Tom Lee and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the strangest and most appealing novels you will read this year! Tom Lee’s first novel is about a young jogger who is in a relationship with an older woman. She is both his coach and his mentor. Coach Fitz, as he calls her, seeks to instil a philosophy of running which combines ‘controlled intensity’ with a curiosity about places and their histories. A country boy, he is fascinated by the landscapes of the city beaches and parks through which they travel. And he has his own obsessions – with exercise routines, ancestral legacies, outdoor gyms, horse-racing, weather conditions and inner-city eating habits. Then, suddenly, their relationship falls apart, over the issue of sex – and he becomes a coach and mentor in turn, to a young man this time, as he attempts to orchestrate an ideal expression of his emotional, athletic and intellectual urges. Coach Fitz is an exploration of the outdoor mentality that plays such a dominant role in the Australian psyche. It is remarkable for its observations about landscape and physical exercise, embedded in the training routines and dialogues of the runners. But most of all it is about the emotions and aspirations of youth, and the complications these engender.

Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066355
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-04-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story with a big heart about a boy, a coach, the game of baseball, and the game of life. "There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do." The coach's message was not simply about winning but about self-respect, sacrifice, courage, and endurance. In some ways, and now thirty years later, Lewis still finds himself trying to measure up to what Coach Fitz expected of him.

Crackback!

Author : Fitzgerald Hill
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1613462158
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Crackback! written by Fitzgerald Hill and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Saturday in the autumn, millions of Americans watch college football. They visit leafy campuses, tailgate with friends, and then sit down to enjoy one of the country's oldest and most beloved sporting traditions. They also witness one of the country's most visible tableaus of racial inequity. Some 120 colleges and universities field teams in the NCAA's top tier of the sport, known as the Football Bowl Subdivision. But only a small fraction of those teams are coached by African-Americans or other minorities. Yet there seems to be little focus on this issue in today's society, even from the African-American community itself. Why is it that the National Football League has advanced so much farther in giving opportunities to minority coaches? Dr. Fitzgerald Hill, along with award-winning sportswriter, Mark Purdy, attack the racial dynamics of the important Crackback syndrome, in which minority coaches are led to believe they actually do have a fair chance at every job opening-only to be blindsided at the last minute by hidden forces that undermine their dreams. There is hope for the future, but first we have to be willing to look closely at a sensitive topic. That is why Crackback is necessary for everyone, especially college football fans-of any color or team.

Coach

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393060911
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Coach written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts a turning point in the author's life, an event during which a baseball coach gave him the ball at a key point in a game and conveyed such trust that the author was inspired to perform beyond his own expectations.

80/20 Triathlon

Author : Matt Fitzgerald
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0738234699
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book 80/20 Triathlon written by Matt Fitzgerald and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breakthrough program for triathletes -- beginner, intermediate, and advanced -- showing how to balance training intensity to maximize performance -- from a fitness expert and elite coach. Cutting-edge research has proven that triathletes and other endurance athletes experience their greatest performance when they do 80 percent of their training at low intensity and the remaining 20 percent at moderate to high intensity. But the vast majority of recreational triathletes are caught in the so-called "moderate-intensity rut," spending almost half of their time training too hard--harder than the pros. Training harder isn't smarter; it actually results in low-grade chronic fatigue that prevents recreational athletes from getting the best results. In 80/20 Triathlon, Matt Fitzgerald and David Warden lay out the real-world and scientific evidence, offering concrete tips and strategies, along with complete training plans for every distance--Sprint, Olympic, Half-Ironman, and Ironman--to help athletes implement the 80/20 rule of intensity balance. Benefits include reduced fatigue and injury risk, improved fitness, increased motivation, and better race results.

Before the Lights Go Out

Author : Sean Fitz-Gerald
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771024215
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Before the Lights Go Out written by Sean Fitz-Gerald and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Globe and Mail Best Book A finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of our best sports writers. Hockey is approaching a state of crisis in Canada. It's become more expensive, more exclusive, and effectively off-limits to huge swaths of the potential sports-loving population. Youth registration numbers are stagnant; efforts to appeal to new Canadians are often grim at best; the game, increasingly, does not resemble the country of which it's for so long been an integral part. As a lifelong hockey fan and father of a young mixed-race son falling headlong in love with the game, Sean Fitz-Gerald wanted to get to the roots of these issues. His entry point: a season with the Peterborough Petes, a storied OHL team far from its former glory in a once-emblematic Canadian city that is finding itself on the wrong side of the country's changing demographics. Fitz-Gerald profiles the players, coaches and front office staff, a mix of world-class talents with NHL aspirations and Peterborough natives happy with more modest dreams. Through their experiences, their widely varied motivations and expectations, we get a rich, colourful understanding of who ends up playing hockey in Canada and why. Fitz-Gerald interweaves the action of the season with portraits of public figures who've shaped and been shaped by the game: authors who captured its spirit, politicians who exploited it, and broadcasters who try to embody and sell it. He finds his way into community meetings full of angry season ticket holders, as well as into sterile boardrooms full of the sport's institutional brain trust, unable to break away from the inertia of tradition and hopelessly at war with itself. Before the Lights Go Out is a moving, funny, yet unsettling picture of a sport at a crossroads. Fitz-Gerald's warm but rigorous journalistic approach reads, in the end, like a letter to a troubled friend: it's not too late to save hockey in this country, but who has the will to do it?

Becoming Manny

Author : Jean Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416595082
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Manny written by Jean Rhodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorized by the future Hall of Famer himself, and written by a clinical psychologist and an award-winning investigative journalist, Becoming Manny is the incredible story behind one of the greatest baseball sluggers of all time. Manny Ramirez ranks seventeenth in career home runs and eighth in career slugging percentage -- the only players above him on both lists are Barry Bonds, Jimmie Foxx, and Babe Ruth. Becoming Manny brings an unusually thoughtful analysis to the territory of sports biography, examining Manny's life through the lens of larger issues such as mentoring and immigration, while also telling the story of a great career. Manny has perplexed the baseball world for years now with his amazing hitting and his unique approach to life and to the game. Incredibly focused at the plate yet carefree everywhere else, Manny has become a constant topic of discussion on national sports radio and television, on sports websites, and in print. With unprecedented access, Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg have uncovered fascinating stories and family photos spanning Manny's early years to the present. This is an authorized inside look at the roots, development, and career of an individual and player on his way from the Dominican Republic and Wash-ington Heights to the Hall of Fame.

To Change a Mind

Author : John A. McKinnon
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 1590562348
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book To Change a Mind written by John A. McKinnon and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion to his first book, An Unchanged Mind, Dr. McKinnon provides invaluable advice to all parents of teenagers and young adults. Using case studies gathered from his years helping parents with troubled adolescents, the author explores the ways that adolescent development can be derailed in today's complex culture and how parents can prevent this from happening in the first place. Dr. McKinnon writes about how parents need to recognize their children as individuals, with their own feelings and opinions, as they start to establish their separate identities as young people and begin to negotiate their way through high school and beyond. He also makes clear that parents must continue to establish limits. These allow children to flourish and further their goals within boundaries that enable them to learn the consequences of their actions (both good and bad), thus providing a fundamental lesson of being an adult. The book explains that parental recognition and limit-setting work together to promote maturity. Packed with examples and sensible and practical advice for parents of pre-teens and teenagers, To Change a Mind is an essential guidebook for parents seeking to make their lives--and the lives of their children--richer and more fulfilling, as the family navigates together the potentially treacherous seas of adolescence.

The Gipper -- Part One

Author : J.J. Parker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462842240
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Gipper -- Part One written by J.J. Parker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1928, against powerful Army, Notre Dame "won one for the Gipper" -- but who was the legend inspiring the upset? He was the ultimate rebel: George Gipp drank and gambled, and skipped classes, exams, and football practices. But when it counted, the whirlwind back beat the other teams running, passing, and kicking. And he was as skilled on the diamond as he was on the gridiron. Yet he flunked out of college. Women loved Gipp, with his baritone voice, wit, and nearly regal bearing, but he had only one girlfriend, who dumped him. And he chose to become close to only a few people. Though already famous to sports fans by 1920, Gipp dressed like a nonconformist, as if trying to hide his identity. The daughter of his South Bend friend George Hull, a prominent businessman, said that Gipp "was a handsome young man, unassuming and nonchalant.... People introduced to him were surprised to find out he was George Gipp." He was a swirling mass of contradictions, an existentialist before the term was coined. Through his own negligence, he died an early, tragic death. Maybe that's why he's remembered, but will he ever be understood? Read on....

How to Raise an Adult

Author : Julie Lythcott-Haims
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627791787
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book How to Raise an Adult written by Julie Lythcott-Haims and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller "Julie Lythcott-Haims is a national treasure. . . . A must-read for every parent who senses that there is a healthier and saner way to raise our children." -Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well "For parents who want to foster hearty self-reliance instead of hollow self-esteem, How to Raise an Adult is the right book at the right time." -Daniel H. Pink, author of the New York Times bestsellers Drive and A Whole New Mind A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large. While empathizing with the parental hopes and, especially, fears that lead to overhelping, Lythcott-Haims offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness, and inner determination necessary for success. Relevant to parents of toddlers as well as of twentysomethings-and of special value to parents of teens-this book is a rallying cry for those who wish to ensure that the next generation can take charge of their own lives with competence and confidence.

One Nation Under Therapy

Author : Christina Hoff Sommers
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429908955
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book One Nation Under Therapy written by Christina Hoff Sommers and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Being "in touch with one's feelings" and freely expressing them have become paramount personal virtues. Today-with a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every conceivable problem-we are at risk of degrading our native ability to cope with life's challenges. Drawing on established science and common sense, Christina Hoff Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel reveal how "therapism" and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives. Help is offered everywhere under the presumption that we need it: in children's classrooms, the workplace, churches, courtrooms, the media, the military. But with all the "help" comes a host of troubling consequences, including: * The myth of stressed-out, homework-burdened, hypercompetitive, and depressed or suicidal schoolchildren in need of therapy and medication * The loss of moral bearings in our approach to lying, crime, addiction, and other foibles and vices * The unasked-for "grief counselors" who descend on bereaved families, schools, and communities following a tragedy, offering dubious advice while billing plenty of money * The expansion of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from an affliction of war veterans to nearly everyone who has experienced a setback Intelligent, provocative, and wryly amusing, One Nation Under Therapy demonstrates that "talking about" problems is no substitute for confronting them.

Move Over, Girl

Author : Brian Peterson
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0375757570
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Move Over, Girl written by Brian Peterson and published by One World. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Norris, an African-American college student, struggles to understand the true nature of human relationships while his friends seem to be wallowing in meaningless sex. A first novel. Reprint.

The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up

Author : Rich Blake
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307383172
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up written by Rich Blake and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of a ﬁreman who miraculously came out of a coma for one full day On a brutally cold December day, Donny Herbert, a hardworking ﬁreﬁghter from Buffalo, New York, was searching the attic of a burning house. The roof, heavy with snow, suddenly collapsed, and for six minutes he was without oxygen. Donny—a beloved husband, a father of four boys, and a neighborhood ﬁxture who was always willing to lend a helping hand—fell into a vegetative state that lasted nearly a decade. His prognosis was poor, and while he could open his eyes, he was unresponsive to the world around him. Donny Herbert was, for all practical purposes, gone. Until one day, in April 2005, when he woke up and spoke almost nonstop to his family and loved ones for nearly sixteen hours. The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up is the story of this unforgettable time, which was covered by the press worldwide. After his extraordinary day, Donny fell into a deep sleep and never experienced a comparable moment of clarity. He died of pneumonia in February 2006. For his doctors and nurses, it is a medical mystery. For his wife, Linda, who had held the family together for years, who had prayed nightly for Donny’s recovery, no explanation is needed: prayer and love brought Donny back to her one last time. The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up is as much Linda’s story—one of perseverance and faith—as it is of an exceptional husband, father, and ﬁreﬁghter.

National Trophy Matches

Author : National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Trophy Matches written by National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and published by . This book was released on with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Trophy Matches, 1962

Author : National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book National Trophy Matches, 1962 written by National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tragedy

Author : J.A.Cauldwell
Publisher : Pennod Press
ISBN 13 : 1917145128
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy written by J.A.Cauldwell and published by Pennod Press. This book was released on 2024-09-29 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peril prowls the empire’s roads and the halls of power. With danger around every corner, there are decisions to make and consequences to bear as Lord Scanlon’s schemes to usurp the empire wax and wane with failure and success. Whilst Prince Tain grapples with his future, loyalty is scrutinised and long-held trust eroded. Whom can the FitzAlcis believe with ever-present treachery and even the army under suspicion

My Life and Times

Author : S.R. Leonard
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465329471
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book My Life and Times written by S.R. Leonard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life and Times: Reflections of a Bit Player on Our Modern Times, is an autobiographical account of the life of Stephen R. Leonard, M.D., a member of the post WW II baby-boom generation. Significant relatives and friends and important milestones of his life are interwoven by the author into the concomitant historic events of the 20th century. In this largely chronological presentation, Dr. Leonard offers the reader a reexamination of our common history as American citizens, while detailing his own personal transformation.