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Author : Michael Oriard
Publisher : Chicago : Nelson-Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dreaming of Heroes written by Michael Oriard and published by Chicago : Nelson-Hall. This book was released on 1982 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Shreve
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Dreaming of Heroes written by Susan Shreve and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1984 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Grady
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781543987423
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (874 download)
Download or read book Dreaming of Heroes written by Michael Grady and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cyril Letzelter's family moved to the small Ohio mill community of Martins Ferry, just across the Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia, they figured out quickly the city had a love for football bordering on obsessive. And it's not hard to understand why. Success in football and the path it offered out of the coal mines and steel mills to the promise of higher education and opportunity was the stuff of dreams.He emerged as one of the Ohio Valley's most prominent stars when the sport was exploding into the public consciousness like never before. The 1920s are rightly considered the golden age of college football, and his path out of the valley into the national elite offers a unique window into the evolution of the game and the changes in the nation that occurred between Reconstruction and post-WWI America. Long forgotten over the years, Cyril starred in some of the biggest games of the era. His talent was recruited by major teams from Stanford on the west coast to Army in the East. His playmaking ability was feared by giants of the game like Knute Rockne. And in the end, his sometimes rocky path out of the Ohio Valley mill towns to a better life involved taking risks to get ahead and sometimes being manipulated by stronger forces beyond his reach. This is a story of America and college football, as seen through the eyes of a forgotten star, Cyril Letzelter, who deserves to be remembered again.
Author : Kevin Francis Sweeney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Dreaming of Heroes written by Kevin Francis Sweeney and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. G. Bissinger
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0224076744
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Friday Night Lights written by H. G. Bissinger and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return once again to the enduring account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history.
Author : Lynn Boulger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Dreaming of Heroes written by Lynn Boulger and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dream of Heroes written by Adolfo Bioy Casares and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the end of carnival 1927, Emilio Gauna had an experience that he knew was the culmination of his life. The problem is that Gauna can only dimly remember what happened: he was out on the town with his raucous, reckless friends when a masked woman appeared. Several hours later, gasping and horrified, Gauna awoke at the edge of a lake. Three years later, he tries to solve the mystery the only way he knows: by re-creating the same situation and reliving it- despite the warnings of his secret protector, the Sorcerer. In The Dreams of Heroes, Adolfo Bioy Casares assembles magicians, prophetic and brave women, shamefully self-conscious men and Buenos Aires under the rubric of a sinister and mocking fate, and thrusts them forward into the dizzying realm of memory, doom and cyclical time. Written in 1954 and never before published in America, The Dream of Heroes stands as a predecessor of and model for a whole school of European and American novels that followed but never quite matched it"--
Author : Pierre Lanfranchi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135239053
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book European Heroes written by Pierre Lanfranchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations.
Author : John Marsh
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770487360
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Puzzle of Poetry written by John Marsh and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Puzzle of Poetry offers students a readable, reliable guide to understanding poetry. Instead of carving poems up into their elements, The Puzzle of Poetry describes how experienced readers of poems go about understanding them. Each line, sentence, or syntactical unit in a poem is a clue to the “puzzle.” As with crossword puzzles, figuring out the answer to one clue can help you figure out the answer to others. This book teaches the reader to check what they know in a poem against what else they know to find meaning, a systematic but creative approach that can help language to come alive. Each chapter contains a lively and personal discussion of one part of the art of reading poetry; a short guide to writing about poetry is also included. The book introduces students to a variety of poems, from Anglo-Saxon verse to Hamilton and Jay-Z.
Author : Wyn Wachhorst
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 150496313X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Best of Times written by Wyn Wachhorst and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-time radio, the folk revival, the golden age of science fiction, steam railroads, baseball, the Western, and other genres color our images of the 1950s. But contrary to the countercultural myth that America during this period was a sterile, soulless society, culturally and intellectually empty, it was an introspective era of innovation and creativity, the seedtime of the sixties, the harbinger of which was the urban folk revival. The Best of Times presents a collection of essays, each followed by a related memoir, focusing on postwar popular culture, exploring topics that mark the era but are also nostalgic in themselves—the comforting continuity of long-running radio shows, train whistles that brought the sweet sorrow of distance to small-town nights, lazy summers of baseball, endless stretches of unknown lands to the West that once compelled the imagination, the heroes and vagabonds of folksong who roamed a simpler world, and dreams of alien civilizations on neighboring planets, deepened by the dawning reality of spaceflight. These pieces balance personal, cultural, and mythic nostalgia, recalling author Wyn Wachhorst’s youth, the postwar era, and its dreams of a fabled West or Norman Rockwell’s small-town America. Blending history, memoir, imagery, and analysis, this collection of essays offers poetic reflections on the nature of nostalgia and postwar America.
Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765607638
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Baseball and the American Dream written by Robert Elias and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One particular American sport arguably surpasses all others in reflecting U.S. society: the national pastime -- baseball. Roger Angell has suggested, "Baseball seems to have been invented solely for the purpose of explaining all other things in life". It has uniquely mirrored the trends within our culture and has been associated with "The American Dream" in all of its permutations. Baseball has been an arena in which the mightiest struggles of our society -- equal rights regardless of race, nationality, or gender -- have been played out. Editor Robert Elias has woven together a collection of essays of exceptional diversity to look at how baseball and the American Dream have connected through history to the present day, as well as providing a signpost to the future of baseball in American popular culture. Featuring articles by former players such as Orlando Cepeda and Dusty Baker (currently the manager for the San Francisco Giants), legendary journalists such as Leonard Koppett, Andrei Codrescu, and Roger Kahn, and contemporary scholars such as Jules Tygiel, Gai Berlage, and Samuel Regalado, this volume provides a unique and valuable perspective on baseball and its distinctive place in American culture.
Author : Wendy Haslem
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0977790843
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Super/heroes written by Wendy Haslem and published by New Academia Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores contemporary superhero narratives, including comic books and films, in a wider mythic context. Since the 1930s superheroes have come to dominate a variety of media formats. Why are audiences so fascinated with heroes, and what makes the idea of heroes so necessary in society?
Author : J.M. DeBord
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578596572
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)
Download or read book The Dream Interpretation Dictionary written by J.M. DeBord and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravels dream symbols and their meanings What do reoccurring dreams reveal? What's the purpose of nightmares—and can they be stopped? Why do some people show up in dreams? Are some dreams actually warnings? Going beyond superficial explanations, The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs and Meanings brings a deep and rich understanding to a variety of images, signs, and symbols. It considers the context to help anyone complete their own personal jigsaw puzzle. It provides the tools to allow anyone to sort through possible connections and to make sense of their dreams. From entries ranging from “Abandonment” to “Zoo,” this massive tome analyzes sex dreams, money dreams, dreams of falling, running, or paralysis and much, much more. It brings profound insights to thousands of dream messages. It shows what to look for and what to ignore and teaches how to master dream interpretation. Examples of symbols are given. The complexity and context of a dream are explored. Signs and their meanings are illustrated. Illuminating the intelligence of dreams, decoding clues, explaining symbols, and revealing the universal meanings of each as well as their subtler associations, The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings explores the messages delivered by the unconscious mind during sleep. It examines how dreams connect to daily life. It shows how dreams can lead to deeper understanding and self-awareness. Also included are a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to the book’s usefulness.
Author : Angie Abdou
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 177199228X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Writing the Body in Motion written by Angie Abdou and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the Body in Motion offers introductory essays on the most commonly taught Canadian sport literature texts. The contributions sketch the state of current scholarship, highlight recurring themes and patterns, and offer close readings of key works. Organized chronologically by source text, ranging from Shoeless Joe (1982) to Indian Horse (2012), the essays offer a variety of ways to read, consider, teach, and write about sport literature.
Author : D.S. Brown
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504971558
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Anger & Thieves written by D.S. Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Billings is a young developer at an IT company in Atlanta, Georgia. He works hard. He enjoys his friends. He loves his family. He seeks success in America, his dream by birthright, despite the depravities of the American culture. Eddie Smith was a failure seeking to leave his past behind. He dreamed of a better life. He wanted to be a good man, but the taint of crime was cloying. It clung to him, attracted him, and made him find his way back to failure. When old friends enter both their lives, the connections that are made will change their world irrevocably. At the intersection of these two lives, we find joy and happiness, pain and heartbreak, anger and thieves.
Author : Carrie Vaughn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 076533481X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Dreams of the Golden Age written by Carrie Vaughn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than superhero story, this is a tale of finding your true self and realizing that good and evil often come in various shades ... An adventurous story that is much more about the emotions than ability to fly.
Author : Cat Kutay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527587606
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Indigenous Engineering for an Enduring Culture written by Cat Kutay and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many millennia, Indigenous Australians have been engineering the landscape using sophisticated technological and philosophical knowledge systems in a deliberate response to changing social and environmental circumstances. These knowledge systems integrate profound understanding of country and bring together knowledge of the topography and geology of the landscape, its natural cycles and ecological systems, its hydrological systems and natural resources including fauna and flora. This enables people to manage resources sustainably and reliably, and testifies to a developed, contextualised knowledge system and to a society with agency and the capability to maintain and refine accumulated knowledge and material processes. This book is a recognition and acknowledgement of the ingenuity of Indigenous engineering which is grounded in philosophical principles, values and practices that emphasise sustainability, reciprocity, respect, and diversity, and often presents a much-needed challenge to a Western engineering worldview. Each chapter is written by a team of authors combining Indigenous knowledge skills and academic expertise, providing examples of collaboration at the intersection of Western and Indigenous engineering principles, sharing old and new knowledges and skills. These varied approaches demonstrate ways to integrate Indigenous knowledges into the curricula for Australian engineering degrees, in line with the Australian Council of Engineering Deans’ Position Statement on Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives into the engineering curriculum first published in 2017.
