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Games of Deception

Author : Andrew Maraniss
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525514651
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Games of Deception written by Andrew Maraniss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *"Rivaling the nonfiction works of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat....Even readers who don't appreciate sports will find this story a page-turner." --School Library Connection, starred review *"A must for all library collections." --Booklist, starred review Winner of the 2020 AJL Sydney Taylor Honor! From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the remarkable true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany. Perfect for fans of The Boys in the Boat and Unbroken. On a scorching hot day in July 1936, thousands of people cheered as the U.S. Olympic teams boarded the S.S. Manhattan, bound for Berlin. Among the athletes were the 14 players representing the first-ever U.S. Olympic basketball team. As thousands of supporters waved American flags on the docks, it was easy to miss the one courageous man holding a BOYCOTT NAZI GERMANY sign. But it was too late for a boycott now; the ship had already left the harbor. 1936 was a turbulent time in world history. Adolf Hitler had gained power in Germany three years earlier. Jewish people and political opponents of the Nazis were the targets of vicious mistreatment, yet were unaware of the horrors that awaited them in the coming years. But the Olympians on board the S.S. Manhattan and other international visitors wouldn't see any signs of trouble in Berlin. Streets were swept, storefronts were painted, and every German citizen greeted them with a smile. Like a movie set, it was all just a facade, meant to distract from the terrible things happening behind the scenes. This is the incredible true story of basketball, from its invention by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891, to the sport's Olympic debut in Berlin and the eclectic mix of people, events and propaganda on both sides of the Atlantic that made it all possible. Includes photos throughout, a Who's-Who of the 1936 Olympics, bibliography, and index. Praise for Games of Deception: A 2020 ALA Notable Children's Book! A 2020 CBC Notable Social Studies Book! "Maraniss does a great job of blending basketball action with the horror of Hitler's Berlin to bring this fascinating, frightening, you-can't-make-this-stuff-up moment in history to life." -Steve Sheinkin, New York Times bestselling author of Bomb and Undefeated "I was blown away by Games of Deception....It's a fascinating, fast-paced, well-reasoned, and well-written account of the hidden-in-plain-sight horrors and atrocities that underpinned sports, politics, and propaganda in the United States and Germany. This is an important read." -Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Newbery Honor winning author of Hitler Youth "A richly reported and stylishly told reminder how, when you scratch at a sports story, the real world often lurks just beneath." --Alexander Wolff, New York Times bestselling author of The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama "An insightful, gripping account of basketball and bias." --Kirkus Reviews "An exciting and overlooked slice of history." --School Library Journal

Games Prisoners Play

Author : Marek M. Kaminski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691149321
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Games Prisoners Play written by Marek M. Kaminski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check that turned out to be anything but routine. Inside was Marek Kaminski, a Warsaw University student who also ran an underground press for Solidarity. The police discovered illegal books in the vehicle, and in a matter of hours five secret police escorted Kaminski to jail. A sociology and mathematics major one day, Kaminski was the next a political prisoner trying to adjust to a bizarre and dangerous new world. This remarkable book represents his attempts to understand that world. As a coping strategy until he won his freedom half a year later by faking serious illness, Kaminski took clandestine notes on prison subculture. Much later, he discovered the key to unlocking that culture--game theory. Prison first appeared an irrational world of unpredictable violence and arbitrary codes of conduct. But as Kaminski shows in riveting detail, prisoners, to survive and prosper, have to master strategic decision-making. A clever move can shorten a sentence; a bad decision can lead to rape, beating, or social isolation. Much of the confusion in interpreting prison behavior, he argues, arises from a failure to understand that inmates are driven not by pathological emotion but by predictable and rational calculations. Kaminski presents unsparing accounts of initiation rituals, secret codes, caste structures, prison sex, self-injuries, and of the humor that makes this brutal world more bearable. This is a work of unusual power, originality, and eloquence, with implications for understanding human behavior far beyond the walls of one Polish prison.

Presence

Author : Robert Maniura
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135155333X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Presence written by Robert Maniura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In about 25 BC tribesmen of the kingdom of Meroe placed a bronze head of Augustus, cut from a full-length statue, beneath the steps of a temple of victory: the decapitated head of the Emperor was thus regularly trampled underfoot. Two millennia later, during the second Gulf War, Iraqis 'insulted' a toppled bronze statue of Saddam Hussein by beating it with their shoes. Do these chronologically distant but apparently related examples of the defamation of images imply that the persons represented were regarded by their detractors as in some way 'present' in the images? Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects reconsiders the notion of 'presence' in objects. The first book to address the issue directly, it contains a series of case studies covering a broad geographical and chronological range from ancient Greece and the Incas to industrial America and contemporary India, as well as examples from the canon of western European art. The studies reveal the widespread evidence for this striking form of response and allow readers to see how 'presence' is evoked and either embraced or repressed in differing historical and cultural contexts. Featuring a variety of disciplines and approaches, the book will be of interest to students of art history, art theory, visual culture, anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

Conference Record

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conference Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secrets, Mysteries, & Spirituality

Author : Darryn W. Skeete
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 149906327X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Secrets, Mysteries, & Spirituality written by Darryn W. Skeete and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is creativity. This is artistry, rhythm and poetry. A structure and pattern so simplistic and yet unchanging to the mind that desires to be inspired. It`s an opportunity for our hidden talents to be discovered. Poetry is a part of me, whether it is liked or hated I write from the soul. I'm uneducated and grew up with misfortunes. However, through humility I learned to embrace my disadvantages and limitations. Despite my trials and tribulations I shall rise up and triumph. In my imperfections, this is my journey and road to heaven.

Superior Beings

Author : BRAMS
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475718071
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Superior Beings written by BRAMS and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central question I pose in this book is: If there existed a supe rior being who possessed the supernatural qualities of omni science, omnipotence, immortality, and incomprehensibility, how would he/she act differently from us, and would these differences be knowable? (ßecause God, the superior being in the Judeo Christian tradition, is generally described as a male, I shall hence forth use the masculine pronoun form for convenience, but I intend no invidious gender distinctions, whether applied to super natural or natural beings.l Theologians, philosophers of religion, and erudite scholars in other disciplines have addressed this and related questions before, but their answers, generally speaking, have not been informed by any systematic or rigorous theory. I believe the mathematical theory of games, which has little to do with the frivolity and playfulness we normally associate with games, provides a powerful tool for clarifying the key theo logical concepts in my central question and drawing out their implications in games played between human and superior beings. I am fully aware that not everybody will agree that omni science, omnipotence, immortality, and incomprehensibility are what I say they are, but I invite them to propose their own defi- Preface viii nitions and derive their own conclusions with the aid of the theory. By endowing these protean concepts with unambiguous meanings, I will try to show how game theory can breathe life into questions that have been dismissed too quickly simply because they are metaphysical-outside the world of experience.

Six Thousand Years of History

Author : Edgar Sanderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Thousand Years of History written by Edgar Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Six Thousand Years of History

Author : Edgar Sanderson, A.M., J.P. Lamberton, A.M., John McGovern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Thousand Years of History written by Edgar Sanderson, A.M., J.P. Lamberton, A.M., John McGovern and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Games of Deception

Author : Andrew Maraniss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781713701095
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Games of Deception written by Andrew Maraniss and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany"--

Adversarial Reasoning

Author : Alexander Kott
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420011014
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Adversarial Reasoning written by Alexander Kott and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rising tide of threats, from financial cybercrime to asymmetric military conflicts, demands greater sophistication in tools and techniques of law enforcement, commercial and domestic security professionals, and terrorism prevention. Concentrating on computational solutions to determine or anticipate an adversary's intent, Adversarial Reasoning:

Sports & Recreation Fads

Author : Frank Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135894744
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Sports & Recreation Fads written by Frank Hoffmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True to the spirit of the all-American athlete and our society's seemingly endless pursuit of and passion for leisure activities is Sports & Recreation Fads. This readable and fascinating reference book highlights some of the most notable as well as some long-forgotten pastimes and personalities. Sporting and recreation events have thrived in the United States for more than two centuries. Just about every sport and recreation embraced from Colonial America to the present has had its faddish aspects. The fascinating introduction provides a basic understanding of the importance of fads in the development of sports and recreation. No book on sports fads would be complete without several chapters on baseball, and this exciting volume is no different--Hank Aaron's 715th home run, baseball card collecting, Mark “the Bird” Fidrych's shining season with the Detroit Tigers, Bo Jackson's double career, Jackie Robinson's success in breaking the color barrier, and Pete Rose's gambling troubles--a true slice of Americana, the best and the worst of our favorite pastime! From the controversial people and events in professional athletics--Mohammed Ali, Joe Namath, Mike Tyson, the “battle of the sexes” between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, the “Black Sox Scandal,” and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, to the heroes--Charles Atlas, Joe Louis, and Babe Ruth, Hoffmann and Bailey illustrate the often fickle and sometimes enduring interest that Americans have for sports figures and their games. This informative and entertaining book also examines our personal quest for fitness, our devotion to automobiling, and our love of games, including bridge, charades, crossword puzzles, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit. Sports &Recreation Fads is a handy guide to our favorite leisure activities of the last 200 years.

Reading America

Author : Elizabeth Boyle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807230
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Reading America written by Elizabeth Boyle and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This specially commissioned volume of essays offers a refreshing and unusual perspective on classic novels from the American literary canon. Accessible to students, scholars and the interested reader, this engaging collection explores familiar novels through unfamiliar lenses and, in so doing, sheds light on surprising and previously overlooked aspects of each text. Reading America presents a new approach to American literature by showcasing a cross-section of recent research into previously un-tapped areas of interest. Each chapter attempts to re-read classic American texts using new or unorthodox theoretical frameworks, including such diverse topics as an Emersonian reading of Don DeLillo, decoding Thomas Pynchon with eco-criticism and understanding Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy by exploring the graphic novel version of “City of Glass”. Other authors explored in this way include Henry James, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and F. Scott Fitzgerald. This type of approach widens the reader’s knowledge of each well-known text and encourages new critical evaluations of contemporary American literature. The collection moves through six large topic areas, from Naturalism and an idea of the “Great American Novel” at the end of the nineteenth century, through politics, sexuality, language and nature, to a contemporary engagement with postmodernism. Each essay deals with its own particular subject and author, but the full impact of each on the notion of the “American novel” as a phenomenon can only be understood when read in conjunction with the others. Of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, Reading America would be a valuable asset to any American Studies or American Literature degree course, and a useful companion to American History or Politics courses. The volume will also attract strong interest from established academics, especially those researching the fields of literature, critical theory, cultural history and politics.

Communicating to the World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communicating to the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imagining Justice

Author : Julie McGonegal
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773576320
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Justice written by Julie McGonegal and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can also encourage remembrance, reformulate notions of justice, and ultimately bring about social transformation.

Playthings in Early Modernity

Author : Allison Levy
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580442617
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Playthings in Early Modernity written by Allison Levy and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.

Famous women

Author : Edgar Sanderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Famous women written by Edgar Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov

Author : Robert Golla
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496810988
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov written by Robert Golla and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world celebrated him for developing the luminous and enigmatic style that advanced the boundaries of modern literature more than any author since James Joyce. In a career that spanned over six decades, he produced dozens of iconic works, including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and his classic autobiography, Speak, Memory. The twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection were drawn from Nabokov’s numerous print and broadcast appearances over a period of nineteen years. Beginning with the controversy surrounding the American publication of Lolita in 1958, he offers trenchant, witty views on society, literature, education, the role of the author, and a range of other topics. He discusses the numerous literary and symbolic allusions in his work, his use of parody and satire, as well as analyses of his own literary influences. Nabokov also provided a detailed portrait of his life—from his aristocratic childhood in prerevolutionary Russia, education at Cambridge, apprenticeship as an émigré writer in the capitals of Europe, to his decision in 1940 to immigrate to the United States, where he achieved renown and garnered an international readership. The interviews in this collection are essential for seeking a clearer understanding of the life and work of an author who was pivotal in shaping the landscape of contemporary fiction.