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Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports

Author : Tom Callahan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324004282
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports by : Tom Callahan

Download or read book Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports written by Tom Callahan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story. As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali–George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he’d tested positive for HIV. There are also little-known private moments: Joe Morgan whispering thank you to a virtually blind Jackie Robinson on the field at the 1972 World Series, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saying he was more interested in being a good man than in being the greatest basketball player. Brimming with colorful vignettes and enlivened by Callahan’s eye for detail, Gods at Play offers surprising portraits of the most celebrated names in sports. Roger Rosenblatt calls Callahan “the most complete sportswriter in America. He knows the most and writes the best."

Gods of Play

Author : Kristiaan Aercke
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791420508
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Gods of Play written by Kristiaan Aercke and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-08-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the close connections between politics, culture, art, and philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe. As an emblem of this interrelationship, the author has chosen the phenomenon of the splendid festive performance of spectacular plays and operas given at absolutist courts in Rome, Madrid, Paris, Versailles, and Vienna between 1631 and 1668. Gods of Play fills voids in the scholarly literature on the seventeenth-century, on absolutism, on courtly theatricality, and on the philosophy of play. Aercke demonstrates that such splendid performances were not just frivolous entertainment for the courtly class but were serious activities with far-ranging political consequences.

The Gods at Play

Author : William Sturman Sax
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195091014
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gods at Play written by William Sturman Sax and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is playful. Like a child building sand castles on the beach, God creates the world and destroys it again. God plays with his (or her) devotees, sometimes like a lover, sometimes like a mother with her children, sometimes like an actor in a play.The idea of God's playfulness has been elaborated in Hinduism more, perhaps, than any other religion, providing one of the most distinctive and charming aspects of Indian religious life. Lila or "divine play" can refer to many things: to God's playful creation of the world and to religious dramas or "plays," as well as to various motifs in Hindu art. But despite the importance of lila in the cultural history of South Asia, few comprehensive studies of it are available, partly because scholars have tended to emphasize only one dimension of lila--either the theological or the performative--at the expense of the other. The Gods at Play fills this gap by bringing together scholarly essays on all aspects of this important Hindu idea, providing students with a broader understanding of popular Hindu culture and religion.

Gods & Games

Author : David L. Miller
Publisher : Stillpoint/Athena
ISBN 13 : 1938808088
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Gods & Games written by David L. Miller and published by Stillpoint/Athena. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply thoughtful, deeply irreverent look at the mythology of play, Gods and Games ties together Joseph Campbell's approach to myth and religion with Johan Huizinga's view of our species as Homo ludens — "Man the Game-player" — which suggests that play is a central aspect of the human spirit and human culture. "A comprehensive and clear review.... loaded with quotations both pertinent and entertaining that may be eye-openers both to traditional religionists and readers who may never have thought about play in a philosophical or religious sense." —Publishers Weekly

Playing God

Author : Andy Crouch
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830837655
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Playing God written by Andy Crouch and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Playing God, Andy Crouch opens the subject of power, elucidating its subtle activity in our relationships and institutions. He gives us much more than a warning against abuse, though. Turning the notion of "playing God" on its head, Crouch celebrates power as the gift by which we join in God's creative, redeeming work in the world.

Groo

Author : Sergio Aragonés
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506702384
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Groo written by Sergio Aragonés and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We had the Fray of the Gods. Now we have the Play of the Gods - a tale of lust for gold, lust for power, and lust for cheese dip. The Gods themselves watch this story from the above so it must be good enough for you. This handsome paperback volume collects all four issues of the series: in one package, you get a lot of Groo doing real stupid things and causing mass destruction. Just what you wanted!

Does God Play Dice

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631232513
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Does God Play Dice written by Ian Stewart and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and updated edition includes three completely new chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic systems. It also incorporates new information regarding the solar system and an account of complexity theory. This witty, lucid and engaging book makes the complex mathematics of chaos accessible and entertaining. Presents complex mathematics in an accessible style. Includes three new chapters on prediction in chaotic systems, control of chaotic systems, and on the concept of chaos. Provides a discussion of complexity theory.

Gods and Games

Author : David LeRoy Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods and Games written by David LeRoy Miller and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two significant events, or the recent beginnings of ideas about play-

While the Gods Play

Author : Alain Daniélou
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892811151
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (111 download)

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Book Synopsis While the Gods Play by : Alain Daniélou

Download or read book While the Gods Play written by Alain Daniélou and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1987-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how visionaries of ancient Shaiva wisdom defined our role in creation, how we have abandoned this role, and action we can take to creatively influence our destiny. The author spent more than 20 years in India and was one of the most distinguished orientalists.

Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era

Author : Courtney J. P. Friesen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000910296
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era written by Courtney J. P. Friesen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the ideals of Jews and Christians had already been shaped by it in profound and lasting ways. Readers are invited to explore how gods and heroes famous from Greek drama animated the imaginations of ancient individuals and communities as they articulated and reinvented their religious visions for a new era. In this study, Friesen demonstrates that Greek theater’s influence is evident within Jewish and Christian intellectual formulations, narrative constructions, and practices of ritual and liturgy. Through a series of interrelated case studies, the book examines how particular plays, through texts and performances, scenes, images, and heroic personae, retained appeal for Jewish and Christian communities across antiquity. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach involving classical, Jewish, and Christian studies, and brings together these separate avenues of scholarship to produce fresh insights and a reevaluation of theatrical drama in relation to ancient Judaism and Christianity. Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era allows students and scholars of the diverse and evolving religious landscapes of antiquity to gain fresh perspectives on the interplay between the gods and heroes—both human and divine—of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians as they were staged in drama and depicted in literature.

Search for Gods

Author : V. Vycinas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401028168
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Search for Gods written by V. Vycinas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the unequaled and majestic contemporary technological phase of our cultural development, where democratic liberties and the means of well being are accessible to everyone; man is unsatisfied, insecure, rebellious, confused and lost. More than ever before he seems to lack the sureness of his way in life. The abundance of theories, doctrines and various philosophical, social or religious systems and moral teachings fails to provide the individual today with any clarity whatsoever. Lacking this, he turns to peripheral events, to sensational occurrences; he turns his attention to more and to glaring new models of technological products. more new things, mostly Acquiring a great multitude of these and various other things, he seems to stress his own importance, thus making an inquiry in its fundamental validity superfluous. In this way he escapes the search of his very own mission; he betrays the superior powers which demand from him his existential contribution in finding his ideals and outlining the way of his life.

JOSEPH AND HIS DREAMS

Author : DUANE THE GREAT WRITER
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105425363
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book JOSEPH AND HIS DREAMS written by DUANE THE GREAT WRITER and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ASTRAL REALM NEWS

Author : DUANE THE GREAT WRITER
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329089219
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book ASTRAL REALM NEWS written by DUANE THE GREAT WRITER and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Masters of the Peaks

Author : Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Masters of the Peaks written by Joseph Alexander Altsheler and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1918 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Game Between the Gods

Author : Michele Lyon
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595336833
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Game Between the Gods written by Michele Lyon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a game going on in heaven, and are we victims of a great conspiracy created by "The Gods?" Has the game in heavenly congress turned into war, and are we feeling the effects of it here on earth? Are we unknowingly being manipulated? Was the Bible written by "The Gods" as a mystery to dupe religious mankind? What are the rules of the game, the main plot, the team players and the stratagems? In this book Michele Lyon reveals how the Mystery works; its sub-plots, hidden messages and clues held within its pages, and are now being revealed. A revealing of a lie so perverse and so abstract that it required letting go of all the old ideas and concepts to see it. She exposes what has been going on the last one hundred years that no-one has identified! This is a book of human failings and deceptions and the whispers that have been passed down through time that only now can be interpreted. The cover chess pieces: On the left side--Hitler, Usama Bin Laden and Stalin. On the right side--Jesus, Joan of Arc, Gandhi and Bill W. (co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous).

Sacred Play

Author : Selva J. Raj
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438429819
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Play written by Selva J. Raj and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.

Let's Play Gods

Author : Victor Freeze
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1648040764
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Let's Play Gods written by Victor Freeze and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s Play Gods By: Victor Freeze Let’s Play Gods is about a young boy’s quest for glory. Too bad he didn’t know what it would cost. Many are dead and many others display powers resembling the Greek gods! With the government and a mysterious force tracking their every move, what will he do to make his world a better place? There is always a price for power.