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Book Synopsis Hoop! Don't Shoot! by : Angienette Dixon
Download or read book Hoop! Don't Shoot! written by Angienette Dixon and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passion to save our youth heals our community. Hoop! Don’t Shoot! is the story of one woman’s passion to transform the lives of at-risk youth, their environment, and the overall community. Ms. Angie shares stories of her journey, leading and guiding many former gang members to a better quality of life.
Book Synopsis Shoot for the Hoop by : Matt Christopher
Download or read book Shoot for the Hoop written by Matt Christopher and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rusty Young is diagnosed with diabetes, his parents want him to stop playing basketball, but Rusty doesn't want to. When Rusty learns that his friends have formed a summer league team, he is determined to persuade his parents to let him join them.
Download or read book Don't Shoot written by David M. Kennedy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of David Kennedy's crusade to combat America's plague of gang- and drug-related violence - with methods that have been astonishingly effective across the country. 'If you want to read a book on urban gangs and find out why they exist and why they kill each other, read this ... this is a sociology book, but it's like immersing yourself in The Wire ... When Kennedy says something, you believe him' Scotsman Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had imagined: a solution. Don't Shoot tells the story of Kennedy's long journey. Riding with beat cops, hanging with gang members, and stoop-sitting with grandmothers, Kennedy found that all parties misunderstood each other, caught in a spiral of racialized anger and distrust. He envisioned an approach in which everyone-gang members, cops, and community members-comes together in what is essentially a huge intervention. Offenders are told that the violence must stop, that even the cops want them to stay alive and out of prison, and that even their families support swift law enforcement if the violence continues. In city after city, the same miracle has followed: violence plummets, drug markets dry up, and the relationship between the police and the community is reset. This is a landmark book, chronicling a paradigm shift in how we address one of America's most shameful social problems. A riveting, page-turning read, it combines the street vérité of The Wire, the social science of Gang Leader for a Day, and the moral urgency and personal journey of Fist Stick Knife Gun. But unlike anybody else, Kennedy shows that there could be an end in sight.
Book Synopsis Brothers in Pen: Pens Up, Don't Shoot by : Brothers in Pen
Download or read book Brothers in Pen: Pens Up, Don't Shoot written by Brothers in Pen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers in Pen is the collective name of the writers in an ongoing creative writing workshop at San Quentin State Prison. This book contains selections of fiction in many genres, memoir, creative non-fiction, and some mutant hybrids... the common denominator being story. This is the ninth anthology produced by this class; as with Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights, the stories keep coming and keep enthralling. Ursula Le Guin said, "As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul." The Brothers in Pen invite you to participate in this book.
Book Synopsis The Physics of Basketball by : John J. Fontanella
Download or read book The Physics of Basketball written by John J. Fontanella and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drain three pointers, slam dunk easily, and sink that buzzer beater from half court with the help of simple science. Your coach, physicist John J. Fontanella, shows how you can improve your game if you take advice from Isaac Newton. As you read, relive some of the great moments in the game—this time with a scientist and diehard basketball fan as your color analyst. Find out why you ought to put spin on the ball. Get tips on how to improve your free throw and increase your percentage from the charity stripe. You’ll even learn how to shatter the backboard, if that’s something you’ve always dreamed of doing. With photographs and simple high school formulas, physics professor Fontanella—who played in college against Pittsburgh and Syracuse—reveals the key pieces of physics that underscore basketball. He covers almost every aspect of the game, weaving in stories from games he’s played and games he’s seen, and tales from basketball history and folklore. Physics comes alive as you see how Kobe Bryant, Wilt “the Stilt” Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Becky Hammon, and J. J. Reddick do naturally the things that Isaac Newton says they should.
Book Synopsis Shooting Hoops by : Michael Rafferty (Reading consultant)
Download or read book Shooting Hoops written by Michael Rafferty (Reading consultant) and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos and Sam want to play a game in the city so they have to get creative.
Download or read book Don't Let Me Go written by Kelsie Rae and published by Twisty Pines Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welp. It's official. The entire hockey team knows I'm a virgin. And who do I have to thank for telling them about my v-card? Theodore Taylor, aka my brother's best friend and the pain in my butt since third grade. Then again, I'm kind of sick of this thing. My virgin status, that is. It's probably time I get rid of it. Which would be a heck of a lot easier if Theo hadn't made it his mission to be my own personal chastity belt for the foreseeable future. Which leaves me screwed. In every way except the literal sense. Lovely.
Download or read book Hoopman written by Michael T. Gregory and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chuck "Hoopman" Hayes is a retired Army Officer getting a chance to play college basketball. It doesn't take Hoopman long to figure out his team is hiding a dark secret. As Chuck digs deeper, he finds the purity of the game that he loves is being subjected to corruption. But Chuck Hayes has the courage to take on the criminals that threaten his teammates and his dreams. To save the game he loves and what may be his only chance to be a champion, Chuck Hayes will do whatever it takes. Even if it costs him his life.
Download or read book Hoops Nation written by Chris Ballard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a game? Here's your guided tour of the country's best pickup basketball courts, from the blacktops of Brooklyn to the asphalt of Anchorage to the gyms of Jackson, Mississippi. It's all inside: where the pros play, the most scenic runs in the land, and a ranking of the top five courts. ø Chris Ballard and three other former college players piled into a used Chevy van and traveled thirty-one thousand miles in seven months, playing at over a thousand courts in 166 cities in forty-eight states. This is the story of their roundball road trip and a guide to the places, people, and communities they encountered. ø More than a travel guide, Hoops Nation is "a celebration of the game of basketball as it is played in America." It includes guides to streetball fashion, the lingo of the courts, the etiquette of the pickup world, the tricks of old-guy basketball, and tips for the dunking impaired. Also included are profiles of playground legends and dispatches from the legions of basketball lifers who populate the country's courts. ø This book can tell you where they?re running today, all over America. Who?s got next?
Book Synopsis Don't Shoot the Dog! by : Karen Pryor
Download or read book Don't Shoot the Dog! written by Karen Pryor and published by Interpet. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a new section on clicker training.
Book Synopsis Living Through the Hoop by : Reuben A. Buford May
Download or read book Living Through the Hoop written by Reuben A. Buford May and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May tells the absorbing story of the hopes and struggles of one high school basketball team, the Northeast High School Knights in Northeast, Georgia, and the powerful role that a basketball team can play in keeping young African American kids straight, away from street-life, focused on completing high school, and possibly even attending college.
Download or read book Boy21 written by Matthew Quick and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can lose yourself in repetition--quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age. Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, his dad works nights, and Finley is left to take care of his disabled grandfather alone. He's always dreamed of getting out someday, but until he can, putting on that number 21 jersey makes everything seem okay. Russ has just moved to the neighborhood, and the life of this teen basketball phenom has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he won't pick up a basketball, but answers only to the name Boy21--taken from his former jersey number. As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, a unique friendship may turn out to be the answer they both need.
Download or read book Despite All Odds written by Gladys Lawson and published by Gladys Lawson. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billie Lewis, a scientist working in a hospital laboratory, dreams of a career in music. When her path unexpectedly crosses Jamie Sanders, a singer with a voice made in heaven, she realizes that she has found the voice for the songs she has written. Because of her faith, Billie knows that her dream will one day become a reality.
Download or read book Basketball Shooting written by Dave Hopla and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the skills and strategies for effective basketball shooting, covering long-range three-pointers, jumpers, bank shots, and free throws, and includes tips, techniques, and drill exercises for individuals and teams.
Download or read book Numbers Don't Lie written by Yago ás and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A typical NBA game can yield approximately 2,800 statistical events in thirty-two different categories. In Numbers Don't Lie Yago Colás started with a simple question: How did basketball analytics get from counting one stat, the final score, to counting thousands? He discovered that what we call "basketball"--rules, equipment, fundamental skills, techniques, tactics, strategies--has changed dramatically since its invention and today encompasses many different forms of play, from backyards and rec leagues to the NBA Finals. Numbers Don't Lie explores the power of data to tell stories about ourselves and the world around us. As advanced statistical methods and big-data technologies transform sports, we now have the power to count more things in greater detail than ever before. These numbers tell us about the past, present, and future that shape how basketball is played on the floor, decisions are made in front offices, and the sport is marketed and consumed. But what is the relationship between counting and what counts, between quantification and value? In Numbers Don't Lie Colás offers a three-part history of counting in basketball. First, he recounts how big-data basketball emerged in the past twenty years, examines its current practices, and analyzes how it presents itself to the public. Colás then situates big data within the deeper social, cultural, and conceptual history of counting in basketball and beyond and proposes alternative frameworks of value with which we may take fuller stock of the impact of statistics on the sport. Ultimately, Colás challenges the putative objectivity of both quantification and academic writing by interweaving through this history a series of personal vignettes of life at the intersection of basketball, counting, and what counts.
Download or read book Long Shot written by Kennedy Ryan and published by Bloom Books. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Kennedy Ryan comes the soul-gripping, unforgettable first installment of the Hoops trilogy. Iris DuPree meets August West in a sports bar during her last semester of college. It's the conversation of a lifetime and sends sparks flying in every direction. The connection is undeniable...but the timing is all wrong. August is poised for the NBA draft, and Iris belongs to another man--basketball's "golden boy" and August's long-time rival. The two go their separate ways, but they often recall that electric night and what could have been. While August has embarked on his all-star life, studded with wealth and fame, Iris's perfect public relationship has become a nightmare behind closed doors. A tarnished dream of fool's gold. When August re-enters her life, the world seems briefly bright again, but Iris's darkest nights are not over yet. To survive, she must build her own strength and trust that her bond with August can endure after all this time. Even when her fraudulent prince has vowed never to let her go.
Download or read book Hook Shot written by Kennedy Ryan and published by Scribechick Media, LLC. This book was released on with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply emotional standalone romance set in the worlds of professional basketball and high fashion. Divorced. Single dad. Traded to a losing squad. Cheated on, betrayed, exposed. My perfect life blew up in my face and I'm still picking up the pieces. The last thing I need is her. A wildflower. A storm. A woman I can't resist. Lotus DuPree is a kick to my gut and a wrench in my plans from the moment our eyes meet. I promised myself I wouldn't trust a woman again, but I've never wanted anyone the way I want Lo. She's not the plan I made, but she's the risk I have to take. A warrior. A baller. The one they call Gladiator. Kenan Ross charged into my life smelling all good, looking even better and snatching my breath from the moment we met. The last thing I need is him. I'm working on me. Facing my pain and conquering my demons. I've seen what trusting a man gets you. I. Don't. Have. Time. For. This. But he just keeps coming for me. Keeps knocking down my defenses and stealing my excuses one by one. He never gives up, and now...I'm not sure I want him to.
