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Author : Pittsburgh Map Project
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh Figured Out written by Pittsburgh Map Project and published by . This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Informing Design, Inc
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ISBN 13 : 9780962804205
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh Figured Out written by Informing Design, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Chabon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453234098
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Mysteries of Pittsburgh written by Michael Chabon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1953368131
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (533 download)
Download or read book An Alternative History of Pittsburgh written by Ed Simon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the
Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663608192
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Quentin R. Skrabec
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875867979
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The World's Richest Neighborhood written by Quentin R. Skrabec and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The residents of Pittsburgh's East End controlled as much a 40% of America's assets at the turn of the last century. Mail was delivered seven times a day to keep America's greatest capitalists in touch with their factories, banks, and markets. The neighborhood had its own private station of the Pennsylvania Railroad with a daily non-stop express to New York's financial district. Many of the world's most powerful men - princes, artists, politicians, scientists, and American Presidents such as William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, came to visit the hard-working and high-flying captains of industry. Two major corporations, Standard Oil and ALCOA Aluminum were formed in East End homes. It was the first neighborhood to adopt the telephone with direct lines from the homes to the biggest banks in Pittsburgh, which at the time was America's fifth largest city. The story of this neighborhood is a story of America at its greatest point of wealth and includes rags-to-riches stories, political corruption, scandals, and greed. The history of this unique piece of American geography makes for enjoyable reading that will satisfy a large cross section of readers.
Author : Bernhard Schlink
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307427668
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Self's Punishment written by Bernhard Schlink and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil. Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self searches for a prankish hacker who’s invaded the computer system of a Rhineland chemical plant. But his investigation leads to murder, and from there to the charnel house of Germany’s past, where the secrets of powerful corporations lie among the bones of numberless dead. What ensues is a taut, psychologically complex, and densely atmospheric moral thriller featuring a shrewd, self-mocking protagonist.
Author : Ronald T. Waldo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786496673
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Honus Wagner and His Pittsburgh Pirates written by Ronald T. Waldo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honus Wagner's spectacular baseball career spanned 21 seasons from 1897 through 1917. Widely considered the greatest shortstop in baseball history, Wagner won eight National League batting titles and helped win the pennant four times for his hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. This book assembles the many stories about Wagner that circulated among his teammates, opposing players, writers and fans--reminiscences that define both his career and his life as a citizen in the Pittsburgh suburb of Carnegie.
Author : George Henry Thurston
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Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh as it is written by George Henry Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dick Roberts
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439679444
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Growing Up Yinzer written by Dick Roberts and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Steel City, "Yinzer" is a term of endearment, reserved for the city's most beloved and embraced by locals as a symbol of the grit and determination that Pittsburgh endows anyone from there. The city's undeniable impact on the character and life of those who grew up there has shaped iconic figures of American sports, entertainment and culture. Legends of the gridiron such as Jim Kelly, Tony Dorsett, Dan Marino and Joe Namath forged their football prowess in Western Pennsylvania. Business pioneers including Mark Cuban, Ray Werner and Bill Strickland were ingrained with the value of hard work in the Steel City. Music and movie stars like Jeff Goldblum, George Benson and Billy Gardell found creative inspiration in Pittsburgh that led to new heights. Author Dick Roberts presents profiles, interviews and memories from some of the most famous and adored Pittsburghers.
Author : Ronald A. Mayer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481234
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Christy Mathewson written by Ronald A. Mayer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his remarkable 17-year career (1900–1916), Christy Mathewson was the dominant pitcher in the National league. His 373 wins stand as the third highest total in baseball history. Mathewson was a gentleman, a rarity in the raucous world of baseball at the turn of the century, and a favorite among fans. Game by game, the remarkable career of this Hall of Fame hurler is analyzed. Interwoven are tales of his personal life and the colorful characters who were a part of baseball in the early 1900s—like John McGraw, Joe McGinnity, Rube Marquard, Bugs Raymond. Appendices give records and milestones. Includes illustrations, notes, bibliography and index.
Author : John Calipari
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416559467
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Bounce Back written by John Calipari and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Job loss. Foreclosure. Relationship woes. Health issues. Dire financial straits. If recent history has taught us anything, it's that nobody goes through life unscathed -- no matter how rich, how smart, how talented, or how fortunate they may be. White collar, blue collar, or no collar, there is an undeniable commonality to the raw emotion that strikes people when they are knocked down. University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari has seen the bottom - from two very distinct and very public setbacks -- but he has learned that bad situations are only permanent if you allow them to be. Fired from his job as head coach 20 games into his third season with the NBA's New Jersey Nets in 1999, Calipari was publicly humiliated and emotionally devastated. But Calipari never allowed the negative to overcome him or those around him, and he began plotting a course for his first bounce back. It was a journey that took him to the University of Memphis and, in 2008, to the NCAA's marquee event, the men's basketball Final Four. When that trip culminated in a crushing, overtime defeat in the title game, Calipari began to bounce back again -- this time armed with the knowledge and fortitude he gained in overcoming the Nets' firing. One year after that defeat, from where he watched his team lose a nine-point lead with two minutes and twelve seconds left in regulation, Calipari was tabbed as the head coach of college basketball's all-time winningest program, the University of Kentucky Wildcats. In ten years, he went from his lowest low to landing his dream job at a dream program. What Coach Cal -- as players, peers, and fans affectionately call him -- learned from his experiences was the importance of having the right attitude when dealing with life's major impediments: with every hard knock comes an occasion to reevaluate and reinvent. Now Coach Cal asks that you join his team of Bounce Backers and allow him the privilege of coaching you through what may, at times, seem to be an insurmountable challenge. With a combination of tough love and understanding, Coach Cal takes you under his wing in much the same fashion he guides the young men who play for him. By becoming an active participant in your own resurrection -- through practice exercises and tips from Coach Cal and his deep bench of highly successful people who have survived their own bounce backs -- you too will gain the tools and insight to understand that it's never a matter of how far you have fallen, but instead it's about how high you bounce back.
Author : Eleanor Boudreau
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987899
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Earnest, Earnest? written by Eleanor Boudreau and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover’s name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whether both can be present at the same time. While Earnest can be read literally as Eleanor’s lover, he is best understood as another side of the poet’s self. The ambiguity at play in Earnest, Earnest? is embodied in the form of the “Earnest Postcards” that structure the book—these postcards are experimental in their use of images and formal in their dialogue with the sonnet. Thus, Earnest, Earnest? is a question of tone, address, and form.
Author : Barbara Johnstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199945683
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Speaking Pittsburghese written by Barbara Johnstone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging exploration of the history of Pittsburghese, one of the most recognizable urban "dialects" in the United States today.
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Total Pages : 710 pages
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Author : John Nauright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Total Pages : 2668 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Sports around the World [4 volumes] written by John Nauright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 2668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have transcended their sports. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport, international relations and sport, and tourism and sport, as well as essays on sports history, culture, and practice in world regions—for example, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and Oceania—in order to provide a more global perspective. These essays are followed by entries on specific sports, world athletes, stadiums and arenas, famous games and matches, and major controversies. Spanning topics as varied as modern professional cycling to the fictional movie Rocky to the deadly ball game of the ancient Mayans, the first three volumes contain overview essays and entries for specific sports that have been and are currently practiced around the world. The fourth volume provides a compendium of information on the winners of major sporting competitions from around the world. Readers will gain invaluable insights into how sports have been enjoyed throughout all of human culture, and more fully comprehend their cultural contexts. The entries provide suggestions for further reading on each topic—helpful to general readers, students with school projects, university students and academics alike. Additionally, the four-volume Sports Around the World spotlights key charismatic athletes who have changed a sport or become more than just an outstanding player.
