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Players Like Us

Author : Mary Campisi
Publisher : Mary Campisi Books, LLC
ISBN 13 : 194215898X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Players Like Us written by Mary Campisi and published by Mary Campisi Books, LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s not who he says he is…but neither is she Neal Alexander has a reputation as a heartbreaker and a troublemaker who uses his trust fund, good looks, and come-closer glances to get what he wants. Except that’s not who he is—not anymore. He’s found success and purpose in the business world but prefers to let everyone, including his family, believe he’s still the reckless, self-absorbed playboy he used to be. Why share the truth and open himself up to judgment, criticism, and “never good enough”? Life is easier and less complicated this way, but living a lie has its own brand of torment. That torment comes straight at him when Rachel Reese, a regretful high school memory he wishes he could forget, lands in the same city. Rachel just wants to make her own choices and follow her passion for interior design. She’s not giving up on her career dream, even if she’s made a few missteps along the way. Wrong friends, lousy boyfriends, dead-end jobs. But this time, in this city, it’s going to be different, and if she has to fabricate a bit for a career opportunity, well, is that so horrible? Nothing is going to derail her, especially not a smooth-talking disaster from her past like Neal Alexander. It’s going to be difficult to keep the lies straight, the truth hidden, and the emotions from flaring, especially when the attraction between Neal and Rachel is so unwelcome. Can they trust each other enough to open up and share their true selves for a chance at real happiness? BONUS: Included in this e-book is an Excerpt from Pulling Home, That Second Chance series, Book Two. They promised to love one another forever, but tragedy tore them apart. Now, destiny may just bring them back together.

Stuff Good Players Should Know

Author : Dick DeVenzio
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781933538518
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Stuff Good Players Should Know written by Dick DeVenzio and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STUFF Good Players Should Know may very well be the best book ever written for basketball players. It is conversational and easy to understand, yet filled with subtle insights into the game of basketball. STUFF is page after page of creative concepts, common sense, and special tips that can not be found anywhere else. ? How do you guard a stronger player? ? How do you set up a game-winning steal? ? How do you ?strip? a rebound? ? How do you score with a strong-handed dribble while going to the weak side? ? How do you practice shooting for maximum game effectiveness? ? How do you recognize defensive changes? STUFF is like having a coach right beside you, in your room, discussing the fine points of the games. How do you think in the minutes of the game? How do you react to mistakes? What is your attitude about fouls? Eating? Superstitions? Injuries? All this and more makes STUFF a book that players will find indispensable. Basketball fans will enjoy it, but players won't do

Machines like Us

Author : Ronald J. Brachman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547325
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Machines like Us written by Ronald J. Brachman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can create artificial intelligence with broad, robust common sense rather than narrow, specialized expertise. It’s sometime in the not-so-distant future, and you send your fully autonomous self-driving car to the store to pick up your grocery order. The car is endowed with as much capability as an artificial intelligence agent can have, programmed to drive better than you do. But when the car encounters a traffic light stuck on red, it just sits there—indefinitely. Its obstacle-avoidance, lane-following, and route-calculation capacities are all irrelevant; it fails to act because it lacks the common sense of a human driver, who would quickly figure out what’s happening and find a workaround. In Machines like Us, Ron Brachman and Hector Levesque—both leading experts in AI—consider what it would take to create machines with common sense rather than just the specialized expertise of today’s AI systems. Using the stuck traffic light and other relatable examples, Brachman and Levesque offer an accessible account of how common sense might be built into a machine. They analyze common sense in humans, explain how AI over the years has focused mainly on expertise, and suggest ways to endow an AI system with both common sense and effective reasoning. Finally, they consider the critical issue of how we can trust an autonomous machine to make decisions, identifying two fundamental requirements for trustworthy autonomous AI systems: having reasons for doing what they do, and being able to accept advice. Both in the end are dependent on having common sense.

Millions Like Us'?

Author : Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853237631
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Millions Like Us'? written by Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. It covers the way in which cultural provision was viewed by the labour movement and industry.

Raceball

Author : Rob Ruck
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807048070
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Raceball written by Rob Ruck and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League Baseball After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those playing in the minors. Award-winning historian Rob Ruck not only explains the catalyst for this sea change; he also breaks down the consequences that cut across society. Integration cost black and Caribbean societies control over their own sporting lives, changing the meaning of the sport, but not always for the better. While it channeled black and Latino athletes into major league baseball, integration did little for the communities they left behind. By looking at this history from the vantage point of black America and the Caribbean, a more complex story comes into focus, one largely missing from traditional narratives of baseball's history. Raceball unveils a fresh and stunning truth: baseball has never been stronger as a business, never weaker as a game.

Soccer

Author : Jennifer MacKay
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1420507680
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Soccer written by Jennifer MacKay and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will never see soccer in the same way after reading this volume. The opening chapter provides a high-level overview, including soccer's origins, popularity around the world, possible controversies, and recent hot topics. Further chapters ease into the scientific principles and concepts relevant to soccer. Readers will learn about the biomechanics and physiology related to play, and relevant elements of related sports medicine. Readers will also learn about exercise, training, warm-ups, motor control and muscle fatigue, respiration and cardiovascular efficiency, diet and nutrition, and drugs.

Gods Like Us

Author : Ty Burr
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307390845
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Gods Like Us written by Ty Burr and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 8 Pages of Black-and-White Photographs In this captivating history of stardom, Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr traces our obsession with fame from the dawn of cinema through the age of the Internet. Why do we obsess over the individuals we come to call stars? How has both the image of stardom and our stars' images changed over the past hundred years? What does celebrity mean if people can now become famous simply for being famous? With brilliant insight and entertaining examples, Burr reveals the blessings and the curses of celebrity for the star and the stargazer alike. From Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, to Archie Leach (a.k.a. Cary Grant), Tom Cruise, and Julia Roberts, to such no-cal stars of today as the Kardashians and the new online celebrity, Gods Like Us is a journey through the fame game at its flashiest, most indulgent, occasionally most tragic, and ultimately it's most culturally revealing.

Players and Pretenders

Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Players and Pretenders written by Charles Rosen and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Players and Pretenders tells the story of the flip side of basketball's "March Madness, " where the game is played by average players for love, not for money. At the end of the 1970s at Bard College, where there was no pretense of institutional support, Charley Rosen gathered his hoops hopefuls and put together a basketball season whose impact reached far beyond the court. & Writing with a humorous touch, Rosen details the Running Red Devils' season, simultaneously examining the lives of those who made it so memorable and providing a glimpse of how the team members existed off the courts as both players and pretenders. His book playfully depicts the 1979-80 basketball season at Bard College and the "sports for fun" side of the game.

Me, Football and More

Author : Segun Odegbami
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491886331
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Me, Football and More written by Segun Odegbami and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never in the history of Nigerian football had a footballer been a newspaper columnist, I was told. So I would be the first. In fact when the suggestion was made for me to write, I was at the peak of my career in football. I had been a part of the team that won the Africa Cup Winners Cup in '76; been representing the national team fully for two years; played in the African Cup of Nations; won the All-Africa Games silver medal; gone to the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. I had also been rated as the third best player in Africa, the first time any Nigerian footballer would have been nominated in Africa's official best player poll in 1978 and was to be named second best two years later in 1980. I was convinced that football followers would love to read about the life and personal experiences of a footballer.

Crazy Like Us

Author : Scott J. Haschke
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662477112
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Like Us written by Scott J. Haschke and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy Like Us: Book 1: Sands Through the Hourglass is part one of a crazy love story. Lance found love in the most unlikely of places in the mountains of Western North Carolina. And with the most unlikely of persons, Kate, a dying, middle-aged, lonely married woman with multiple personalities. Did they find each other by chance or was it preordained? Finding out the woman he loved was crazy, most people would run away, but not Lance. He believed she was his soul mate; now he had to convince all of her personalities the same. The hardest to convince would be Miranda, his archnemesis. Welcome to the greatest love never told until now.

The Mighty West

Author : Kerrie Soraghan
Publisher : Nero
ISBN 13 : 1925435628
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Mighty West written by Kerrie Soraghan and published by Nero. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mighty West chronicles the Bulldogs' remarkable journey from cellar-dwellers to champions – a journey their fans shared every step of the way. In 2016 the Western Bulldogs stunned the AFL world by winning the premiership – the club's first in 62 years. It was an unprecedented rise to success, capped by a stunning grand final victory that left players and fans alike shedding tears of joy. Just two years earlier the Dogs had been in chaos, without a captain or a coach. But under the leadership of Luke Beveridge, Robert Murphy and Easton Wood, and boasting a team filled with talented youngsters, the club came together in spectacular fashion, overcoming serious injuries and storming to the flag from seventh on the ladder. The Mighty West chronicles the Bulldogs' remarkable journey from cellar-dwellers to champions – a journey their fans shared every step of the way. It's a story that goes beyond football, a tale of family and belonging, of western-suburbs tribalism, and of the romance of sport.

Check-Raising the Devil

Author : Mike Matusow
Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580424716
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Check-Raising the Devil written by Mike Matusow and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hang on tight as Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, poker player extraordinaire, takes you with him on a breathtaking, true-life roller coaster ride from his humble beginnings in a trailer park to a rock and roll lifestyle full of hot women, sex, wild drug-filled parties and million-dollar wins and losses. Yet behind the glamour and glory of his high-stakes poker career lurked the flip side: a person torn between two debilitating mental illnesses?—?bipolar disorder and ADHD. To dig himself out of depression and suicidal despair, Matusow turned to dangerous street drugs to self-medicate a problem he didn’t understand, and spiraled deeper into the darker world of addiction, police narcotic stings, and jail time.

The Wonder Team

Author : Leo Trachtenberg
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726782
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Wonder Team written by Leo Trachtenberg and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details events leading to the 1927 World Series, when the New York Yankees, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Waite Hoyt, became baseball's best team ever. Draws on interviews with everyone connected to the team, from players and management to batboys, and relates stories concerning players' personalities, skills, and hijinks on and off the field. Includes 1927 statistics and biographical sketches of management, players, and staff, plus bandw photos. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Multimodal Approach to Video Games and the Player Experience

Author : Weimin Toh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135118475X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book A Multimodal Approach to Video Games and the Player Experience written by Weimin Toh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume puts forth an original theoretical framework, the ludonarrative model, for studying video games which foregrounds the empirical study of the player experience. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to and description of the model, which draws on theoretical frameworks from multimodal discourse analysis, game studies, and social semiotics, and its development out of participant observation and qualitative interviews from the empirical study of a group of players. The volume then applies this approach to shed light on how players’ experiences in a game influence how they understand and make use of game components in order to progress its narrative. The book concludes with a frame by frame analysis of a popular game to demonstrate the model’s principles in action and its subsequent broader applicability to analyzing video game interaction and design. Offering a new way forward for video game research, this volume is key reading for students and scholars in multimodality, discourse analysis, game studies, interactive storytelling, and new media.

Players First

Author : John Calipari
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014312708X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Players First written by John Calipari and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new chapter on the Wildcats' legendary comeback in the 2014 Final Four John Calipari, one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history, presents the world of college basketball from the coach's chair, unvarnished and straight from the heart. Players First is Calipari's account of his first six years coaching the University of Kentucky men's team, leading it to a national championship in 2012 and the championship game in 2014, all while dealing with the realities of the "one-and-done" mentality and an NCAA that sometimes seems to put players last. Filled with revelatory stories about what it takes to succeed at the highest level of the college game, Players First is a candid look at the great players and rivalries that have filled Calipari's life with joy and a sense of purpose.

Life in Two Worlds

Author : Ted Nolan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735244960
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Life in Two Worlds written by Ted Nolan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 BESTSELLER In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn’t work in pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened? Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates many sizes too big. But poverty wasn’t his biggest challenge. Playing the game meant spending his life in two worlds: one in which he was loved and accepted and one where he was often told he didn’t belong. Ted proved he had what it took, joining the Detroit Red Wings in 1978. But when his on-ice career ended, he discovered his true passion wasn’t playing; it was coaching. First with the Soo Greyhounds and then with the Buffalo Sabres, Ted produced astonishing results. After his initial year as head coach with the Sabres, the club was being called the “hardest working team in professional sports.” By his second, they had won their first Northeast Division title in sixteen years. Yet, the Sabres failed to re-sign their much-loved, award-winning coach. Life in Two Worlds chronicles those controversial years in Buffalo—and recounts how being shut out from the NHL left Ted frustrated, angry, and so vulnerable he almost destroyed his own life. It also tells of Ted’s inspiring recovery and his eventual return to a job he loved. But Life in Two Worlds is more than a story of succeeding against the odds. It’s an exploration of how a beloved sport can harbour subtle but devastating racism, of how a person can find purpose when opportunity and choice are stripped away, and of how focusing on what really matters can bring two worlds together.

Barça

Author : Graham Hunter
Publisher : BackPage Press
ISBN 13 : 0956497152
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Barça written by Graham Hunter and published by BackPage Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FC Barcelona are the greatest football team in the world, the greatest for a generation and possibly the greatest of all time. This is the inside story of how the team came to redefine how the game is played, told by the journalist closer to it than any other. This edition contains a new epilogue reflecting on the departure of Pep Guardiola and Spain's victory at Euro 2012.