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The Racket

Author : Matt Kennard
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780329903
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Racket written by Matt Kennard and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Kennard reports with devastating precision.' Naomi Klein While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard’s unbridled access over four years to the crème de la crème of the global elite left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a reach much too close to home. But, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket, such as Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn, Gael García Bernal and others, Kennard shows that human decency remains. Now it’s time for the world’s citizens to also uncover the racket.

The Racket

Author : Matt Kennard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178032989X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Racket written by Matt Kennard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Kennard reports with devastating precision.' Naomi Klein While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard's unbridled access over four years to the crème de la crème of the global elite left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a reach much too close to home. But, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket, such as Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn, Gael García Bernal and others, Kennard shows that human decency remains. Now it's time for the world's citizens to also uncover the racket.

War is a Racket

Author : Smedley Butler
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 1537820796
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book War is a Racket written by Smedley Butler and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.

Realm of Racket

Author : Matthias Felleisen
Publisher : No Starch Press
ISBN 13 : 1593274920
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Realm of Racket written by Matthias Felleisen and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racket is a descendant of Lisp, a programming language renowned for its elegance, power, and challenging learning curve. But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp, it was designed with beginning programmers in mind. Realm of Racket is your introduction to the Racket language. In Realm of Racket, you'll learn to program by creating increasingly complex games. Your journey begins with the Guess My Number game and coverage of some basic Racket etiquette. Next you'll dig into syntax and semantics, lists, structures, and conditionals, and learn to work with recursion and the GUI as you build the Robot Snake game. After that it's on to lambda and mutant structs (and an Orc Battle), and fancy loops and the Dice of Doom. Finally, you'll explore laziness, AI, distributed games, and the Hungry Henry game. As you progress through the games, chapter checkpoints and challenges help reinforce what you've learned. Offbeat comics keep things fun along the way. As you travel through the Racket realm, you'll: –Master the quirks of Racket's syntax and semantics –Learn to write concise and elegant functional programs –Create a graphical user interface using the 2htdp/image library –Create a server to handle true multiplayer games Realm of Racket is a lighthearted guide to some serious programming. Read it to see why Racketeers have so much fun!

The Meat Racket

Author : Christopher Leonard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145164583X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Meat Racket written by Christopher Leonard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Meat Racket, investigative reporter Christopher Leonard delivers the first-ever account of how a handful of companies have seized the nation's meat supply. He shows how they built a system that puts farmers on the edge of bankruptcy, charges high prices to consumers, and returns the industry to the shape it had in the 1900s before the meat monopolists were broken up. At the dawn of the 21st century, the greatest capitalist country in the world has an oligarchy controlling much of the food we eat and a high-tech sharecropping system to make that possible. These companies are even able to raise meat prices for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to farmers. We know that it takes big companies to bring meat to the American table. What The Meat Racket shows is that this industrial system is rigged against all of us."--Publisher information.

Racket Programming the Fun Way

Author : James. W. Stelly
Publisher : No Starch Press
ISBN 13 : 1718500831
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Racket Programming the Fun Way written by James. W. Stelly and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Racket functional programming language and DrRacket development environment to explore topics in mathematics (mostly recreational) and computer science. At last, a lively guided tour through all the features, functions, and applications of the Racket programming language. You'll learn a variety of coding paradigms, including iterative, object oriented, and logic programming; create interactive graphics, draw diagrams, and solve puzzles as you explore Racket through fun computer science topics--from statistical analysis to search algorithms, the Turing machine, and more. Early chapters cover basic Racket concepts like data types, syntax, variables, strings, and formatted output. You'll learn how to perform math in Racket's rich numerical environment, and use programming constructs in different problem domains (like coding solutions to the Tower of Hanoi puzzle). Later, you'll play with plotting, grapple with graphics, and visualize data. Then, you'll escape the confines of the command line to produce animations, interactive games, and a card trick program that'll dazzle your friends. You'll learn how to: Use DrRacket, an interactive development environment (IDE) for writing programs Compute classical math problems, like the Fibonacci sequence Generate two-dimensional function plots and create drawings using graphics primitives Import and export data to and from Racket using ports, then visually analyze it Build simple computing devices (pushdown automaton, Turing machine, and so on) that perform tasks Leverage Racket's built-in libraries to develop a command line algebraic calculator Racket Programming the Fun Way is just like the language itself--an embodiment of everything that makes programming interesting and worthwhile, and that makes you a better programmer.

Tennis and Philosophy

Author : David Baggett
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813182883
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Tennis and Philosophy written by David Baggett and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennis smashed onto the worldwide athletic scene soon after its modern rules and equipment were introduced in nineteenth-century England. Exciting, competitive, and uniquely accessible to people of all ages and talent levels, tennis continues to enjoy popularity, both as a recreational activity and a spectator sport. Life imitates sport in Tennis and Philosophy. Editor David Baggett approaches tennis not only as a game but also as a surprisingly rich resource for philosophical analysis. He assembles a team of champion scholars, including David Foster Wallace, Robert R. Clewis, David Detmer, Mark Huston, Tommy Valentini, Neil Delaney, and Kevin Kinghorn, to consider numerous philosophical issues within the sport. Profiles of tennis greats such as John McEnroe, Roger Federer, the Williams sisters, and Arthur Ashe are paired with pertinent topics, from the ethics of rage to the role of rivalry. Whether entertaining metaphysical arguments or examining the nature of beauty, these essays promise insightful discussion of one of the world's most popular sports.

Racket Sports Collectibles

Author : Robert T. Everitt
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN 13 : 9780764316470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Racket Sports Collectibles written by Robert T. Everitt and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful assortment of vintage items related to lawn tennis, squash, badminton, and table tennis, dating from the 1890s forward. Features books, magazines, tournament programs and tickets, playing cards, rackets and other equipment, photographs, artwork, postcards, ceramic figurines, trophies, jewelry, and more. Historical background, glossary, and price guide provided.

The Racket

Author : Gideon Haigh
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522859126
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book The Racket written by Gideon Haigh and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. The Racket describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force. With forensic skill and psychological subtlety, Gideon Haigh brings to life a story of corruption in high places and human suffering in low, of murder, suicide, courtroom drama, political machinations, and of the abortionists themselves: among them a multi-millionaire philanthropist, a communist bush poet, a timid aesthete and a bankrupt slaughterman. It is the story, too, of Bertram Wainer, abortion's crash-through-or-crash campaigner, and the moral issue he bequeathed which still divides Australians.

Racquet

Author : David Shaftel
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1913462021
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Racquet written by David Shaftel and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best writing on tennis from the best tennis writers in the business. Racquet was founded in 2016 to be the voice of a new tennis boom. When the popularity of tennis peaked in the late '70s and early '80s, the sport was populated by buccaneering talents with outsize personas, such as Borg, Evert, McEnroe, Navratilova, Gerulaitis, Austin, King, and Connors. The game was played in every park, and tennis clothes became appropriate attire for cocktails as well as for a match. With success, however, came polish, and tennis--if not the game itself, then how it came to be represented in the culture--got boring. Having a big personality was no longer a virtue. Tennis went back to being a bastion of the elite. Racquet is a place for those who knew all along that the spirit of the tennis boom was alive. Tennis has always been present in the arts, in the popular culture, in the skateboarding, hip-hop, and fashion worlds. That side of tennis was--and is--obscured by the tightly controlled messaging of the athletes, the corporate glean of the major tournaments, and the all-white attire of the country-club scene. Racquet was launched to represent the latent, diverse, and large constituency of tennis that has not been embraced by the sport writ large. Featuring the work of some of today's finest writers, the quarterly independent magazine highlights the art, culture, and style that are adjacent to the sport--and just enough of the pro game to keep the diehards satisfied. This collection features some of the best writing from the first four years of Racquet and tackles such immediate topics as: How should tennis smell? What's the deal with Andre Agassi's private jet? What can a professional tennis player learn from Philip Roth? Why is tennis important in Lolita? How was Arthur Ashe like Muhammad Ali? And, crucially, what lessons have we learned from the implosion of that first tennis boom?

War Is A Racket

Author : Smedley D. Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939438584
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book War Is A Racket written by Smedley D. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "War is a Racket" is marine general, Smedley Butler's classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Few people are as qualified as General Butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his book's sensational title. When "War is a Racket" was first published in 1935, Butler was the most decorated American soldier of his time. He had lead several successful military operations in the Caribbean and in Central America, as well as in Europe during the First World War. Despite his success and his heroic status, however, Butler came away from these experiences with a deeply troubled view of both the purpose and the results of warfare.

Living Through the Racket

Author : Corina Morariu
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458754103
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Living Through the Racket written by Corina Morariu and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was 23 and at the height of her professional tennis career - a top-30 singles player, the #1 ranked doubles player in the world in 2000, and the winner of Grand Slam titles at both Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport, and the Australian Open Mixed doubles in 2001. Then, in May 2001, Corina Morariu was diagnosed with an advanced form of ...

Science and Racket Sports II

Author : Mike Hughes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135810052
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Science and Racket Sports II written by Mike Hughes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of the Second World Congress of Science and Racket Sports and Fifth International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress contain six keynote lectures which provide the latest research on a range of sport science topics as applied to tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton. The book is divided into six parts which deal respectively with Physiology, Nutrition, Preparation for Play, Psychological Aspects, Medical, Biomedical and Technical Aspects, and finally Notational Analysis. Sports scientists, coaches, physiotherapists, physicians and professional from racket sports industries will find that this book gives them access to the latest research from a world-wide group of experts. It will also provide an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The editors have expertise in racket sports as well as in the various scientific disciplines covered at the Congresses. They have all been active in promoting the links between scientific theory and coaching practice.

Man With A Racket

Author : Pancho Gonzalez
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789127238
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Man With A Racket written by Pancho Gonzalez and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a champion? Ambition, determination, ability and a generous portion of some personal, often indefinable, quality that enables the individual to become outstanding in his field. Richard (Pancho) Gonzales has all the attributes of a champion, but it is his own special mixture of drive, single-minded concentration and sheer boyish delight in his sport which makes him victorious on the court just about every time. As a public figure, Pancho Gonzales has fascinated both sportsmen and the general public since his first appearance on the court. The myths that surround him are legion, and yet these legends have grown and developed in spite of Pancho, for there are few contemporary athletes who shun publicity as actively as he does. In Man With A Racket Pancho Gonzales reveals the facts behind the legends and the result is a story remarkable for its candor and honesty. The tale Pancho has to tell is a very human one. It is one of a great athlete fiercely dedicated to his sport, who treads the road to success in his own way and at his own breakneck pace. Always the incorrigible iconoclast, Gonzales has had only one supreme ambition——to play tennis, and to play it better than anyone else...

Living through the Racket

Author : Corina Morariu
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781401927752
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Living through the Racket written by Corina Morariu and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was 23 and at the height of her professional tennis career—a top-30 singles player, the #1 ranked doubles player in the world in 2000, and the winner of Grand Slam titles at both Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport, and the Australian Open Mixed doubles in 2001. Then, in May 2001, Corina Morariu was diagnosed with an advanced form of acute myelogenous leukemia and found herself in the match of a lifetime. After a grueling regimen of chemotherapy, Corina returned to competitive tennis 16 months after her diagnosis. She was named the WTA Tour Comeback Player of the Year in 2002, but the effects of the leukemia lingered. On the court, she struggled to come to terms with the cancer and two subsequent shoulder surgeries that diminished her physical capabilities as a tennis player. Off the court, she struggled to redefine herself in the wake of her trauma. In this honest, unsparing memoir, Corina opens up about what it’s like to be an athlete diagnosed with cancer, and how her battle with leukemia changed her in every way. She reassessed everything: her devotion to tennis, her lifelong mission to be the perfect daughter, even her marriage. She took charge of her own life, often with devastating consequences to her and those she loved most. In the end, leukemia gave this world-class athlete much more than it took away—the challenge to look deeper within herself, and the strength to change her life—and she reveals the extraordinary lessons she learned along the way. It is Corina’s journey of self-discovery that will make her story incredibly poignant and uplifting to everyone who reads it—tennis player or not. Leukemia brought Corina to the brink of death . . . but ultimately it saved her life.

The Snatch Racket

Author : Carolyn Cox
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124322
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Snatch Racket written by Carolyn Cox and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Snatch Racket will take the reader behind the scenes of kidnapping crimes that terrified the American public in the 1930s.

Gumption

Author : Nick Offerman
Publisher : Dutton
ISBN 13 : 0451473019
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Gumption written by Nick Offerman and published by Dutton. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First paperback printing includes "Bonus chapter."