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Author : George Whitefield Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Struggles and Triumphs of a Long Life written by George Whitefield Clark and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Hodges
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608467465
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Long Shot written by Craig Hodges and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, the Chicago Bulls basketball star details his life on the court as an athlete and off the court as an activist. As a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also a vocal union activist, initiated a boycott against Nike, and spoke out forcefully against police brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating. But his outspokenness cost him dearly. In the prime of his career, after ten NBA seasons, Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as a professional athlete to stand up for justice. In this powerful, passionate, and captivating memoir, Hodges shares the stories—including encounters with Nelson Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Jim Brown, R. Kelly, Michael Jordan, and others—from his lifelong fight for equality for Black Americans. Praise for Long Shot “A skillfully told, affecting memoir of sports and social activism.” —Kirkus Reviews “Hodges has told his compelling life story with fiery passion, looping around a cast of characters stretching from Jordan, Magic Johnson and Phil Jackson back to Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, before returning to the present.” —Guardian “Craig Hodges is someone I looked up to as a child & now as an adult . . . I read Long Shot in like two hours, I couldn’t stop turning pages. There are so many hooks in it.” —Jesse Williams, actor, producer, director, activist “A beautifully written, brutally honest book. If you loved the Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bulls, if you love black history, or if you are fascinated by the politics of sports, I highly recommend this book. Simply put: Craig Hodges’ life is incredible and Long Shot is invaluable.” —AETHLON: The Journal of Sport Literature
Author : George W. (George Whitefield) 18 Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781372825729
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (257 download)
Download or read book STRUGGLES & TRIUMPHS OF A LONG written by George W. (George Whitefield) 18 Clark and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George E. Vaillant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071816
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Triumphs of Experience written by George E. Vaillant and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years, and often become more fulfilling than before. Begun in 1938, the Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over 200 men, starting with their undergraduate days. The now-classic Adaptation to Life reported on the men’s lives up to age 55 and helped us understand adult maturation. Now George Vaillant follows the men into their nineties, documenting for the first time what it is like to flourish far beyond conventional retirement. Reporting on all aspects of male life, including relationships, politics and religion, coping strategies, and alcohol use (its abuse being by far the greatest disruptor of health and happiness for the study’s subjects), Triumphs of Experience shares a number of surprising findings. For example, the people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. While the study confirms that recovery from a lousy childhood is possible, memories of a happy childhood are a lifelong source of strength. Marriages bring much more contentment after age 70, and physical aging after 80 is determined less by heredity than by habits formed prior to age 50. The credit for growing old with grace and vitality, it seems, goes more to ourselves than to our stellar genetic makeup.
Author : Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393310665
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Triumphs and Tragedy written by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic history of Mexico from its Olmec, Aztec, and Mayan heritage to the present day.
Author : Frederick Drimmer
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806512532
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Very Special People written by Frederick Drimmer and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siamese twins, midgets, giants, bearded ladies, and hermaphrodites are among the people profiled with compassion and insight
Author : Ryan Holiday
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1591846358
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)
Download or read book The Obstacle Is the Way written by Ryan Holiday and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller The Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do. Its many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a hip hop icon (LL Cool J), an Irish tennis pro (James McGee), an NBC sportscaster (Michele Tafoya), and the coaches and players of winning teams like the New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Cubs, and University of Texas men’s basketball team. The book draws its inspiration from stoicism, the ancient Greek philosophy of enduring pain or adversity with perseverance and resilience. Stoics focus on the things they can control, let go of everything else, and turn every new obstacle into an opportunity to get better, stronger, tougher. As Marcus Aurelius put it nearly 2000 years ago: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Ryan Holiday shows us how some of the most successful people in history—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—have applied stoicism to overcome difficult or even impossible situations. Their embrace of these principles ultimately mattered more than their natural intelligence, talents, or luck. If you’re feeling frustrated, demoralized, or stuck in a rut, this book can help you turn your problems into your biggest advantages. And along the way it will inspire you with dozens of true stories of the greats from every age and era.
Author : Amy Bass
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452905723
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book NOT THE TRIUMPH BUT THE STRUGGLE written by Amy Bass and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther King Jr., uprisings in American cities, student protests around the world, the rise of the Black Power movement, and decolonization and apartheid in Africa.".
Author : Lech Wałęsa
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559701495
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Struggle and the Triumph written by Lech Wałęsa and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walesa's autobiography provides a firsthand, inside history of Solidarity from 1984 to the present, as seen and told by its founder, the recently elected president of Poland. Here is the lively tale of the impassioned young electrician's rise from the Gdansk shipyard to the presidency, and of the events that ushered Poland into a new age. 8 pages of photographs.
Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Struggles and Triumphs written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Bean Underhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Struggles and Triumphs of Religious Liberty written by Edward Bean Underhill and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Perdita Felicien
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385689985
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book My Mother's Daughter written by Perdita Felicien and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A phenomenal, human story. . . . I could not put this book down." —CLARA HUGHES An instant national bestseller, this raw and affecting memoir is the story of a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation's hopes—she carried her mother Catherine's dreams. In 1974, Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she's also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it's her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to be their nanny—and she accepts. This was the beginning of Catherine's new life: a life of opportunity, but also suffering. Within a few years, she would find herself pregnant a third time—this time in her new country with no family to support her, and this time, with Perdita. Together, in the years to come, mother and daughter would experience racism, domestic abuse, and even homelessness, but Catherine's will would always pull them through. As Perdita grew and began to discover her preternatural athletic gifts, she was edged onward by her mother's love, grit, and faith. Facing literal and figurative hurdles, she learned to leap and pick herself back up when she stumbled. This book is a daughter's memoir—a book about the power of a parent's love to transform their child's life.
Author : Zig Ziglar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143915533X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Embrace the Struggle written by Zig Ziglar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of speaking and writing bestsellers on the value of having a positive attitude, motivational speaker Zig Ziglar is faced with putting his words into action after a fall leaves him with a head injury. In Embrace the Struggle, Ziglar shares a personal account of his accident and offers encouragement through his firsthand experience of overcoming his most difficult challenge. One of the leading stars in the “positive thinking” movement, Zig Ziglar has made a career out of telling people how to have a positive attitude, no matter what their circumstances are. But when a fall down a stairway onto a marble floor leaves him with a head injury, he is challenged with how to put the principles he’d been speaking about into practice. Ziglar’s willingness to be transparent has him back writing and speaking with renewed energy before audiences in the tens of thousands to show that life on life’s terms is still well worth living. Embrace the Struggle affirms the validity of the principles Ziglar has held true his entire life and includes not only his account of living positively through difficult circumstances; it also includes heartwarming stories of real people who encouraged him with how they put into practice these vital principles.
Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum written by P. T. Barnum and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the captivating life of P. T. Barnum, one of the most iconic figures in entertainment history. This autobiography offers a firsthand account of Barnum's journey, from his humble beginnings to becoming the legendary circus owner. His tales of perseverance and innovation provide a unique insight into the world of show business in the United States.
Author : Jeffrey R. Holland
Publisher : Deseret Book Co
ISBN 13 : 9780877476252
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (762 download)
Download or read book However Long and Hard the Road written by Jeffrey R. Holland and published by Deseret Book Co. This book was released on 1985-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. B. Potter
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787200132
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Triumph in the Pacific; The Navy’s Struggle Against Japan written by E. B. Potter and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in a single volume is one of the most authoritative, thoroughly documented accounts of the U.S. Navy’s war against Japan. This is the story of the achievements, defeats, and victories of both the American and the Japanese navies as they met and battled in the greatest naval war of all time. This dramatic narrative brings to life both the glorious and the infamous—the decisive encounters at Midway...Guadalcanal...the Philippine Sea...Leyte Gulf...Iwo Jima...Okinawa...and the other points in the Pacific where history was made from 1941 to 1945. The information for TRIUMPH IN THE PACIFIC was gathered by historians at the Naval Academy at Annapolis under the direction of E. B. Potter, the Academy’s Chairman of Naval History, and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz who, as Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, was a principal figure in the conflict. The book is marked by authenticity, conciseness, objectivity, and the accuracy of years of painstaking research and preparation.
Author : Charles G. Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Jenny Lind: Her Life, Her Struggles, and Her Triumphs written by Charles G. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
