Author: Bill GutmanPublisher: Tempo
ISBN: 9780448171708
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
1979's Awesome Foursome
Author: Bill GutmanPublisher: Tempo
ISBN: 9780448171708
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The History of the PGA Tour
Author: Al BarkowPublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Recounts the origins of the PGA tour in 1916 and its development up to the present, highlighting the finest players and notable contests, with statistics for all tournaments through 1988.
Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica. Collected Essays of Gilles Quispel
Author: Gilles QuispelPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047441826
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
This volume brings together a rich and varied collection of essays by Gilles Quispel (1916-2006), Professor of the History of the Early Church at Utrecht University from 1951 until his retirement in 1983. During his illustrious career, Professor Quispel was also visiting Professor at Harvard University in 1964/65, and visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1969 until 1974. The fifty essays collected in this volume testify to most of the prominent themes from Professor Quispel’s scholarly career: the writings of the Nag Hammadi library in general and the Gospel of Thomas in particular; Tatian’s Diatessaron and its influences; the Hermetica; Mani and Manichaeism; the Jewish origins of Gnosticism; and Gnosis and the future of Christianity. This volume also makes a number of his less known earlier publications (mainly presented under the heading ‘Catholica’) available to the international community. Until shortly before he died, Professor Quispel remained active in his study of the Gospel of Thomas. He had been one of the first to acquire the Coptic text of the Gospel of Thomas, of which he published the first translation in 1959 and his final translation in 2005. He was also active in researching the Diatessaron, and Valentinus ‘the Gnostic’. One of his most recent essays – published for the first time in this volume – is on ‘the Muslim Jesus.’
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Author: Ernest J. GainesPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 030783025X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
“Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine’s travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman’s] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.”—Newsweek Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope—as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane’s eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America—and stands as a landmark work for our time.
Female Olympian and Paralympian Events
Author: Linda K. FullerPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783319767918
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women’s sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed. The book begins with a brief background on women’s participation in the Olympic Games and their role relative to the International Olympic Committee, then introduces the underlying Gendered Critical Discourse Analysis theory used throughout the book’s analysis before delving into a literature review of female Olympians and Paralympians’ events. It includes a listing of noteworthy “firsts” in the field, followed by individual discussions of twenty-eight Summer and seven Winter events, analyzed according to their historical, rhetorical, and popular cultural representations. Women’s unique role(s) in the various events are discussed, particular athletes and Paralympic events are highlighted, and original tables are also included. At the end of each section, affiliated organizations and resources are included in this invaluable referential volume.
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
Author: Jessica HopperPublisher: Featherproof Books
ISBN: 0983186367
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Jessica Hopper's music criticism has earned her a reputation as a firebrand, a keen observer and fearless critic not just of music but the culture around it. With this volume spanning from her punk fanzine roots to her landmark piece on R. Kelly's past, The First Collection leaves no doubt why The New York Times has called Hopper's work "influential." Not merely a selection of two decades of Hopper's most engaging, thoughtful, and humorous writing, this book documents the last 20 years of American music making and the shifting landscape of music consumption. The book journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl's empowering insurgence, decamps to Gary, IN, on the eve of Michael Jackson's death, explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love, and examines emo's rise. Through this vast range of album reviews, essays, columns, interviews, and oral histories, Hopper chronicles what it is to be truly obsessed with music. The pieces in The First Collection send us digging deep into our record collections, searching to re-hear what we loved and hated, makes us reconsider the art, trash, and politics Hopper illuminates, helping us to make sense of what matters to us most.
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Chain of Command
Author: Caspar WeinbergerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743437748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Secret Service agent Mike Delaney goes up against a ruthless hidden enemy with the cold-blooded will to assassinate the president of the United States--and frame Delaney for the murder.
Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins
Author: Q. David BowersPublisher: Whitman Publishing
ISBN: 9780794825416
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The coins and tokens of colonial America and the early United States present a unique chronicle of our nation's birth. This comprehensive guide provides an authoritative reference on all pre-Federal coinage.
I Am a Strange Loop
Author: Douglas R. HofstadterPublisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465030785
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.