Author: Jon Leizman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780761813774
Category : Crowd control
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leizman, a PhD (in some unnamed field), provides a brief overview and a review of sports literature, then discusses violence in ancient Greek and Roman sports, in early American sports, and in the writings of one or two philosophers; current administrative and legal remedies to violence in American professional sports; his Zen Buddhism/martial arts-based alternative to violent western training models; and several proposals for controlling violence, including limiting consumption of alcohol, reducing noise at games, doing away with mascots, instituting penalties for fighting, and holding professional athletes legally responsible for injuries they inflict. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Let's Kill 'em
Author: Jon Leizman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780761813774
Category : Crowd control
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leizman, a PhD (in some unnamed field), provides a brief overview and a review of sports literature, then discusses violence in ancient Greek and Roman sports, in early American sports, and in the writings of one or two philosophers; current administrative and legal remedies to violence in American professional sports; his Zen Buddhism/martial arts-based alternative to violent western training models; and several proposals for controlling violence, including limiting consumption of alcohol, reducing noise at games, doing away with mascots, instituting penalties for fighting, and holding professional athletes legally responsible for injuries they inflict. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780761813774
Category : Crowd control
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leizman, a PhD (in some unnamed field), provides a brief overview and a review of sports literature, then discusses violence in ancient Greek and Roman sports, in early American sports, and in the writings of one or two philosophers; current administrative and legal remedies to violence in American professional sports; his Zen Buddhism/martial arts-based alternative to violent western training models; and several proposals for controlling violence, including limiting consumption of alcohol, reducing noise at games, doing away with mascots, instituting penalties for fighting, and holding professional athletes legally responsible for injuries they inflict. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Let's Kill Uncle
Author: Rohan O'Grady
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408813807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
When recently-orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except for one small problem: his uncle is trying to kill him. Heir to a ten-million-dollar fortune, Barnaby tries to tell everyone and anyone that his uncle is after his inheritance, but no one will believe him. That is, until he tells the only other child on the island, Chrissie, who concludes that there is only one way to stop his demonic uncle: Barnaby will just have to kill him first. With the unexpected help of One-Ear, the aged cougar who has tormented the island for years, Chrissie and Barnaby hatch a fool-proof plan. Playful, dark and witty, Let's Kill Uncle is a surprising tale of two ordinary children who conspire to execute an extraordinary murder - and get away with it.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408813807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
When recently-orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except for one small problem: his uncle is trying to kill him. Heir to a ten-million-dollar fortune, Barnaby tries to tell everyone and anyone that his uncle is after his inheritance, but no one will believe him. That is, until he tells the only other child on the island, Chrissie, who concludes that there is only one way to stop his demonic uncle: Barnaby will just have to kill him first. With the unexpected help of One-Ear, the aged cougar who has tormented the island for years, Chrissie and Barnaby hatch a fool-proof plan. Playful, dark and witty, Let's Kill Uncle is a surprising tale of two ordinary children who conspire to execute an extraordinary murder - and get away with it.
Let's Kill Mom
Author: Donna Fielder
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425280373
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In September, 2008, Roanoke, Texas, police discovered a house of horrors: poisoned pudding, a bathtub set up for electrocution, a bloody butcher knife, and a hank of chopped-off hair. The worst was yet to come… Days before, seventeen-year-old Jennifer Bailey, her thirteen-year-old brother David, and their friends Paul Henson and Merrilee White had made a gruesome pact: they’d kill their parents, steal their cars and credit cards, and flee to Canada. Paul and Merrilee’s parents thwarted their fates, but Jennifer and David’s mother Susan Bailey wasn’t so lucky. When the devoted mother returned home from work, her two children and their friend Paul took turns stabbing her and slicing her throat. When they were done, they fled in Susan’s car. They made it as far as South Dakota before being arrested. What really led them to make such a despicable pact? The answers would cast a disturbing new light on the way we see the all-American family, our neighbors, our children—and the society that nurtured them. Now an Investigation Discovery TV Special
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425280373
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In September, 2008, Roanoke, Texas, police discovered a house of horrors: poisoned pudding, a bathtub set up for electrocution, a bloody butcher knife, and a hank of chopped-off hair. The worst was yet to come… Days before, seventeen-year-old Jennifer Bailey, her thirteen-year-old brother David, and their friends Paul Henson and Merrilee White had made a gruesome pact: they’d kill their parents, steal their cars and credit cards, and flee to Canada. Paul and Merrilee’s parents thwarted their fates, but Jennifer and David’s mother Susan Bailey wasn’t so lucky. When the devoted mother returned home from work, her two children and their friend Paul took turns stabbing her and slicing her throat. When they were done, they fled in Susan’s car. They made it as far as South Dakota before being arrested. What really led them to make such a despicable pact? The answers would cast a disturbing new light on the way we see the all-American family, our neighbors, our children—and the society that nurtured them. Now an Investigation Discovery TV Special
Let's Kill Mom
Author: Donna Fielder
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698191315
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In September, 2008, Roanoke, Texas, police discovered a house of horrors: poisoned pudding, a bathtub set up for electrocution, a bloody butcher knife, and a hank of chopped-off hair. The worst was yet to come… Days before, seventeen-year-old Jennifer Bailey, her thirteen-year-old brother David, and their friends Paul Henson and Merrilee White had made a gruesome pact: they’d kill their parents, steal their cars and credit cards, and flee to Canada. Paul and Merrilee’s parents thwarted their fates, but Jennifer and David’s mother Susan Bailey wasn’t so lucky. When the devoted mother returned home from work, her two children and their friend Paul took turns stabbing her and slicing her throat. When they were done, they fled in Susan’s car. They made it as far as South Dakota before being arrested. What really led them to make such a despicable pact? The answers would cast a disturbing new light on the way we see the all-American family, our neighbors, our children—and the society that nurtured them. Now an Investigation Discovery TV Special
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698191315
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In September, 2008, Roanoke, Texas, police discovered a house of horrors: poisoned pudding, a bathtub set up for electrocution, a bloody butcher knife, and a hank of chopped-off hair. The worst was yet to come… Days before, seventeen-year-old Jennifer Bailey, her thirteen-year-old brother David, and their friends Paul Henson and Merrilee White had made a gruesome pact: they’d kill their parents, steal their cars and credit cards, and flee to Canada. Paul and Merrilee’s parents thwarted their fates, but Jennifer and David’s mother Susan Bailey wasn’t so lucky. When the devoted mother returned home from work, her two children and their friend Paul took turns stabbing her and slicing her throat. When they were done, they fled in Susan’s car. They made it as far as South Dakota before being arrested. What really led them to make such a despicable pact? The answers would cast a disturbing new light on the way we see the all-American family, our neighbors, our children—and the society that nurtured them. Now an Investigation Discovery TV Special
Let's All Kill Constance
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062242342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance's name included among them. And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood -- a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams ... and, all too often, to death.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062242342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance's name included among them. And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood -- a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams ... and, all too often, to death.
Wintu Texts
Author: Alice Shepherd
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520097483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520097483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Mekhilta De-Rabbi Shimon Bar Yo (Edward E. Elson Classic)
Author: W. David Nelson
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827607997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 811
Book Description
The Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is a collection of classical midrashic interpretation of the biblical Book of Exodus. Lost for centuries, the text was reconstructed and recovered in the 19th and 20th centuries by both German and Israeli scholars from a variety of source materials, including medieval manuscripts of the text and midrashic anthologies. As one of the first collections of rabbinic biblical interpretation, the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is an indispensable source for understanding the history, beliefs, and practices of the earliest rabbis. This edition, translated and explicated for the first time in English by W. David Nelson, is The Jewish Publication Society's latest contribution to making ancient Jewish literature accessible to modern readers. A critical introduction provides the reader with a firm grounding in the historical setting of the text, as well as its source material, reconstruction, subject matter, and significance for understanding the history of Judaism. Set in a modern, readable typeface, the Hebrew text faces the English translation with the author's annotation beneath. Indexes include scriptural verse citations and rabbinic sages named in the text.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827607997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 811
Book Description
The Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is a collection of classical midrashic interpretation of the biblical Book of Exodus. Lost for centuries, the text was reconstructed and recovered in the 19th and 20th centuries by both German and Israeli scholars from a variety of source materials, including medieval manuscripts of the text and midrashic anthologies. As one of the first collections of rabbinic biblical interpretation, the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is an indispensable source for understanding the history, beliefs, and practices of the earliest rabbis. This edition, translated and explicated for the first time in English by W. David Nelson, is The Jewish Publication Society's latest contribution to making ancient Jewish literature accessible to modern readers. A critical introduction provides the reader with a firm grounding in the historical setting of the text, as well as its source material, reconstruction, subject matter, and significance for understanding the history of Judaism. Set in a modern, readable typeface, the Hebrew text faces the English translation with the author's annotation beneath. Indexes include scriptural verse citations and rabbinic sages named in the text.
Let's Kill Uncle
Author: Rohan O'Grady
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608195961
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
When recently-orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except for one small problem: his uncle is trying to kill him. Heir to a ten-million-dollar fortune, Barnaby tries to tell everyone and anyone that his uncle is after his inheritance, but no one will believe him. That is, until he tells the only other child on the island, Chrissie, who concludes that there is only one way to stop his demonic uncle: Barnaby will just have to kill him first. With the unexpected help of One-Ear, the aged cougar who has tormented the island for years, Chrissie and Barnaby hatch a fool-proof plan. Playful, dark and witty, Let's Kill Uncle is a surprising tale of two ordinary children who conspire to execute an extraordinary murder - and get away with it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608195961
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
When recently-orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except for one small problem: his uncle is trying to kill him. Heir to a ten-million-dollar fortune, Barnaby tries to tell everyone and anyone that his uncle is after his inheritance, but no one will believe him. That is, until he tells the only other child on the island, Chrissie, who concludes that there is only one way to stop his demonic uncle: Barnaby will just have to kill him first. With the unexpected help of One-Ear, the aged cougar who has tormented the island for years, Chrissie and Barnaby hatch a fool-proof plan. Playful, dark and witty, Let's Kill Uncle is a surprising tale of two ordinary children who conspire to execute an extraordinary murder - and get away with it.
Let's Kill Dick & Jane
Author: Harold Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"For thirty-four years, from 1962 to 1996, the Open Court Publishing Company sold elementary math and reading textbooks that tried to combat the culture and bring about real school reform. Stories from the company's struggles help make this culture visible." "In Let's Kill Dick and Jane, Harold Henderson gives a historical, yet personal, portrait from the company's beginnings through all the financial and cultural travails and its sale in 1996 to McGraw-Hill. It shows how a company of idealistic pragmatists can chip away at the edifice of mediocrity that has become American education."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"For thirty-four years, from 1962 to 1996, the Open Court Publishing Company sold elementary math and reading textbooks that tried to combat the culture and bring about real school reform. Stories from the company's struggles help make this culture visible." "In Let's Kill Dick and Jane, Harold Henderson gives a historical, yet personal, portrait from the company's beginnings through all the financial and cultural travails and its sale in 1996 to McGraw-Hill. It shows how a company of idealistic pragmatists can chip away at the edifice of mediocrity that has become American education."--BOOK JACKET.
Public Action
Author: Robert S. Benjamin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453545581
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A Call to Public Action Author?s newly published book is a realistic, autobiographical fiction on social change ? A fictional biography with a twist of hard truth, that?s what readers will look forward to in the thought-provoking drama that surrounds author Robert S. Benjamin?s newly released book, Public Action. His intentions have always been good, even if sometimes his thoughts are wrong. He is open to opinions, changes, and discussions and he hopes the readers of this book will be as well. The protagonist begins the chronicle of his life by sharing what the world is now?year 2046. He tells of how the world has finally found peace and beauty once again, how it is much better than when he started his life, and how his actions helped in molding this said world. But it wasn?t always that good back then. Through the aid of flashback, he calls on his memories to tell the story of what and how it used to be. With a straightforward account and candid narration, readers will realize that there?s more to it than just an autobiographical fiction, but more importantly, it portrays the harsh realities that everyone is actually facing and struggling with every day. ?I likely see the world different than you do. I am not convinced that I see it correctly but we are each entitled to our opinion, so far. I am watching the quality of life for so many people decline so rapidly it scares me. So many choose not to face up to what is going on, some fight it with no success and others just watch in dismay. I am trying to present options that are worth considering for taking our lives back? My goal isn?t to provide answers but to be a part of a movement toward clear thinking and action? I want to live in a beautiful setting and love life everyday. I hope you do too. Public Awareness Is Not the Answer. Public Action Is.?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453545581
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A Call to Public Action Author?s newly published book is a realistic, autobiographical fiction on social change ? A fictional biography with a twist of hard truth, that?s what readers will look forward to in the thought-provoking drama that surrounds author Robert S. Benjamin?s newly released book, Public Action. His intentions have always been good, even if sometimes his thoughts are wrong. He is open to opinions, changes, and discussions and he hopes the readers of this book will be as well. The protagonist begins the chronicle of his life by sharing what the world is now?year 2046. He tells of how the world has finally found peace and beauty once again, how it is much better than when he started his life, and how his actions helped in molding this said world. But it wasn?t always that good back then. Through the aid of flashback, he calls on his memories to tell the story of what and how it used to be. With a straightforward account and candid narration, readers will realize that there?s more to it than just an autobiographical fiction, but more importantly, it portrays the harsh realities that everyone is actually facing and struggling with every day. ?I likely see the world different than you do. I am not convinced that I see it correctly but we are each entitled to our opinion, so far. I am watching the quality of life for so many people decline so rapidly it scares me. So many choose not to face up to what is going on, some fight it with no success and others just watch in dismay. I am trying to present options that are worth considering for taking our lives back? My goal isn?t to provide answers but to be a part of a movement toward clear thinking and action? I want to live in a beautiful setting and love life everyday. I hope you do too. Public Awareness Is Not the Answer. Public Action Is.?