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Author: Colin Alexander Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445676478 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 197
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Colin Alexander offers a nostalgic look back at something all railway enthusiasts will remember well - visiting local sheds and yards, or shedbashing.
Author: Colin Alexander Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445676478 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 197
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Colin Alexander offers a nostalgic look back at something all railway enthusiasts will remember well - visiting local sheds and yards, or shedbashing.
Author: Cynthia G. Franklin Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820335878 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 364
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Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Although the memoir form has been discussed within the flourishing field of life writing, academic memoirs have received little critical scrutiny. Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Bérubé, Cathy N. Davidson, Jane Gallop, bell hooks, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, and Marianna Torgovnick, Academic Lives considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry. Cynthia G. Franklin finds that academic memoirs provide unparalleled ways to unmask the workings of the academy at a time when it is dealing with a range of crises, including attacks on intellectual freedom, discontentment with the academic star system, and budget cuts. Franklin considers how academic memoirs have engaged with a core of defining concerns in the humanities: identity politics and the development of whiteness studies in the 1990s; the impact of postcolonial studies; feminism and concurrent anxieties about pedagogy; and disability studies and the struggle to bring together discourses on the humanities and human rights. The turn back toward humanism that Franklin finds in some academic memoirs is surreptitious or frankly nostalgic; others, however, posit a wide-ranging humanism that seeks to create space for advocacy in the academic and other institutions in which we are all unequally located. These memoirs are harbingers for the critical turn to explore interrelations among humanism, the humanities, and human rights struggles.
Author: Dale Tafoya Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN: 1597971782 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 282
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Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco—the Bash Brothers—ushered in a new era of muscle-bound power hitters in baseball in the late 1980s. Suddenly balls were flying out of the parks like never before, and the rest of baseball stood up, took notice, and followed suit. Baseball’s bodybuilding revolution, with its resultant steroid infestation, was here to stay, and many experts today point to these two players as a large reason why. Author Dale Tafoya has interviewed more than 150 teammates, coaches, scouts, and friends who knew McGwire and Canseco during that era, including former A’s general manager Sandy Alderson, former team president Roy Eisenhardt, former commissioner Fay Vincent, Hall-of-Fame closer Dennis Eckersley, and 2004 Ford C. Frick award-winning legendary broadcaster Lon Simmons. They provide first-person commentary on what living and playing with the larger-than-life duo was like, and relate the shock and awe that followed both players and the team as well. Tafoya also investigates the players’ pre-Oakland careers, how they exploded upon reaching the majors with the A’s, and what happened when the two moved on. While Canseco has admitted his steroid use, McGwire ducked the question when Congress asked about his use by saying, “I am not here to discuss the past.” Tafoya investigates the claims of each. The Bash Brothers revolutionized baseball; Tafoya discusses whether it was for better or for worse and paints a colorful portrait of the duo’s rise to popularity and their ensuing exposure and shame. Bash Brothers: A Legacy Subpoenaed is the first book to fully investigate how these two players helped shape baseball for years to come.
Author: Lew Freedman Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1683583116 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 294
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How the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Won the First World Series Championship in Franchise History The road was rocky and the suspense intense as a make-or-break 1980 baseball season unfolded for the Philadelphia Phillies under a new, often-unpopular manager who sought to shape a collection of All-Star talent into champions. In the end, Dallas Green’s gruffness, Pete Rose’s clubhouse leadership, Mike Schmidt’s Most Valuable Player performance, Steve Carlton’s almost unbeatable pitching, Tug McGraw’s irrepressible personality—plus contributions from young, unheralded players and savvy veterans—led the club to the franchise’s first World Series in history. Although the Phillies had risen to prominence and relevance in the late 1970s, they could not get past the National League Championship Series. Management was tempted to blow up the team. Wooing Rose as a free agent to add spirit, as well as a clutch bat, and the promotion of the reluctant Green from the farm system in place of well-liked Danny Ozark, helped change the dynamics of the team. The risky strategy led to some internal discord and relentless challenges from Green, but after months of seeming slow to emerge as a team prepared to grab a championship, the Phillies clutch ballplaying through the end of September to qualify for the playoffs, and then played inspired baseball when most needed in October. Some forty years later, that Phillies group is especially prized for the breakthrough in a near-century-long wait for a title for a club that began play in 1883. Only once since then have the Phillies claimed another crown. The mix of superstars, with the major influence of such players as Bob Boone, Larry Bowa, Greg Luzinski, Lonnie Smith, Manny Trillo, Garry Maddox, and Bake McBride helped take the Phillies on a months-long-ride, culminating in the glory they and their fans both hungered for for so long.
Author: Michael Owens Publisher: Machine Books ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 180
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The Lower Lea Valley was one of the most neglected parts of London until it was somehow chosen as the site for the 2012 Olympic bid. Somehow it won and somehow we got a new part of London. This book captures the drama of how these events were managed, in the words of those involved.
Author: C.A. Larsen Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665562501 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 222
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In 1980, when Toby Johnson is sent away to boarding school in Oakville, Ontario, he intends to live life as a normal teenager, making friends and planning his future. A surly and fun-loving boy named Thomas quickly becomes Toby’s best friend. However, everything changes when Thomas’s young brother, Joseph, goes missing. Without any explanation, Thomas says he knows where to find him. The two boys, along with three other friends, skip town and make their way to Thunder Bay. There, on the other side of a mysterious gate, in a beautiful place suspended in time, the worst is confirmed: Joseph is dead. Overwhelmed by grief, the friends bury Joseph nearby. Decades later, now with a family of his own, Toby still finds himself haunted by dreams of the mysterious, magical place where they found and buried Joseph’s body. Having never fully processed the horrific events of that day, Toby then finds history repeating itself: his own young son, Jaxton, mysteriously vanishes while out playing. The investigators working the case cannot seem to track down the person behind the kidnapping, but Thomas knows the truth. The friends reconvene, hoping to save Jaxton from a fate similar to Joseph’s. In a race against time, they venture back into the darkness, unearthing old wounds in order to put the dreams and horror to rest at last.
Author: Keith Widdowson Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0750993456 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 287
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ferroequinologist (noun) Someone who studies the 'Iron Horse' (i.e. trains and locomotives). From the Latin ferrus 'iron' and equine 'horse' + -logist As the British steam era drew to a close, a young Keith Widdowson set out to travel on as many steam-hauled trains as possible – documenting each journey in his notebooks. In Confessions of a Steam Age Ferroequinologist, he cracks these books open and blows off the dust. His self-imposed mission, that of riding behind as many Iron Horses as possible prior to their premature annihilation, led to hours of nocturnal travels, extended periods of inactivity in station waiting rooms, missed connections and fatigue. However, any downsides of his quest were compensated by the camaraderie found amongst a group of like-minded colleagues who congregated on such trains. This is a book that no self-respecting ferroequinologist should be without.
Author: Bill Snelling Publisher: David and Charles ISBN: 178711788X Category : Languages : en Pages : 331
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Motorcycling social history, as seen from the saddle. Bill Snelling's entertaining autobiography recounts a lifetime spent at the heart of British motorcycle sport, and living on the Isle of Man.
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