Author: Almarie Chalmers
Publisher: Advantage Media Group
ISBN: 1599322137
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Almarie Chalmers, mother of the player behind the "Shot Heard Around the World," '08 Final Four Champions and NBA star Mario, shares the challenges and joys of raising a superstar son and a highly successful daughter. She delves into the profound struggle that all parents feel when they are torn between their children's dreams and their own. Almarie reveals how she was able to reconcile the two: to be supportive of her children's aspirations while working toward her own goals. From the cradle to the court, Almarie Chalmers shares her winning strategies for raising confident, successful children prepared to follow their dreams. Foreword by NBA Player Mario Chalmers
The Ball Is in Your Court
Author: Almarie Chalmers
Publisher: Advantage Media Group
ISBN: 1599322137
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Almarie Chalmers, mother of the player behind the "Shot Heard Around the World," '08 Final Four Champions and NBA star Mario, shares the challenges and joys of raising a superstar son and a highly successful daughter. She delves into the profound struggle that all parents feel when they are torn between their children's dreams and their own. Almarie reveals how she was able to reconcile the two: to be supportive of her children's aspirations while working toward her own goals. From the cradle to the court, Almarie Chalmers shares her winning strategies for raising confident, successful children prepared to follow their dreams. Foreword by NBA Player Mario Chalmers
Publisher: Advantage Media Group
ISBN: 1599322137
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Almarie Chalmers, mother of the player behind the "Shot Heard Around the World," '08 Final Four Champions and NBA star Mario, shares the challenges and joys of raising a superstar son and a highly successful daughter. She delves into the profound struggle that all parents feel when they are torn between their children's dreams and their own. Almarie reveals how she was able to reconcile the two: to be supportive of her children's aspirations while working toward her own goals. From the cradle to the court, Almarie Chalmers shares her winning strategies for raising confident, successful children prepared to follow their dreams. Foreword by NBA Player Mario Chalmers
The Ball's in Your Court
Author: Michael S. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781618501837
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Life lessons from world class athletes and inspiring teachers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781618501837
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Life lessons from world class athletes and inspiring teachers
Grace on the Court
Author: Maddy Proud
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743820232
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Grace Parker needs to figure out how to handle the 3Bs: boys, boy bands and ball sports. Things were simple for netball nerd Grace Parker at primary school. She was captain of her school team – and with best friends Stella and Mia won the grand final. Back then, her biggest problem was persuading her parents to buy her tickets to see Friday at Five, the world’s hottest boy band. But high school’s a whole new story. Grace’s greatest rival on the court, Amber Burns, just made the same netball team as her. Her twin brother, Gus, is devastated he didn’t make the A-grade AFL side. Her older brother, Tyler, is ignoring her. And as if that wasn’t enough for a 13-year-old girl to handle, dreamy aspiring rockstar Sebastian King is suddenly paying her a lot of attention ... Maddy Proud is a professional netballer currently playing for the NSW Swifts. Previously she played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds, who signed her at 16, making her the youngest player ever contracted in the Trans-Tasman ANZ Championships.
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743820232
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Grace Parker needs to figure out how to handle the 3Bs: boys, boy bands and ball sports. Things were simple for netball nerd Grace Parker at primary school. She was captain of her school team – and with best friends Stella and Mia won the grand final. Back then, her biggest problem was persuading her parents to buy her tickets to see Friday at Five, the world’s hottest boy band. But high school’s a whole new story. Grace’s greatest rival on the court, Amber Burns, just made the same netball team as her. Her twin brother, Gus, is devastated he didn’t make the A-grade AFL side. Her older brother, Tyler, is ignoring her. And as if that wasn’t enough for a 13-year-old girl to handle, dreamy aspiring rockstar Sebastian King is suddenly paying her a lot of attention ... Maddy Proud is a professional netballer currently playing for the NSW Swifts. Previously she played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds, who signed her at 16, making her the youngest player ever contracted in the Trans-Tasman ANZ Championships.
The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans
Author: Howard Ball
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814798632
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Personal rights, such as the right to procreate - or not -and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814798632
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Personal rights, such as the right to procreate - or not -and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights.
The Computer Book
Author: Simson L Garfinkel
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
ISBN: 1454926228
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
An illustrated journey through 250 milestones in computer science, from the ancient abacus to Boolean algebra, GPS, and social media. With 250 illustrated landmark inventions, publications, and events—encompassing everything from ancient record-keeping devices to the latest computing technologies—The Computer Book takes a chronological journey through the history and future of computer science. Two expert authors, with decades of experience working in computer research and innovation, explore topics including: the Sumerian abacus * the first spam message * Morse code * cryptography * early computers * Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics * UNIX and early programming languages * movies * video games * mainframes * minis and micros * hacking * virtual reality * and more “What a delight! A fast trip through the computing landscape in the company of friendly tour guides who know the history.” —Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
ISBN: 1454926228
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
An illustrated journey through 250 milestones in computer science, from the ancient abacus to Boolean algebra, GPS, and social media. With 250 illustrated landmark inventions, publications, and events—encompassing everything from ancient record-keeping devices to the latest computing technologies—The Computer Book takes a chronological journey through the history and future of computer science. Two expert authors, with decades of experience working in computer research and innovation, explore topics including: the Sumerian abacus * the first spam message * Morse code * cryptography * early computers * Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics * UNIX and early programming languages * movies * video games * mainframes * minis and micros * hacking * virtual reality * and more “What a delight! A fast trip through the computing landscape in the company of friendly tour guides who know the history.” —Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Author: Vernon L. Scarborough
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816513604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816513604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Streetball Is Life
Author: Paul Volponi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538139286
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
From award-winning young adult author Paul Volponi comes the true story of his unforgettable summer spent proving himself as a legitimate New York City streetballer, only later discovering that he had gained a set of skills that would enhance his life off the court, as well. During the sweltering summer of seventeen-year-old Paul Volponi’s life, he had only one goal—he wanted, no, needed to become a legitimate and respected New York City street basketball player. It was a passion that consumed him night and day, and at times even isolated him from his friends and family. So he entered through the gates of the Proving Ground, the roughest streetball yard in the city. It was a place where the fouls resembled felonies, and the atmosphere mirrored that of the Roman Coliseum more than Madison Square Garden. It was where teens and adults contested pickup games with a ferocity seemingly greater than that of the NBA Finals. The Proving Ground was a difficult place to cultivate friendships and an easy environment to make enemies. This is the story of Paul’s summer-long initiation at the Proving Ground. It is truly a streetball testament of a teenager who wanted more than anything else to earn his stripes in streetball society. Only what he didn’t understand at the time was that this experience would deliver to him, as it does today for so many young adults, a set of skills that would enhance his life far beyond the boundaries of a basketball court.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538139286
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
From award-winning young adult author Paul Volponi comes the true story of his unforgettable summer spent proving himself as a legitimate New York City streetballer, only later discovering that he had gained a set of skills that would enhance his life off the court, as well. During the sweltering summer of seventeen-year-old Paul Volponi’s life, he had only one goal—he wanted, no, needed to become a legitimate and respected New York City street basketball player. It was a passion that consumed him night and day, and at times even isolated him from his friends and family. So he entered through the gates of the Proving Ground, the roughest streetball yard in the city. It was a place where the fouls resembled felonies, and the atmosphere mirrored that of the Roman Coliseum more than Madison Square Garden. It was where teens and adults contested pickup games with a ferocity seemingly greater than that of the NBA Finals. The Proving Ground was a difficult place to cultivate friendships and an easy environment to make enemies. This is the story of Paul’s summer-long initiation at the Proving Ground. It is truly a streetball testament of a teenager who wanted more than anything else to earn his stripes in streetball society. Only what he didn’t understand at the time was that this experience would deliver to him, as it does today for so many young adults, a set of skills that would enhance his life far beyond the boundaries of a basketball court.
Late to the Ball
Author: Gerald Marzorati
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147673741X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"An award-winning author shares the inspiring and entertaining account of his pursuit to become a nationally competitive tennis player--at the age of sixty. Being a man or a woman in your early sixties is different than it was a generation or two ago, at least for the more fortunate of us. We aren't old.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147673741X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"An award-winning author shares the inspiring and entertaining account of his pursuit to become a nationally competitive tennis player--at the age of sixty. Being a man or a woman in your early sixties is different than it was a generation or two ago, at least for the more fortunate of us. We aren't old.
It's a Ball
Author: J Morgan McGrady
Publisher: J. Morgan McGrady
ISBN: 9780615997308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A raunchy, fictitious novel based on laughable true-life accounts, It's a Ball follows a team of eight misfit tennis players during the Austin League championship season and exposes the real country club tennis culture. Recreational tennis may sound like fun, but as they soon learn, the competition is a Molotov cocktail shaken with vodka and estrogen. Their underdog team must navigate the perils of contentious rivalries, cheating opponents, scandalous and backbiting rumors, and illegal shenanigans in a quest to become Queens of the Court. Along the way, they find that tennis is not all about balls, racquets, and team uniforms, but the special bonds between women. Campy and brash, It's a Ball is a story about unlikely victories on and off the tennis court.
Publisher: J. Morgan McGrady
ISBN: 9780615997308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A raunchy, fictitious novel based on laughable true-life accounts, It's a Ball follows a team of eight misfit tennis players during the Austin League championship season and exposes the real country club tennis culture. Recreational tennis may sound like fun, but as they soon learn, the competition is a Molotov cocktail shaken with vodka and estrogen. Their underdog team must navigate the perils of contentious rivalries, cheating opponents, scandalous and backbiting rumors, and illegal shenanigans in a quest to become Queens of the Court. Along the way, they find that tennis is not all about balls, racquets, and team uniforms, but the special bonds between women. Campy and brash, It's a Ball is a story about unlikely victories on and off the tennis court.
Mere Creatures of the State?
Author: William Bentley Ball
Publisher: Dumb Ox Books
ISBN: 9781883357993
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: Dumb Ox Books
ISBN: 9781883357993
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description