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Reading the Silver Screen: A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
Thomas C. Foster · Harper Perennial
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film.No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked,... |
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Fantasy Man: A Former NFL Player's Descent into the Brutality of Fantasy Football
Nate Jackson · Harpercollins
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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The New York Times bestselling author of Slow Getting Up chronicles his descent into the madness of early retirement and fantasy football. In Slow Getting Up - hailed by Rolling Stone as "the best football memoir of all time" - Nate Jackson told his story face down on the field.... |
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Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy
Mike Love · Penguin Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations." As a founding member of The Beach... |
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I Am Duran: My Autobiography
Roberto Duran · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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They called him "Manos de Piedra" - Hands of Stone - and he was one of the greatest boxers of all time. Now Roberto Durán tells his unbelievable story: from the streets of Panama to being crowned one of the "Four Kings," along with Hearns, Leonard, and Hagler, as he blazed... |
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The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball
Alejandro Danois · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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The inspiring true story of a high-school basketball team that overcame desperate circumstances in 1980s Baltimore to produce four NBA players and give hope to a neighborhood and a city, thanks to a remarkable coach who relentlessly pursued perfection.As the crack epidemic swept across... |
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The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football
S C Gwynne · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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New York Times bestselling, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach - two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s - changed the way the game is played at every level, from high school to the NFL.Hal... |
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Let Them Play: The Mindful Way to Parent Kids for Fun and Success in Sports
Jerry Lynch · New World Library
Pages: 172
Format: Print book |
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American youth sports is undergoing a crisis in parental behavior: parents are fighting with refs, coaches, their kids, and each other. Verbal abuse is being thrown at adolescent referees, fist fights are breaking out on the sidelines, and leagues are having to impose new restrictions on parents'... |
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The Edge: The War against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports
Roger A Pielke, Jr. · Roaring Forties Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Roger Pielke reveals how sports stars break the rules in their search for a competitive edge.Both entertaining and thought-provoking, THE EDGE not only visits the battlefields in the war against cheating and corruption, but also explores ways to ensure that "the spirit of sport"... |
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