Author: John Crawley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1588206831
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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Yes, The Game Was Good To Me, until I discovered the Holy Spirit and Salvation, becoming a Born Again Christian. For many of my adult years, I lived a life of wrong doings, transgressions, and sin. My earliest recollections were as an earth bound child dragging a heavy gunnysack through fields of cotton and corn towering over my head. I was a sharecropper's son, barefooted and destined to toil for the rest of my life in a no-win, hard rock situation. My family and I were indentured slaves to a harsh southern system! From these humble beginnings, I started a fantastic journey through self-discipline and soul survivorship, step-by-step, through the nightmarish world of "file de joie" and many devious adventures. I became very successful and lived in a post enclave on the famed Sutton Place, New York City. I flew high, rubbing shoulders with "fast players," movers, and city-slick shakers! I covered many major cities as my fortunes ebbed and flowed, but always came up smelling like a rose! How sweet it was! In The Game Was Good to Me I do not use the real names of my friends, associates, and acquaintances unless I have their full approval; otherwise, substitute names are used to protect their privacy. I sincerely feel that my greedy story will be a warning to young men who may attempt to walk the same dangerous paths that I once followed.
Author: Drew Hayes
Publisher: Thunder Pear Publishing
ISBN: 9780986396878
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Knowledge is power. That would be the motto of Lander University, had it not been snatched up and used to death by others long before the school was founded. For while Lander offers a full range of courses to nearly all students, it also offers a small number of specialty classes to a very select few. Lander is home to the Hero Certification Program, a curriculum designed to develop student with superhuman capabilities, commonly known as Supers, into official Heroes. Five of this year's freshmen are extra special. They have a secret aside from their abilities, one that they must guard from even their classmates. Because for every one person in the world with abilities they can control, there are three who lack such skill. These lesser super beings, Powereds as they are called, have always been treated as burdens and second class citizens. Though there has been ample research in the area, no one has ever succeeded in turning a Powered into a regular human, let alone a Super. That is, until now...
Author: Sharon West
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300185678
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Author: Jackson Michael
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803262973
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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The Game before the Money recounts the National Football League’s story and the evolution of America’s most popular sport in the vivid words of men who built the NFL. This unprecedented look at football history from the players’ perspective combines the stories of icons such as Frank Gifford and Bart Starr with those of journeymen who shared the huddle with Johnny Unitas and rallied to halftime speeches from legendary coaches Vince Lombardi and George Halas. Featuring players from the 1930s through the 1970s, these personal accounts trace professional football in its journey from post-barnstorming days through the first two decades of the Super Bowl. The Game before the Money offers backstories to classic games and the men who made history in them before multi-million dollar contracts. Insights into life in the NFL come from those most capable of providing it, NFL legends themselves. Forty former players open windows onto their own lives, their triumphs and tragedies, and the hardship and the glory that make them the people they are both on and off the field.
Author: Pete Etchells
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785785060
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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'Etchells writes eloquently ... A heartfelt defence of a demonised pastime' The Times 'Once in an age, a piece of culture comes along that feels like it was specifically created for you, the beats and words and ideas are there because it is your life the creator is describing. Lost In A Good Game is exactly that. It will touch your heart and mind. And even if Bowser, Chun-li or Q-Bert weren't crucial parts of your youth, this is a flawless victory for everyone' Adam Rutherford When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify 'game addiction' as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea. In this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games - from Turing's chess machine to mass multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft- via scientific study, to investigate the highs and lows of playing and get to the bottom of our relationship with games - why we do it, and what they really mean to us. At the same time, Lost in a Good Game is a very unusual memoir of a writer coming to terms with his grief via virtual worlds, as he tries to work out what area of popular culture we should classify games (a relatively new technology) under.
Author: J. Galloway
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662449828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Temptation, the Player, the Game asks its readers a simple but maybe hard question, and that is, “Is wrong ever right?” Think before you answer. You may be wrong. What happens when you lose everything that matters to you? Family, your wealth, the confidence of your existence, and your will to live? Wonder if your faith has been challenged big time and the god you thought to be a friend was no longer a friend? Wonder if all your lifelines were gone, and there was no one to call for help in your time of real need? How would you feel to know that once, not too long ago, you were a multimillionaire and money, family, and life was real good? How would it feel to now be at your rock bottom, now staring at your doom? You want to live, but death’s on your back, and it’s a throwdown—who wins? Wonder if you received a call on a phone you thought to be disconnected, and on the other end is a call that may change your life? But it’s an old crime mate of yours. Do you answer or not? We explore all those questions and more with a lot of twists and turns as you journey along with the main characters, Shameek Johnson and Supreme Jackson, as they go from small time to big time too. I promise you will be surprised at the decision they will make to continue to exist. So again, Is wrong ever right? Buckle up. There is no speed limit here. Welcome to Temptation, the Player, the Game.
Author: Siegbert Tarrasch
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144550
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Classic introduction offers superb coverage of all aspects, especially Middle Game, combination play. Hundreds of games analyzed. Over 340 diagrams.
Author: Tamara LaBree Wines
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449716865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Sernovias royal family is in shambles, and the only hope that Princess Amberly has is the love and support from God. When Prince Kota goes missing, she begs her father, King Sherman, to listen to her. After she is turned away, she decides the only thing to do is to take matters into her own hands. She leans on Gods direction and finds herself.
Author: Bernie Saunders
Publisher: Patrick Crean Editions
ISBN: 9781443465243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Shut Out is a hockey love story. But it's a love that was unrequited. Bernie Saunders had a passion for hockey. His prodigious talent was on display at all levels. But because he was Black, he was stymied at every turn and experienced nothing but taunting from opponents, spectators, coaches and even his own teammates. Despite this malevolence, Saunders continued to play, adopting a style akin to that of the historic house slave: serve but remain invisible. Signed by the Quebec Nordiques, he played with them for two years, but spent most of his career playing collegiately at Western Michigan University and in the minor leagues in Canada and the US. In the end, it was all too much for Saunders. Dogged and overwhelmed by racism, he finally left hockey to work in the corporate sector. This is a memoir about professional hockey by a player who had the potential to become a star but was blocked at almost every opportunity because of his race. In spite of this, Shut Out is a hopeful and uplifting book about facing adversity, overcoming it and moving ahead. Woven throughout the book is Saunders's love of his family, especially his brother, John, who died at age sixty-one. Now retired, Bernie Saunders is still sought out by the hockey community for his observations and advice.
Author: Tresham Gilbey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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