Author: Jeff Klinkenberg
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 081304748X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
With a keen eye for detail and a lyrical style, Jeff Klinkenberg sets his sights on the contradictions that make up the Sunshine State. No one else would think to engage a professional symphony orchestra tuba player to find out whether bull gators will thunderously bellow back at a low B-flat during mating season (they do, but only to that pitch). From fishing camps and country stores to museums and libraries, Klinkenberg is forever unearthing the magic that makes Florida a place worth celebrating.
Alligators in B-Flat
Author: Jeff Klinkenberg
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 081304748X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
With a keen eye for detail and a lyrical style, Jeff Klinkenberg sets his sights on the contradictions that make up the Sunshine State. No one else would think to engage a professional symphony orchestra tuba player to find out whether bull gators will thunderously bellow back at a low B-flat during mating season (they do, but only to that pitch). From fishing camps and country stores to museums and libraries, Klinkenberg is forever unearthing the magic that makes Florida a place worth celebrating.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 081304748X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
With a keen eye for detail and a lyrical style, Jeff Klinkenberg sets his sights on the contradictions that make up the Sunshine State. No one else would think to engage a professional symphony orchestra tuba player to find out whether bull gators will thunderously bellow back at a low B-flat during mating season (they do, but only to that pitch). From fishing camps and country stores to museums and libraries, Klinkenberg is forever unearthing the magic that makes Florida a place worth celebrating.
Confessions of a Gator Cheerleader
Author: Bess Auer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595355234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Confession #1: A Gator cheerleader never tells all...or does she? Author and former Gator cheerleader Bess Harbin Auer exposes life at Florida under Steve Spurrier's first year as head coach. Although the Gator Nation becomes locked in the chaotic grip of brutal serial killer Danny Rolling, the cheerleaders strive to create an atmosphere of team spirit deep in The Swamp. Go behind the scenes as the cheerleaders prepare for Gator Growl, work out in the sacred South End Zone weight room, and practice in the O'Dome. Follow the squad to Tennessee and see how they find a way to take the ultimate revenge on the football field at Neyland Stadium. And don't forget the eight-foot snake on the loose in Yon Hall!
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595355234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Confession #1: A Gator cheerleader never tells all...or does she? Author and former Gator cheerleader Bess Harbin Auer exposes life at Florida under Steve Spurrier's first year as head coach. Although the Gator Nation becomes locked in the chaotic grip of brutal serial killer Danny Rolling, the cheerleaders strive to create an atmosphere of team spirit deep in The Swamp. Go behind the scenes as the cheerleaders prepare for Gator Growl, work out in the sacred South End Zone weight room, and practice in the O'Dome. Follow the squad to Tennessee and see how they find a way to take the ultimate revenge on the football field at Neyland Stadium. And don't forget the eight-foot snake on the loose in Yon Hall!
Serious Leisure
Author: Robert A. Stebbins
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412809770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious, casual, and project-based leisure that he further separates into a variety of types and subtypes. Together they comprise what he calls "serious leisure." In this perspective, serious leisure constitutes systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer activity sufficiently substantial and interesting in nature and requiring special skills, knowledge, and experience. Casual leisure, though immediately, intrinsically rewarding, is by contrast a relatively short-lived pleasurable activity, requiring little or no special training to enjoy it. Project-based leisure is a short-term, reasonably complicated, occasional creative undertaking carried out in free time. Stebbins sets out the basic concepts and propositions that make up the three forms, focusing on their essential elements. He takes stock of the serious leisure literature as well as that for casual and project-based leisure. Stebbins sees "serious leisure" realized by way of a set of foundational concepts--organization, community, history, lifestyle, and culture--and several of their component areas. He reviews the history and background of the concept of serious leisure and then adds historical commentary on, first, casual leisure and, then, project-based leisure. Finally, he examines the future and the importance of the serious leisure perspective in a globalizing world, and some of its critical links with other fields of knowledge and practice, notably the nonprofit sector and preventive medicine. Together with its original insights, Serious Leisure offers a single, handy, coherent, comprehensive resource. It will be of interest to sociologists, labor studies specialists, and economists.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412809770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious, casual, and project-based leisure that he further separates into a variety of types and subtypes. Together they comprise what he calls "serious leisure." In this perspective, serious leisure constitutes systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer activity sufficiently substantial and interesting in nature and requiring special skills, knowledge, and experience. Casual leisure, though immediately, intrinsically rewarding, is by contrast a relatively short-lived pleasurable activity, requiring little or no special training to enjoy it. Project-based leisure is a short-term, reasonably complicated, occasional creative undertaking carried out in free time. Stebbins sets out the basic concepts and propositions that make up the three forms, focusing on their essential elements. He takes stock of the serious leisure literature as well as that for casual and project-based leisure. Stebbins sees "serious leisure" realized by way of a set of foundational concepts--organization, community, history, lifestyle, and culture--and several of their component areas. He reviews the history and background of the concept of serious leisure and then adds historical commentary on, first, casual leisure and, then, project-based leisure. Finally, he examines the future and the importance of the serious leisure perspective in a globalizing world, and some of its critical links with other fields of knowledge and practice, notably the nonprofit sector and preventive medicine. Together with its original insights, Serious Leisure offers a single, handy, coherent, comprehensive resource. It will be of interest to sociologists, labor studies specialists, and economists.
Official Price Guide to Records
Author: Jerry Osborne
Publisher: House of Collectibles
ISBN: 9780676601862
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
All kinds of music are profiled in this guide, indexed by artist and organized by label, format, manufacturer's selection number, and date of issue. Featured are prices for over 1 million records, listings for 45,000 artists, a color eight-page insert of record cover art, and a buyers-sellers directory.
Publisher: House of Collectibles
ISBN: 9780676601862
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
All kinds of music are profiled in this guide, indexed by artist and organized by label, format, manufacturer's selection number, and date of issue. Featured are prices for over 1 million records, listings for 45,000 artists, a color eight-page insert of record cover art, and a buyers-sellers directory.
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English
Author: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415371821
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Rev. ed of: Dictionary of slang and unconventional English / by E. Partridge. 8th ed.1984.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415371821
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Rev. ed of: Dictionary of slang and unconventional English / by E. Partridge. 8th ed.1984.
Uncommon Lands
Author: Barbara P. Walsworth
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977269729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Uncommon Lands is an emotionally gripping story of how quickly a life can turn dangerously wrong. Mary Beth Ivy owns and manages a truck farm in south Louisiana...just south of Opelousas. Bayou country; lush, green sugar cane fields. crawfish and rice farms, alligators, and beautiful coastal sunsets. Five years after losing her husband, Jack, in a tragic accident, she is finally happy and content with her life...until west Texas rancher, Yancy McCone, traveling through south Louisiana, breaks down on I-10 and needs a place to board his thoroughbred horses overnight. The Ivy barn is perfect. Not only is he attracted to the widow, Mrs. Ivy, but he needs her farm to rescue his almost bankrupt ranch. He convinces her to visit his west Texas ranch. Within days she realizes her infatuation has led her to make a huge mistake. If the dry, dead land wasn't depressing enough, Yancy McCone shows his true character and he isn't a man she can love. She wants to go home to her farm ...and to Luther. Yancy doesn't handle rejection well, especially being dumped for an illegal farmhand, and he is determined to have her or ruin her.
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977269729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Uncommon Lands is an emotionally gripping story of how quickly a life can turn dangerously wrong. Mary Beth Ivy owns and manages a truck farm in south Louisiana...just south of Opelousas. Bayou country; lush, green sugar cane fields. crawfish and rice farms, alligators, and beautiful coastal sunsets. Five years after losing her husband, Jack, in a tragic accident, she is finally happy and content with her life...until west Texas rancher, Yancy McCone, traveling through south Louisiana, breaks down on I-10 and needs a place to board his thoroughbred horses overnight. The Ivy barn is perfect. Not only is he attracted to the widow, Mrs. Ivy, but he needs her farm to rescue his almost bankrupt ranch. He convinces her to visit his west Texas ranch. Within days she realizes her infatuation has led her to make a huge mistake. If the dry, dead land wasn't depressing enough, Yancy McCone shows his true character and he isn't a man she can love. She wants to go home to her farm ...and to Luther. Yancy doesn't handle rejection well, especially being dumped for an illegal farmhand, and he is determined to have her or ruin her.
Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: A-G
Author: Jonathan E. Lighter
Publisher: Random House Reference
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Dictionary of American slang, covering all eras of American history with accurate definitions and extensive, dated citations.
Publisher: Random House Reference
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Dictionary of American slang, covering all eras of American history with accurate definitions and extensive, dated citations.
Chomp
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375898956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this hysterical #1 New York Times bestseller, one kid has to wrangle gators, snakes, bats that bite, and a reality show host gone rogue! This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! When Wahoo Cray’s dad—a professional animal wrangler—takes a job with a reality TV show called Expedition Survival!, Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself to keep his father from killing Derek Badger, the show's inept and egotistical star. But the job keeps getting more complicated: Derek Badger insists on using wild animals for his stunts; and Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna—a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her father and needs a place to hide out. They've only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. And then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . . . It's anyone's guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival. . . “Only in Florida—and in the fiction of its native son Carl Hiaasen—does a dead iguana fall from a palm tree and kill somebody.” —New York Post “Chomp is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.” —Los Angeles Times
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375898956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this hysterical #1 New York Times bestseller, one kid has to wrangle gators, snakes, bats that bite, and a reality show host gone rogue! This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! When Wahoo Cray’s dad—a professional animal wrangler—takes a job with a reality TV show called Expedition Survival!, Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself to keep his father from killing Derek Badger, the show's inept and egotistical star. But the job keeps getting more complicated: Derek Badger insists on using wild animals for his stunts; and Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna—a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her father and needs a place to hide out. They've only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. And then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . . . It's anyone's guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival. . . “Only in Florida—and in the fiction of its native son Carl Hiaasen—does a dead iguana fall from a palm tree and kill somebody.” —New York Post “Chomp is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.” —Los Angeles Times
Fourth and Long
Author: John U. Bacon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476706441
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author and Michigan football expert John Back, an analysis of the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it. In search of the sport’s old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded himself in four college football programs—Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and Northwestern—and captured the oldest, biggest, most storied league, the Big Ten, at its tipping point. He sat in as coaches dissected game film, he ate dinner at training tables, and he listened in locker rooms. He talked with tailgating fans and college presidents, and he spent months in the company of the gifted young athletes who play the game. Fourth and Long reveals intimate scenes behind closed doors, from a team’s angry face-off with their athletic director to a defensive lineman acing his master’s exams in theoretical math. It captures the private moment when coach Urban Meyer earned the devotion of Ohio State’s Buckeyes on their way to a perfect season. It shows Michigan’s athletic department endangering the very traditions that distinguish the college game from all others. And it re-creates the euphoria of the Northwestern Wildcats winning their first bowl game in decades. Most unforgettably, Fourth and Long finds what the national media missed in the ugly aftermath of Penn State’s tragic scandal: the unheralded story of players who joined forces with Coach Bill O’Brien to save the university’s treasured program—and with it, a piece of the game’s soul. This is the work of a writer in love with an old game—a game he sees at the precipice. Bacon’s deep knowledge of sports history and his sensitivity to the tribal subcultures of the college game power this elegy to a beloved and endangered American institution.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476706441
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author and Michigan football expert John Back, an analysis of the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it. In search of the sport’s old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded himself in four college football programs—Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and Northwestern—and captured the oldest, biggest, most storied league, the Big Ten, at its tipping point. He sat in as coaches dissected game film, he ate dinner at training tables, and he listened in locker rooms. He talked with tailgating fans and college presidents, and he spent months in the company of the gifted young athletes who play the game. Fourth and Long reveals intimate scenes behind closed doors, from a team’s angry face-off with their athletic director to a defensive lineman acing his master’s exams in theoretical math. It captures the private moment when coach Urban Meyer earned the devotion of Ohio State’s Buckeyes on their way to a perfect season. It shows Michigan’s athletic department endangering the very traditions that distinguish the college game from all others. And it re-creates the euphoria of the Northwestern Wildcats winning their first bowl game in decades. Most unforgettably, Fourth and Long finds what the national media missed in the ugly aftermath of Penn State’s tragic scandal: the unheralded story of players who joined forces with Coach Bill O’Brien to save the university’s treasured program—and with it, a piece of the game’s soul. This is the work of a writer in love with an old game—a game he sees at the precipice. Bacon’s deep knowledge of sports history and his sensitivity to the tribal subcultures of the college game power this elegy to a beloved and endangered American institution.
Praise & Worship (Songbook)
Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1458438929
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
(Guitar Chord Songbook). 80 songs arranged with their lyrics and chords for easy strum-along fun: Agnus Dei * As the Deer * Firm Foundation * Give Thanks * God of Wonders * He Is Exalted * The Heart of Worship * I Could Sing of Your Love Forever * Jesus, Lover of My Soul * Lamb of God * Lord, I Lift Your Name on High * More Precious Than Silver * Open the Eyes of My Heart * The Potter's Hand * Shine, Jesus, Shine * We Bow Down * and more.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1458438929
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
(Guitar Chord Songbook). 80 songs arranged with their lyrics and chords for easy strum-along fun: Agnus Dei * As the Deer * Firm Foundation * Give Thanks * God of Wonders * He Is Exalted * The Heart of Worship * I Could Sing of Your Love Forever * Jesus, Lover of My Soul * Lamb of God * Lord, I Lift Your Name on High * More Precious Than Silver * Open the Eyes of My Heart * The Potter's Hand * Shine, Jesus, Shine * We Bow Down * and more.