Author: THADDEUS O. COOPER
Publisher: Nomoreboxes LLC
ISBN: 9780998389745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Seeking Redemption - The Real Story of the Beautiful Game of Skee-Ball is the first and only book about the history of Skee-Ball, and the authoritative history of the game. Seeking Redemption tells a timeless story of a start-up, beginning with the unlikely inventor, Joseph Fourestier Simpson, and featuring all of the classic struggles and triumphs. It is also a story of how this beloved game of Skee-Ball survived two world wars, recessions and depressions, industry transformations, technology revolutions and legal wrangling to thrive for over 100 years. Skee-Ball morphed from its' origins as "A Man's Game" to becoming a fascinating game for everyone. It's continued to survive patent wars, clone competition, and the threats of bankruptcy and obscurity to emerge once again as a best selling iPhone app, and be resurrected for modern amusement venues by Bay Tek Games, Inc. redesign in 2016. This book is a treasure for history buffs as well. Meticulously researched from primary sources, lavishly illustrated with original photographs, letters, papers and documents, it allows the history to speak for itself in an engaging and readable way. Not just the story of the game, it is a unique view into the universal human struggles for redemption and recognition, and a salute to the eternal inventiveness of the human spirit.
Seeking Redemption
Author: THADDEUS O. COOPER
Publisher: Nomoreboxes LLC
ISBN: 9780998389745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Seeking Redemption - The Real Story of the Beautiful Game of Skee-Ball is the first and only book about the history of Skee-Ball, and the authoritative history of the game. Seeking Redemption tells a timeless story of a start-up, beginning with the unlikely inventor, Joseph Fourestier Simpson, and featuring all of the classic struggles and triumphs. It is also a story of how this beloved game of Skee-Ball survived two world wars, recessions and depressions, industry transformations, technology revolutions and legal wrangling to thrive for over 100 years. Skee-Ball morphed from its' origins as "A Man's Game" to becoming a fascinating game for everyone. It's continued to survive patent wars, clone competition, and the threats of bankruptcy and obscurity to emerge once again as a best selling iPhone app, and be resurrected for modern amusement venues by Bay Tek Games, Inc. redesign in 2016. This book is a treasure for history buffs as well. Meticulously researched from primary sources, lavishly illustrated with original photographs, letters, papers and documents, it allows the history to speak for itself in an engaging and readable way. Not just the story of the game, it is a unique view into the universal human struggles for redemption and recognition, and a salute to the eternal inventiveness of the human spirit.
Publisher: Nomoreboxes LLC
ISBN: 9780998389745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Seeking Redemption - The Real Story of the Beautiful Game of Skee-Ball is the first and only book about the history of Skee-Ball, and the authoritative history of the game. Seeking Redemption tells a timeless story of a start-up, beginning with the unlikely inventor, Joseph Fourestier Simpson, and featuring all of the classic struggles and triumphs. It is also a story of how this beloved game of Skee-Ball survived two world wars, recessions and depressions, industry transformations, technology revolutions and legal wrangling to thrive for over 100 years. Skee-Ball morphed from its' origins as "A Man's Game" to becoming a fascinating game for everyone. It's continued to survive patent wars, clone competition, and the threats of bankruptcy and obscurity to emerge once again as a best selling iPhone app, and be resurrected for modern amusement venues by Bay Tek Games, Inc. redesign in 2016. This book is a treasure for history buffs as well. Meticulously researched from primary sources, lavishly illustrated with original photographs, letters, papers and documents, it allows the history to speak for itself in an engaging and readable way. Not just the story of the game, it is a unique view into the universal human struggles for redemption and recognition, and a salute to the eternal inventiveness of the human spirit.
Lifers
Author: John Irwin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113596629X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society’s purposes of imprisonment, and offenders’ reformability. Through the lifers’ stories, he reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113596629X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society’s purposes of imprisonment, and offenders’ reformability. Through the lifers’ stories, he reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy.
Finding God in the Shack
Author: Roger E. Olson
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442994827
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Olson delves into many of the significant issues raised by the popular book "The Shack," such as forgiving those who have done evil, how God acts in the world, how God is three persons in one, and what difference this makes.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442994827
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Olson delves into many of the significant issues raised by the popular book "The Shack," such as forgiving those who have done evil, how God acts in the world, how God is three persons in one, and what difference this makes.
Hip-Hop Redemption
Author: Ralph Basui Watkins
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 080103311X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A sociologist and pop-culture expert offers a balanced engagement of hip-hop and rap music, showing God's presence in the music and the message.
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 080103311X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A sociologist and pop-culture expert offers a balanced engagement of hip-hop and rap music, showing God's presence in the music and the message.
Redemption's Gift
Author: Tylia L. Flores
Publisher: Tylia Flores
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Redemption's Gift is a heartwarming Christmas romance that follows the story of Ruth Anne Combs, a 21-year-old African-American who attends Columbia University to pursue her degree in creative writing. While home for the holidays in her small hometown of Cleremont, Florida, Ruth Anne's main goal is to reconnect with her high school sweetheart, Abram Riggs from Wabash, Indiana. She met Abram during her junior year of high school and they fell deeply in love, but after he joined the US Army and she left for Columbia, the stress of long-distance led to her infidelity and their heartbreaking breakup. Now, with Christmas approaching and both of them back in town, Ruth Anne hopes to win back Penn's heart and redeem herself in his eyes. Will their love be rekindled or is it too late for a second chance? Find out in Redemption Gift, a story of love, forgiveness, and the magic of Christmas.
Publisher: Tylia Flores
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Redemption's Gift is a heartwarming Christmas romance that follows the story of Ruth Anne Combs, a 21-year-old African-American who attends Columbia University to pursue her degree in creative writing. While home for the holidays in her small hometown of Cleremont, Florida, Ruth Anne's main goal is to reconnect with her high school sweetheart, Abram Riggs from Wabash, Indiana. She met Abram during her junior year of high school and they fell deeply in love, but after he joined the US Army and she left for Columbia, the stress of long-distance led to her infidelity and their heartbreaking breakup. Now, with Christmas approaching and both of them back in town, Ruth Anne hopes to win back Penn's heart and redeem herself in his eyes. Will their love be rekindled or is it too late for a second chance? Find out in Redemption Gift, a story of love, forgiveness, and the magic of Christmas.
Redemption
Author: Mike Wilkerson
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9781433520778
Category : Exodus, The
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This story-oriented recovery book unfolds the back-story of redemption in Exodus to show how Jesus redeems us from the slavery of abuse and addiction and restores us to our created purpose, the worship of God.
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9781433520778
Category : Exodus, The
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This story-oriented recovery book unfolds the back-story of redemption in Exodus to show how Jesus redeems us from the slavery of abuse and addiction and restores us to our created purpose, the worship of God.
Redemption's Trial
Author: Isabella Nasya
Publisher: Isabella Nasya
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
In a small town just outside of the Research Triangle in North Carolina, a town is turned upside down, when one of their own is sentenced to life in prison for the death of his young wife. Sasha Matthews was diagnosed with ALS when her son David was only six months old. Her husband, James, was sentenced to life in prison for her death in the year 2000. James had finished his residency the previous year and had accepted a position at a local pediatrics clinic. James has carried a secret for the past twenty-four years of his sentence as he has tried to navigate life on the inside of North Carolina’s Central Prison. The secret haunts him as he searches for redemption, forgiveness, and tries to make a fresh start and right wrongs. With the testimony and witness of fellow inmates, the kindness of some correctional officers, will James be able to turn his life around and find the redemption he desires before it is too late?
Publisher: Isabella Nasya
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
In a small town just outside of the Research Triangle in North Carolina, a town is turned upside down, when one of their own is sentenced to life in prison for the death of his young wife. Sasha Matthews was diagnosed with ALS when her son David was only six months old. Her husband, James, was sentenced to life in prison for her death in the year 2000. James had finished his residency the previous year and had accepted a position at a local pediatrics clinic. James has carried a secret for the past twenty-four years of his sentence as he has tried to navigate life on the inside of North Carolina’s Central Prison. The secret haunts him as he searches for redemption, forgiveness, and tries to make a fresh start and right wrongs. With the testimony and witness of fellow inmates, the kindness of some correctional officers, will James be able to turn his life around and find the redemption he desires before it is too late?
Beyond Redemption
Author: Carole Emberton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602427X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone’s lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists who would bring an end to Reconstruction in the late 1870s, this crucial concept informed the ways in which many people—both black and white, northerner and southerner—imagined the transformation of the American South. Beyond Redemption explores how the violence of a protracted civil war shaped the meaning of freedom and citizenship in the new South. Here, Carole Emberton traces the competing meanings that redemption held for Americans as they tried to come to terms with the war and the changing social landscape. While some imagined redemption from the brutality of slavery and war, others—like the infamous Ku Klux Klan—sought political and racial redemption for their losses through violence. Beyond Redemption merges studies of race and American manhood with an analysis of post-Civil War American politics to offer unconventional and challenging insight into the violence of Reconstruction.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602427X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone’s lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists who would bring an end to Reconstruction in the late 1870s, this crucial concept informed the ways in which many people—both black and white, northerner and southerner—imagined the transformation of the American South. Beyond Redemption explores how the violence of a protracted civil war shaped the meaning of freedom and citizenship in the new South. Here, Carole Emberton traces the competing meanings that redemption held for Americans as they tried to come to terms with the war and the changing social landscape. While some imagined redemption from the brutality of slavery and war, others—like the infamous Ku Klux Klan—sought political and racial redemption for their losses through violence. Beyond Redemption merges studies of race and American manhood with an analysis of post-Civil War American politics to offer unconventional and challenging insight into the violence of Reconstruction.
Life After Murder
Author: Nancy Mullane
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1610390296
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
An award-winning journalist and producer of This American Life traces the stories of five convicted murderers to assess their struggles for redemption, efforts toward parole and first steps in transitioning back to civilian life. 25,000 first printing.
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1610390296
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
An award-winning journalist and producer of This American Life traces the stories of five convicted murderers to assess their struggles for redemption, efforts toward parole and first steps in transitioning back to civilian life. 25,000 first printing.
Code of Iowa
Author: Iowa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2440
Book Description