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
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.
The Computer Book
Author: Simson L. Garfinkel
Publisher: Union Square & Company
ISBN: 9781454926214
Category : Calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With 250 illustrated landmark inventions, publications, and events--encompassing everything from ancient record-keeping devices to the latest technologies--this highly topical addition to the Sterling Milestones series takes a chronological journey through the history and future of computer science. The topics include the first spam message, Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics, early programming languages and operating systems such as BASIC and UNIX, the microcomputer revolution, hacking, virtual reality, and more.
Publisher: Union Square & Company
ISBN: 9781454926214
Category : Calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With 250 illustrated landmark inventions, publications, and events--encompassing everything from ancient record-keeping devices to the latest technologies--this highly topical addition to the Sterling Milestones series takes a chronological journey through the history and future of computer science. The topics include the first spam message, Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics, early programming languages and operating systems such as BASIC and UNIX, the microcomputer revolution, hacking, virtual reality, and more.
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
Creativity and Convention
Author: Rosa E. Vega Moreno
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027253996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and convention in figurative interpretation, showing how features 'emerge' during metaphor comprehension and how literal meaning contributes to idiom comprehension. The central claim is that the mind is rather selective when processing information, and that in the pragmatic interpretation of both literal and figurative utterances, this selectivity often results in the creation of new ('ad hoc') concepts or the standardization of pragmatic routines. With this approach, the comprehension of metaphors and idioms requires no special pragmatic principles or procedures not required for the interpretation of ordinary literal utterances, but follows from an automatic tendency towards selective processing which is itself a by-product of Sperber and Wilson's Cognitive Principle of Relevance.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027253996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and convention in figurative interpretation, showing how features 'emerge' during metaphor comprehension and how literal meaning contributes to idiom comprehension. The central claim is that the mind is rather selective when processing information, and that in the pragmatic interpretation of both literal and figurative utterances, this selectivity often results in the creation of new ('ad hoc') concepts or the standardization of pragmatic routines. With this approach, the comprehension of metaphors and idioms requires no special pragmatic principles or procedures not required for the interpretation of ordinary literal utterances, but follows from an automatic tendency towards selective processing which is itself a by-product of Sperber and Wilson's Cognitive Principle of Relevance.
The Man-ual
Author: M. Rodriguez
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468910582
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Man-ual Part 1 is a collaboration of tips and advice from women of all walks of life on how THEY prefer to be approached by men. Learn the methods that have a higher success rate when you're considering approaching women in real life circumstances. If you ever wished women came with instructions, this may be as close as you're gonna get!
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468910582
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Man-ual Part 1 is a collaboration of tips and advice from women of all walks of life on how THEY prefer to be approached by men. Learn the methods that have a higher success rate when you're considering approaching women in real life circumstances. If you ever wished women came with instructions, this may be as close as you're gonna get!
The Slangman Guide to Street Speak 3
Author: David Burke
Publisher: SLANGMAN PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781891888229
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 3 continues the book series with even more popular slang and idioms that will help you understand any American!The 3rd book in the series introduces you to popular slang and idioms used in a variety of situations including dating ¿ everything from the pick up (¿beginning of a relationship¿) to the break up (¿end of a relationship¿) and everything in between!Once you learn all the slang used in dating, you¿ll definitely know if someone is either hitting on (¿flirting with¿) you or just not into (¿not interested in¿) you!The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 3 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:Dating & RelationshipsEmergency SituationsTelevision & EntertainmentTeens & Students (Jr. High through University)Being Politically CorrectSports (Popular Terms Used in Daily Conversations)Foreign Words that Americans Use Every DayAlliterations & Repeating WordsThe Slangman Files ¿ a special section in each chapter with slang & idioms used in categories
Publisher: SLANGMAN PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781891888229
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 3 continues the book series with even more popular slang and idioms that will help you understand any American!The 3rd book in the series introduces you to popular slang and idioms used in a variety of situations including dating ¿ everything from the pick up (¿beginning of a relationship¿) to the break up (¿end of a relationship¿) and everything in between!Once you learn all the slang used in dating, you¿ll definitely know if someone is either hitting on (¿flirting with¿) you or just not into (¿not interested in¿) you!The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 3 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:Dating & RelationshipsEmergency SituationsTelevision & EntertainmentTeens & Students (Jr. High through University)Being Politically CorrectSports (Popular Terms Used in Daily Conversations)Foreign Words that Americans Use Every DayAlliterations & Repeating WordsThe Slangman Files ¿ a special section in each chapter with slang & idioms used in categories
The Messages and Secrets of the Universe
Author: Ionel Rotaru
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039199151
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In the true story of a psychiatrist who learned to communicate with the Universe, Ionel Rotaru describes a new form of psychoanalysis—the Spiritual Psychoanalysis, which connects science with the Kingdom of Heaven, which demonstrates the ways of manifestation of the Supreme Consciousness of the Universe here on earth in the Material World. The Messages and Secrets of the Universe provides readers with a glimpse into the mysteries of the Universe, and these secrets reveal who we are as humans and our responsibilities on earth. As we trace our spiritual evolution, we discover that we are one with all creatures, and we are all moving toward divinity. Mr. Rotaru’s revelations came through bizarre, mysterious, and frightening situations that sent him a direct message for civilization. As he unfolds these epiphanies for readers, he shares from his own experience of profound loss and grief, and through this unveils the truth of our existence after this life. His messages shed light on all philosophies and religious/spiritual theories known to humanity. A book that will challenge conventional thought about mental health care and the spiritual dimension, The Messages and Secrets of the Universe is a valuable resource for professionals and laypeople alike!
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039199151
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In the true story of a psychiatrist who learned to communicate with the Universe, Ionel Rotaru describes a new form of psychoanalysis—the Spiritual Psychoanalysis, which connects science with the Kingdom of Heaven, which demonstrates the ways of manifestation of the Supreme Consciousness of the Universe here on earth in the Material World. The Messages and Secrets of the Universe provides readers with a glimpse into the mysteries of the Universe, and these secrets reveal who we are as humans and our responsibilities on earth. As we trace our spiritual evolution, we discover that we are one with all creatures, and we are all moving toward divinity. Mr. Rotaru’s revelations came through bizarre, mysterious, and frightening situations that sent him a direct message for civilization. As he unfolds these epiphanies for readers, he shares from his own experience of profound loss and grief, and through this unveils the truth of our existence after this life. His messages shed light on all philosophies and religious/spiritual theories known to humanity. A book that will challenge conventional thought about mental health care and the spiritual dimension, The Messages and Secrets of the Universe is a valuable resource for professionals and laypeople alike!