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For the first time, the legendary Hall of Fame hockey player and six-time Stanley Cup champion tells the impressive story…
of his life and career, and shares the lessons he's learned about leadership. Mark Messier is one of the most accomplished athletes and dynamic leaders in the history of professional sports. He won the Stanley Cup five times with the Edmonton Oilers during their dynasty years, and once more with the New York Rangers, ending the team's fifty-four-year championship drought. He is second on the all-time career lists for playoff points, and third for regular season games played and for regular season points. Notably, he is the only player to have captained two different NHL franchises to championships. The amazing records are there for anyone to see, but few people know the real Mark Messier. This is his story. Messier reveals the astonishing journey he took to making NHL history, and the leadership philosophy he learned along the way. He recounts never-before-told tales from his childhood as the son of a hockey player, coach, and special education teacher; his years as a teammate and friend of Wayne Gretzky; and his evolution from a brash eighteen-year-old rookie to a distinctive captain and champion. Though bruising on the ice, he led teams with a deep understanding of what inspires and motivates people. He shares the advice he got from the inspirational leaders who had the greatest influence on him, and the lessons he gleaned from the pivotal successes—and sometimes failures—of his career. More than a book about hockey, No One Wins Alone demonstrates what it means to build a life, achieve dreams, and support the people around you. "My real wish," Messier says, "is to inspire people to reach their full potential."
Coanchor of Nightline and Good Morning America recounts his recreational drug use and 2004 nationally televised panic attack that--coupled with…
overextension at work and his stint covering religion--prompted him to practice meditation, which he asserts led to increased calm, focus, and happiness in his life. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2014
A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of Canada's best sports writers.Canadian hockey is approaching a…
state of crisis. It's become more expensive, more exclusive, and effectively off-limits to huge swaths of the potential sports-loving population. Youth registration numbers are stagnant; efforts to appeal to new Canadians are often grim at best; the game, increasingly, does not resemble the country of which it's for so long been an integral part. These signs worried Sean Fitz-Gerald. As a lifelong hockey fan and father of a young mixed-race son falling headlong in love with the game, he wanted to get to the roots of these issues. His entry point: a season with the Peterborough Petes, a storied OHL team far from its former glory in a once-emblematic Canadian city that is finding itself on the wrong side of the country's changing demographics. Fitz-Gerald profiles the players, coaches and front office staff, a mix of world-class talents with NHL aspirations and Peterborough natives happy with more modest dreams. Through their experiences, their widely varied motivations and expectations, we get a rich, colourful understanding of who ends up playing hockey in Canada and why. Fitz-Gerald interweaves the action of the season with portraits of public figures who've shaped and been shaped by the game: authors who captured its spirit, politicians who exploited it, and broadcasters who try to embody and sell it. He finds his way into community meetings full of angry season ticket holders, as well as into sterile boardrooms full of the sport's institutional brain trust, unable to break away from the inertia of tradition and hopelessly at war with itself. Before the Lights Go Out is a moving, funny, yet unsettling picture of a sport at a crossroads. Fitz-Gerald's warm but rigorous journalistic approach reads, in the end, like a letter to a troubled friend: it's not too late to save hockey in this country, but who has the will to do it?
Monk and spiritual director of Australian Buddhist society presents the discipline of mindfulness--focusing on being present in the moment--and challenges…
practitioners to the additional step of being kindful--making positive choices in the moment. Shares techniques and meditations on developing a sense of kindfulness. 2016
Tenzin Gyatso, el decimocuarto Dalai Lama del Tibet, extrae prácticas de meditación del Budismo tradicional para presentar paso a paso…
ejercicios contemplativos diseñados para expandir la capacidad de enriquecimiento espiritual del lector, junto con marcas claras para reconocer su progreso. Traducido de la edición en inglés del Dr. Jeffrey Hopkins
Hanh presents his guide to developing what he deems the most powerful inner resource--silence--to find happiness, purpose, and peace. Includes…
exercises such as careful breathing and mindfulness techniques. Hanh's stated aims include helping readers to become truly present in the moment, to recognize the beauty around, and to find harmony. 2015
Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. After the 2011 disaster at the plant,…
her family was unable to bury her grandfather due to radiation levels. Grieving, Mockett journeys into the radiation zone and investigates death-centered rituals in Japan. 2015
Two scholars explore the medieval Christian tale of Barlaam and Josaphat, which, they propose, is actually the story of Siddhartha…
Gautama--the Buddha--the telling of which slowly evolved in cultural retellings as travelers made their way along the Silk Road to the West. 2014
Guide to the practice of meditation using Buddhist principles. Encourages the contemplation of enlightenment to generate the qualities of love,…
compassion, generosity, and patience. Revised from 1997 edition. Includes a foreword by the Dalai Lama. 2006
An American living in Japan recounts the year she spent on personal growth and reflection while her husband left for…
a year of training as a Zen monk. Discusses her devotion to making pottery during this time and reflects on the nature of love, art, suffering, and more. 2018
Autobiography of hockey great Bobby Orr (born 1948), who played with the Boston Bruins from 1966 to 1976, then retired…
after two seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks. Orr highlights his idyllic Canadian childhood, time in the minor leagues, professional success, and the injuries that ended his career. 2013
Médico y autor de superventas Deepak Chopra explora lo que él considera los secretos de la felicidad. Propone tomando conciencia…
del cuerpo, descubriendo la verdadera autoestima, desintoxicando la vida, dejando de tener la razón, concentrando en el presente, descubriendo el mundo dentro de nosotros, y viviendo para la iluminación. Traducido del Inglés
American Buddhist nun describes applying her religion's philosophy to achieve happiness. Explains using eight worldly dharma or basic Buddhist beliefs…
to communicate, experience difficult emotions, and become compassionate. Spanish language. 1998
Zen teacher and psychoanalyst Magid discusses the ways the concept of pursuing happiness may have contraindicative effects. Discusses practices of…
meditation, the differences and confluences of zen and psychoanalysis, and what it means to accept situations as they are versus attempting to improve the situation. 2008
A specialist in Indo-Tibetan philosophy and meditation theory provides a succinct introduction to the core doctrines and practices, main religious…
orders, and historical evolution of the Mahayana Buddhist faith of Central Asia. 2008
Thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012. Scott Carney, an investigative journalist…
and anthropologist who lived in India for six years and study Tibetan Buddaism there, was struck by how Thorson's demise resembled the suicide of a young women he knew on a silent meditation retreat half a decade earlier. Is there a connection between intensive meditation and mental instability? Unrated
Follows the early years of Lhamo Thondup (born 1935), who was recognized as the fourteenth Dalai Lama at age two.…
Discusses his transition from simple mountain boy to spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Explains the politics and events that led to his exile. For grades 4-7. 2008
“Emrick loves stories and loves to tell them. Yesterday in broadcasting. Tomorrow in book form.” —Steve Simmons, Toronto Sun After…
nearly 50 years behind the microphone, the voice of hockey in America opens up in a must-read memoir. Mike “Doc” Emrick has seen everything there is to see in a hockey game. Sizzling slap shots. Commitment, courage, and camaraderie. Pugnacious pugilists. Game-winning goals. To hockey fans across the country, his voice—and vocabulary—have become synonymous with the game they love. In Off Mike, Doc takes readers back to the beginning, detailing how a Pittsburgh Pirates fan from small-town Indiana found himself in the wild world of professional hockey, calling games for the New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia Flyers, and finally NBC. He’s covered All-Star Games, Stanley Cup Finals, the Olympics, and everything in between, rubbing shoulders with hockey’s immortals both on and off the ice. Yet Doc’s life has had its share of ups and downs, from almost leaving behind the love of his life to the passing of beloved companions to personal health scares. After years of being welcomed into our homes, in this autobiography Doc welcomes us into his, revealing the stories, wit, and wisdom that have made him one of the most beloved figures in sports.
Part of the "Team Spirit" series, this history for young fans includes fun and interesting facts about Boston's professional hockey…
team, which was the first team from the U.S. to join the NHL. For grades 3-6