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History, Criticism, Arts and entertainment
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Sports and games
Are you sitting comfortably? Then Jeff will begin ... The universally-loved, award-winning host of Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday and Channel… 4's Countdown, and author of the bestselling Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly, returns with a Jackanory-style, football-flavoured narrative which gathers together the funniest, weirdest, most tragic, most heart-warming, under-the-radar stories of the football season. The book is stuffed to the gunnels with behind-the-scenes revelations, opinions and personal anecdotes from Jeff, and has a strong leaning towards the absurdities of both the highest levels and the grass-roots of the game. From the Macclesfield goalkeeper booked for using a golf tee to take his goal kicks, to the unintelligible ranting and raving of South American dictator chairmen. Let Jeff be your trusted guide through the madness of the football season, and let Jeffanory supply you with a veritable treasure trove of great anecdotes to take to the pub.
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Criticism, Music, Religion, General non-fiction
Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox… lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Karen E. H. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype in Women of Valor to identify a powerful tradition of feminist literary portrayals of Orthodox women, often created by Orthodox women themselves. She examines Orthodox women as they appear in memoirs, comics, novels, and movies, and speaks with the authors, filmmakers, and musicians who create these representations. Throughout the work, Skinazi threads lines from the poem “Eshes Chayil,” the Biblical description of an Orthodox “Woman of Valor.” This proverb unites Orthodoxy and feminism in a complex relationship, where Orthodox women continuously question, challenge, and negotiate Orthodox and feminist values. Ultimately, these women create paths that unite their work, passions, and families under the framework of an “Eshes Chayil,” a woman who situates religious conviction within her own power.
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Sports biography, Sports and games
The story of America s most sacred and carefully constructed football dynasty is revealed in this unflinching family… portrait For generations American athletes have enjoyed the ever-escalating celebrity lavished upon them when they combine on-the-field talent with off-the field charisma but never before have we seen as transformative a sports dynasty as the Mannings a bloodline of strong arms Southern values and savvy business instincts each man compelling in his own right made whole by family But how in just fifty years did this private trio achieve football immortality A gripping and definitive account In the Name of the Father traces Archie Peyton and Eli s roots from red-clay Mississippi to the bright lights of the Super Bowl to reveal the truth of their grit and dedication their inherent ability and the drama they endured behind closed doors As New York Times Notable biographer Mark Ribowsky meticulously chronicles the road to football stardom was not paved smoothly for patriarch Archie The most celebrated and beloved athlete to emerge from tiny Drew Mississippi Archie lost his father to suicide during his heyday at Ole Miss Then despite his playing through the pain a string of surgeries prematurely ended a storied NFL career most memorably spent with the New Orleans Saints Similar savior-like expectations were passed to Archie s eldest Cooper the most gifted of his brood but the shocking discovery of a spinal condition prevented Cooper from ever playing a single snap of college ball Luckily Archie had been raising all three of his sons to love the gridiron throwing deep balls to them off the front porch and there were two more heir apparents in the wings Raised watching dusty old game films in the family den Peyton was swiftly hailed as a generational talent his record-breaking tenure at Tennessee paving a clear path to the NFL Winning Super Bowls with both the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos he was able to overcome a debilitating neck injury after barely being able to hold a football to eclipse Archie in football success It was Peyton who would first pair his football cachet with capitalism selecting commercials and appearances to show off his humor and expand the now-ubiquitous Manning brand into mainstream popular culture And finally there was quiet Eli with an arm and a career to match his big brother s but a reserved and enigmatic affect all his own The good-boy who followed his father to Ole Miss Eli entered the NFL even more carefully managed then his brother was forcing a trade when the lackluster San Diego Chargers selected him with the first pick in the draft Even with two dramatic Super Bowl wins with the New York Giants Eli s lows have been catastrophic and he has never been quite the media darling his brother is But even as their football careers wind down the power of the Manning name only grows Drawing on new interviews and research Ribowsky reveals a family of transcendent talent and intense loyalty dedicated to maintaining an all-American fa ade that has on occasion shown cracks From the family s past steeped in problematic parts of Southern identity to locker-room scandal turned lawsuit to flashes of fraternal jealousy Ribowsky leaves no stone unturned Rich in gridiron dramatics and familial intrigue In the Name of the Father is a quintessentially American saga of a multifaceted lineage that has forever changed the game
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Criticism, General non-fiction
The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and… criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of “separate spheres”—one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women’s political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, Tricia Lootens models a nineteenth-century domestic or private sphere whose imaginary, apolitical heart is also the heart of nation and empire, and, as revisionist histories increasingly attest, is traumatized and haunted by histories of slavery. Setting aside late Victorian attempts to forget the unfulfilled, sentimental promises of early antislavery victories, The Political Poetess restores Poetess performances like Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” to view—and with them, the vitality of the Black Poetess within African-American public life. Crossing boundaries of nation, period, and discipline to “connect the dots” of Poetess performance, Lootens demonstrates how new histories and ways of reading position poetic texts by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Mulock Craik, George Eliot, and Frances E. W. Harper as convergence points for larger engagements ranging from Germaine de Staël to G.W.F. Hegel, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Walker, and beyond.
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Arts and entertainment, Sports and games
The legendary boxer s personal photographer from 1977 1978 shares fascinating stories and stunning rare photographs… Michael Gaffney traveled the world with Muhammad Ali covered three fights took eight thousand photographs and produced hours of recordings that pieced together in this book define and reveal an authentic Ali Poignant funny and brutally honest this book reveals the struggles of the legendary fighter who fought to stay in the game he loved This is a dramatic and up-close look at the trilogy of Ali s fights from 1977 1978 A tough win against Earnie Shavers a shocking loss to Leon Spinks and a glorious redemptive comeback victory to win the World Heavyweight Championship for an unprecedented third time a feat never accomplished before or since Filled with dramatic photos The Champ is also a compelling personal journey inside the good heart and courageous spirit of one of the most extraordinary people of our lifetime The Champ is one helluva achievement and one helluva book Bert Randolph Sugar Hall of Fame boxing historian
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Sports and games, Travel and geography
Hike through tranquil pine forests and across vast prairies of wildflowers With Moon 75 Great Hikes Minneapolis … St Paul adventure is just outside your door Inside you ll find A Hike for Everyone ranging from short flat routes suitable for families to daylong treks for more ambitious hikers with options to extend or shorten the journey All hikes are rated for difficulty and indicate if they are wheelchair-accessible or dog-friendlyExplore the Trails Highlights like lakes rivers waterfalls historic sites wildlife and wildflowers are noted for each hike Maps and Directions Get around with easy-to-use maps point-by-point navigation and detailed driving directions to each trailhead with GPS coordinates and public transit options when availableTop Hikes throughout the Twin Cities Metro Area including Brainerd Lakes and the Mississippi River Valley the St Croix River Valley the Minnesota River Valley and Southern MinnesotaTrusted Advice Expert outdoorsman and Minnesota native Jake Kulju has been hiking the greater Twin Cities since childhoodTips and Tools Essentials like health and safety information trail etiquette and background on the landscape and history of the trailsWhether you re a veteran hiker or a first-timer Moon s comprehensive coverage and strategic advice will have you ready to lace up your hiking boots and head out on your next adventure Looking to experience more of the Midwest s beauty Try Moon Michigan s Upper Peninsula or Moon Wisconsin
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Criticism
From Harold Bloom one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time as well as a beloved professor who… has taught the Bard for over half a century an intimate wise deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff Shakespeare s greatest enduring and complex comedic character Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare s three Henry plays Henry IV Parts One and Two and Henry V He is companion to Prince Hal the future Henry V who loves him goads him teases him indulges his vast appetites and commits all sorts of mischief with him some innocent some cruel Falstaff can be lewd funny careless of others a bad creditor an unreliable friend and in the end devastatingly reckless in his presumption of loyalty from the new King Award-winning author and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal Just as we encounter one type of Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are young adults and another when we are middle-aged Bloom writes about his own shifting understanding of Falstaff over the course of his lifetime Ultimately we come away with a deeper appreciation of this profoundly complex character and the book as a whole becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare s characters make He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy and clarity in Falstaff inviting us to look at a character as a flawed human who might live in our world The result is deeply intimate and utterly compelling
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Journals and memoirs, Writing, Criticism
From Charles Johnson--a National Book Award winner Professor Emeritus at University of Washington and one of America s… preeminent scholars on literature and race--comes an instructive inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing An award-winning novelist philosopher essayist screenwriter professor and cartoonist Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit His 1990 National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage is a modern classic revered as much for its daring plot as its philosophical underpinnings For thirty-three years Johnson taught and mentored students in the art and craft of creative writing The Way of the Writer is his record of those years and the coda to a kaleidoscopic boundary-shattering career Organized into six accessible easy-to-navigate sections The Way of the Writer is both a literary reflection on the creative impulse and a utilitarian guide to the writing process Johnson shares his lessons and exercises from the classroom starting with word choice sentence structure and narrative voice and delving into the mechanics of scene dialogue plot and storytelling before exploring the larger questions at stake for the serious writer What separates literature from industrial fiction What lies at the heart of the creative impulse How does one navigate the literary world And how are philosophy and fiction concomitant Luminous inspiring and imminently accessible The Way of the Writer is a revelatory glimpse into the mind of the writer and an essential guide for anyone with a story to tell
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General non-fiction, Sports and games
This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South Analysing the spread… of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles the book highlights how the celebration of sportive nationalism promoting sports markets in the Global South reinforces patriarchal ethno-nationalist authoritarian sports cultures By explaining how the realm of social reproduction involving households and communities is integral for play and sports the book challenges the market-driven sports and development agenda while arguing for a sports commons By foregrounding issues of justice and care the book highlights how struggles for recognition redistribution and representation are central to reimagining sports within an alternative notion of work play and resistance
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United States history, Sports and games
In the tradition of Michael Lewis s Moneyball award-winning historian S C Gwynne tells the incredible story of… how two unknown coaches revolutionized American football at every level from high school to the NFL Hal Mumme is one of a handful of authentic offensive geniuses in the history of American football The Perfect Pass is the story of how he irreverently destroyed and re-created the game Mumme spent fourteen mostly losing seasons coaching football before inventing a potent passing offense that would soon shock players delight fans and terrify opposing coaches The revolution he fomented began at a tiny overlooked college called Iowa Wesleyan where Mumme was head coach and Mike Leach a lawyer who had never played college football was hired as his offensive line coach In the cornfields of Iowa while scribbling plays on paper napkins these two mad inventors drawn together by a shared disregard for conventionalism and a love for Jimmy Buffett began to engineer the purest most extreme passing game in the 145-year history of football Implementing their Air Raid offense their teams--at Iowa Wesleyan and later at Valdosta State and the University of Kentucky--played blazingly fast--faster than any team ever had before and they routinely beat teams with far more talented athletes And Mumme and Leach did it all without even a playbook Their quarterback once completed sixty-one of eighty-six passes both collegiate records In The Perfect Pass S C Gwynne explores Mumme s leading role in changing football from a run-dominated sport to a pass-dominated one the game that tens of millions of Americans now watch every fall weekend Whether you re a casual or ravenous football fan this is a truly compelling story of American ingenuity and how a set of revolutionary ideas made their way from the margins into the hot center of the game we celebrate today
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Criticism
This book repositions thinking about rhythm meter and versification during the Mechanical Age … Cutting across disciplinary boundaries the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also contemporary thinking about labor practices pedagogical procedures scientific experiments and technological innovations By offering an exploded definition of meter one that extends beyond conventional foot-based scansion this book explicates the conceptual and at times material exchanges between poetic meter and machine culture The machines of meter include mid-century theories of abstraction and technologies of smoothness and even spacing a deeply influential though rarely credited system of metrical manufacture verse produced by a Victorian automaton the mechanics of the human body and mind and the meters that issued from them and the promise of scientific machines to resolve metrical dilemmas once and for all
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Biography, Literature biography, Criticism
A revealing and insightful look at one of the modern world s most acclaimed historical novelistsPatrick O Brian was well… into his seventies when the world fell in love with his greatest creation the maritime adventures of Royal Navy Captain Jack Aubrey and ship s surgeon Stephen Maturin But despite his fame little detail was available about the life of the reclusive author whose mysterious past King uncovers in this groundbreaking biography King traces O Brian s personal history beginning as a London-born Protestant named Richard Patrick Russ to his tortured relationship with his first wife and child to his emergence from World War II with the entirely new identity under which he would publish twenty volumes in the Aubrey-Maturin series What King unearths is a life no less thrilling than the seafaring world of O Brian s imagination
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Journals and memoirs, Sports and games, United States travel and geography
Based on his popular New York Times series bestselling author Bruce Weber shares the adventures of his solo bicycle… ride from coast to coast P Riding a bicycle across the United States is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few fulfill During the summer and fall of 2011 at the age of fifty-seven Bruce Weber an obituary writer for The New York Times made the trip alone and wrote about it as it unfolded mile by mile a vivid and immediate report of the self-powered life on the road P Now expanding upon the articles and blog posts that quickly became a must-read adventure story Weber gives us Life Is a Wheel a witty inspiring and reflective diary of his journey in which the challenges and rewards of self-reliance and strenuous physical effort yield wry and incisive observations about cycling and America not to mention the pleasures of a three-thousand-calorie breakfast P The story begins on the Oregon coast with Weber wondering what he s gotten himself into and ends in triumph on New York City s George Washington Bridge From Going-to-the-Sun Road in the northern Rockies to the headwaters of the Mississippi and through the cityscapes of Chicago and Pittsburgh his encounters with people and places provide us with an intimate two-wheeled perspective of America And with thousands of miles to travel Weber considers when he s not dealing with tractor-trailers lightning storms dehydration headwinds and loneliness his past his family and the echo that a well-lived life leaves behind P Part travelogue part memoir part romance part paean to the bicycle as a simple mode of both mobility and self-expression and part bemused and panicky account of a middle-aged man s attempt to stave off well you know Life Is a Wheel is an elegant and beguiling escape for biking enthusiasts armchair travelers and any readers who are older than they were yesterday
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European history, Criticism, Arts and entertainment, Politics and government, General non-fiction
This book examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing the conditions of refugees the stateless and the… dispossessed In the light of the European Union failing to find a political solution to the current migration crisis it considers a variety of artistic works that have challenged the deficiencies in governmental and transnational practices as well as innovative efforts by migrants and their hosts to imagine and build a new future It discusses a diverse range of performative strategies moving from a consideration of recent adaptations of Greek tragedy to performances employing fictive identification documentary dramas immersive theatre over-identification and subversive identification nomadism and political activism This study will appeal to those interested in questions of statelessness migration and the problematic role of the nation-state
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Literature biography, Anthologies, Criticism
A prominent and prolific Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg 1916-1991 is known for her novels plays … short stories and essays This collection brings together for an English-speaking audience a variety of critical perspectives on Ginzburg s work The essays all by North American scholars examine the author s entire production The topics examined include Ginzburg s struggle to define herself as a woman a writer and an intellectual her interpretation of the relationship between historical events and private lives her reflections on the women s movement and the changing nature of the family and her mastery of a distinctly personal writing style What emerges here is a nuanced and complex portrait of Ginzburg and her work The reader is given a sense of the importance of her contribution not only as a writer but as a witness to the events of the twentieth century The volume also includes a chronology a bibliography and translations of some of Ginzburg s lesser-known writings including three articles a poem and a one-act play
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Criticism, Sports and games
Fishers Craft and Lettered Art provides editions English translations and analysis from social cultural and… environmental perspectives of the three oldest European extended tracts on fishing Richard Hoffmann discusses the history of fishing in popular culture and outlines the economic and ecologic considerations needed to examine and understand the fishing manuals Hoffmann further explores how continental fishing traditions were conveyed from oral craft practice into printed culture and proposes that these manuals demonstrate a lively and complex interaction between written texts and popular culture The tracts are presented in their original languages - Spanish and German - with facing page translations Close attention is paid to original setting functions and possible range of readings with detailed explanatory notes to help modern fishers and historians Fishers Craft and Lettered Art is a fascinating look at one vital aspect of everyday life at the end of the Middle Ages
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Criticism
Exorcism and demonic possession appear as recurrent motifs in early modern Spanish and English literatures In Exorcism and Its… Texts Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this infection was represented in some thirty works of literature by fifteen different authors ranging from canonical classics like Shakespeare Cervantes Ben Jonson and Lope de Vega to obscure works by anonymous writers From comic and tragic drama to picaresque narrative and eight other genres possession worked as a paradigm through which authors could convey extraordinary experience including not only demonic possession but also madness or even murder The devil was thought to be able to enter the bodily organs and infect memory imagination and reason Some came to believe that possession was tied to enthusiasm poetic frenzy prophecy and genius Authors often drew upon sensational details of actual exorcisms In some cases such as in Shakespeare curing the body and the body politic meant affirming cultural authority in others as with Zamora it clearly meant subverting it Drawing on the disciplines of literary theory and history Exorcism and its Texts is the first comprehensive study of this compelling topic
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Giovanni Boccaccio s Decameron is the best known and most read work in Italian literature next to Dante s Divine… Comedy In the tradition of Lectura Dantis the practice of story-by-story critical readings of Dante s work Elissa Weaver has collected essays from some of the most prominent American Boccaccio scholars to provide critical readings of the Decameron Proem Introduction and the ten stories that constitute the first of the ten days of storytelling The first of the twelve essays opens the volume with a consideration of the Proem demonstrating the importance of Boccaccio s literary subtexts Ovidian and Dantean for understanding his poetics The second essay on the Introduction discusses the title of the work and the framing tale The remaining ten contributions treat in detail each story examining the literary ethical and social concerns embodied in the short narratives and in the context provided by the comments and discussions of the story-tellers and exploring the intertextual relations within the Decameron and with sources and analogues This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constitute the opening of the Decameron and will serve as a guide to reading the entire work
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Arts and entertainment, Criticism, General non-fiction
Broken Time Fragmented Space A Cultural Map for Post-war Italy examines how the artists and intellectuals of post-war… Italy dealt with the shameful heritage of their fascist upbringing and education by trying to craft a new cultural identity for themselves and the country The continuities between the culture of the fascist and post-fascist periods were however far greater than what intellectuals were ready to admit creating an uncomfortable sometimes schizophrenic relation to time as a painful urge to erase the past Drawing on a variety of critical approaches Torriglia investigates the efforts to reconstruct a personal as well as a collective self by analyzing both canonical and lesser-known cinematic and literary texts Organized around four main themes - the use of language the interaction between personal and public spheres the perceptual categories of history and memory and the reconstruction of the female identity - the study also includes historical introductions and sociological commentary that provides an extensive and captivating picture of the cultural production in 1950s Italy a period that has not yet been extensively studied