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Author : Dirk Dunbar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478755067
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Basketball Junkie written by Dirk Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Herren
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429924144
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Basketball Junkie written by Chris Herren and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was dead for thirty seconds. That's what the cop in Fall River told me. When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat. At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams on his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created their own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, best hope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories. Herren was heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonald's All-American, featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story, and at just seventeen years old became the central figure in Fall River Dreams, an acclaimed book about the 1994 Durfee team's quest for the state championship. Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry Tarkanian's Fresno State Bulldogs team of talented misfits, which included future NBA players as well as future convicted felons. His gritty, tattooed, hip-hop persona drew the ire of rival fans and more national attention: Rolling Stone profiled him, 60 Minutes interviewed him, and the Denver Nuggets drafted him. When the Boston Celtics acquired his contract, he lived the dream of every Massachusetts kid—but off the court Herren was secretly crumbling, as his alcohol and drug use escalated and his life spiraled out of control. Twenty years later, Chris Herren was married to his high-school sweetheart, the father of three young children, and a heroin junkie. His basketball career was over, consumed by addictions; he had no job, no skills, and was a sadly familiar figure to those in Fall River who remembered him as a boy, now prowling the streets he once ruled, looking for a fix. One day, for a time he cannot remember, he would die. In his own words, Chris Herren tells how he nearly lost everything and everyone he loved, and how he found a way back to life. Powerful, honest, and dramatic, Basketball Junkie is a remarkable memoir, harrowing in its descent, and heartening in its return.
Author : Norman Chad
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871135841
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hold On, Honey, I'll Take You to the Hospital at Halftime written by Norman Chad and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started 50 years ago with a few TV baseball games. Now, every man who's not out in the woods finding his inner wild man is plunked down in front of a 27-inch diagonal screen watching football, basketball, hockey, darts, the Olympics--anything that even faintly resembles a "sport". This hilarious, biting, incisive book takes a look at the hugely popular phenomenon of television sports.
Author : Dirk Dunbar
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478755059
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Renewing the Balance written by Dirk Dunbar and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renewing the Balance, Dirk Dunbar shows how the balance worshipped in ancient Earth wisdom traditions is being integrated into Western culture’s dominantly masculine, rational value system. Filled with hope, revelations regarding cultural evolution, and scholarship of the highest order, Dunbar’s book passionately challenges all of us to recover the archaic reverence for the natural world, to reconsider the limits of growth, progress, and mechanistic thinking, and to join in the newly reclaimed celebration of life that fosters peace and the potential for a sustainable future. Dirk Dunbar’s Renewing the Balance is a crucial and comprehensive account of how traditional cultures maintained a healthy balance that preserved our natural world and how our modern technocratic, economic ideology has produced a culture that is dangerously out of balance. It is at once a diagnosis of our dis-ease and a prescription for healing our collective psyche, polis, and environment. A truly fascinating philosophical adventure. ~Sam Keen Author of 12 books, including The Passionate Life and Hymns to an Unknown God Renewing the Balance brings depth and breadth to our efforts to understand how Western culture evolved as it did and to appreciate the many streams that now flow into our efforts to manifest ecological wisdom in a hypermodern world. ~Charlene Spretnak Author of 9 books, including States of Grace and The Resurgence of the Real
Author : Norman Chad
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871135841
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hold On, Honey, I'll Take You to the Hospital at Halftime written by Norman Chad and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started 50 years ago with a few TV baseball games. Now, every man who's not out in the woods finding his inner wild man is plunked down in front of a 27-inch diagonal screen watching football, basketball, hockey, darts, the Olympics--anything that even faintly resembles a "sport". This hilarious, biting, incisive book takes a look at the hugely popular phenomenon of television sports.
Author : Dirk Dunbar
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Balance of Nature's Polarities in New Paradigm Theory written by Dirk Dunbar and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed of scholars such as Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Fritjof Capra, Theodore Roszak, and Sam Keen, the New-Paradigm movement purports that Western culture is reintegrating an ecological, feminine impulse into its dominantly masculine, rational value system. By surveying the scholarship and focusing its message, this study shows how the West's valorization of reason, control, and progress forced the awareness of nature's balance as exhibited in Earth wisdom, underground for over two millenia, until the spiritual revolution of the 1960s initiated an extensive attempt to reintegrate it.
Author : Billy Packer
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN 13 : 9780809253050
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hoops! written by Billy Packer and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1985 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rick Barry
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780131674455
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Basketball Gypsy written by Rick Barry and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian M Wiprud
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429919256
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Feelers written by Brian M Wiprud and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morty Martinez is known in the industry of estate liquidation as a "feeler." If you were to look him up in the Brooklyn yellow pages, he would be listed under "home content removal," but his real job is looking for stashes of cash crammed into tin cans that have been left out of wills, kept out of banks, and hidden away for decades by the frugal elderly suspicious of ATMs and the IRS. When Morty hits upon the biggest score of his life, over $800,000.00, he knows that news travels fast and he must operate quickly and carefully to safeguard his booty, his life and his destiny as patrician of a seaside Mexican village. But what he doesn't know is that there are others after the same buried treasure, including the recently paroled prison assassin Danny Kessel.
Author : Lindsey Leavitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619631954
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Going Vintage written by Lindsey Leavitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
