wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson
ISBN: 9780060097745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Part sports star, part antihero, part hip-hop icon, Allen Iverson has managed to cross over into the mainstream of American culture -- without compromise. Defiantly tattooed, with his hair in cornrows, the six-foot Philadelphia 76ers point guard is one of the most recognizable and controversial stars of the sports world. His meteoric rise from a troubled childhood in the ghetto to NBA superstardom has been marked by five straight playoff appearances, including a finals berth in 2001 and an MVP award. From his rap sheet to his rap album, fans and journalists alike hound his every move. But... Part sports star, part antihero, part hip-hop icon, Allen Iverson has managed to cross over into the mainstream of American culture -- without comp... |
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78,58 zł |
New Jack Jocks
ISBN: 9781592131914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Offering profiles of the athletes we love, this book shows how they live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we come to understand their lives in and out of the halls of play.
Offering profiles of the athletes we love, this book shows how they live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we com...
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109,50 zł |
New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race, and the American Athlete
ISBN: 9781566399548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Latrell Sprewell, Allen Iverson, John McEnroe, Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan - these are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport. In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand and alter race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each other...
Latrell Sprewell, Allen Iverson, John McEnroe, Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan - these are characters of our national imaginatio...
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260,85 zł |
Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery
ISBN: 9781982101244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. “Jon Dorenbos is a magical person. Life Is Magic shows how we can all choose happiness in the face of overwhelming odds.” —Ellen DeGeneres An extraordinary and empowering story of resilience, forgiveness, and living a life of purpose in the face of unfathomable obstacles. You might recognize him as an NFL All-Pro or as an elite magician who made the finals of America’s Got Talent and regularly appears on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. But Jon Dorenbos says that what he does is not who he is. Who he is is someone forced, at the most tender of ages, to coach himself into turning...
“Jon Dorenbos is a magical person. Life Is Magic shows how we can all choose happiness in the face of overwhelming odds.” —Ellen DeGeneres An...
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117,94 zł |
Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery
ISBN: 9781982101251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,58 zł |
Just Tell Me I Can't: How Jamie Moyer Defied the Radar Gun and Defeated Time
ISBN: 9781455521579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long-time fans of the National Pastime have known Moyer's name for more than 25 years. That's because he's been pitching in the bigs for all those years.
With his trademark three pitches - slow, slower, and slowest - the left-handed Moyer is a pinpoint specialist whose won-lost record actually got better as he got older -- from his 20s to his 30s and into 40s. He's only a few wins shy of 300 for his amazing career. But this is where the book takes an unusual turn. Moyer was just about finished as a big leaguer in his mid-20s until he fatefully encountered a gravel-voiced, highly... Long-time fans of the National Pastime have known Moyer's name for more than 25 years. That's because he's been pitching in the bigs for all those yea...
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96,05 zł |
Disrupted: Strategy for Exponential Change
ISBN: 9780994376909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "People don't get exponential" - Nicholas Negroponte In the next 5 years, global Machine-to-Machine connections will grow by 400% from 5 billion to over 20 billion. In the past six years Uber has grown from a mere app to a 50 billion-dollar business. The driverless electric car is a reality, and the noxious methane gas that once escaped the Artic Ocean in meter-wide plumes now bubbles out of the water in kilometer-wide columns. This is exponential change... and it's happening now We are in an environment where the exponential... "People don't get exponential" - Nicholas Negroponte In the next 5 years, global Machine-to-Machine connections wil... |
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87,14 zł |