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The Dirty College Game

Corruption, Gambling and the Pursuit of Money in NCAA Football and Basketball

By: Al Figone

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The Dirty College Game

Corruption, Gambling and the Pursuit of Money in NCAA Football and Basketball

By: Al Figone

Commercial aspects of college football and basketball during the mid- to late 20th century were dominated by a few "get rich quick" schools. Though the NCAA was responsible for controlling such facets of college sports, the organization was unwilling and unable to control the excesses of the few who opposed the majority opinion. The result was a period of corruption, rules violations, unnecessary injuries and overspending. These events led to the formation of larger conferences, richer bowl games and rules intended to preserve the "money-making" value of college football and basketball. This book explores gambling, academic fraud, illegal booster activity and the single-minded pursuit of television contracts in college sports, as well as the NCAA's involvement--or lack thereof--in such cases.

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McFarland

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1476634815

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9781476634814

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

By: Al Franken

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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

By: Al Franken

From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum -- comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. "Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." -- Louise Erdrich, The New York Times This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it. It's a book about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast. In this candid personal memoir, the honorable gentleman from Minnesota takes his army of loyal fans along with him from Saturday Night Live to the campaign trail, inside the halls of Congress, and behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic and/or hilarious moments of his new career in politics. Has Al Franken become a true Giant of the Senate? Franken asks readers to decide for themselves.

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Twelve

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1455540439

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9781455540433

Poetry

By: Beverly Al- Kareem

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Poetry

By: Beverly Al- Kareem

Poetry has always been a way for me to express myself, inspire and uplift others. Working with “The CHARLES UNGER Experience” has given me the tools that I needed to develop my rhythm with verses that express language. The collaboration is an intensity of my imagination with the innovated sounds of the musicians that I have worked with. A vast variety of my poems has been a reflection of music that were written by the amazing “Charles Unger, and awesome Music Director “Sam Peoples.” Can’t Wait, is a collaboration from the CD Around the World, and Mr. 2am is from the CD Mr. 2am. The Charles Unger Experience has brought many musicians together the sounds that they bring has created a pass for me to create a platform to entertain an audience that enjoys the Art and Artists.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796061409

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9781796061406

The Biggest Game in Town

By: Al Alvarez

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The Biggest Game in Town

By: Al Alvarez

“The greatest dissection of high-stakes Vegas poker and the madness that surrounds it ever written.” —TimeOut Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981, a dedicated amateur poker player but a stranger to the town and its crazy ways. For three mesmerizing weeks he witnessed some of the monster high-stakes games that could only have happened in Vegas and talked to the extraordinary characters who dominated them—road gamblers and local professionals who won and lost fortunes on a regular basis. Set over the course of one tournament, The Biggest Game in Town is both the first chronicle of the World Series of Poker ever written and a portrait of the hustlers, madmen, and geniuses who ruled the high-stakes game in America. It is a brilliant insight into poker’s appeal as a hobby, an addiction, and a way of life, and into the skewed psychology of master players and fearless gamblers. With a new introduction by the author, Alvarez’s classic account is “probably the best book on poker ever written” (The Evening Standard). “A classic . . . There is no better book on America’s national pastime.” —James McManus, New York Times–bestselling author of Positively Fifth Street “Magnificent . . . Beyond the straights and full houses, Alvarez has written a book about people who are extremely good at what they do, and about America.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Conveys an understanding of gamblers and their milieu that can appeal to someone who has never seen a casino.” —Philadelphia Inquirer “Thoroughly entertaining . . . both perceptive and literate.” —The Washington Post

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429918667

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9781429918664

Baghdad, Mon Amour

Selected Writings of Salah Al Hamdani

By: Salah Al Hamdani

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Baghdad, Mon Amour

Selected Writings of Salah Al Hamdani

By: Salah Al Hamdani

Baghdad, Mon Amour is a memoir by Salah Al Hamdani centered on his imprisonment under Saddam Hussein, his subsequent exile in France for more than thirty years, and his emotional return to Baghdad and seeing his family again after all those years with feelings of tremendous joy but also guilt for having “abandoned” them. The beauty of Al Hamdani’s prose and poetry is skillfully captured in Sonia Alland’s translation.

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Northwestern University Press

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1931896445

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9781931896443

The Speakeasies of 1932

By: Al Hirschfeld

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The Speakeasies of 1932

By: Al Hirschfeld

(Applause Books). When Manhattan joints were hung out to dry, the Booze-oizie sniveled, then pirouetted on their stools to find reasonably palatable Speakeasy facsimiles. These Prohibition hangouts each had their own flavor, decorum, decor and formula for ducking the law. Each found its own alcoholic substratum: its own inimitable characters behind, at and under the bar. Fear not all has not been lost to the repeal of the 18th Amendment, Starbucks corporate latte, and the wrecking ball. One intoxicating artifact remains, a book of lustrous vintage Al Hirschfeld's The Speakeasies of 1932 , wherein Hirschfeld nails these dipsomaniacal outposts with his pen and brush in the manner of a dour Irish bartender sizing up a troublesome souse. Provided as well is the recipe for each of the speakeasy's cocktail claim to fame. The resulting concoction is the perfect antidote to the Cappuccino Grande Malaise, a book that will make everyone yearn for a Manhattan, old fashioned, and straight up. "His comments are as swooping and witty as his lines." The New Yorker

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557836760

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9781557836762

Babylon to Brooklyn

A Life Journey

By: Dr. Shakir Al-Janabi

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Babylon to Brooklyn

A Life Journey

By: Dr. Shakir Al-Janabi

This book tells the unique story of a self-made man--a man who grew up in the depths of poverty, a man who was able to overcome it and later on became a physician for President Saddam Hussein and his family. He practiced medicine in Iraq, England, and the United States and returned to Iraq after a long absence driven by his love for his homeland and its people, especially the poor and destitute. His reward, after some time, was detaining centers and prisons. He witnessed the parades of torture and heard the prisoners' outcries in the hallways where human lives had no value. He specialized in pulmonary diseases in England, worked there before traveling to the United States for postgraduate studies, and worked in various New York hospitals where he was valued and appreciated. Once again, his heart longed for his homeland. He went against the advice of his family and friends and was determined to return to Iraq again--determined to quench his thirst with the water of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and to inhale the fragrance of the palm trees. He returned and worked in the Baghdad hospitals and his private practice until he was suddenly taken away again to a remote, unknown detainment center where he was accused of participating in a plot to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein in 1991. After many excruciating events, a miracle occurred, and he was released after the security forces subjected him to his fair share of torture. After all this, he left his homeland in Iraq and returned to living in exile where the highly educated are revered as they should be. Dr. Shakir Al-Janabi addresses in this book many events that took place in Iraq since the 1940s and until the first decade of the twenty-first century. He discusses the country's political and military issues by virtue of his employment for years as an army doctor and his many high-level acquaintances in the fields of the military, politics, and science. He addresses his predicaments with these issues with honesty and literary boldness. The whole book impresses the reader and deserves to be read more than once. It is enjoyable to read and has an interesting storytelling style. It is rich with events and pitfalls that draw the reader from the first pages of the book until the end. The book is qualified to become a movie with international fame. --Yousif Mansoor Alkatib University Professor

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Page Publishing Inc

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ISBN 13

9798886548129

Pocket Bios: Muhammad Ali

By: Al Berenger,Claire L'Hoër

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Pocket Bios: Muhammad Ali

By: Al Berenger,Claire L'Hoër

Learn how iconic sports figure Muhammad Ali became a boxing champion, a gold-medal Olympian, and a civil rights activist"--Page 4 of cover.

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1250168740

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9781250168740

Nasser

My Husband

By: Taḥīyah Jamāl ʻAbd al-Nāṣir

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Nasser

My Husband

By: Taḥīyah Jamāl ʻAbd al-Nāṣir

Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of Egypt's 1952 Revolution, president of the country from 1956 to 1970, hero to millions across the Arab world, was also a family man, a devoted husband and father who kept his private life largely private. In 1973, his wife Tahia wrote a memoir of her beloved husband. The family then waited almost forty years before publishing the book in Arabic for the first time in 2011. Now this unique insight into the life of Nasser is finally available in English. The book also includes more than eighty family archive photographs, many never before published.

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Oxford University Press

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9774166116

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9789774166112

Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise

A Jihadist's Own Story

By: Khaled al-Berry

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Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise

A Jihadist's Own Story

By: Khaled al-Berry

In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as "strong Muslims," his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in its activities. This ends when, as he leaves the university following a demonstration, he is arrested. Prison, a return to life on the outside, and attending Cairo University all lead to Khaled al-Berry's eventual alienation from radical Islam. This book opens a window onto the mind of an extremist who turns out to be disarmingly like many other clever adolescents, and bears witness to a history with whose reverberations we continue to live. It also serves as an intelligent and critical guide for the reader to the movement's unfamiliar debates and preoccupations, motives and intentions. Fluently written, intellectually gripping, exciting, and often funny, Life Is More Beautiful than Paradise provides a vital key to the understanding of a world that is both a source of fear and a magnet of curiosity for the west.

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American University in Cairo Press

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1617970514

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9781617970511

The Mecca Uprising

An Insider's Account of Salafism and Insurrection in Saudi Arabia

By: Nasir al-Huzaimi

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The Mecca Uprising

An Insider's Account of Salafism and Insurrection in Saudi Arabia

By: Nasir al-Huzaimi

On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi, seized control of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim World. The Salafi Group was not trying to establish an Islamic state. Instead, its members believed they were players in a prophetic script about the End of Time. After a two-week siege, the Saudi government recaptured the mosque, threw the survivors into prison, and had them publicly executed. The Mecca Uprising offers an insider's account of the religious subculture that incubated the Mecca Uprising, written by a former member of the Salafi Group, Nasir al-Huzaimi. Huzaimi did not participate in the uprising, but he was arrested in a government sweep of Salafi Group members and spent six years in prison. In 2011, he published his memoir, Days with Juhaiman, offering the most detailed picture we have of the Salafi Group and Juhaiman. The Mecca Uprising had profound effects on Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world[DC1] [YG2] . The Saudi government headed off opposition from religious activists and made efforts to buttress the ruling family's legitimacy as the guardians of Islam. Huzaimi's memoir sheds light on the background of this religious and political landscape, and is the most detailed account we have of the Salafi Group and Juhaiman. The English edition is complete with an introduction and annotations prepared by expert David Commins to help readers understand the relevance of the Meccan Uprising [DC3] and how it fits into the history of the Islamic World. [DC1]lower case? Muslim world [YG2]changed to author's suggestion [DC3]Mecca Uprising

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755602145

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9780755602148

Leg over Leg

Volume Two

By: Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq

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Leg over Leg

Volume Two

By: Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq

Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women’s rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures. Al-Shidyaq also celebrates the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language. Akin to Sterne and Rabelais in his satirical outlook and technical inventiveness, al-Shidyaq produced in Leg over Leg a work that is unique and unclassifiable. It was initially widely condemned for its attacks on authority, its religious skepticism, and its “obscenity,” and later editions were often abridged. This is the first English translation of the work and reproduces the original Arabic text, published under the author’s supervision in 1855.

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NYU Press

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081474494X

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9780814744949

Al Burian Goes to Hell

By: Al Burian

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Al Burian Goes to Hell

By: Al Burian

A loose comic interpretation of Dante's Inferno; Al Burian places himself as protagonist, journeying through a hell based around his own personal torments at the time: work, art school, the meaning of life, grazing in the bulk bins at Safeway, the endless pontificating on literary criticism, and the concept of making a college thesis about making a college thesis. The big question being "is marking up pieces of paper expressing something that 'was' in the artist or just marking up pieces of paper?

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Microcosm Pub

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1934620920

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Babylon to Brooklyn

A Life Journey By Dr. Shakir Al-Janabi

By: Shakir Al-Janabi

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Babylon to Brooklyn

A Life Journey By Dr. Shakir Al-Janabi

By: Shakir Al-Janabi

This book is the unique story of a self-made man. A man who grew up in the depth of poverty, a man who was able to overcome it and later on become a physician for Saddam Hussein and his family. Dr. Shakir Al-Janabi addresses in this book many events that took place in Iraq since the 1940s and until the first decade of the twenty first century. He discusses the country's political and military issues by virtue of his employment as a high ranking army medical doctor. He practiced medicine in Iraq, England and the United States and retuned to Iraq because of his love for his homeland.

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Independently Published

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9798606843466

The Official Book of Leisure Suit Larry

By: Ralph Roberts,Al Lowe

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The Official Book of Leisure Suit Larry

By: Ralph Roberts,Al Lowe

Packed full of maps and hints for both the original and the point-and-click version of Larry 1, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, and the adventures from Sierra. This guide has information found nowhere else, including Larry's life story and the first interview with the man himself. Covers the new Larry VI, Shape Up or Slip Out!

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Compute

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0874553075

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The Dirty College Game

The Dirty College Game

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Poetry

Poetry

The Biggest Game in Town

The Biggest Game in Town

Baghdad, Mon Amour

Baghdad, Mon Amour

The Speakeasies of 1932

The Speakeasies of 1932

Babylon to Brooklyn

Babylon to Brooklyn

Pocket Bios: Muhammad Ali

Pocket Bios: Muhammad Ali

Nasser

Nasser

Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise

Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise

The Mecca Uprising

The Mecca Uprising

Leg over Leg

Leg over Leg

Al Burian Goes to Hell

Al Burian Goes to Hell

Babylon to Brooklyn

Babylon to Brooklyn

The Official Book of Leisure Suit Larry

The Official Book of Leisure Suit Larry

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