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The Master

The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

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The Master

The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

This New York Times bestselling biography tells the life story of the most iconic men's tennis player of the modern era. There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Roddick. In The Master, New York Times correspondent Christopher Clarey sits down with Federer and those closest to him to tell the story of the greatest player in men's tennis. Roger Federer has often made it look astonishingly easy through the decades: carving backhands, gliding to forehands, leaping for overheads and, in his most gravity-defying act, remaining high on a pedestal in a world of sports rightfully flooded with cynicism. But his path from temperamental, bleach-blond teenager with dubious style sense to one of the greatest, most self-possessed and elegant of competitors has been a long-running act of will, not destiny. He not only had a great gift. He had grit. Christopher Clarey, one of the top international sportswriters working today, has covered Federer since the beginning of his professional career. He was in Paris on the Suzanne Lenglen Court for Federer's first Grand Slam match and has interviewed him exclusively more than any other journalist since his rise to prominence. Here, Clarey focuses on the pivotal people, places, and moments in Federer's long and rich career: reporting from South Africa, South America, the Middle East, four Grand Slam tournaments, and Federer's native Switzerland. It has been a journey like no other player's, rife with victories and a few crushing defeats, one that has redefined enduring excellence and made Federer a sentimental favorite worldwide. The Master tells the story of Federer's life and career on both an intimate and grand scale, in a way no one else could possibly do.

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1538719258

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The Master

The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

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The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

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Blind Man's Bluff

The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

By: Sherry Sontag,Christopher Drew

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Blind Man's Bluff

The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

By: Sherry Sontag,Christopher Drew

A New York Times bestseller The secret history of America's submarine warfare is revealed for the first time in this "vividly told, impressively documented," (The New York Times) and fast-paced chronicle of adventure and intrigue during the Cold War. For decades, only a select and powerful few knew the truth about the submarines that silently roamed the ocean in danger and in stealth, seeking information and advantage. Based on six years of groundbreaking investigation into the “silent service,” Blind Man’s Bluff uncovers an epic story of adventure, courage, victory, and disaster beneath the surface. With an unforgettable array of characters from the Cold War to the twenty-first century, Sontag and Drew recount scenes of secrecy from Washington, DC, to the depths of the sea. A magnificent achievement in investigative reporting, Blind Man’s Bluff reads like a spy thriller with one important difference: everything is true.

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408

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PublicAffairs

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1586486780

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9781586486785

Self-Leadership

The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence

By: Christopher P. Neck,Charles C. Manz,Jeffery D. Houghton

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Self-Leadership

The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence

By: Christopher P. Neck,Charles C. Manz,Jeffery D. Houghton

Written by the scholars who first developed the theory of self-leadership, Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence offers powerful yet practical advice for leading oneself to personal excellence. Grounded in the most recently published, cutting-edge self-leadership research, this milestone book is based on a simple yet revolutionary principle: first learn to lead yourself, then you will be able to effectively lead others. This inclusive approach to self-motivation and self-influence equips readers with the strategies and tips they need to strengthen their own personal effectiveness. The updated Second Edition resonates with today’s students by featuring contemporary examples, new cases, new feature boxes, and the latest research.

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SAGE Publications

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1544324316

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9781544324319

Roland Hayes

The Legacy of an American Tenor

By: Christopher A. Brooks,Robert Sims

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Roland Hayes

The Legacy of an American Tenor

By: Christopher A. Brooks,Robert Sims

A “gripping, sensitive” biography of the trailblazing singer who carved a path for African American artists including Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson (The Atlanta Voice). Performing in a country rife with racism and segregation, the tenor Roland Hayes was the first African American man to reach international fame as a concert performer. He became one of the few artists in the world who could sell out Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall, and Covent Garden. Performing the African American spirituals he was raised on, his voice was marked with a unique sonority which easily navigated French, German, and Italian art songs. A multiculturalist both on and off the stage, he counted among his friends George Washington Carver, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ezra Pound, Pearl Buck, Dwight Eisenhower, and Langston Hughes. This “substantial and well-documented” biography spans the history of Hayes’s life and career and the legacy he left behind as a musician and a champion of African American rights (BBC Music Magazine). It is an authentic, panoramic portrait of a man who was as complex as the music he performed. “Like many generations of celebrated African American concert artists, I am an inheritor of the legacy left by the great Roland Hayes. Yet, we hardly know his name today. With this long overdue book, the oversight is now remedied.” —Lawrence Brownlee, Metropolitan Opera “A wonderful journey through Hayes’ performances, racial plight and acceptance.” —Examiner.com

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Indiana University Press

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0253015391

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9780253015396

Other Worlds

Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions

By: Christopher G. White

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Other Worlds

Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions

By: Christopher G. White

What do modern multiverse theories and spiritualist séances have in common? Not much, it would seem. One is an elaborate scientific theory developed by the world’s most talented physicists. The other is a spiritual practice widely thought of as backward, the product of a mystical world view fading under the modern scientific gaze. But Christopher G. White sees striking similarities. He does not claim that séances or other spiritual practices are science. Yet he points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even the existential meaning of the universe. Other Worlds examines how the idea that the universe has multiple, invisible dimensions has inspired science fiction, fantasy novels, films, modern art, and all manner of spiritual thought reaching well beyond the realm of formal religion. Drawing on a range of international archives, White analyzes how writers, artists, filmmakers, televangelists, and others have used the scientific idea of invisible dimensions to make supernatural phenomena such as ghosts and miracles seem more reasonable and make spiritual beliefs possible again for themselves and others. Many regard scientific ideas as disenchanting and secularizing, but Other Worlds shows that these ideas—creatively appropriated in such popular forms as C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, the art of Salvador Dalí, or the books of the counterculture physicist “Dr. Quantum”—restore a sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see, helping to forge an unexpected kind of spirituality.

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Harvard University Press

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0674919424

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9780674919426

Ibbs and Tillett

The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

By: Christopher Fifield

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Ibbs and Tillett

The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

By: Christopher Fifield

For the greater part of the twentieth century, Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store. The roll-call of famous musicians on its books was unmatched, and included such international stars as Clara Butt, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals, Sergei Rachmaninov, Andr Segovia, Kathleen Ferrier, Myra Hess, Jacqueline du Pr Clifford Curzon and Vladimir Ashkenazy, to name but a handful. From 1906, the success of the company was due to the dedication of its founders, Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett. After their deaths, the agency was run by the latter's wife, Emmie, who, dubbed the 'Duchess of Wigmore Street', became one of the most formidable yet respected women in British music. The history of this unique institution and its owners is told here for the first time, often through the fascinating letters that were exchanged between the artists themselves and the agency. It begins in the latter years of the 19th century with the concert and theatrical manager Narciso Vert, for whom both Ibbs and Tillett worked until his death in 1905. The story then becomes a history of musical life in twentieth-century Britain, illuminating aspects of the day-to-day management of concerts and festivals, the lives and livelihoods of professional musicians, as well as those who strove to join their ranks through audition or recommendation. The changing profile, and particularly the onset and development of personal management of artists represented by Ibbs and Tillett and their reception in the press, can be viewed as a barometer of musical taste. The demise of the agency in 1990 was indicative of just how much the world of British music had changed by the end of the century, but despite its loss to the profession, the legacy and influence of Ibbs and Tillett has remained a benchmark in today's highly competitive world of artist management and concert promotion, many of whose principal operators began

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Routledge

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1351125729

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9781351125727

Front Court Hex

By: Matt Christopher

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Front Court Hex

By: Matt Christopher

Star of the previous year's basketball team, Jerry can't do anything right in the new season, but refuses to believe his new friend who, claiming to be a warlock, predicts Jerry's play won't improve until he changes his slovenly habits.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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031609563X

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9780316095631

Roger Federer

Portrait of An Artist

By: Christopher Jackson

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Roger Federer

Portrait of An Artist

By: Christopher Jackson

BestsellerChris Jackson has written a thoughtful and brilliant study of Federer as a man, player, and aesthetic and moral figure of our times. It outplays even Foster Wallace's magisterial writing on this greatest of all tennis champions.Here is the one of the most profound, insightful and elegant books ever written about sports.

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eBook Partnership

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1839780347

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9781839780349

Master - Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

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Master - Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

Roger Federer, si no el mejor jugador de esta era dorada del tenis masculino sin duda el que ha tenido un mayor impacto deportivo y mediático, está en el ocaso de su histórica carrera. A lo largo de estos años, ha cautivado a las audiencias por su gracia, tanto literal como figurativa, en la cancha, y por su inquebrantable simpatía en tiempos de escepticismo y negatividad. Pero detrás de esta elegante figura deportiva hay un ser humano con sus demonios y sus defectos, y ningún periodista lo conoce mejor ni está tan bien preparado para escribir este relato íntimo como Christopher Clarey, encargado de su cobertura en The New York Times y The International Herald Tribune durante más de dos décadas.

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8408247875

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9788408247876

Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

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Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

Roger Federer est une icône contemporaine. Son palmarès, ses records et son état d’esprit sur les courts comme en dehors ont fait de lui un modèle pour une génération de fans à travers le monde. Son style de jeu, tout en légèreté et en finesse, a redéfini les bases du tennis et lui a souvent valu d’être comparé à un danseur classique ou à un maestro. Derrière cette perfection se cache un champion de la maîtrise de soi, un exemple de sportivité et de fair-play qui a su dompter ses démons intérieurs quand il était un adolescent nerveux et colérique. Christopher Clarey a suivi Federer de Johannesburg à Dubaï en passant par Londres, New York, Melbourne et Paris, mais aussi à bord d’un jet privé au-dessus du désert californien ou encore à la terrasse d’un grand hôtel avec une vue imprenable sur le lac de Zurich. Il a recueilli pendant plus de vingt ans des interviews exclusives de Federer, mais également des membres de son équipe, de ses proches et de ses rivaux historiques – Nadal, Djokovic, Sampras, Safin et Roddick. Clarey nous livre ici une biographie de référence, un récit intime sur les éléments clés qui ont permis à un jeune tennisman suisse prometteur de devenir le sportif le plus adulé de la planète.

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Flammarion

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2080235168

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9782080235169

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The Master

The Master

The Master

The Master

Blind Man's Bluff

Blind Man's Bluff

Self-Leadership

Self-Leadership

Roland Hayes

Roland Hayes

Other Worlds

Other Worlds

Ibbs and Tillett

Ibbs and Tillett

Front Court Hex

Front Court Hex

Roger Federer

Roger Federer

Master - Roger Federer

Master - Roger Federer

Roger Federer

Roger Federer

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