Mastering the skills in the field, on the mound, and at the plate has never been easier. Steps to Success allows you to learn at your own pace, providing detailed instruction, expert advice, practice drills, and self-assessments to gauge progress. A new entry in the best-selling sport instruction series, this highly visual, easy-to-use guide is ideal for novice and intermediate players and coaches alike.
Get to know the hilarious true story of King Louis XIV of France and his famous high-heeled shoes! King Louie was a very BIG king in all ways but one: He was five-feet-four-inches short. So Louie and his royal cobbler cooked up the perfect high-heeled solution to help Louie appear taller. But after an embarrassing tumble (on the dance floor, no less!) Louie learned that his subjects were loyal no matter how big—or how shrimpy—their beloved Louie might have been. Readers young and old will relate to this silly and sweet story of King Louie XIV—a man who had it all, but still felt small.
Iconic award-winning recording artist and producer DJ Khaled's highly intimate photographic autobiography features never-before-seen photos, personally collected, that trace his journey from a young DJ in Miami to the superstar music mogul he is today. DJ Khaled, née Khaled Mohamed Khaled, needs no introduction to his millions of fans around the world. The Grammy Award-winning recording artist and producer is known internationally for his chart-topping ten studio albums and collaborations with the biggest names in music, including hip-hop legends Drake, Jay-Z, Future, Lil Wayne, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Chance the Rapper, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, and Kanye West, among others. Khaled is a New York Times best-selling author, TV host, king of Snapchat, record-label executive, and lifestyle impresario. Edited by DJ Khaled himself, this personal volume takes us into his world, from photographs of his teenage years in Florida where he started DJing and selling mixtapes, to working at the New Orleans record store Odyssey where he met Lil Wayne in 1993, through the recording of his ten studio albums and countless music collaborations, and the birth of the heir to his throne, his son, Asahd. With rare imagery, this deeply private and inspirational book is a combination of inspirational talk, outrageous adventures, anecdotes, and life mantras for success alongside the quotidian details of this music icon's life. DJ Khaled will be the ultimate collector's item for his devoted fans and lovers of music, popular culture, and hip-hop and rap history.
What if Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Dr. Seuss wrote kinky erotica? In his second collection of parodies, D.J. King re-writes some of the great classics of literature as erotic tales of bondage and discipline, sexual domination and submission, and far-out fantasy. These erotic works will stimulate your mind, turn you on, and make you laugh. The volume also features the erotic illustrations of Laurent Lebeau.
This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within the framework of an annual cycle, and for which stochastic variability in the demographic processes is usually modest. Discrete-time models are developed in which animals can be assigned to discrete states such as age class, gender, maturity, population (within a metapopulation), or species (for multi-species models). The book goes well beyond estimation of abundance, allowing inference on underlying population processes such as birth or recruitment, survival and movement. This requires the formulation and fitting of population dynamics models. The resulting fitted models yield both estimates of abundance and estimates of parameters characterizing the underlying processes.
Erotic parodies of gothic horror, science fiction, and children's fairy tales. "DJ King writes with a palette of dark hues and tangible passion. Raw, uncompromising erotica."Alex SeverinErotic Horror writer and author of Vampire Red//"This is truly funny! I was laughing out loud the whole time. Wonderful entertainment!"Barbara NitkeFetish photographer and author of Kiss of Fire//
From Snapchat sensation, business mogul, and recording artist DJ Khaled, the book They don't want you to read reveals his major keys to success. - Stay away from They - Don't ever play yourself - Secure the bag - Respect the code - Glorify your success - Don't deny the heat - Keep two rooms cooking at the same time - Win, win, win no matter what
Originally published in 1988, The Castles in England and Wales is a comprehensive treatment of the archaeology of the castles in England and Wales. The books looks at how following the Norman Conquest, one of the most characteristic structures of the English landscape, the castle, was used to control and survey the population. In its simplest definition a castle is a fortified habitation, however this book looks at the many uses of castles, from their most primitive kind, intended only for periodic use, or as magnificent decoration, such as Caernarvon and other Welsh castles of Edward I. It is essential reading for all archaeologists and historians alike.
Enthusiastic!" "Young!" "Star-ready!" These are just a few words that best describe DJ Priest, the 11-year-old DJ who was born in Nashville, TN but is currently living in Atlanta, GA with his mother and little brother Power. He has navigated through the music ranks to become one of the premiere DJs within a short period of time and now he plans to do the same within the literary world. He has written his first book, GO DJ, to show other young kids that through determination and hard work anything is possible.Being a youth himself, he is always in search of giving back to those who are less fortunate. "I feel if I can enjoy myself, I want those who are unfortunate to enjoy themselves as well," he said. With routine sets at the Boys and Girls Clubs in Atlanta and participating in Big Boi [Outkast] Annual Events, which contribute to youths in Atlanta, he has established 'role model status' and wants to prove that giving back is a priority. Another one of his accomplishments include his annual toy drive.Look for the upcoming series of children's books penned by the young author, DJ Priest.www.djpriest.net
Aliens, zombies, artificial intelligence, a cursed artifact, a dragon, and a few other forces threaten to destroy the earth and everyone on it. Abandon hope. You can make a difference, though. You can tip the scales and decide how it goes down. It's a small choice, but the ultimate fate of humanity lies in your hands. It's up to you to decide.Based on the wildly popular audience participation panel game hosted by the Space Balrogs, this book is a collection of short stories depicting a full range of planet-ending scenarios. These case files are filled with fiery finales by Holli Anderson, D. J. Butler, Robert J Defendi, Jason King, Craig Nybo, Daniel Swenson, David J. West, and James Wymore; your mission, if you accept it, will be to decide the destiny of every living person. How do you want to meet your maker? Which apocalypse will you choose?
In the distant future, technological advances near their climax. Mankind has imploded on itself through numerous wars assuming themselves as Gods. After the tragedy of the sixth KINGS war, two brothers, representatives of a world torn, must work together to rekindle their world. Can they convince the world that Nod is still needed, or will the Fire Kings return incite an evaporation of society through a final war?
From Sportspickle.com--far and away the most popular sports satire site on the Web, with millions of visitors in its five-year history--comes The View from the Upper Deck, an uproarious collection of "news" stories and "fun facts," profiles and polls, tidbits and trivia, for sports fans of every stripe. Yankees Purchase Naming Rights to Fenway Park Six-Foot, 255-Pound Third Grader Wins Science Fair with Steroids Experiment Allen Iverson Keeps It Real for Record 2,548th Straight Day Peyton Manning Ready to Prove His Doubters Wrong at the Pro Bowl Signature features include "Today in Revisionist Sports History," biographies of famous sports personalities, write-ups on sports, business, and well-known stadiums and arenas, and much more. An ideal gift for sports addicts and fair-weather fans, good sports and sore losers, this hilarious compendium will leave all readers dancing in the end zones and clamoring for double overtime. "DJ Gallo Is the King of All Fake Sports Media."-flakmagazine
The art of the mix creates a new language of creativity. "Once you get into the flow of things, you're always haunted by the way that things could have turned out. This outcome, that conclusion. You get my drift. The uncertainty is what holds the story together, and that's what I'm going to talk about."—Rhythm Science The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science—the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same." Taking the Dj's mix as template, he describes how the artist, navigating the innumerable ways to arrange the mix of cultural ideas and objects that bombard us, uses technology and art to create something new and expressive and endlessly variable. Technology provides the method and model; information on the web, like the elements of a mix, doesn't stay in one place. And technology is the medium, bridging the artist's consciousness and the outside world. Miller constructed his Dj Spooky persona ("spooky" from the eerie sounds of hip-hop, techno, ambient, and the other music that he plays) as a conceptual art project, but then came to see it as the opportunity for "coding a generative syntax for new languages of creativity." For example: "Start with the inspiration of George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip. Make a track invoking his absurd landscapes...What do tons and tons of air pressure moving in the atmosphere sound like? Make music that acts a metaphor for that kind of immersion or density." Or, for an online "remix" of two works by Marcel Duchamp: "I took a lot of his material written on music and flipped it into a DJ mix of his visual material—with him rhyming!" Tracing the genealogy of rhythm science, Miller cites sources and influences as varied as Ralph Waldo Emerson ("all minds quote"), Grandmaster Flash, W. E. B Dubois, James Joyce, and Eminem. "The story unfolds while the fragments coalesce," he writes. Miller's textual provocations are designed for maximum visual and tactile seduction by the international studio COMA (Cornelia Blatter and Marcel Hermans). They sustain the book's motifs of recontextualizing and relayering, texts and images bleed through from page to page, creating what amount to 2.5 dimensional vectors. From its remarkable velvet flesh cover, to the die cut hole through the center of the book, which reveals the colored nub holding in place the included audio CD, Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archives, this pamphlet truly lives up to Editorial Director Peter Lunenfeld's claim that the Mediawork Pamphlets are "theoretical fetish objects...'zines for grown-ups.
Accompanied by a DVD that contains exercises and material that lets students play along in real time, a Los Angeles DJ, turntablist and teacher covers the essentials for getting the party started, from identifying beats and sync tempos to learning how to choose the right music for a great show or mix. Original.
There are many ways a story can be told and many ways the game can be showed, but he who listen well and apply will reap the benefits of paying close attention. The game pays whoever plays the game. This is a short story on business and great determination that had to happen coming from a background of hard workers. Without good work ethics, nothing will happen, no matter how much someone wishes like hell for it to happen! I will not hold you long, dear reader, from getting some strategies and game-on business. This book will show you how the RT HEMI Entertainment along with the Swaggg Bro Ent. took the South by a storm. It wasnt easy, and it damn sure wasnt hard either, but there are some major and serious principles that have to be strongly considered.
Sir William Wallace was one of the greatest heroes in Scotland's long struggle for independence from the English yoke. D.J. Gray probes the character and life of this resolute, and at times pitiless, warrior. Wallace raised a people's army to fight against the forces of Edward I, and his victory at the battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 resulted in his elevation to the status of Guardian of Scotland. However, furious at the success of a man he regarded as a guerrilla, King Edward relentlessly pursued Wallace to his death. Remembered today as the architect of Scottish independence, Wallace's story gives a curious insight into the mind of the modern freedom fighter.
THE MESSIAH (Second Edition) completes The Uncensored Word trilogy. This book is filled with instructional type information about respect, good order, and love for our enemies. Christ came into his fleshly existence with a soul full of wisdom beyond man's understanding. Driven by his spiritual connection, he single mindedly executed Father's plan. Once the messages were all delivered, Christ sealed the overall message with his death, resurrection, and promise of return. The chronological combination of twenty-two individual books' in the King James Version of the Bible, allows the reader an opportunity to put themselves back in the time when Christ walked this earth in the flesh. This book focuses on Christ's fourth appearance in scripture: (1) Tree of Life in Garden of Eden (Est. March 4004 BC); (2) Melchisedek (Approx. 1924-1921 BC); (3) Fiery Furnace (Between 461-454 BC); (4) Flesh Life (December 25, 5 BC-30 AD); and, (5) Return and rightful placement as Tree of Life in Eternity. Each of us came into our fleshly existence with a soul unaware of earlier existence with God. The flesh allows for separation and free-will. Some of us find our way back to GOD through the Messiah before we draw our last breath. Regardless of how we live our life or what we choose to believe, we eventually draw our last breath and find ourselves back with GOD and subject to his judgment. THE MESSIAH (Second Edition) will help the reader check what they know about Christ with what is actually written. This book helped the author decide if "Lord of Lords" and "King of Kings" meant Christ would be our Lord or if it meant he was born the greatest of both. What do you think and will scripture support your view?
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