Based on the gold-standard currency of tradition and success, few college basketball programs are richer in history than Wake Forest University’s. This reissue of Tales from the Wake Forest Demon Deacons Locker Room, first published in 2004, traces that vibrant history from the birth of the league to the growing successes of the team today. An original member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have provided the acclaimed league with much of its color and character—not to mention many of its colorful characters. Author Dan Collins provides stories about legendary players like Muggsy Bogues, the 5’3” guard who defied the description of basketball as a big man’s game, and the glory days of Tim Duncan, the onetime aspiring Olympic swimmer who grew up to become a five-time NBA champion and one of the greatest players in the game. The book looks at great coaches like Richard Crozier, the director of the university gymnasium who introduced basketball to Wake Forest; coach Murray Greason, whose love for the game of basketball was second only to his love for his beagle hounds; and coach Bones McKinney, the hyperactive Baptist minister whose dual, and at times dueling, religions were based on the Bible and basketball. Tales from the Wake Forest Demon Deacons Locker Room chronicles how Wake Forest basketball survived the university’s relocation from the quaint town of Wake Forest to the city of Winston-Salem, and how the university has thrived with the support of its devoted fans. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Rudy Giuliani emerged from the smoke of 9/11 as the unquestioned hero of the day: America's Mayor, the father figure we could all rely on to be tough, to be wise, to do the right thing. In that uncertain time, it was a comfort to know that he was on the scene and in control, making the best of a dire situation. But was he really? Grand Illusion is the definitive report on Rudy Giuliani's role in 9/11—the true story of what happened that day and the first clear-eyed evaluation of Giuliani's role before, during, and after the disaster. While the pictures of a soot-covered Giuliani making his way through the streets became very much a part of his personal mythology, they were also a symbol of one of his greatest failures. The mayor's performance, though marked by personal courage and grace under fire, followed two terms in office pursuing an utterly wrongheaded approach to the city's security against terrorism. Turning the mythology on its head, Grand Illusion reveals how Giuliani has revised his own history, casting himself as prescient terror hawk when in fact he ran his administration as if terrorist threats simply did not exist, too distracted by pet projects and turf wars to attend to vital precautions. Authors Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins also provide the first authoritative view of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, recounting the triumphs and missteps of the city's efforts to heal itself. With surprising new reporting about the victims, the villains, and the heroes, this is an eye-opening reassessment of one of the pivotal events—and politicians—of our time.
Following a stint as a Las Vegas showgirl and an early botched marriage, Lee Annis has finally found some definition and success as part of Anaconda, the band she fronts alongside the enigmatic Billy. But all is set to change as Billy announces that he's about to marry and pull the plug on the band and his life with Lee. Over the course of a restless summer, Lee moves between London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Rome and Berlin, rediscovering a hapless instinct for misadventure. Unable to shake off the bizarre, sometimes macabre, grip of the past, she resorts to the usual analgesics of sex and drugs, as she probes the true nature of her complex, troubled relationship with Billy.
A young soldier charges at the enemy while carrying his dead mate on his shoulders. A horrified Marine attempts to amputate his dying comrade's legs with a pocket knife to free him from under a burning jeep. A sniper crawls from his ambushed vehicle and fights his way out of the biggest ambush Afghanistan has yet seen. Contact Wait Out - the title refers to the desperate radio call issued when the enemy attacks - is a staggering collection of 20 stories of British military bravery. Breathtaking dispatches from the front lines of the most brutal battles.
...Nick has a thing about hotels. They excite him. Ask him to explain and he mumbles on about the anonymity, the security, the ideally sterile, functional nature of the rooms, the impersonal decor, the erasability of all traces of one's passage through the space, the absolution of clean sheets sullied by whatever urge takes you or accident befalls you...There are strange, sick people out there doing the unimaginable. You learn not to be surprised. So speaks one of the manifold characters of Cannibals; characters who go about their lives in a welter of heartfelt lies and stony betrayals, wallowing in bad jokes and bad sex, and trading in novel ways the old commodities of pain and bliss. We enter the characters' lives through seemingly disconnected fragments, with no explanations, no back-story, to savour the ambience of their situations and leave again, often as abruptly as we have entered. Unique, epiphanic and highly erotic, Cannibals is a novel consisting of eighty-eight compelling bulletins that reveal the fractured essence of our age.
Nonpronto is a piano-driven pop trio from Chicago. This songbook features note-for-note transcriptions of the songs from their debut album, "Unready." Listen to the recordings at www.nonpronto.com.
Privilege or Punish: Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties will expose some of the challenges the American criminal justice system faces when it intersects with the interests of the family. The authors find that the state does not always impinge upon family members in the course of investigating or prosecuting all the crimes about which it knows. Legal institutions and actors frequently defer to the decision of family members to prioritize their duties to family over their duties as citizens. Some examples of these accommodations include evidentiary privileges that enable family members to avoid furnishing evidence against their loved ones or exemptions for family members from laws prohibiting the harboring of fugitive. The authors characterize state policies that appear to promote family interests as "family ties benefits" - and there are many of them. The authors generally oppose conferring family ties benefits in the criminal justice system. This is a controversial stance, but Markel, Collins, and Leib argue that in many circumstances there are simply too many costs to the criminal justice system when it gives special benefits to family members, while at the same time excluding citizens who are not part of a state-sanctioned family unit.
Based on the documentary, Southern comfort follows the last year of Robert Eads, a transgender man in Georgia, as he is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. He surrounds himself with his chosen family, who are predominantly transgender, as they share monthly potluck meals. Like any family, they have their own trials and tribulations, but ultimately they all seek acceptance for who they are in their own skin"--Page 4 of cover.
While Fern, a British governess, is staying at an oasis in Q’Amara for work, she meets King Zafir, a widower. They unexpectedly fall in love, but Fern had always been taught that lust is a sin, so she is still a virgin at the age of twenty-three. The day before Zafir leaves the oasis, she passionately gives herself to him and ends up pregnant with his child! The child she carries is proof of their taboo… What will Fern do after leaving Q’Amara, since she can’t tell Zafir about the child?
This book of "Future Victories" Part II continues the story a decade after Part I ended. Part I is a fictitious story set in post-Cold War 1995 that will make you wonder if the Russian threat is really over. The CIA discovers an intricate and highly organized plot dating back to the Cold War in which the Soviet Union installed atomic bombs in major U.S. cities with plans to detonate them simultaneously to bring the U.S. economy to its knees. Part II contains many of Part I's characters and is set in the post 9/11 era. Homeland Security becomes aware of the possibility of two suitcase nuclear bombs in the hands of Islamic terrorists in the U.S. It is a race against time and across the country to track the bombs and to capture them from enemy hands before the terrorists set them off. In the course of tracking down the suitcase bombs, it becomes apparent that the terrorists have other weapons of mass destruction already deployed in the U.S. that present additional threats.
Have sword, will travel! Red Sonja, the She-Devil with a Sword, journeys throughout the kingdoms and wilds of the Hyborian Age in search of riches and pleasure, food and ale... but more often than not, finds bloody violence and supernatural mayhem instead! From the Asiatic lands of Khitai to the snow-capped mountains where dragons dwell, from cave dwellings of carnivorous ghosts to gladiator arenas of rampaging beasts, the crimson-haired warrior faces every adversary with grim resolve and weapon drawn. The second volume of RED SONJA: TRAVELS collects a dozen heart-pounding adventures from the Dynamite library, including BREAK THE SKIN, DELUGE, RAVEN, SANCTUARY, RED SONJA AND CUB, BERSERKER, and every RED SONJA ANNUAL and GIANT-SIZE edition. Written and illustrated by some of the comic book industry's greatest talents, including Michael Avon Oeming, Christos Gage, Dan Brereton, Nancy A. Collins, Jim Zub, Jonathan Lau, and many more!
I wrote this book as part of a personal journey to learn more about nutrition and fitness so that I could better understand the role nutrition plays in reshaping my body. Once I discovered the prevalent fitness concept of carbohydrate rich diets and workout routines centered around cardio training were simply wrong, it became my mission to spread the word - the truth about nutrition and fitness. The discovery that regularly eating large amounts of carbohydrates and how that directly affected my blood sugar management was the key to determining why my body created and retained body fat. This realization led me to design Eat More, Do Less, Get Fit to explain why the current and accepted misperceptions about nutrition and training are so wrong and what I believe to be the correct method to reshape your body. When it comes to training, I learned that it is not cardio, but progressive weight training that will reshape your body. Cardio only trains slow-twitch muscle while progressive weight training works your fast-twitch muscle. Fast-twitch muscle fiber is the only one of the two that can be grown which is necessary to reshaping your body. I am just a regular guy who has discovered what it really takes to reshape your body through nutrition & fitness training and it is not near as hard as what you have been led to believe. All you have to do is Eat More, Do Less, Get Fit!
Originally featured as articles in the ESV Study Bible, these eighteen essays have been repurposed and republished in a convenient format. Covering a diverse range of essential subjects, including how to read the Bible well and why it is reliable, the essays delve into specific topics such as world religions, canon, and archaeology. Useful as both a general overview of the Bible and as a tool for more specific reference and training, readers of this book will grow in their understanding of Scripture and their ability to apply the Bible to their lives. Pastors, lay leaders, students, and other Christians engaged in studying God's Word will benefit from this collection, written by notable contributors, including J. I. Packer, John Piper, David Powlison, and Vern Poythress.
Pat Falvey's story is one of courage and triumph, of turning adversity to advantage. He was a self-made millionaire by the age of 28; two years later he was almost broke. He faced his tough times head on and turned to the great outdoors to find new challenges and personal fulfillment. He quickly found new success, and became the first Irishman to climb all the great mountains of the world, including Everest, Kilimanjaro, McKinley, Mount Vinson in Antarctica, and Mount Aconcagua in South America. He also spent an extensive amount of time exploring the jungles of Irian Jaya in New Guinea, much of it with the man-eating Dani tribe, currently in danger of extinction from occupying Indonesian forces.
Future Victories" is a fictitious story set in post-Cold War 1995 that will make you wonder if the Russian threat is really over. When a Boeing jetliner crashes in Rome, a talented young investigator is sent to inspect the wreckage. He finds a smashed briefcase with papers written in Russian and he submits the papers to the CIA. In short order, the CIA discovers an intricate and highly organized plot dating back to the Cold War in which the Soviet Union installed atomic bombs in major U.S. cities with plans to detonate them simultaneously to bring the U.S. economy to its knees. The briefcase papers further reveal that the plot is still active. Sensing the imminent danger, CIA management immediately initiates a top secret operation to root out the bombs, deactivate them and locate the perpetrators. This edge-of-your-seat espionage thriller takes place in Rome, the Virgin Islands, China, the Marshall Islands, North Carolina, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington and, of course, Langley, Virginia.
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan may not enjoy popular support, but our soldiers - who do not have the choice of where and who they're fighting for - do. Each day in these two countries is a desperate battle for survival against deadly and implacable enemy forces, and each day brings new acts of bravery, courage and self-sacrifice that seem to belong to a bygone age. Here, 25 medal winners - the bravest of the brave - from the Army, the Royal Marine Commandoes and the RAF describe in their own words astonishing actions which led to their awards.
The only book to cover and compare Oracle's online analytic processing products With the acquisition of Hyperion Systems in 2007, Oracle finds itself owning the two most capable OLAP products on the market--Essbase and the OLAP Option to the Oracle Database. Written by the most knowledgeable experts on both Essbase and Oracle OLAP, this Oracle Press guide explains how these products are similar and how they differ. Oracle Essbase & Oracle OLAP will help you architect the Oracle OLAP product that is most appropriate for your application, and build, tune, and maintain OLAP solutions.
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