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Tales of a Cold War Submariner

By: Dan Summitt

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Tales of a Cold War Submariner

By: Dan Summitt

Following the Second World War, Dan Summitt cruised the China Sea in a destroyer. During the Cold War, he worked with Adm. Hyman Rickover and commanded two nuclear submarines. In Tales of a Cold War Submariner, Summitt tells the dramatic story of his military life on and under the sea, focusing on his experiences with nuclear submarines and Admiral Rickover, “the father of the nuclear navy.” His stories, anecdotes, and detailed descriptions bring this tense era to life for the reader. Summitt recounts his service as commander of the USS Seadragon on its secret mission to the North Pole, where he rendezvoused with the USS Skate to conduct experiments under the ice. Following a posting to Naval Reactors, Summit then took command of the USS Alexander Hamilton, one of forty-one Polaris submarines in the U.S. fleet. A submarine of this class was 425 feet long and carried sixteen Polaris missiles, each 35 feet high and weighing 35,000 pounds. Summitt takes the reader on a tour of the spacious vessel, describing everything from its living quarters to practice missile launches to the coveralls worn by the crew. He recounts Christmas at the Duke of Argyle’s castle, discusses the difficulties of steering with a single propeller, and describes how the Alexander Hamilton was almost lost because of a faulty needle piston in the snorkel head valve cylinder, a reminder that even the most sophisticated machine can be undone by a simple mechanical failure. In the best tradition of naval literature, Summitt’s memoir offers a first-person view of life in the navy during a crucial period in our history. Readers will enjoy weighing anchor with Captain Summitt, and scholars will find his memoir an important contribution to the literature on the U.S. Navy and the Cold War.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585444146

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Basketball

A Love Story

By: Jackie MacMullan,Rafe Bartholomew,Dan Klores

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Basketball

A Love Story

By: Jackie MacMullan,Rafe Bartholomew,Dan Klores

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world—as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons. This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph and betrayal. It is deeply intimate yet crosses oceans, upends lives and changes nations. This is the true story of basketball. It is the story of a Canadian invention that took over America, and the world. Of a supposed “white man’s sport” that became a way for people of color, women, and immigrants to claim a new place in society. Of a game that demands everything of those who love it, yet gives so much back in return. To tell this story, acclaimed journalists Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores embarked on a groundbreaking mission to interview a staggering lineup of basketball trailblazers. For the first time hundreds of legends, from Kobe, Lebron and Steph Curry to Magic Johnson, Dr. J and Jerry West, spoke movingly about their greatest passion. Former NBA commissioner David Stern and iconic coaches like Phil Jackson and Coach K opened up like never before. Those who shattered glass ceilings, from Bill Russell and Yao Ming to Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie, explained what it really took to lay claim to their place in the game. At once a definitive oral history and something far more revelatory and life affirming, Basketball: A Love Story is the defining untold oral history of how basketball came to be, and what it means to those who love it.

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Crown Archetype

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152476180X

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Sole Influence

Basketball, Corporate Greed, and the Corruption of America's Youth

By: Dan Wetzel,Don Yaeger

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Sole Influence

Basketball, Corporate Greed, and the Corruption of America's Youth

By: Dan Wetzel,Don Yaeger

Explosive and controversial, this expos uncovers the exploitation of college, high school, and even junior high basketball players by the billion-dollar atheltic shoe companies competing for national endorsements. photo insert.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0759521557

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9780759521551

Stick a Fork in Me

A Novel

By: Dan Jenkins

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Stick a Fork in Me

A Novel

By: Dan Jenkins

A rollicking, no-holds-barred tour of the world of big-time college sports from “the best sportswriter in America” (Larry King). Pete Wallace, a good old boy from Texas, paid his dues coaching football on obscure campuses in the boondocks of America until he landed the athletic director's job at Western Ohio University. For 15 years, he has steadily and skillfully guided the school into the high society of major college sports. But now Pete, fed up with politically correct campus culture and babysitting fragile egos, is retiring from the "arms race." As he waits for the university's board of trustees to act on his early retirement package, he reflects on his career, the people he's come across, and what life will be like in retirement. Pete's story is told in Jenkins's unmistakable, raucous, old-school style, and it's full of colorful, absurd, and downright crazy characters--from clueless trustees and busybody protestors to prima donna football coaches and booster club pests. Stick a Fork in Me shows that Jenkins is “hilarious, providing more laughs per page than any other writer in the ‘bidness’” (People).

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Simon and Schuster

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1507201486

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9781507201480

ELEVATE

Mindset Matters Athletics Mental Performance Playbook

By: Dan Davis,Chad Dennis

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ELEVATE

Mindset Matters Athletics Mental Performance Playbook

By: Dan Davis,Chad Dennis

As athletes, we constantly push ourselves to be our best. And that’s precisely what the Elevate Playbook is designed to help us do. Whether you’re looking to become a pro athlete or just want to improve your overall performance and mindset, this program will give you the tools and strategies you need to succeed both on and off the field. Through this program, we’ll explore various aspects of our Elevate Program and uncover techniques to enhance your mental resilience, boost your physical capabilities, and foster a winning mindset. We’ll discuss the importance of goal setting, visualization, self-discipline, and teamwork. Along the way, you’ll learn from the experiences and insights of successful athletes and coaches who have mastered the art of elevating their game.

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WestBow Press

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9798385016976

Executive Ownershift

Creating Highly Effective Leadership Teams

By: Dan Norenberg

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Executive Ownershift

Creating Highly Effective Leadership Teams

By: Dan Norenberg

When leadership teams do not perform at their best, everyone suffers. Low employee engagement levels, failure to meet strategic targets and inconsistent company growth are signs that leadership teams are not highly effective. Executive Ownershift is a transformative growth program that enables leadership teams to deliver peak performance: When leadership teams perform at their best, so can everyone else. This book introduces a top-down team approach that enables leadership teams to dramatically improve their performance. It highlights how leadership teams can transform their own businesses and how they can master what must go right and what can go wrong on their path to high performance. With examples and cases provide evidence that results come fast to leadership teams that recognize that they are the starting point for improvement and growth, the book is an excellent guide that allows struggling leadership teams to become good, and good leadership teams to become great.

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Springer Nature

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3030358283

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9783030358280

Sports Makes You Type Faster

The Entire World of Sports by One of America's Most Famous Sportswriters

By: Dan Jenkins

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Sports Makes You Type Faster

The Entire World of Sports by One of America's Most Famous Sportswriters

By: Dan Jenkins

Sports Makes You Type Faster presents a remarkable new collection of essays by one of America’s best-known and best-loved sportswriters. Served up with the acerbic wit that is Dan Jenkins’s hallmark, the essays range over the whole world of sports, taking aim at owners, players, fans, and franchises alike—with results that will make you laugh out loud. Winner of the 2012 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, Dan Jenkins became nationally known for his twenty-five-year-long career with Sports Illustrated, and later for his work as a feature writer and essayist for Golf Digest. His many novels include bestsellers like Semi-Tough, Baja Oklahoma, and Dead Solid Perfect—all of which were made into movies. Among other achievements, Jenkins has been honored with the 2013 Red Smith Award and the 2017 Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism, and in 2012 he was inducted into the 2012 World Golf Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement Category.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0875657087

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9780875657080

Carpei Audientiam: Executive Level Presence

Seize Your Audience, Project Competence Instill Confidence You Can Get the Job Done

By: Dan Brooks

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Carpei Audientiam: Executive Level Presence

Seize Your Audience, Project Competence Instill Confidence You Can Get the Job Done

By: Dan Brooks

This book can change the trajectory of your career. Carpei Audientiam develops the specific skills that move your agenda forward with strategic level personnel, those individuals who have P&L responsibility and leverage within their organizations to make quick decisions. Rather than just present, you will proactively seize the audience; whether one on one, one on many; seated or standing; external customers or internal management; concisely state your value proposition, project competence and instill confidence that you can get the job done. Critically, you will learn how to successfully engage the tough crowd. How to identify your supporters, pull the fence sitters over to your solution, and minimize the mortal enemies (most of us make the mistake of attempting to win them over and thereby see our recommendations derailed). You will never win over the mortal enemy. Stop wasting your precious time on that futile objective. In the final analysis, the techniques in Carpei Audientiam will provide you with the highest probability of gaining the decisions and support you need to achieve your business and financial objectives. Decisions that will impact your career! All too often, when trying to drive our agenda, we spend the vast majority of our time talking about what is important to us. Unfortunately, what we say may or may not be important to audience, and in some cases can actually turn the audience against you. Thus, the objective should be to deliver our message as clearly and concisely as possible and then proactively engage the audience to read their reaction and understand what is important to them in order to obtain the desired outcomes. --Jeff Thompson, President, CEO & Chairman, Enaltus Essential reading for anyone who must engage key stakeholders (whether internal or external to your company) and deliver the solution with maximum impact. --Dan Greenleaf, President & CEO, Home Solutions. A career maker or breaker. The techniques all of us need to proactively engage our audience and differentiate ourselves as the solution. --Ed Roberts, Vice President Managed Care & Workers Compensation, DJO

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1496919076

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9781496919076

Interference

How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football

By: Dan E. Moldea

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Interference

How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football

By: Dan E. Moldea

A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on the field, in the owners’ boxes, and in the corporate suites According to investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, for decades the National Football League has had a strong and unspoken understanding with a dangerous institution: organized crime. In his classic exposé, Interference, Moldea bares the dark, sordid underbelly of America’s favorite professional team sport, revealing a nest of corruption that the league has largely ignored since its inception. Based on intensive research and in-depth interviews with coaches, players, mobsters, bookies, gamblers, referees, and league officials—including some of the sport’s all-time greats—the author’s shocking allegations suggest that the betting line is firmly in the hands of the mob, who occasionally manipulate the on-field action for maximum profit. Interference chronicles a long-standing history of gambling, drugs, and extortion, of point-shaving and game-fixing, and reveals the eye-opening truth about numerous gridiron contests where the final results were determined even before the kickoff. Moldea exposes the mob connections of many of the team owners and their startling complicity in illegal gambling operations, while showing how NFL internal security has managed to quash nearly every investigation into illegality and corruption within the professional football world before it could get off the ground. Provocative, disturbing, and controversial, Interference is a must-read for football fans and detractors alike, offering indisputable proof that what’s really happening on the field, in the locker room, and behind the scenes is a whole different ball game.

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Open Road Media

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1480461180

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9781480461185

Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide for Coaches and Leaders

By: Dan Spainhour

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Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide for Coaches and Leaders

By: Dan Spainhour

As coaches and leaders it is easy to focus so much attention on others that we can lose sight of ourselves. Burnout, fatigue, and health issues are all too common occurrences. Coaching can be a tremendous amount of stress, and sometimes if you're not in control of it problems arise. Long hours, poor eating habits, loss of family time are just a few examples that can cause you to become out of balance. This book is about maintaining a healthy balance. I have had the opportunity to observe successful coaches and some not so successful. I know coaches who love their job and some who hate what they do. I've worked with people who were consumed so much that they never took a vacation and others who seemed to be on permanent vacation. Coaches who are in balance and feel good do a better job. The purpose of this collection is to provide you with an instrument to help you maintain proper balance and motivation.

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Lulu.com

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0615172792

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9780615172798

Helping Students Take Control of Their Own Learning

279 Learner-Centered, Social-Emotional Strategies for Teachers

By: Don Mesibov,Dan Drmacich

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Helping Students Take Control of Their Own Learning

279 Learner-Centered, Social-Emotional Strategies for Teachers

By: Don Mesibov,Dan Drmacich

What does learner-centered education look like, and how can we best put it into practice? This helpful book by experienced educators Don Mesibov and Dan Drmacich answers those questions and provides a wide variety of strategies, activities, and examples to help you with implementation. Chapters address topics such as positioning students at the center of the lesson and teachers as coaches, making tasks relevant and engaging, incorporating the affective domain and social-emotional learning, assessing learning, and more. Appropriate for new and experienced teachers of all grades and subjects, this book will leave you feeling ready to help students take control of their own learning so they can reach higher levels of success.

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Routledge

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1000585476

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9781000585476

Lost Delaware

By: Rachel Kipp,Dan Shortridge

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Lost Delaware

By: Rachel Kipp,Dan Shortridge

Former Delaware journalists Rachel Kipp and Dan Shortridge document the past, present, and sometimes the future of Delaware's landmarks and legends. Originally part of Pennsylvania and called "the three lower counties on the Delaware," the First State's present has been shaped by both colonial culture and modern industry. Many landmarks of its past, including the Greenbaum Cannery, the Rosedale Beach Hotel, the Nanticoke Queen restaurant, the Ross Point School and the Kahunaville nightclub now live solely in memory. The tales of airplanes and auto plants, breweries and bridges, cows and churches provide insight into the state's many communities, including its Black heritage. Read about fallen hospitals, long-ago lighthouses, crumbling mansions, demolished prisons and theaters that no longer hold shows.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1540260046

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9781540260048

Forbidden Bookshelf Presents Dan E. Moldea

Interference, The Hoffa Wars, and Dark Victory

By: Dan E. Moldea

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Interference, The Hoffa Wars, and Dark Victory

By: Dan E. Moldea

Three exposés of corruption—behind the NFL, the Teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa, and Ronald Reagan—from an investigative reporter who “never relents” (The Washington Post). Interference: A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on the field, in the owners’ boxes, and in the corporate suites. “[A] true and terrifying picture of a business whose movers and shakers seem to have more connections to gambling and the mob than to touchdowns and Super Bowls.” —Keith Olbermann The Hoffa Wars: The definitive portrait of the powerful, corruption-ridden Teamsters union and its legendary president, Jimmy Hoffa—organizer, gangster, convict, and conspirator—whose disappearance in 1975 remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. “Mr. Moldea’s view of [the Hoffa] wars, which reached its greatest intensity when Robert Kennedy was Attorney General, may explain not only Mr. Hoffa’s disappearance, but the assassination of John Kennedy as well.” —The Wall Street Journal Dark Victory: A “smoldering indictment” of the corrupt influences that rescued Ronald Reagan’s acting career, made him millions (resulting in a federal grand jury hearing), backed his political career, and shaped his presidency (Library Journal). “[Moldea] has, through sheer tenacity, amassed an avalanche of ominous and unnerving facts. [Dark Victory is] a book about power, ego, and the American way.” —Los Angeles Times

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Open Road Media

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1504056515

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9781504056519

Tales of a Cold War Submariner

By: Dan Summitt

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Stick a Fork in Me

A Novel

By: Dan Jenkins

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A Novel

By: Dan Jenkins

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Simon and Schuster

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A Portrait of Pikes Peak Country

By: James Frank,Dan Klinglesmith

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A Portrait of Pikes Peak Country

By: James Frank,Dan Klinglesmith

Explorer Lt. Zebulon Pike first made mention of Colorado's Front Range of Rocky Mountains in November, 1806. "At two o'clock in the afternoon I thought I could distinguish a mountain to our right, which appeared like a small blue cloud.

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1552650375

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Tales of a Cold War Submariner

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Sports Makes You Type Faster

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Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide for Coaches and Leaders

Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide for Coaches and Leaders

Helping Students Take Control of Their Own Learning

Helping Students Take Control of Their Own Learning

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Lost Delaware

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Forbidden Bookshelf Presents Dan E. Moldea

Tales of a Cold War Submariner

Tales of a Cold War Submariner

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Stick a Fork in Me

A Portrait of Pikes Peak Country

A Portrait of Pikes Peak Country

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