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Hoop Crazy

The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton

By: Dennis Gildea

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Hoop Crazy

The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton

By: Dennis Gildea

Clair Bee (1896-1983) was a hugely successful basketball coach at Rider College and Long Island University with a 412 and 87 record before his career was derailed in 1951 by a point-shaving scandal. In the trial that sent his star player, Sherman White, to prison, the judge excoriated Bee for creating a morally lax culture that contributed to his players' involvement with gambling. To a certain extent, Bee agreed with the judge's scolding, concluding that coaches, himself included, had become so driven to succeed on the court that they had lost sight of the educational role sports should play. His coaching career effectively over, Bee launched an effort to reform the ills he saw in college sports, and he did so in the pages of the Chip Hilton novels for young readers. He began the series in 1948, but it was the post-scandal books that he used as teaching tools. The books mirrored some of the events of the gambling scandal and were Bee's attempt to reform the problems plaguing college sports. He used his fiction to posit a better sports world that he hoped his young readers would construct and inhabit. The Chip Hilton books were extremely popular and have become a classic series, with over two million copies sold to date. Hoop Crazy is the fascinating story of Clair Bee and his star character Chip Hilton and the ways in which their lives, real and fictional, were intertwined.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557286418

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9781557286413

Resilience

The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges

By: Steven M. Southwick,Dennis S. Charney

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Resilience

The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges

By: Steven M. Southwick,Dennis S. Charney

Most of us at some point in our lives will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, assault, or a natural disaster. Resilience refers to the ability to 'bounce back' after encountering difficulty. This book provides a guide to building emotional, mental and physical resilience by presenting ten factors to help anyone become more resilient to life's challenges. Specific resilience factors such as facing fear, optimism, and social support are described through the experiences and personal reflections of highly resilient survivors. These survivors also describe real-life methods for practicing and benefiting from the resilience factors. As resilience is the complex product of genetic, psychological, biological, social, and spiritual factors, the authors investigate resilience from multiple scientific perspectives. They synthesize the latest literature on the topic, describe their own research on resilience, and quote from their interviews with highly resilient people.

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333

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Cambridge University Press

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1108626025

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9781108626026

Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business Cumulative Index

By: Dennis Campbell, 1939-

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Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business Cumulative Index

By: Dennis Campbell, 1939-

This publication is an index of all articles published in the yearbook from its first year, 1977, to 2004.

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810

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041125701

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9789041125705

Wrestling with Democracy

Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth-century West

By: Dennis Pilon

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Wrestling with Democracy

Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth-century West

By: Dennis Pilon

Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century. In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change.

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409

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University of Toronto Press

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1442613505

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9781442613508

Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Three

By: Dennis Ford

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Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Three

By: Dennis Ford

Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Three provides nineteenth and twentieth century records of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths pertaining to the— • Hunt families • Fitzmaurice families —who resided in the vicinity of Ballyhaunis in Eastern County Mayo. Records in Troves ~ Volume Three derive from the civil and Roman Catholic Parishes of Annagh and Bekan in County Mayo and Kiltullagh in County Roscommon. Records include— • Roman Catholic Parish registers • Civil records • Census records • the Calendar of Wills

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iUniverse

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166323731X

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9781663237316

The New Global Trading Order

The Evolving State and the Future of Trade

By: Dennis Patterson,Ari Afilalo

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The New Global Trading Order

The Evolving State and the Future of Trade

By: Dennis Patterson,Ari Afilalo

The international institutions that have governed global trade since the end of World War II have lost their effectiveness, and global trade governance is fractured. The need for new institutions is obvious, and yet, few proposals seem to be on offer. The key to understanding the global trading order lies in uncovering the relationship between trade and the State, and how the inner constitution of Statecraft drives the architecture of the global order and requires structural changes as the State traverses successive cycles. The current trade order, focused on the liberalization of trade in goods and services and the management of related issues, is predicated on policies and practices that were the product of a global trading order of the 20th-century modern nation-states. Today, a new form of the State - the post-modern State - is evolving. In this book, the authors propose a new trade norm - the enablement of global economic opportunity - and a new institution - the Trade Council - to overhaul the global trading order.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139470299

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9781139470292

The West in the World

A Mid-length Narrative History

By: Dennis Sherman,Joyce E. Salisbury

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The West in the World

A Mid-length Narrative History

By: Dennis Sherman,Joyce E. Salisbury

The West in the World," Fifth Edition, prompts students to take an active, analytical approach to understanding history and historical change. Readers will come to appreciate that history does not happen in isolation but rather is the consequence of a complex set of intersecting events, forces, and human actions among which there are cause-and-effect links that extend into the present day. As it compellingly tells the story of Western civilization, "The West in the World" encourages a critical examination and analysis of major events and themes. The fifth edition retains the medium length of previous editions, long enough to present a comprehensive, rich narrative but concise enough to give instructors the flexibility to supplement reading with other sources and books. The fifth edition of "The West in the World" includes the exciting addition of LearnSmart and SmartBook, McGraw-Hill's online adaptive learning and reading systems. LearnSmart and SmartBook are the only adaptive learning programs proven to improve performance. LearnSmart and SmartBook help students study more efficiently and retain more knowledge, allowing instructors to focus valuable class time on higher-level concepts.

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0070599831

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9780070599833

Hoop Crazy

The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton

By: Dennis Gildea

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The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton

By: Dennis Gildea

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1610755294

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Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business Cumulative Index

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Wrestling with Democracy

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Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Three

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The New Global Trading Order

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