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My Life Among the Icons

A Fascinating Memoir of a Raconteur Whose Life Intersected with the Giants of Sports and the Glamour of Hollywood

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My Life Among the Icons

A Fascinating Memoir of a Raconteur Whose Life Intersected with the Giants of Sports and the Glamour of Hollywood

By: Johnny Ortiz

His connection at age fifteen with L.A.'s most notorious gangster, his sinister lifestyle while working for a renowned private investigator, Johnny Ortiz's exciting life involved close friendships with Hollywood superstars and sports champions. In Palm Springs he mingled with the Rat Pack; in Las Vegas he attended celebrity-ridden parties; in Los Angeles the saloons he owned became a hangout for sports figures and famous actors. Champions worked out at his legendary Main St. Gym and most of Hollywood's top boxing movie gym scenes were filmed there including the first three Rocky movies. In his revealing reminiscences Ortiz fondly relates previously untold stories of celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Henry Fonda, Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson, Robert Mitchum, Lynda Carter, Olivia De Havilland, Bette Davis, Jackie Gleason, Ben Johnson, Dorothy Lamour, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Lenny Bruce, Cliff Gorman, Phil Crosby, and John Drew Barrymore, along with sports icons like Muhammad Ali, O.J. Simpson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong, Rocky Marciano, and Joe Louis. Johnny Ortiz has been a fighter, trainer, manager, boxing historian and a twelve year host of his own radio show. He is a longtime member of the Screen Actors Guild, has numerous TV and film credits, and is also an accomplished stage actor. In 1999, he completed his role opposite Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson in the film, Play It To The Bone. In 2001, director Michael Mann cast him in the Will Smith movie, Ali.

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Idiot

Beating The Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life

By: Johnny Damon,Peter Golenbock

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Idiot

Beating The Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life

By: Johnny Damon,Peter Golenbock

Dear Baseball Fan: I know what you’re thinking: Couldn’t he have come up with a better title? My mother agrees with you, but unfortunately Genius just doesn’t have the same ring. Let’s get something straight right away. I may be an idiot, but I’ve tried to do more in this book than just revisit the Red Sox’s Miracle Season. I want to give you a sense of what it’s like to grow up with baseball dreams, to spend long years climbing the ladder, and then over the course of three years to see the building blocks of those dreams fall into place. In this book, you’ll be reading about the son of an Army staff sergeant—a thrill-seeking Orlando kid who at age thirteen was gifted with a man’s body, including rare speed and reflexes. It was some straight talk from my brother that kept me from abandoning that talent, which led to my eventually catching on with the Kansas City Royals and later the Oakland A’s. Starting in 2002 with the Red Sox, I got to see what can happen when a determined front office decides to roll the dice and acquire players who, like me, leave the thinking out of it—who trust their instincts and play team baseball. Forget what you’ve read about the posse of long-haired rebels who eventually made up the 2004 Red Sox. I'll give you the straight dope, including who's got the biggest mouth (hint: his first name is Kevin); what Pedro Martinez was doing all those times when you couldn’t find him on the bench; what game David Ortiz should never play; and why I sometimes question Curt Schilling’s sanity. Memo to Curt: the statue of you is being erected. What’s it like being responsible for the hopes of millions? In the fall of 2004 my teammates and I got to find out. What I’ve tried to do in these pages is bring you inside, show you the black humor that erupted when it seemed we could do nothing right, and the immense joy that followed when 25 guys took turns picking each other up, and by sheer force of will reached baseball’s summit. Red Sox Nation (both natives and new arrivals), this one’s for you. —Johnny Damon, #18

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0307496066

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Diary of a Red Sox Season 2007

By: Johnny Pesky,Maureen Mullen

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Diary of a Red Sox Season 2007

By: Johnny Pesky,Maureen Mullen

This unique reference provides insider observations of the entire 2007 Championship season from Mr. Red Sox himself, Johnny Pesky. Starting with the unparalleled press conference introducing new Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka on December 14, 2006, and culminating with the final out of the World Series on October 28, 2007, with the Red Sox winning their second Championship in three years, this is the ultimate keepsake for any Red Sox fan. In "Diary of a Red Sox Season," fans have the opportunity to take a seat in the dugout beside Pesky and listen to his unique perspective on players, fans, media, and the high and low points of an unforgettable season. It's a book every Red Sox fan will cherish for years to come.

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Triumph Books

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1617499080

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From the Projects to the Palace

A Diplomat's Unlikely Journey from the Bottom to the Top

By: Johnny Young

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From the Projects to the Palace

A Diplomat's Unlikely Journey from the Bottom to the Top

By: Johnny Young

This book tells an American success story: the rise of Johnny Young from a life of poverty in the American South and the slums of the North to the highest ranks of the U.S. Foreign Service. As the story unfolds, Young learns the value of hard work in the face of adversity, fights to acquire an education, meets the love of his life, becomes an accomplished diplomat, and serves on four continents to promote and defend American interests. This is also the story of the shared challenges and rewards of his familys life in the Foreign Service.

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1479760439

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My Life Among the Icons

A Fascinating Memoir of a Raconteur Whose Life Intersected with the Giants of Sports and the Glamour of Hollywood

By: Johnny Ortiz

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A Fascinating Memoir of a Raconteur Whose Life Intersected with the Giants of Sports and the Glamour of Hollywood

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Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry

By: Johnny Saldana

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Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry

By: Johnny Saldana

This unique text shows researchers how to develop theories derived through qualitative inquiry. Johnny Saldaña illustrates how a theory is a research-based statement with an accompanying explicating narrative that contains six properties: concepts, propositional logic, parameters/variation, explanation/causation, generalizability/transferability, and the improvement of social life. The book features hundreds of examples of theories and metatheories from a wide range of disciplines and includes end-of-chapter activities for exercising the skills necessary to develop original theories. Just as Saldaña demystifies coding and qualitative data analysis in his bestselling Sage books, Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry presents an accessible introduction to the principles and methods of theorizing for social insight.

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SAGE Publications

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1071917587

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9781071917589

the "________" disciple

By: Johnny Titus Cerilli

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the "________" disciple

By: Johnny Titus Cerilli

There are many books and teachings about what a disciple is and how to become a disciple, etc. There are many outlines, guides, steps, classes, courses, and programs in churches to help in that process. JC have been through many of them, and all of them felt like work or performance. Of course, if you throw in "the Holy Spirit" roles, it seems like all will be well. But honestly, are all these things really working? Are our churches now filled with mighty men of GOD, filled with the Spirit of God, disciple-making sons of GOD? On August 12, 2012, after sharing at a men's breakfast at his church about being Jesus's disciple, he felt confused and disappointed. Since his main study and passion was living as a "doulos," slave, of God, how does this all tie in together? Then (by the Holy Spirit) he saw it: to be the Lord's disciple, you first must become His willing, obedient slave. And that's how he came up with the title of this book. By filling in the "blank" with the missing ingredient, "Slave, bondservant" (one who was in a permanent relation of servitude to Him (GOD), whose will was consumed in the Will and Glory of GOD), the Spirit had shown him the difference between the power of the early "true" disciples of Jesus Christ and the performance based lives of the 21st century "so called, self-proclaimed" disciples of Jesus Christ. May the holy Words of GOD feed your hungry souls with truth and power as you daily surrender to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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164468070X

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9781644680704

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Richard Primack,Johnny W. Wilson

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Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Richard Primack,Johnny W. Wilson

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region. Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography. Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

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Open Book Publishers

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1783747536

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9781783747535

African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas

By: Johnny E. Williams

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African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas

By: Johnny E. Williams

What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying. Not so, argues Johnny E. Williams. Focusing on the state of Arkansas as typical in the role of ecclesiastical activism, his book argues that black religion from the period of slavery through the era of segregation provided theological resources that motivated and sustained preachers and parishioners battling racial oppression. Drawing on interviews, speeches, case studies, literature, sociological surveys, and other sources, Williams persuasively defines the most ardent of civil rights activists in the state as products of church culture. Both religious beliefs and the African American church itself were essential in motivating blacks to act individually and collectively to confront their oppressors in Arkansas and throughout the South. Williams explains how the ideology of the black church roused disparate individuals into a community and how the church established a base for many diverse participants in the civil rights movement. He shows how church life and ecumenical education helped to sustain the protest of people with few resources and little permanent power. Williams argues that the church helped galvanize political action by bringing people together and creating social bonds even when societal conditions made action difficult and often dangerous. The church supplied its members with meanings, beliefs, relationships, and practices that served as resources to create a religious protest message of hope.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1628467231

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PARADIGM SHIFT

By: Johnny M. Wilson Jr.

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PARADIGM SHIFT

By: Johnny M. Wilson Jr.

In Paradigm Shift, this book describes the challenges on intercultural relationships and with family related small to conservative African American Churches in the culture life of New England. in general. An examination of the complexes of change and addressing the need for more intercultural and communication within many churches. The term paradigm refers to a philosophical and theoretical framework for example, ideal or pattern. Many of these congregations have long standing in their communities; helping the poor, feeding the hungry, and spreading the good news of the gospel.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490738916

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Beginnings

By: Johnny Mass

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Beginnings

By: Johnny Mass

These are just my opinions and you should take from this what you can and make it your own. This should not be taken as a step by step manual. I wrote this because I wanted to prove that you dont need to be the worlds best magician to perform and create the worlds best magic. Everyone has the capability to become as big as they want to be. In here you will find everything you need to improve your career in magic. Everything is covered from performance and stage presence, to the business side of it such as how to get the gigs and make an impression. I even give you a sample contract which you can use. Ive also included a couple of my own works that have been tested in the real world. If I was able to help anyone in anyway then this was worth it. Always strive to better yourself in everything you do. I encourage all of you to delve into yourselves, thats where you will find true magic. Mystify Your Mind!

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1456803832

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9781456803834

Beantown Cubans

By: Johnny Diaz

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Beantown Cubans

By: Johnny Diaz

From the acclaimed author of Miami Manhunt and Boston Boys Club, comes a witty, new, warmhearted novel of friendship, familia, and finding a place to call home--even in a city where it's almost impossible to get an authentic Cuban sandwich. . . Carlos Martin is twenty-seven years old and ready for a change. Cuban-born and Miami-raised, the cute but slightly awkward high school teacher figures that Boston is about as far from the crazy South Beach social scene as he could get--and a way to escape the bittersweet reminders of his recently departed mother. Life in "Beantown" is quite a culture shock--until Carlos meets Tommy Perez, another Miami transplant who quickly shows him the ropes. Now, in the course of one wildly unpredictable year, Carlos is going to learn to embrace his newfound independence, as well as his individuality. . . Praise for Johnny Diaz and Miami Manhunt "The excellent Johnny Diaz has produced another hilarious arresting novel about that most impossible of all quests: finding love, true love, in Miami." --Juno Diaz, New York Times bestselling author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Kensington Books

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075825878X

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9780758258786

Idiot

Beating The Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life

By: Johnny Damon,Peter Golenbock

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Beating The Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life

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Diary of a Red Sox Season 2007

By: Johnny Pesky,Maureen Mullen

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My Life Among the Icons

My Life Among the Icons

Idiot

Idiot

Diary of a Red Sox Season 2007

Diary of a Red Sox Season 2007

From the Projects to the Palace

From the Projects to the Palace

My Life Among the Icons

My Life Among the Icons

Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry

Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry

the "________" disciple

the "________" disciple

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas

African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas

PARADIGM SHIFT

PARADIGM SHIFT

Beginnings

Beginnings

Beantown Cubans

Beantown Cubans

Idiot

Idiot

Diary of a Red Sox Season 2007

Diary of a Red Sox Season 2007

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