SUN NETS, Mark Fogarty's new book of poetry from White Chickens Press, contains about two dozen short poems, some rhymed, some not, all evocative, all catching light to illuminate things and situations. His fourth poetry book follows closely the themes of the first three: truth versus lies, the dark matter of the universe, the webs of a basketball cover, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Clutter family of Kansas, the doomed and talented Minnie Riperton, and the great grandson of poet Joyce Kilmer. Believe it or not, some sense is made of this wide and various universe!
MYSHKIN'S BLUES is a physical and emotional travelogue that takes as its patron saint Dostoevsky's holy fool. Organized into a double album in the manner of Cream's "Wheels of Fire" or Jimi's "Electric Ladyland" or Guns n'Roses' "Use Your Illusion," the poems of Mark Fogarty's questing work walk through the valley between folly and wisdom, relying on the magic of the blues to transform painful experiences into joyful ones!
It's March Madness, and the University of Monroe Metrics are heading for an early end to a good but not great season. Then they are inspired by a mentor who shows them how to see the poetry inside and outside of them. The Metrics use this new energy to begin a march toward the national championship game and a date with their greatest potential. Mark Fogarty's sweet, funny short novel will introduce you to a team of worldclass athletes: Pip Pippen, who may or may not be related to Scottie Pippen; Lady Dagger, a combination of elegance and personal poetry; Jams, who has dunked in practice but never in a game; Meta Mustapha, who finds this book a name; GG, who has Pip's back when opposing players headhunt her; the backups, a closeknit group known as the Beeline, and Silly, an injured player who travels with the team. You'll also meet their nemesis, the Constitution University Amendments and their star player, the Big Girl; the Diametrics, the Metrics' offbeat marching band; and their poetry coach Eduardo Jonas.
AND TWO! If it's March it is time for March Madness and an anthology of three novels set in women's basketball's favorite month. Mark Fogarty's exciting and funny work is on display in the trilogy: "ALL THAT'S BEST OF TRUE AND RIGHT," "ALL THAT'S BEST OF BLACK AND WHITE," "and "ALL THAT"S BEST OF STAND AND FIGHT." In the first novel, Nick Johnson thinks it's a demotion to be named to be coaching a Division III college WBB team, but finds out differently. In the second, the U.S. women's national team learns a lot about itself and America as they chase a world title and must decide what it is they are playing for. In the third, Nick coaches a girls AAU team that is scraping along the bottom of the league until it is time for the playoffs.
It is three years after the events of ALL THAT's BEST OF DARK AND BRIGHT. The University of Monroe Metrics are again a mediocre club. This year, though, the Beast, the Northeast regional championship, is being held at Monroe. They face the embarrassment of being blown out of their own arena. What's more, a valuable artifact has been stolen! The Monroe AD hires Reporter Guy, narrator of the earlier book, to find the crown jewel. And as a cover, he makes Reporter Guy the Metrics' poetry coach! Will Poetry Man find the trophy? Will he discover unknown skills as a poetry coach to motivate the team? Boy howdy!
The beautiful world of women's basketball is the stage of THE TALL WOMEN'S DANCE. Inside its pages you will meet such gifted athletes as Elena Delle Donne, Brittney Griner, Becky Hammon, Jude Schimmel, Cappie Pondexter, Candice Wiggins and many more. And what better way to describe poetry in motion than by poetry? The women's game is fire and ice!
No man is an island entire of himself, but many are peninsulas. Mark Fogarty's dramatic new book of poetry examines a life surrounded by water on three sides and connected to land by one side. This wide-ranging volume traces the disconnections of modern life as well as the sweet moments when the stars all line up. Fogarty's love of music shines out through his poems on many of his favorite musicians: Ozzy Osbourne, Lisa Lopes, Jaco Pastorius, Glen Matlock. There are also a few shouts out to favorite athletes: Muhammad Ali, Henry Aaron, Jackie Robinson. PENINSULA also features the major poem "A Sash for Addie Mae Collins," about the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. You will also find out how he is related to Queen Elizabeth!
Will it be a cakewalk to the world championship for the US national women's basketball team? It should be, since they are called The Franchise, the best team in WBB history. But it turns out not to be smooth for these star hoopsters. Nick Johnson has taken on the job of being their poetry coach, but decides to ground them in some American history instead. The women start thinking about who it is they are actually representing as a team, and eventually they must make a momentous choice between following their ideals and being disqualified from the world final. Either way they choose, this is a team America can be proud of!
Poetry Man, hero of ALL THAT'S BEST OF DAY AND NIGHT and ALL THAT'S BEST OF DARK AND BRIGHT, becomes the temporary coach of the Monroe Metrics and promptly pledges to win ten games in a row with a losing team. At the same time his wife, the permanent coach of the Metrics, is about to give birth to their first child. The two events converge to show the Poetry Man what's important in "this thing of ours," as the women's basketball niche jokingly refers to itself. With holdovers from the team featured in ALL THAT'S BEST OF DAY AND NIGHT, this third book in the MARCH MADNESS series has many new teammates and new challenges, hopes and fears as they get ready to inaugurate their new basketball palace, the Wreck.
Rock and roll poetry! PHANTOM ENGINEER is the creative reaction to fifty years of listening to music, playing music, recording music. The natural joyousness of rock is big in these pages, plus the sadness of remembering those who died young. Jimi Hendrix, Jaco Pastorius, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Lisa Lopes, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake and Nicky Hopkins are all remembered for talent (or genius) that bloomed young and died young. Meanwhile, the Phantom Engineer pulls the strings and makes the blues and the zydeco appear!
ALL THAT'S BEST OF TRUE AND LIGHT Nick Johnson is in a familiar situation. He's been asked to be the temporary coach of a University of Monroe Metrics team. Only this time, it is the Golden Metrics, one of the school's Division III teams. Nick must adjust to life in the minor leagues of collegiate WBB, but he finds an extraordinary spirit and cast of characters in these unforgettable Golden Metrics. In addition to the new team there are appearances by other characters from the earlier novels, most notably Julia, Lady Dagger, now nearing the end of her storied WNBA career. Add in the Statue of Liberty, the Hall of the Amendments, a haunted old hotel, the gym they call the Bill, and the familiar patter of sneakered feet on hardwood floors and you will be back in the funny, bittersweet world of the All That's Best series of March Madness novels.
If it's March, it's March Madness! And One! collects three of Mark Fogarty's exciting, funny women's basketball novels: "ALL THAT'S BEST OF DARK AND BRIGHT," "ALL THAT'S BEST OF DAY AND NIGHT," and "ALL THAT'S BEST OF WINTER LIGHT." See the University of Monroe Metrics vie for a national title, solve the mystery of who has stolen their trophy, and try the Ice Cream Strategy when more conventional strategies fail. The end of winter isn't quite so bad when it is enlivened by winning young players on a very winning team, vying for glory during March Madness.
The sixth installment of the "All That's Best" novels about women's basketball finds Nick Johnson asked to take over a failing girls WBB team as his wife, Dee, prepares to take her Monroe Metrics to Spokane for the ACAA tournament. On Nick's team, the Liberty, you will meet his rebellious daughter Bit, Candy, who has to overcome her hardscrabble life to get on the path to a college athletic scholarship, Weather, whose mother W.A. Nick has also coached and Dream, a non-playing player. Dead last in the league, they manage to rise to seventh, a dreary record that is salvaged when the league decides all teams will play in the league tournament. Meanwhile Dee, back from Spokane, gets to work preparing for this year's Metrics Hall of Fame installation, which doesn't go exactly as planned. Get ready to laugh and cry as you read this final installment of the ALL THAT'S BEST series!
The life of Jaco Pastorius, the master of the bass guitar, was brilliant and turbulent. But it is possible to see, using the title of one of his most famous compositions, a continuum to his life that is mirrored by the continuum of these poems, which celebrate the maestro's musical genius while puzzling and sorrowing over the maladies that led to his early decline and death. And now, 25 years after his death, the up and down rollercoaster has brought his legacy back to the forefront of the musical world, and he is once again one of the few musicians known everywhere on the planet by one name: Jaco.
Now there's a second edition of Went to See the Gypsy! Are you a Baby Boomer that still rocks? Or a fan of rock's golden era of any age? Do you remember the first vinyl record you bought? Do you still play your favorite songs two or three times in a row? Then you will enjoy Went To See the Gypsy! The title is from a Dylan song about Elvis, and it evokes the journey I've been on since the Beatles took America by storm in 1964. My friends and I were so taken by the Beatles that we made up a fake-Beatles band with tennis racket guitars and lipsynced the songs to the neighbors at a nickel a pop! And I've been following the rock gypsy caravans ever since, from the British Invasion bands on AM transistor radios, to the psychedelic revolution on FM radio, to punk rock on the left of the dial, to alternative music on CDs, and all of it over again on digital!
Kola Boof is an extravagently talented writer. IF MY FATHER DIES I GIVE BIRTH TO HIM AGAIN gives her what she's due for being an accomplished writer of fiction, poetry and memoir. This selected writings contains excerpts from her best work: *NILE RIVER WOMAN *DIARY OF A LOST GIRL *LONG TRAIN TO THE REDEEMING SIN *FLESH AND THE DEVIL
Strap yourself in, hold on tight, and find out exactly what it's like to be Australia's best-loved race driver! Craig Lowndes is Australia's favourite racing driver.A three-time V8 Supercar champion, four-time winner of the Bathurst 1000 and recipient of the Barry Sheene Medal two years in a row, Craig is one of the most successful drivers in the history of Australian motor racing. Loved and respected off the track too, Craig is known as a great bloke, a devoted family man and cattle farmer. He is a role model and inspiration to Australians from all walks of life.this gripping overview of Craig's high-speed world provides fascinating insights into the triumphs and challenges of elite motor sport. Craig shares his feelings about his controversial switch from Ford to Holden, a change received with mixed emotions by fans; he explains what it is really like behind the wheel of a V8 Supercar and introduces us to his team; shares his views on the sport and how it is evolving; reveals the man behind the national sporting celebrity; and much more.Candid and action-packed, tHE INSIDE LINE takes you behind the scenes and behind the wheel with a V8 Supercar legend.
Provides fascinating insights into the triumphs and challenges of elite motor sport. Craig shares his feelings about his controversial switch from Ford to Holden, a change received with mixed emotions by fans; he explains what it is really like behind the wheel of a V8 Supercar and introduces us to his team; he shares his views on the sport and how it is evolving; and, he reveals the man behind the national sporting celebrity.
President of the United States Angus Probin does not believe in playing fair; he only believes in winning. To him, it matters little whether he has friends or long-lasting relationships. Everyone is disposable if they don’t meet his needs. He is cunning enough, though, to know that he must keep a close watch on anyone who might betray him. Vice President Robert Jenkins has always been a respected politician and lawmaker. Unlike Probin, he is a man of high moral principles, a defender of conservative values, and a staunch evangelical Christian. Jenkins is of great concern to the president, as Probin is beginning to think he has no power over his VP and betrayal is imminent. Now, Probin has been fed an insane idea. He is convinced that global warming can be reversed through military action and guarantee his reelection. It’s madness—and Jenkins realizes it. He has a week to save humanity. To do so he must survive political attacks and even attempts on his life.
President of the United States Angus Probin does not believe in playing fair; he only believes in winning. To him, it matters little whether he has friends or long-lasting relationships. Everyone is disposable if they don’t meet his needs. He is cunning enough, though, to know that he must keep a close watch on anyone who might betray him. Vice President Robert Jenkins has always been a respected politician and lawmaker. Unlike Probin, he is a man of high moral principles, a defender of conservative values, and a staunch evangelical Christian. Jenkins is of great concern to the president, as Probin is beginning to think he has no power over his VP and betrayal is imminent. Now, Probin has been fed an insane idea. He is convinced that global warming can be reversed through military action and guarantee his reelection. It’s madness—and Jenkins realizes it. He has a week to save humanity. To do so he must survive political attacks and even attempts on his life.
In October of 1888, Albert Goodwill Spalding -- baseball star, sporting-goods magnate, promotional genius, serial fabulist -- departed Chicago on a trip that would take him and two baseball teams on a journey clear around the globe. Their mission, closely followed in the American and international press, had two (secret) goals: to fix the game in the American consciousness as the purest expression of the national spirit, and to seed markets for Spalding's products near and far. In the process, these first cultural ambassadors played before kings and queens, visited the Coliseum and the Eiffel Tower, and took pot shots with their baseballs at the great Sphinx in Egypt. This expedition to lands both exotic and familiar is chronicled with dash and wit in Mark Lamster's Spalding's World Tour, a book filled with larger-than-life characters often competing harder for love and money off the baseball diamond than for runs on it. Getting themselves into scrapes and narrowly escaping international incident all around the globe, these innocents abroad gave the world an early peek at the American century just around the corner. For anyone interested in the history of the game -- or the history of brand marketing -- Spalding's World Tour hits the sweet spot.
The practices of revenue management and pricing analytics have transformed the transportation and hospitality industries, and are increasingly important in industries as diverse as retail, telecommunications, banking, health care and manufacturing. Segmentation, Revenue Management and Pricing Analytics guides students and professionals on how to identify and exploit revenue management and pricing opportunities in different business contexts. Bodea and Ferguson introduce concepts and quantitative methods for improving profit through capacity allocation and pricing. Whereas most marketing textbooks cover more traditional, qualitative methods for determining customer segments and prices, this book uses historical sales data with mathematical optimization to make those decisions. With hands-on practice and a fundamental understanding of some of the most common analytical models, readers will be able to make smarter business decisions and higher profits. This book will be a useful and enlightening read for MBA students in pricing and revenue management, marketing, and service operations.
Endovascular Technology is a compilation of presentations on topics relating to endovascular topics from the last five symposia sponsored by the Division of Vascular Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. The Modern trends in Vascular Surgery series brings together the best, current strategies for therapeutic and clinical practices. These books contain the latest discoveries, techniques, practice and out comes in vascular surgery. There are approximately 25 to 45 chapters in each book, classified under the following headings: cerebrovascular, ischemia, infrainguinal lesions, aortic aneurysm, thoracic aortic pathology, aorta and its major branches, upper extremity ischemia, venous disorders, hemodialysis access, endovascular technology, noninvasive test, and issues in vascular surgery. Each of the chapters contains valuable illustrations, tables, and a list of references to guide the reader through the chapter. This series of books focus on specific topics in vascular surgery. For each title the editors will assume the responsibility of adding the latest information and new chapters and to update all of the content, thus making these books more cohesive and with newer, up-to-date information. The resulting product is a comprehensive review of current knowledge across all of vascular surgery, covering: Carotid Artery Diseases, Surgery of the Aorta, Venous Disorders, Endovascular technology and Ischemic Extremities.
Mark A. Yarhouse and James N. Sells survey the major approaches to family therapy and treat significant psychotherapeutic issues within a Christian framework, offering timely wisdom for therapeutic practice. Fully updated and revised, this second edition is an indispensable resource for those in the mental health professions, including counselors, psychologists, family therapists, social workers, and pastors.
Fifteen philosophers representuing different schools of thought answer the question what is Woody Allen trying to say in his films? And why should anyone care? Focusing on different works and varied aspects of Allen's multifaceted output, these essays explore the philosophical undertones of Anne Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy and reminds us that just because the universe is meaningless and life is pointless is no reason to commit suicide.
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