The Chosen Game: A Jewish Basketball History, Charley Rosen
Автор: Steinbeck John Название: Travels with Charley ISBN: 0141186100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141186108 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, the author observed America, and the Americans who inhabited it. What he saw was a lonely, generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated.
Описание: A collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck's route by Don Freeman In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.
Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life--a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South--which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand--Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Автор: Harper Charley Название: Beguiled by the Wild ISBN: 0764972294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764972294 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6897.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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George and Harold have really done it this time . . . they`ve created a MONSTER! She`s faster, stronger, and more evil than anything the world has seen before --she`s Wedgie Woman! With the help of her horrible robots and her ravenous robo-claw, Wedgie Woman is on a mission to take over the world, and she`ll give a whopping wedgie to anyone who stands in her way --including Captain Underpants. Will Wedgie Woman`s wicked ways spell the end for our heroes?
Spanish title: El Capitan Calzoncillos y la furia de la supermujer macroelastica
Jorge y Berto si la han hecho esta vezHan creado un MONSTRUO! Es la criatura mas rapida, fuerte y diabolica del mundo, la Supermujer Macroelastica. Con la ayuda de sus horripilantes robots y su garra robotica, la Supermujer Macroelastica se aduena del mundo y le da una paliza a cualquiera que se interponga en su camino, incluyendo al Capitan Calzoncillos. Podra la Mujer Macroelastica destruir a nuestros heroes?
Автор: Oldham Todd Название: Charley Harper an illustrated life mini edition ISBN: 1934429821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781934429822 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4131.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Автор: Ladybird Название: Little Charley Bear: Little Library ISBN: 1409309665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409309666 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 461.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Rosen, Charley Название: Trouthe, Lies, And Basketball ISBN: 1609809416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609809416 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1743.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Elliot Hersch is given a basketball on his tenth birthday and cuts a deal with his disapproving father: if he makes straight As, he is allowed to play. Modeling his game on the basketball heroes of his time--Clyde Frazier, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, and especially Larry Bird--Elliot becomes one of the finest high school basketball players in New York. Trying to steer clear of the corruption and sleaze in the big college programs, Elliott signs with the seemingly clean-cut University of Southern Arizona (USA), partly to fulfill his promise to his father, whose one piece of advice about life is: Tell the truth, always. A quote from Chaucer, his father's favorite writer, guides both father and son "Trouthe is the hyest thing that man may kepe." What he finds at the USA and then the NBA is a far cry from untarnished "trouthe." Elliott is challenged at every turn, tangling at the end of the day with what is most true: the game. Can Elliott truly play basketball? And if not, what is left of his life? Trouthe, Lies, and Basketball is an epic comic tale--structured somewhat like a gripping basketball game, completely with literary "time-outs"--of a basketball player coming to terms with the world as it is, his talents as they are. Rosen's characters, even the mostly unseemly, are all heart, and by the end they leave those hearts on the hardwood.
Автор: Charley Rosen Название: Sugar: Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA ISBN: 1496202163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496202161 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3129.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The 1980s were arguably the NBA’s best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game’s greatest players who brought pro basketball out of its 1970s funk and made it faster, more fluid, and more exciting. Off the court the game was changing rapidly too, with the draft lottery, shoe commercials, and a style driven largely by excess.
One player who personified the eighties excess is Micheal Ray Richardson. During his eight-year career in the NBA (1978–86), he was a four-time All-Star, twice named to the All-Defense team, and the first player to lead the league in both assists and steals. He was also a heavy cocaine user who went on days-long binges but continued to be signed by teams that hoped he’d get straight. Eventually he was the first and only player to be permanently disqualified from the NBA for repeat drug use.
Tracking the rise, fall, and eventual redemption of Richardson throughout his playing days and subsequent coaching career, Charley Rosen describes the life?defining pitfalls Richardson and other players faced and considers key themes such as off?court and on?court racism, anti-Semitism, womanizing, allegations of point?shaving within the league, and drug and alcohol abuse by star players.
By constructing his various lines of narration around the polarizing figure of Richardson—equal parts basketball savant, drug addict, and pariah—Rosen illuminates some of the more unseemly aspects of the NBA during this period, going behind the scenes to provide an account of what the league’s darker side was like during its celebrated golden age.
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