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Beyond the Final Score
Author: Tom Osborne
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-10-27
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1459607066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There's More To Life Than The Game Legendary college football coach Tom Osborne, a former NFL player and Nebraska Congressman, shares his life's wisdom in this powerful collection of stories, advice and spiritual insights. Available Fall 2009 2...
Beyond the Final Score
Author: Victor D. Cha
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780231154901
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad?Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport in Asia. Asian athletics are bound up with notions of national identity and nationalism, refracting political intent and the processes of globalization. For China, the Beijing Games introduced a liberalizing ethos that its authoritative regime could ignore only at its peril. Victor D. Cha-former director of Asian affairs for the White House-evaluates Beijing's contention with this pressure, considering the intense scrutiny China already faced on issues of counterproliferation, global warming, and free trade.
Scorecasting
Author: Tobias Moskowitz
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0307591808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more. Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals: • Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting situations that you and I are • Why professional teams routinely overvalue draft picks • The myth of momentum or the "hot hand" in sports, and why so many fans, coaches, and broadcasters fervently subscribe to it • Why NFL coaches rarely go for a first down on fourth-down situations--even when their reluctance to do so reduces their chances of winning. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the putting greens of Augusta to the grid iron of a small parochial high school in Arkansas, Scorecasting will forever change how you view the game, whatever your favorite sport might be.
Knowing the Score
Author: David Papineau
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0465094945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions of altruism, while sporting family dynasties reorient the nature v. nurture debate. Why do sports competitors choke? Why do fans think God will favor their team over their rivals? How can it be moral to deceive the umpire by framing a pitch? From all of these questions, and many more, philosophy has a great deal to learn. An entertaining and erudite book that ranges far and wide through the sporting world, Knowing the Score is perfect reading for armchair philosophers and Monday morning quarterbacks alike.
Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond
Author: Marco García García
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9027263485
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of linguistic disciplines and perspectives such as language acquisition and language contact, this volume provides a state-of-the-art discussion on central issues of focus realization. These include the interaction between prosody, syntax, and pragmatics, the typology of word order and intonation languages, the differentiation between focus and related notions such as contrast and presupposed modality, and the role of synchronic variation and change. The studies presented in this volume cover a broad range of Romance languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, and different varieties of Spanish. Moreover, the book also offers new insights into non-Romance languages such as English, German, and Quechua.
Winning Beyond the Scoreboard as the Underdog - The Final Score Is What Counts!
Author: Lamont Turner
Publisher:
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780578039923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Step on the fields of the SEC and look through the face mask of one Vanderbilt Football Commodore, as he shares how his perceived losing experiences as a Vanderbilt Football UNDERDOg helped him win beyond the scoreboard as a medical device UNDERDOg in corporate America. You will discover:?Çó That you too are an UNDERDOg?Çó Behind the scenes perspectives of SEC football moments and corporate America?Çó The intangible scoreboard of The UNDERDOg has value?Çó The difference between a god created scoreboard and a G od given scoreboard?Çó WINNING and losing is relative to the scoreboard keeping score ?Çó That you can win as the UNDERDOg by recalibrating your scoreboardsThe UNDERDOg provides a compelling framework for assessing where we have been, where we stand and where we are headed as UNDERDOgs. Dwight Gaines, IBM (10 yrs) & Medical Device (17 yrs) Sales ProfessionalWe must avoid the traps and snares that the de facto gods have placed before us blinding our way. Thanks for reminding me that its not too late to change the ultimate scoreboard of life.Phillip Desoto, Truth SeekerThank you UNDERDOg for putting into words those private thoughts and feelings that keep all of us in our daily ruts. Being conscious of your UNDERDOg status is vital to creating a successful life plan.Ainsley Battles, Retired NFL 06, World History Teacher - High SchoolThis inspirational book has provided many UNDERDOgs the inspiration to WIN beyond their current god created scoreboards by learning how to recalibrate their god created scoreboards into G od given scoreboards. YOU have the option to buy this book. Theres still time remaining on your scoreboard. What are YOU waiting for? Start WINNING today!
Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim
Author: J. A. Mangan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1317966082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising superpower. The Pacific Rim will be the stage on which China initially displays its new hegemonic intentions, aspirations and ambitions. Thus in Post-Beijing 2008, the political, economic and cultural impact of Beijing 2008 on the geopolitical future of the Pacific Rim will be discussed. This perspective, analysed by some of the most distinguished academic commentators from some of the world's leading universities who are closely associated with the Pacific Rim (East and West), is original in focus and the analysis is pregnant with political possibilities. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Beyond the Score
Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0199357404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on the Western 'art' tradition, Cook explores perspectives that range from close listening to computational analysis, from ethnography to the study of recordings, and from the social relations constructed through performance to the performing (and listening) body. In doing so, he reveals not only that the notion of music as text has hampered academic understanding of music, but also that it has inhibited performance practices, placing them in a textualist straightjacket. Beyond the Score has a strong historical emphasis, touching on broad developments in twentieth-century performance style and setting them into their larger cultural context. Cook also investigates the relationship between recordings and performance, arguing that we do not experience recordings as mere reproductions of a performance but as performances in their own right. Beyond the Score is a comprehensive exploration of new approaches and methods for the study of music as performance, and will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of music scholars-including musicologists, music theorists, and music cognition scholars-everywhere.
Beyond the Bridge:
Author: R. D. Lock
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2011-07-11
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781462016624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seeking a job as a first-year teacher, Robin Robertson heads for an interview at the Westminster Rural Agricultural Schools in the spring of 1956. Here, Robin could teach and also coach varsity basketball and counsel students. Amid the pressures of beginning a new career, he starts to wonder whether a big-city person like himself can adapt adequately to the lifestyle of small-town, rural America. This story pictures a way of life that has vanished in all too many places. Many readers will relate to the challenges, conflicts, and rewards between students and an untried but idealistic teacher. Others will recall athletic contests won and lost and perhaps will remember counseling that went way beyond arranging school schedules. The author draws upon forty-three years of educational experience in high school and community college -- focusing on that memorable first year in front of a classroom, being in charge of the community's "Winter Entertainment Committee" (basketball games), and creating a newly mandated school guidance program.
