Download or read book A Game Apart written by Neal Collins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest football tournament on earth will take place in Africa for the first time next year, with the World Cup kicking off in Johannesburg on June 11. A GAME APART tries to explain just how miraculous that simple fact is. Based largely on what I witnessed myself as a student, footballer and sports journalist, this is an honest - but fictional - account of what it was like to play football in South Africa before democracy came rolling in with Nelson Mandela in 1993. There was trouble on the pitch, trouble on the streets, trouble on the beaches. Apartheid and trouble went hand in hand. A lot of the publicity surrounding the upcoming World Cup has been negative, with the focus on crime and corruption. My perception is very different. I believe the country has changed massively for the better in 16 short years. I've waited all that time to let my memories loose, and the World Cup seems an appropriate time to write a novel that, I hope, will help people to remember exactly what the Rainbow Nation has been through. This novel will annoy some, please others. All I ask is that the reader recognizes this is how a young Englishman might have viewed the South Africa I grew up in. A strange but beautiful country riven by cruelty and mistrust and headed for a bloody revolution... until the release of Mandela in 1990. For those who visit the country, for those who view it on a television screen, for those who read about it in the newspapers, I hope to offer some perspective. Apartheid should never be forgotten. Otherwise somebody will repeat the process. And that must never be allowed to happen.
Download or read book Worlds Apart written by R.L. Dukes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resurrection and Discipleship written by Thorwald Lorenzen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authority of the Bible in the Gospel narratives and Paul's impassioned epistles revolve around the factual basis and foundational nature of Christ's resurrection for Christianity. The question is: how can the resurrection best be understood? In 'Resurrection and Discipleship', Thorwald Lorenzen provides a balanced and nuanced investigation of this question.
Download or read book The Opposite of Falling Apart written by Micah Good and published by Wattpad Books. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To get back up sometimes you have to fall down, hard . . . What's the point of pretending nothing has changed when everything has? It's the last summer before college, and Jonas Avery knows he should be excited. Instead, he hides out at home, avoiding his friends, his family, and everything that resembles his old life. Because nothing will be normal again—because of The Accident, when everything started falling apart. Brennan Davis knows she needs to stand up and face her anxiety—the deep, dark, debilitating dread that rules her everyday life. Because what stops her from going out into the world and just living is going to get a whole lot worse. She’s leaving for college in the fall, where she’ll be confronted with even more to worry about. When Jonas crashes into Brennan—in a harmless, albeit embarrassing fender bender—the two teens connect in ways they never expected. As friends, they help each other overcome their biggest falls and faults, and soon discover that while love can't fix everything, it's sometimes a place to start. Sensitive, wry, and unabashedly authentic, The Opposite of Falling Apart isn't about finding perfection in another person or fixing the things we think are broken. Instead, Micah Good has penned an enchantingly honest novel about accepting the very pieces of ourselves that make us unique, whole, and undeniably human.
Download or read book Is America Falling Apart written by Mahnaz B. Consolver and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Mahnaz Consolver came to the United States, she held some positive preconceived notions about the people and the lifestyles in the country. But what she found surprised her. In this memoir, Consolver shares her impressions, framed by her experiences as an immigrant, and provides ideas and solutions to maintain the United States status as the land of opportunity. In Is America Falling Apart?, Mahnaz discloses a wealth of observations and concludes with a list of lessons shes learned while living in the United States. From the moment she departed the airplane and entered the airport, Mahnazs life became a series of new and different experiences. She comments on everything American, including bathrooms, drug use, homelessness, media, television, video games, driving, wastefulness, sports, and even dogs. Through these observations, experienced by someone new to the country, Mahnaz hopes to wake up the American public and encourage them to get involved to solve the problems that threaten this land of glory.
Download or read book A Tribe Apart written by Patricia Hersch and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their dreams and enact their tragedies. What she found was that America's teens have fashioned a fully defined culture that adults neither see nor imagine--a culture of unprecedented freedom and baffling complexity, a culture with rules but no structure, values but no clear morality, codes but no consistency. Is it society itself that has created this separate teen community? Resigned to the attitude that adolescents simply live in "a tribe apart," adults have pulled away, relinquishing responsibility and supervision, allowing the unhealthy behaviors of teens to flourish. Ultimately, this rift between adults and teenagers robs both generations of meaningful connections. For everyone's world is made richer and more challenging by having adolescents in it.
Download or read book Leagues Apart written by William Webb and published by Ridiculously Simple Books. This book was released on with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the rich and complex history of the Negro Leagues in this enlightening exploration that captures the spirit, struggles, and profound influence of African American baseball from its inception to its enduring legacy. This book traces the origins of the leagues, beginning with the early days of African American baseball, set against a backdrop of the harsh social and racial climates of the era. From the founding of the first major league by Rube Foster in 1920, through the highs of the legendary players like Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, to the pioneering efforts of integration before Jackie Robinson and beyond, these narrative weaves a detailed tapestry of the leagues' pivotal moments. It not only highlights the triumphs and challenges on the field but also the cultural resonance of the leagues in the arts and their role in the civil rights movement. Discover the stories of iconic teams like the Kansas City Monarchs and Homestead Grays, and learn about the lesser known, yet equally compelling, tales of female players who defied gender norms to play the game they loved. As the leagues faced the impacts of the Great Depression, World War II, and the eventual decline post-integration, this book examines the broader implications of these events on players' lives and the community.
Download or read book Coming Together Coming Apart written by John A. Desteian and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationships are hard enough to negotiate without advice from outsiders who don’t know you at all. This book is not a “how-to” aimed at attaining the ideal. Rather, it is a how-it-is, an exploration of how relationships are, how they develop, how they deteriorate, how they may end and how they may even revive. Strange as it may seem, it is not a book about how individual human beings are. It doesn’t concern itself with individual human failings. Those failings are given in being human. Instead, it describes the potentials for joy, disappointment and burden that are intrinsic to relationship and by extension to the process of becoming fully human. In a world obsessed with attaining an illusory ideal, becoming fully human is the greatest threat.
Download or read book Set Apart written by Daniel McIntosh and published by Harrison House Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the staff of the progressive Believers Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma including popular author Mark Steele, these spiritually enlightening readings will refresh those who are tired religion and ready for a vibrant, living relationship with God.
Download or read book Never Together Never Apart written by Vikas Sharma and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Together Never Apart is an attempt to raise humanity above the thoughts of caste and communalism. Sabir and Chinta love each other, but time does not support them. Sabir is forced to marry Saira to support his failing business. Saira's father Tahir Hussein buys land in Khandala and Lonavala where Sabir plans to set up a university and medical college. Saira dies during childbirth, and Sabir returns to his first love, the widowed Chinta. How could he have struggled through the darkness alone? It was important to ignite a new spark, a new light. It is this hope that has been nurtured in the novel.
Download or read book Falling Apart written by Breanna Wesely and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had never expected that one person could change my life in the way she had. I had never expected that one person, one girl, would become my best friend and change the way I would live forever. I had never believed that we would go from playing on the park to roaming the city streets, but I also never thought that I would lose her. I never thought that one day I would not only lose her, but also lose myself. She didn't only change my life though, she destroyed it. I can no longer close my eyes without hoping for just one more day with Raelynn, one more destruction free thought.
Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Ronan Brady and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ronan is emblematic of how Ireland has changed.' – Panti BlissAt just under six foot in his socks and weighing in at fourteen stone, Ronan Brady is a solid slab of rarest Roscommon meat. He has a natural tendency to throw himself about – some would say recklessly, others would say enthusiastically – into whatever he sets himself to. Ronan had a 'normal' childhood in Roscommon and knew by the time he was a teenager that when he grew up he wanted to play football for his county and become a teacher. Ronan had achieved his life ambition when he took up 'Flying' as a hobby. A hobby that transformed his life and took him to heights he never dreamed of, performing in the smash hit show Riot alongside Panti Bliss, and going on to tour the world. Worlds Apart is an open, humorous account of Ronan's life journey.
Download or read book Joking Apart written by Donncha O'Callaghan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donncha O'Callaghan is one of Ireland's leading international rugby players, and a stalwart of the Munster side. He was a key figure in the Irish team which won the IRB 6 Nations Grand Slam in 2009, and has won two Heineken Cup medals and two Magners League titles with Munster. But that success did not come easy. For such a well known player with a larger-than-life reputation, his long battle to make a breakthrough at the highest level is largely unknown. In this honest and revealing autobiography, Donncha talks in detail about the personal setbacks and disappointments at Munster and the unconventional ways he dealt with the frustration of not making the team for four of five years in his early 20s. He had a parallel experience with Ireland where it took him nearly six years to get from fringe squad member to established first choice player. Here he talks candidly about how he brought discipline to his game, and about his relationships with the coaches who had overlooked him and the second row rivals who had kept him on the bench. Donncha talks also with great warmth about a hectic childhood that was shaped by the death of his father when he was only six years old. One of the heroes of his story is his mother Marie who showed incredible strength and resourcefulness to rear a family of five on her own. Often deservedly regarded as 'the joker in the pack', what is often less well known is the serious attitude and intensely professional approach Donncha brings to his rugby. Joking Apart gives the full picture, showing sides of the man that will be unfamiliar to followers of Irish rugby and will surprise the reader.
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Download or read book So Close Yet So Far Apart written by Syed H Jaffar and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So Close, Yet So Far Apart--Stopping the Abuse of Others is a book that shares the cardinal eight powerful, yet simple ways we can apply today to begin handling difficult challenges, such as tyrants' lust of power, religious gurus' destructive views, human idiosyncrasies, illiteracy, and poverty to make life meaningful. It discusses the principle of--different realities-so that we can understand, accept, and respect other people, cultures, and religions. Author Syed H. Jaffar also points out the profound similarities in each major religion[s golden rule which asks people to put greater emphasis on doing good deeds toward fellow human beings than on worshipping God. This profound resemblance among religions and our shared ancestor--Abraham--should make us so close, says Jaffar, yet, because of the calamity of the abuse of others, we have become so far apart. Once we have truly earned the right to be counted among great human beings as depicted in The Life Model, Jaffar affirms, the love we feel for people, the respect we have for other cultures and religions, and the compassion we have for our own religion's uniqueness will increase dramatically. Hence, we will gain inner and lasting peace for our ultimate goal of treasuring life.
Download or read book While We re Far Apart written by Lynn Austin and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unassuming apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, three lives intersect as the reality of war invades each aspect of their lives. Young Esther is heartbroken when her father decides to enlist in the army shortly after the death of her mother. Penny Goodrich has been in love with Eddie Shaffer for as long as she can remember; now that Eddie's wife is dead, Penny feels she has been given a second chance and offers to care for his children in the hope that he will finally notice her and marry her after the war. And elderly Mr. Mendel, the landlord, waits for the war to end to hear what has happened to his son trapped in war-torn Hungary. But during the long, endless wait for victory overseas, life on the home front will go from bad to worse. Yet these characters will find themselves growing and changing in ways they never expected--and ultimately discovering truths about God's love...even when He is silent.
