Download or read book Owen Foote Second Grade Strongman written by Stephanie Greene and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-10-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Foote is the smallest kid in the second grade and his best friend Joseph is overweight. When the dreaded height-and-weight day arrives, Owen stands up for Joseph to the loud-mouthed nurse and becomes a hero. Illustrations.
Download or read book Second Grade Strongman written by Stephanie Greene and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen, a second grader who is being teased for his small size, discovers that his friend Joseph is just as concerned about being overweight, and they share their fear of being humiliated by the school nurse.
Download or read book Owen Foote Super Spy written by Stephanie Greene and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen and his friends decide that spying on the school principal at his own house is a fun challenge.
Download or read book Zishe the Strongman written by Robert Rubinstein and published by Kar-Ben Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Zishe Breitbart, a poor Polish Jewish boy who became the featured strong man of circuses around the world and was known as The Iron King.
Download or read book The Strongest Man in the World written by Nicolas Debon and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and accomplishments of Louis Cyr, a weight lifer who astounded audiences throughout North America and Europe with his amazing feats and mammoth proportions.
Download or read book The Age of the Strongman written by Gideon Rachman and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world. The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning journalist and author of Easternization. This is the most urgent political story of our time: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh, and Washington. These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent, or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. What’s more, these leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy. Gideon Rachman has been in the same room with most of these strongmen and reported from their countries over a long journalistic career. While others have tried to understand their rise individually, Rachman pays full attention to the widespread phenomenon and uncovers the complex and often surprising interaction among these leaders. In the process, he identifies the common themes in our local nightmares, finding global coherence in the chaos and offering a bold new paradigm for navigating our world.
Download or read book Strongman written by Kenneth C. Davis and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the Don’t Know Much About® books comes a dramatic account of the origins of democracy, the history of authoritarianism, and the reigns of five of history's deadliest dictators. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year!A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year! A YALSA 2021 Nonfiction Award Nominee! What makes a country fall to a dictator? How do authoritarian leaders—strongmen—capable of killing millions acquire their power? How are they able to defeat the ideal of democracy? And what can we do to make sure it doesn’t happen again? By profiling five of the most notoriously ruthless dictators in history—Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Saddam Hussein—Kenneth C. Davis seeks to answer these questions, examining the forces in these strongmen’s personal lives and historical periods that shaped the leaders they’d become. Meticulously researched and complete with photographs, Strongman provides insight into the lives of five leaders who callously transformed the world and serves as an invaluable resource in an era when democracy itself seems in peril. * "A fascinating, highly readable portrayal of infamous men that provides urgent lessons for democracy now." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "Strongman is a book that is both deeply researched and deeply felt, both an alarming warning and a galvanizing call to action, both daunting and necessary to read and discuss." —Cynthia Levinson, author of Fault Lines in the Constitution
Download or read book Owen Foote Soccer Star written by Stephanie Greene and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequel to "Owen Foote, Second Grade Strongman" finds eight-year-old Owen and his best friend, Joseph, joining a neighborhood soccer team. Illustrations.
Download or read book Strong Man written by Meghan McCarthy and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He could tear phone books in half, bend iron bars into giant Us, and pull a 145,000-pound train with his bare hands. But Charles Atlas wasn't always one of America's most famous strong men. Once upon a time, he was a "97-pound weakling" who was picked on by neighborhood bullies.Using her trademark humor, Meghan McCarthy brings to life the story of Charles Atlas, the man who would become "the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" and, with his fitness campaign, inspired the entire nation to get in shape, eat right, and take charge of our lives.
Download or read book Secrets of Strength written by Earle E. Liederman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Owen Foote Money Man written by Stephanie Greene and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingenious eight-year-old Owen wants to make money for the things he absolutely needs, such as plastic vomit, but he tries to come up with some alternatives to earning an allowance, which sounds like too much work.
Download or read book Tactical Strongman written by Adam Benshea and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of all the latest training "advancements" that leave you physically flaccid and mentally numb?For half the cost of a day pass to a trendy chrome palace gym, you can have access to the most comprehensive strongman system and book ever written.Powerlifting is limit strength, bodybuilding is all about muscle hypertrophy, and Olympic lifting is explosive strength-strongman training is the synergistic blend of all three!When it comes to strength training, there is good, better, and best. Tactical strongman training is the best.Tactical strongman training is not a pie in the sky theory. Our programs have worked with world strongest man competitors, NFL players, and some of the sharpest tactical athletes on the front lines. Tactical strongman training is a game changer for the ex-jock Mr. Jones, the aging Mrs. Jones, and the elite athlete alike.Bottom line: Pop that Bosu ball, because there is nothing more functional than picking up some heavy weight and moving with it.If you have the will, we give you the way.
Download or read book Weak Strongman written by Timothy Frye and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies -- and recognizing this illuminates the inherent limits to Putin's power. Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy. Drawing on three decades of his own on-the-ground experience and research as well as insights from a new generation of social scientists that have received little attention outside academia, Timothy Frye reveals how much we overlook about today's Russia when we focus solely on Putin or Russian exceptionalism. Frye brings a new understanding to a host of crucial questions: How popular is Putin? Is Russian propaganda effective? Why are relations with the West so fraught? Can Russian cyber warriors really swing foreign elections? In answering these and other questions, Frye offers a highly accessible reassessment of Russian politics that highlights the challenges of governing Russia and the nature of modern autocracy. Rich in personal anecdotes and cutting-edge social science, Weak Strongman offers the best evidence available about how Russia actually works"--
Download or read book Warlords Strongman Governors and the State in Afghanistan written by Dipali Mukhopadhyay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warlords have come to represent enemies of peace, security, and 'good governance' in the collective intellectual imagination. This book asserts that not all warlords are created equal. Under certain conditions, some become effective governors on behalf of the state. This provocative argument is based on extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan, where Mukhopadhyay examined warlord-governors who have served as valuable exponents of the Karzai regime in its struggle to assert control over key segments of the countryside. She explores the complex ecosystems that came to constitute provincial political life after 2001 and exposes the rise of 'strongman' governance in two provinces. While this brand of governance falls far short of international expectations, its emergence reflects the reassertion of the Afghan state in material and symbolic terms that deserve our attention. This book pushes past canonical views of warlordism and state building to consider the logic of the weak state as it has arisen in challenging, conflict-ridden societies like Afghanistan.
Download or read book Binding the Strong Man written by Myers, Ched and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first commentary on the Gospel of Mark to systematically apply a multidisciplinary approach, called 'socio-literary method.' Myers integrates literary criticism, socio-historical exegesis, and political hermeneutics in his investigation of Mark—the oldest story of Jesus—as 'manifesto of radical discipleship'." --
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Download or read book Owen Foote Soccer Star written by Stephanie Greene and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequel to "Owen Foote, Second Grade Strongman" finds eight-year-old Owen and his best friend, Joseph, joining a neighborhood soccer team. Illustrations.
