Download or read book Sweet Shot The Basketball Life and Legacy of Melvin Sugar McLaughlin written by Vernon Wendt and published by Twigallamerican Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Michigan legend Melvin "Sugar" McLaughlin developed his unparalleled shooting range after falling in love with basketball as a four-year old. His long-range marksmanship and charismatic personality have been filling gyms and arenas since middle school. He's played with and against some of the game's all-time greats, including Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, George Gervin, and Dominique Wilkins. In his sixth decade, Sugar still lights it up, as a role model for players and dreamers of all ages. In Sweet Shot, Dr. Vernon Wendt reveals the secret behind the motivation of the greatest long-range shooter who never played in the NBA. Discover with Sugar a greater purpose for your gifts than personal glory. Sweet Shot will inspire you to chase after your own dreams, re-visit past or discarded dreams, and dream even more dreams. To dare to be great like Sugar and keep on shooting until you realize the sweet shot of discovering God's purpose for your dreams. Swoosh! Your own "nothing but net" shot just might change the world!
Download or read book Adventures of Ook and Gluk Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future written by Dav Pilkey and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tra-la-laaa! Dav Pilkey -- ahem -- we mean, George and Harold, the authors of SUPER DIAPER BABY, are back with their second epic novel! Meet Ook and Gluk, the stars of this sensationally silly graphic novel from the creators of Captain Underpants! It's 500,001 BC, and Ook and Gluk's hometown of Caveland, Ohio, is under attack by an evil corporation from the future. When Ook, Gluk, and their little dinosaur pal Lily are pulled through a time portal to 2222, they discover a future world that's even more devastated than their own. Luckily, they find a friend in Master Wong, a martial arts instructor who trains them in the ways of kung fu. Now all they have to do is travel back in time 502,223 years and save the day!
Download or read book River Jordan written by Joe William Trotter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1998-03-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class. Unlike most studies of black urban life, Trotter's work considers several cities and compares their economic conditions, demographic makeup, and political and cultural conditions. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement and the developments of recent years.
Download or read book Loose Balls written by Terry Pluto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. The NBA may have won the financial battle, but the ABA won the artistic war. With its stress on wide-open individual play, the adoption of the 3-point shot and pressing defense, and the encouragement of flashy moves and flying dunks, today's NBA is still—decades later —just the ABA without the red, white and blue ball. Loose Balls is, after all these years, the definitive and most widely respected history of the ABA. It's a wild ride through some of the wackiest, funniest, strangest times ever to hit pro sports—told entirely through the (often incredible) words of those who played, wrote and connived their way through the league's nine seasons.
Download or read book The Digital Classroom written by David T. Gordon and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators and technology experts share their thoughts on classroom technology and how equity, the digital divide, and other issues need to be addressed to ensure students and teachers are realizing the full potential of different technologies.
Download or read book Out and In A Mystery thriller written by Pat Dunlap Evans and published by A.M. Chai Literary. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out and In starts at a gallop when stunning beauty and amateur cellist Marie Donovan is jailed for killing a lecherous opera maestro. She swears she's being framed, but only her best friend and lawyer believe her. Marie is no stranger to trouble. Months before, her pro-quarterback husband Cole sails to his death off a Dallas high-rise, many say in shame after his financial scheme leaves Marie on the hook for millions. Widowed and ruined, Marie pins her hopes on attorney Ryan Ingles, one of Cole's football pals. Marie, Ryan, and legal team fly to exotic islands in search of clues to Cole's missing millions. As the tropics weave a romantic spell, a corrupt financier threatens Marie's bliss, leaving her to wonder if she'll ever clear her name and find her place in this world. Reporter Terrance Nichols's column, "Out and In," provides a heavy dose of speculation to keep you guessing. Just when you think you know who killed the notoriously promiscuous maestro, you may be surprised. This legal thriller has the twists and turns you'd expect in a best-selling mystery, plus a romantic and heartfelt journey you can savor along with the novel's beautiful female
Download or read book Black Cultural Traffic written by Harry Justin Elam and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005-12-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics
Download or read book Dictionary of Americanism written by John Russel Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book a Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition written by Todd Burpo and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller with more than 11 million copies sold! When 4-year-old Colton Burpo emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven, his family doesn’t know what to believe. Heaven is For Real details what Colton saw and his family’s journey towards accepting their young son had visited the afterlife. “Do you remember the hospital, Colton?” Sonja said. “Yes, mommy, I remember,” he said. “That’s where the angels sang to me.” Colton told his parents he left his body during an emergency surgery–and proved that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital during his operation. He talked of visiting heaven and described events that happened before he was born and how he spoke with family members he’d never met. Colton also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, even though he had not yet learned to read. With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton recounts his visit to heaven, describing: Meeting long-departed family members Jesus, the angels, how “really, really big” God is, and how much God loves us How Jesus called Todd, Colton’s father, to be a pastor The Battle of Armageddon Retold by his father, but using Colton’s uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, “Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses.” Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child. Praise for Heaven is for Real: “A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe.” —Ron Hall, coauthor of Same Kind of Different as Me
Download or read book Five Point Play written by Mike Krzyzewski and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Duke University's 2000-2001 championship basketball season is one of a young inexperienced team, insurmountable odds, and the visionary coach that brought them to victory.
Download or read book In Pursuit of the Nez Perces written by Duncan McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan Trivia written by and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan Trivia is the who, what, when, where, and how book of the great state of Michigan. Filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful, historic state, Michigan Trivia will provide hours of entertainment and education. It focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of the fascinating Wolverine State.
Download or read book Literature and Lives written by Allen Carey-Webb and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling stories from secondary and college English classrooms, this book explores the new possibilities for teaching and learning generated by bringing together reader-response and cultural-studies approaches. The book connects William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and other canonical figures to multicultural writers, popular culture, film, testimonial, politics, history, and issues relevant to contemporary youth. Each chapter contains brief explications of literary scholarship and theory, and each is followed by extensive annotated bibliographies of multicultural literature, approachable scholarship and theory, and relevant Internet sites. Each chapter also contains descriptions of classroom units and activities focusing on a particular theme, such as genocide, homelessness, race, gender, youth violence, (post)colonialism, class relations, and censorship; and discussion of ways in which students often respond to such "hot-button" topics. Chapters in the book are: (1) A Course in Contemporary World Literature; (2) Teaching about Homelessness; (3) Genderizing the Curriculum: A Personal Journey; (4) Addressing the Youth Violence Crisis; (5) Shakespeare and the New Multicultural British and World Literatures; (6) "Huckleberry Finn" and the Issue of Race in Today's Classroom; (7) Testimonial, Autoethnography, and the Future of English; and (8) Conclusion. Contains approximately 350 references. Appendixes contain an email exchange between the author and a first year, inner-city teacher; a note to teachers on the truth of Rigoberta Menchu's testimonial; a brief account of philology; a 13-item annotated bibliography of readings in literary theory for English teachers; and lists of web sites exploring literary theory and cultural studies, supporting literature teaching, and for new teachers. (NKA)
Download or read book Counsel for the United States written by James Eisenstein and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Boy written by Fred Hemmings and published by Legacy Isle Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up local in the Hawaiian Islands, Fred Hemmings experienced Hawai`i from the outside breaks of O`ahu¿s North Shore to the inner workings of state government. In Local Boy, the veteran waterman offers his own unique view of the Islands¿the big surf, the changing times and the memorable adventures with friend and role model Duke Kahanamoku.
Download or read book Knitted Cats Kittens written by Sue Stratford and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knitting patterns and instructions for 20 different stuffed cats and accessories.
Download or read book Her Romeo a Dark Mafia Romance written by Quinn Marlowe and published by Spitfire. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's my best friend from childhood. The girl I thought I loved once. And the woman who just threatened to put me in jail, courtesy of the case she's prosecuting in court. She's also now my prisoner.Sloane Brennan thought she was on top of the world. Hell, she was on top of the world. But she's also the daughter of my father's enemy, and when my father decides to kidnap her and use her as leverage against her own father, then puts me in charge of watching over her...Let's just say it puts ideas in my head. Bad, bad ideas. Ideas that I've been fantasizing about for years.After all, I'm supposed to be taking care of her while she's under the Rossi umbrella, right? And no one actually defined what that means. Right?When the plan goes awry, though, and it becomes apparent that Sloane's life is actually in danger and my feelings run a whole lot deeper than I realized, I have to recalculate my actions, and decide whether my loyalty is to the family... or the girl I've always loved.*Her Romeo is the second book of three in Sloane and Joseph's story, and is a dark mafia romance and includes violence and mature sexual themes. If you're triggered by guns, sex, rape, or murder, this isn't the series for you.
