Download or read book A Bride for the Prizefighter written by Alice Coldbreath and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prizefighter en Mi Casa written by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Chula Sanchez isn’t thin, isn’t beautiful, and because she’s Mexican, isn’t popular in her south Texas town. And now that a car accident has left her father paralyzed and her plagued with seizures, she is poor. But Chula’s father is determined to pull his family out of debt. He sends for El Jefe—the most revered prizefighter in Mexico. Chula’s father hopes that with steel-pipe arms and fists like pit bulls, El Jefe will win the local illegal boxing matches and bring home much-needed money. But El Jefe—a man who many see as a monster—only brings confusion to a home that is already filled with problems. And now Chula must decide for herself whether good and bad can reside in one person and whether you can have strength in your heart when your fists have none.
Download or read book Prize Fighter written by Future D. Fidel and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isa Alaki is not from here. At ten years old, Isa's life in the Congolese city of Bukavu changed forever. The streets were burning. The town was mostly silent, like a ghost town, until the yelling started. At school, Isa knows he has to get home. The soldiers would be looking for his father. The sound of gunfire, the sharp smell of blood and the screams of his sister still echo in his head. Back then, he had a choice to make. Death or a gun. He picked up the gun and became a child soldier, forced to fight for the same forces that massacred his family. After years of horror, Isa escaped, and he is given a chance of freedom when he travels to Australia. He brings with him papers that grant him refugee status, the hope that he can find his brother, Moïse, and the scars of a brutal war. Here, the fighting skills Moïse taught him when he was a boy see Isa become a talented young boxer. He spends his days punching away the past, punching away the demons in his mind, literally trying to punch his way to a better life. His powerful left hook promises much, but the demons he is wrestling with have a power all their own. The question for Isa is ... will the past ever let him free? A moving debut novel that packs an emotional punch based on the critically acclaimed play by Future D. Fidel. 'Prize Fighter is a gripping read, as compelling as it is confronting. It is a testament to Fidel's craft and to the power of the human spirit.' - Books+Publishing 'Prize Fighter is a powerful and compellingly written story that operates with little adornment. It doesn't need it. More than once I felt like I had been punched in the guts - and it's been a while since a book made me sob.' Weekend Australian
Download or read book Prize Fight written by Morton Meyers, M.D. and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by a need for recognition, and subject to human vulnerability and fallibility. In Prize Fight , Emeritus Chair at SUNY School of Medicine Morton Meyers pulls back the curtain to reveal the dark side of scientific discovery. From allegations of stolen authorship to fabricated results and elaborate hoaxes, he shows us how too often brilliant minds are reduced to petty jealousies and promising careers cut short by disputes over authorship or fudged data. Prize Fight is a dramatic look at some of the most notable discoveries in science in recent years, from the discovery of insulin, which led to decades of infighting and even violence, to why the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine exposed how often scientific objectivity is imperiled.
Download or read book The Prizefighter and the Playwright written by Jay R. Tunney and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The curious story of the unlikely relationship between a champion boxer and a celebrated man of letters. Gene Tunney, the world heavyweight-boxing champion from 1926 to 1928, seemed an unusual companion for George Bernard Shaw, but Shaw, a world-famous playwright, found the Irish-American athlete to be "among the very few for whom I have established a warm affection." The Prizefighter and the Playwright chronicles the legendary -- but rarely documented -- relationship that formed between this celebrated odd couple. From the beginning, it seemed a strange relationship, as Tunney was 40 years younger and the men could not have occupied more different worlds. Yet it is clear that these two famous men, comfortable on the world stage, longed for friendship when they were out of the celebrity spotlight. Full of surprises and revelations about Shaw and Tunney, this handsome book is also a fascinating look at their times. Author Jay R. Tunney is the son of the famous fighter, and his book is a beautifully woven and often surprising biography of the two men. The book evolved from the acclaimed BBC radio program The Master and the Boy. Fans of George Bernard Shaw will enjoy the little-known stories in this intensely personal account that includes never-before-published images from Tunney's own family collection.
Download or read book The Great Prize Fight written by Alan Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mind Warp written by Christopher T. Koetting and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind Warp chronicles the amazing history of Corman's 'New World' - the films, the facts and the fantastic feats of budget ingenuity! The ultimate guide to drive-in thrills and chills at their best.
Download or read book The Prize Fight Preparing to Face Life s Biggest Battles written by Clayton McCombe and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt beat down by life? Like you're in a fight that you had no chance to prepare for and have no clue how to get through? So many times we're caught off guard by the trials in our life, and it causes us to fight out of fear instead of purpose. We spend our time searching for quick fixes to better ourselves, but we fall to doubt and discouragement when we can't see the benefit to our battles. The Prize Fight is not a book about avoiding the battle or being victorious in the battle, but about finding value in the midst of the battle. It's about adjusting your focus from simply making it out of life struggles to growing within them. You must be open to change and willing to challenge yourself before you will ever find success in life's trials. Walk with author, Clayton McCombe, as he uncovers the importance of preparing for battles through the eyes of a fighter. Learn to identify the type of battle you are facing and the secret of where your true strength lies. Find out what it takes to train and discipline yourself to be ready for anything that life throws at you. It's time that you stop allowing your battles to define you and start letting them refine you! It's time to create your legacy in The Prize Fight!
Download or read book Illustrated Sporting Books written by John Herbert Slater and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boxing Filmography written by Frederick V. Romano and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The love affair between boxing and Hollywood began with the dawn of film. As early as the days of Chaplin, the "boxing film" had assumed its place as a subgenre, and over the decades it has taken the forms of biographies, dramas, romances, comedies, and even musicals and westerns. Such well known pictures as The Champ, Body and Soul, Don King: Only in America, Girl Fight, The Irish in Us, The Kid from Brooklyn, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Raging Bull, each of the Rocky movies and When We Were Kings are just a few examples of the feature films included in this filmography. Thoroughly researched, this work examines 98 boxing films from the 1920s through 2003. Each entry provides basic filmographic data (the film's studio, its genre, its length, cast and credits); a detailed synopsis of the film; illuminating commentary on the boxing sequences; and excerpts from contemporary reviews. Most entries also summarize the making of the film, with particular attention to the training of the actors for the boxing scenes. The filmography also includes information on studio publicity releases and advertisements, press books and exhibitor campaign materials for each film.
Download or read book Ohio Criminal Law and Practice written by Jay Ford Laning and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Justice and International Affairs written by Thom Brooks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global justice and international affairs is perhaps the hottest topic in political philosophy today. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area. Topics include sovereignty and self-determination, cosmopolitanism and nationalism, global poverty and international distributive justice, and war and terrorism.
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Download or read book Readings About The Social Animal written by Elliot Aronson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-08-22 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized to illustrate the major themes of Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal, this collection of classic and contemporary readings explores the most important ideas, issues, and debates in social psychology today.
Download or read book Parade s End written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford "wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war." Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman-"the last English Tory"-and follows him from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War. Against the backdrop of a world at war, Ford recounts the complex sexual warfare between Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia. A work of truly amazing subtlety and profundity, Parade's End affirms Graham Greene's prediction: "There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford."
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