Download or read book 62 written by Bryan Hoch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The definitive story” (Tyler Kepner, The New York Times baseball columnist) of Yankees slugger Aaron Judge’s incredible, unparalleled run to break Roger Maris’s home run record and the franchise both men called home. Aaron Judge, the hulking superman who carried an easy aw-shucks demeanor from small-town California to stardom in the Big Apple, had long established his place as one of baseball’s most intimidating power hitters. Baseballs frequently rocketed off his bat like cannon fire, dispatching heat-seeking missiles toward the “Judge’s Chambers” seating area in right field, sending delirious fans scattering for souvenirs. But even in a high-tech universe where computers measure each swing to the nth degree, Roger Maris’s American League mark of sixty-one home runs seemed largely out of reach. It had been more than a decade since baseball wiped clean the stains of its performance-enhanced era, in which cartoonish sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds made a mockery of the record book. Given a more level playing field against pitchers sporting hellacious arsenals unlike anything Babe Ruth or Maris could have imagined, only an exceptional talent could even consider making a run at sixty-one homers. Judge, who placed the bet of his life by turning down a $213.5 million extension on the eve of the regular season, promised to rise to the challenge. “In the most thorough telling yet of an all-time-great Yankees performance” (Jeff Passan, New York Times bestselling author), veteran Yankees beat reporter Bryan Hoch unravels the remarkable journey of Judge’s run to shatter Maris’s beloved sixty-one-year-old record. In-depth, inspiring, and with an expert’s insight, 62 also investigates the more significant questions raised in a season unlike any other, including how—and where—Judge will deliver his encore.

Download or read book Absolutely Awesome 2 written by Michael W. Carroll and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of devotional readings combining facts about nature with spiritual truths from the Bible and expressing the wonders of creation as they apply to contemporary life.

Download or read book Awesome Episodes written by Cecelia Frances Page and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awesome Episodes is a combination of fiction and nonfiction stories and episodes. Dynamic episodes are about Disneyland, swimming competitions, wilderness excursions, memorable dreams and school days. Challenges, visible evidence, spectacular moments and television magic are described vividly. Awesome Episodes is about a focus on human relationships, journeys and adventures in the world. Touching stories about winners, slow learners, frogs, farm life, a millionaire and unusual and familiar experiences are depicted. You will learn about irresistible foods, tide pools, babysitting, planting a garden, surviving a fire, motorcycle experiences and about a benevolent policeman. Adventures in Alaska are spectacular. Stimulating conversations are revealed. I have described my experiences about caring for my cats and dogs. Sooner or later we face sudden changes, birth and death. We need to experience happiness to be fulfilled. Amazing homes can cheer us up. Facing ordeals is part of life. I dedicate this book to children and adults. Enjoy many topics and issues mentioned in 36 story episodes in Awesome Episodes.

Download or read book The Great Siberian Sushi Run written by Ken Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-10-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***JUST RELEASED ***The Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands represent one of the most fascinating, yet rarely visited places on the planet. In this true story, three private boats venture from Seattle to Japan, via Alaska, the Bering Sea, the Aleutian Islands and Siberia. This is their story of exploration and adventure. 100s of photos!

Download or read book How to Get to Awesome written by Rhonda Sciortino and published by Hatherleigh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOUR JOURNEY IS YOUR DESTINY. MAKE IT AWESOME. Each of us has within ourselves the potential to be great. No, not just great—awesome. Yet all too often, we find ourselves acting as spectators in our own lives. How to Get to Awesome shows you fun, practical, and inspirational ways to be your best self, making it easy to incorporate simple changes in your day-to-day life. By identifying the main characteristics of positive people and establishing 101 concrete, easy-to-follow steps to enhance those virtues, How to Get to Awesome enables true, personal transformation to anyone willing to commit to being awesome.

Download or read book Awesome Families written by Kathleen E. Jenkins and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denounced by some as a dangerous cult and lauded by others as a miraculous faith community, the International Churches of Christ was a conservative evangelical Christian movement that grew rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s. Among its followers, promises to heal family relationships were central to the group's appeal. Members credit the church for helping them develop so-called "awesome families"-successful marriages and satisfying relationships with children, family of origin, and new church "brothers and sisters." The church engaged an elaborate array of services, including round-the-clock counseling, childcare, and Christian dating networks-all of which were said to lead to fulfilling relationships and exciting sex lives. Before the unified movement's demise in 2003-2004, the lure of blissful family-life led more than 100,000 individuals worldwide to be baptized into the church. In Awesome Families, Kathleen Jenkins draws on four years of ethnographic research to explain how and why so many individuals-primarily from middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds-were attracted to this religious group that was founded on principles of enforced community, explicit authoritative relationships, and therapeutic ideals. Weaving classical and contemporary social theory, she argues that members were commonly attracted to the structure and practice of family relationships advocated by the church, especially in the context of contemporary society where gender roles and family responsibilities are often ambiguous. Tracing the rise and fall of this fast-growing religious movement, this timely study adds to our understanding of modern society and offers insight to the difficulties that revivalist movements have in sustaining growth.

Download or read book The BIG Book of Reading Rhyming and Resources written by Beth Christina Maddigan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-10-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promote reading and literacy with this wonderful assortment of lively, fast-paced, fun-filled children's programs specifically designed for children aged 4 through 8. You and the children will delight in such program themes as Creepy Crawlies, Forest Friends, Frosty Frolics, and After School Adventures. The book presents an entertaining mix of multisensory activities that appeal to a variety of literacy levels and learning styles—rhymes and songs, awesome activities, crafty crafts, and great games. Unlike other programming guides, this one uses a developmental approach with literature-based activities fitted to specific learning needs. More than an idea book, it includes all the nuts and bolts for initiating children's programs—from foundations and guidelines for understanding various stages of learning to everything you need to get started: book lists, step-by-step instructions, reproducible patterns and illustrations, even tips on publicity and public relations. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned children's programmer, this book gives you fresh programming ideas that foster lifelong literacy and love of reading. Grades PreK-3.

Download or read book Awesome Math written by Titu Andreescu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help your students to think critically and creatively through team-based problem solving instead of focusing on testing and outcomes. Professionals throughout the education system are recognizing that standardized testing is holding students back. Schools tend to view children as outcomes rather than as individuals who require guidance on thinking critically and creatively. Awesome Math focuses on team-based problem solving to teach discrete mathematics, a subject essential for success in the STEM careers of the future. Built on the increasingly popular growth mindset, this timely book emphasizes a problem-solving approach for developing the skills necessary to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively. In its current form, math education is a series of exercises: straightforward problems with easily-obtained answers. Problem solving, however, involves multiple creative approaches to solving meaningful and interesting problems. The authors, co-founders of the multi-layered educational organization AwesomeMath, have developed an innovative approach to teaching mathematics that will enable educators to: Move their students beyond the calculus trap to study the areas of mathematics most of them will need in the modern world Show students how problem solving will help them achieve their educational and career goals and form lifelong communities of support and collaboration Encourage and reinforce curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity in their students Get students into the growth mindset, coach math teams, and make math fun again Create lesson plans built on problem based learning and identify and develop educational resources in their schools Awesome Math: Teaching Mathematics with Problem Based Learning is a must-have resource for general education teachers and math specialists in grades 6 to 12, and resource specialists, special education teachers, elementary educators, and other primary education professionals.

Download or read book Fractivism written by Sara Ann Wylie and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in the United States is far-reaching and deeply felt. In Fractivism Sara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking and the ways scientists and everyday people are coming together to hold accountable an industry that has managed to evade regulation. Beginning her story in Colorado, Wylie shows how nonprofits, landowners, and community organizers are creating novel digital platforms and databases to track unconventional oil and gas well development and document fracking's environmental and human health impacts. These platforms model alternative approaches for academic and grassroots engagement with the government and the fossil fuel industry. A call to action, Fractivism outlines a way forward for not just the fifteen million Americans who live within a mile of an unconventional oil or gas well, but for the planet as a whole.

Download or read book Awesome Wonders written by Gerald H. Ihle and published by Hope Publishing House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awesome Wonders is a 9-week Bible study course with a SCIENCE focus about the awesome World and universe around us that provide evidences for believers of an awesome Creator. ôGod is great! God is good!ö is the theme of this book. Focus is on the credal statement, ôI believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord.ö

Download or read book Awesome Nightfall written by Saigyo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyo captures the power of Saigyo's poetry and this previously overlooked poet's keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan. It also offers a fascinating look into the world of Japanese Buddhism prior to the wholesale influence of Zen.

Download or read book Totally Random Questions Volume 2 written by Melina Gerosa Bellows and published by Bright Matter Books. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can pigeons do math? How long would it take to drive to the moon? What happens when a seahorse gets angry? Discover the answers to these questions and more in this kid-friendly book of fun, fascinating Q&As! Got a random question? This book has the answer! Filled with cool photos and crazy curiosities, Totally Random Questions Volume 2 presents snack-sized answers to a series of wacky and fascinating questions about our wonderfully weird world! Kids will love testing their knowledge and stumping their friends with the unlikely info they'll find inside covering animals, science, sports, food, pop culture, and more. Written and designed to make any kid an instant genius—and maybe even a few parents too! Find more wacky Q&As in Totally Random Questions volumes 1-8, or tempt your trivia-loving kid with our fact-packed Totally Random Facts books!

Download or read book Random House Year Round Crossword Omnibus written by Stanley Newman and published by Random House Puzzles & Games. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four books in one! Winter, spring, summer, or fall, this omnibus of four puzzle books--Fun in the Sun, Snow Days, Spring Fling, and Summer Trip--offers a welcome break from the ordinary, all year round. This comprehensive volume features: • 400 fabulous crosswords • Not too hard, but not too easy, either • Stanley Newman's puzzle expertise

Download or read book The Brave Learner written by Julie Bogart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishers Weekly bestseller · A joyful and accessible homeschool guide to making learning a part of everyday life Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids. When exhausted parents are living the day-to-day grind, it can seem impossible to muster enough energy to make learning fun or interesting. How do parents nurture a love of learning amid childhood chaos, parental self-doubt, the flu, and state academic standards? In this book, Julie Bogart distills decades of experience--homeschooling her five now grown children, developing curricula, and training homeschooling families around the world--to show parents how to make education an exciting, even enchanting, experience for their kids, whether they're in elementary or high school. Enchantment is about ease, not striving. Bogart shows parents how to make room for surprise, mystery, risk, and adventure in their family's routine, so they can create an environment that naturally moves learning forward. If a child wants to pick up a new hobby or explore a subject area that the parent knows little about, it's easy to simply say "no" to end the discussion and the parental discomfort, while dousing their child's curious spark. Bogart gently invites parents to model brave learning for their kids so they, too, can approach life with curiosity, joy, and the courage to take learning risks.

Download or read book Awesome Christian Experiences written by Buddy Holbrook and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not about theology. It's about life. Specifically, it's about facing life as it comes to ordinary people day by day, using the power of God to meet the challenges as they arise. As the author, i've had the experience of seeing God at work in lots of situations all over the world. These 43 stories are just a few examples of what I've seen him do.

Download or read book Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 62 written by Tom Waltz and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chasing Phantoms," Part 2! One ally close to the Turtles faces grave danger while another makes a choice that will alter his life forever. Meanwhile the Turtles wonder if their path truly lies with the Foot Clan...

Download or read book The Game Beat Observations and Lessons from Two Decades Writing about Games written by Kyle Orland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Beat examines the whos, hows, and whys of the game journalists covering the young but growing game industry over the last 15+ years. This collection of more than 80 columns pulls from dozens of writers past and present on everything from the near-death of print gaming magazines to the ethics of attending paid junkets to how much review scores really matter. The Game Beat is essential reading for anyone who writes about games and anyone who just like to read about them.