Download or read book Bryce Harper A Short Unauthorized Biography written by Fame Life Bios and published by Fame Life Bios. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryce Harper: A Short Unauthorized Biography is a short unauthorized biography produced from electronic resources researched that includes significant events and career milestones. Ideal for fans of Bryce Harper and general readers looking for a quick insight about one of today's most intriguing celebrities. This must-read short unauthorized biography chronicles: Who is Bryce Harper Things People Have Said about Bryce HarperBryce Harper is BornGrowing Up with Bryce HarperBryce Harper Personal RelationshipsThe Rise of Bryce HarperSignificant Career MilestonesBryce Harper Friends and FoesFun Facts About Bryce HarperHow The World Sees Bryce Harper Bryce Harper A Short Unauthorized Biography is one of the latest short unauthorized biographies from Fame Life Bios. Check it out now!

Download or read book Ken Griffey Jr the Inspiring Story of One of Baseball s Greatest Outfielders written by Clayton Geoffreys and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the Inspiring Story of the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds' Legendary Outfielder, Ken Griffey Jr.! Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device! One of many riveting reads in the Baseball Biography Books series by Clayton Geoffreys. In Ken Griffey Jr.: The Inspiring Story of One of Baseball's Greatest Outfielders, you will learn the story of one of baseball's greatest outfielders, Ken Griffey Jr. Griffey Jr. accomplished a lot over the course of his career, playing the bulk of it for the Seattle Mariners and the Cincinnati Reds. By the time he retired, he was a thirteen-time All-Star, American League MVP, and ten-time Gold Glove Award recipient. Ken Griffey Jr. serves as a role model for baseball fans of all ages in the way he carried himself on and off the field throughout his career and showing his dominance on both the offensive and defensive sides of the game. Pick up this unauthorized baseball biography today to learn the inspiring story behind star baseball outfielder, Ken Griffey Jr.! This is the perfect baseball chapter book for sports fans of all ages. This baseball book explores what makes Ken Griffey Jr. great, and what we can learn from his hard work. Here is a preview of what is inside this Ken Griffey Jr. book: Childhood and No Love for the Yankees High School Career and the Draft Minor League Career Major League Career: Rookie Season, Becoming the Man and the Best in Baseball The Trade, A Rough New Beginning, The Comeback, and The End of an Era Griffey Jr.'s Personal Life Griffey Jr.'s Legacy An excerpt from this Ken Griffey Jr. biography: It is never easy when you come into a league and the highest of all expectations are placed on you before you even step foot onto the field for the first time. Everyone wants greatness out of you, putting a heavy load on your shoulders. Sometimes it is easier to come into a league in any sport where not much is expected of you and you build your name up by your performance, sort of like Aaron Judge has done with the Yankees or Cody Bellinger with the Dodgers. For Ken Griffey, Jr., though, he was expected to be the Michael Jordan of baseball before he walked up to the plate for the very first time. When he did get that first at-bat against Dave Stewart and the Oakland Athletics, with the whole world wanting to see how great this young athlete was, he did not disappoint. He got a double. Twenty-two years and 9,800 at-bats later, Griffey, Jr. not only delivered on those expectations, but he also went way above and beyond them. He is now regarded as one of the best all-around players to ever play the game and sits in the Hall of Fame with the greats. Griffey, Jr. backed up all the talk with his bat and glove. He stands number 6 with 630 home runs on the all-time home run list, which some say should be even higher because some of the players above him allegedly took performance-enhancing drugs. He was the American League MVP winner in 1997 and won a Gold Glove for 10 years in a row, from 1990 to 1999. He has also been to 13 All-Star games and been awarded the Silver Slugger Award seven times. Much of Griffey's expectations were high because of who his father was. Ken Griffey, Sr. was a talented baseball player who was part of the "Big Red Machine" from the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970s. While Griffey, Sr. never achieved the elite honor of a berth in the MLB Hall of Fame, he was inducted into the Reds Hall of Fame and had the honor of playing with his son on the Mariners at the end of his career, the first-ever father-son duo to achieve that feat. Hope you liked this excerpt! If you did, be sure to pick up a copy of this Ken Griffey Jr. bio today.

Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Download or read book Buster Posey written by Bill Redban and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover The Inspirational Story of Baseball Superstar Buster Posey!Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device!You're about to discover the incredibly inspirational story of baseball superstar Buster Posey. If you're reading this then you must be a Buster Posey fan, like so many others. As a fan, you must wonder how this man is so talented and want to know more about him. Buster Posey is considered as one of the greatest young baseball players in the world and it's been an honor to be able to watch him play throughout his young career. This book will reveal to you much about Buster's story and the many accomplishments throughout his career.Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... Youth and Family Life High School and College Career Professional Career and Personal Life Legacy, Charitable Acts and much more! If you want to learn more about Buster Posey, then this book is for you. It will reveal to you many things that you did not know about this incredible baseball star!About the Author:Inspirational Stories is a series aimed at highlighting the great athletes of our society. Our mission is to present the stories of athletes who are not only impactful in their sport, but also great people outside of it. The athletes we write about have gone above and beyond to become impactful in their community and great role models for the youth, all while showing excellence in their profession. We publish concise, easily consumable books that portray the turning points in the lives of these great athletes, while also giving the context in which they occurred. Our books are especially great for children who look up to sports figures. Hopefully these athletes can serve as a source of inspiration and their stories can provide life lessons that are practical for fans of any demographic.

Download or read book Babe Ruth the Inspiring Story of One of Baseball s Greatest Legends written by Clayton Geoffreys and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the Inspiring Story of the New York Yankees' Legendary Star, Babe Ruth! Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device! One of many riveting reads in the Baseball Biography Books series by Clayton Geoffreys. In Babe Ruth: The Inspiring Story of One of Baseball's Greatest Legends, you will learn the story of one of baseball's greatest players, Babe Ruth. You do not have to ask many people who the greatest player to ever play the game of baseball was before someone tells you Babe Ruth's name in response. Ruth remains one of the most accomplished athletes of all time. He won seven World Series Championships and was the American League's home run leader twelve different times. Pick up this unauthorized baseball biography today to learn the inspiring story behind star baseball legend, Babe Ruth! This is the perfect baseball chapter book for sports fans of all ages. This baseball book explores what made Babe Ruth great, and what we can learn from his hard work. Here is a preview of what is inside this Babe Ruth book: Chapter 1: Early Childhood Chapter 2: St. Mary's Baseball Career Chapter 3: Minor League Career - Becoming "The Babe", Making an Impression, and Major League Debut and Return to the Minors Chapter 4: Major League Career Chapter 5: Personal Life Chapter 6: Ruth's Legacy Conclusion An excerpt from this Babe Ruth biography: The Sultan of Swat. The Big Fellow. The Colossus of Clout. Jidge. The Big Bam. The Behemoth of Bust. The Maharajah of Mash. The Mammoth of Maul. The King of Swing. The Great Bambino. Or as you know him best, The Babe. When we talk about the greatest athletes to ever play a sport, names that come to mind include Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Roger Federer, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Michael Phelps. These are all guys from our generation or maybe the generation before. They are still fresh in the minds of most people. But atop the list for many is George Herman Ruth, simply known as The Babe, as in Babe Ruth. For a man to have his legend stay intact for so long, over 100 years since he started playing the game of baseball, says volumes about the former Red Sox and Yankees slugger. We talk about legacy in sports and wanting to leave behind the best one possible. There may be no greater legacy in sports than the one Babe Ruth established for others to emulate and remember. When people talk about the home run king, they do not mention recent stars like Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, or Alex Rodriguez. It is usually Babe Ruth. Before the iconic Yankees Stadium was torn down in 2008, it was known as "The House that Ruth Built." When you walk into Monument Park, the first thing you see is Babe Ruth. Not many people can say that they actually remember Ruth as a living person. After all, he began playing in 1914 and retired in 1935. But the stories of Ruth have been carried on for generations and the respect that others have gathered for him has only gotten stronger with time. He is more than a hero and more than a legend now. He has become a transcendental icon who represents everything we love and esteem about baseball itself. Hope you liked this excerpt! If you did, be sure to pick up a copy of this Babe Ruth bio today.

Download or read book Jaws written by Peter Benchley and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special edition of Jaws by Peter Benchley reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary. It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first sign of trouble - a warning of what was to come - took the form of a young woman's body, or what was left of it, washed up on the long, white stretch of beach . . . A summer of terror had begun. Peter Benchley's Jaws first appeared in 1974. It has sold over twenty million copies around the world, creating a legend that refuses to die - it's never safe to go back in the water . . .

Download or read book La Follette s Autobiography written by Robert Marion La Follette and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Robert La Follette (1855-1925) traces the political life and accomplishments of this eminent Republican politician from his election as district attorney for Dane County, Wisconsin in 1880 to the presidential campaign of 1912, when his bid to dislodge President William Howard Taft was pushed aside by former president Theodore Roosevelt on the Progressive Party's national ticket. The book emphasizes tactics, strategies, and coalition-building as well as La Follette's assessments of various local and national public figures. We learn little about La Follette's childhood, education, legal training or family life, although he does pay tribute to his wife, a lawyer and civic reformer in her own right. La Follette served three terms in Congress (1885-1891); and after a decade of private law practice and grassroots activism, was elected Wisconsin's governor (1900-1904). From 1905 until his death, La Follette was a senator. He crusaded at state and national level against powerful, unregulated business interests--especially the railroads--which he felt exerted undue influence upon government. He also championed open primary elections, equitable taxation of corporations, and public management of public resources by highly qualified, non-partisan public servants. While many of these influential reforms were instituted at the state level during his governorship, his contribution in the Senate may have had less to do with his legislative record than with his ability to rally forces around well-articulated programs.

Download or read book Imperial Hearst written by Ferdinand Lundberg and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearst’s journalistic ethics were probably never more clearly exposed than during the national election campaign of 1936. It is true that eighty per cent of the newspapers in the United States spread slanders and calumnies against the President. But the Hearst organs pulled all the stops and thundered vilification with all the resources at their command. The President was portrayed as a lunatic, a wastrel arid a cartoonist’s version of a frothing Communist. Picture and text described him and his advisers as dangerously radical, malicious and altogether feeble-minded. The Hearst press did not hesitate to attribute the source of Roosevelt’s social legislation to Moscow. Nor did consistency deter Hearst from charging plagiarism from Hitler and Mussolini. His newspapers shouted denunciation and abuse. Sound familiar? This work is the only complete exposition of the financial, political and social results of the career of William Randolph Hearst.

Download or read book Buster Posey written by Jon M Fishman and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey has done it all in his short Major League Baseball career. In 2010, he was named National League (NL) Rookie of the Year. In 2012, Buster won the NL batting title and was named NL Most Valuable Player. But Buster has done more than just collect individual baseball awards. The Giants have won the World Series three times with Buster behind the plate (2010, 2012, and 2014). Learn more about one of baseball's most successful players.

Download or read book Bryce Harper written by John Bankston and published by Purple Toad Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and career of baseball player Bryce Harper.

Download or read book Patrick Mahomes the Inspiring Story of One of Football s Superstar Quarterbacks written by Clayton Geoffreys and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the Inspiring Story of the Kansas City Chiefs' Star Quarterback, Patrick Mahomes! Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device! One of many riveting reads in the Football Biography Books series by Clayton Geoffreys. In Patrick Mahomes: The Inspiring Story of One of Football's Superstar Quarterbacks, you will learn the story of one of football's star players. Since being drafted as the tenth overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, Mahomes has established himself as a superstar. At the time of this writing, he has already won a Super Bowl, Super Bowl MVP award, and Most Valuable Player award. It will be exciting to continue to watch Mahomes as we see what else he has in store for fans in the years ahead. Pick up this unauthorized biography today to learn the inspiring story behind football star, Patrick Mahomes! This is the perfect football chapter book for sports fans of all ages to learn about what Makes Patrick Mahomes such a star. Here is a preview of what is inside this Patrick Mahomes biography book: Early Childhood High School Career College Football Career NFL Career: The Draft, Rookie Season, MVP Season, "Super" Mahomes Mahomes' Personal Life Legacy and Future Conclusion An excerpt from this Patrick Mahomes biography: In the 2017 NFL Draft, Patrick Mahomes II sat at his table waiting for his name to be called. With the second pick, the Chicago Bears passed on him and took quarterback Mitchell Trubisky out of North Carolina. The Jacksonville Jaguars felt they already had their future with Blake Bortles and took running back Leonard Fournette instead. The Jets were okay with Geno Smith and Josh McCown and instead took safety Jamal Adams. The Bengals decided to hold onto Andy Dalton and drafted wide receiver John Ross. It was like heaven for the Kansas City Chiefs. They had traded with the Buffalo Bills for the 10th overall pick and when their turn came up, Mahomes was still there. So was Deshaun Watson of Clemson, but they felt Mahomes was a no-brainer. They believed Mahomes was a potential Pro Bowler who could win them a Super Bowl in two or three years. And they were spot on. Three years later, Mahomes had made many of those nine teams that passed on him regret it. How do you think the Bears felt? Trubisky is not even their starting quarterback anymore. Or the Jaguars, who have floundered with the quarterback position since 2015. Blake Bortles, their guy in 2017, is now on the Rams. The Jets may have been the team that felt the sickest. Their quarterback play was so bad in 2017 that they drafted Sam Darnold in 2018. They could have picked a top quarterback in 2017 but instead passed on one. The player they did draft in 2017, Jamal Adams, is now on the Seahawks! Then there were the Chiefs, who drafted Mahomes and got to see him win the 2018 NFL Most Valuable Player Award and hold up the Lombardi Trophy in 2020. It did not take long for the Chiefs general manager to be completely on board with Mahomes. After the 2017 NFL Combine in Indianapolis, he saw all that he needed to. "He's one of the best players I ever saw," Brett Veach said. If you enjoyed this excerpt, be sure to pick up a copy of this biography on Patrick Mahomes today! Also, be sure to check out Clayton Geoffreys' other football biography books on star quarterbacks!

Download or read book Reset written by Ellen Pao and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “necessary and incisive” (Roxane Gay) account of the discrimination case that “has blown open a conversation about the status of women” in the workplace (The New York Times) SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED A BEST FALL BOOK BY ELLE AND BUSTLE In 2015, Ellen K. Pao sued a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm, calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation against women and other underrepresented groups. Her suit rocked the tech world—and exposed its toxic culture and its homogeneity. Her message overcame negative PR attacks that took aim at her professional conduct and her personal life, and she won widespread public support—Time hailed her as “the face of change.” Though Pao lost her suit, she revolutionized the conversation at tech offices, in the media, and around the world. In Reset, she tells her full story for the first time. The daughter of immigrants, Pao was taught that through hard work she could achieve her dreams. She earned multiple Ivy League degrees, worked at top startups, and in 2005 was recruited by Kleiner Perkins, arguably the world’s leading venture capital firm at the time. In many ways, she did everything right, and yet she and other women and people of color were excluded from success—cut out of decisive meetings and email discussions, uninvited to CEO dinners and lavish networking trips, and had their work undercut or appropriated by male executives. It was time for a system reset. After Kleiner, Pao became CEO of reddit, where she took forceful action to change the status quo for the company and its product. She banned revenge porn and unauthorized nude photos—an action other large media sites later followed—and shut down parts of reddit over online harassment. She and seven other women tech leaders formed Project Include, an award-winning nonprofit for accelerating diversity and inclusion in tech. In her book, Pao shines a light on troubling issues that plague today’s workplace and lays out practical, inspiring, and achievable goals for a better future. Ellen K. Pao’s Reset is a rallying cry—the story of a whistleblower who aims to empower everyone struggling to be heard, in Silicon Valley and beyond. Praise for Reset “Necessary and incisive . . . As Ellen Pao detailed her experiences, while also communicating her passion for the work men often impeded her from doing, I was nothing short of infuriated. It was great to see a highly accomplished woman of color speaking out like this, and hopefully this book will encourage more women to come forward, give voice to their experiences in the workplace, and contribute to meaningful change.”—Roxane Gay

Download or read book Racecraft The Soul of Inequality in American Life written by Karen Fields and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

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Download or read book Guide to the Presidency SET written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to the Presidency is the leading reference source on the persons who have occupied the White House and on the institution of the presidency itself. Readers turn to this guide for its vast array of factual information about the institution and the presidents, as well as for its analytical chapters that explain the structure and operations of the office and the president's relationship to co-equal branches of government, Congress and the Supreme Court. This new edition is updated to include: A new chapter on presidential power Coverage of the expansion of presidential power under President George W. Bush

Download or read book The Ideal Element in Law written by Roscoe Pound and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he criticized virtually every modern mode of interpreting the law because he believed the administration of justice had lost its grounding and recourse to enduring ideals. Now published in the U.S. for the first time, Pound's lectures are collected in Liberty Fund's The Ideal Element in Law, Pound's most important contribution to the relationship between law and liberty. The Ideal Element in Law was a radical book for its time and is just as meaningful today as when Pound's lectures were first delivered. Pound's view of the welfare state as a means of expanding government power over the individual speaks to the front-page issues of the new millennium as clearly as it did to America in the mid-twentieth century. Pound argues that the theme of justice grounded in enduring ideals is critical for America. He views American courts as relying on sociological theories, political ends, or other objectives, and in so doing, divorcing the practice of law from the rule of law and the rule of law from the enduring ideal of law itself. Roscoe Pound is universally recognized as one of the most important legal minds of the early twentieth century. Considered by many to be the dean of American jurisprudence, Pound was a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Nebraska and served as dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

Download or read book Managing Disruptions in Business written by Rajagopal and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses business disruptions as strategic to gain market competitiveness. It analyzes the convergence of innovation and technology, business practices, public policies, political ideologies, and consumer values to strengthen competitive business practices through disruptions. Bringing together contributions from global experts, the chapters add to knowledge on contemporary business models, business strategies, radical interventions in manufacturing, services, and marketing organizations. Disruptive innovations led by contemporary trends, tend to transform the market and consumers’ landscape. These trends include shifts from closed to open models of innovation, servitization, and moving from conventional manufacturing and marketing paradigms to industry 4.0 business philosophy. Focused on the triadic themes of disruption, innovation, and management in emerging markets, this book serves as a valuable compendium for research in entrepreneurship development, regional business and development, contemporary political ideologies, and changing social values.