Download or read book Big Game written by Mark Leibovich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A raucous, smash-mouth, first-person takedown of the National Football League." —Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than he'd care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is, until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly efficient and polarizing sports dynasty of the modern NFL, and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. Leibovich kept his obsession quiet, making a nice career for himself covering that other playground for rich and overgrown children, American politics. Still, every now and then Leibovich would reach out to Tom Brady to gauge his willingness to subject himself to a profile. He figured that the chances of Brady agreeing were a Hail Mary at best, but Brady returned Mark's call in summer 2014 and kept on returning his calls through epic Patriots Super Bowl victory and defeat, and a scandal involving Brady--Deflategate--whose grip on sports media was as profound as its true significance was ridiculous. So began a four-year odyssey that took Mark Leibovich deeper inside the NFL than anyone has gone before. From the owners' meeting to the draft to the sidelines of crucial games, he takes in the show at the elbow of everyone from Brady to big-name owners to the cordially despised NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell. Ultimately, BIG GAME is a chronicle of "peak football"--the high point of the sport's economic success and cultural dominance, but also the time when the dark side began to show. It is an era of explosive revenue growth, but also one of creeping existential fear. Players have long joked that NFL stands for "not for long," but as the true impact of concussions becomes inescapable background noise, it's increasingly difficult to enjoy the simple glory of football without the buzz-kill of its obvious consequences. And that was before Donald Trump. In 2016, Mark's day job caught up with him, and the NFL slammed headlong into America's culture wars. Big Game is a journey through an epic storm. Through it all, Leibovich always keeps one eye on Tom Brady and his beloved Patriots, through to the 2018 Super Bowl. Pro football, this hilarious and enthralling book proves, may not be the sport America needs, but it is most definitely the sport we deserve.

Download or read book The Art of Hunting Big Game in North America written by Jack O'Connor and published by New York : Outdoor Life. This book was released on 1977 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Records of North American Big Game written by Boone and Crockett Club and published by Boone and Crockett Club. This book was released on 2005 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete big game records book available--containing a listing of over 22,000 trophies, the stories behind all the current World's Records trophies, and hundreds of field and portrait photographs of the greatest big game animals ever taken.

Download or read book Big Game of North America written by Erwin A. Bauer and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a survey of the big game animals of the USA, Canada, and Mexico. Each animal is covered in a small chapter discussing the animal's characteristics, behaviour, and conservation, all in a personal, anecdotal style. Includes a range map of each species. Animals covered: Horned animals: bighorn sheep, dall sheep including stone and fannin sheep, pronghorn antelope, mountain goats, bison, and muskoxen. Antlered animals: white-tailed deer, mule deer and black-tailed deer, elk, moose, and caribou. Large Cats: mountain lions and jaguar. Bears: black bears, grizzly bears including brown Kodiak bears, and polar bears.

Download or read book Big Game written by Stuart Gibbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident zoo sleuth when a rhinoceros is at risk in Big Game, a follow-up to Belly Up and Poached—which Kirkus Reviews called a “thrill-ride of a mystery.” When someone takes aim at Rhonda Rhino, FunJungle’s pregnant (and endangered) Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros, the zoo steps up security measures in order to protect this rare animal and her baby. But the extra security isn’t enough—someone is still getting too close for comfort. Teddy and company start to suspect that whoever is after Rhonda is really after her horn, which is worth a lot of money on the black market. For the first time ever, the head of the zoo enlists Teddy for help—for once, he doesn’t have to sneak around in order to investigate—and the results are even more wacky, and even more dangerous, than ever before.

Download or read book The Big Game written by Gilles Tibo and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When opinions are flying faster than pucks, Nicholas must devise his own strategy to win the championship game! Nicholas has his parents, his coach, the other spectators, and even his sister doling out advice on how to take on the top team in the league. But with opinions coming at them from all sides, Nicholas and his teammates can't decide who to listen to. Between periods, Nicholas comes up with an ingenious plan to save the day -- and stop every shot on goal! When he shares his winning strategy with the rest of his team, they can't help but come out on top. Featuring Nicholas, the star of the bestselling Where's My Hockey Sweater? and The Best Goalie Ever, fans will love this new story that puts him back on the ice!

Download or read book Big Game Everyday Objects written by Anniina Koivu and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big-Game is a design studio based in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 2004 by Augustin Scott de Martinville, Grégoire Jeanmonod and Elric Petit. Based on a series of interviews with the founders, this book looks at 15 years of the group's industrial design work on everyday objects, by way of anecdotes about the inception of their most successful work. Illustrated with 200 diagrams and photographs made for this publication (which is published on the occasion of a retrospective at Lausanne's Mudac Museum), the book examines projects including wine bottles designed for supermarkets, a set of cutlery for an airline, a collaboration with Japanese potters and a piece of Ikea furniture. The design critic Anniina Koivu provides the main text, alongside an introduction by curator Susanne Hilpert Stuber situating the studio in the context of the Swiss art world.

Download or read book Records of North American Big Game written by Eldon L. Buckner and published by Boone & Crockett Club. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records of North American Big Game is a one-of-a-kind big game records book that lives up to its longstanding reputation as "The Book" of native North American big game trophies. The original book was published over eighty years ago. This latest edition is filled with valuable information for today's hunters, outdoorsmen, and game managers. A total of thirty-eight categories are recognized and, as a testament to the success of today's conservation efforts, five new World's Records are featured. Along with the detailed listing of over 25,000 trophies ranked by their all-time scores, this book includes current topics of interest to sportsmen. Records of North American Big Game is much more than statistics--it is a history book of big game animals, making it an exceptional resource for hunters and sportsmen.

Download or read book Cannibals and Big Game written by Channing Beebe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War I rages around the globe, Chan Beebe and his young bride, Elizabeth, take a steamer to Angola and trek the ancient slave trails there in search of coveted petroleum to fuel the Allies' war machine. They find a brutal continent, where death, cannibalism, and deadly fevers are commonplace. Like the hypnotic beat of a tribal drum, Beebe draws readers deep into the bush, where the expedition encounters deadly denizens, both animal and human. The land is a hunter's dream, with plentiful game, angry elephants, charging lions, terrifying hippo, enraged buffalo, and crocodile-infested waters. Beebe's elephant-hunting descriptions are especially riveting, and the number of hippos he shot to feed his caravan is staggering by modern standards. With Beebe's "devil gun," the team survives a bloody gunfight with a hostile king and his savage Quissama cannibals. Lured ever deeper into cannibal country by a mysterious pounding tom-tom, they stumble upon a macabre scene: Seated upon a massive throne is a dead Quissama king, his shriveled body smoked and blackened, a massive gold royal ring resting around his neck. After Beebe and his team steal the necklace in a daring raid, they flee along a midnight trail, only to cross from one cannibal country into another! Beebe's harrowing tale and multitudinous hunts capture all that was post-WW I Africa--from the magnificent beauty of the land and its creatures to the savage native cultures that have endured for millennia. Amazingly enough, Beebe's journal with the original photographs remained unpublished for more than eighty years, but now this intrepid explorer’s tale of courage and adventure is finally available!

Download or read book Play Your Bigger Game written by Rick Tamlyn and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just a book, Play Your Bigger Game is a concept that will take you only nine minutes to understand but a lifetime to play. It was designed from the premise that life itself is one big game. And, if it is, then why not play one that excites, fulfills, and challenges you to develop and express your talents completely? By the way, there’s nothing wrong with wanting that. It’s a natural expression of who we are, and since each of us is blessed with talents, we’re naturally hungry to develop and put them to use. Too often we suppress that desire for full engagement and self-expression because we think it’s the grown-up thing to do. We consciously turn down our hunger dials, because we’re afraid of expecting too much from life. We also think: If I settle for less, I won’t be disappointed. Play Your Bigger Game was created to counteract that self-limiting, fear-based approach to life. It’s also designed to keep you forever in play, meaning that you’ll never be stuck again, since you’ll always have the game board to guide your next move. Michelangelo said, "The great danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short but in setting our aim too low and hitting the mark." This book is not just about making a living; it’s about making an impact. Curiously enough, I find that once players begin to make a positive impact, their incomes often rise, too. Still, if you’re interested in simply making a living and just surviving in life, I’m afraid that this book is not for you. If you want to make an impact in the world and thrive in your life while earning a very good living, please read on. The purpose of this book is to: Reveal the Bigger Game player you already are, help you find the Bigger Games that excite and challenge you to fully deploy all of your energy and gifts, teach you to consciously design the person you’re destined to become, allow you to feed the hunger in your soul, help you to make a major impact, and allow you to leave a lasting legacy.

Download or read book Big Game Rifles and Cartridges written by Elmer Keith and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic includes the following chapters: I. Big Game Rifles and Cartridges II. Long Range Stalking Rifles III. Combination or All Around Rifles, Suitable for Both Timber and Long Range Shooting IV. Double Barreled Rifles. V. Iron Sights for Hunting VI. Hunting Scopes and Mounts VII. Hunting Rifle Stocks

Download or read book Big Games written by Michael Bradley and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Big Games provides readers with an in-depth look at ten of college football's biggest rivalries and what puts them in such rare company"--Page 2 of cover

Download or read book Big Game Small World written by Alexander Wolff and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1990s, eminent basketball journalist Alexander Wolff traveled the globe to determine how a game invented by a Canadian clergyman became an international phenomenon. Big Game, Small World presents Wolff’s dispatches from sixteen countries spread across five continents and multiple US states. In them, he asks: What can the game tell us about the world? And what can the world tell us about the game? Whether traveling to Bhutan to challenge its king to a pickup game, exploring the women’s game in Brazil, or covering the Afrobasket tournament in Luanda, Angola, during a civil war, Wolff shows how basketball has the power to define an individual, a culture, and even a country. This updated twentieth anniversary edition features a new preface in which Wolff outlines the contemporary rise of athlete-activists while discussing the increasing dominance within the NBA of marquee international players like Luka Dončić and Giannis Antetokounmpo. A loving celebration of basketball, Big Game, Small World is one of the most insightful books ever written about the game.

Download or read book Big game Resources of the United States 1937 1942 written by Hartley Harrad Thompson Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventory tabulated by States of 15 groups and races of big-game animals in the United States has been compiled annually by the Fish and Wildlife Service since 1937. These were the first attempts at a complete estimate of all big-game animals in the United States or, so far as known, in any country. Compilations for 1937, 1938, and 1940 have been issued as mimeographed wildlife leaflets.

Download or read book Field and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Outdoor Chums After Big Game written by Quincy Allen and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello, there, Red Rover! Come alongside! "What's the row, fellows? This dandy breeze is too good to be wasted loafing." "Frank's coming in the Jupiter, and coming like a streak!" "Yes, and more than that, Bluff, he waves his hat as though h

Download or read book American Big Game Hunting written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1893, this absorbing collection of American Big game Hunting is a fascinating read for any hunting enthusiast. Extensively illustrated and with tales from various authors this work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all who are interested in Big Game hunting. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.