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Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey, also known as the Manassa Mauler, began his boxing career as a skinny boy of sixteen, riding the rails and participating in hastily staged saloon bouts against miners and lumberjacks.
In this incisive, fast-paced biography, Randy Roberts charts the life and career of a man widely regarded as one of the toughest ever to enter the ring. He details Dempsey's transition from barroom fights to professional boxing and his emerging reputation for fast, brutal knockouts. Roberts draws on a wealth of newspaper articles and interviews to chronicle Dempsey's rise to the heavyweight championship and his six title defenses. Also included are accounts of the eventual loss of his title to Gene Tunney in 1926, and the rematch in 1927, which Dempsey also lost in the infamous "long count." After continuing to fight in exhibitions, Dempsey retired from boxing in 1940 with an astonishing 64 victories, 49 of them knockouts.
Roberts tells of the building of this record, including accounts of Dempsey's forays into Hollywood, the controversy over his alleged draft-dodging, his long life after retirement, and his enduring legacy as one of the greatest fighters in boxing history.
Customer Reviews:
The manassa mauler.......2006-07-06
Jack Dempsey has always been my favorite boxer, , Randy Roberts did his home work before writing this wonderful book. He went into great detail, when Dempsey fought Firpo ,and when he lost his title to Gene Tunney.Anyone who enjoys reading about heavyweight champions from the past, will really love this book. i still go back and read my favorite chapters over again. Kenny Hetrick
A solidly written biography.......2003-11-17
Jack Dempsy: The Manassa Mauler by Randy Roberts (Professor of History, Purdue University) is a solidly written biography of the famous Heavyweight Champion of the World who held that title from 1919 to 1926. From Jack Dempsy's childhood and his rough-and-tumble beginning of a boxing career at 16; to his rise to the top -- and eventual defeat; to his retirement from boxing in 1940 with sixty-four victories (forty-nine of them by knockout), and more, Jack Dempsy: The Manassa Mauler is an excellent and very highly recommended contribution to Professional Boxing History, and a "must read" biography for dedicated fans of "the sweet science".
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Threshold: Scripting a Coming-of-Age
Gregory G Sarno
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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ASIN: 0595672248 |
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Not everyone enjoys a globe-hopping lifestyle à la Indiana Jones and 007, or endures the emotional peaks and valleys of a Scarlett O'Hara or Blanche Dubois. But most of us do come of age sooner or later, which makes it easy to relate to the pivotal events involved in growing up. First crush. Dawn of sex drive. Loss of virginity. Breakup with sweetheart. Senior prom. Graduation day. Going off to college.
In like vein, we're all familiar with the issues confronting adolescents. Forging an identity. Fitting in. Handling peer pressure. Bonds/bounds of friendship. Erosion of childhood illusions. Bridging the generation gap. Leaving the nest.
Threshold: Scripting a Coming-of-Age offers film buffs and prospective screenwriters insights into the essential elements. Chapter 1 develops the four cornerstones of all scripts irrespective of genre. Chapter 2 covers the genre's distinctive features. Chapter 3 analyzes one classic coming-of-age in depth: River's Edge. Inspired by actual events, the 1987 film confronts its seventeen-year-old protagonist with a daunting threshold rarely encountered by mature adults.
The book debuts three feature-film screenplays: “Homies”; “What Up Dawg”; “What Are Brothers For?” The respective protagonists—13, 19, 21—face age-appropriate challenges involving peer pressure, authority figures, and post-graduation blues.
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Keys to teaching elementary school music
Harriet Nordholm , and
Carl O. Thompson
Manufacturer: Schmitt
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Sound and Structure (Resources of Music Series)
John Paynter
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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In the pioneering Sound and Silence (1970, CUP), Paynter and Peter Aston set out to demonstrate the importance of drawing on children's creative talent as the basis for music education. Their book reflected work that its authors had been doing in schools and colleges during the preceding decade. Much that has happened since in music education has in no small measure been influenced by Sound and Silence and by subsequent publications of John Paynter’s. Now, twenty years later, John Paynter, himself a composer, views some thirty years of teaching music. His basic philosophy is the same: music is a creative art in all its modes--composing (inventing), performing (interpreting) and listening (remaking the music within ourselves). Today, John Paynter believes as firmly as ever that creativity is the starting point for all music education. To meet the new demands and fresh opportunities of a progressive educational program there have been developments in this philosophy. The projects and assignments in Sound and Structure are the fruits of this development. A cassette accompanies John Paynter’s book, and contains those musical examples that may be difficult for the reader to obtain from usual sources. The cassette will complete the reader’s enjoyment of the book.
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The book discusses in detail the chess opening known as the Rubinstein Attack, and presents analysis and typical games in all the main branches of the opening. This opening system for White can provide the basis for a solid opening strategy that nevertheless provides great opportunities to launch effective attacks against the enemy king. It has been used by many top chessplayers and has been seen in many important tournament encounters. The author presents key middlegame concepts in fully annotated games, so that the reader learns how to carry out the various forms of attack.
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Investing: The Last Liberal Art offers a unique picture of the investment world within the larger world. It aligns and explains how investment management works in the context of a number of seemingly unrelated disciplines including Biology, Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, and Literature. This approach or latticework mode is the next logical step in helping investors understand how markets work and how to become a better investor. It also allows individuals to take additional less simplistic paths to view investing.
Customer Reviews:
this book leading to the wrong direction.......2007-07-14
I really like Charlie Munger's idea of setting up a litticework as a guide to evaluate investment opportunities, that system brings you better understanding of making money or more importantly, of life as well.
But Hagstrom has totally misunderstood or misused what Charlie Munger is talking about, from the start to the end, Charlie Munger expresses his approach named "Multidisciplinary" or "latticwork" toward individual company, the individual unit of the Ecosystem of economy , instead of the market. I understand the author is a fund manager and it is really hard for him to switch his view from the market level to the individual company, or take the Bottom-up method to evaluate or see the real investment world, no matter how he calls himself a value investor or even a close friend of the great value investor Bill Miller.
the reason why I give this book 1 star is that ironically all the efforts made in this book has focused on how to guess the market by using Charlie Munger,the greatest value investor's method.
"Investing: The Last Liberal Art" and "Latticework: The New Investing" are the same book.......2007-05-13
"Investing: The Last Liberal Art" and "Latticework: The New Investing" are exactly the same book with exactly the same content up to the page numbers. Just the book name and book cover were changed. It's not clear why the publisher changed the book name but after purchasing both books I find highly misleading.
Applying New Paradigms for Insightful Investing .......2005-05-05
Robert Hagstrom (Sr VP of Legg Mason Focus Capital) has written a light, entertaining interdisciplinary book about investing with an open mind. His main thesis is that ideas about investing, economics, and markets are part of a larger body of human knowledge, yet the pressures of the modern world tend to make us specialize in one field. However, by searching out connections and parallels between markets/finance and ideas in diverse fields of knowledge, we can (hopefully!) invest in a more insightful way.
Hagstrom then takes us on a tour of physics, biology, social sciences, psychology, philosophy and literature. In approximately 20-page chapters, he presents some essentials in each field that apply to investing.
Physics, for example, has long embraced the notion of equilibrium. Equilibrium also permeates finance; for example, supply and demand are equilibrated by the proper price. A key idea in biology is Darwinian natural selection. Hagstrom draws parallels between natural selection and the evolution of profitable trading strategies; unprofitable strategies die off in the process of competition.
The social sciences also give us insights into how people behave in groups, whether as political parties, as investors, or as cultures. These fields show emergent behavior of groups of individuals, and that the behavior of the group is more than the sum of it's parts. In economies, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" guides us towards the goal of properly rationing resources. Cities evolve distinct neighborhoods without any centralized planning. The stock market crashes occasionally as investors react to others reactions.
Psychology is also an area of prime interest to investors, because emotion and cognition influence decision-making. The emerging field of behavioral finance has shown that the market tends to overreact to news, and that a contrarian investment strategy can be profitable. Indeed, investors can often attest to an internal struggle between fear of and greed. Unchecked, these can lead to gold rushes, internet mania, or stock market crashes.
In the field of philosophy, Hagstrom focuses on the "pragmatism" movement in America, which believed that ideas are "true" if they have practical value and provide some benefit to you, rather than conforming to some transcendent absolute "truth." Adopting a pragmatic point of view may allow a trader to more easily move to a new trading model or cut losses rather if a given model or position isn't working.
Finally, Hagstrom discusses literature. He notes that literature not only stretches our imagination, but it can also teach us to read analytically, think critically, separate fact from opinion, and to discuss ideas with an open mind. This mental flexibility is crucial not only as investors in digesting news, but also as human beings.
In many of these chapters, Hagstrom returns to the emerging science of complex adaptive systems, which provides a unifying theme. Complex adaptive systems have a large number of individual units, and these units can be anything - ants, neurons, votors or investors. These units change or adapt their behavior based on their interactions with other units as well as the overall system. These systems have self-organizing properties, and generate emergent behaviour beyond the behavior of individual units (i.e. cities `spontaneously' form distinct cultural neighborhoods without planning). These systems are constantly evolving and in flux, and occasionally go through periods of sudden change (like an avalanche, or stock market crash). The common qualities of complex adaptive systems have implications for investors. The market will always be in flux, not in equilibrium, and it's more organic and emotional than mechanistic; as a result, it has small constantly changing inefficiencies that people compete to take advantage of.
Overall, my one general criticism of the book is that one can see how these fields might apply to investing at a concept level, but of course "the devil is in the details." If you're an experienced investor, you will NOT read about how all this applies to the CAPM, or what you should do now with your 401(k). But to be fair, Hagstrom says in his preface that that's not his goal - it would be impossible in one book to flush out all the details. That being said, I thought it was valuable how he described the interdisciplinary fields of "complex adaptive systems" and "behavioral finance" - these are indeed important new areas of research, ones that may reap benefits in the future. Without an interdisciplinary view of finance, these promising fields would not have come into being.
So in summary, I think this was a light, quick, enjoyable quick tour through the intellectual history of many fields. It was a valuable reminder to think outside of one's discipline to keep perspective and gain new insights. So if you want to think in a broader way about markets, then I'd recommend it.
Liberal Arts Light, but Excellent Intro to Investing.......2004-03-18
A good, but light introduction to various liberal arts subjects for interested investors. The subjects R. Hagstrom tackles are topics any liberal arts major in college would've already been exposed to in varying degrees, however, for MBA's and those out there who've not yet "invested" their own time into "life's larger issues" and subjects, then this book is an excellent jumping off point.
On the flip side, those of us who have spent a lot of time studying and thinking about liberal arts, and are new to business and investing but would like to learn more, Hagstrom's book helps synthesize the business/investment world with various disciplines which at first glance seem not to be related, but which in actuality, as Hagstrom shows, are inextricably linked.
Overall, I recommend this book along with Peter Lynch's, "One Up on Wall Street" for serious long-term investors who understand that there's more to life than income producing stocks.
Brilliant book, deserves to be widely read.......2002-09-14
This extremely well researched and written book argues for a liberal education - that is a process of continual learning in different fields/areas in order to improve understanding of how the world works. In relation to investing this means that just doing a finance or economics degree is not enough (although obviously helpful) and that knowing something from areas such as Psychology, Philosophy, biology, history will help you improve your performance.
As well as about being about stock market investing, the book makes a strong case for a more liberal education at University, not only to improve students'job prospects, but also the way they will live their lives (and consequently affect others).
Read it.
Customer Reviews:
Phenomenal Woman. Inspirational Story........2007-02-15
I haven't yet finished my copy of this first work but just today I heard Janis Kearney speak for the third time during a series of events here in Birmingham, AL- at both Miles College & the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. I have been overwhelmed with emotion by both the literal and symbolic convergence between myself and the author. I KNOW that each person in the audience today and the previous two identified with the author in one way or another. Her story is that of any person who has ever dared to dream AND BELIEVE that DREAMS CAN & OFTEN DO COME TRUE. For those individuals who have not ventured to imagine the possiblities let this bio of her early beginnings until today be something of a testimonial or road map to realizing the potential within you- and each of us. I highly recommend that you purchase this book but also make it a point to attend a Kearney speaking engagement if ever afforded the opportunity.
Amazing family story.......2005-02-23
This is a wonderful memoir - a very moving look at the life of an Arkansas sharecropping family - with a strong message for the parents of today who want to raise successful children.
Personal History.......2005-02-12
I am the niece of Janis Kearney. I can not tell you how blessed I was to read this book. In a family so large, it is hard to get everyone's "story." It brought tears to my eyes to read my aunt's memories, and through her words get to know a little bit about a grandmother I don't remember and an aunt whose death I can't forget. I hope that efforts like this will be taken up by more individuals, so that the generations that come behind us can benefit from the historian in us all.
Taking Us Back..........2005-01-15
Upon meeting Janis F. Kearney, one is presented with a combination of soft-spoken gentleness, wisdom beyond her years, and a quiet strength that isn't seen often in people anymore. I've had the pleasure of meeting Kearney, and now after reading her memoir, I've had the opportunity to learn a bit more about her and how she came to have the above qualities. COTTON FIELD OF DREAMS, her debut title, is a beautiful heart-felt tribute to her family.
It amazes me and touches my heart how such a large family with so few material possessions had so much that matters in life...love, support, and determination to succeed at all costs. How is it that an uneducated sharecropper with 17 children can inspire his children to learn and to reach for the greater things in life? How is it that those same children missed the first portion of the school year, but were still ahead of their class academically? How is it that each of these children grew up to surpass the confines put on their parents and other poor blacks of that time period? The book was so real to me, I shared in the family's happy times, their heartaches, their success, and the benefit of parents who inspired and instilled the importance of education. I cried over the deaths in Kearney's family, rejoiced in the yearly reunion, and celebrated a great piece of African-American history and family.
Kearney was the personal diarist to Clinton and also served in other positions during his campaign and years in office. In the foreword he points out, "From their parents, the Kearney children absorbed a powerful conviction: They were neither better nor less than any other human being. This conviction gave them the self-confidence to move far beyond their difficult beginnings." It is this conviction, this type of upbringing, that is missing in the majority of houses today.
COTTON FIELD OF DREAMS shares the lessons taught by our forefathers and brought to fruition by faith, trust, perseverance, and the desire to dream. The writing is soft and soulful, the shared memories are heart-warming, and the final outcome of the Kearney children was simply awe-inspiring. When one thinks of 17 children growing up in the South during the mid-1900s, it is unusual to picture them as lawyers, historians, and such in the present, but with the exception of one child, they all reached this level of success. It just goes to show that materialistic wealth means nothing when compared to upbringing. It all goes back to the parents, one of the most important aspects of a child's life. (RAW Rating: 4.5)
Reviewed by Tee C. Royal
of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers
Cotton Field Of Dreams: A Memoir.......2004-12-31
I had a hard time putting down once I began reading. Many publications tell the story of survival of urban families. This book tells the story of survival and success of a african-american rural family. The writing was so mesmerizing that I was able to visualize each event in the life of the Kearney family.
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Today aircraft combat survivability is now an established design discipline for U.S. military aircraft. More importantly survivability is now an essential part of the U.S. Department of Defense acquisition process. Furthermore, improving public health, safety, and survivability is now woven throughout the civil and commercial sector. From infant car seats to the design of aircraft cargo bay structures that can withstand internal bomb blasts, the government is taking the lead in establishing survivability standards.
Approximately 10,000 copies of the first edition were sold in five printings. It remains the only book of its kind and is required reading for anyone involved in design of air combat vehicles.
The extensively illustrated second edition of the textbook presents the fundamentals of the aircraft combat survivability design discipline as defined by the DoD military standards and acquisition processes. It provides the history of, the concepts for, the assessment methodology, and the design technology for combat survivability analysis and design of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, UAVs, and missiles. Each chapter specifies learning objectives; stresses important points; and includes notes, references, bibliography, and questions.
The Fundamentals of Aircraft Combat Survivability: Analysis and Design on CD-ROM is included with your purchase of the hardcover. The CD-ROM gives you the portability and searchability that you need in your busy environment. It is considerably smaller and lighter than the textbook so it is available when you are away from the office or traveling. It can also be searched to quickly locate a particular word or phrase.
Professors! To receive your solutions manual, e-mail your request and full address to custserv@aiaa.org.
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An in-depth analysis, American Public Opinion explores the following important topics: the origins of public opinion in political socialization; the impact of the media on public opinion; the relevance of public opinion to democratic values; political trust and social capital; and the role of public opinion for elections, political parties and interest groups. As in previous editions, the Updated Seventh Edition examines the relationship between public opinion and policy.
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American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Contents, and Impact
ROBERT S. ERIKSON
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0023340428 |
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“Anyone who doubts the power of history to inform the present should read this closely argued and sweeping survey. This is rich, timely, and sobering historical fare written in a measured, non-sensationalist style by a master of his craft. One only hopes (almost certainly vainly) that today’s policymakers take its lessons to heart.”—Brian Fagan, Los Angeles Times
Published in 2002, Deforesting the Earth was a landmark study of the history and geography of deforestation. Now available as an abridgment, this edition retains the breadth of the original while rendering its arguments accessible to a general readership.
Deforestation—the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests for fuel, shelter, and agriculture—is among the most important ways humans have transformed the environment. Surveying ten thousand years to trace human-induced deforestation’s effect on economies, societies, and landscapes around the world, Deforesting the Earth is the preeminent history of this process and its consequences.
Beginning with the return of the forests after the ice age to Europe, North America, and the tropics, Michael Williams traces the impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic age through the classical world and the medieval period. He then focuses on forest clearing both within Europe and by European imperialists and industrialists abroad, from the 1500s to the early 1900s, in such places as the New World, India, and Latin America, and considers indigenous clearing in India, China, and Japan. Finally, he covers the current alarming escalation of deforestation, with our ever-increasing human population placing a potentially unsupportable burden on the world’s forests.
Customer Reviews:
A very good essay.......2007-04-02
Very good book. It analyses encompasses both local aspects of deforestagin as regional/glaobal aspects.
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