Power Players

Author: Chris Cillizza
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1538720620
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our national pastimes. POWER PLAYERS tells all the great stories of presidents and the sports they played, loved and spectated as a way to better understand what it takes to be elected to lead a country driven by sports fans of all stripes. While every modern president has used sports to relate to Joe Q. Public, POWER PLAYERS turns the lens around to examine how sports have shaped our presidents and made for some amazing moments in White House history, including: Dwight Eisenhower played so much golf he had a putting green built outside the Oval Office!. (He also almost died on a golf course while in office.) How John F. Kennedy’s touch-football games with family were knowing plays to polish the Camelot mystique. People might not have related to the aloof and awkward Richard Nixon but, hey, he would bowl a few frames just like them. Ronald Reagan didn’t just play the part of “The Gipper” for the silver screen, but truly adopted the famous footballer’s never-say-die persona. George H.W. Bush once ran a horseshoe league from the White House – with a commissioner and brackets! (He would later claim to have come up with the fan expression, “You da man.”) Bill Clinton’s Arkansas Razorback fandom was so intense that he could be found shouting at the referees from a box at the basketball national championship game in 1994. George W. Bush’s not only owned the Texas Rangers but also threw out the most iconic first pitch ever in the 2001 World Series. What really went down when Barack Obama played pickup hoops with the North Carolina Tarheels. (He later won the state by .3 percent of the vote.) Donald Trump is the only president ever featured in a professional wrestling storyline—and everything real and fake that went with that. In the pages of POWER PLAYERS, a love of sports shines through as the key to understanding who these presidents really were and how they chose to play by the rules, occasionally bluff or cheat, all the while coaching the country into a few quality wins and some notorious losses.

Power Players

Author: Paul Ladewski
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780545065450
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Fifteen players who can turn the game around--they always know where the football is and they'll do what they have to do to either take it away or take it to the end zone.

Entertainment Power Players

Author: Dackeyia Sterling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967903682
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Premier entertainment career directory for Fashion, Film/TV and Music. New, updated and verified listings include Company Names, Addresses, Phone Numbers, Websites and @Twitter. A-Z Content includes industry programs, products, and services. Popular Sections include: Acting and Casting Resources, Animation Companies, Fashion Designers, Footwear Companies, Film Festivals and Financing, Internships, Job Sources, Training Programs and More!

Chase

Author: Cassia Leo
Publisher: Gloss Publishing
ISBN: 1493709232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo comes a workplace romance that combines politics with love. Larissa Jacobs' financial debt is climbing after a failed attempt at becoming the next big thing in Hollywood. After losing her job as a children's party entertainer, Larissa's roommate gets her a temp job. Her new boss is Senator Chase Underwood: hot, married, and the current presidential candidate. But Chase's penchant for domination in the workplace threatens his prospects of world domination. When Larissa's affair with Chase erupts in scandal, Larissa finds herself being used as a pawn in Chase's bid for the presidency. Will Larissa remain true to her promise to wait for Chase until the scandal has blown over? Will Chase put his love for Larissa before his career?

The Power Players

Author: Arelo Sederberg
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595009980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
"Sederberg understands people and how to write about them." - The Washington Post "It would be hard to imagine a novel more richly characterized, better grounded in its themes, or constructed to more terse effect. In short, it is a winner." -Publisher's Weekly "Sederberg's is better than the recent novel of Sidney Sheldon." -New York Times "When Arelo Sederberg writes a novel about corporate in-fighting he does so from expert knowledge." -Chicago Tribune Arelo Sederberg, former public relations spokesman for Howard Hughes, is a veteran newspaper reporter and editor working for the Los Angeles Times and Herald-Examiner, as well as a commentator and interviewer on national television with the Financial News Network (now C-NBC). Sederberg is the author of six novels.

The Power Players

Author: Arelo Sederberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Office politics
Languages : en
Pages : 454

Book Description
As the lives of the Power Players unfold, as the fates of their families and their company hang in the balance, all the elements of corporate life at its most explosive are here exposed.

Knox

Author: Cassia Leo
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500299293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo comes a sinfully sexy and suspenseful new series.Rebecca hasn't seen or heard from her mob boss father in four years, but she's about to receive a message from him that will throw her life into chaos. Rebecca thought she left the crime family, and the painful memories, behind when she went into law enforcement. She never expected to be abducted by a sexy stranger. But when this stranger makes Rebecca an offer too tempting to refuse, she finds herself dragged into one of the most ruthless vendettas of the century.Knox Savage is the searingly sexy CEO of Knox Security and a notorious playboy. What most don't know about Knox is that he loves helping high-profile criminals escape justice. He makes no judgments about guilt or innocence. And he doesn't do it for sentimental reasons. But he's about to take on a case that's going to get very personal.

Artificial Intelligence and Security

Author: Xingming Sun
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031067916
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 744

Book Description
This three-volume set LNCS 13338-13340 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security, ICAIS 2022, which was held in Qinghai, China, in July 2022. The total of 166 papers included in the 3 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 1124 submissions. The papers present research, development, and applications in the fields of artificial intelligence and information security

Billboard

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Reading Power Set 1

Author: Rob Kirkpatrick
Publisher: PowerKids Press
ISBN: 9780823970001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
PowerKids Press is proud to announce Reading Power, dynamic new high/low materials for challenged readers. Our first two sets of high-interest, low-reading-level books are designed for third and fourth grade readers reading at a first-grade level. The vocabulary, syntax, and level of picture/text correspondence in the books matches Level 8 of a first grade program, or the middle of the school year for an at-level first-grade reader. This first-grade level of simplicity and accessibility is complemented by high-interest, sports-driven subject matter, which is sure to engage a third or fourth grader. Featuring popular athletes from a wide range of sports, these books will give your kids the information they want and the reading skills they need. Turn your at-risk readers into power readers by plugging into this new PowerKids Press outlet for leveled and remedial reading materials. Power Players are perfect for second, third and, fourth graders, whose reading levels are lower than their peers, but whose interests are the same! With low-level text and high-impact photos, the Power Players set offers at-risk readers new tools, and new incentives, for improving their reading skills.