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.

Difficult People at Work

Author: National Institute of Business Management
Publisher: Capitol Information Group
ISBN: 1880024101
Category : Behavior modification
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description

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!

Entertainment Power Players

Author: Dackeyia Q. Sterling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967903637
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This 4th Edition of Entertainment Power Players is the ultimate entertainment career directory. Filled with 5,000+ Contacts in more than 50 A-Z categories in Fashion, Film, Music, Sports & TV - including Animation, Associations & Organizations, Awards & Events, Celebrity-Owned Fashion & Fragrance Lines, Fashion Designers, Film Festivals, Film Financing, Film Schools, Internships, Job Resources, Music Contacts, Production Companies, Professional Sports Teams (MLB, NBA, NFL, WNBA & more), Training Programs & MORE!

Baseball's Power Shift

Author: Krister Swanson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803288042
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players' desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. The labor consciousness of baseball players lagged behind that of workers in other industries, and the public was largely in the dark about labor practices in baseball. In the mid-1960s, star players Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale staged a joint holdout for multiyear contracts and much higher salaries. Their holdout quickly drew support from the public; for the first time, owners realized they could ill afford to alienate fans, their primary source of revenue. Baseball's Power Shift chronicles the growth and development of the union movement in Major League Baseball and the key role of the press and public opinion in the players' successes and failures in labor-management relations. Swanson focuses on the most turbulent years, 1966 to 1981, which saw the birth of the Major League Baseball Players Association as well as three strikes, two lockouts, Curt Flood's challenge to the reserve clause in the Supreme Court, and the emergence of full free agency. To defeat the owners, the players' union needed support from the press, and perhaps more importantly, the public. With the public on their side, the players ushered in a new era in professional sports when salaries skyrocketed and fans began to care as much about the business dealings of their favorite team as they do about wins and losses. Swanson shows how fans and the media became key players in baseball's labor wars and paved the way for the explosive growth in the American sports economy.

Chase

Author: Cassia Leo
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781793215437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo comes a romance that combines politics with pleasure. 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 gig working for an escort service. Her first client is Senator Chase Underwood: hot, married, and the current presidential candidate. Larissa and Chase will soon find out if his penchant for sexual domination will destroy his prospects of world domination. When her affair with Chase erupts in scandal, Larissa also 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 finally put his love for Larissa before his career?

Great Games With Numbers and Words

Author: Steven Haney
Publisher: Ready-Ed Publications
ISBN: 1863977929
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Great Games with Numbers and Words will captivate the interest of your students by introducing these hands-on curriculum linked games into your Maths and English lessons. All of the games in Great Games with Numbers and Words are quick and easy to set up as they require very little equipment and space – primary children will be able to play them with minimal supervision as the instructions are clear and simple. The games have also been designed so that they can be easily adapted to suit a range of ages and abilities. Written by an experienced teacher, all of the games have been tried and tested in the classroom with great success. This teacher-friendly resource is guaranteed to hold the attention of all of your students.

How to Dominate $1 and $2 No Limit Hold 'em

Author: Sam O'Connor
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 143430289X
Category : Poker
Languages : en
Pages : 421

Book Description

Canada

Author: Mike Myers
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385689276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his relationship with his beloved Canada. Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director and writer, and the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time. But as he says: "no description of me is truly complete without saying I'm a Canadian." He has often winked and nodded to Canada in his outrageously accomplished body of work, but now he turns the spotlight full-beam on his homeland. His hilarious and heartfelt new book is part memoir, part history and pure entertainment. It is Mike Myers' funny and thoughtful analysis of what makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians and what being Canadian has always meant to him. His relationship with his home and native land continues to deepen and grow, he says. In fact, American friends have actually accused him of enjoying being Canadian--and he's happy to plead guilty as charged. A true patriot who happens to be an expatriate, Myers is in a unique position to explore Canada from within and without. With this, his first book, Mike brings his love for Canada to the fore at a time when the country is once again looking ahead with hope and national pride. Canada is a wholly subjective account of Mike's Canadian experience. Mike writes, "Some might say, 'Why didn't you include this or that?' I say there are 35 million stories waiting to be told in this country, and my book is only one of them." This beautifully designed book is illustrated in colour (and not color) throughout, and its visual treasures include personal photographs and Canadiana from the author's own collection.

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016

Author: Osvaldo Gervasi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319420852
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 674

Book Description
The five-volume set LNCS 9786-9790 constitutes the refereed proceedingsof the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and ItsApplications, ICCSA 2016, held in Beijing, China, in July 2016. The 239 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented at 33 workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from 849 submissions. They are organized in five thematical tracks: computational methods, algorithms and scientific applications; high performance computing and networks; geometric modeling, graphics and visualization; advanced and emerging applications; and information systems and technologies.