Search results for “[Subject: basketball]”

• Author(s): Connie Kirchberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball In an age where teenage hoop stars sign multimillion-dollar endorsement deals before their first professional tip-...

• Author(s): Greg L. Guffey • Publisher: Quarry Books • Publisher Imprint: Quarry Books • BISAC: BasketballThe years 1945-1959 marked the time when basketball truly became the sport of Indiana. High school basketball bound together communities ac...

• Author(s): Murry R. Nelson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History The NBA has gained worldwide popularity with its high-flying stars and slam-dunking giants, but the early professional...

• Author(s): Murry R. Nelson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball From the time conference play began in 1905, the Big Ten was the Western force in collegiate basketball. Minnesota,...

• Author(s): Lukasz Muniowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball - General The three-point shot has been an NBA institution for more than 40 years, with the first long-distance bo...

• Author(s): Murry R. Nelson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball This book examines the American Basketball League and its short history, beginning with its conception in 1959-60 a...

• Author(s): Mac C. Kirkpatrick | Thomas K. Perry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball In 1905 Lawrence Peter Hollis went to Springfield, Massachusetts, before beginning his job as ...

• Author(s): Tim Rooney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Coaching - Basketball When John Beilein arrived at University of Michigan in 2007, the once-proud men's basketball program was adri...

• Author(s): Joel S. Franks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball When Jeremy Lin began to knock down shots for the New York Knicks in 2012, many Americans became aware for the first...

• Author(s): Gene Wojciechowski • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: BasketballNew York Times bestseller "A compelling narrative about the people who produced the most spine-tingling moment ...

• Author(s): Phil Jackson • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • BISAC: Basketball"Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball." -- Phil Jackson" One of the most successful coaches in ...

• Author(s): Adrian Wojnarowski • Publisher: Gotham Books • Publisher Imprint: Gotham Books • BISAC: BasketballIn a city mired in endless decay, where the youth suffer through all the horrors of urban blight, hope comes in a most unassuming form:...

• Author(s): Rosemarie Skaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball - General Tall, powerful athletes surge toward the goal in the last seconds of a fiercely fought game, providing e...

• Author(s): Don Haskins • Publisher: Hyperion Books • Publisher Imprint: Hyperion Books • BISAC: BasketballTimed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimer's movie, the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied t...

• Author(s): Michelle Nolan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books & Reading This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Rafe Bartholomew • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: BasketballA young man's journey through the Philippines' most unlikely obsession: basketball. In Pacific Rims, Rafe Barth...

• Author(s): Jason Hiner • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Baseball - HistoryThis is the story of the 1953 Hoosiers, NCAA champions, coached by Branch McCracken and boldly led...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Al Figone • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General Commercial aspects of college football and basketball during the mid- to late 20th century were dominated by a fe...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Franklin White • Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation • Publisher Imprint: Kensington Publishing Corporation • BISAC: African American & Black - Urban & Street LitLangston Holiday is forced to move with his no-nonsens...

• Author(s): Bob Barnett | Dana Brooks | Ronald Althouse • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology of Sports This chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three bl...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The specialized jargon of some sports can be quite esoteric. Non-Americans, for example, are likely puzzled by baseball ...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Jason J-Mac McElwain • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsNow in paperback: ?An impressive achievement...Not likely to be forgotten anytime soon.?(Washington Times) Here ...

• Author(s): Bella Grigoryan • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietRelations between the Russian nobility and the state underwent a dynamic transformat...

• Author(s): Robert Olwell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodThe slave societies of the American colonies were quite different from the "Old South" of the e...