Hockey has had its share of bizarre tales over the years, but none compares to the fascinating story of the California Golden Seals, a team that remains the benchmark for how not to run a sports franchise. From 1967 to 1978, a revolving door of players, apathetic owners, and ridiculous marketing decisions turned the Seals, originally based in Oakland, into hockey’s traveling circus. The team lost tons of money and games, cheated death more often than Evel Knievel, and left behind a long trail of broken dreams. Live seals were used as mascots, players wore skates that were painted white on an almost-daily basis, and draft picks were dealt away nonchalantly like cards at a poker game. One general manager was hauled in for questioning by mysterious men because he’d mismanaged a player contract, while one of the team’s goaltenders regularly spat tobacco juice at the feet of referees.
The California Golden Seals examines the franchise’s entire mismanaged—but always interesting—history, from its ballyhooed beginnings as a minor-league champion in the 1960s to its steep slide into oblivion in the late 1970s after moving to Cleveland. Through a comprehensive season-by-season narrative and a section of definitive statistics, Currier brings to life the Seals’ entire history with lighthearted anecdotes, personal interviews, and statistics about hockey’s most infamous losing team.
Автор: Currier Charles Warren Название: Carmel in America ISBN: 1117889890 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781117889894 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 34710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Currier Jameson Название: The Haunted Heart and Other Tales ISBN: 0983285195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983285199 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Roger Nelson, Dean Currier Название: Clinical Electrotherapy ISBN: 0838513344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780838513347 Издательство: Alibris(Ingram) Цена: 29630.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Updated and reorganized, the third edition of this popular book uses a problem-oriented approach to present the principles of electrical stimulation, physiology and useful instrumentation as they relate to electrotherapy. This comprehensive text focuses on the clinical effectiveness of electrotherapeutic modalities and their physiologic impact on function and healing. Featuring new case studies and review questions, it also includes new material on the use of electrical stimulation for tissue repair and pain management, improving muscle performance, and increasing functional activity. Physical therapy students and practitioners.
Автор: Currier Jameson Название: Until My Heart Stops ISBN: 1937627179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781937627171 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Currier Ashley Название: Out in Africa: Lgbt Organizing in Namibia and South Africa ISBN: 0816678014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816678013 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 27710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Visibility matters to activists-to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times of political hostility or internal crisis. Out in Africa is the first to present an intimate look at how Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations have cultivated visibility and invisibility as strategies over time. As such, it reveals the complexities of the LGBT movements in both countries as these organizations make use of Western terminology and notions of identity to gain funding even as they work to counter the perception that they are "un-African."
Different sociopolitical conditions in Namibia and South Africa affected how activists in each country campaigned for LGBT rights between 1995 and 2006. Focusing on this period, Ashley Currier shows how, in Namibia, LGBT activists struggled against ruling party leaders' homophobic rhetoric and how, at the same time, black LGBT citizens of South Africa, though enjoying constitutional protections, greater visibility, and heightened activism, nonetheless confronted homophobic violence because of their gender and sexual nonconformity.
As it tells the story of the evolving political landscape in postapartheid Namibia and South Africa, Out in Africa situates these countries' movements in relation to developments in pan-African LGBT organizing and offers broader insights into visibility as a social movement strategy rather than simply as a static accomplishment or outcome of political organizing.
Автор: Currier Jameson Название: Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex ISBN: 098328511X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983285113 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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