A reporting tour de force and an utterly gripping account... Outside Shot unmistakably triumphs, with the reader rooting hard for the Cardinals--and delighted that O'Brien has brought his considerable skills to telling their story. --Wayne Coffey, New York Times Book Review
The Cardinals of Scott County High School were beloved once---and with good reason. For years, the boys and their legendary coach gave fans in central Kentucky, deep in the heart of basketball country, just what they wanted: state titles, national rankings, and countless trips to Kentucky's one-of-a-kind state tournament, where winning and losing can change a young man's life. But in 2009, with the economy sputtering, anger rising, and Scott County mired in a two-year drought, fans had begun to lose faith in the boys. They weren't the heroes of Scott County anymore; they were mini-athlete gods, haunted by dreams, burdened by expectations, and desperate to escape through the only means they knew: basketball. In Outside Shot, Keith O'Brien takes us on an epic journey, from the bluegrass hills and broken homes of rural America, to inner-city Lexington, to Kentucky's most hallowed hall: Rupp Arena, where high school tournament games are known to draw twenty-thousand people, and where, for the players and their fans, it feels like anything is possible. The narrative follows four of the team's top seniors and their coach as they struggle to redeem themselves in the face of impossible odds: once-loyal fans now turned against them, parents who demand athletic greatness, and scouts who weigh their every move. It delves deep inside the lives of the boys, their families, and their community---divided along lines of race, politics, religion, and sports. And it chronicles not only the high-stakes world of Kentucky basketball, but the battle for the soul of small-town America. A story of inspiration and poignancy, filled with moments of drama on and off the court, Outside Shot shows that if it's hard to win basketball games, it can be even harder to win at life itself.
Автор: Byrd, Greg Gallick, Keith Goldie, Sophie Murphy, Catherine O`brien, Amy Oliver, Diane Название: Maths progress international year 8 workbook ISBN: 1292327189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781292327181 Издательство: Pearson Education Рейтинг: Цена: 15710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Critically evaluates the concept of sacred heritage, drawing on multi-disciplinary, global perspectives to clarify the multiple values of sacred heritage to spiritual and humanist audiences. Forges innovative connections between medieval archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on medieval monasticism, identity, and healing. This title is also available as Open Access.
Автор: O`Brien Keith Название: Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History ISBN: 1432868276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781432868277 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15630.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed--until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.
Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorc e; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanes--and in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all.
Автор: O`Brien Keith Название: Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History ISBN: 1328592790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781328592798 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 17460.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed--until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.
Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorc e; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanes--and in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all.
Автор: Byrd, Greg Gallick, Keith Goldie, Sophie Murphy, C Название: Maths progress international year 7 workbook ISBN: 1292327162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781292327167 Издательство: Pearson Education Рейтинг: Цена: 15710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Maths Progress International has been designed specifically for international students and provides seamless progression to Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Maths (9-1), as well as complete coverage of the Pearson Edexcel iLowerSecondary Award and the UK Curriculum objectives. These write-in, full colour Workbooks offer extra practice of key content, along with progression checkers at the end of each Unit and plenty of dynamic student support. Hundreds of extra practice questions to build confidence and matched to content in the Student Books for consistency.
Guided questions with partially worked solutions, hints and QR codes linking to worked example videos give students crucial support Progression checkers at the end of each Unit encourage students to take ownership of their learning, and allows them to track their progress as they work through the book.
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