Author : Nick Fauchald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404811559
A basic introduction to the game of golf as played by children.
Author : Colin Bayliss
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1999-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080477496
This comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice encountered in the installation and design of transmission and distribution systems for electrical power has been updated and revised to provide the project engineer with all the latest, relevant information to design and specify the correct system for a particular application. Thoroughly updated and revised to include latest developments Learn from and Author with extensive experience in managing international projects Find out the reasoning and implications behind the different specifications and methods
Author : Kevin Maney
Publisher : Currency
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0385525958
A Fresh and Important New Way to Understand Why We Buy Why did the RAZR ultimately ruin Motorola? Why does Wal-Mart dominate rural and suburban areas but falter in large cities? Why did Starbucks stumble just when it seemed unstoppable? The answer lies in the ever-present tension between fidelity (the quality of a consumer’s experience) and convenience (the ease of getting and paying for a product). In Trade-Off, Kevin Maney shows how these conflicting forces determine the success, or failure, of new products and services in the marketplace. He shows that almost every decision we make as consumers involves a trade-off between fidelity and convenience–between the products we love and the products we need. Rock stars sell out concerts because the experience is high in fidelity-–it can’t be replicated in any other way, and because of that, we are willing to suffer inconvenience for the experience. In contrast, a downloaded MP3 of a song is low in fidelity, but consumers buy music online because it’s superconvenient. Products that are at one extreme or the other–those that are high in fidelity or high in convenience–-tend to be successful. The things that fall into the middle-–products or services that have moderate fidelity and convenience-–fail to win an enthusiastic audience. Using examples from Amazon and Disney to People Express and the invention of the ATM, Maney demonstrates that the most successful companies skew their offerings to either one extreme or the other-–fidelity or convenience-–in shaping products and building brands.
Author : John Feinstein
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0316073741
June 2008's US Open produced one of the most unexpected and dramatic showdowns in golf history. Day after day the invincible Tiger Woods was challenged by Rocco Mediate, a respected journeyman. On Sunday, both ended play tied at par, forcing a playoff. Defying expectations, Mediate played Woods to yet another tie, losing only after forcing a sudden-death showdown. Through it all, Rocco Mediate emerged as one of the most likable, open, and fascinating golfers. In Are You Kidding Me?, he tells the full story of these five life-changing days. With John Feinstein, whose insider knowledge of the golf world is unparalleled, Mediate relives one of sport's greatest feats, how one man overcame every obstacle to challenge the game's finest.
Author : Rick Reilly
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0306924943
A beloved New York Times bestselling author and golf aficionado shares his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game in this cavalcade of original pieces about why we love the sport, now featuring three additional new pieces. This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills, the golf club maker who takes weekly psychedelic trips, and the caddy who kept his loop even after an 11-year prison stint. We learn how a man on his third heart nearly won the U.S. Open, how a Vietnam POW saved his life playing 18 holes a day in his tiny cell, and about the course that's absolutely free. Reilly mines all of the game’s quirky traditions—from the shot of bourbon you take before you tee off at Peyton Manning’s course, to the way the starter at St. Andrews announces to your group (and the hundreds of tourists watching), “You’re on the first tee, gentlemen.” He means that quite literally: St. Andrews has the first tee ever invented. We’ll visit the eighteen most unforgettable holes around the world (Reilly has played them all), including the hole in Indonesia where the biggest hazard is monkeys, the one in the Caribbean that's underwater, and the one in South Africa that requires a shot over a pit of alligators; not to mention Reilly’s attempt to play the most mini-golf holes in one day. Reilly expounds on all the great figures in the game, from Phil Mickelson to Bobby Jones to the simple reason Jack Nicklaus is better than Tiger Woods. He explains why we should stop hating Bryson DeChambeau unless we hate genius, the greatest upset in women’s golf history, and why Ernie Els throws away every ball that makes a birdie. Plus all the Greg Norman stories Reilly has never been able to tell before, and the great fun of being Jim Nantz. Connecting it all will be the story of Reilly’s own personal journey through the game, especially as it connects to his tumultuous relationship with his father, and how the two eventually reconciled through golf. This is Reilly’s valentine to golf, a cornucopia of stories that no golfer will want to be without. **The Sports Librarian’s Best of 2022 – Sports Books**
Author : Anthony J. Cerbone
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1469195992
Mr. Cerbone,has authored PLAYING ‘READY’ GOLF BEFORE & AFTER TEE-TIME, a brief, easy-to-read booklet that helps golfers experience a fun, less time-consuming round of golf. Targeting beginners and advanced golfers as well, he offers practical tips that will help make your rounds of golf more enjoyable. Simple and straightforward, Cerbone’s guidebook offers a lot of benefits for all the golf enthusiasts. He offers them creative ways to increase their pace-of-play, complete their rounds of golf in course-regulation time or less, prepare them for the physical and mental aspects of the sport and, ultimately, improve their game play. Whether it is at the driving range, on the T-Boxes, in the fairways, sand traps or on the greens, Cerbone has all the tips for beginners and experienced golfers alike. Readers who think that it takes too long to play a round of golf will find in his book the answers that excite them to pick up their golf bags and head out to the course in no time to play ‘ready’ golf.
Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1607104660
Fore! Calling all Swingers, Duffers, and Big Berthas! Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Tees Off on Golf takes a fresh, funny swing through the front and back nine. Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Tees Off on Golf is flush with fascinating facts about the origins of this royal and ancient sport. Where else could you learn about the greatest animals on the greens (Tiger, Shark, Golden Bear), the world’s best courses (think St. Andrews), and the world’s most dangerous links (watch out for land mines!)? You may not be PGA material, or even know the difference between a pitching wedge and a spatula, but with Uncle John’s tips and trivia, you’ll have plenty to talk about while you hunt for your ball in the rough. Read all about… Golfers’ nicknames The best tournament finishes in history The origins of caddies, the LPGA, and the PGA tour Strange (but real) rules * And much more!
Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374279127
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Author : Harris Katleman
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0795352247
A studio executive’s “superb memoir” of his years in the industry, filled with hilarious stories and hard-earned wisdom (Library Journal). From watching his colleague get shot in the testicles by a jealous producer to running Hollywood’s most successful TV studio, Harris Katleman had a front row seat in the development of the television industry. A classic account of the business side of entertainment, this book shares what really happened in the early careers of Hollywood stars and the development of iconic programs. Through a number of funny behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Katleman shares his journey from office boy to talent agent to television producer, and finally to studio head at both MGM and Twentieth Century Fox. Along the way, we meet industry giants including Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger, Barry Diller, Marvin Davis, Kirk Kerkorian, Mark Goodson, and Lew Wasserman. This memoir goes beyond the story of a life in Hollywood. It is the story of crucial developments—how motion picture film libraries were opened for television licensing, how The Simpsons was birthed, and much more. “Not only does this book show his leadership in the television business, it shows how strongly he fought for groundbreaking shows that transformed the industry.”—David E. Kelley “A worthy entry in the lexicon of books chronicling Hollywood of yesteryear.”—Booklist
Author : Kay Dickinson
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195326636
In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a fascinating and wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches, and using contemporary reviews and histories of the turn to post-industrialization, the book expands the ways in which the union of the film and music businesses can be understood. Moving beyond the typical understanding of film music that privileges the score, Off Key also incorporates analyses of rock 'n' roll movies, composer biopics, and pop singers crossing over into acting. By doing this, it provides a fuller picture of how two successful entertainment sectors have sought out synergistic strategies, ones whose alleged "failures" have much to tell about the labor practices of the creative industries, as well as our own relationship to them and to work itself. A provocative and politically-conscious look at music-image relations, Off Key will appeal to students and scholars of film music, cinema studies, media studies, cultural studies, and labor history.
