Author : Dean Hughes
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780679804284
Kenny, the rookie star of Angel Park's Little League baseball team, finds himself in a major slump because he's trying too hard.
Author : Harvard Business Review
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1633696650
Become more confident at work. You need confidence to inspire trust, communicate effectively, and succeed in your organization. But self-doubt and nerves can undermine your ability to act decisively and persuade others. What can you do to push past these insecurities? This book explains how you can use emotional intelligence to become more confident at work. You'll learn how to correct what is holding you back, how to overcome imposter syndrome, and when feeling too self-assured can actually backfire. This volume includes the work of: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Rosabeth Moss Kanter Amy Jen Su Peter Bregman How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.
Author : Neil Hayes
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1583946403
De La Salle High School in Concord, California, is home to perhaps the greatest dynasty in sports history. At age 23, Coach Bob Ladouceur launched a legend, "The Streak," with no teaching or head-coaching experience, and with his teams amassed the highest winning percentage in all of football history with 138 consecutive victories. This book takes readers behind the scenes, closely following individual players, as Ladouceur guides his team through the most daunting schedule in school history, the 2002 season. Numerous interviews with major-league coaches such as Bill Walsh, Steve Mariucci, and John Gruden show the depth of respect accorded to Ladouceur and his methods and philosophies. Written with full cooperation from the coach and including dozens of photographs, this book is perfect for anyone interested in the factors behind phenomenal team success.
Author : Robert W. Buckel
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1532050089
On the morning of his twenty-fifth birthday, newlywed Scott Burroughs gets up and walks to the bedroom window. Suddenly, a bright light engulfs him. His pulse races, his skin tingles . . . then its over. It takes him several days to realize that whatever happened, his luck has changed. He cant lose at anything. From a scratch-off to a years supply of cheese puffs to a Powerball fortune, the winning streak sends him out on a gambling binge as he learns the hard way that winning has a dark side. After a shocking finish, he finds his calling and heads home to his true love.
Author : Lynda Madden Dahl
Publisher : Moment Point Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Success
ISBN : 9780963462909
While a vice president in the computer industry, Lynda Dahl stumbled onto an astonishing message: Our lives are crafted from the fabric of our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. The implications of the concept were so far-reaching, Dahl decided to experiment with the idea. She set a goal of freedom for herself and decided money could buy her that freedom. Five years later she created a million dollars--and freedom. InBeyond the Winning Streak, Dahl shares her doubts, disillusionment, and triumphs as she seeks to understand conscious creation. And, she clearly explains the structure that supports creation -- conscious or otherwise. * The simple approaches and techniques Dahl offers help set our feet on a path to freedom, abundance, and health.
Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0147514916
From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Fantasy League comes a story of heroes, family, the thrills of skateboarding, and football. When the Brighton Bears suit up on game day, 12-year-old Tommy Gallagher is the toughest kid on the football field. And the bravest. After all, his father Patrick is a Boston firefighter--one of Boston's bravest. Tommy's dad taught him everything he knows about football--and life. Yet even Tommy isn't strong enough for what happens when the sirens ring and, for the first time, they're racing away from the fire. "First man in; last man out" had always been his dad's motto . . . yet he never said anything about leaving in an ambulance. Now Tommy's biggest battle has nothing to do with football. And the kid who always had such respect for risk on the gridiron finds himself drawn to it off the field. Set in New England, home of the Patriots' football dynasty, Mike Lupica shows off his trademark knack for spinning a tale that's equal parts sports action and heart. Last Man Out is a thoughtful tribute to the bravery of firefighters and the need we all have to live up to the level of our heroes. "As is characteristic of Lupica’s books, the sports segments, most particularly the football portions, are exceptionally well written." —VOYA "In the best traditions of sports writing, this will leave readers both breathless and thoughtful." —Booklist
Author : Joe Drape
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0805088903
An inspiring portrait of the extraordinary high-school football team whose quest for perfection sustains its hometown in the heartland The football team in Smith Center, Kansas, has won sixty-seven games in a row, the nation's longest high-school winning streak. They have done so by embracing a philosophy of life taught by their legendary coach, Roger Barta: "Respect each other, then learn to love each other and together we are champions." But as they embarked on a quest for a fifth consecutive title in the fall of 2008, they faced a potentially destabilizing transition: the greatest senior class in school history had graduated, and Barta was contemplating retirement after three decades on the sidelines. In Smith Center--population: 1,931--this changing of the guard was seismic. Hours removed from the nearest city, the town revolves around "our boys" in a way that goes to the heart of what America's heartland is today. Joe Drape, a Kansas City native and an award-winning sportswriter for The New York Times, moved his family to Smith Center to discover what makes the team and the town an inspiration even to those who live hundreds of miles away. His stories of the coaches, players, and parents reveal a community fighting to hold on to a way of life that is rich in value, even as its economic fortunes decline. Drape's moving portrait of Coach Barta and the impressive young men of Smith Center is sure to take its place among the more memorable American sports stories of recent years.
Author : Larry Foley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557289858
22 Straight tells teh story of when the Arkansas Razorbacks dominated college football, won a National Championship and put together the lonest winning streak of any team in the 1960s. Narrated by former NBC sports announcer Charlie Jones, 22 Straight includes rare footage and interviews with the players and coaches. It's been more than 40 years since the Hogs won the Grantland Rice Award as the best team in college football, but many of hte stories in this film have never been told. 22 Straight is dedicated to the players and coaches of the 1964-64 Razorback championship teams, in recognition of the special relationship that forged and bonded them for a lifetime.
Author : Lydia Adamson
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451180827
Traveling to Atlantic City for a gig, actress Alice Nestleton is surprised by the appearance of a cat at her sixteenth-floor hotel window, and her subsequent search for its owner brings her to the scene of a murder.
Author : Jim Dent
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1429972866
Jim Dent's The Undefeated details the winning and powerful history of the Oklahoma Sooners' run of glory. For three perfect seasons (1954-1956), the Oklahoma Sooners won every football game they played--home or away--and over the course of five years they won 47 straight games. This awesome record was the product of a genius and masterful coach named Bud Wilkinson and the spirited young men he led. The Undefeated will detail all the thrilling action on the field during this record winning streak, but it will also reveal all the behind-the-scenes tumult and pressure swirling around it. Dent presents an absorbing character study of the brilliant, complex coach who engineered it all - Bud Wilkinson, the on-field genius whose starched-shirt public persona hid a man of many secrets and an in-depth look at a state and its people still suffering from a Depression hangover and an identity crisis, who took up the Sooners football banner almost as a religious cause. Through it all, the young men who accomplished this amazing feat shine in vivid life.
