Author : Herschel Walker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416537503
Presents the life of the Heisman trophy winner, discussing his impoverished childhood, his development as a teenage athlete, his college and NFL professional career, his success as a businessman, and his diagnosis and treatment for dissociative identity disorder.
Author : Jim Benagh
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Football players
ISBN :
Tells the life story of football running back Herschel Walker, from his youth in the South up through his years with the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings.
Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0544454383
From a multiple New York Times bestselling author, the rollicking, outrageous, you-can't-make-this-up story of the USFL The United States Football League--known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL--was the last football league to not merely challenge the NFL, but cause its owners and executives to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, 1983-85. It secured multiple television deals. It drew millions of fans and launched the careers of legends. But then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic owner--a New York businessman named Donald J. Trump. The league featured as many as 18 teams, and included such superstars as Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Herschel Walker, Reggie White, Doug Flutie and Mike Rozier. In Football for a Buck, the dogged reporter and biographer Jeff Pearlman draws on more than four hundred interviews to unearth all the salty, untold stories of one of the craziest sports entities to have ever captivated America. From 1980s drug excess to airplane brawls and player-coach punch outs, to backroom business deals, to some of the most enthralling and revolutionary football ever seen, Pearlman transports readers back in time to this crazy, boozy, audacious, unforgettable era of the game. He shows how fortunes were made and lost on the backs of professional athletes and also how, thirty years ago, Trump was a scoundrel and a spoiler. For fans of Terry Pluto's Loose Balls or Jim Bouton's Ball Four and of course Pearlman's own stranger-than-fiction narratives, Football for a Buck is sports as high entertainment--and a cautionary tale of the dangers of ego and excess.
Author : John F. Stegeman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780820319599
Everyone knows about Herschel Walker, but what about George Woodruff, who, in a fogbound game against Sewanee, passed his helmet into their secondary and then handed the ball off to Hafford Hay, who ran untouched into the endzone? Athens is famed for its postgame victory parties, but who can recall the mountainous bonfire in 1910 that, when ignited, blew out every windowpane in three nearby campus buildings? Herty Field, the University of Georgia's first gridiron, is now a parking lot, but the glory lives on in this classic, fast-paced chronicle of Bulldogs football from its beginnings in 1891 to 1916.
Author : Jeff Parker
Publisher : featherproof books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1943888035
Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion is a collection of found poems composed of the words of professional athletes. The content of post-game interviews and sports chatter is so often meaningless, if not insufferable, and yet there are athletes like Metta World Peace who transcend lame clichés and rote patter, who use language in surprising ways, who can be funny and shocking and insightful and alarmingly sincere — pure poetry. Muhammad Ali offered dazzling displays of lexical wizardry, and Allen Iverson’s infamous “practice” rant shifted the post-game press conference from the banal to the absurd. This book is a celebration of these rare and exceptional moments. Various poetic forms and line-breaks highlight — or, in the words of Deion Sanders, “deem to set a candor on” — the sophisticated, sublime, and surprising performances of language made by professional athletes.
Author : Elizabeth F. Howell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2011-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135845832
Building on the comprehensive theoretical model of dissociation elegantly developed in The Dissociative Mind, Elizabeth Howell makes another invaluable contribution to the clinical understanding of dissociative states with Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder. Howell, working within the realm of relational psychoanalysis, explicates a multifaceted approach to the treatment of this fascinating yet often misunderstood condition, which involves the partitioning of the personality into part-selves that remain unaware of one another, usually the result of severely traumatic experiences. Howell begins with an explication of dissociation theory and research that includes the dynamic unconscious, trauma theory, attachment, and neuroscience. She then discusses the identification and diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) before moving on to outline a phase-oriented treatment plan, which includes facilitating a multileveled co-constructed therapeutic relationship, emphasizing the multiplicity of transferences, countertransferences, and kinds of potential enactments. She then expands the treatment possibilities to include dreamwork, before moving on to discuss the risks involved in the treatment of DID and how to mitigate them. All concepts and technical approaches are permeated with rich clinical examples.
Author : Olga Trujillo
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1572249927
By the first day of kindergarten, Olga Trujillo had already survived years of abuse and violent rape at the hands of her tyrannical father. Over the next ten years, she would develop the ability to numb herself to the constant abuse by splitting into distinct mental “parts.” Dissociative identity disorder (DID) had begun to take hold, protecting Olga’s mind from the tragic realities of her childhood. In The Sum of My Parts, Olga reveals her life story for the first time, chronicling her heroic journey from survivor to advocate and her remarkable recovery from DID. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, DID is defined by the presence of two or more identities. In this riveting story, Olga struggles to unearth memories from her childhood, and parallel identities—Olga at five years old, Olga at thirteen—come forth and demand to be healed. This brave, unforgettable memoir charts the author’s triumph over the most devastating conditions and will inspire anyone whose life has been affected by trauma.
Author : Padma Venkatraman
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : 9781599350424
A young adult biography of British astronomer Caroline Herschel
Author : Deborah Bray Haddock
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2001-08-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0071507264
Finally, a book that addresses your concerns about DID From Eve to Sybil to Truddi Chase, the media have long chronicled the lives of people with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder. The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook serves as a much-needed bridge for communication between the dissociative individual and therapists, family, and friends who also have to learn to deal with the effects of this truly astonishing disorder.
Author : Jeff Prugh
Publisher : Fawcett Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780449126226
Traces the life of Herschel Walker from his childhood to his stardom as a football player and describes his athletic achievements
