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The Day My Dream Ended
As a child, growing up Dublin, Jimmy Holmes dreamed of becoming a professional footballer. Spotted in the local youth team by the great Matt Busby and invited to go to Manchester United, he was persuaded, instead, to sign for Coventry City, heralding the start of a glittering career in football. The young Jimmy had it all ahead of him, or so he believed, but just a few years later, a serious injury brought an abrupt end to his dreams. In this frank autobiography, Jimmy reveals how he endured years of heartache and disappointment following the accident as he struggled to come to terms with the fact that his time as a First Division footballer was over. From being highly sought after, representing the Republic of Ireland and playing top flight football, Jimmy suddenly found himself looking for ways to continue in the game he loved, before pursuing a new career in the police force. With forewords by Glenn Hoddle and Johnny Giles, The Day My Dream Ended tells the compelling story of Jimmy's meteoric rise to the top of his game and beyond, and the untimely end of one of the most promising football careers of his generation.
Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero
Neal Cassady achieved mythical status when Jack Kerouac turned him into Dean Moriarty, the hero of On The Road. In this major biography David Sandison and Graham Vickers trace the life of the wild man from Denver who galvanised Kerouac and the Beat Generation not by artistic endeavour but by his extravagant life-affirming behaviour and epic feats of cross-country driving. Dead before his forty-second birthday, Cassady was surrounded by legends and tall stories quite literally from birth. This superbly-researched biography at last strips away the mythology to reveal truths so weird and improbable that you wonder why embellishment was ever thought necessary in the first place.
Talking Keith Burkinshaw's Spurs
Welcome to this series of Short Talking Books. This volume looks back at Keith Burkinshaw’s years as Tottenham Hotspur manager. It highlights his early years as a player, right up to him joining Spurs, first as a coach, then as a manager. We discuss his years at the club from the disaster of relegation to the triumph of winning the F.A. Cup in successive years, and the UEFA Cup success in his final year in charge at White Hart Lane. We look at his style of play and include profiles of the players who made their mark in his team of all talents. The book is written in a conversational style. All in all, it offers a fascinating glimpse into ‘Keith Burkinshaw’s Spurs,’ and the legacy he left at the club. Easier read for small devices like mobile phones RE-EDITED December 2021
Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays, spanning more than 15 countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation and exploitation of dancers and dance activity by government and authoritative groups, including abusive treatment of dancers within the dance profession; choreography involving human rights as a central theme; the engagement of dance as a means of healing victims of human rights abuses; and national and local social/political movements in which dance plays a powerful role in helping people fight oppression. These groundbreaking papers--both detailed scholarship and riveting personal accounts--encompass a broad spectrum of issues, from slavery and the Holocaust to the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; from First Amendment cases and the AIDS epidemic to discrimination resulting from age, gender, race, and disability. A range of academics, choreographers, dancers, and dance/movement therapists draw connections between refugee camp, courtroom, theater, rehearsal studio, and university classroom.
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.
Justice Served
This story is about a young girl who had to grow up quick and fast living in the safe and comfortable arms of a loving family not knowing of the horrors out in the world. Chrystal had to learn to love and trust again after she had been lied and cheated on and made to feel that she was nothing. Chrystal would find out that she had angels watching over her and there was always a reason for her horrible situations but she would pay a terrible price to learn. My name is Janette A Rucker and one night in my deepest hour I sat down and started writing and I haven’t been able to stop and this is my very first book. Writing makes me happy and I want to share my joy with all of you and I hope this book and the others brings a smile to your face and that the message I put there about my God will touch somebody’s heart but like I always say I try to keep it real when I tell a story. So hopefully you will enjoy this book and the others I have written and the more to come. God bless you all JAR.
The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room
"Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels," declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen novels and novellas, as well as first-person essays, generous helpings of poetry, journalism, and a new interview with the author. The broad contours of an episodic output emerge—a full-length view of the freaks and freakish incidents that populate Gifford’s unique human comedy. A world, as Lula, the author’s favorite of all his characters, reflects, "wild at heart and weird on top." The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room provides essential reading for anyone after the soul of American writing.
Sylacauga
The Shawnee Indians would be surprised to find the name that they gave the area in 1748--Chalakagay--remains much the same; however, the area has changed quite a bit. New ideas surfaced with the building of the plank road that supported rumbling horse-drawn stage coaches through the "old town" and again in recent times when a piece of marble became the Falling Star sculpture, a memorial to the local 1954 meteorite. Around 1820, Dr. Edward Gantt discovered marble in what would become Gantts Quarry while on military duty with Gen. Andrew Jackson. The pioneering spirit of early settlers continued with the planting of cotton and the development of small businesses. The arrival in 1886 and 1887 o...
