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Former lightweight champion and acclaimed biographer Jose Torres has written this first, full-scale portrait of boxing's most explosive, intriguing and dominating champion--Mike Tyson. 16-page photo insert.
Writers have long been attracted to boxing. Hemingway, Mailer, Algren, Plimpton, Oates, and many others have stepped into the ring?at least in spirit?to give voice to an otherwise wordless sport, to celebrate that ?sweet science,? and to bear witness to its romance and tragedy. In this acclaimed book, hailed by Norman Mailer as an ?impressive event,? we are brought for the first time into the ring for a close-up look at the ?manly art? through the eyes of Josä Torres, a man who was a great boxer himself. When former light-heavyweight world champion Torres traded in his gloves for a typewriter, boxing finally found its eyewitness. In the classic Sting Like a Bee, Torres turns his well-trained eye on one of the most celebrated and controversial athletes of all time: Muhammad Ali. In this penetrating view of Ali and the world of prizefighting, told by a true insider and ?boxing?s Renaissance man,? Torres delivers exciting and explicit accounts of all of Ali?s major fights with the cool authenticity of one who has lived it.
An earnest yet unsettling account of frontline emergency healthcare in the US today from the point of view of one long-term participant, a nurse practitioner. Honesty and agony jump off the page, as the author closely chronicles the transformation of healthcare from a helping profession, to just one more profit-driven business. The evidence: the telltale record of a healthcare professional's experience working in a pressured environment, where, increasingly, patients have unreasonable expectations-encapsulated in the phrase 'exaggerated unrealistic emotional expectations.' The Customer is NEVER Right is a testament of one man's struggle to maintain his integrity and his job, and ultimately, failing, at least in terms of the job. A great deal of effort, thought, and emotion was poured into this work, pointing out the serious problems between healthcare administrations and the status of healthcare. This work is a useful contribution to the current healthcare debate going on at many levels in our great country.
An explosive and shocking biography of Jose Mourinho – revealing the dark side of 'the special one'.
This book serves as a comprehensive introductory guide to the practical aspects of risk assessment. Chapters include clearly defined objectives and summaries. The book includes: hazard identification, dose-response, exposure assessment, risk characterization, chemical mixtures, epidemiology, emerging issues and global perspectives with accessible language. The book concludes with a set of hypothetical case studies. Toxicological Risk Assessment for Beginners aims not to create an expert, but rather to provide readers with their first understanding of the risk assessment topic. This book was designed with the student in mind. We simplify a complex process for beginners and balance theory with practical aspects, but remain fluid enough to increase difficulty with case studies. By incorporating an action based, step by step approach to learning the risk assessment process, this book provides its readers with an elementary understanding of how the risk assessment process is initiated, developed and finished, making it a valuable guide for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early career scientists in industry.
I Want To Learn English is a phonics based, beginner level textbook for Adult and Adolescent School English Language Learners. It was developed to enhance the English learning experience using phonics lessons side by side with grammar components, contextual activities, grammar deep dives, reading comprehension and comprehensive, real-world conversations. With over eight years in publication, five years of trials and thousands of students sampled prior to its release, "I Want To Learn English" has proven to be one of the most effective English learning tools for English language programs, Refugee resettlement centers, individual students and English language learners who want to understand En...
Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn - he's Puerto Rican, she's white. Barely out of childhood themselves, their love is a serious, dangerous thing. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to forge his own way in the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and incredibly powerful.
Meticulously researched, this is a fascinating and unique guide to history of the Holy Grail.
A collection of twenty pieces written by some of the most important Puerto Rican writers as well as several provocative new authors. Selections range from poignant autobiographical recollections to painful memories of a childhood that is neither here nor there; of questions of identity, conflicted loyalties, language and culture. It explores the youthful passion, love, anguish, and shared experiences involved in growing up Puerto Rican in America.