Left Hooks, Right Crosses

Left Hooks, Right Crosses
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Publisher : Nation Books
Total Pages : 401
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1560254092
ISBN-13 : 9781560254096
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Left Hooks, Right Crosses by : Christopher Caldwell

In an incisive and thought-provoking debate, journalists--representing the left, and the right--duke it out over a host of issues facing the nation today--with contributions by Thomas Fleming, Susan Sontage, William Monahan, Tony Kushner, Kenneth Anderson, Nat Hentoff, David Brooks, Edward Said, Peter Collier,, and James Weinstein, among others. Original.

"Yeah" "This Is New Orleans"

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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 232
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780595239467
ISBN-13 : 0595239463
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis "Yeah" "This Is New Orleans" by : Joeseph Lore

Adventures set in New Orleans. As a teenager, Vince loved his girlfriend when she was a teenager and a mature woman.

Beloved Warrior

Beloved Warrior
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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages : 274
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781597977098
ISBN-13 : 1597977098
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Beloved Warrior by : Christian Giudice

An iconic figure—a shining light

Bruce Lee The Art of Expressing the Human Body

Bruce Lee The Art of Expressing the Human Body
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages : 257
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781462917891
ISBN-13 : 1462917895
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Bruce Lee The Art of Expressing the Human Body by : Bruce Lee

Learn the secrets to obtaining Bruce Lee's astounding physique with this insightful martial arts training book. The Art of Expressing the Human Body, a title coined by Bruce Lee himself to describe his approach to martial arts, documents the techniques he used so effectively to perfect his body for superior health and muscularity. Beyond his martial arts and acting abilities, Lee's physical appearance and strength were truly astounding. He achieved this through an intensive and ever-evolving conditioning regime that is being revealed for the first time in this book. Drawing on Lee's own notes, letters, diaries and training logs, Bruce Lee historian John Little presents the full extent of Lee's unique training methods including nutrition, aerobics, isometrics, stretching and weight training. In addition to serving as a record of Bruce Lee's own training, The Art of Expressing the Human Body, with its easy-to-understand and simple-to-follow training routines, is a valuable source book for those who seek dramatic improvement in their health, conditioning, physical fitness, and appearance. This Bruce Lee Book is part of the Bruce Lee Library which also features: Bruce Lee: Striking Thoughts Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon Bruce Lee: The Tao of Gung Fu Bruce Lee: Artist of Life Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon Bruce Lee: Jeet Kune Do

Matthew Saad Muhammad

Matthew Saad Muhammad
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 220
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781476648767
ISBN-13 : 147664876X
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Matthew Saad Muhammad by : William Dettloff

Abandoned on the streets of Philadelphia at age four, Matthew Saad Muhammad (1954-2014) survived orphanages, street gangs and prison to become one of the most exciting prizefighters of boxing's Golden Age of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Time and again he battled back from the brink of defeat to win against the best fighters of the era. His victory over Marvin Johnson for the WBC Light Heavyweight Championship was described by one veteran boxing writer as the only fight he covered where it seemed both fighters might die. He fought not just for wealth and fame but to discover his identity--he had no idea who he was, where came from or what happened to his parents. This book reveals the full story of "Miracle Matthew" and how he became one of Philadelphia's great ring legends.

My Story

My Story
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 317
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780141965253
ISBN-13 : 0141965258
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis My Story by : Bernard Dunne

Bernard Dunne boxed for the first time at the age of 6. Twenty-three years later, in an electrifying performance at the O2 arena in Dublin, he stopped the brilliant Ricardo Cordoba to take the WBA World Super Bantamweight belt. The path from the gym in west Dublin to the world title was often a rocky one. Here, for the first time, Bernard Dunne tells his own amazing story. It begins in Neilstown, where boxing ran in the family. In his amateur career, Bernard never lost to an Irish fighter; but he narrowly missed out on the 2000 Olympics, and rather than spend another four years as an amateur in search of Olympic glory he decided to go pro. Going pro meant going to California, and, under the tutelage of Sugar Ray Leonard and Freddie Roach, California became a land of dreams for Bernard. Twelve of his fourteen professional fights in America were televised nationally, and he was working towards a title fight. But he missed home, missed his family. He wanted it all: he wanted to win a world title, and he wanted to do it in Ireland. The way he went about doing that has made Bernard Dunne an Irish national treasure. After winning a European belt, he was defeated by Kiko Martinez; but he bounced back with courage and brilliance to win the WBA super bantamweight belt from Cordoba in front of a delirious crowd at the O2 arena. Rather than rest on his laurels, as many champions in his position would do, Bernard accepted the toughest challenge of all: from a slab of granite named Poonsawat. He lost the belt, but his courage and dignity in defeat were heroic. Now, Bernard tells the full story of his life and boxing career - a story full of surprises. It will thrill all his old fans and win him new ones.

The Vintage Book of American Women Writers

The Vintage Book of American Women Writers
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 850
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781400034451
ISBN-13 : 1400034450
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Vintage Book of American Women Writers by : Elaine Showalter

For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history. That injustice is corrected in this entertaining and provocative collection of 350 years of poetry and fiction by American women. From Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet to Margaret Fuller to Harriet Beecher Stowe, readers will encounter scores of lesser-known and forgotten writers who fully deserve to be rediscovered and enjoyed by new generations. Our famous women writers, including contemporary stars like Annie Proux and Jhumpa Lahiri, are showcased in their full literary context, offering an epic overview of the canon in one monumental, dazzling volume. This landmark anthology features the best work of our best American women, and was inspired and informed by the author's groundbreaking history celebrating women writers, A Jury of Her Peers.

Body & Soul

Body & Soul
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199726417
ISBN-13 : 0199726418
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Body & Soul by : Lo?c Wacquant

When French sociologist Lo"ic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. He learned the Sweet science of bruising, participating in all phases of the pugilist's strenuous preparation, from shadow-boxing drills to sparring to fighting in the Golden Gloves tournament. In this experimental ethnography of incandescent intensity, the scholar-turned-boxer fleshes out Pierre Bourdieu's signal concept of habitus, deepening our theoretical grasp of human practice. And he supplies a model for a "carnal sociology" capable of capturing "the taste and ache of action." Body & Soul marries the analytic rigor of the sociologist with the stylistic grace of the novelist to offer a compelling portrait of a bodily craft and of life and labor in the black American ghetto at century's end.

Body & Soul

Body & Soul
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780195305623
ISBN-13 : 0195305620
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Body & Soul by : Loïc J. D. Wacquant

In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers.