Mcfarland: 2486 books
by Joseph Migga Kizza
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
In its 4th edition, this book remains focused on increasing public awareness of the nature and motives of cyber vandalism and cybercriminals, the weaknesses inherent in cyberspace infrastructure, and the means available to protect ourselves and our society. This new edition aims to integrate security...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
A major problem confronting the United States in the 21st century is the 20th century’s legacy of toxic waste. The weapons that fought the Cold War, the facilities that manufactured those weapons, and the factories that fueled a prosperous economy left behind a trail of pollution. Seven previously...
Meyer London
A Biography of the Socialist New York Congressman, 1871-1926
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Meyer London (1871–1926), a Russian Jewish immigrant, settled in New York’s Lower East Side in 1891. He became a lawyer, labor activist, founding member of the Socialist Party of America, and a three term Congressman who advocated peaceful methods and refused to take rigid doctrinal positions....
by Lew Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This the story of the seven baseball-playing Boyer brothers from western Missouri who signed professional contracts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Led by oldest brother Cloyd, a pitcher, third baseman Ken and third baseman Clete, three of the seven brothers reached the majors. This book recounts their...
George Altman
My Baseball Journey from the Negro Leagues to the Majors and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
George Altman grew up in the segregated South but was able to participate in the sport at more levels of competition than perhaps anyone else who has ever played the game, from the 1940s to the 1970s. Altman played baseball at all the kids’ levels, played college baseball at Tennessee State, played...
Living and Loving Better with Time Perspective Therapy
Healing from the Past, Embracing the Present, Creating an Ideal Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
In his 2012 book Time Cure, psychologist Philip Zimbardo introduced a groundbreaking therapeutic approach for PTSD sufferers, co-developed with Rosemary Sword. “Time Perspective Therapy” shifts mental focus from the past to the present, and from negative to positive events, helping anyone achieve...
Sports Sponsorship
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
This book focuses on how the sponsorship of sports works: the costs, the goals, evaluation and selection of the property a sponsor chooses, how to activate a sponsorship, how to create a brand association, public relations and brand image possibilities. Anything is possible in a sponsorship, it is...
by Chris Cozzone, Jim Boggio
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
On June 28, 1868, a group of men gathered alongside a road 35 miles north of Albuquerque to witness a 165-round, 6-hour bare-knuckle brawl between well-known Colorado pugilist Barney Duffy and “Jack,” an unidentified fighter who died of his injuries. Thought to be the first “official” prizefight...
Ringside
Interviews with 24 Fighters and Boxing Insiders
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Twenty-four exclusive interviews with boxing insiders feature the recollections and perspectives of champions, trainers, promoters and officials, as well as those who work behind the scenes. Interviewees include ring legends “Sugar” Ray Leonard, Leon Spinks and Roy Jones, Jr., trainer Angelo Dundee,...
Gold Thunder
Autobiography of a NASCAR Champion
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Chevrolet fans were wishing for a hero and Rex White made their dreams come true. He took on big muscle cars and eventually won both the 1960 Winston Cup Championship and the Driver of the Year title and was selected as one of NASCAR’s Top Fifty Driving Champions. This autobiography is the story...
Bushers
Ballplayers Drawn from Left Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Fifty fictional legendary baseball players and their illustrated biographies. Bushers takes a whimsical look at the Deadball Era, long before free agency, luxury boxes and enormous salaries. It‘s a wild collection of baseball’s greatest goofballs, wannabes, could’ve-beens and never-wases, hailing...
Bicycles in American Highway Planning
The Critical Years of Policy-Making, 1969-1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
The United States differs from other developed nations in the extent to which its national bicycle transportation policy relies on the use of unmodified roadways, with cyclists obeying the same traffic regulations as motor vehicles. This policy—known as “vehicular cycling”—evolved between...
The Tecumsehs of the International Association
Canada's First Major League Baseball Champions
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an 1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball. The Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, were among the founding members of the International Association in 1877, the first league established to challenge the struggling National...
Coaching Myths
Fifteen Wrong Ideas in Youth Sports
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Unlike the generations of coaches that have gone before them, today’s coaches are expected not only to teach motor skills to young athletes but to do so in an environment that is conducive to the ethical, emotional, social and physical well-being of each one of them. Each of the 15 chapters of this...