The Glory Game
Title | The Glory Game PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter Davies |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2011-04-22 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1780570112 |
When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published. Hunter Davies was, and still is, the only author ever to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a top-level football team (Tottenham Hotspur) and his pen spared nothing and no one. 'His accuracy is sufficiently uncanny to be embarrassing,' wrote Bob Wilson in the New Statesman. 'Brilliant, vicious, unmerciful,' wrote The Sun. Davies spent a whole season with the team, training with them, visiting the players' homes and witnessing the dressing-room confrontations. In the modern era of painstaking media management and tight security, no sportswriter will ever again be granted such unprecedented access. While some features of the game have changed beyond all recognition - notably the all-consuming role that money now plays - inside every club the dramas and tensions revealed by Davies remain, making the book a timeless classic and securing its position as one of the best books about football ever written.
Glory-Hunter
Title | Glory-Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick F. Van De Water |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1988-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803296077 |
"All his life, he rode after Glory," writers Frederic F. Van de Water of George Armstrong Custer. Ironically, he found it at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In his introduction to this edition, Paul Andrew Hutton considers the importance of Glory-Hunter, which appeared in 1934 as the first biography to depict Custer in unheroic terms.
Supernatural Horizons from Glory to Glory
Title | Supernatural Horizons from Glory to Glory PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Hunter |
Publisher | Hunter Publishing (NJ) |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780917726521 |
The Coming of the Glory
Title | The Coming of the Glory PDF eBook |
Author | Eileen Maddocks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2020-04-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781732451186 |
The opening chapters of the book of Genesis hint at the challenges our species will face. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil symbolizes materialism, and the tree of life the Word of God. Its detail rich pages, and multifaceted allegories, history, hymns and stories, reveal a succession of Divine Messengers right down to the present day
Glory Hunter
Title | Glory Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Brigham D. Madsen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781607811541 |
This biography follows the life of a poor Irish immigrant who joined the U.S. Army in 1839 at age nineteen and spent a half century as both a military leader West and a miner in the West.
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
Title | The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting PDF eBook |
Author | Evanna Lynch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-06-23 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781472283054 |
'Raw, frank and utterly heartfelt, but full of love and joy too, one of the most moving and uplifting memoirs I've ever read.' Daisy Buchanan 'Evanna's account of overcoming an eating disorder gives an unsparing insight into the mental health system, and the journey to true recovery. A beautifully courageous and honest memoir.' Bonnie Wright 'As well as charting her adolescent battle with anorexia, it offers a darkly compelling, highly topical account of journeying from girlhood to womanhood in the spotlight of global celebrity.' The Mail on Sunday 'A raw and powerful memoir, it shares lessons banishing self-hatred.' The Sunday Telegraph 'Gradually, I began to feel this dawning awareness that womanhood was coming for me, that it was looming inevitably, and it didn't feel safe...' Evanna Lynch has long been viewed as a role model for people recovering from anorexia and the story of her casting as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films has reached almost mythic proportions. Here, in her fascinating new memoir, Evanna confronts all the complexities and contradictions within herself and reveals how she overcame a life-threatening eating disorder, began to conquer her self-hate and confronted her fear of leaving the neatness and safety of girlhood for the unpredictable journey of being a woman, all in the glare of the spotlight of international fame. Delving into the very heart of a woman's relationship with her own body, Evanna explores the pivotal moments and choices in her life that led her down the path of creativity and dreaming and away from the empty pursuit of perfection, and reaches towards acceptance of the wild, sensual and unpredictable reality of womanhood. This is a story of the tragedy and the glory of growing up, of mourning girlhood and stepping into the unknown, and how that act of courage is the most magical and creatively liberating thing a woman can do.
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
Title | The Animal in Ottoman Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Mikhail |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199315272 |
Animals in rural Egypt became enmeshed in social relationships and made possible many tasks otherwise impossible. Rather than focus on what animals represented or symbolized, Mikhail discusses their social and economic functions, as Ottoman Egypt cannot be understood without acknowledging animals as central shapers of the early modern world.