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Billyball

Billy Martin, talented, opinionated, hotheaded, and winning player and manager recollects his days in baseball, with anecdotes about players, games, and club owners.

Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of a Terrorist

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Osama bin Laden is still a vivid symbol of outrage and tragedy in the American imagination. One of the most-recognized faces of terror, bin Laden has presented himself to the world as a paragon of ascetic virtue. Journalist Adam Robinson tells a far different story. This authoritative biography lifts bin Laden's mask of moral purity as it recounts his transformation from dissolute rich kid into terrorist mastermind. Drawing on information from members of bin Laden's own family and extensive independent research in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Oman, Libya, and Pakistan, Robinson opens a window into the man who changed the face of global politics.

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 1903 - 1940

From 1934 to 1954, Bing Crosby utterly dominated North American entertainment. Nobody has ever had as many hit records, and Crosby was the number one movie star five years in a row. The rise of Bing Crosby was the rise of North American popular culture itself. In Bing Crosby, the first volume of the definitive Crosby biography, award-winning music critic Gary Giddins chronicles the ascension of Bing's career. From Crosby's early recordings, to his triumph on Americas most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Giddins provides the most detailed study yet of the rise of a North American star. This is the first definitive biography of Crosby and was written with exclusive access to unpublished materials. Giddins Visions of Jazz won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award. Bing Crosby was the first North American pop culture icon, and his career heavily influenced Sinatra and Elvis, as well as popular music itself.

Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946

"The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark days of the Second World War, he was a desperate nation's most beloved entertainer. But he was more than just a charismatic crooner: Bing Crosby redefined the very foundations of modern music, from the way it was recorded to the way it was orchestrated and performed. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the universally acclaimed first volume, NBCC Winner and preeminent cultural critic Gary Giddins now focuses on Crosby's most memorable period, the war years and the origin story of White Christmas. Set against the backdrop of a Europe on the brink of collapse, this groundbreaking work traces Crosby's skyrocketing career as he fully inhabits a new era of American entertainment and culture. While he would go on to reshape both popular music and cinema more comprehensively than any other artist, Crosby's legacy would be forever intertwined with his impact on the home front, a unifying voice for a nation at war. Over a decade in the making and drawing on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to numerous archives, Giddins brings Bing Crosby, his work, and his world to vivid life--firmly reclaiming Crosby's central role in American cultural history.

Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra

Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront. Ella was beloved in her time, and she is still beloved. Frank is still the king of the songbook, but Bing's legacy is just as vital once you start listening to his unprecedented 1930s output. The best songs from Judy's greatest triumph, her 1963–64 TV series, are shared endlessly online. The legend of Billie grows by the year, and the basis of this should be appreciation and wonder for her own great artistry in the 1930s. Barbra is a living legend and still a commercial force to be reckoned with, the last exemplar of the songbook and its glories. All six of these singers reach out to us and show us new ways of expression and new ways to dream.Their song is largely ended but the melody lingers on.

Binge

For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the internet, Tyler Oakley has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: he experienced a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; he had a fashion stand-off with the White House secret service; he crashed a car in front of his entire high school in his fast food restaurant server's uniform; he projectile vomited while bartering with a grandmother. With millions of fans clamouring for more Tyler Oakley, he delivers his best untold, hilariously side-splitting moments with trademark flair in Binge.

Binge

Pop-culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you Binge, his New York Times bestselling collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays.For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: experiencing a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; negotiating a tense stand­off with a White House official; crashing a car in front of his entire high school, in an Arby’s uniform; projectile vomiting while bartering with a grandmother; and so much more. In Binge, Tyler delivers his best untold, hilariously side-splitting moments with the trademark flair that made him a star.

Bingo!

Observaciones, pensamientos e ideas a propósito de los números, desde el 00 al 99. Sucesos históricos, supersticiones, la actualidad, la política, el mundo. Originalmente publicados en forma semanal en las revistas Veintidós y Veintitrés. Al principio fue un desafío: «Ahora que cumplimos 69 números, a que no te atrevés a escribir una columna sobre el número 69», le dijo el editor de Veintitrés, la revista donde entonces escribía. Caparrós lo hizo, por supuesto, y después pensó que por qué no el 70 y el 71 y el 72 y así de seguido, hasta llenar el álbum de las cifras de dos dígitos. Escritos al calor del nuevo milenio, los cien ensayos breves de este libro terminan siendo tan imprevisibles como un dado lanzado al azar. Del 00 al 99, esta especie de cábala de temas urgentes, argentinos o mundiales, políticos, sociales, filosóficos es quizás el libro más original de Martín Caparrós, el que lo elevó a la categoría de gran contador de historias. Críticas:«Caparrós construye una serie heterogénea en temas y saberes, y halla en su plan numérico tanto la sujeción que las reminiscencias insalvables de algunas cifras le imponen como la libertad para referir el hallazgo de cualquier cosa que otras le permiten».Patricio Lennard, Radar, Página/12 «Caparrós es una manera de ver y entender el mundo».Carles Geli, Babelia«Martín Caparrós, uno de los más geniales cronistas contemporáneos, depura de manera exquisita, emocionada, vibrante y distanciada una prosa de un poderío narrativo excepcional».Fernando R. Lafuente, ABC Cultural «Un perturbador sistemático, un sembrador de dudas».Francesca Lazzarato, Il Manifesto«Su prosa y su mirada son un reactivo fuerte para almas sensibles o amigas de lo políticamente correcto».Leila Guerriero, El País «Convence tanto como seduce».Edmundo Paz Soldán, La Tercera

Bio-pics: A Life in Pictures (Short Cuts)

Bio-pics: A Life in Pictures offers a series of case studies which throw light on this most unique of genres. Is the bio-pic a genre in its own right? Or are such films merely footnotes in other more traditional genres such as the western or costume drama, depending on the historical figure under scrutiny. Unlike other genre forms bio-pics seemingly share no familiar iconography, codes or conventions. They can be set anywhere and at any time. What links them is quite simply that the films depict the life of an 'important' person. Through a carefully selected range of thematically linked (English-language) bio-pics released since 1990 this book explores key issues surrounding their resurgence, narrative structure, production, subject representation or misrepresentation, and critical response. The films under discussion are grouped around a profession (writers, singers, politicians, sportsmen, criminals, artists) allowing for comparisons to be drawn in approaches to similar subject matter.

Biofiction: An Introduction

Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines comprehensive coverage of the core foundations of biofiction with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. The volume aims to confront and illuminate the following questions: • When did biofiction come into being? • What forces gave birth to it? • How does it uniquely function and signify? • Why has it become such a dominant aesthetic form in recent years? This introduction will give readers a framework for evaluating specific biofictions from writers as varied as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Moore, Zora Neale Hurston, William Styron, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colm Tóibín, thus enabling readers to assess the value and impact of individual works on the culture at large. Spanning nineteenth-century origins to contemporary debates and adaptations, this book not only equips the reader with a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biofiction but also provides a valuable guide to the uncanny power of the biographical novel to transform cultural attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs.

Biografie und Lebenswelt: Perspektiven einer Kritischen Sozialen Arbeit (Perspektiven kritischer Sozialer Arbeit #20)

Biografie und Lebenswelt gelten als zentrale Fachbegriffe innerhalb der Sozialen Arbeit, die gleichermaßen für Theorie, Praxis und Forschung bedeutsam sind. In theoretischer und empirischer Weise werden in dem Sammelband die theoretischen Zugänge zu Biografie und Lebenswelt in unterschiedlichen Positionierungen hinsichtlich ihres Potentials für eine Kritische Soziale Arbeit diskutiert und aufgeschlossen. Weitere Fragen in diesem Spektrum lauten: In welcher Weise haben unterschiedliche und möglicherweise auch konkurrierende Perspektiven auf Lebenswelt und Biografie (oftmals unreflektiert) Einfluss auf die Rekonstruktion sozialer Wirklichkeiten? Wie kann Forschung - als ein machtvoller intersubjektiver Prozess - betrachtet werden - und wie können hierbei auch die selbsterzeugten Blindstellen Sozialer Arbeit in den Fokus genommen werden?

Biografía De Elon Musk

Tienes en tus manos una biografía amena y fácil de leer sobre una de las personas más importantes hoy en día en el mundo empresarial: Elon Musk, cofundador de empresas como PayPal, SpaceX o Tesla Motors.

Biografía de Clint Eastwood

Aunque es uno de los rostros más conocidos de nuestra época, Clint Eastwood nunca se ha desprendido de una cierta aura de misterio, sobre todo en lo que a su pasado se refiere. Ahora, Patrick McGilligan, uno de los más respetados biógrafos del mundo del cine, nos ofrece un retrato de cuerpo entero del gran cineasta, un retrato donde por primera vez se descubre al hombre que hay tras la máscara cinematográfica.A través de documentos, manuscritops inéditos y archivos, entrevistas con amigos, familiares y socios que nunca antes habían hablado, el autor nos propone un exhaustivo viaje biográfico a través de los claroscuros de una vida intensa, febril y en agunos momentos inquietante. En este libro ameno y riguroso a un tiempo, asistimos a la lenta metamorfosis de un joven actor de películas de acción que ha acabado por convertirse en uno de los cineastas más premiados y admirados de nuestro tiempo. Y por supuesto, su vida íntima queda también reflejada en estas páginas, sobre todo sus atormentadas relaciones sentimentales y su recurrente paternidad ilegítima.Estamos, en definitiva, ante una de las mejores biografías que se han escrito en los últimos tiempos, un libro iluminador, valiente y polémico.«La mejor y más admirable contribución a la clintología.»Financial Times

Biografía de mi cáncer

Cuando toqué el bultito en la teta derecha no pensé nada, pero pedí turno con la ginecóloga. Después de varios exámenes muy tranquilizadores, la doctora me dio a elegir y decidí sacarlo inmediatamente. Esa elección me salvó la vida: el bultito era un cáncer agresivo. Tenía 33 años, había tenido siempre un cuerpo muy fuerte y la biopsia decía que me esperaban unos cuantos rounds con la muerte. No dudé: iba a dar esa pelea. En los meses que siguieron hice quimioterapia, psicoanálisis, una ecléctica medicina alternativa, rayos y natación. Tuve pruebas del amor y del miedo de los demás. Tuve que firmar papeles aceptando que el remedio podía matarme. Tuve que decir que no. Aprendí que en la pelea el otro, el cáncer, también golpeaba. Diez meses después de haber palpado el bultito estaba pelada, flaca, sin cejas, débil. Pero los análisis estaban limpios. Tres años más tarde, recuperados la melena, los colores, las fuerzas y los kilos, no puedo arriesgar ninguna moraleja. Los exámenes siguen dando bien y, como un desafío, me pregunto qué gané y qué perdí después de esa experiencia.

Biografía no autorizada de 1910

Los festejos por el Centenario de la Patria han convertido a 1910 en uno de los años más extraordinarios de nuestro pasado. Daniel Balmaceda se sumerge en aquel año para contarnos cómo fue el nacimiento de los taxímetros, las ambulancias, los molinetes, y hasta de un aparato para establecer si un determinado amor será correspondido.

Biografías de 6 Hombres de Negocios: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, and Jack Ma

En el interior del libro Biografías de 6 Hombres de Negocios, usted aprenderá los secretos de los principales hombres de negocios y cómo alcanzaron el éxito. ¿Alguna vez se ha preguntado qué separa a un emprendedor exitoso de uno no exitoso? Muchas personas se han preguntado exactamente la misma pregunta una y otra vez. A diferencia de la explicación absurda de “se siente bien”, compilamos la información de aplicación para que usted la pueda implementar de inmediato. Al aplicar las lecciones en este libro, su negocio y vida personal serán mejores. Mejor aún, cada empresario estudiado en este libro está en actividad al presente. Podemos ver alrededor y ver el impacto de estos empresarios en nuestras vidas diarias. La magnitud combinada de Jeff Bezos,Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Richard Branson y Jack Ma no puede ser subestimada. Han moldeado mucho del mundo en el que vivimos hoy. Las biografías son una de las mejores formas de entrar en la piel de una persona altamente funcional y entender cómo opera. ¿Por qué pasar años forjando su propio camino cuando puede seguir un mapa garantizado? Estos 6 libros vienen en un paquete especial que los incluye en un solo libro. Con la variedad de empresarios estudiados, usted puede volver a revisar este libro para lecciones críticas. Mejor aún, puede aprender las lecciones y hábitos traslapados que estos 6 empresarios tienen en común. Descubra cómo puede aplicar las lecciones de los mejores empresarios del mundo, hoy.

Biografías de grandes cristianos

Ellos debían realizar algo que desafiaba todo su coraje. Debían ganar una batalla que habría de minar las fuerzas de los más osados. Sin embargo, ellos aceptaron el desafío.. Editorial Vida, presenta en esta edición de "Biografías de Grandes Cristianos" en forma breve, las biografías simplificadas de algunos de los más destacados personajes de la Iglesia de Cristo, del siglo pasado y principios del presente. Muchos se preguntan a qué se puede atribuir el increíble éxito de siervos de Dios como Lutero, Bunyan, Wesley, Whitefield, Finney, Carey, Judson, y tantos otros. Ciertamente ni a sus talentos ni a su fuerza de voluntad. El verdadero misterio de la grandeza de los grandes cristianos ha sido, y es, la oración. Para aquellos que andan con Dios en oración, como anduvieron ellos, no hay en esto ningún misterio. Y para todos, la vida de esos hombres tiene mucho de atrayente; sus biografías nos inspiran y nos demuestran que la victoria del cristiano depende de la oración.

Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women

This comprehensive reference guide to women who have served in Congress provides detailed biographies of each of the 200 women who have held office on Capitol Hill over the past 80 years.

Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes (Studies in Atlantic Canada History)

This important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives. Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written history. The individuals mentioned come from various points of origin, including Africa, the West Indies, the Carolinas, the Chesapeake, and the northern states, showcasing the remarkable range of the Black experience in the Atlantic world. Whitfield makes it clear that these enslaved Black people had likes, dislikes, distinct personality traits, and different levels of physical, spiritual, and intellectual talent. Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes affirms the notion that they were all unique individuals, despite the efforts of their owners and the wider Atlantic world to dehumanize and erase them.

Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers

A hefty dictionary of over 1,000 entries featuring brief biographies of the lives and work of influential philosophers during the 20th century. The editors have also included thinkers who perhaps would not be strictly considered "philosopher," but have nonetheless made important intellectual contributions (Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, C.G. Jung, Julia Kristeva, Max Weber). Besides the comprehensive and consistent scope of the dictionary, the volume also features a bibliography for each entry, a glossary containing short accounts of the origins, development and features of the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy, and cross referenced indices. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Biographical Memoirs: Volume 74

Memoirs of histories more distinguished figures

Biographical Memoirs: Volume 91

Biographical Memoirs is a series of essays containing the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences. The series provides a record of the life and work of some of the most distinguished leaders in the sciences, as witnessed and interpreted by their colleagues and peers. They form a biographical history of science in America--an important part of our nation's contribution to the intellectual heritage of the world.

Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing)

This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bront#65533;, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.

Biographies Of The American Revolution: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Paul Jones, and More (Impact On America: Collective Biographies)

A captivating series that surveys the lives of the political figures and social revolutionaries who shaped early U.S. history includes vibrant images depicting memorable events and individuals, a glossary, explanations of key terms and ideas, and relevant websites and organizations to consult for further reference.

Biographies of Working Men