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Bored Gay Werewolf: An Ungodly Joy Attitude Magazine
by Tony SantorellaJuno Dawson's Her Majesty's Royal Coven meets a Jim Jarmusch movie. A directionless college-dropout deals with sexuality, minimum-wage jobs, lunar cycles, toxic masculinity and the everyday perils of life as a modern werewolf. Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about with his friends Nik and Darby. He's been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really, he is not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his recent murderous slip-ups have caught the attention of Tyler, a Millennial were-mentor determined to take the mythological world by storm. Tyler has got a plan, and weirdly his self-help punditry actually encourages Brian to shape up and to stop accidentally marking out guys who ghosted him on Grindr as potential monthly victims. But as Brian gets closer to Tyler's pack, and alienated from Nik and Darby, he realizes that Tyler's expansion plans are much more nefarious than a little lupine enlightenment... Big-hearted, goofy, anarchic and funny, Bored Gay Werewolf is a smart take on the doomsday logic of late capitalism and the complicated meeting point of masculinity and sexuality. More than that, though, and like Scooby Doo with Grindr or Stranger Things with sex and ennui, it's a buddy novel about finding your pack, the power of friendship, and learning how to be comfortable in your own, shaggy werewolf pelt.
Boredom (Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses)
by Elena CarreraThis Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. It discusses the changing perspectives on boredom within psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 100 years. It also analyzes visual and textual material from France, Germany, Britain, Argentina and Spain, which illustrates the kinds of social situations, people and interactions that have been considered tedious or boring in the past five centuries. Examining the multidirectional ways in which words like ennuyeux, 'tedious', langweilig, aburrido and 'boring' have been transferred between different cultural contexts (to denote a range of interrelated feelings that include displeasure, unease and annoyance), it demonstrates how the terms, concepts and categories through which individuals have experienced their states of mind are not simply culture-bound. They have also travelled across geographical and linguistic barriers, through translation, imitation and adaptation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors: A Lifelong Research by Dr. Augustin de la Peña
by Augustin de la PeñaThis book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Peña (1942-2021). It focuses on the experience of boredom—and other similar states, including ennui, melancholy, laziness, interest, attention, and entertainment—and its associated behaviors. Offering an interdisciplinary chronicle of boredom, from Antiquity to the present, special attention is paid to its daily experience as a ubiquitous phenomenon that informs cultural and political actions that continue to shape our society. Dr. de la Peña describes the obsolescence of the Western Commonsense View of Reality to propose a Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality, reconceptualizing boredom. The book theorizes the condition as both logical and emotional, an axis that has defined the sensibility of the modern era. This is a volume edited posthumously by Josefa Ros Velasco and Christian Parreno in homage to Augustin’s work and his invaluable contribution to the establishment of the field of boredom studies.
Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others: The Complete Plays (Vintage Classics)
by Alexander PushkinThe award-winning translators bring us the complete plays of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era.Known as the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin was celebrated for his dramas as well as his poetry and stories. His most famous play is Boris Godunov (later adapted into a popular opera by Mussorgsky), a tale of ambition and murder centered on the sixteenth-century Tsar who preceded the Romanovs. Pushkin was inspired by the example of Shakespeare to create this panoramic drama, with its richly varied cast of characters and artful blend of comic and tragic scenes. Pushkin&’s shorter forays into verse drama include The Water Nymph, A Scene from Faust, and the four brief plays known as the Little Tragedies: The Miserly Knight, set in medieval France; Mozart and Salieri, which inspired the popular film Amadeus; The Stone Guest, a tale of Don Juan in Madrid; and A Feast in a Time of Plague, in which a group of revelers defy quarantine in plague-ridden London. These new translations of the complete plays, from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, freshly reveal the range of Pushkin&’s enduring artistry.
Born Andromeda
by K. M. WattsShe was destined for a royal life—until galactic pirates changed the course of destiny. Being eighteen is difficult, especially when you're a cyborg and heir to the entire kingdom of the Moon. Disillusioned with royal life, Princess Andromeda dreams of nothing but freedom and adventure outside the protective dome of royalty. But when her parents arrange her marriage to an Earthen prince, she is forced to put her kingdom before her dreams of independence. While traveling to Earth, Andromeda's ship is attacked by galactic pirates led by her father's sworn enemy, the Lord Captain Bran. Taken prisoner, Andromeda realizes that her captors are unaware of her true identity and sees an opportunity: To best her enemies, she may have to join them.Born Andromeda, the action-packed debut from K.M. Watts, is perfect for fans of Aurora Rising, Daughter of the Pirate King, and Crown Chasers.
Born Extraordinary: Empowering Children with Differences and Disabilities
by Meg ZuckerA parent&’s guide to empowering children to embrace their visible and invisible differences Meg Zucker was born with one finger on each hand, shortened forearms, and one toe on each misshapen foot, caused by a genetic condition called ectrodactyly. She would eventually pass this condition on to her two sons, and, along with her husband, raise them and their adopted daughter, who has her own invisible differences. Born of the family&’s hard-won experiences, this book offers invaluable advice on raising confident, empathetic, and resilient children who succeed, not despite but because of their differences. Born Extraordinary helps parents of children with differences and disabilities to relinquish their instinctive anxieties, embrace their new normal, and ultimately find joy in watching their children thrive. Often the subjects of unwanted attention—ranging from pitying stares to bullying—Zucker and her sons have learned to ignore what others think and live fearlessly. Also incorporating the stories of other families with visible and invisible differences of all kinds, Born Extraordinary gives parents the tools to meet their children&’s emotional needs while supporting the whole family unit. Parents learn how best to empower their children to confront others&’ assumptions, grow in confidence, and encourage dialogue—rather than silence, fear, and shame—around difference.
Born Reading: 20 Stories of Women Reading Their Way into History
by Kathleen Krull Virginia Loh-HaganOnce books kick-start their brains, girls change history. Discover the foundation of reading that empowered some of the world’s most influential women in this informative and inspirational illustrated middle grade collection of twenty biographies. <p><p> What do Cleopatra, Audre Lorde, and Taylor Swift have in common? They’re all influential women who grew up doing one very important thing: reading. <p><p> This collection of short-form biographies tells the story of twenty groundbreaking women and how their childhood reading habits empowered them to change the world. From Cleopatra to Sally Ride to Amanda Gorman, the women featured in this collection are from all throughout history and all kinds of backgrounds. They are women who have and who continue to change the game in STEM, literature, politics, sports, and more. Most importantly, they are women who were born to read. <p><p> For some, reading was forbidden, but they taught themselves to read anyway. For some, reading was a struggle, but they practiced and grew to love it. For some, reading was an escape from difficult realities. For all, reading was empowering.
Born This Way
by Eve MortonJacob Matthews has gotten really sick of confessing his autobiography every time he meets someone new. Ever since coming out as a gay transgender man, Jacob feels as if no one really cares about who he is right now. Instead, they would much rather have access to his past and create another Lifetime movie out of it. The typical transgender narrative, Jacob notes, always ends in surgery or tragedy. It’s been two years since Jacob’s crossed the final marker to become who he is, and he’s running out of options of what to do next.The only way that Jacob can overcome his own backstory is by blending in. Every Tuesday Night, he heads out to the local gay club called Boy Division and watches gay men from the sidelines. But when Jacob hooks up with a stranger who understands him with just a simple look, Jacob soon realizes that blending into the walls no longer satisfies him.Jacob soon runs into his old friends at the LGBT community center, where he is forced to reconsider his life beyond rainbow colors and poppy disco beats. In group therapy, Jacob is confronted by the harsh realities of being transgender, hate crime violence, and the dwindling offers for his future. Just before Jacob leaves, his favorite doctor makes him a bet: if Jacob can find someone to connect to, then she will renew his testosterone prescription without question or qualm. She urges him to find some type of community, even if it’s not in the community center’s brightly painted walls.Jacob takes the bet, figuring he has nothing to lose but his happy ending that may -- or may not -- really exist. He becomes determined to find the mystery man from the club again, even if it means blowing his cover.
Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement
by Joanna WuestThe story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy. Across protests and courtrooms, LGBTQ+ advocates argue that sexual and gender identities are innate. Oppositely, conservatives incite panic over “groomers” and a contagious “gender ideology” that corrupts susceptible children. Yet, as this debate rages on, the history of what first compelled the hunt for homosexuality’s biological origin story may hold answers for the queer rights movement’s future. Born This Way tells the story of how a biologically based understanding of gender and sexuality became central to LGBTQ+ advocacy. Starting in the 1950s, activists sought out mental health experts to combat the pathologizing of homosexuality. As Joanna Wuest shows, these relationships were forged in subsequent decades alongside two broader, concurrent developments: the rise of an interest-group model of rights advocacy and an explosion of biogenetic and bio-based psychological research. The result is essential reading to fully understand LGBTQ+ activism today and how clashes over science remain crucial to equal rights struggles.
Born of Ice and Fire: How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution
by Graham ShieldsAn exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today&’s remarkable biodiversity More than half a billion years ago, our world was completely covered by glaciers, a &“Snowball Earth&” that persisted for millions of years. Incredibly, this unimaginable cold led to the remarkable diversification of life on earth known as the Cambrian explosion. With a geologist&’s eye and a knack for storytelling, Graham Shields explores when and how such inhospitable conditions enabled animals to evolve, radiate, and diversify into our earliest ancestors. This journey navigates the wild swings between hot and cold climates, oxygenation and asphyxiation, biological radiations and extinctions, asking how such instability relates to grander forces that brought our planet to its modern state. Shields guides readers through evidence found in the Australian outback, Mongolia, Scotland, and other locales, revealing how geologists can trace glaciation, the atmosphere, oceans, mountain building, and more through the earth&’s rocks, providing a comprehensive theory of how life evolved and diversified.
Born to Be Badger: A Witty Shifter Rom-Com (The Honey Badger Chronicles #5)
by Shelly LaurenstonAn Amazon Most Anticipated Book!&“Shelly Laurenston&’s shifter books are full of oddball characters, strong females with attitude and dialogue that can have you laughing out loud.&” —The Philadelphia InquirerThe Honey Badgers are at it again in the New York Times bestselling and outstandingly witty, snarky, sexy, shape-shifting, world-building Honey Badger Chronicles. This time around, a family of clueless tiger shifter brothers have no idea how lucky they are to have caught the eye of three fierce honey badger females. Emily &“Tock&” Meyerson-Jackson is on a mission to rid the world of shifters trafficking humans for hunting and cash. And now that she&’s narrowed down her suspects to a brutal coalition of male lions, nothing will get between this honey badger and her prey—not even a dog-loving Tiger with absolutely no time management skills. Doesn&’t matter that Shay Malone is ferociously adorable. With a war brewing between cat families, Tock doesn&’t have time to lounge around with a football-playing tiger shifter. But when she realizes the coalition is also responsible for the death of Shay&’s father, she&’s forced to partner up with the flirtatious feline. . . . Revenge is most definitely on the menu for Shay and his tiger shifter brothers. But when it comes to Shay&’s alluring partner in crime-solving, so is seduction. Tock might be a bad-ass of a honey badger, but she&’s awfully cute when she&’s flashing her fangs, which she&’s pretty much doing all the time these days. Good thing revenge is a dish best served hot. Because when it comes to Tock, Shay knows just how to turn up the heat. . . .
Born to Hang (A Jeremiah Halstead Western #4)
by Terrence McCauleyWANTED FOR MURDER: DEPUTY U.S. MARSHAL JEREMIAH HALSTEADFrom critically acclaimed and commercially successful author Terrence McCauley, the action-packed Jeremiah Halstead historical western series set in Montana territory continues. Jeremiah Halstead knew it would be hard to uphold the law in a buckwild boomtown like Silver Cloud, Montana. He also knew it would be easy to make some dangerous enemies. But he never counted on a foe as flat-out evil as Ed Zimmerman. This cold, conniving cutthroat may be awaiting trial, but the outlaw bounty he placed on Halstead&’s head is still in effect. Warrants have been issued for Halstead&’s arrest—and even his once-close friends are looking to put the blast on him. Forced into hiding in the harsh Montana wilderness, Halstead has no choice but to trust a group of friendly trappers. But as he quickly learns, some friendships come with a price. And sometimes that price is comes high—with death. Alone. Desperate. Hunted like an animal. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead is about to face his day of judgment. But he won&’t do it alone. He will reach out to the last person he can trust—his former partner—and greet that fateful day with blood and agony. Praise for Terrence McCauley and his acclaimed westerns &“A first-rate storyteller . . . nonstop action.&”—Roundup Magazine&“The bullets whiz by close enough to make the reader&’s hair stand on end.&”—Booklist (starred review)&“One wild, entertaining ride.&” —Johnny D. Boggs
Bornologies and Lipschitz Analysis
by Gerald BeerThis monograph, for the first time in book form, considers the large structure of metric spaces as captured by bornologies: families of subsets that contain the singletons, that are stable under finite unions, and that are stable under taking subsets of its members. The largest bornology is the power set of the space and the smallest is the bornology of its finite subsets. Between these lie (among others) the metrically bounded subsets, the relatively compact subsets, the totally bounded subsets, and the Bourbaki bounded subsets. Classes of functions are intimately connected to various bornologies; e.g., (1) a function is locally Lipschitz if and only if its restriction to each relatively compact subset is Lipschitz; (2) a subset is Bourbaki bounded if and only if each uniformly continuous function on the space is bounded when restricted to the subset. A great deal of attention is given to the variational notions of strong uniform continuity and strong uniform convergence with respect to the members of a bornology, leading to the bornology of UC-subsets and UC-spaces. Spaces on which its uniformly continuous real-valued functions are stable under pointwise product are characterized in terms of the coincidence of the Bourbaki bounded subsets with a usually larger bornology. Special attention is given to Lipschitz and locally Lipschitz functions. For example, uniformly dense subclasses of locally Lipschitz functions within the real-valued continuous functions, Cauchy continuous functions, and uniformly continuous functions are presented. It is shown very generally that a function between metric spaces has a particular metric property if and only if whenever it is followed in a composition by a real-valued Lipschitz function, the composition has the property. Bornological convergence of nets of closed subsets, having Attouch-Wets convergence as a prototype, is considered in detail. Topologies of uniform convergence for continuous linear operators between normed spaces is explained in terms of the bornological convergence of their graphs. Finally, the idea of a bornological extension of a topological space is presented, and all regular extensions can be so realized.
Borriquitos con chándal: Escritos sobre la educación, la enseñanza y el deporte
by Rafael Sánchez FerlosioUna selección de los mejores artículos de Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio sobre la enseñanza. «Es el mejor Cervantes que se ha dado en España».Juan Goytisolo Decía Ferlosio que las cuestiones por las que se interesaba apenas pasaban de «seis o siete», y añadía que, «con el paso de los años y de las recurrencias», algunas acaban abriendo tuberías de comunicación con las otras, por lo que no era raro que esas «seis o siete» cuestiones se fueran «fundiendo y reduciendo». Sin duda, una de ellas es la cuestión de la enseñanza, es decir, la forma en que cabe transmitir el conocimiento, los modos en que éste es adquirido. De esa centralidad ofrecen un testimonio los textos reunidos en el presente volumen, que comprenden un arco temporal de cuatro décadas, las que van de 1972 a 2012.Las ideas fuertes de Ferlosio en lo relativo a la enseñanza parten de su convicción de que «toda educación es constrictiva», por cuanto entraña «un proceso de apropiación social del niño por el medio». En lugar de eso, lo que corresponde más bien es instruir al niño, es decir, brindarle el acceso a unos conocimientos que, «exentos de toda clase de orientaciones prácticas y juicios de valor [...] no pueden ni deben, de ninguna manera, dejarse dirigir por ninguna finalidad educativa». Pues de lo que se trata, o de lo que debería tratarse, al menos en la escuela, es de transmitir conocimientos, y los conocimientos, en sí mismos son radicalmente impersonales. De ahí que lo más consecuente sea que en el proceso de la enseñanza prime el «principio de impersonalidad», principio que debería regir el lugar público en que los conocimientos se imparten y que debería revestir la relación de los alumnos con sus profesores.De uno a otro de los textos aquí compilados, escritos a veces con muchos años de distancia, es fácil apreciar motivos recurrentes, argumentos y observaciones a los que Ferlosio vuelve para connotarlos cada vez de manera distinta, y que terminan por conformar una urdimbre coherente y compacta, que da cuenta de la forma tan lenta y progresiva en que madura sus ideas, imbricándolas unas con otras. La vigencia que mantienen todas las piezas reunidas es indicativa de la profundidad de sus planteamientos, que siguen incidiendo con toda pertinencia en cuestiones de permanente actualidad. Sobre el autor y su obra se ha dicho:«Si se me pidiese un nombre, uno solo, entre los surgidos en la literatura española de posguerra, con categoría suficiente para afrontar la inmortalidad literaria, yo daría, sin vacilar, el de Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio».Miguel Delibes «Gramático anfetamínico, grafómano patológico, plumífero hipotáctico —demasiadas esdrújulas para un hombre tan poco dado al perifollo—, Ferlosio es, en definitiva, lo que se dice un clásico en vida».Ernesto Baltar, Jotdown«Los pecios de Ferlosio son... ferlosianos. Están escritos como si partiera de cero, del vacío... No sé si alguna vez fueran restos del naufragio, pero ya tienen categoría de género en sí mismos».Gonzalo Hidalgo Bayal «Entre los autores de mi generación o de las anteriores, sólo me interesa Ferlosio, que es el mejor escritor español».Juan Benet«Si la vida intelectual española ha tenido un clérigo auténtico, sin duda ha sido el maestro Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio».Jordi Amat, La Vanguardia
Borrow My Heart
by Kasie WestWhen a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friends for being catfished, she jumps in to save the day—and pretends to be his online crush. A young adult romance from the critically acclaimed author of Places We've Never Been.Wren is used to being called a control freak. She doesn&’t care; sticking to the list of rules she created for herself helps her navigate life. But when a cute guy named Asher walks through the door of her neighborhood coffee shop, the rulebook goes out the window.Asher is cute, charming . . . and being catfished by his online crush. So Wren makes an uncharacteristically impulsive decision—she pretends to be the girl he's waiting for to save him from embarrassment. Suddenly she&’s fake-dating a boy she knows nothing about. And it&’s . . . amazing.It's not long before Asher has her breaking even more of her own rules. But will he forgive her when he finds out she's not who she says she is? Wren's not so sure. . . . After all, rules exist for a reason.
Borrowed Time
by John NolteJoshua Mason is an everyday man cursed with immortality.&“Borrowed Time soothed my aching heart in many ways. It made me think about the things that really matter in life and the things that don&’t. It made me think about true love, about finding one person to spend your life with—something that has always eluded me. And it made me think about death, about why we need to believe there is a hereafter because, without it, life becomes unbearable.&” —Sasha Stone, Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning Joshua Mason has been alive for thousands of years. He doesn&’t know how or why it happened, only that he can die like any man, but will always return. When you live forever, everything you love will die, so he decided long ago to not become attached. That all changed when he met Doreen. With her, he found something more than the woman he loves, after thousands of years of wandering, he found his place in the world. Now she&’s dying of old age. Distraught, Joshua promises to look after Charlie, Doreen&’s grandson, who is thirty-six, but forever a child due to a terrible brain injury. Keeping Charlie safe means making money to keep Charlie&’s world—a crumbling motel in the middle of a barren desert—afloat. Mason makes this money by selling his life on the dark web to wealthy people who enjoy the ritual of murdering him. And now, when Mason only wants to mourn the loss of his wife, he discovers he sold his life to some very dangerous people and that Charlie is not as innocent as he seems.
Borrower-Based Macroprudential Instruments in Germany
by SherA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Borrowings in Informal American English (Studies in English Language)
by Małgorzata KowalczykWhat do 'bimbo,' 'glitch,' 'savvy,' and 'shtick' all have in common? They are all expressions used in informal American English that have been taken from other languages. This pioneering book provides a comprehensive description of borrowings in informal American English, based on a large database of citations from thousands of contemporary sources, including the press, film, and TV. It presents the United States as a linguistic 'melting pot,' with words from a diverse range of languages now frequently appearing in the lexicon. It examines these borrowings from various perspectives, including discussions of terms, donors, types, changes, functions, and themes. It also features an alphabetical glossary of 1,200 representative expressions, defined and illustrated by 5,500 usage examples, providing an insightful and practical resource for readers. Combining scholarship with readability, this book is a fascinating storehouse of information for students and researchers in linguistics as well as anyone interested in lexical variation in contemporary English.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2023 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Bosnia and Herzegovina
by International Monetary Fund. European Dept.A report from the International Monetary Fund.
Bosques que se incendian
by WongCuatro personajes se encuentran varados enel Hotel Hilbert, unextraño lugar que los confrontará con lo que fueron y, también, con lo que decidieron dejar de ser. Cuatro personajes se encuentran varados en el Hotel Hilbert, un extraño lugar donde los huéspedes cambian de habitación cada vez que llega un nuevo cliente. Conforme pasan las noches, sus encuentros los confrontan con lo que fueron y, también, con lo que decidieron dejar de ser.Bosques que se incendian es un relato sobre la violencia de la memoria y los mecanismos de supervivencia en torno al olvido. Una obra onírica, de pasajes inquietantes, donde el absurdo y el misterio van de la mano. «La narrativa de Wong es excepcional: observa la vida humana desde la perspectiva única de sus experiencias y traslados en nuestro siglo convulso. Él es un viajero tenaz enuna época cada vez más inmóvil, y nos cuenta la exaltación y la angustia de un tiempo de cambios.» -Alberto Chimal
Boston (I misteri di Sam Smith #14)
by Hannah Howe"Morgan Brooks è una brava persona", ha detto Alan, "un grande psicologo e il mio mentore. Ci ha invitato a trascorrere il Natale con lui e la sua famiglia. Dobbiamo accettare?". Naturalmente, ho risposto: "Sì". E così, ho conosciuto Morgan Brooks nella nevosa Boston, durante il mio primo viaggio in America. Ho anche conosciuto Amelia, la moglie chef di fama, e Madison, la figlia un po' reticente. Inoltre, ho incontrato Dexter Trask, un uomo d'affari, un megalomane, il sedicente 'Re di Boston'. La vacanza è iniziata bene. Poi è apparso il primo cadavere, un giovane assassinato nel bosco. Quell'omicidio porta ad un rapimento e ad altri omicidi. Gli indizi puntano in una direzione. E, la verità si trova davvero in quella direzione? Con l'aiuto di Gabe, amico e vicino di casa di Morgan, nonché collega detective privato, mi sono aggirata nel labirinto adornato dalla neve. E la soluzione? Ha sorpreso tutti. Boston, dieci giorni in un paese dalle meraviglie invernali, dieci giorni che hanno confermato che le persone sono sfaccettate, a più livelli, e che chiunque può avere almeno uno scheletro pronto a uscire dall'armadio.
Boston Ball: Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, Gary Williams, and the Forgotten Cradle of Basketball Coaches
by Clayton TrutorRick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, and Gary Williams played no small role in the making of modern college basketball. Collectively, they&’ve won more than 2,300 games and six national championships and reached thirteen Final Fours. All three have been enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Pitino, Calhoun, and Williams each spent more than two decades on the national stage, becoming celebrities in their own right as college basketball and March Madness became a multi-billion-dollar industry. Before Pitino became the face of the Providence, Kentucky, and Louisville programs, before Calhoun turned UConn into a national power, and before Williams brought Maryland to its first national championship, all three of these coaches cut their teeth in front of modest-sized crowds in the crumbling college gymnasiums of Boston during the 1970s and early 1980s.Boston Ball charts how this trio of coaches, seemingly out of nowhere, started a basketball revolution: Pitino at Boston University, Calhoun at Northeastern University, and Williams at Boston College. Toiling in relative obscurity, they ignited a renaissance of the &“city game,&” a style of play built on fast-breaking up-tempo offense, pressure defense, and board crashing. Part of a fraternity of great coaches—including Mike Jarvis, Kevin Mackey, and Tom Davis—they unknowingly invented Boston Ball, a simultaneously old and new path to the top of college basketball. Pitino, Calhoun, and Williams took advantage of the ample coaching opportunities in &“America&’s College Town&” to craft their respective blueprints for building a winning program and turn their schools into regional powers, and these early coaching years served as their respective springboards to big-time college basketball.Boston Ball is the story of how three ambitious young coaches learned their trade in the shadow of the dynastic Celtics, as well as the story of how the young players—in their recruitment, relationships, and basketball lives—made these teams into winners.
Boston Harbor Islands Adventure, A: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
by Stephanie SchorowIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England's prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the Acrobat, and the Autocrat, the women rusticated in a cottage on Great Brewster Island, reveling in the chance to shed their identities of wife, mother, and daughter. Relive their sojourn through their remarkable journal, filled with observations, illustrations, photographs, and poetry, reproduced here by the Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands.
Boston Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home (Local Travel Guide)
by DK Eyewitness Cathryn Haight Meaghan Agnew Jared Emory RanahanKeen to explore a different side of Boston? Like a Local is the book for you.This isn&’t your ordinary travel guide. Beyond Boston&’s rich history and world-famous universities are experimental breweries, super-cool jazz clubs and design-led jewellery stores that locals love – and that&’s where this book takes you.Turn the pages to discover:- The small businesses and community strongholds that add character to this vibrant city, recommended by true locals.- 6 themed walking tours dedicated to specific experiences such as flea markets and movie theatres.- A beautiful gift book for anyone seeking to explore Boston.- Helpful &‘what3word&’ addresses, so you can pinpoint all the listed sights.Compiled by three proud Bostonians, this stylish travel guide is packed with Boston&’s best experiences and hidden spots, handily categorised to suit your mood and needs.Whether you&’re a restless Bostonian on the hunt for a new hangout, or a visitor keen to discover a side you won&’t find in traditional guidebooks, Boston Like A Local will give you all the inspiration you need.About Like A Local:These giftable and collectable guides from DK Eyewitness are compiled exclusively by locals. Whether they&’re born-and-bred or moved to study and never looked back, our experts shine a light on what it means to be a local: pride for their city, community spirit and local expertise. Like a Local will inspire readers to celebrate the secret as well as the iconic – just like the locals who call the city home.Looking for another guide to Boston? Explore further with DK Eyewitness or Top 10 Guides to Boston.
Both Feet in the Grave
by Jeaniene FrostIf you thought you learned more about the dangerous and sexy alpha vampire, Bones, in the USA Today bestselling scorcher, THE OTHER HALF OF THE GRAVE, you haven't seen anything yet...Cat disappeared from Bones’ life to protect him, but this Master vampire will keep his promise to find her.Two hundred years of bounty hunting made Bones the best at what he does, yet it's still taken him four long years to find Cat, the half vampire now known as the "Red Reaper." There's a price on Cat's head, and not even her job as a secret government agent can save her. Only Bones can. But has time hardened Bones too much to love again? Or will his passion for Cat burn through every obstacle—alive, undead, or otherwise—between them?From the New York Times bestselling author of the Night Huntress series comes a fresh, new perspective on the origin saga of Cat and Bones, in Bones' own words…"Cat and Bones are combustible together." — Charlaine Harris"Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Anne Rice fans" — Apple Books