Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball, Hardcover - John Coy

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Reducere. Brian Doyle himself explains it best: "A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most gr...

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A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators, magicians, therapists, and more Basketball...

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A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgiment...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Nick GreeneNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 222 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

Reducere. Discover the David vs. Goliath rise of Catholic college basketball, from Villanova to Georgetown to Gonzaga, where small schools perennially shoot ...

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Reducere. When they piled into cars and drove through Durham, North Carolina, the members of the Duke University Medical School basketball team only knew tha...

From its storied invention in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith as a recreational activity for "incorrigible" youth, to its current multibillion-dollar in...

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Reducere. As a child with Tourette syndrome, Brad Cohen was ridiculed, beaten, mocked, and shunned. Children, teachers, and even family members found it diff...

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Reducere. A quick and easy read to help you take your understanding of basketball to the next level.Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world...

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The inspirational and little-known story of a dedicated teacher who coached Hawaiian swimmers all the way to the Olympics, beautifully told in simp...

Reducere. The Duke University men's basketball program is certainly one such tradition, and Lewis Bowling has assembled more than two hundred brilliant photo...

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Whether you're new to the profession or an experienced practitioner, teaching can be the most rewarding career imaginable but it has never been mor...

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Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Zachariah OhoraNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 225 x 287 x 15Cover type: HardbackRed...

Reducere. The city of Waterbury boasts a rich history in high school boys basketball - ranging from Crosby High's achievements in national tournaments in the...

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A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally b...

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll write. She's never taught a class in her life. But when the City of Chicago calls on blind writer Beth Finke to te...

Reducere. On October 16, 1954, E. H. Crump, the political boss of Memphis and a force in Southern politics for nearly half a century, died at his home in Mem...