Beating The Breaks

Author : Rick Swaine
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481951
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beating the Breaks written by Rick Swaine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few baseball fans are aware of the number of players with disabilities who have succeeded in the majors. Much of this unawareness is due to the affected players themselves who downplay weaknesses and tend to minimize their disabilities, considering them just one of the chinks in the armor that everyone must deal with. More than 20 players who have overcome their disabilities to have major league careers are profiled in this work. The book is divided by type of disability suffered: missing or partially missing limbs or extremities (Jim Abbott, Hugh "One Arm" Daily, Pete Gray, Monty Stratton, Bert Shepard); injured or diseased limbs (Lou Brissie, Whitey Kurowski, Eddie Kazak, Charley Gelbert, Bo Jackson, Dave Dravecky); disfigured extremities (Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, Charley "Red" Ruffing, Hal Peck, Carlos May, Gil Coan, Jim Mecir); impaired organ function, vision, and hearing (William "Dummy" Hoy, George "Specs" Toporcer, Chick Hafey, Ron Santo, Russ Christopher, Joe Hoerner, John Hiller, Danny Thompson, Walt Bond); and neurological and psychological disorders (Grover Cleveland Alexander, Tony Lazzeri, Jimmy Piersall, Jim Eisenreich).

Author : FRANK BRIGGS
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610650808
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funky Beats & Breaks (For Drumset) written by FRANK BRIGGS and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funky Beats & Breaks was written with the intermediate to advanced drummer in mind. All the exercises and concepts in this book were conceived within the author's personal lesson program. the benefits of this book are many; the student will expand his or her rhythmic and conceptual vocabulary. Audio available online.

Author : Idris Goodwin
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904159
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Are The Breaks written by Idris Goodwin and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Are The Breaks is the debut essay collection of NEA award-winning playwright, HBO Def Poet, and critically acclaimed “indie” rapper, Idris Goodwin. Diverse in scope and wickedly satirical, Goodwin’s poetic essays sample race, class, and culture, transcending the page with hip-hop musicality. A rhythmic blend of biting wit and break-beat poetry, Goodwin’s prose pulses with purpose. Remixing broken dreams and distorted legacies, Goodwin cross-fades past and present, personal and political: Motown’s last vinyl factory juxtaposes against Bronx rap legends battling in open-air arenas; Chicago’s Public School system contrasts against Santa Fe’s tourism industry; an Egyptian child drowns in the Dead Sea as Nat Turner sprints across Death Valley. These Are The Breaks is the literary mixtape of our cacophonous times. These Are The Breaks creates a new literature entirely fresh, authentic and important. Essays from one of hip-hop’s deftest public intellectuals contributing to the fields of prose, creative memoir, race theory, and music history. -Kevin Coval, “Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica) Street smart, culturally sophisticated, ironic, and iconoclastic Idris Goodwin is one of the most talented and multifaceted young artists working today. His work, like the best art practices, helps us to see what we thought was obvious in a new and different way. -Calvin Forbes, “The Shine Poems,” (A) refreshing... powerful and down-to-earth voice. -National Public Radio

Author : Richard Allsopp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766401450
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage written by Richard Allsopp and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subject-matter Index of Patents Applied for and Patents Granted written by Great Britain. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tao Yaoyao
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1648570119
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream Breaks One Day written by Tao Yaoyao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The female owner, Li, had transmigrated into the body of the ugly daughter of the Prime Minister of the Great Phoenix Empire. Her survival was not easy and she had unintentionally become involved in the power struggle.

Author : William Jelani Cobb
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814716709
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Break of Dawn written by William Jelani Cobb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing hip hop's relationship to ancestral forms of expression, Cobb explores the cultural and literary elements that are at its core. From KRS-One and Notorious B.I.G to Tupac Shakur and Lauryn Hill, he profiles MCs who were pivotal to the rise of the genre. Unlike books that focus on hip hop as a social movement or a commercial phenomenon, To the Break of Dawn tracks the music's aesthetic, stylistic, and thematic evolution from its inception to today's distinctly regional subdivisions and styles.

Author : Kate Grosshauser
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329917669
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diagnosis of a Break Up written by Kate Grosshauser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Klaess
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023503
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaks in the Air written by John Klaess and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Breaks in the Air John Klaess tells the story of rap’s emergence on New York City’s airwaves by examining how artists and broadcasters adapted hip hop’s performance culture to radio. Initially, artists and DJs brought their live practice to radio by buying time on low-bandwidth community stations and building new communities around their shows. Later, stations owned by New York’s African American elite, such as WBLS, reluctantly began airing rap even as they pursued a sound rooted in respectability, urban sophistication, and polish. At the same time, large commercial stations like WRKS programmed rap once it became clear that the music attracted a demographic that was valuable to advertisers. Moving between intimate portraits of single radio shows and broader examinations of the legal, financial, cultural, and political forces that indelibly shaped the sound of rap radio, Klaess shows how early rap radio provides a lens through which to better understand the development of rap music as well as the intertwined histories of sounds, institutions, communities, and legal formations that converged in the post-Civil Rights era.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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