Losers

Author : Scott A. Sandage
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674015104
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born Losers written by Scott A. Sandage and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, Scott Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From hundreds of private diaries, family letters, business records, and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers, and nobodies come to life in the major scenes of American history, like the Civil War and the approach of big business, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure. Born Losers is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.

Author : Mary Pilon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525505636
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losers written by Mary Pilon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It's easy to do anything in victory. It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.” —Floyd Patterson Twenty-two notable writers—including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese—examine the untold stories of the losers, and in doing so reveal something raw and significant about what it means to be human The locker rooms of winning teams are crowded with coaches, family, and fans. Reporters flock to the athletes, brimming with victory and celebration, to ask, How does it feel? In contrast, the locker rooms of the losing teams are quiet and awkward, and reporters tend to leave quickly, reluctant to linger too long around loss. But, as sports journalists Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas argue, losing is not a phenomenon to be overlooked, and in Losers, they have called upon novelists, reporters, and athletes to consider what it means to lose. From the Olympic gymnast who was forced to surrender her spot to another teammate, to the legacy of Bill Buckner's tenth-inning error in the 1986 World Series, to LeBron James's losing record in the NBA Finals, these essays range from humorous to somber, but all are united by their focus on defeat. Interweaving fourteen completely new and unpublished pieces alongside beloved classics of the genre, Losers turns the art of sports writing on its head and proves that there is inspiration to be found in stories of risk, resilience, and getting up after you've been knocked down.

Author : Wibke Brueggemann
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374313989
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Is for Losers written by Wibke Brueggemann and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a laugh-out-loud exploration of sexuality, family, female friendship, grief, and community. With the heart and hilarity of Netflix's critically-acclaimed Sex Education, Wibke Brueggemann's sex positive debut Love Is for Losers is required reading for Generation Z teens. Did you know you can marry yourself? How strange / brilliant is that? Fifteen-year-old Phoebe thinks falling in love is vile and degrading, and vows never to do it. Then, due to circumstances not entirely in her control, she finds herself volunteering at a local thrift shop. There she meets Emma . . . who might unwittingly upend her whole theory on life.

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 039955758X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Losers Club written by Andrew Clements and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Frindle celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love! Sixth grader Alec can’t put a good book down. So when Principal Vance lays down the law—pay attention in class, or else—Alec takes action. He can’t lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isn’t a team sport, and no one would want to join something called the Losers Club, right? But as more and more kids find their way to Alec’s club—including his ex-friend turned bully and the girl Alec is maybe starting to like—Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it’s just as interesting. With The Losers Club, Andrew Clements brings us a new school story that’s a love letter to books and to reading and that reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones that happen off the page—our own! Winner of the Rhode Island Children's Book Award (2019) Winner of the International Reading Association and Children's Book Council: Children's Choices List (2018) Winner of the Garden State Children's Book Award (2020) 2021 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee A Kansas William White Master List Selection (2018 & 2019) An Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee (2019) A California Young Reader Medal Nominee (2019) A Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee (2019) A Virginia Young Readers Program Award Nominee (2019) A Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award Nominee (2019) A Missouri Mark Twain Award Nominee (2019) An Oregon Reader’s Choice Award Nominee (2019) Praise for The Losers Club! * "Clements’s latest is engaging and funny. A laugh-out-loud first purchase for all middle grade collections, and a solid read-aloud choice for classrooms."—School Library Journal, Starred Review "Clements is out to celebrate reading in all its obsessiveness, and...tosses in shout-outs to a passel of other writers. [The Losers Club] gives fried bookworms everywhere the satisfaction of knowing that friends may desert them (if only temporarily) but books never will. "—The New York Times Praise for Andrew Clements! “Clements is a genius.” —The New York Times “We have never read an Andrew Clements book that we haven’t loved.” —The Washington Post

Author : Leonard Cohen
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007341482
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Losers written by Leonard Cohen and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.

Author : Andy Diggle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Losers Book One written by Andy Diggle and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection introduces The Losers, formerly an elite U.S. Special Forces unit that served as the covert bloody hand of America until they stumbled across a C.I.A. secret they couldn't ignore. The C.I.A. tried to kill them, but they're about tolearn that it takes more than one try to eliminate The Losers.

Author : Avi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689841574
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S.O.R. Losers written by Avi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1984 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. A compulsory soccer team made up of seventh-graders uninterested in sports struggles to keep a winning attitude through a losing season.

Author : David Klass
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374301360
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losers Take All written by David Klass and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At a sports-crazy NJ high school where all kids must play on a team, a group of rebels start[s] a soccer team designed to undermine the jock-culture of the school"--

Author : David Eddings
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007395612
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Losers written by David Eddings and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raphael Taylor is a young man with everything going for him - he is handsome and a star football player.

Author : Michael M. Lewis
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trail Fever written by Michael M. Lewis and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling "Liar's Poker" comes a wickedly funny and astute chronicle of the 1996 presidential campaign--and how Americans go about choosing their leaders at the turn of the century. A striking look at our culture and its politics and the mammoth unlikelihood of connection between the inauthentic modern candidate and the voter's passions and desires, "Losers" is sure to be a winner. 10 photos.