Power At Play

Author : Michael A. Messner
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807041055
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power at Play written by Michael A. Messner and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1995-04-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with a diverse group of former high school, college, and professional athletes, Power at Play examines the important role sports play in defining masculinity for American men.

Author : Tim Higgins
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1984898248
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by Tim Higgins and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car—from award-winning Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins. “A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review Tesla is the envy of the automotive world. Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion. Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the richest man in the world. But Tesla’s success was far from guaranteed. Founded in the 2000s, the company was built on an audacious vision. Musk and a small band of Silicon Valley engineers set out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, and cleaner than any gas-guzzler on the road. Tesla would undergo a hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals—pressured by investors, hobbled by whistleblowers. Musk often found himself in the public’s crosshairs, threatening to bring down the company he had helped build. Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, breakdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all, success. A story of impossible wagers and unlikely triumphs, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of innovators beat the odds—and changed the future.

Author : Asi Burak
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250089344
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by Asi Burak and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception--from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power Play, Asi Burak and Laura Parker explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world. As the former executive director and now chairman of Games for Change, Asi Burak has spent the last ten years supporting and promoting the use of video games for social good, in collaboration with leading organizations like the White House, NASA, World Bank, and The United Nations. The games for change movement has introduced millions of players to meaningful experiences around everything from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the US Constitution. Power Play looks to the future of games as a global movement. Asi Burak and Laura Parker profile the luminaries behind some of the movement's most iconic games, including former Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O’Connor and Pulitzer-Prize winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. They also explore the promise of virtual reality to address social and political issues with unprecedented immersion, and see what the next generation of game makers have in store for the future.

Author : Sharon Beder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565848085
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by Sharon Beder and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power struggle between public and private interests in the electricity industry is illuminated in this fascinating account of the recent drive to privatize this big business in America.

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443407631
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by Eric Walters and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You’re going to spend some time on the power play, on penalty kill, and start right off as the second line centre,” he told me. I didn’t question why he was putting me on the second line. I’d show him the first line was the place I belonged. “The important thing is that you’ve been drafted,” he said. “You’ve going to play Junior A, and you’re going to be on my team. You’re my player.” This gripping new novel by bestselling children’s/YA author Eric Walters explores the complex and disturbing relationship between a talented young hockey star and his predatory coach as it descends into sexual abuse. In one of his most moving and provocative stories to date, Walters combines a vivid portrayal of rink culture with a powerful and unflinching cautionary tale.

Author : Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230239293
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power at Play written by Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more adults participate as employees in games at work and in public and voluntary organizations. Power at play covers the intricate linkages between pedagogy, play and power. It shows how power today suspends itself through play and analyzes organized play as a symptom of more radical changes of the exercise of power in work and society.

Author : T. E. Walters
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595098762
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by T. E. Walters and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minnesota, hockey is a way of life. This action-packed story is about a team from Laketon going for the State Championship. Their dream season is in jeapardy of going down the drain. One of their star players is battling his father''s strict demands and the team from River Place has revenge on their minds. Read more to find out what happens to Trevor, Al, and the rest of the gang from Laketon as they skate furiously toward their goal of being CHAMPS! T.E. Walters is a fourth grade teacher who loves to play sports at recess with his students. He encourages everyone to set high goals and follow their dreams.

Author : Asi Burak
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250089336
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by Asi Burak and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1. Not playing around anymore -- Part 2. From Jeddah to Nairobi -- Part 3. From the lab to the screen -- Part 4. The tools of a new generation.

Author : Michele Martin Bossley
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550287462
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by Michele Martin Bossley and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2001-10-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Play is a dramatic and fast-paced story about a boy who who wants to play hockey — not get hurt.

Author : Raymond Boyle
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748635947
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by Raymond Boyle and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fully revised and updated version of this classic text examines the link between three key obsessions of the 21st century: the media, sport and popular culture. Gathering new material from around the 2007 Rugby World Cup, the Beijing Olympics and the rise of new sports stars such as boxing's Amir Khan and cycling's Victoria Pendleton, the authors explore a wide range of sports, as well as issues including nationalism, gender, race, political economy and the changing patterns of media sport consumption.For those interested in media and sport the second edition combines new and original material with an overview of the developing field of media sport, and examines the way in which the media has increasingly come to dominate how sport is played, organized and thought about in society. It traces the historical evolution of the relationship between sport and the media and examines the complex business relationships that have grown up around television, sponsors and sport.Covers the following topics: the history of media in sport; television, sport and sponsorship; why sport matters to television; sports stars; sports journalism; fans and the audience; sport in the digital media economy.