The Gloves

Author : Cecil Castellucci
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 076363168X
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grandma's Gloves written by Cecil Castellucci and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her grandmother, a devoted gardener, dies, a little girl inherits her gardening gloves and feels closer to her memory.

Author : Robert Anasi
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 146680047X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gloves written by Robert Anasi and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2003-02-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Anasi's The Gloves offers a gritty, spirited inside look at the world of amateur boxing today. The Golden Gloves tournament is center stage in amateur boxing-a single-elimination contest in which young hopefuls square off in steamy gyms with the boxing elite looking on. Anasi took up boxing in his twenties to keep in shape, attract women, and sharpen his knuckles for the odd bar fight. He thought of entering "the Gloves," but put it off. Finally, at age thirty-two-his last year of eligibility-he vowed to fight, although he was an old man in a sport of teenagers and a light man who had to be even lighter (125 pounds) to fight others his size. So begins Anasi's obsessive preparation for the Golden Gloves. He finds Milton, a wily and abusive trainer, and joins Milton's "Supreme Team": a black teenager who used to deal guns in Harlem, a bus driver with five kids, a hard-hitting woman champion who becomes his sparring partner. Meanwhile, he observes the changing world of amateur boxing, in which investment bankers spar with ex-convicts and everyone dreads a fatal blow to the head. With the Supreme Team, he goes to the tournament, whose outcome, it seems, is rigged, like so much in boxing life today. Robert Anasi tells his story not as a journalist on assignment but as a man in the midst of one of the great adventures of his life. The Gloves, his first book, has the feel of a contemporary classic.

Author : Michael Silano
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1639850120
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gloves written by Michael Silano and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on actual events, The Gloves starts as a love story between a mother and her four daughters. She was the thumb, and her girls were the other fingers--a hand if you may. The year was 1910 when my grandfather immigrated from Italy and joined a Hell's Kitchen mob soon after. In 1925, he met an innocent girl from New Jersey who wrongly crossed a legendary block in midtown Manhattan and wound up outside a speakeasy. They would marry, but the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, and the ensuing War would change their lives forever. The story of her four daughters growing up in Brooklyn unfolds with equal measures of grace and tragedy, as life grants and takes away its greatest gifts over the years. The oldest daughter would marry first. Her husband would win the Silver Star for bravery during WWII, and his brother would come within one boxing match of challenging Joe Louis for the world title. The other daughters' lives would take different paths. All had families of their own as the tides of life ebb and flow. In 1990, Hollywood would write about one such incident in an Academy Award-winning movie loosely based on fact and fiction. Time transcends over five generations as we learn about loyalty and betrayal, joy and sadness while struggling through dyslexia and autism. Read about all sorts of mayhem and murder. Plus, alcohol and drugs, gambling, bookmaking, and racketeering. The Gloves starts as a tribute to a remarkable and selfless life. That life belonged to my mother, as she was one of the four daughters. It continues, however, as an autobiography of one not so gifted.

Author : Elizabeth Grimm
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543255
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Gloves Came Off written by Elizabeth Grimm and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Guantánamo Bay, and far-flung CIA "black sites" after the attacks of 9/11 included cruelty that defied legal and normative prohibitions in U.S. and international law. The antitorture stance of the United States was brushed aside. Since then, the guarantee of American civil liberties and due process for POWs and detainees has grown muddled, threatening the norms that sustain modern democracies. How the Gloves Came Off considers the legal and political arguments that led to this standoff between civility and chaos and their significant consequences for the strategic interests and standing of the United States. Unpacking the rhetoric surrounding the push for unitary executive action in wartime, How the Gloves Came Off traces the unmaking of the consensus against torture. It implicates U.S. military commanders, high-level government administrators, lawyers, and policy makers from both parties, exposing the ease with which powerful actors manipulated ambiguities to strip detainees of their humanity. By targeting the language and logic that made torture thinkable, this book shows how future decision makers can craft an effective counternarrative and set a new course for U.S. policy toward POWs and detainees. Whether leaders use their influence to reinforce a prohibition of cruelty to prisoners or continue to undermine long-standing international law will determine whether the United States retains a core component of its founding identity.

Author : Karen Kingsbury
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 0446553247
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Gloves Collection written by Karen Kingsbury and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in this collector edition are Gideon's Gift, Sarah's Song, Maggie's Miracle, and Hannah's Hope. Readers worldwide have been touched by these heart-warming tales of hope, inspiration, and joyous miracles by bestselling author Karen Kingsbury.

Author : Barry Melrose
Publisher : FENN-M&S
ISBN 13 : 0771056966
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dropping the Gloves written by Barry Melrose and published by FENN-M&S. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Melrose's life is hockey. From the time he was old enought to skate, he knew it's what he was meant to do. Growing up in Kelvington, Saskatchewan, he was one of a generation of future NHLers that included Wendel Clark, Bernie Federko, and the Kocur brothers. He fought his way through the Canadian minor league system, eventually getting drafted by the Montreal Canadiens. But Melrose chose instead to play for the WHA's Cincinnati Stingers, beginning a professional career that saw him sent up and down, between the big leagues and the minors, before ending his playing career as a player coach in the AHL. As a coach, he saw success at every level, winning a Memorial Cup, a Calder Cup, and reaching the Stanley Cup Final as coach of the LA Kings. Dropping the Gloves shares Barry's years of experience. He explains the psychology of the game, the inner workings of the locker room, and how many different elements are required to create a winnning team.Told in the same plain-spoken style that has made him ESPN's best-known hockey commentator, Dropping the Gloves is a fantastic compendium of hockey knowledge.

Author : United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Economic Report on the Gloves and Mittens Industry in Puerto Rico written by United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Green
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144582
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gloves written by Anne Green and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating history of gloves both real and mythical, practical and high fashion. This beautifully illustrated history of gloves draws on examples from across the world to explore their cultural significance. From hand-knitted mittens to exquisitely embroidered confections, and from the three-fingered gloves of medieval shepherds to Bluetooth-enabled examples that function like a mobile phone, gloves’ extraordinary variety is a tribute to human ingenuity. So, too, is the remarkable diversity of their—often contradictory—cultural associations. They have been linked to honor, identity, and status, but also to decadence and deceit. In this book, Anne Green discusses gloves both as material objects with their own fascinating history and as fictional creations in folktales, literature, films, etiquette manuals, paintings, and advertisements. Looking to the runway, Green even explores their recent resurgence as objects of high fashion.

Author : Lucy Knisley
Publisher : First Second
ISBN 13 : 1250247454
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kid Gloves written by Lucy Knisley and published by First Second. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she’d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience during labor and delivery. This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir, Kid Gloves, not only follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether you’ve got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, there’s something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart.

Author : David J. Berardinelli
Publisher : Trial Guides, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781934833018
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves written by David J. Berardinelli and published by Trial Guides, LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the story the insurance industry doesn't want you to know. Now, for the first time, the story in the legal book From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves is available to the public. Find out for yourself why insurance companies are improperly denying claims, delaying them, and defending them at trial. The book takes you from the ideas which masterminded Enron, through their impact on the insurance industry, and the resulting claim denials in everything from minor auto accidents to Hurricane Katrina claims. Author David Berardinelli is the trial lawyer who diligently worked to become the first to obtain the "McKinsey Documents" unprotected. He discusses how these documents teach insurers to profit by denying policyholders "good hands" to treat them with "boxing gloves." Learn how Allstate has earned the highest profits in insurance company history during the years with our country's largest natural disasters.