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It's not easy imagining a volume capable of capturing the grace, the joy, the flamboyance, and the wizardry of Michael Jordan, but this hybrid--melding autobiography, celebration, spectacular photography, and cutting-edge graphics--comes awfully close. Like Jordan driving the lane, it's a thing of beauty; harder to analyze than it is to admire, accept, gaze at, and enjoy.
As befits the ultimate star in a game that has marketed itself with perfect razzle-dazzle, For the Love of the Game is as visually brash as it is glitzy. In page after stunning page, Jordan traces his ascension from college star to object of worldwide adoration. While most of the focus is, of course, on the NBA, there are significant side trips into baseball, the 1992 Olympic Dream Team, his advertising omnipresence, his family, and even his privacy. On the surface, the pictures--and their presentation--are more than enough to preserve and praise the Jordan legend, but For the Love of the Game has something more. It has Michael Jordan.
Jordan's text is everything the flashy images are not; it is straight, thoughtful, and revealing. At times, the relationship of word and image is breathtaking, especially on a particular pair of two-page layouts. In the first, Jordan asks, "When does jumping become flying?" His answer, framed by photos that would turn Superman green with envy, indicates that Jordan is genuinely amazed by his own talents. The second is his reflection on "The Shot," his buzzer-beater over Cleveland's Craig Ehlo to win game 5 in the 1989 playoffs. The story is told in 24 pictures taken over the final three seconds. Below that is a chart of 25 of Jordan's game-winning shots. But it's this Jordan observation that pulls the image and text together: "I never considered the negative consequence of missing the last shot in a game." It's an attitude that defines the man, and For the Love of the Game reflects it with a stylish combination of elegance, power, and beauty. (Want more Jordan? Check out an image from his book. © 1998 by Rare Air, Ltd. Text copyright © 1998 by Michael Jordan. Photo credit: Walter Iooss, Jr) --Jeff Silverman
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For 13 brilliant seasons Michael Jordan danced the dance of greatness across hardwood floors of basketball arenas from New York to Los Angeles to Barcelona and Paris. With a warrior's heart and an artist's grace, Jordan long ago transcended the sport to become one of the 20th century's global icons.
On the court, his almost mythic flair for the spectacular prompted former Los Angeles Laker superstar Magic Johnson to say simply, "There's Michael, then there's all the rest of us."
Off the court, Jordan's ability to alter markets and drive the business of his marketing partners is unprecedented.
Through it all, Jordan showed the world that greatness, true greatness, comes from the inside out. He remains perhaps the greatest practice player in the history of sports, his desire to improve upon his own example legendary. When critics questioned his all-around ability, he became the game's most dominant defensive player at his position. When teams decided to close down the lane and eliminate drives to the basket, he became a deadly jump shooter. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson had the most successfully teams of the 1980s but never won more than two consecutive championships. The Bulls won three straight--twice.
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For the Love of the Game, Jordan takes us through the wonder of his career on the court and away from the game. From the dream that preceded the game-winning shot against Georgetown in the 1982 NCAA Finals to the methodical dissection of the Utah Jazz prior to his game-winning shot in Game 6 of the 1998 Finals, Jordan pulls back the curtain on one of the most remarkable lives this century.
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For the Love of the Game .......2006-05-19
This book tells about Micjaels jordans life all the way from his college life in north Carolina to the nab playing on the Bulls. He led them to 6 nab championships. Then he went on to win the gold in the summer olympics. He is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For The Love Of The Game : My Story.......2006-03-30
In the book For The Love Of The Game. One thing that I learned about this book is that you should never give up and always keep on trying. Even if you are not good at something at first then you should not give up and keep on trying untill you get good at the thing. And that you should not just stick with one thing but, try other things. You might be good at it. And that things just do not come to you, you have to work at it. That is what I learned about the book.
Stats and Pics.......2005-03-15
The book is full of great photos. I especially liked the one of Jordan and Dr. J! It also has great statistics from Michael Jordan's career. The layout is very different. I did not like it all that much. I was also a little disappointed that we did not really get to see more of the real Jordan. For a brief moment, we saw his humanity when he wrote about his father. Briefly, he mentioned his family. But mostly, he wrote about himself on the court. I guess I was hoping for more humility from this superstar. I believe he has it in him but the book doesn't show it. He certainly has much to brag about, but I thought he always let his bragging be seen through his play on the court.
For the love of the game.......2004-05-24
The book I read was for the love of the game. It's about Michael Jordan and his life. I'd give it four stars because it explores through his basketball statistics to personal information. He talks about how he was drafted and how he almost didn't chose nike. It talks about all the inside information. It is one of the best autobiography's I've ever read. If you like basketball or a sport, you will reall like it. I learned a lot of stuff I'd probabaly would have never known. Some of the things I didn't know was that he played baseball. He also was number 45 in basketball for a year. His first Air Jordan was band from the league. I would recommend this book for people who like sports and biography's.
#23.......2003-10-28
For The Love of the Game by Michael Jordan is the best book about Michael Jordan ever. This book is so cool. The pictures are great of Michael Jordan. I have read this book four times already and I also have the paperback and the hardback. This book means so much to me because I am going through what he went through when he was in high school. He got cut from his basketball team too, and he gives me ways in the book to put that behind me and keep me going on with my life.
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Celebrities and golf. Which obsession is bigger in America' Golf is the Great Equalizer. Whether a construction worker or a CEO, a first-time golfer or an avid one, any golfer can make a hole in one or shank it 25 yards. Even the president of the United States can have an off day . . . or his "best day in golf."My Best Day in Golf features fascinating stories about sports heroes, musicians, politicians, and professional golfers who all describe their passion for the game and the great experiences playing the best courses in the world.Readers can put themselves in celebrities" "spikes" as they revere each tale with the same passion. Stories, complete with photographs, told by Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, President George Herbert Walker Bush, Justin Timberlake, Bob Hope, Jack Welch, Alice Cooper, Bryant Gumbel, and Celine Dion describe their best days in golf.Find out why:" The Odd Couple (Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau) only played together once." Alice Cooper prefers "Psycho" skins to a five-dollar Nassau." Former President Bush plays like it"s a 100-yard dash." Dwight D. Eisenhower considered golf "more important than any war."My Best Day in Golf is the perfect gift for the avid golfer. Is there any other kind'
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Fun Book for Golfers.......2004-01-26
This book is great fun for anyone who loves golf. The interesting stories that the celebrities tell about their great experiences in the game is quite fascinating. This is a gem.
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- Great information, weak on color pics and paper quality.
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North American F-86 Sabrejet Day Fighters - WarbirdTech Volume 3 (WarbirdTech)
David Menard
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Filled with vintage photos of North American's legendary F-86 Sabre from assembly line to flight line, plus exploded views, cutaway and phantom drawings from tech manuals, disassembled aircraft, rare variants, experimental models, camouflage markings, armament configurations and more. WarbirdTech 3.
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Great information, weak on color pics and paper quality........2000-07-31
I am a confessed Sabre nut, and have had a love affair with the F-86 since I was a kid growing up in the '50s. I was pleasantly surprised at the detail in this book.
In the limited space available in 100 pages, WT relates the development of the day fighter versions of the airplane (The XP-86, F-86, A, E, F and H models. The interceptor versions are not covered) from its beginnings as a "jet powered P-51", a straight wing relative to the Navy's FJ-1, to the end of its service life with the Air Guard. WT does a terrific job of describing the evolution of the airplane, including an excellent review of the "6-3" wing conversion on the "F" model.
The book contains lotsa interesting details along with some neat "gee whiz" info, including pilot and maintenance manual drawings and photos that are interesting, but often not fully explained, and sometimes these diagrams leave as many questions as they provide explanations.
Disappointing in the Warbird Tech editions I have purchased is the paucity of color photos (in this edition, only four pages with 11 small pics, only two of which are USAF Korean war era airplanes)... and the choice of an off-white, coarse grained paper for the rest of the book, which causes the numerous b & w photos and drawings to die on the page. I think WT is grossly inferior to other publications in this area, and the paper choice is difficult to understand with [the] price tag.
The bottom line for this publication is that the information is very interesting and if you can get past the crummy paper selection and lack of color photos, you'll be pleased.
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The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Shklar's "ordinary vices"--cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy--are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and inhumanity.
Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers--Moliere and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare and Montesquieu on misanthropy, Hawthorne and Nietzsche on cruelty, Conrad and Faulkner on betrayal--to reveal the nature and effects of the vices. She examines their destructive effects, the ambiguities of the moral problems they pose to the liberal ethos, and their implications for government and citizens: liberalism is a difficult and challenging doctrine that demands a tolerance of contradiction, complexity, and the risks of freedom.
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A serious look at what vices are worst........1999-05-05
This marvelous book takes after Montaigne and asks what vices should we avoid . She points out that if you hate all vice, you hate mankind - a vice in itself. One must then, she argues, choose which of the ordinary everyday vices are really the worst. She nominates cruelty as the vice to best avoid, but points out that this is not the same at all as avoiding hipocracy as the worst, and that working hardest at avoiding the sin of pride - which basically is the scorn of God - also will produce different priorities and results.
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Ordinary Vices
Judith Shklar
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Desert Wetlands
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Water plays different roles in the desert. It appears when we least expect it and hides when we want it most. Rain falls but never reaches the ground, and dry washes abruptly become rivers. One constant holds true: water enables life.
In Desert Wetlands a distinguished photographer and a passionate naturalist document sites in the American Southwest and Mexico that are gauges to the environment. The wetlands included are Cuatro Cienegas Basin in Coahuila, Mexico, the San Pedro River in Arizona, the Escalante River in Utah, the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, the playas and wetlands in Arizona, the Mohave Desert in California, and the Big Bend National Park in Texas.
Exploration of desert wetlands—whether on foot, with photographs, or in words—involves vacillating between tremendous, uplifting beauty and great, heartbreaking degradation. We offer the images and words in your hands that you might grasp the beauty more readily, and join the chorus of voices calling for an end to despoiling of these treasurelands."—Thomas Lowe Fleischner in Desert Wetlands
Mr. Niemeyer's photography . . . is utterly superb."—Southern Living
Over 150 color photos and accompanying text document wetland sites in the American Southwest and Mexico.
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Wetlands and the deserts of fire.......2006-01-24
All our states have wetlands. But the wetlands in the Chihuahuan, Great Basin, Mojave and Sonoran deserts play a much more important role than wetlands in the east. For northern birds and mountain animals migrate down south to these deserts for food, mating and water. They can't count on water from rainfall. The area's so hot rain dries back into the air. That's exactly why they're called deserts. The original word in Latin means abandoned or forsaken. And deserts have been abandoned or forsaken by water.
But that's in terms of rain water. In fact, these deserts have water. The water's found in areas called wetlands. Wetland water comes from three sources. One's mountain snow melting in spring and fall. Much of that water stays in mountain bogs, lakes and ponds dammed by beavers. But some always trickles into the deserts during the summer. Another's the underground water table. That's becoming a problem. More cattle-grazing also means more cows drinking water. More people working, playing and living in the areas means more Americans using water.
The last source is area rivers, such as the Rio Grande and the San Pedro, San Juan, Escalante and Colorado rivers. All the great area rivers start out as source number 1. For they trace back to melted snow of the Cascade, Rocky, San Juan and Sierra Nevada mountains. River water's also becoming a problem. More cattle tanks, dams, reservoirs and stock ponds change river water levels and routes. Changed water levels and routes will change living conditions for area plants, bugs, birds and animals.
Specifically, two main types of plant communities grow up along southwest rivers. One's a mixed broadleaf of willow, walnut, sycamore, cottonwood, ash and alder. That's usually found along rocky streams. The other's a forest of cottonwoods and willows. That's usually found on flooded sand, gravel and clay plains. But non-native Russian olive in the north and tamarisk in the south are giving native cottonwoods and willows a beating. White pelicans and sandhill cranes see native trees as familiar landmarks of desert wetland homes. In fact, cottonwoods and willows are homes to more breeding birds than anywhere else in North America. Breeding birds and their babies find the healthest foods, full of proteins and vegetables, in cottonwood and willow leaves full of insects.
Desert wetlands make up only 3.5% of total U.S. lands. But after tropical rainforests, they're the world's second largest supporters of plant, bug, bird and animal life. Also, they're homes to 50% of all our endangered animals. It all comes down to link after link between native plants, bugs, birds and animals built up over time in one area.
Photographer Lucien Niemeyer and writer Thomas Lowe Fleischner have come up with an impressive book. The writing's clearly organized. The photographs are stunning. The examples are to-the-point. The last chapter's followed by a list of all plants and animals covered by the book. The book ends with a helpful set of notes and a current bibliography.
Without drama and with supported facts, this team has given us what we need to know about that problem area where people and nature are closing in on each other. It's what Virginia Tech master gardening calls the wildlands-urban interface between people and nature. That's the big concern nowadays. And it's not going to go away.
A 'must' for any collection focused on ecology and desert environments.......2005-07-06
Lucien Niemeyer and Thomas Lowe Fleischner's Desert Wetlands is a 'must' for any collection focused on ecology and desert environments. 'Desert wetlands' may seem an inconsistent term, but there are indeed wetlands in the desert, as photographer Lucian Niemeyer and environmental scientist Thomas Fleischner demonstrate. While Niemeyer photographs such wetlands in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, among other states, naturalist Fleischner provides stories about water and his encounters with desert wetlands during his field research in the southwest.
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Animals of the Forest, Wetlands and Desert (Boxed Sets/Bindups)
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More than 120 realistic images offer an entertaining introduction to the plants and animals of the United States and Canada. Fact-filled captions identify:
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Small playa-lakes in Monegros, Spain, are high-value habitats for endemisms, threatened by landscape transformations and development of newly irrigated lands. The purpose of monitoring these fragile habitats is to detect their future disturbance, i.e. the effects of changing their natural hydrological regime, such as increasing their flooding surface area and habitat degradation by fresh and polluted water flow inputs. Landsat imagery is used for this purpose, facing the lack of regular ground data about their hydrological regime and the land covers with ecological meaning. Five meaningful thematic classes have been established grouping spectral classes obtained from unsupervised classification together with the visual interpretation of the original bands, the IHS transformation and the principal component analysis. The scarce ground data were confronted with the images. Compared to field work, remote sensing is advantageous for monitoring these playa-lakes, providing reliable insight to understand these habitats. Examples of how this research advances our knowledge about the nature and response of this ecosystem to adverse environmental changes are presented.
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A ~7000-year record of sediment accumulation from the San Bernardino cienega in southeastern Arizona/northeastern Sonora records changes in effective moisture. Periods of rapid sedimentation between ca. 700 to 1100calyrBP and ca. 4100 to 4400calyrBP at San Bernardino are associated with a highstand at pluvial Lake Cochise, the presence of aquatic pollen taxa in New Mexican packrat middens and periods of incision in river channels in the San Pedro and Santa Cruz river valleys. These results suggest that cienega deposits represent records of hydrological change and, as such, are important but under-utilized repositories of paleoclimatic information. These results also inform cienega restoration efforts by highlighting the importance of subsurface and surface water flow through these environments. Effective restoration requires the development of conditions where groundwater maintains surface vegetation and seasonal floods are allowed to inundate the surface.
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Title: Prehistory of the Carson Desert and Stillwater Mountains: Environment, Mobility, and Subsistence in a Great Basin Wetland.(Book Review)
Author: Melinda Leach
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Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Volume: 69
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Archaeological models of hunter-gatherer subsistence often imply that the influence of men's or women's foraging effort on settlement patterns varied over time, but fail to consider how central place foraging may reflect conflicting subsistence interests between men and women. For example, earlier studies of Carson Desert prehistory suggest a semi-sedentary, gathering strategy replaced a mobile, hunting-oriented strategy in response to diminishing densities of large game. This implies that the influence of men's and women's work effort on residential location and mobility changed, but assumes both genders foraged for the common good rather than striving for different goals. A new central place foraging model based on a human behavioral ecology perspective of sexual division of labor considers how men and women might reconcile conflicting foraging interests given likely resource abundance, return rates, and transport costs. Men's hunting returns must be high enough to reliably provision children for a hunting-oriented settlement pattern to occur. Otherwise, men should logistically hunt out of bases positioned to facilitate women's foraging. Therefore, a hunting-oriented strategy seems unlikely in the Late Holocene Carson Desert.
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