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Fastpitch Softball: The Windmill Pitcher

Fast Pitch Softball: The Windmill Pitcher

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Fastpitch Softball : The Windmill Pitcher
Barry Sammons
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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"The Windmill Pitcher is the most comprehensive book on fastpitch pitching that I have read. It is an excellent reference for both coaches and pitchers." -- Ernie Parker, world-renowned pitching coach "I now have a comprehensive reference book to offer the people who contact me about pitching. The chapter on increasing ball speed is outstanding. There was an incredible need for this book and I thank Barry for writing it." -- Sherry Werner, PhD, lead researcher, International Olympic Committee's Submission on Biomechanics and Physiology "One of the most comprehensive fastpitch instructional books on the market today. A must addition for any coach's library." -- Art Certosimo, DuPage County, Illinois Barry Simmons has been a pitcher in men's fastpitch softball leagues at all levels for 35 years. Also a student of art and design, Sammons used his knowledge to develop many of the illustrations used in the book. He is an attorney for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin firm of Quarles & Brady.

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The Best for Reference for Fastpitch Pitching.......2007-06-04

The Windmill Pitcher is a great book for any coach, player, and parent. I highly recommend this for parents of pitchers. It is well written with execptional illustrations of the correct mechanics for the windmall pitcher. I've been around the game all my life and seen many good pitchers. The great pitchers have solid mechanics. This is a must have for fastpitch softball.

Fastpitch Softball: The Windmill Pitcher.......2007-01-30

Illustrations are not clear enough for a beginner to understand. I pitched fastpitch for over 35 years and I had trouble understanding what was being taught.

Overall, I was not too impressed with the book. I probably won't use it as a reference for my pitching school.

Fast Pitch Softball: The Windmill Pitcher.......2005-12-17

Review: The Windmill Pitcher

In the book, The Windmill Pitcher, it talks about how to play softball, and different ways to pitch. This book has the best description of how to pitch, and also different ways to pitch. If pitchers and coaches have questions about coaching, or pitching they can refer to this book. It has many different ways and diagrams to show and describe pitching. It tells you what to do for ball control, and what you need to do to improve your pitching mechanics. There are many different ways to pitch in fast pitch softball, such as; Slingshot, Single Pump, and Double Pump. I would recommend this book to pitchers and coaches that LOVE softball.

Best material I've used.......2002-02-20

I have a collection of tapes from various people. It would seem that video would be the best medium for this kind of instruction. Maybe it's because I viewed and re-viewed the tapes so often, but I honestly got more detail out of this book than anything else I've used. The discussion of each piece of the mechanics along with drills I haven't seen on any tape was very, very helpful.

I would strongly recommend this book. It's straight-up, no hype instruction. Excellent for beginning or intermediate pitchers and/or coaches.

Excellent and Informative.......2001-12-20

I keep this book with me all the time during softball season ! I have been coaching for 9 years and and have learned quite a few things from this book. It's nice to be able to go back to it and review. It covers the windmill pitcher from A to Z. Very Very Good !

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Lonely Planet's city maps present the travelers' city in one easy view

• Complete street and sight index makes navigating the city a breeze for walkers and drivers alike

• All new, improved mapping styles and fully updated

• Sturdy, laminated, easy-fold format

• Quick-find highlights and reviews of the top city sights

• Includes up-to-date transit maps and essential practical information

• Full color throughout with gorgeous photographs

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In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality.

The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another.

Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them.

By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."

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Slumming.......2007-01-03

Seth Koven has exercised esxcellent scholarship in this fascinating account of Victorian London. Koven delves deeply into the various motivations (from charitable to journalistic to seeking a sexual outlet) of upper crust individuals who chose to frequent the slums of London. A must read for anyone interested in the cultural history of Victorian London.

Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History

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Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
Scott Herring
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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At the start of the twentieth century, tales of “how the other half lives” experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid details about the deviants who populated it.

In this major rethinking of American literature and culture, Scott Herring explores how a key group of authors manipulated this genre to paradoxically evade the confines of sexual identification. Queering the Underworld examines a range of writers, from Jane Addams and Willa Cather to Carl Van Vechten and Djuna Barnes, revealing how they fulfilled the conventions of slumming literature but undermined its goals, and in the process, queered the genre itself. Their work frustrated the reader’s desire for sexual knowledge, restored the inscrutability of sexual identity, and cast doubt on the value of a homosexual subculture made visible and therefore subject to official control.

Herring is persuasive and polemical in connecting these writers to ongoing debates about lesbian and gay history and politics, and Queering the Underworld will be widely read by students and scholars of literature, history, and sexuality.

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Slumming
Let me explain my reasoning
An interesting book, one of my favorites
It's always nice to read before you review...

Slumming
Kristen D. Randle
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060010223
Release Date: 2003-07-01

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Everybody has two eyes and a nose and a mouth. What makes some people beautiful and some people not?

Nikki never imagined that this offhand thought would change the course of her senior year forever. But when she poses the question to her best friends, Alicia and Sam, Alicia is suddenly inspired, and the three unexpectedly find themselves launching a "human experiment." It seems like the perfect way to make a difference in their last few weeks of high school: they will each pick a student who needs a little improving and take that person to the prom.

Harmless, right?

When Nikki, Alicia, and Sam quickly become entrenched in their projects, each has to face difficult realizations about the people they have chosen -- and themselves. Before long their own close friendship feels fragile. Will they make it to graduation without hurting one another -- or anybody else?

Acclaimed author Kristen D. Randle has woven an intriguing, insightful, and suspenseful story about three friends who set out to transform others, with unforeseen consequences.

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Great!.......2005-09-29

I found this book to be just delightful. It was thought provoking on many levels yet quite entertaining at the same time. There were certainly some gritty issues that the author dealt with using an incredible style to still maintain "PG" language. My daughter graduated from high school last year and I could substitute her classmates' names for just about every character in the book. Maybe they seem like stereotypes, but very believable ones, to me anyway.

Slumming.......2004-11-13

Sam, Nikki, and Alicia are all senior, and have come up with a project, to help them branch out and " repay their debt to society". They will each pick one person " in need of help" i.e; the goth, the nerd, the druggie, and recreate their image, then take them to prom. As the book goes on, it gets less and less about the original idea, and Sam, Nikki, and Alicia grow to actually like the people they choose.They form true friendships, and grow farther and farther apart from each other. They realize that there is much more to people than meets the eye. There are consiquences to these friendships though, they are faced with many difficult decisions, and in the end, they become much closer becuase of them.
I enjoyed this book, not your typical " makeover" story. Towards the end it drags out a little bit, but other than that I recomend it.

Let me explain my reasoning.......2004-05-04

I was the guy who gave this book one star. and several months later, my mind is not changed.

The reasons why i dislike this book are:

1. The way the characters thought, spoke and acted was not realistic. That is the problem with books about teens these days; the authors dont really know how teenagers think, talk, etc.

2.How could you say this book is not full of stereotypes? Let's see, you've got the "nerd", the "jock", the "goth girl", the shallow girl who doesnt like "nerds"... i could go on and on. and if you think about it, in real life you don't meet people that fit completely into a stereotype. People just aren't one- dimensional like that.

3. Because this is not my kind of book. The "moral" was lame and preachy, plus very overdone. In short, it was an UNORIGINAL book.

So, that's my reasoning. I don't see why you have to attack me for giving out my opinion. And, in fact, I did read the whole book. Only took me a couple hours.

An interesting book, one of my favorites.......2004-03-11

'Slumming' is actually three different stories in one book, all connected in some ways. The three main characters (Sam, Nikki, and Alicia) all tell their stories, which each deal with a new, life-changing experiment they decided to try.

Prom is coming up, and Nikki comes up with an idea - why not find a person that is socially 'below' her and her friends and invite him/her to the prom? Seems foolproof, right? Wrong.

Sam chooses Tia, this girl that most people are afraid of. She has a rough home life, a brother with Down syndrome, and a bad attitude. Sam doesn't give up though - he keeps following her around, talking to her, etc. He starts to build up a great friendship with Tia, and generally feels this project is doing him good.

Nikki decides to ask out the school's stereotypical nerd...Brian. He's a bit of a jerk, and treats her like she's the stupidest person on the planet. She keeps talking to him, and eventually, they also become friends.

Alicia chooses Morgan Weiss - the school's token 'bad boy.' Though Sam and Nikki don't approve of her choice, she goes along and tries anyway. What happens to her though, is a lot worse than she expected.

I highly recommed this book to everyone, because it's funny, sad, heartwarming, and easy to relate to...all in one book.

It's always nice to read before you review..........2004-02-01

I just love it when it's obvious that a review is slamming something he hasn't even read. Like the guy that gave this book one star. Stereotypes. Sure there are stereotypes - and if you read past the third chapter,it's obvious that the "stereotypes" are there because Randle intends to knock them to pieces. This book is about how stupid stereotypes are, and it's about how our own lives are often full of more holes than the lives of the people we're judging. There are sub-plots because this is about all kinds of people, not just one kind. Maybe the one star guy needs to stick with middle-grade readers - fewer characters to confuse, less demanding in terms of analytical thinking.

Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem

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Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem
Robert Dowling
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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This remarkable exploration of the underbelly of New York City life from 1880 to 1930 takes readers through the city's inexhaustible variety of distinctive neighborhood cultures. Slumming in New York shows how the city's rich and poor, foreign-born and native-born, competed for a voice from such diverse vantage points as the East Side waterfront, the Bowery, the Tenderloin's "black bohemia," the Jewish Lower East Side, and mythic Harlem.

Investigating a wide range of New York "slumming" narratives in which mainstream outsiders write about marginalized urban insiders, Robert M. Dowling shows how literary works transformed moral threats into cultural treasures.

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Slumming Angels
Bruce Glikin
Manufacturer: Amber Fields Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0966345819

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Slumming Angels is a detective mystery set in Houston, Texas in the 1990's. The protagonist, Trip Chandler, is a no-nonsense tough guy from the old school. His penchant for finding trouble and attracting beautiful women, coupled with a sharp tongue and quick fists, is a recipe for disaster. In Chandler's maiden voyage, he gets involved with a sixtyish Texas oilman and his drop-dead gorgeous mistress, a blonde nymphomaniac that can reduce the toughest-tough guy, to a flaccid puddle of warm water. This one includes big bucks, quick sex, blackmail, and of course murder.

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Slumming in Voodooland
B. Stableford
Manufacturer: Pulphouse Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Good description of why slums develop and persist...

Slumming India
Gita Dewan Verma
Manufacturer: Penguin Books,India
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Planet of Slums

ASIN: 0143028758

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Good description of why slums develop and persist..........2003-09-04

Slumming India is a book true to its title - it describes how the slums in India originate, grow, get "removed", attract the anger of the middle class and the occasional political attention, but somehow through it all, continue existing.

The main point of the book is the author's assertion that slums represent the failure of the state to provide for adequate housing infrastructure to *all* citizens. She argues that all attempts to improve slums are in fact misguided because they only legitimise the state's failure instead of demanding the rights of the poor.

This is an argument that those familiar with Shanta Sinha's work on education, will recognize. Shanta Sinha (winner of the 2003 Magsaysay award) maintains that the only acceptable form of education is formal education for everyone. Alternate "non-formal" education schemes for poor or rural children short-change them in the long-run and legitimise the failure of the state to provide adequate and sufficient schooling for all children.

Gita Verma's articulates a similar view for slum dwellings. She describes the many factors that lead to the existence and continuation of slums flagrant violation of land-use laws, constant redefining of laws and amnesty to violators, misguided efforts of do-gooders to "save" slums, ineffective international aid that leads to more awards than solutions, etc. To support her argument, she chronicles recent events primarily in Indore and Delhi. The book is educational and a must-read for those wishing to understand why slums are so stubbornly pervasive in Indian cities.

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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 749 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kristen D. Randle Slumming.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Lauren Adams
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: 79 Issue: 4 Page: 466(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Young Adult Review, Brief Article

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