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What would legendary Boston Celtics coach and 16-time NBA champion Red Auerbach say is the most critical quality for a person to be successful? Would his advice differ from 10-time NCAA championship coach John Wooden's? What would each say to a young person just starting out in pursuit of their dreams? What is the best advice they were ever given?
It took author Christian Klemash more than two years of research, persistence, and original interviews, but now he's ready to pass on the best advice you'll ever get. Only the rare individual has had the opportunity to pick the brain of just one legendary sports coach—let alone thirty-four of the best sports coaches of all time. Klemash gives sports fans a once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn valuable life lessons from the most famous, intelligent, and victorious coaches ever. The legends span the sports world, from gold medal-winning gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi and three-time college football championship coach Tom Osborne to four-time World Series-winning baseball manager Joe Torre and hall-of-fame boxing trainer Angelo Dundee.
These coaches know how to teach top athletes about character and winning, how to manage pressure at crunch time, and how to bring out the best in their players when it matters most. How to Succeed in the Game of Life shares their insights into sports, life, and the most vital keys to sustain success.Featuring Exclusive Interviews with:
Red Auerbach, 16-time NBA World Champion
Bobby Bowden, College Football's All-Time Winningest Coach, 2-time National Champion
Scotty Bowman, 9-time Stanley Cup Champion
Bill Cowher, Super Bowl Champion
Tony Dungy, Super Bowl Champion
Dan Gable, 15-time NCCA Champion
April Heinrichs, Gold Medal Winning Coach of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
Bela Karolyi, The World’s Greatest Gymnastics Coach
Bill Parcells, 2-time Super Bowl Champion
Emanuel Steward, Boxing Trainer of 30 World Champions
Joe Torre, 4-time World Series Champion
Bill Walsh, 3-time Super Bowl Champion
Lenny Wilkens, NBA’s All-Time Winningest Coach, NBA Champion
John Wooden, 10-time NCAA Champion
And More!
Customer Reviews:
A Great Read.......2007-08-26
Wow!Could not put it down.An extraordinay self help book.Gave it to my kids they loved it.Don't miss this one
What a great read!.......2007-07-25
I took it on vacation with me and I couldn't put it down. A great book for aspiring athletes and coaches as well as your average Joe who works 9-5. The coaches discuss a variety of topics from their childhood to how they motivate their players. Any easy read for all ages.
Game of life.......2007-07-24
I've read through Game of Life and I enjoyed it very much. There are so many things to take from this book, not just into sports, but also some reflections on life. I would recommend this book to everybody.
Coaching advise from athletic coaches.......2007-06-27
A fun read, especially if yoiu're a sports fan. I read it in search of things that would help my own ability as a coach in my company. Much of it is light stuff but the easy read makes it fun nonetheless and there are few golden nuggets laced throughout the book.
Overcome Adversity.......2007-04-12
Anyone looking for inspiration, either for their own life or to share with others, will find a gold mine of quotes here. This book isn't just for sports fans.
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This book is a unique, eye-opening guide to one of the world’s most magnificent cities, celebrating the special character of Rome’s buildings, fountains, piazzas, streets, and ruins with illuminating insight and irresistible enthusiasm — for the first-time sightseer, the frequent visitor, or the armchair traveler.
Not Built in a Day moves beyond the names, dates, and statistics of the traditional guidebook to provide a loving, personal, and instructive analysis of the architectural pleasures of Rome. Twelve walking tours profile some two hundred sites within Rome’s ancient walls, all described in prose that is fresh, witty, and discerning. From the largest piazza down to the smallest fountain, George H. Sullivan’s essays explore the city with an engagingly appraising eye, enabling readers to see exactly what makes the architecture of Rome so important and so memorable. Sophisticated enough for those well versed in architecture, yet written in language accessible to all readers, this extraordinary guide is a deeply felt homage to Rome and its fascinating two-thousand-year history.
In addition to detailed maps for the twelve walking tours, this wonderful edition comes illustrated with classical etchings.
Customer Reviews:
Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome.......2007-07-20
This remarkable book is a must read if you are planning your own itinerary in Rome. The author's love of Rome and its Architecture are apparent from the first page. He organizes the overwhelming amount of information into compact and readable units. Pick a time period or Architectural style of interest and follow the detailed path laid out by the author. The added information of the art to see inside each structure makes this the only "guide" book to Art & Architecture that you will need on your visit to Rome.
What every guidebook should be.......2007-07-15
Not Build in a Day blends astute architectural observation with basic guidebook practicality. The descriptions combine detail and relevant explanation to make the most lay-person feel expert as they dissect the infinite elements in a church, piazza, or palazzo. For anyone who's been to Rome, the inexorable shuttling between sites makes you numb to the city's splendor, but Not Built in a Day constantly re-orients and reminds the reader that every site contains an element of architectural, historical, or civic wonder that makes the non-stop walking completely worthwhile.
The book's walking tours can be strictly followed (I completed tours 1,2, and 7 without any diversions), but once I had a better feel for the city, I picked specific places that I wanted to see and then read the appropriate entry.
Every guidebook should aspire to be Not Built in a Day
A superb guide to Rome.......2007-01-10
This is a well written and well organized guide to Rome. I found Mr.Sullivan's book to be both educational and extremely enjoyable. This book contributed to four fascinating days in Rome last September, and I would not consider going back to Rome without it. There were so many times that the text helped me to notice things that I would have otherwise overlooked. I hlghly recommend this guide.
From Amos Elon.......2006-08-20
This memorable, witty and discerning new guide to Rome -- a city caught "like an old man" in memories, delusions and dreams --evokes the special character, history and attraction of the marvelous piazzas along with the ancient, renaissance and baroque palazzos. Sophisticated and informative, it sharpens your eye and mind; it is what lovers of Rome have been waiting for. Don't miss it for your next to Rome.... Amos Elon
New Architectural Guide to Rome.......2006-05-11
I found Mr Sullivan's book to be an insightful and elegant analysis of the architecture of Rome. It is an excellent guide for both on-site visits and for savoring after your trip. This is one of the best books that I have read on Rome.
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Designs for 60 homes, from a simple four-room cottage with a front porch to a comfortable two-story home with four bedrooms, a reception hall and pantry. Shown in landscaped exteriors, floor plans, and overhead cutaway views. With detailed commentaries on each design.
Customer Reviews:
A reprint of a good Aladdin Catalogue.......2000-09-24
This is an 8 x 11, 117 page [Dover] reprint of Aladdin's 1917 Catalog. The print and architectural renderings (house sketches) are really very good.
The back of the book has garages, hardware miscellany, colonnades, arches, built-ins, etc.
The first dozen pages are company history and background, which I find completely fascinating.
The catalog looks like most house catalogs of this era, with an angled, although primarily frontal view of the house, with floor plans, house description, etc.
It's pretty interesting reading and most folks would enjoy perusing it. I have several Dover Publication reprints and always find them good additions to my ever growing historical architecture library.
And if you're doing research on Sears Catalog homes, like me, this Aladdin book is an invaluable research tool because it really highlights the *similarities* between these different catalog homes.
All catalog houses, it turns out, look surprisingly alike. Only vague nuances separate the Aladdins from the MWards houses and the Sears Houses. They all copied one another - changing a front entry or a bracketed eave or some other minimal change.
The Aladdin 1917 Catalog is interesting and a good quality reprint.
Rose
A reprint of a good Aladdin Catalogue.......2000-09-24
This is an 8 x 11, 117 page [Dover] reprint of Aladdin's 1917 Catalog. The print and architectural renderings (house sketches) are really very good.
The back of the book has garages, hardware miscellany, colonnades, arches, built-ins, etc.
The first dozen pages are company history and background, which I find completely fascinating.
The catalog looks like most house catalogs of this era, with an angled, although primarily frontal view of the house, with floor plans, house description, etc.
It's pretty interesting reading and most folks would enjoy perusing it. I have several Dover Publication reprints and always find them good additions to my ever growing historical architecture library.
And if you're doing research on Sears Catalog homes, like me, this Aladdin book is an invaluable research tool because it really highlights the *similarities* between these different catalog homes.
All catalog houses, it turns out, look surprisingly alike. Only vague nuances separate the Aladdins from the MWards houses and the Sears Houses. They all copied one another - changing a front entry or a bracketed eave or some other minimal change.
The Aladdin 1917 Catalog is interesting and a good quality reprint.
Rose
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Home Wasn't Built in a Day: Constructing the Stories of Our Families
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Written by juniors and seniors at the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, this collection of touching and insightful stories explores the myths and realities of what makes a family a family. Home Wasn't Built in a Day includes a foreword by Robin Williams.
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- Some of the background, but not the full story
- A pre-dot bomb period piece
- A ghastly revisionist history for businessmen
- Interesting, Timely, but flawed
- An education and entertaining as well.
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Robert Reid explores the history of the Net from a business perspective--how a communication system nominally built for national defense and in effect taken over by education and research came to erupt as the most important medium since television--and with greater speed and intensity than any communication medium ever. Each chapter examines the Web's business development through the story of one of its pioneers--including Marc Andreeson of Netscape, Mark Pesce of VRML, Jerry Yang of Yahoo!, Halsey Minor of CNET, and more. Its an exciting story of frantic activity in a whirlwind environment and of the individuals who rode the tornado to success.
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"A terrific book that captures the explosion of creativity and business evolution at the center of the Internet phenomenon. A tantalizing mix of diverse players with utopian visions, animated by equal parts aggression and delight. A true saga of our time."-James F. Moore author, The Death of Competition; Chairman, Geo Partners Research Inc.
Architects of the Web presents the dynamic history of the Web's creation and evolution-as well as its emergence as a dynamic business tool-through revealing profiles of its architects, the brilliant minds who have helped thrust the Web onto desktops and corporate agendas around the world. A diverse, ambitious group, the architects of the Web are:
* Marc Andreessen, Netscape
* Ariel Poler, I/PRO
* Rob Glaser, Progressive Networks Andrew Anker, HotWired
* Kim Polese, Marimba
* Halsey Minor, C/NET
* Mark Pesce, VRML
* Jerry Yang, Yahoo!
Customer Reviews:
Some of the background, but not the full story.......2003-11-18
It has been a few months since I read the book, just never getting back to writing a review. For whatever reason tonight is the night.
I found it to be an interesting book, to learn the firsthand accounts of some of the important architects of the WWW; and then some not so important. Opening my eyes to what was really going on in other parts of the world while I was just barely learning the WWW.
The reading was for the most part smooth, and easy read actually. If you want to learn part of where we have come from over a weekend go ahead and pick this up.
A pre-dot bomb period piece.......2003-10-31
Reid's book can safely be characterized as a pre-dot bomb period piece. He writes the history of the Web as the history of making money in wonderously new ways. The actual Ponzi-scheme techniques by which much of the Web's money poured in (for a while) are not explored. But that is fine. Internet historians will refer to this now primary document as financial and cultural historians refer to the U2-can-get-rich books of the late 1920s -- that is, the ones written before the Great Crash of October, 1929.
A ghastly revisionist history for businessmen.......1999-04-05
This book is a revisionist history which attempts to give the credit for the development of the web to businessmen, and almost completely ignores the people who actually designed the architecture of the web. Even Tim Berners-Lee gets only a token mention; and Ted Nelson, who invented hypertext, multimedia and "linking", is completely ignored.
The first chapter tries to credit Netscape with the invention of the web, and pretends that they lead the development of HTML. The truth, of course, is that Netscape has never managed to fully implement any of the HTML standards, let alone improve on them. Most of the HTML "improvements" thought of as Netscape's were defined in HTML 3.0 long before Netscape implemented them via gratuitously incompatible tags.
As the book goes on it gets even worse. CNET and HotWired as architects of the web? Yeah, right, and I suppose the Psychic Friends Network invented the telephone? I'll be generous, and assume that this book happened because some poor soul started believing the nonsense Internet companies put out in their press releases. The alternative is that it's a deliberate attempt to re-write history. Unfortunately, judging from the 'professional' reviews there must be plenty of suckers who actually do think CNET and WIRED magazine invented the web. I wish it was possible to give this book a score of zero; you could learn more about the real history of the web by spending half an hour browsing the W3C web site.
Interesting, Timely, but flawed.......1997-07-21
The main impression you take away from this book is that there are a lot of millionaires in
the Internet world that got there by accident and timing rather than outright brilliance. Written as if Microsoft is a dark malevolent force (which is how it is obviously perceived from the other side), this book goes too far in trying to canonize the newcomers. While many recent books have been written from the " MS is great" side, this counter view can be interesting, but takes many cheap shots. The hardest part of reading this is the horrible editing. You realize that you are noticing constant typos, grammar and layout problems as you go.
In many cases, it looks like a quick spell check was done on dictated text as same sounding words show up totally out of context in their other spelling. This apparently was rushed to the press. The best part of this book is recognizing the significance of the sub-title.
It truly has only been 1,000 days since the Web exploded
An education and entertaining as well........1997-06-14
You learn about the web; what it is and where it
might be going. The introduction by Neil Weintraut is a primer on the facts, figures and
infrastructure of the web and, in itself, is quite worth the reading. The author is an excellent story teller and his documenting of the events in the development of the web is entertaining reading
and is a recounting of real life, as well. Great
reading for professionals as well as surfers of the web.
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- great book!
- Built to Last is a great read
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Built in a Day
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Acclaimed author of the story collection
Kick in the Head Steven Rinehart’s debut novel is filled to the brim with his characteristic wry humor, unflinching truth, and raw emotional power.
Built in a Day is the story of an over-educated underachiever whose oath to clean up his act is put to the ultimate test when the world around him crumbles into a state of disrepair. Left in charge of his late wife’s son and a sultry 15-year-old pregnant orphan named Jule, 32-year-old Andrew Bergman has to find the will and strength to rise to the absurd challenge of becoming a stepfather and -grandfather in the course of a few short months. Darkly hysterical and deeply stirring,
Built in a Day is an affecting examination of love, responsibility, and the resilience it takes to pick up the pieces.
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STEVEN RINEHART is the recipient of an NEA grant and a Michener fellowship. His collection of short stories, Kick in the Head, was published by Doubleday in 2000, and his work has appeared in a variety of magazines, including Harper¿s and GQ. He lives in New York City.
Customer Reviews:
great book!.......2007-05-19
Not the most uplifting read, but brilliantly insightful writing.....rinehart definitely knows what he's doing.
Built to Last is a great read.......2005-01-26
Steve Rinehart's novel grabbed my attention on the opening page and after a while I realized that I was standing in the library, had read twenty pages, would rather check out the book and read the rest of it at home in comfort on the sofa. I had other things to do but they went undone until I finished BUILT IN A DAY. As I neared the end I thought, "Sure, it's a great read, but what about the ending? Can he make me believe in the ending?" And yes. The ending is great. Surprising and inevitable, as a good ending should be.
If you liked Fred Leebron's IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS, or Elissa Schappell's USE ME, you will probably enjoy BUILT IN A DAY.
A glimpse into some dark and twisted personalities.......2004-07-29
Rhinehart leave no holes barred when it comes to the dark depths of the characters in Built in a Day. The book chronicles the shortcomings of what seems at first to be a nobody in a bland, boring Midwest town. That is until the dark, sexual, and humorous inner workings of the characters, specifically the 'hero' (not the best description) Andrew are realized, and the seemingly endless barrage of small disasters and gross mistakes occur.
Overall it is a marginally good read, with a little humor (mostly ironic and dark) and sex scattered throughout.
The Bum.......2003-10-22
The hero, or should I say anti-hero (Andrew) of Steven Rinehart's "Built in a Day" is pretty much a creep and a wash out: he has married a seemingly nice woman( Isabel) with 2 teenage boys (Russ and Alex) yet he lusts after the 15 year old girlfriend (Jule) of one of them. He is a recovering alcoholic and has spent years trying to graduate from college and at 32, still hasn't. Rinehart does allow Andrew one redeeming quality though and that is his longing and striving to make a family of his stepsons and of course, his wife.
Throughout this novel you get the nagging feeling that Rinehart's heart isn't in it: nothing much happens, he has little sympathy for his hero and in the last 5 pages Andrew gets an unwarranted comeuppance and put down.
At best the prose is good but many pages go by with Andrew droning on and on making petty and minor observations. I can't help but wonder why Rinehart wrote this book and more importantly why I also chose to finish it.
Fun, but Disturbing, Read.......2003-09-04
There is much to enjoy in Rinehart's book, but overall, despite the solid conclusion, the narrator is unconvincing. He's pretty much scum, for reasons that aren't entirely clear, and he doesn't get it soon enough to really earn redemption. Andrew is a 32 year old undergrad (who isn't old enough to run for president but never mind, Rinehard has him nominated by the Iowa caucus anyway), not ready to graduate, yet finds himself charged with the care of his dead wife's son and foster-daughter, and he is entirely unprepared--no surprise, given that he can barely take care of himself, although his thorough ineptness is less than plausible. He is remarkably hunger-free, given his recovering-addict status, which makes him even more surreal. And he doesn't seem to have any qualms about the moral choices he makes. In short, he's hard to buy. Having said that, the story he finds himself in builds to bang-up climax, with a sweet little resolution that gives the reader some hope that Andrew is climbing out his hole, and might even be better for it when he gets there. The novel is flawed, but is no waste of time.
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