Résultats lu par "Gary Roelofs" dans Toutes les catégories

In Soccer in American Culture: The Beautiful Game’s Struggle for Status, G. Edward White seeks to answer two questions. The first is why the sport of soccer failed to take root in the United States when it spread from England around much of the rest of the world in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The second is why the sport has had a significant renaissance in America since the last decade of the 20th century, to the point where it is now the fourth largest participatory sport in the United States and is thriving at the high school, college, and professional levels.

Short Fuse contains five short stories, including "Starting Over", "Now What Do We Do", "You Here with Anybody", "Time's Up", and "Doppelganger".

This audiobook is a collection of the following 11 short stories, "A Perfect Match", "Alice Visits a Psychiatrist", "Automated 9-1-1", "Blood Bath", "Camouflage", "Deja Vu", "Rude Rudy", "Stella and the Chief", "The Ten-Grand Stunt", "It's a Dog Eat Dog World", and "With This Face".

This audiobook contains the Cooper short stories numbering 311 to 320. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Cooper Saga Stories 311-320, and experience the compelling world of detective fiction.

This audiobook contains 15 enjoyable short stories.

Fifteen short stories, including: "Ashes to Ashes", "Asylum", "Attack", "Attention", "Bait and Switch", "Charade", "Forever", "Holdup", "I'll Bet I Can", "Just Desserts", "Just What I Always Wanted", "Kerry Me Back", "Make a Run for It", "Million Dollar Smile", and "My Lucky Numbers".

A collection of 15 short, but suspenseful stories, including: Anything for a Sale, Careful What You Wish For, Starting Over, and Time's Up.

Tad thought things were done. Hearing her clinking around some more in the kitchen, Tad realized he should have been up and helped her with whatever she was working on. But, as he was thinking that she was back in the bedroom again with a plate of food, bacon, and eggs. And, as she handed it to him, the lights flicker for a second. Over and finished.

A collection of 15 short stories, including: "Easy Money", "It's a Wonderful Death", "Lucky Stiff", and "Three Minute Warning".

Most of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature. In recent years, many of these experiences have been increasingly transformed, and capitalized on through advancements that adapt the world around us, and to suit our ever-more computerized environment. Multisensory Experiences is a comprehensive introduction that takes the listener from the fundamentals of multisensory experiences and design, through the relationship between the senses and technology, to finally what the future of those experiences may look like, and our responsibility in it.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Cooper Saga Stories 301-310, and experience the compelling world of crime fiction.

In Anti Aging Secret, discover the techniques and methods to reverse the aging process so you can look and feel younger. In Life Strategies, you'll learn techniques to clear your mind, lowering stress levels and making you able to think clearly for the first time!

PI John Cooper's favorite actress was Melissa Bright, but she died much too young, and John can't accept the official version of how she died. He suspects foul play and sets out on his own to get to the truth. The movie studio, as anyone from the Hollywood area knows, wields more power than some countries, and if anyone gets in their way, well, let's just say they have a record for making their problems disappear. In this, my third Cooper novel, John gets so far in over his head that someone plants a bomb under his car. Want to see how it comes out? Listen to it.

Three hundred and sixteen people are shot or killed every day in the United States. At five humans attacked per day per zombie, it would take 24 days for 316 zombies to overtake a population of 7.9 billion. “Tad Spector at your service!” “Look Tad, I heard you were the best," said the president. "I need you on my team, on my side. You hear me. I need a guy that’s not a part of the system.” Seemed a bit paranoid at the time. But now he seemed even more suspicious. “They are after me, Tad. You can keep a secret, right? I mean, that's your job.”

Tarot cards have been around since the Renaissance, and have become increasingly popular in recent years, often due to their prevalence in popular culture. This audiobook is an extensive history of the development and evolution of Tarot, and its place in culture. It begins with an extensive review from its roots as a game, to its supposed connection to ancient Egyptian magic; through its place in secret societies, and to its current use in meditation and psychology.

Author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of White racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how two visions of the West - as a racially diverse holding cell and a White refuge - shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.

In the wake of the coronavirus and George Floyd killing, many of the issues dividing us as a nation - race, politics, class, gender, climate change, globalism, and religion - have only been magnified, and although the US surgeon general has called for an end to bickering and partisanship, it is unclear to what extent this will take effect. What is clear, however, is that safe, mindfully structured dialogues are imperative if we are to salvage our republic and the democratic principles on which it is built.

The robotic revolution is here and there's no going back. From the way we raise our children, to our work settings, to our governments, and even our wars, the quick-fix, instant result society is roiling our world. This audiobook dwells on the miracle of the unknown. It is an intimate trek into the evolving spirituality of awe - the humility and wonder and sense of adventure toward life. Can we preserve awe - the arguable "heart" of humanity - in spite of and even in light of our technologies? There is no more critical problem for our age.

What do a school shooter, a corporate swindler, and a bullheaded ideologue have in common? They all converge on what author Kirk Schneider terms "the polarized mind". The polarized mind, which is the fixation on one point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view, is killing us - personally, politically, and environmentally. Drawing from the standpoint of existential psychology, this audiobook details the basis for the polarized mind, how it has ravaged leaders and their cultures throughout history.

As the first decade of the 21st century has made brutally clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed almost beyond recognition. Threats to security are now as likely to come from armed propagandists, popular militias, or mercenary organizations as they are from conventional armies backed by nation-states. In this timely book, national security expert Max G. Manwaring explores a little-understood actor on the stage of irregular warfare - the gang.