Christopher Jackson
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English
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Chris Jackson has written a thoughtful and brilliant study of Federer as a man, player, and aesthetic and moral figure of our times. It outplays even Foster Wallace's magisterial writing on this greatest of all tennis champions.
Here is the one of the most profound, insightful and elegant books ever written about sports.
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English
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Being a freshman can be HARD. Being a freshman who is shy, alone, and struggling with dyslexia is even HARDER. Others say he is different and Phillip feels safer in the comfort of his own company… as lonely as that may be. Yet, things start to change for the better when Phillip meets Delanie, Nick, and Tucker.With his mother unwilling to give him more freedom, Phillip refuses to let fear get in the way and gets involved with the school play: allowing...
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English
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Whisper Into My Eyes is the first composition from the book series Cracked Hearts One Soul. Described as a meditative poetic journal, this first book will take you travelling to places where time and space does not always exist. It will draw out of you feelings of pain, fear, suffering, and sadness but yet also those of love, peace, happiness, and harmony and afterwards your soul will have experienced this universe in a mysterious yet real way. Throughout...
4) FreedomLand
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English
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Can the Red and Blue extremes of America ever get along? Can men and women? Possibly... if held at gunpoint and an African leopard is involved.
In one memorable night Gage Randolph steals the Confederacy's most sacred Civil War relic, gives a ride to America's dumbest domestic terrorist, and accidentally kidnaps a liberal cable TV host.
This wildly incompatible group needs to lie low and a bankrupt restaurant run by Gage's friend, Bud Roy Roemer,...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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An inclusive vision of mathematics-its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish. For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a diverse audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning...
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Publisher
Ghostlight Records
Pub. Date
2́008
Language
English
Description
Experience an exhilarating journey into one of Manhattan's most vibrant communities - a world where the coffee from the corner bodega is light & sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries three generations of music.