Sam Smith
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Oscar Robertson is known as one of the best players in NBA history, a triple-double machine who set the stage for the versatility of today's NBA superstars like LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, and Draymond Green. But The Big O's larger legacy may lie in spearheading the fight for his fellow players' financial equity and free agency, joined by fellow stars John Havlicek, Bill Bradley, Wes Unseld, and more. In Hard Labor, Sam Smith, best-selling basketball...
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This book takes a thought-provoking look at the environment we live in and the everyday issues we face. Through the use of fictional characters, it encourages readers to take a closer look at their surroundings and sheds light on hidden problems that affect us all. This short story is a unique blend of reality and imagination, addressing societal issues that are often ignored. The author does not take a specific group or living style over another...
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This is a woman's life story who accidentally steps in a different world and her life changes forever. This story takes Readers to the highest emotion that someone can experience, and at the same time lets you predict what is going to happen in the next chapter if you were her. However, the story is fiction but lets readers feel characters' commitments, love, broken heart, recovery, failure and success the way you feel you are main character and Author...
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The New York Times Bestseller, Now in eBook Format and Updated With a New Introduction This is the 20th anniversary of the explosive bestseller that changed the way the world viewed one of the greatest athletes in history, revealing for the first time Michael Jordan's relentless drive to win anything and everything, at any cost. NBA Hall of Fame columnist Sam Smith had unlimited access to the team and its players during their championship 1991-92...
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En la temporada de 1990-1991, el célebre periodista Sam Smith tuvo un acceso privilegiado al interior de la franquicia de los Chicago Bulls -algo impensable hoy en día- y lo aprovechó para escribir uno de los mejores libros de deporte de la historia, Las reglas de Jordan, donde reveló los secretos inconfesables de un año convulso que marcaría el futuro de la NBA.
Intenso, fascinante y escandaloso a partes iguales, Las reglas de Jordan lo abarca...
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Thirty years after Michael Jordan's first NBA game comes an oral history of his legendary career, told by the men who played with him and against him, coached him, and witnessed first-hand the iconic greatness of the most dominant athlete sports has ever seen. Featuring interviews with: Larry Bird • Magic Johnson • Phil Jackson • Reggie Miller • Isiah Thomas • Reggie Theus • Chris Mullin • Doug Collins • Dominique Wilkins •...
7) Jirga
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An ex-soldier returns to Afghanistan to find the family of a civilian he accidentally killed during the war. Seeking forgiveness, he puts his life in the hands of the village justice system - the Jirga. Shot in Taliban-controlled regions of Afghanistan, using some former members of the Taliban itself as actors. Languages: English and Pashto.
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For over 275 years, the Rotunda Hospital has been at the forefront of maternity services in Ireland. In Delivering the Future: Reflections of a Rotunda Master, Sam Coulter-Smith celebrates the history of the hospital, with a particular focus on the last thirty years, and explains why voluntary hospitals, with their ability to lead, adapt, research, and provide the best clinical services to their patients, play a vital role in maintaining and improving...
11) Settle
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Cherrytree/Interscope
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[2013]
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English
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UK electronic artists who are now part of Cherrytree Records. They have been making waves across the pond with their revival of the UK garage-house sound, marked by advanced rhythm combinations and soulful R & B vocal samples. Their first commercial singer Latch peaked at #11 on the UK charts and racked up over 13 million video views on YouTube.--Midwest Tape.
12) Ron's gone wrong
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
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[2021]
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English
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Twentieth Century Studios and Locksmith Animation's film is the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler, and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally connected device, which is supposed to be his 'Best Friend out of the Box.' Ron's hilarious malfunctions set against the backdrop of the social media age launch them into an action-packed journey in which boy and robot come to terms with the wonderful messiness of true friendship.
19) After the Garden
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Memories of another life and lover guide her, but are they even hers? She is a Bearer-keeper of past lifetimes and gifted with strange talents. Ember must find her answers away from safe Longquan Village, snared instead in the sensuality and dangers of The City. Hidden among spider farmers and slaves, prostitutes and weavers, a nest of people like her are waiting.A powerful man outside The City raises his forces, determined to hunt down the 'demons'...
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Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which was a defense of constitutional monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church of England, and an attack on Wollstonecraft's friend, the Rev Richard Price. Hers was the first response in a pamphlet war that subsequently became known as the Revolution...