|
|
1
|
Acting -- Make It Your Business: How to Avoid Mistakes and Achieve Success As a Working Actor [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Paul Russell
|
|
Acting: Make It Your Business, written by an award-winning, veteran casting director, puts the power to land jobs and thrive in any medium - stage, film, TV, or the Internet - directly into the hands of the actor. This blunt, wise, and often hilarious guide overflows with cutting-edge audition, marketing, and networking strategies, combining traditional techniques with those best suited for the digital age. Well-known actors and powerful agents make cameos throughout, offering newcombers and wor... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
Fearless Golf: Conquering the Mental Game [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Gio Valiante
|
|
A detailed plan for conquering the FEAR that sabotages swings and ruins psyches, from the pioneering psychologist whose techniques have benefited Davis Love III, Justin Leonard, and numerous other world-class golfers. As Jack Nicklaus once observed, fear is the golfer's greatest enemy, inspiring Tiger Woods to "refuse" to give in to this debilitating emotion. It can turn professionals into jelly and dominate the games of most amateurs. It alters swing paths, causes "tap-in" putts to go awry, and... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment/General Nonfiction
|
1 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
|
|
|
3
|
As Good as Gold: 1 Woman, 9 Sports, 10 Countries, and a 2-Year Quest to Make the Summer Olympics [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Kathryn Bertine
|
|
Imagine George Plimpton. Except with real athletic ability. And he’s a woman. And she’s taken on a challenge that makes Paper Lion look like a brisk game of Go Fish.
Meet Kathryn Bertine, elite triathlete, former professional figure skater, and starving artist. Just as her personal and professional dreams begin to crumble in the summer of 2006, ESPN stakes her to a dream: Take two years to make the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. As Good As Gold is the heroic, hilarious account of Bertine’... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
Atlantic High [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by William F. Buckley
|
|
Ostensibly the tale of his 1980 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic High is William F. Buckley's extended meditation on the pleasures of sailing and good company. Not surprisingly, as much thought seems to have gone into stocking the wine cellar as to charting out the route. Kon-Tiki, this is not, but nor is it meant to be. Instead, it is an essay on appreciation, and a chance for Buckley to share his spirited point of view and exercise his unique sense of humor. After a leisurely, aside-... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Category: Sports/Entertainment/People
|
2 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
|
|
|
5
|
Bat Boy: My True Life Adventures Coming of Age with the New York Yankees [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Matthew Mcgough
|
|
Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall. Despite having no connections whatsoever with the ballclub, Matt dreamed of sitting in the dugout with the fabled Bronx Bombers. So, in the Fall of 1991, he wrote a letter in his very best... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment/People
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Christopher McDougall
|
|
 �Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... [McDougall] seeks to learn the secrets of the Tarahumara the old-fashioned way: He tracks them down.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.��Outside Magazine �Hugely entertaining.... One of the most joyful and engaging books about running to appear for many years.�-- The Irish Times. �An enthralling story.... McDougall's background as a magazine writer is readily apparent�his... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
15 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
| List Price: |
$25.00 |
| You Pay: |
$18.75 |
| You Save: |
25% |
|
|
|
7
|
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Jonathan Gould
|
|
Nearly twenty years in the making, Can't Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can't Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Beginning with their adolescence in Liverpool, Gould describes the seminal... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
8
|
How to Write a Selling Screenplay: A Step-by-Step Approach to Developing Your Story and Writing Your Screenplay by One of Today's Most Successful Screenwriters and Teachers [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Christopher Keane
|
|
Christopher Keane has spent 20 years in the business, learning the truths--and the tricks--of writing a selling screenplay. In How to Write a Selling Screenplay, he takes writers through the entire process, from developing a story to finding the best agent. Using an annotated version of an often-optioned screenplay of his own, and citing examples from movies ranging from Casablanca and Lethal Weapon to Sling Blade and The English Patient, he discusses how to create three-dimensional characters, ... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
9
|
Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John? [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Gavin Edwards
|
|
Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and . . . Ham Sandwiches? If you are a music fan, you may be aware of some of music's most enduring mysteries. Where did Pearl Jam get their name? Are the White Stripes related by blood or by marriage? Did Mama Cass really die from choking on a ham sandwich? Gavin Edwards has heard just about every strange question, racy rumor, and legend of the music world. As the writer of Rolling Stone's "Rolling Stone Knows" column, Edwards proved himself as a one-man encyclopedia... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
10
|
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste [A Lester Bangs Reader] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Lester Bangs
|
|
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray's smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
11
|
Nobody's Perfect [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Anthony Lane
|
|
Anthony Lane on Con Air??Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons."Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County??I got my copy at the airport, behind a guy who was buying Playboy's Book of Lingerie, and I think he had the better deal. He certain... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
12
|
Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Shawn Levy
|
|
In Ready Steady, Go!, Shawn Levy captures the spirit of the sixties in all its exuberance. A portrait of London from roughly 1961 to 1969, it chronicles the explosion of creativity--in art, music and fashion--and the revolutions--sexual, social and political--that reshaped the world. Levy deftly blends the enthusiasm of a fan, the discerning eye of a social critic and a historian's objectivity as he re-creates the hectic pace and daring experimentation of the times--from the utter transformation... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 100000 - Reading Time: 285-400 min.
Category: Sports/Entertainment/General Nonfiction
|
|
|
|
|
13
|
Shoeless Joe [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by W. P. Kinsella
|
|
Ray Kinsella, sitting on the porch of his Iowa farm one evening, hears the voice of a ghostly baseball announcer. It speaks to him the famous line, "If you build It, he will come." Needing no further explanation, Kinsella visualizes the ball field he is being asked to create in the middle of his field of corn. The voice will speak only two more things to Ray: "Ease his pain" and "Go the distance," and yet the dreaming, idealistic man knows just what it is he has to do. Digging up his corn to bui... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment/Fantasy
|
8 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
14
|
The Inner Game of Golf [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by W. Timothy Gallwey
|
|
W. Timothy Gallwey was born in San Francisco in 1938. His international bestseller, The Inner Game of Tennis, first published in 1974, put forth principles and methods for learning and coaching that have since been applied to the achievement of excellence in the worlds of business, health, and education as well as in sports. For the past twenty years, Gallwey has dedicated most of his time to working in the areas of learning, coaching, and peak performance with major corporations, including AT&T... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
1 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
|
|
|
15
|
The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Alan Light
|
|
In 1987, three white Jewish boys from New York City were the most fascinating phenomenon in the burgeoning rap music scene. No, really. The Beastie Boys, barely out of their teens, had just released Licensed to Ill, which quickly became the first hip-hop album to reach number one on the charts. Pairing vulgar and hilarious lyrics with heavy-metal-derived musical backing and a punk DIY attitude, the Beasties--MCA (Adam Yauch), King Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz), and Mike D (Michael Diamond)--changed th... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment/General Nonfiction
|
1 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
|
|
|
16
|
Too Much, Too Late [Secure eReader]
by Marc Spitz
|
|
Too Much Too Soon is the definitive story of the most outrageous glam rock band of them all--The New York Dolls. The Dolls, peddling trans-gender posturing and incendiary rock 'n' roll, were dumped by the record business after making just two albums. But their influence lives on...
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
17
|
'Have you Seen...?' [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by David Thomson
|
|
In 1975, David Thomson published his Biographical Dictionary of Film, and few film books have enjoyed better press or such steady sales. Now, thirty-three years later, we have the companion volume, a second book of more than 1,000 pages in one voice--that of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian. Juxtaposing the fanciful and the fabulous, the old favorites and the forgotten, this sweeping collection presents the films that Thomson offers in response to the question he gets ... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
18
|
101 Wordplay Puzzles [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by Ariel Tan
|
|
Each puzzle in this book is simply a play on words and represents a word or a phrase. To solve the puzzles, look for possible clues like colour, sound and position of the word(s). But do beware--these highly entertaining puzzles are addictive! Note: This eBook does not keep scores and requires a colour display.
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
2 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
|
|
|
19
|
1941: The Greatest Year In Sports: Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Mike Vaccaro
|
|
Joe DiMaggio ... Ted Williams ... Joe Louis ... Billy Conn ... Whirlaway. Against the backdrop of a war that threatened to consume the world, these athletes transformed 1941 into one of the most thrilling years in sports history. In the summer of 1941, America paid attention to sports with an intensity that had never been seen before. World War II was raging in Europe and headlines grew worse by the day; even the most optimistic people began to accept the inevitability of the United States being... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
20
|
90% of the Game Is Half Mental: And Other Tales from the Edge of Baseball Fandom [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Emma Span
|
|
Yogi Berra once said: “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” But for lifelong baseball aficionado Emma Span, it hasn’t always been that simple. Now, in this winning collection of essays, Span chronicles her love of the sport, from childhood hobby to full-blown obsession, from big break (becoming The Village Voice’s first staff sports reporter in years) to heartbreak (getting a pink slip within a year). She recounts elbowing her way to get a quote from Yankees captain Derek Jeter and waiti... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
| Reduced From: |
$18.95 |
| You Pay: |
$15.00 |
|
|
|
21
|
A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Pete Sampras
|
|
Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 consecutive weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to let his racket do the talking. Until now. In A Champion's Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people "inside his head... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
22
|
A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Bill Barich
|
|
Twenty-five years after Laughing in the Hills, his racetrack classic, Bill Barich gives us another--about how he fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was soon caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck. At venues grand and lowly, Ireland's steeplechase season hits its stride in October and reaches a crescendo at England's Cheltenham Festival in March, when the Irish take on the Brits for bragging rights before a crowd of 50,000. To prepare himself for the fierce rival... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
23
|
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by David Lehman
|
|
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook--the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies--and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews. An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears America singing--with a Yiddish accent. He guides us through America in the golden age of song, when "Embraceable You," "White Christmas," "Easter Parade,... more info>>
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
24
|
A Paradigm Shift: Hollywood Goes Digital [Secure Adobe PDF]
by Francis Hamit
|
|
A column which appeared in the April 1994 issue of "Silicon Graphics World" magazine, a report on the 1994 Digital Hollywood Conference, where the integration of traditional film production and computer technology was first discussed, with sidenotes on the computer gaming (electronic entertainment) industry.
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
|
|
|
|
25
|
A Speck on the Sea [Secure Adobe PDF]
by William Longyard
|
|
More than Seventy Accounts of Big Adventures in Small Boats. In A Speck on the Sea, William Longyard reaches back through five centuries to gather a collection of sea adventures in which the smallest, unlikeliest craft--and the daring individuals aboard them--completed extraordinary voyages against great odds. From canoes and small sailboats to a pair of strap-to-your-feet pontoons, the watercraft in these true stories make nearly as varied a collection as the mariners who piloted them. The intr... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Category: Sports/Entertainment
|
1 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
|
![Long [100000 words]](/images/long.gif "Long [100000 words]")
![Very Short [892 words]](/images/veryshort.gif "Very Short [892 words]")
