Bøger af Dennis Taylor

In the dusty, one-stoplight town of Durwood, Oklahoma, nobody commands more attention than Dewayne "Miracle" Moses, who was once the whole package: handsome, charismatic, and the greatest high school athlete the county had ever seen. Two decades and too many screw-ups later, a paunchy "Miracle" works for Roto-Rooter and plays slow-pitch softball, mixing bluster with beer to deny his squandered potential and dead-end future. "The Miracle Myth" is a rowdy humor novel about the self-proclaimed king of a wind-blown redneck town, and the emasculating conflicts that arise when middle age begins to catch up. Snarky, small-town politics become monumental when Durwood's new "golden boy" - the youngest of a clan of weird, hayseed brothers - returns from college. Conflicts intensify among the town's quirky characters when rumors spread that the young stud might be gay.

In the second round of a defense of his IBF super featherweight world championship, Tony "The Tiger" Lopez felt the elbow of challenger John Molina slam into his eye. The impact of the accidental shot shattered his orbital bone and jammed Lopez's eyeball back into its socket. Swelling immediately sealed the eye, a problem made worse when, in the next round, Molina opened a cut over Lopez's other eye. The notoriously gritty champ fought seven more rounds that night in Sacramento before losing his title by TKO -- a story typical of those you'll read in "A Puncher's Chance: Amazing Tales from The Ringside Boxing Show." This is the first of a series of books chronicling the strange-but-true lives of some of the greatest boxers and boxing personalities of all time -- yarns spun in their own words during live interviews on The Ringside Boxing Show, a weekly radio program that originates from Monterey, California and streams worldwide. Prepare to be astonished by more than a dozen of the most remarkable and improbable stories ever told about the brutal and astonishing sport known as "The Sweet Science."

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference explores how Shakespeare's plays dramatize key issues of the Elizabethan Reformation, the conflict between the sacred, the critical, and the disenchanted; alternatively, the Catholic, the Protestant, and the secular. Each play imagines their reconciliation or the failure of reconcilation. The Catholic sacred is shadowed by its degeneration into superstition, Protestant critique by its unintended (fissaparous) consequences, the secular ordinary by stark disenchantment. Shakespeare shows how all three perspectives are needed if society is to face its intractable problems, thus providing a powerful model for our own ecumenical dialogues. Shakespeare begins with history plays contrasting the saintly but impractical King Henry VI, whose assassination is the 'primal crime,' with the pragmatic and secular Henry IV, until imagining in the later 1590's how Hal can reconnect with sacred sources. At the same time in his comedies, Shakespeare imagines cooperative ways of resolving the national 'comedy of errors,' of sorting out erotic and marital and contemplative confusions by applying his triple lens. His late Elizabethan comedies achieve a polished balance of wit and devotion, ordinary and the sacred, old and new orders. Hamlet is Shakespeare's ultimate Elizabethan consideration of these issues, its so-called lack of objective correlation a response to the unsorted trauma of the Reformation.

Unbuilt Clemson examines a selection of unrealized building projects throughout the history of Clemson University through the lens of campus development and planning, focusing on projects advanced to the building-design or site-plan stage. These projects reveal the evolving vision and direction of a state institution of higher learning and the variety of internal and external factors that have shaped its course.

This book tells the story of the greatest blood-and-guts rivalry in the history of boxing, the spectacular trilogy of fights between Arturo "Thunder" Gatti and "Irish" Micky Ward. It paints a vivid portrait of these two charismatic boxers, tracing their lives, careers, and the unlikely friendship they formed despite their brutal fights.

This series in intended for those students following advanced level social biology and related syllabuses. Each text deals with a specific topic area and the series as a whole provides a stimulating introduction to a subject of growing importance. The control of disease and the active encouragement of good health is a major priority of nations worldwide. This book gives a detailed study of a number of diseases and health problems from which common themes and underlying principles emerge. Details of transmission, treatment and control are covered as well as epidemiology and sociooeconomic factors - particularly the implications of AIDS. Topics range from infectious diseases, pulmonary disease and malaria to immunology, transplantation and physical fitness.