Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) grew up one of eight children in a poor New Jersey family, graduated high school at 21 and worked his way through Yale. His goal was to become a Presbyterian minister, but he dropped out of Yale Divinity School because he felt he could have more influence on young men through coaching. He was hired as the first football coach at University of Chicago after its founding in 1892.Under Stagg's leadership, Chicago emerged as one of the nation's most formid...

Atlanta insurance salesman George Burnett found himself at the center of a football scandal when he overheard a phone conversation between University of Georgia athletic director Wally Butts and University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Butts seemed to be giving Bryant play formations that would help Alabama defeat Georgia 35-0 in the 1962 season opener.When the Saturday Evening Post published Burnett's story months later, Butts and Bryant successfully sued ...

Updated with fresh facts, examples and illustrations, along with two new chapters on digital media and blogs this third edition continues to be the authoritative and essential guide to writing engaging and marketable feature stories.Covers everything from finding original ideas and angles to locating expert sourcesExpanded edition with new chapters on storytelling for digital media and building a story blogCaptivating style exemplifies the authors’ expert ...

The second edition of The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 offers the freshest and most up-to-date history of American magazines through 2020. It includes chapters telling the stories of new magazine launches in each decade since 1900. These chapters offer a behind-the-scenes look at America’s best-known magazines and publishers and how they got started. It also includes this key information not included in the first edition:• Updated circulation data for ma...

This fully revised and updated edition of Feature and Magazine Writing covers everything from finding original ideas to locating expert sources. With fresh perspectives and advice from professional writers and editors, this colorfully-written introduction is required reading for anyone who wishes to become a strong feature writer.Includes chapters on connecting content to the calendar, writing for online publications, trends, issues and controversies, and writing...

With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique perspectives on the clarinet's historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles. Beginning with a chapter on clarinet iconography, the book continues with an overview of the instrument's early history, chapters on the clarinet in the opera orchestra and the traditional symphony orchestra, and examinations of important genres involving the clarinet (the concerto and the clarinet quintet). Also inc...

Explore how the roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness todayThe Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.A rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and study groups, the BTC provides guidance for reading the Bible u...

Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own-wine movement, to urban household waste, are the product of collaborating teams of interdisciplinary authors. Readers are invited to engage and reflect on the theories and practi...

Gwendolyn Tanberg has been in the public spotlight ever since she became a public spokesperson as a child. Born into a life of privilege, she was held up as an icon for Climate Change activism and flown around the world to lecture on the need to stop fossil fuels. Kaden Ritter grew up in a small town in Kansas. He never sought the spotlight or wanted to be famous, but when he found himself in the middle of a destructive riot, he was forced to use a gun to defend himself. Put on trial, he w...

On a map redrawn by the rampant sea-level rise of the twenty-second century, survivors war over the ruins of high-ground whilst pirates and slavers plague the vast new seas that surround them.But amidst the ashes of the world there remains a place for the young and the brave to call home: The Archon — a ship crewed by orphan thieves, escaped prisoners, and heretic runaways.They are the Archonauts, and this is their tale.A post-apocalyptic pirate adventure with the h...

CHAPTER 1 DONOVAN My name is Donovan Cloud, and today is the day I commit the perfect murder. Now a lot of debate can be made about what qualifies a murder as perfect but here are my criteria: one, there must be no evidence that you committed the murder and no one must suspect you; and second and most importantly, there must be something ironic or wonderfully witty about the circumstances of the murder. Even the most devout moralist must crack at least a minimal smile when they hear about ...

Elphaba Thompson has always known that she was different. She has trouble making friends, she doesn't seem to fit in with anybody, and she talks to her dead father in her dreams. Raised in a Wiccan family, Elphaba has never doubted the supernatural but when her father warns her of impending danger she's shaken. Is it all just dreams and fantasy or does she have a connection to the spirit world. And if so, can she protect herself from the evil that is threatening her?