Team sports like football, basketball, soccer, and rugby are hugely popular the world over, on both college and professional levels, and such popularity means that they are big business. Very big. Broadcasting rights alone bring in billions: ESPN paid $5.6 billion to broadcast college football playoffs for twelve years; Turner Sports/CBS shelled out $10.4 billion to show the national college basketball tournament through 2024; and the most recent NBA TV deal came in at a cool $26.4 billion...

Cosa contraddistingue un vero leader? Questo libro ti darà la spinta giusta, attingendo in modo chiaro e conciso alle tecniche utilizzate da migliaia di professionisti dello sport e del mondo del lavoro, per acquistare la sicurezza e la competenza necessarie per emergere. Attraverso potenti parabole e storie di famosi leader, acquisirai strumenti e suggerimenti per esprimere pienamente le tue doti di leadership. Basato sull'approfondita ricerca psicologica e l'esperienza ventennale del Dr....

In the three decades since Kool Herc first put the same record on two side-by-side turntables, DJs have moved out of city parks, house and block parties, and the darkened booths of nightclubs, and onto center stage, performing before admiring crowds of thousands. They have not only given rise to hip-hop and house—DJs have influenced fashion, film, TV, and more.With On the Record, Scratch DJ Academy, the premiere institution for DJ education, brings together years of trainin...

New, updated Second Edition includes revised budgeting and technology sections, new section of helpful websites, added information on mid-life sabbaticals, "roadschooling" your children, and working on the road.Where would your journey take you if you had an extended time to travel? But perhaps you're thinking, "If only I knew how to start planning my adventure!"This detailed "how-to" guide will get you moving from the dreaming to the doing in no time at all.Included i...

In every creator’s journey, there comes a stage where mental challenges are bigger than artistic ones—and it can be hard to know where to turn.This insightful book offers a rich source of mental strategies, resilience tips, and practical advice tailored specifically for creatives.No matter your medium, you know that you can’t wait for inspiration to strike when it comes to honing your skills. This is true not only for your craft, but a cruc...

New York, Chinatown. Night of January 8, 2024: forty-two overdoses in a matter of hours. Detective Jack Malone of Manhattan's 5th Precinct and his new partner Ethan Rivera take the case in a city still asleep.What they uncover quickly surpasses the scope of a routine drug investigation: a transnational criminal network, calligraphed ideograms on the neighborhood's walls announcing death sentences, a mysterious White Dragon funding its operations through a front charity foundation, ...

A White Scars NovelThe White Scars are among the most uncompromising of all the Space Marines Chapters once they decide upon a course of action, only death will stay their hand.READ IT BECAUSEThis omnibus includes two novels, two novellas, and two short stories, each revealing a different side to the fierce sons of the Great Khan.THE STORYThe White Scars, peerless huntsmen, stalkers of the plains and...

With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves’ cottage? How many handsome princes does it take to screw in a light bulb? These and other burning questi...

Why are so many Natives, First Nations, Indians, Metis, Inuits, Aboriginals, Indigenous People, and Amerindians ashamed of whom they are? Where does this shame come from? Why does it exist today? These questions are the underlying fabric of the memoir but are only alluded to in the first half of the story. About half way through, a flash back to the very first memory initiates the story behind the story, wherein shame is discussed and explored in narratives, interactions, quotations and teach...

Phil Carroll describes his Naval career from joining Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in April 1984, training in the Fleet and as a Probationary Hydrographic Surveyor. Surveys around the UK coast in Fox, Naval Party 1008 and Beagle, deployments to Atlantic and Indian Oceans in Hecla. He stood by the latter stages of Scott's construction. His appointment ashore at BRNC as a Divisional Officer was rewarding and satisfying: turning young folks into Naval officers, preparing them for t...

The untold story of the most contested fixture in world football‘A must read.’ Henry Winter'Superb.' Daniel TaylorLiverpool and Manchester. Two gloriously independent-minded, eclectic, culturally vibrant places. Yet the inhabitants dislike each other with a passion that is visceral. It is a divide that spans generations, across class, gender and ethnicity. And it has grown over the years, largely driven by one thing...

In nur wenigen Monaten wurde aus dem treu sorgenden Familienvater und Chemielehrer Walter White einer der einflussreichsten Drogenbosse der Vereinigten Staaten. Und die ganze Welt sah seinem Aufstieg gebannt zu. Das einzigartige Suchtpotenzial der Serie "Breaking Bad" verdankt sich nicht zuletzt ihrer philosophischen Tiefe. Woher kommt das Böse? Wie weit würdest du gehen, um deine Familie zu retten? Schlummert ein Verbrecher in uns allen? Aber nicht nur philosophisch, sondern auch formal ...