A highly illustrated, beautifully designed tribute to ping pong, the world's most popular yet least appreciated sport—with tales from the table by Nick Hornby, Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Harold Evans, Jonathan Safran Foer, and others. Every sport claims to be the world's game—soccer, basketball, kabaddi. But none can match the global status acquired by modest, ubiquitous ping pong—the most popular yet misunderstood pastime in the world today, a sleeping giant of fast-paced fun. Join us on a journey into the dark corners and distant alleys of this ponging globe, from suburban basements of misspent youths to Bangkok backrooms to New Jersey rec rooms to Beijing stadia to dwarf child champions to elderly enthusiasts to Hollywood hipsters to perky porn stars. This cast of thousands, combined with artifacts from the authors' ever-growing collection of ping pongalia, reveals the hidden truths of the world behind the game: the secrets of eternal youth, guerrilla warfare, foolproof seduction, fame and adulation—all explained through two paddles, sixty inches of net, and a bouncing, bouncing ball. A world where everything you know is pong. *Please note: some images contained in this book are of an adult nature.

Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World

History

Bennett, Roger

HOROWITZ, ELI

World

It Books

Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980's Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York. A memoir for fans of Jon Ronson and Chuck Klosterman, but with Roger Bennett's signature pop culture flair and humor. Being a teenager isn't easy, no matter where in the world you live or how much it does or doesn't rain in your hometown. As an outsider--a private-schooled Jewish kid in working-class, heavily Catholic Liverpool--Roger Bennett wasn't winning any popu­larity contests. But there was one idea, or ideal, that burned bright in Roger's heart. That was America-- with its sunny skies, beautiful women, and cool kids with flipped collars who ate at McDonald's. When he embraced American popular culture, the dull gray world he lived in turned to neon teal--a color which had not even been invented in England yet. Intro­duced first through the gateway drug of The Love Boat, then to Rolling Stone, the NFL, John Hughes movies, Run-DMC, and Tracy Chapman, Roger embraced everything that would capture the imagination of a teenager growing up Stateside. When he made a real, in-the-flesh American friend who invited him over for the summer, he got to visit the promised land. A month in Chicago, and a life-changing night spent in the company of the Chicago Bears, was the first hit of freedom, of independence, of the Roger Bennett he knew he could be. (Re)Born in the USA captures the universality of growing pains, growing up, and growing out of where you come from. Drenched in the culture of the late '80s and '90s from the UK and the USA, and the heartfelt, hilarious sense of humor that has made Roger Bennett so beloved by his listeners, here is both a truly unique coming-of-age story and the love letter to America that the country needs right now.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Dey Street Books

The #1 New York Times Bestseller 
One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980’s Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York. A memoir for fans of Jon Ronson and Chuck Klosterman, but with Roger Bennett’s signature pop culture flair and humor. 
Being a teenager isn’t easy, no matter where in the world you live or how much it does or doesn’t rain in your hometown. As an outsider—a private-schooled Jewish kid in working-class, heavily Catholic Liverpool—Roger Bennett wasn’t winning any popularity contests. But there was one idea, or ideal, that burned bright in Roger’s heart. That was America— with its sunny skies, beautiful women, and cool kids with flipped collars who ate at McDonald’s. When he embraced American popular culture, the dull gray world he lived in turned to neon teal—a color which had not even been invented in England yet. Introduced first through the gateway drug of The Love Boat, then to Rolling Stone, the NFL, John Hughes movies, Run-DMC, and Tracy Chapman, Roger embraced everything that would capture the imagination of a teenager growing up Stateside. When he made a real, in-the-flesh American friend who invited him over for the summer, he got to visit the promised land. A month in Chicago, and a life-changing night spent in the company of the Chicago Bears, was the first hit of freedom, of independence, of the Roger Bennett he knew he could be. 
(Re)Born in the USA captures the universality of growing pains, growing up, and growing out of where you come from. Drenched in the culture of the late ’80s and ’90s from the UK and the USA, and the heartfelt, hilarious sense of humor that has made Roger Bennett so beloved by his listeners, here is both a truly unique coming-of-age story and the love letter to America that the country needs right now.

(re)born In The Usa

Bennett, Roger, 1970

Dey Street, An Imprint Of William Morrow

Know where you need to be.  Making positive steps to ensure you know where your business is heading, and feeling confident that your firm is generating as high a return as possible, are vital in today's business climate. However, putting this theory into practice can be a daunting prospect.  Small Business Survival has been specifically designed to show you how to look at your company afresh and make sure that the profits you achieve reflect the objective worth of your organisation.  In a concise and logical fashion, Roger Bennett gives practical advice on how to revitalise your organisation, providing:  * a framework for assessing your business and diagnosing the causes of its weaknesses * positive strategies for diversifying, advertising, repositioning products and segmenting markets * techniques for collecting debts quickly and effectively, cutting costs and rationalising your workforce.  Each chapter covers a different topic and has a coherent, easy-to-follow structure. Furthermore, frequent checklists enable you to assess objectively your firm's situation within each subject area and decide what action should be taken.  Don't sit back. Ensure your aims and policies are constantly in line with today's ever changing markets.

Small Business Survival (NatWest Small Business Bookshelf)

Business & Money

Pearson Professional Education

This dictionary covers the main areas within 'human resources' with particular emphasis on the legal and institutional bases of the subject. Dictionary entries are concise and fully cross-referenced.

Dictionary of Personnel & Human Resources Management

Financial Times Management

This is a well established and popular text which provides an accessible and balanced treatment of all the elements of the subject - work psychology, business admin, personnel management, training and employee relations - from an international perspective where relevant. This revision represents substantial updating and a model restructuring which emphasises the management and organisational aspects of HRM. This text has been the leading concise treatment of the subject area throughout its previous editions, this update and revision builds on that previous success to satisfy the needs of students on a first level coursein HRM.

Human Resources Management (Frameworks Series)

Graham, H.T.

Human Resources

Ft Pr

International Business (Frameworks)

Economics

Corporate Strategy (Frameworks)

Management & Leadership

This new edition of Corporate Strategy builds on the strengths and uniqueness of the first edition. This is the only text that provides comprehensive coverage of both rational and creative approaches to strategy. International coverage, which also marked out the first edition, has been expanded with the addition of a chapter on the global issues that affect strategy formulation. The structure of the book can be adapted for use on a variety of short, modular strategy courses and on more advanced courses. With a teaching package that includes a lecturer's manual, OHPs, extra long cases and an interactive website, Corporate Strategy provides the lecturer and student with a flexible and exciting learning resource.

Corporate Strategy

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