From the front flap of this 167 page book: "Professional billiards - pool hustling - is a sport that has fascinated men for years. Pool is an old, old game. It is mentioned in Cleopatra's time as well as Shakespeare's and Lord Byron's. Today pool hustlers are thought to be furtive, stereotyped characters, as popularized by the film 'The Hustler'. There are perhaps more misconceptions about billiards than any other sport. Now for the first time [this book] cuts through the myths and presents the sport and its participants as they really are. It should be emphasized that until this compilation there has been no decent book about billiards, and particularly no book-length treatment that separates the facts of billiards from the legends surrounding this most masculine of sports. A 'Lion', in the language of the players, means a gambler or hustler, one who can win when there is money on the table, a player with heart or courage, but not necessarily a tournament winner. These include: Ronnie

The Lions and the Lambs;: Pool players and the game today

Sports & Outdoors

Fensch, Thomas

Individual Sports

A.S. Barnes

Films on the campus

Reference

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Alice in Acidland

The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss . . . is the first major personal and literary biography of Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel. This book will show you. . . • The origins of the hypnotic, galloping rhyme scheme which he used in his first book and in many thereafter (and how John Phillip Sousa made the same discovery and wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" a decade earlier). . . • How serendipity - a happy accident of fate - resulted in the publication of the first Dr. Seuss book, And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, after that book had been turned down by 27 book publishers. . . • The origins of If I Ran the Zoo. . . • How serendipity again played a part in Horton Hatches the Egg!, Bartholomew and the Oobleck and The Lorax. . . • Theodor Geisel's views of international justices in "The Sneetches," Yertle the Turtle and Horton Hears a Who!. . . • The morals for children in Horton Hatches the Egg!, How The Grinch Stole Christmas! And other Dr. Seuss books. . . • How a $50. Bet - which Theodor Geisel won - led to a revolution in children's literature. . . • How inventing a common phrase led to a classic Dr. Seuss book. . . • Which Dr. Seuss character is a classic trickster hero of folklore. . . • How a cynical phrase from his college days resulted in another Dr. Seuss classic decades later. . . • Why mothers and fathers are seldom seen in Dr. Seuss books. . . • And finally, in all these fabulous facts and fanciful fables, how and why Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel became an American icon. . . . The Life And Work Of Theodor Geisel

The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss: The Life & Work of Theodor Geisel

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Xlibris, Corp.

The Man Who Was Walter Mitty

Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel

Children and adults alike remember Dr. Seuss’s cat in the hat, the culinary delight to be found in green eggs and ham, and the fate of the Grinch who stole Christmas. What few know is that Theodor Seuss Geisel’s first book came to him while returning from Europe aboard an ocean liner; he found himself obsessed with the throbbing of the ship’s engines and repeated the beat until the words of his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, made it to the page. Over the years, he produced 21 of the best-loved children’s books of the 20th century, including The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Horton Hatches the Egg, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, and The Lorax. The 26 articles in this collection (from newspapers, magazines, the academic world and sources in between) provide a variety of perspectives on his work, from how and why he completely revolutionized children’s literature to why children were the ones who truly understood and appreciated his characters. This work also contains a chronology of the key dates in Geisel’s life.

Of Sneetches And Whos And the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings And Life of Theodor Geisel

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

McFarland Publishing

Writing Solutions: Beginnings, Middles, and Endings (Routledge Communication Series)

Words, Language & Grammar

Routledge

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Writing Solutions: Beginnings, Middles, and Endings (Communications Textbook Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc

The Sports Writing Handbook: Second Edition (Routledge Communication Series)

Completely revised and updated in a second edition, this volume represents the only book ever written that analyzes sports writing and presents it as "exceptional" writing. Other books discuss sports writers as "beat reporters" in one area of journalism, whereas this book shows aspiring sports writers a myriad of techniques to make their writing stand out. It takes the reader through the entire process of sports writing: observation, interviewing techniques, and various structures of articles; types of "leads;" transitions within an article; types of endings; use of statistics; do's and don'ts of sports writing; and many other style and technique points. This text provides over 100 examples of leads drawn from newspapers and magazines throughout the country, and also offers up-to-date examples of sports jargon from virtually every major and minor sport played in the U.S.

The Sports Writing Handbook (Routledge Communication Series)

Literature & Fiction

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