Cage Kings: How an Unlikely Group of Moguls, Champions & Hustlers Transformed the UFC into a $10 Billion Industry

Business & Money

Thomsen, Michael

Biography & History

Simon&Schuster

A cultural and business history of the UFC, tracing the unlikely rise of mixed martial arts from what was derided in the ‘90s as “human cockfighting”—more violence than sport—to a global pop culture phenomenon.\nSenator John McCain once decried mixed martial arts as “human cockfighting,” while the New York Times despaired that the sport offered a “pay-per-view prism” onto the decline of western civilization. But the violent spectacle of cage fighting no longer feels nearly as scandalous as it did when the sport debuted in 1993. Today, it’s spoken of reverentially as a kind of “human chess” played out in real-time between two bodies and the UFC is one of the most valuable franchises in the world, worth more than any team in the NFL, NBA, or MLB and equal to what Disney paid to acquire Marvel Comics. Once banned in thirty-six states and hovering on the edge of bankruptcy, the UFC has evolved into a $10 billion industry. How did cage fighting go so mainstream?\nA rollicking behind-the-scenes account of one of the most spectacular upsets in American sports history, Cage Kings follows the desperate fighters, audacious promoters, fanboy bloggers, fatherly trainers, philosophical announcers, hustling sponsors, and three improbable twentysomething corporate titans on a darkly comic odyssey to normalize a new level of brutality in American pop culture—and make a fortune doing so. Stylishly written and poignantly observed, the book offers a provocative look at how the hollowing out of the American dream over the past three decades and the violence endemic to modern capitalism left us ready to embrace a sport like cage fighting.

An adrenaline-fuelled insider expose of sin and success inside and outside the cage.\nUFC Uncovered is the outrageous, no-holds-barred story of the rise of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.\nFans of the MMA sport have had glimpses into the crazy world – from the backstage rivalries, celebrity fighters, like Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz and Michael Bisping, to the legendary fights where two uncontrollable people try to break each other – but now the real story of sin and success inside and outside of the cage is revealed for the first time.\nLooking at how the UFC evolved from unregulated human cockfighting, run by descendants of one the most notorious mafia families and a hustling failed amateur boxer, to the $4-billion business it is today, Michael Thomsen exposes an unusual story – and the brash and brilliant people behind it.\nThis is the definitive book about the rise of the UFC.

UFC Uncovered: How a $4-billion world-dominating fighting empire was built

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Ebury Press

A lovestory in fragments, told in the margins of a new philosophy of 21st Century sexuality. Each essay recounts bad sex, shambolic internet dates, moral infirmness, handjobs, blowjobs, an HIV scare, an STD, and a hope-filled cross-country move that ended in shambles. The collection is an epistolary memento of struggling with identity, circumstance, gender constraints, and time itself--all bound by a stubborn animal faith in love as an act of insupportable ascendency, a kind of levitation, longed-for by creatures never meant to leave the ground.

Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating, and Other Issues for Men

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Zero Books

This updated and expanded 6th edition of The Phytotherapy Desk Reference is a reliable and popular desk reference for the busy herbalist. With some fascinating new herb additions, this book contains precise descriptions for a total of 233 of the most used herbs in Western Herbal Medicine. Within its pages, this book allows practitioners quick access to several reliable therapeutic actions and indications for each herb, with the information organised to be an extremely accessible and valuable clinical tool.Each herb also has a short monograph with the primary active constituents, the qualities of the herbs, known drug interactions and any caution or contraindications, as well as the recommended dosage for liquid intake. This desk reference is also a valuable tool for students, with its concise information and easy access when studying.Designed for ease of use in a busy practise, this book is also wire-bound so it stays open on the correct page. Popular with both students and practitioners, users can instantly locate indications, therapeutic actions and herb-drug interactions whilst with a patient.

The Phytotherapy Desk Reference

Alternative Medicine

Aeon Books

Freiheitsentziehende Maßnahmen sind mit einer eklatanten Einschränkung der Lebensqualität verbunden, in erster Linie natürlich für jene Personen, denen die Freiheit entzogen wird aber auch für das Fachpersonal, das die entsprechenden Entscheidungen trifft bzw. durchführen muss. Das Buch beschreibt praxisnah, wie Fixierungen im Pflegealltag vermieden werden können und zeigt zahlreiche Impulse und Ideen zur Vermeidung von freiheits- und bewegungseinschränkenden Maßnahmen auf, wobei die Rolle der Pflegenden und der Verfahrenspfleger deutlich hervorgehoben wird. Insbesondere geht der Autor auf die Phänomene Sturzgefahr und Hinlauftendenz bei Demenzerkrankten ein. Zudem wird auf die aktuelle Rechtsgrundlage, bisherige Praxis und Expertenstandards und die Wichtigkeit der Dokumentation eingegangen. Das Buch richtet sich an Pflegefachkräfte, Altenbetreuer, Verfahrenspfleger und andere Pflegedienstleistungen.

Fixierungen vermeiden: Alternativen zu freiheitsentziehenden Maßnahmen in der Pflege (German Edition)

Medical Books

Nursing

Springer

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