[PDF] Always A Home Game eBook

Author : Josh Miller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780989268820

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The Pittsburgh Steelers hold the #1 away-game attendance record in the NFL, with a diehard fan base from coast to coast. TV announcers sometimes jokingly ask if this is a home game for the black-and-gold because there are so many fans in the stands. Pittsburgh natives are spread out across the country. On game days, you'll find these avid fans at their local watering holes, in cities big and small, cheering on their "home team." For example, Harold's Corral, outside of Phoenix, actually sells season tickets for a seat at the bar or a table during Steelers games. There were 5000 people at Harold's for the 2010 Super Bowl between Pittsburgh and Green Bay. There are 766 dedicated Steelers bars across America. During the 2013 football season, former Steelers punter Josh Miller and "everyday" fan Shawn Allen will visit Steelers bars in the 32 NFL cities, documenting the unique personalities that define one of the largest and most passionate fan bases in the world - "Steelers Nation." Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, 65,000-plus fans at sold-out Heinz Field, will see live feeds of their visits on the scoreboard. Filled with photographs and interviews, Always a Home Game features game-day celebrations, a look at former players and their post-Steelers lives, and the shared journeys of fans from across Steelers Nation

Author : David Posen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781770851795

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If what you're doing now is not producing the results you want -- you are playing a losing game. If you want things to get better you've got to change that losing game. This book will show you how. Now updated for our times, Always Change a Losing Game has been published on four continents and continues to be popular and useful. Whether you're dealing with compulsive eating, addiction, struggling with kids, stuck in an unhappy relationship or a dead-end job, Dr. Posen provides practical guidelines that will help you change your losing habits and become more successful. This is a book for people struggling to be successful and feeling a lack of control. The book gives hope and encouragement because it focuses on all the things we can control -- primarily the way we think, the way we behave and the lifestyle choices we make. It illustrates the author's belief that we have more control than we think. The book was purposely written in everyday language to make it both easy to read and reassuring. The connection to sports provides a fresh approach for many people who need to think about their health, relationships, problem solving, self-esteem and productivity in a new way. Always Change a Losing Game explains how to make changes in your life when work or relationships are not working out. At times, changing a losing game requires vision and risk taking. But just continuing in a rut guarantees that things won't get better. If what you're doing and how you are living are not producing the results you want, you are playing a losing game and if you want things to get better you've got to change that losing game. This book is your key to success.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2001-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520227354

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An "ethnographic" novel that portrays life in California's Napa Valley as it might be a very long time from now, imagined not as a high tech future but as a time of people once again living close to the land.

Author : Zeina Abirached
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467700479

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When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and her little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut is for Muslims. When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon from a visit to the other half of the city, and the bombing grows ever closer, the neighbors in her apartment house create a world indoors for Zeina and her brother where it's comfy and safe, where they can share cooking lessons and games and gossip. Together they try to make it through a dramatic day in the one place they hoped they would always be safehome. Zeina Abirached, born into a Lebanese Christian family in 1981, has collected her childhood recollections of Beirut in a warm story about the strength of family and community.

Author : Bo Ruberg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479843741

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Argues for the queer potential of video games While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of representation, exploring how video games can be played, interpreted, and designed queerly, whether or not they include overtly LGBTQ content. Video Games Have Always Been Queer argues that the medium of video games itself can—and should—be read queerly. In the first book dedicated to bridging game studies and queer theory, Ruberg resists the common, reductive narrative that games are only now becoming more diverse. Revealing what reading D. A. Miller can bring to the popular 2007 video game Portal, or what Eve Sedgwick offers Pong, Ruberg models the ways game worlds offer players the opportunity to explore queer experience, affect, and desire. As players attempt to 'pass' in Octodad or explore the pleasure of failure in Burnout: Revenge, Ruberg asserts that, even within a dominant gaming culture that has proved to be openly hostile to those perceived as different, queer people have always belonged in video games—because video games have, in fact, always been queer.

Author : Dav Pilkey
Publisher : Graphix
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2020-12
Category : Cartoonists
ISBN : 9781536467451

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Welcome to the Cat Kid Comic Club, where Li'l Petey (LP), Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress,

Author : Tim Salmon
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 9781600783432

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With those prophetic words, Angels coach Joe Maddon christened the batch of eager rookies gathered on the first day of the Angels' Instructional League camp in Mesa, Arizona, in 1989. Among them was an outfielder from Grand Canyon College named Tim Salmon. He and team-mates Troy Percival and Garret Anderson would take Maddon's words to heart and lead the Angels to the team's coveted first World Series championship. Always an Angel: Playing the Game with Fire and Faith is the story of Salmon's extraordinary baseball career and the parallel story of the Angels organization's rise to excellence. Book jacket.