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For Keeps
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Family for Keeps, A
author: Gordon, Lucy; publisher: Mills & B.
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Yellow Jersey Press Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
<blockquote>Back in the Fall of 1993, When Michael Jordan first told his teammates he was leaving (basketball) Armstrong told him, Man, you now have the two scariest things imaginable: all the money in the world and all the time in the world.</blockquote>< ;p> No.23 took the game of basketball and made it his own. Between 1991 and his retirement in 1999 the six times NBA Championship-winning Chicago Bulls <I>were</I> Michael Jordan. On the way he became the richest, most globally famous sports star since Muhammad Ali.<p> In <I>Playing For Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made</I>, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist David Halberstam--a consistently intelligent and articulate explorer of America's sporting history--turns a critical eye on the big fella, and gauges the impact Jordan had on his sport and an increasingly American-flavoured world.<p> Halberstam looks beyond the court at the business of basketball--the iniquities of the franchise system; the overwhelming financial power of being the top man; the fragility of that position--and places Jordan at the centre of a commercial revolution that outgrew the game and sport itself. Basketball became the sport that tied American urban culture, Afro-American street style and hip-hop beats to the billion-dollar multi-national mule train. Coke, Big Macs and B-Ball--Jordan was the public face of each.<p> But <I>Playing for Keeps</I> is equally strong on the personalities behind the power plays--in interviews with Jordan's family and fellow players on and off the court, Halberstam keeps his journalistic sense in the illusion-rich atmosphere of the big game and more often than not gets the goods. The section on Jordan's first retirement in 1993, when, accused of gambling, he turned his attention to playing pro-baseball, is particularly revealing.<p> This is a fascinating, subtly-crafted work which climbs high above the usual weary trawls through the careers of sports celebrities, and slam dunks in style.<I>--Alex Hankin</I>
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Harlequin Mills & Boon A Family for Keeps (Tender Romance S.)
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Playing for Keeps in Stocks and Futures: Three Top Trading Strategies That Consistently Beat the Markets (Wiley Trading Advantage S.)
Pages: 208, Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Harlequin Mills & Boon A Nanny for Keeps (Tender Romance S.)
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PublishAmerica For Keeps
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Playing for Keeps in Stocks and Futures
This volume offers three trading strategies that really work for trading stocks and futures under any market condition. Bierovic explains the development of each system, lists the rules, shows examples, and provides test results. author: Bierovic, T.A.; publisher: Wiley
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Saint Martin's Press This Time for Keeps
Pages: 313, Paperback, Saint Martin's Press
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Scholastic Paperbacks Pp #02: A Pony for Keeps (Pony Pals (Paperback))
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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
One of the finest non-fiction writers in any line-up, Halberstam likes to alternate what he's deemed his serious work--books like The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, and The Children--with his sporting interludes, though in his hands, sports are much, much more than fun and games. Books like The Breaks of the Game and October 1964 use sports as a prism. Culture, race, society, and history are all filtered through it, and Halberstam refocuses--and interprets--what comes out the other side. <P> That he would now turn his considerable abilities to exploring Michael Jordan is not surprising. Halberstam loves hoops, and Jordan not only defines the game, he defines an era. His fame crosses international borders as easily as he dribbles past half-court lines. In focusing on Jordan--as athlete and force of nature--and his osmosis from a young hoop dreamer to product pitchman to the world, Halberstam is really examining intangibles like myth and legend, celebrity and fame, wealth and image, excellence and genius, race and style, the qualities of heroism and the pursuit of perfection. That there had been even one Michael Jordan seemed in retrospect something of a genetic fluke, he writes, and the idea that anyone would arrive in so short a span of time and do what he did both on and off the court seemed highly unlikely. But the phenomenon that is Jordan did just that. <P> Understanding, even admiring, what he did, how he did it, and what it means in a basketball context and a larger one is Halberstam's goal, and, despite Jordan's lack of cooperation--or maybe because of it--Halberstam's muscular prose and thinking scores powerfully. Yet, there is a wistfulness, in the end, to Playing for Keeps; the game doesn't seem as much fun and collegial as it used to for Halberstam, and Jordan, great as he may be, emerges with less of the historic grace exhibited by Jackie Robinson, Ali, and Arthur Ashe than with a quality that Halberstam deems the athlete-explorer in terms of going beyond previously accepted limits of what was humanly possible, and somehow by dint of physical excellence and unmatched willpower, pushing those limits forward that much more. Dazzling, certainly, but not necessarily heroic. Playing for Keeps is also available on audiocassette. --<I>Jeff Silverman</I>
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Rebel inc. Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
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Foundation for the Family Marriage is for Keeps: Foundations for Christian Marriage: Wedding Edition with Marriage Rite and Readings
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Hnb Pub Demon Defense And Demon Doubling: Defend With Skill And Double For Keeps
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String Letter Publishing Your Musical Child: Inspiring Kids to Play and Sing for Keeps
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