Power Players

Power Players

Author: Paul Ladewski

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780545065450

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Fifteen players who can turn the game around--they always know where the football is and they'll do what they have to do to either take it away or take it to the end zone.


Power Players

Power Players

Author: Chris Cillizza

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 2023-04-18

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1538720620

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A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our national pastimes. POWER PLAYERS tells all the great stories of presidents and the sports they played, loved and spectated as a way to better understand what it takes to be elected to lead a country driven by sports fans of all stripes. While every modern president has used sports to relate to Joe Q. Public, POWER PLAYERS turns the lens around to examine how sports have shaped our presidents and made for some amazing moments in White House history, including: Dwight Eisenhower played so much golf he had a putting green built outside the Oval Office!. (He also almost died on a golf course while in office.) How John F. Kennedy’s touch-football games with family were knowing plays to polish the Camelot mystique. People might not have related to the aloof and awkward Richard Nixon but, hey, he would bowl a few frames just like them. Ronald Reagan didn’t just play the part of “The Gipper” for the silver screen, but truly adopted the famous footballer’s never-say-die persona. George H.W. Bush once ran a horseshoe league from the White House – with a commissioner and brackets! (He would later claim to have come up with the fan expression, “You da man.”) Bill Clinton’s Arkansas Razorback fandom was so intense that he could be found shouting at the referees from a box at the basketball national championship game in 1994. George W. Bush’s not only owned the Texas Rangers but also threw out the most iconic first pitch ever in the 2001 World Series. What really went down when Barack Obama played pickup hoops with the North Carolina Tarheels. (He later won the state by .3 percent of the vote.) Donald Trump is the only president ever featured in a professional wrestling storyline—and everything real and fake that went with that. In the pages of POWER PLAYERS, a love of sports shines through as the key to understanding who these presidents really were and how they chose to play by the rules, occasionally bluff or cheat, all the while coaching the country into a few quality wins and some notorious losses.


Entertainment Power Players

Entertainment Power Players

Author: Dackeyia Sterling

Publisher:

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780967903682

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Premier entertainment career directory for Fashion, Film/TV and Music. New, updated and verified listings include Company Names, Addresses, Phone Numbers, Websites and @Twitter. A-Z Content includes industry programs, products, and services. Popular Sections include: Acting and Casting Resources, Animation Companies, Fashion Designers, Footwear Companies, Film Festivals and Financing, Internships, Job Sources, Training Programs and More!


Chase

Chase

Author: Cassia Leo

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-01-05

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781793215437

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From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo comes a romance that combines politics with pleasure. Larissa Jacobs' financial debt is climbing after a failed attempt at becoming the next big thing in Hollywood. After losing her job as a children's party entertainer, Larissa's roommate gets her a gig working for an escort service. Her first client is Senator Chase Underwood: hot, married, and the current presidential candidate. Larissa and Chase will soon find out if his penchant for sexual domination will destroy his prospects of world domination. When her affair with Chase erupts in scandal, Larissa also finds herself being used as a pawn in Chase's bid for the presidency. Will Larissa remain true to her promise to wait for Chase until the scandal has blown over? Will Chase finally put his love for Larissa before his career?


Aligned

Aligned

Author: Bruce McCarthy

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1098134397

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Product management naturally incorporates empathy, psychology, and thinking outside the box in pursuit of the best design for products. But how often do you apply those same skills to your relationships with people in your company? By breaking the art of stakeholder management into simple lessons and frameworks, this practical book shows product managers how to manage the crucial relationships that will help you make an impact and advance your career. You'll learn how to build trusting relationships with stakeholders, optimize your communication for different audiences, get buy-in for your ideas and roadmaps, and have stakeholders appreciate it when you say no. You'll learn how to: Build and maintain trust with your stakeholders Map your organization and identify the real power players Establish roles and build an extended team that works well together Communicate in a way that speaks to the needs and goals of different stakeholders Get buy-in on your ideas and roadmap Make stakeholders appreciate and support you when you say "no" Sustain buy-in over time Manage difficult stakeholders and personalities


Artificial Intelligence and Security

Artificial Intelligence and Security

Author: Xingming Sun

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-07-04

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13: 3031067916

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This three-volume set LNCS 13338-13340 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security, ICAIS 2022, which was held in Qinghai, China, in July 2022. The total of 166 papers included in the 3 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 1124 submissions. The papers present research, development, and applications in the fields of artificial intelligence and information security


Billboard

Billboard

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2005-05-07

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.


Running For Local Office For Dummies

Running For Local Office For Dummies

Author: Dan Gookin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1119588243

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Get ready to run for—and win—that local election! In the land of opportunity, just about anyone who qualifies as an elector can seek public office. Some do it on a whim, some are urged to run, and some want to use their time and talents to make a difference in their local community. If you want to know how to prepare for a run, which steps to take beforehand, and how the process goes from announcement to campaigning to election day to the swearing-in ceremony—this book has you covered. Find out what it’s like to run for local office as a first-time candidate Explore the introspection required and the study necessary to make such a run effective Deal with marketing, fundraising, interacting with the public, and dealing with opponents Encourage and help others to make a run for local office Though only one person ultimately wins a seat, nobody does it without a wide network of support. Running For Local Office For Dummies is your ticket to navigating every step on the road to winning that election.


The Occupiers

The Occupiers

Author: Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-01-02

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 019931392X

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Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted. In The Occupiers, Michael Gould-Wartofsky offers a front-seat view of the action in the streets of New York City and beyond. Painting a vivid picture of everyday life in the square through the use of material gathered in the course of two years of on-the-ground investigation, Gould-Wartofsky traces the occupation of Zuccotti Park--and some of its counterparts across the United States and around the world--from inception to eviction. He takes up the challenges the occupiers faced, the paradoxes of direct democracy, and the dynamics of direct action and police action and explores the ways in which occupied squares became focal points for an emerging opposition to the politics of austerity, restricted democracy, and the power of corporate America. Much of the discussion of the Occupy phenomenon has treated it as if it lived and died in Zuccotti Park, but Gould-Wartofsky follows the evicted occupiers into exile and charts their evolving strategies, tactics, and tensions as they seek to resist, regroup, and reoccupy. Displaced from public spaces and news headlines, the 99 Percent movement has spread out from the financial centers and across an America still struggling to recover in the aftermath of the crisis. Even if the movement fails to achieve radical reform, Gould-Wartofsky maintains, its offshoots may well accelerate the pace of change in the United States in the years to come.


Basketball: Who Does What?

Basketball: Who Does What?

Author: Ryan Nagelhout

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2017-07-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 153820519X

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Basketball is all about putting the ball in the hoop. To do that, though, players need to work together with their teammates. This book puts readers on the hardwood as they parse the different positions that make up a basketball team. From conducting the offense with the point guard to shooting jumpers with the shooting guard, readers get an in-depth study of James Naismith’s famous game as they learn how to play with their friends. Whether setting up alley-oops on offense or blocking shots and causing turnovers on defense, this book gets readers ready to play any position on the court.