Modern football is brilliant, and yet it is also utterly rubbish. For every part of the beautiful game that reminds us why we love it, there's another to drive us up the wall. Half-and-half scarves, designated singing sections, goal music and open letters - the list is endless. Football's Flaws & Foibles looks at some of the biggest transgressions and dissects just what lies at the heart of our annoyance. Featuring contributions from Kevin Day, Daniel Storey and more, this book provides moments of catharsis and debate in equal measure. If you've ever paid for a plane to fly a banner over a football ground then this may not be the book for you, but for the rest of us this is a place to wallow in collective frustrations.So if you have ever been irritated, enraged, aggravated or exasperated by the game you love, this book is very much for you.
The changing face of hate is on your doorstep... Matt Browning, an undercover detective in Arizona, thought he knew what hate looked like; that is, until he got a front row seat to White supremacy. What followed was a career of hardship and danger, and what he uncovered can no longer go left untold. For more than twenty-five years, Browning has been infiltrating, documenting, and disrupting white supremacy movements from the inside, gaining an intimate vantage point to the KKK, skinheads, border militias, Proud Boys, and other White Power groups, as they organized and grew, their ranks alarmingly including police force and military veterans. Together with his intrepid wife, Tawni, he adopted fake IDs and ideologies, seeking the arrest of its participants—none more so than J.T. Ready, a neo-Nazi who took "hunting trips" for border migrants while gaining mainstream acceptance as a political candidate—and terrorizing Browning's family. What others dismissed as fringe groups, Browning quickly recognized as large and interconnecting organizations permeating into every facet of American society, effectively spreading their dangerous and repugnant rhetoric at unprecedented speeds. Today, after the violent storming of the Capitol on January 6th, the threat posed by these toxic organizations can no longer be ignored by the public at large. In this imperative and gripping narrative, Browning gives readers the inside story of modern-day White supremacy in America in all of its ugly variation. Following his dramatic, high-stakes attempts to take down powerful White supremacists, the torment he faced whilst working undercover, and his eventual creation of the international Skinhead Intelligence Network, The Hate Next Door is a riveting, enlightening, and essential look at the what, where, when, and why of white supremacist groups, how to identify them, and why we must all do everything in our power to fight against them.
Robert M. Givens grew up in the Midwest, graduating in 1966 from Millikin University in his hometown of Decatur, Illinois, and from Indiana University in 1968. He married his college sweetheart, Connie, and by age twenty-four worked as assistant to the dean of students at the University of Connecticut. His wife was a schoolteacher, and they both were hopeful that his job at a respected university and his age would help him avoid the draft. However, as the US increased its military involvement in Vietnam, more bodies were needed to fight in this unpopular war. Robert received his draft notice in early 1969, and, after five months of training, he was sent to serve in the infantry in South Vietnam. The war experiences were intensely personal for Robert. He thought his education somehow made him intellectually superior to most soldiers; he thought his age and marital status gave him some vocational privilege; he felt secure in his religious agnosticism. All of these views were challenged during his time in Vietnam. The war-time experiences were life changing for him. He and his fellow soldiers came home from a war in the fields of Vietnam to a war of protests raging in the streets of our cities. This story tells in poignant ways how these experiences eventually reformed Robert’s life including a new-found faith in the Lord. And years later, he found heroes who emerged and encouraged him and other returning soldiers, helping both them and our country to heal.
This book contains columns dealing with personal stories, memorable events, key issues, and defining moments in KC sports filtered through Jason's eyes. There is celebration, criticism, predictions, challenges, and humor. Any serious discussion of the last ten years in Kansas City sports would have to include Jason Whitlock, and this book is the perfect place to begin that discussion.
Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide. Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this book will introduce you to over 60 key skills in a concise and no-nonsense way. You can test your knowledge and how to apply each skill in practice with Skills in Action, Stop-Reflect and Top Tips boxes.
Yabancı bir dil öğrenmeyi ya da geliştirmeyi isteyen herkesin en büyük gereksinimi, kuşkusuz, mümkün olan en kısa sürede, dilbilgisi, sözcük, söyleniş ve güncellik açısından gerekli olan en geniş kapsamlı bilgiyi, en kolay, en yalın, en akıcı ve en eğlenceli biçimde edinebileceği bir kaynak bulmaktır. 80 DERSTE / GÜNDE İngilizce bu gereksinimi karşılamak, İngilizceyi gerçekten 80 derste ve 80 günde (toplam 80 saatte, sözlük kullanmadan) öğretebilmek, ya da belirli düzeyde bilenlerin ilerlemesini sağlamak, özellikle dinleme, anlama ve konuşma yeterliklerini geliştirmek amacıyla, İngiliz ve Amerikalı öğretmenlerin de katkılarıyla hazırlandı. Kitabınıza eşlik eden 2,5 saatlik ses kayıtları, İngilizce söylenişi eksiksiz öğrenmenizi sağlamak amacıyla, İngiliz öğretmenler tarafından dolduruldu. Ayrıca, ses kaydı olmaksızın çalışma yapmak isteyenler için, her derste, İngilizce sözcüklerin Türkçe söylenişleri verildi. (SES KAYITLARINA www.ingilizcekursunuz.com sitesinden ulaşabilirsiniz) Günlük konuşmalardan politikaya, fıkralardan spora, sanattan internete kadar her alanı kapsayan ders konularının, olabildiğince güncel ve sürükleyici olmasına özen gösterildi. Kitabınızın en sonunda alfabetik sıra ile verilen INDEX (DİZİN) bölümü, derslerde geçen tüm konu başlıklarını içermektedir. Kitabın ve ses kayıtlarının hazırlanma aşamasında katkılarını esirgemeyen değerli meslektaşlarım Beverly Westbrook, Kingsley Dennis, Lynda Nelson, Patricia Davies ve Peter Williams’a teşekkürlerimi sunarım. İyi çalışmalar. B. Orhan Doğan