Dave Meltzer's famous Wrestling Observer Newsletter is now available as both a print and digital book.The second of the series revisits all of the major wrestling stories from 1993 (all condensed into handy chapters for ease of reference), including: - The Steroid Scandal- The Hulk Hogan Saga- Sid Stabs Arn Anderson- The Early Days of ECW- The Tragedy of Kerry Von Erich- Ric Flair leaves the WWF- All change in WCW- Lawsuits Galore- WWF Invades USWAPlus business analysis, supercard summaries, and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Award
The third in the new WRESTLING OBSERVER COMPLETE COLLECTION series in which the Wrestling Observer Newsletters are reprinted in full, chronologically. In this 1993 (Part 1) edition you will find every issue of the world-famous Wrestling Observer Newsletter from January through to June 1993, reprinted in full for the first time ever. Included within: RAW debuts Ric Flair leaves the WWF Jim Ross departs WCW Yokozuna wins Royal Rumble Hulk Hogan wins the WWF Title Andre the Giant passes away Vader destroys Cactus Jack Funk vs. Onita The tragedy of Kerry Von Erich The Steroid Scandal Bill Watts fired by WCW Dino Bravo murdered Bret Hart wins King of the Ring Vince McMahon resigns as Titan Sports President Hulk Hogan quits WWF
For the first time ever, Dave Meltzer's famous Wrestling Observer Newsletter is available as both a print and digital book.The first of the series revisits all of the major wrestling and MMA stories from 1997 (all condensed into handy chapters for ease of reference), including: - The Montreal Screwjob- Shawn Michaels loses his smile- ECW arrives on pay-per-view- Vader arrested in Kuwait- Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels backstage brawl- Ken Shamrock signs from the WWF- Riki Choshu retires- WWF vs. WCW: The Battle of Los Angeles- The death of Plum Mariko- Arn Anderson retires- AJW goes bankrupt- Tod Gordon leaves ECW- Randy Couture beats Vitor Belfort- WCW breaks records- Fan riots- The Demise of the USWAPlus business analysis, supercard summaries, PPV drawing cards, and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Award
Pro-Wrestling's secrets and greatest moments are immortalized in this graphic novel from legendary wrestling personality Jim Cornette. A true-story style anthology, these insider tales will show the lengths that wrestlers went to uphold "kayfabe" (the old carny term for the presentation of legitimate conflict), as well as the noteworthy cultural, racial, and economic effects these events and characters had on society. This is the graphic novel that old school wrestling fans have been waiting their entire lives for: a no-holds-barred representation of the moments that wrestling insiders couldn't talk about for years.
Dave Meltzer's famous Wrestling Observer Newsletter returns to print. The third of the series revisits all of the major wrestling and MMA stories from 2014 (all condensed into handy chapters for ease of reference), including: - The Daniel Bryan Saga- CM Punk Quits WWE- The WWE Network Launches- The Life and Death of The Ultimate Warrior- TNA Turmoil- Sting Arrives in WWE- The End of The Streak- Global Force Wrestling- Jones vs. CormierPlus business analysis, Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Award
The sixth of the series revisits all of the major wrestling stories from 2000 (all condensed into handy chapters for ease of reference), including: WCW in turmoil Ready to Rumble Hulk Hogan leaves WCW XFL The birth of Pro Wrestling NOAH The Radicalz jump to the WWF Mick Foley retires Beyond The Mat Yokozuna passes away Goldberg turns heel Vince Russo quits WCW Brock Lesnar signs for the WWF The Rock hits Hollywood Bret Hart retires WWF vs PTC
Fritz Von Erich, Rick Rude, Bruiser Brody, and a dozen more who couldn't walk away from the fame and the treadmill that came with it, even when their bodies quit and their families begged them to stop. It is an homage to their athletic ability, their charisma and drive, a celebration of the characters they brought us, and a warning to those who figure to follow in their footsteps. Book jacket.
Offering candid and detailed accounts of bona fide wrestling legends and a Foreword by Bret Hart, Tributes II takes its place among the most important books ever written on the world of pro wrestling.
The majority of professors have never had a formal course in education, and the most common method for learning how to teach is on-the-job training. This represents a challenge for disciplines with ever more complex subject matter, and a lost opportunity when new active learning approaches to education are yielding dramatic improvements in student learning and retention. This book aims to cover all aspects of teaching engineering and other technical subjects. It presents both practical matters and educational theories in a format useful for both new and experienced teachers. It is organized to start with specific, practical teaching applications and then leads to psychological and educational theories. The "practical orientation" section explains how to develop objectives and then use them to enhance student learning, and the "theoretical orientation" section discusses the theoretical basis for learning/teaching and its impact on students. Written mainly for PhD students and professors in all areas of engineering, the book may be used as a text for graduate-level classes and professional workshops or by professionals who wish to read it on their own. Although the focus is engineering education, most of this book will be useful to teachers in other disciplines. Teaching is a complex human activity, so it is impossible to develop a formula that guarantees it will be excellent. However, the methods in this book will help all professors become good teachers while spending less time preparing for the classroom. This is a new edition of the well-received volume published by McGraw-Hill in 1993. It includes an entirely revised section on the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and new sections on the characteristics of great teachers, different active learning methods, the application of technology in the classroom (from clickers to intelligent tutorial systems), and how people learn.
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
