Versus: Warriors
Author: Hannah Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009-11-10
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 0753419165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen warriors are gathered from across time to fight five epic battles.
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The Warriors
Author: Sol Yurick
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1555848893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe basis for the cult-classic film and the inspiration for a concept album written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, executive produced by Nas, releasing from Atlantic Records on October 18 Every gang in the city meets on a sweltering July 4 night in a Bronx park for a peace rally. The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed, and chaos prevails over attempts at order. The Warriors follows the Dominators as they make their nocturnal journey to their home territory without being killed. The police are prowling the city in search of anyone involved in the mayhem. An exhilarating novel that examines New York City teenagers left behind by society, who form identity and personal strength through their affiliation with their "family," The Warriors weaves together social commentary with ancient legends for a classic coming-of-age tale. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.
The Victory Machine
Author: Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1541736214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow money, guts, and greed built the Warriors dynasty -- and then took it apart The Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA for the better part of a decade. Since the arrival of owner Joe Lacob, they won more championships and sold more merchandise than any other franchise in the sport. And in 2019, they opened the doors on a lavish new stadium. Yet all this success contained some of the seeds of decline. Ethan Sherwood Strauss's clear-eyed exposé reveals the team's culture, its financial ambitions and struggles, and the price that its players and managers have paid for all their winning. From Lacob's unlikely acquisition of the team to Kevin Durant's controversial departure, Strauss shows how the smallest moments can define success or failure for years. And, looking ahead, Strauss ponders whether this organization can rebuild after its abrupt fall from the top, and how a relentless business wears down its players and executives. The Victory Machine is a defining book on the modern NBA: it not only rewrites the story of the Warriors, but shows how the Darwinian business of pro basketball really works.
Apsáalooke Women and Warriors
Author: Nina Sanders
Publisher: Neubauer Collegium
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780578549552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Apsáalooke people, also known as the Crow, are noted for their bravery and artistry, twin pillars of a centuries-old culture rooted in the landscape of the Northern Plains. This book, published in conjunction with a multi-site exhibition jointly organized by the Field Museum and the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago, offers a rich narrative of the Apsáalooke paste with a keen eye on issues that concern present-day Apsáalooke identity. Apsáalooke Women and Warriors features contributions by contemporary Apsáalooke artists, intellectuals, and writers. Together, they constitute a major statement on the cosmologies, iconographies, and lifeways of the Apsáalooke people past, present--and, above all--future.
Golden Days
Author: Jack McCallum
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0399179070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"During their 1971-72 championship season, the L.A. Lakers won thirty-three games in a row ... a run of uninterrupted dominance that predated by decades the overwhelming firepower of today's Warriors, a revolutionary team whose recent seasons include some record-threatening win streaks of their own. Tying together the two strands [of the] story is Hall of Famer [Jerry] West, the ferociously competitive Laker guard who later became one of the key architects of the Warriors"--Amazon.com.
Victims and Warriors
Author: Casey High
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-03-30
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0252097025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1956, a group of Waorani men killed five North American missionaries in Ecuador. The event cemented the Waorani's reputation as ""wild Amazonian Indians"" in the eyes of the outside world. It also added to the myth of the violent Amazon created by colonial writers and still found in academia and the state development agendas across the region. Victims and Warriors examines contemporary violence in the context of political and economic processes that transcend local events. Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of Waorani social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows that these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.
Sex, Wives, and Warriors
Author: Philip Francis Esler
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0227679911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuggesting new ways to read Old Testament narrative and giving reasons why we should, Esler, with the aid of Mediterranean anthropology, sets out an approach that helps us to interpret a selection of narratives with a cultural understanding close to that of an ancient Israelite. Interpreted in this way, these narratives allow us to refresh the memory that links us with pivotal stories in Jewish and Christian identities and how they foster our capacity for intercultural understanding.
Warriors and Worriers
Author: Joyce F. Benenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0199972230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Warriors and Worriers, psychologist Joyce Benenson presents a new theory of sex differences, based on thirty years of research with young children and primates around the world. In this exciting exploration of human nature, Benenson thus turns upside down the familiar wisdom that women are more sociable than men and that men are more competitive than women.
Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland, 800 -1200
Author: David Wyatt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-04-24
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9047428773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern sensibilities have clouded historical views of slavery, perhaps more so than any other medieval social institution. Anachronistic economic rationales and notions about the progression of European civilisation have immeasurably distorted our view of slavery in the medieval context. As a result historians have focussed their efforts upon explaining the disappearance of this medieval institution rather than seeking to understand it. This book highlights the extreme cultural/social significance of slavery for the societies of medieval Britain and Ireland c. 800-1200. Concentrating upon the lifestyle, attitudes and motivations of the slave-holders and slave-raiders, it explores the violent activities and behavioural codes of Britain and Ireland’s warrior-centred societies, illustrating the extreme significance of the institution of slavery for constructions of power, ethnic identity and gender.
Warriors and other Men
Author: Lisbeth Skogstrand
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016-07-31
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1784914185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book questions whether androcentric archaeology has taught us anything about prehistoric men and their masculinities.
