John Thompson Libros

"John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. After three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship is ready to make the private public. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (and what stats! three Final Fours, four times national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson's book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach, and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. How did he inspire the phrase "Hoya Paranoia"? You'll see. And thawing his historically glacial stare, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a DC drug kingpin in his players' orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes on the Nike board today. Thompson's mother was a teacher who couldn't teach because she was Black. His father could not read or write, so the only way he could identify different cements at the factory where he worked was to taste them. Their son grew up to be a man with his own life-sized statue in a building that bears his family's name on a campus once kept afloat by the selling of 272 enslaved people. This is a great American story, and John Thompson's experience sheds light on many of the issues roiling our nation. In these pages, he proves himself to be the elder statesman college basketball and the country need to hear from now. I Came As A Shadow is not a swan song, but a bullhorn blast from one of America's most prominent sons." -- Amazon.com

Delivering full, tailored support for students, tutors and tradespeople alike, this resource provides the key plumbing knowledge students, tutors and tradespeople require. It also includes safety tips that highlight key safety points that students need to remember, relating health and safety information directly to the task being learnt.

Now available as a book and audio edition. A revised edition of the best-selling Piano course by John Thompson. Part three of this easy and fun approach to learning the Piano begins by showing the importance of playing and listening to music phrase by phrase rather than note by note. Examples of touch follow in proper sequence. Each book of the course contains its own writing exercises, sightreading drills, review work and later, technical studies. Accompaniments for teacher or parent are supplied with most of the examples. The accompanying audio is a wonderful tool for enhancing this method with highly acclaimed midi-orchestrated backing tracks. Practice becomes so much fun! Each track is split to enable the pupil to hear both Piano part and accompaniment if the balance is centred, the accompaniment without Piano if the balance is to the left, and the Piano part alone if the balance is all the way to the right. There are also two tempos for each song, allowing slower practice while it's needed - an ideal accompaniment for learning!

Focusing on the impact of technological advancements, this book explores the transformative years of the publishing industry as it faced the rise of ebooks, self-publishing, and audiobooks. It offers an in-depth analysis of how these changes disrupted traditional publishing practices, highlighting the challenges and opportunities that emerged during this pivotal period in one of the most vital creative sectors.

"Substantially revised and updated, this third edition of The UK financial system presents a comprehensive explanation of the workings of the financial system in the United Kingdom. It contains full details of the main financial markets and institutions as well as presenting some key theoretical developments such as asymmetric information, the efficient markets hypothesis and the term structure of interest rates, thus providing an analytical framework to aid understanding of the institutional structure." "The book is aimed at undergraduate students in finance, economics and business studies, and anyone interested in gaining an understanding of the UK financial system."--BOOK JACKET

This winner of the Lowell Thomas travel journalism award contains valuable information on exploring the country's lush rain forests, volcanoes and sandy beaches, with tips on outfitters, tours, and other services. Includes a colorful 36-page section on exotic birds and wildlife. 54 maps.

"All you need to know about the industry at a time of momentous change." -Drake McFeely, chairman and president, W.W. Norton & Company For nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the industry faces a combination of economic pressures and technological change that is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think hard about the future of the book. John Thompson's riveting account dissects the roles of publishers, agents, and booksellers in the United States and Britain, charting their transformation since the 1960s. Offering an in-depth analysis of how the digital revolution is changing the game today, Merchants of Culture is the one book that anyone with a stake in the industry needs to read.

Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash--for--questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton--Lewinsky affair, scandals have come to play a central role in politics and in the shaping of public debate. číst celé