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After 30 years in marketing, I am a professor at Rutgers University, where I teach public relations and marketing courses. In each course, I consistently share an inspirational message with my students, which is the title of my new book – Pursue Your Passions! Dream Big! Anything Is Possible! I have taught approximately 4,000 students and have witnessed their journey from the classroom to career. Each of their unique career journeys is inspirational. My former students regularly return to my classroom and inspire my current students to pursue their dreams and goals. My purpose and passion today is to inspire my students and other job seekers to pursue and achieve their professional dreams and goals.
Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey takes us on a personal journey of his life, including failures, lessons learned, and moments of inspiration.
The book is based on diaries that McConaughey kept for more than 30 years. For one of the world’s leading men, his vulnerability in sharing his life story and journey is inspiring and motivating for any reader no matter their dreams and goals.
From the Academy Award (R)-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less.…
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…
After 30 years in marketing, I am a professor at Rutgers University, where I teach public relations and marketing courses. In each course, I consistently share an inspirational message with my students, which is the title of my new book – Pursue Your Passions! Dream Big! Anything Is Possible! I have taught approximately 4,000 students and have witnessed their journey from the classroom to career. Each of their unique career journeys is inspirational. My former students regularly return to my classroom and inspire my current students to pursue their dreams and goals. My purpose and passion today is to inspire my students and other job seekers to pursue and achieve their professional dreams and goals.
From a young age, we are regularly asked what we want to be when we grow up. We all have contemplated our dream job, and most likely, our dream job has changed with time.
Michael Rasile’s dream was to work in the sports business industry, and he took one of the most innovative approaches to getting there. He launched a podcast called For the Love of Sports. Each week, he scheduled and interviewed leaders in sports business on his podcast. He grew his professional network in a meaningful way.
In the book, Rasile shares powerful and inspirational insights from his podcast interviews and bridges those in a way that they can apply to all of us on each of our unique career journeys.
Did you know that the movie Jerry Maguire ruined the sports agency business?
In Winning in Sports Business, Michael Rasile shares what the nuances of the sports business landscape are like, and what people need to do to get into it. He shares stories from the movers and shakers in the sports business and details many different areas of the sports business world that are still untapped.
This book will help answer these questions:
What are the types of jobs/career paths in sports?
After 30 years in marketing, I am a professor at Rutgers University, where I teach public relations and marketing courses. In each course, I consistently share an inspirational message with my students, which is the title of my new book – Pursue Your Passions! Dream Big! Anything Is Possible! I have taught approximately 4,000 students and have witnessed their journey from the classroom to career. Each of their unique career journeys is inspirational. My former students regularly return to my classroom and inspire my current students to pursue their dreams and goals. My purpose and passion today is to inspire my students and other job seekers to pursue and achieve their professional dreams and goals.
Dan Hurley is one of today’s most successful head coaches in basketball and sports.
Known for his intensity on the court, the book takes the reader through his journey, starting in New Jersey as the son of a legendary high school basketball coach, Bob Hurley. Hurley’s dedication to success led to consecutive NCAA national championships for the University of Connecticut and a pursuit by the Los Angeles Lakers to hire Hurley as their coach.
The book shares lessons in leadership and greatness.
Dan Hurley is one of the most famous head coaches in America today—in any sport. He returned the UConn Huskies men’s basketball team to their rightful place among the nation’s elite, winning back-to-back NCAA Championships, and he did it with uncommon passion. His on-court eruptions, his face-offs with refs and even fans, are legendary.
But behind all the winning and swagger is a story of intense, harrowing struggle. Son of a revered high school coach, younger brother of a college basketball icon, Hurley spent years fearing that he’d just never measure up. He suffered through several…
Transforming Pandora, women's fiction with a metaphysical undercurrent, is written with humour and a light touch. As the plot slips between two time frames, separated by more than thirty years, the reader explores her life and loves: her ups and downs.
After 30 years in marketing, I am a professor at Rutgers University, where I teach public relations and marketing courses. In each course, I consistently share an inspirational message with my students, which is the title of my new book – Pursue Your Passions! Dream Big! Anything Is Possible! I have taught approximately 4,000 students and have witnessed their journey from the classroom to career. Each of their unique career journeys is inspirational. My former students regularly return to my classroom and inspire my current students to pursue their dreams and goals. My purpose and passion today is to inspire my students and other job seekers to pursue and achieve their professional dreams and goals.
Kenny Albert is one of the most recognizable voices in sports.
He has called more than 3,000 broadcasts, including the National Football League, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, and the Olympic Games. The son of a sports broadcasting legend, Marv Albert, Kenny takes along his life’s journey.
His passion for sportscasting comes through loud and clear and serves as inspiration for each of us, no matter the passions that we are pursuing.
When Kenny Albert was growing up, family gatherings sounded a lot like a dispatch from the first all-sports radio station. There was his father, Marv, whose voice shaped the sound of modern basketball, and there too were his uncles Al and Steve—a trio of professional play-by-play men with a listenership that spanned the country.
It was only a matter of time before Kenny, armed with a toy tape recorder, yearned to follow in their footsteps.
Some 3,000 broadcasts later, Kenny Albert has amassed countless stories from the world of sports and media. A Mic for All Seasons is his chronicle…
I have been a professional business writer with a keen interest in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey since the early 1960s. My life was literally changed on January 12, 1969, when the New York Jets shocked me and the world with their upset victory in Super Bowl III. For over 40 succeeding years, I was beyond curious about the under-publicized players on that Jets team (aside from Joe Namath) and what they experienced and felt that day and season. I’m especially proud that the VP of Public Relations for that Jet team read and praised my book for bringing exposure to all “the other guys.”
I recommend this book as the unparalleled, fascinating, detailed report of what was going on with the individual members of the New York Jets in the two weeks between the Jets’ AFL Championship game victory and their shocking upset victory over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl.
Published in 1969, it remains a must-read for football fans over 50 years later.
I have been a professional business writer with a keen interest in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey since the early 1960s. My life was literally changed on January 12, 1969, when the New York Jets shocked me and the world with their upset victory in Super Bowl III. For over 40 succeeding years, I was beyond curious about the under-publicized players on that Jets team (aside from Joe Namath) and what they experienced and felt that day and season. I’m especially proud that the VP of Public Relations for that Jet team read and praised my book for bringing exposure to all “the other guys.”
I read this book because, in the annals of football history (up until the decades of Super Bowl success by Bill Belichick), Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers made him the runaway choice as pro football’s greatest coach.
He was considered coaching’s ultimate leader, motivator, and fundamentals technician. This book filled in the very little I knew about Lombardi’s lengthy history before he landed in Green Bay.
In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.
More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world…
Mateo Taurasi and his family fled their island home when their people turned to sorcery. Mateo’s own magic is tame but it’s still banned in the Vaeringan Empire...and his family still use it every day in their cosy teahouse. The last thing they need is an Imperial barging in to…
I am an experiencer who has had a lot of experiences with otherworldly beings for the last several years now, and I am also an inventor in my own right with one patent. I feel I have the ability to pay attention to detail, and I'm very analytical when it comes to making sense of things I can read, see, and hear. In my book, I give detailed explanations of my experiences from my encounters, and I am a very practical person, where I have the tendency to analyze mostly everything I do.
I highly recommend this book because it takes a uniquely scientific yet imaginative approach to the question of extraterrestrial life.
Instead of relying on speculation alone, Pickover blends biology, physics, and astronomy to explore what alien life might realistically look like, how it could evolve, and the environments it might inhabit. He examines possibilities ranging from microbial organisms to advanced civilizations, grounding each scenario in scientific principles while still leaving room for wonder.
This makes the book both intellectually stimulating and accessible, appealing to readers who want more than just UFO anecdotes—they want a thoughtful exploration of life beyond Earth.
If extraterrestrials ever landed on Earth, they would find us extremely strange. Their first intimation of our existence might well be a Super Bowl broadcast or a stray transmission from the Playboy channel. But, of course, they might seem equally strange to us. How strange? Their senses could be entirely different from ours,they might see in the infrared or hear" radio waves.What would aliens look like? An intelligent octopus-like creature is certainly plausible. What about odd numbers of limbs,a three-legged alien with three arms and three eyes? What about an entire planet of immobile, silicon-based trees" that communicate with each…
I grew up in Green Bay and my dad was the official scorer for the Packers, so I was immersed in pro football history even as a child. During my careers as a newspaper feature writer and editor and as an advertising copywriter, I also became a sports historian. My magnum opus was “The Encyclopedia of North American Sports History,” 650,000 words. But my favorite by far is my biography of Johnny Blood. I was 12 or 13 when I decided I wanted to write it, 33 when I began working on it, 38 when I finished it, and 78 when it was finally published.
In a work that is almost as much cultural history as pro football history, Michael McCambridge looks at the growth of the National Football League from the end of World War II to the 21st century
This well-researched and well-written book covers the league’s inner workings as well as the on-the-field highlights. The establishment of the NFL Players Association is treated equally with the establishment of the Super Bowl.
It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age.
America’s Game traces pro football’s grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting…
I have a passion for this theme because I served as an armor officer in the U.S. Army for more than twenty years. I saw the effect of both thinking and non-thinking commanders first-hand in places like the inter-German border during the Cold War, Iraq in combat during the first Gulf War, and Bosnia in ‘operations other than war.’ My experience drove me to continue my military studies resulting in four degrees, including my PhD and my current occupation as a professor of military history. My search for understanding war and military decision-making reflects a desire to better instruct the future leaders among my college students and readers.
I probably have referred to this work more than any other in my personal library of several thousand books. This original hardback covers more than thirteen wars in hundreds of detailed maps. Later hardback and online editions have added all major conflicts from the Korean War to the recent war in Afghanistan. Patton once said that terrain is the skeleton upon which we flesh out our plans and operations. I believe no historian can understand battles and campaigns without first understanding the terrain. These maps make it possible to see the restraints and constraints imposed by terrain and give the possibility for the trained eye to retrospectively measure the coup de oeilin their subject’s eye. All military history begins with a map and the maps begin here.
This delightful fable about the Golden Age of Broadway unfolds the warm story of Artie, a young rehearsal pianist, Joe, a visionary director, and Carrie, his crackerjack Girl Friday, as they shepherd a production of a musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream towards opening night.
In a family of readers, my older sister was fascinated by the American Revolution, so I became a reader under that influence, gulping down biographies for kids. I trained as an academic historian but never really wanted to write academic history. Instead, I wanted to bottle that what-if-felt-like magic that I'd felt when I read those books as a kid. I became a journalist but still felt the pull of the past. So I wound up in that in-between slice of journalists who try to write history for readers like me, more interested in people than in complex arguments about historical cause and effect.
Before I picked up this book, I would have told you that West Point cadets were the last kind of people I'd care to read about, which just goes to show how shallow stereotypes can be.
Atkinson's deep research and vivid storytelling are enthralling. I finished the book with an emotional comprehension of the war in Vietnam that I had never had before.
The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson.
"A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."―The Boston Globe
A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson (author of the Liberation Trilogy) illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved―from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the…
