It's How We Play the Game

It's How We Play the Game
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Publisher : Scribner
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781982116927
ISBN-13 : 1982116927
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Book Synopsis It's How We Play the Game by : Ed Stack

Download or read book It's How We Play the Game written by Ed Stack and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porchlight’s Best Leadership & Strategy Book of The Year An inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK’s Sporting Goods that is “not only entertaining but will be of great value to any entrepreneur” (Phil Knight, New York Times bestselling author of Shoe Dog), this book shows how a trailblazing business was created by giving back to the community and by taking principled, and sometimes controversial, stands—including against the type of weapons that are too often used in mass shootings and other tragedies. It’s How We Play the Game tells the story of a complicated founder and an ambitious son—one who transformed a business by making it about more than business, conceiving it as a force for good in the communities it serves. In 1948, Ed Stack’s father started Dick’s Bait and Tackle in Binghamton, New York. Ed Stack bought the business from his father in 1984, and grew it into the largest sporting goods retailer in the country, with 800 locations and close to $9 billion in sales. The transformation Ed wrought wasn’t easy: economic headwinds nearly toppled the chain twice. But DICK’s support for embattled youth sports programs earned the stores surprising loyalty, and the company won even more attention when, in the wake of yet another school shooting—at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida—it chose to become the first major retailer to pull all semi-automatic weapons from its shelves, raise the age of gun purchase to twenty-one, and, most strikingly, destroy the assault-style-type rifles then in its inventory. With vital lessons for anyone running a business and eye-opening reflections about what a company owes the people it serves, It’s How We Play the Game is “a compelling narrative…In a genre that can frequently be staid, Mr. Stack’s corporate biography is deeply personal…[Features] surprising openness [and] interesting and humorous anecdotes” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

We Play a Game

We Play a Game
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 103
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ISBN-10 : 9780300230871
ISBN-13 : 0300230877
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis We Play a Game by : Duy Doan

Download or read book We Play a Game written by Duy Doan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 112th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores the Vietnamese-American experience

Why We Play

Why We Play
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Publisher : Hau
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 098613256X
ISBN-13 : 9780986132568
Rating : 4/5 (6X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Why We Play by : Roberte Hamayon

Download or read book Why We Play written by Roberte Hamayon and published by Hau. This book was released on 2016 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play is one of humanity's straightforward yet deceitful ideas: though the notion is unanimously agreed upon to be universal, used for man and animal alike, nothing defines what all its manifestations share, from childish playtime to on stage drama, from sporting events to market speculation. Within the author's anthropological field of work (Mongolia and Siberia), playing holds a core position: national holidays are called "Games," echoing in that way the circus games in Ancient Rome and today's Olympics. These games convey ethical values and local identity. Roberte Hamayon bases her analysis of the playing spectrum on their scrutiny. Starting from fighting and dancing, encompassing learning, interaction, emotion and strategy, this study heads towards luck and belief as well as the ambiguity of the relation to fiction and reality. It closes by indicating two features of play: its margin and its metaphorical structure. Ultimately revealing its consistency and coherence, the author displays play as a modality of action of its own. "Playing is no 'doing' in the ordinary sense" once wrote Johan Huizinga. Isn't playing doing something else, elswhere and otherwise ?

Games We Play

Games We Play
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Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Total Pages : 28
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ISBN-10 : 0170097625
ISBN-13 : 9780170097628
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Games We Play by : Sue Davis

Download or read book Games We Play written by Sue Davis and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two

Games we Play

Games we Play
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Publisher : Flying Start Books
Total Pages : 20
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ISBN-10 : 9781776545469
ISBN-13 : 177654546X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Games we Play by : Pam Holden

Download or read book Games we Play written by Pam Holden and published by Flying Start Books. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing games is good fun. What game do you like to play most of all? Who plays games with you? Where do you play your games?

Audition

Audition
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Publisher : Bantam
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780553272956
ISBN-13 : 0553272950
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Audition by : Michael Shurtleff

Download or read book Audition written by Michael Shurtleff and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1979-12-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Streisand, Redford, Vereen, Tomlin, Midler, and Hoffman got their first breaks Michael Shurtleff was there. Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket and for films like The Graduate and Jesus Christ Superstar. His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells the all-important how for all aspiring actors, from the beginning student of acting to the proven talent trying out for that chance-in-a-million role! Twelve guideposts for actors plus: Style • Pace • Over-Acting • Distractions • Risks • Drama • Musical Theater • Comedy • Self-Rescue • Seduction • Eye Contact . . . And more!

We Play On

We Play On
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Publisher : Robinson
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781472148056
ISBN-13 : 1472148053
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Book Synopsis We Play On by : Andy Brassell

Download or read book We Play On written by Andy Brassell and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gripping account of how Shakhtar Donetsk came to represent embattled Ukraine's hopes for the future' Sunday Times 'We want to show to the world that we are alive. That we are strong. Not just us - the whole of Ukraine. We are continuing to play. We are continuing to win.' Darijo Srna 'Excellent ... a symbol of Ukrainian resistance' Ada Wordsworth Shakhtar Donetsk have not played in their home stadium since 2014. Their matchdays now typically have no crowds, air raid sirens interrupt games and thoughts of and fears for family, friends and hometowns frontline troops loom large in the players' minds ahead of every game. These are extraordinary times - but Shakhtar is an extraordinary club. Displaced when fighting first began in the Donbas region, and then again when Russia mounted a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, this book honours a club - players, coaching staff, management - who choose to play on. In a time of chaos and conflict, they have become emblems of hope and unity. They are winning on the pitch, and winning hearts and minds across the world. Following the club's meteoric rise from domestic team to domineering European contenders, Andy Brassell expertly weaves a story of Shakhtar through the ages - their origin story after Ukrainian independence, their evolution and their reinvention. The war forced an exodus of star players and staff and the club has had to find itself once again. With direct testimony and exclusive interviews from those at Shakhtar, this book delivers unparalleled insight to the club's journey - one that is all too often hidden from view. The result is an ode to Shakhtar Donetsk, shining a light on the beauty and force of their football and their fight to play on.