Focusing on the troubling trend of youth sports leading to high dropout rates and unhealthy lifestyles, the book offers insights from successful coaches and parents who prioritize core values over competition. It emphasizes creating a positive environment that fosters enjoyment and life lessons in athletics. By presenting a new paradigm for adults, it aims to guide them in raising happy, high-performing children and advocates for a national movement to restore the joy of youth sports.
Join the family Trotter with their get-rich-quick scheming and back-of-a-lorry
sales pitch. This collection covers the first five series of the hilarious BBC
sitcom and contains specially-written, original material, including the
Trotter Dictionary, Rodney's CV and the Trotter Guide to Seduction.
Inspired by award-winning author John Sullivan's life, this heartwarming story
of the joys helping and caring for a stray cat includes a list of dos and
don'ts for stray pet adoption.
A stray kitten changes the way the watchman sees nighttime in this tender book
based on a true story, illustrated by Strictly No Elephants artist Taeeun Yoo.
Award-winning author John Sullivan is back with an inspiring and poignant
picture book about a boy learning the self-confidence to fulfill his dream of
dancing in front of his peers.
Kann man ganz Amerika in ein Buch packen? Geschichte und Gegenwart? Popkultur und Frömmigkeit? Glänzende Oberfläche und enttäuschte Versprechen? Mit »Pulphead« hat John Jeremiah Sullivan bewiesen, dass das möglich ist. In der Tradition von Meistern wie Tom Wolfe und Hunter S. Thompson verwischt er die Grenze zwischen Literatur und Journalismus, Erzählung und Reportage, Hochliteratur und Unterhaltung, Hemingway und Hollywood. Wie in einem Panoptikum entsteht aus Artikeln über Axl Rose, christliche Rockfestivals, Reality TV, die Tea-Party-Bewegung, vergessene Naturforscher und den heruntergekommenen Süden das Panorama eines Landes, das der Rest der Welt immer weniger versteht. Pulphead löste in den USA wahre Jubelstürme aus, und die Begeisterung hat längst auch die alte Welt respektive die Bundesrepublik erreicht: »Noch jeder ungläubige Thomas, der dem konzertierten Entzücken misstrauen wollte, kehrte mit leuchtenden Augen von der Lektüre zurück.« Der Tagesspiegel »Essays aus und über Amerika von einem, der schreiben kann, dass einem der Mund offen stehen bleibt.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung »Die besten Geschichten über Amerika, die Popkultur und die Gegenwart seit langem.« Süddeutsche Zeitung »... die besten Geschichten schreibt immer noch das Leben, und das ist Sullivans Stoff.« Tages-Anzeiger »Sehr, sehr gute, wahre, berührende Geschichten darüber, was es heißen kann, heute zu leben« Süddeutsche Zeitung
The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history. All of them led with courage — but also with great optimism. The pope helped ordinary Poles and East Europeans banish their fear of Soviet Communism, convincing them that liberation was possible. The prime minister restored her country's failing economy by reviving the "vigorous virtues" of the British people. The president rebuilt America's military power, its national morale, and its pre – eminence as leader of the free world. Together they brought down an evil empire and changed the world for the better. No one can tell their intertwined story better than John O'Sullivan, former editor of National Review and the Times of London, who knew all three and conducted exclusive interviews that shed extraordinary new light on these giants of the twentieth century.
This book chronicles the contributions of ESA astronauts to the International Space Station, highlighting their missions, personal stories, and achievements. It covers key projects like the Columbus lab and includes missions from Luca Parmitano's 2013 Volare to his 2019 Beyond mission, featuring first flights of several astronauts.
