About this product: The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. Most of the team were drafted into professional baseball. Two of them, Darryl Strawberry and Chris Brown, would reunite as teammates on a National League All-Star roster. But Michael Sokolove's The Ticket Out is more a story of promise denied than of dreams fulfilled.
About this product: Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid-1800s, scalpers, known as "sidewalk men," were charging all the traffic would bear for event tickets. Although these speculators were generally viewed as pariahs and public opinion was against the practice, legal attempts to limit their activities were far from successful. Boston enacted laws as early as 1873, while Pennsylvania followed suit in 1884. Still, such measures did little good since some laws were declared unconstitutional and, for the ones that were upheld, the fines were negligible with jail time rarely served. Over the years, as moral objections to scalping dimmed, the public became more tolerant as the practice became increasingly prevalent. By the 1990s, the capitalist mantras of free market and economic principles of supply and demand were even being used to justify the practice. This volume details the ways in which scalping has changed over the years from a one-man business to an agency-controlled enterprise, from performances by Jenny Lind to Billy Joel. The book examines the general situation, public opinion and legal perception of scalping for four distinct periods: 1850-1899; 1900-1917; 1918-1949 and 1950-2005. Emphasis is placed on the ways in which public and legal perception of the practice has evolved over this period. Scalping, slowly gaining a more positive status, has become more accepted as part of the economic practice of free markets.
About this product: In this engrossing sequel to Almost Sisters, Juneau, Willadene, and Erin continue their mutual association as they each weather unexpected trials. As the years go by, old friends pass away, new people enter thier lives, and grueling challenges test their faith. Juneau finds her relationships with her friends and family evolving, especially when she becomes the guardian of a baby boy. Willadene finds herself coping with postpartum psychosis and struggling to keep her older children from going astray. And Erin must adapt in order to hold her young family together after her husband makes a startling revelation. The innocent friendship that began at a BYU Women's Conference matures as the three women find support in one another, and continue their mission to become Crusty Old Broads.
About this product: "This book is extremely informative and full of insights for prospective student-athletes" Manuel Diaz Heach Coach, University of Georgia.
About this product: Judith Tempest, a British reporter, is searching for the Truth. But when it starts to spill out in her brilliant front page reportage of Middle East suicide bombing in retaliation for Israeli tanks mowing down innocent Palestinian women and children, both ‘Tempest’ and ‘Truth’ start to spell ‘Trouble’-- with a capital ‘T’, joke her friends and colleagues. At age 37, Judith’s biological clock is ticking fast. Torn between career and family, the young reporter is determined to have both . . . a dilemma that has caused many successful young career women to end up in the hot seat instead of the hot tub—with Mr. Wrong. Tempest rides the storms of passion from lovers and fiancés who promise her the world yet give her enough reason to believe that "World" is laced with all the trappings of deception—and betrayal. Mohammed Khalaf is her lifeboat, her hero. A Muslim import-export Palestinian residing in London, Mohammed slowly reveals his tragic past as the two fall deeply in love. At last, Judith feels she has found a man who treats her as an equal, a man whose love and fidelity she can trust. The story unfolds in a non-stop mystery thriller that begins two days before America’s tragic 9/11 in a marble bathtub decked with candles, coke and champagne at New York’s Regent Hotel and tears along at a reckless pace of passion, betrayal, adventure and espionage. Tempest/Ridley’s message at the end is clear: This is a fiction work laced with the truth about today’s current global crisis written by one of the world’s most courageous journalists who has learned that sometimes fiction is the best way to deliver that truth.
About this product: Pleasant enough read, obviously a first novel from an author with considerable talent and potential.
The story has some really good writing throughout, and creates the mood of war torn Europe very well. The details were convincing and seemed authentic.
The ending really bothered me though. Without giving it away, I have to say that it was a complete surprise, and not one that left me feeling satisfied.
I just didn't feel that the characters would accept that solution especially without any foreshadowing earlier in the story that this would be the way things would end. It reminded me of stories that end with "suddenly Pascale and Witold woke up and realised the whole thing had all been a crazy dream". I felt cheated.
I enjoyed the book up to that point, and thought the characters and the story deserved better. I would like to see more from this author.
About this product: A celebration, in words and pictures, of the glory days of the American movie theater--from big-city movie palaces to tiny gems on Main Street. Readers will journey back in time to magnificent cinematic cathedrals like the Roxy, to homespun small-town theaters and vanishing drive-ins. 320 illustrations, 270 in color.
About this product: From around the world, this book houses a collection of over 2,500 various ticket stubs dating from the past two decades. The opus of Tanja Backe, these tickets come from every imaginable source: airplane, train, ferry, bus, metro, cloakroom and parking tickets, bank and taxi receipts, inspection labels, admission tickets for museums, theatres, cinemas, circuses, operas, zoos, concerts, ballets, even reptile shows. The collection sampling of all kinds of occasions and cultural events. Non-chronological and non-linear, the book can be navigated according to individual preference and logic. The collection reprints the tickets at true size, one-to-one, organized according to color and hue. Backe guides us through the variety of typefaces, languages, formats, styles, backgrounds, identities, illustrations, and other graphic elements contained in this sweeping collection. Fascinatingly small, the ticket is a unique and intriguing format, one that demands efficiency, utility, and that can become a thing of high design and ingenuity.
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