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Elgin Baylor's memoir of an epic all-star career in the NBA-during which he transformed basketball from a horizontal game to a vertical one-and his fights against racism during his career as a player and as general manager of the LA Clippers under the infamous Donald Sterling People think of Elgin Baylor as one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the game-and one of the NBA's first black superstars-but the full extent of his...

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The focus of this work is on the basic writings of radical reformer and religious revolutionary Thomas Muntzer (before 1490-1525). Also included are materials written just before Muntzer's execution-his confession, retraction, and last letter.

On Both Sides - A Novel. Tenth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks n...

Christopher Baylor is an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.

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The Caldecott Honor author/illustrator team that brought readers "The Desert Is Theirs" and "The Way to Start a Day" returns with this tale of truly listening to the world around us. In "The Other Way to Listen", a young boy is eager to learn and an old man is happy to share his wisdom. Full color.

Excerpt from Claudia Hyde: A Novel The ordinary domestic would have reminded him of the fact by saying, Did you ring, sir? Giddings would have stood there silent for the remainder of the day, most likely, first, certainly until he either received an order, or permission to retire. The grenadiers of Frederick the little-great were not greater martinets and disciplinarians in their way than Giddings in his. It was his religion to be a gentleman...

Pieces of broken pots are scattered over the desert hillsides of the Southwest. The Indians there treat them with respect -- "Every piece of clay is a piece of someone's life, " they say. And the children try to imagine those lives that took place in the desert they think of as their own.Clay has its own small voice, and sings. Its song has lasted for thousands of years. And Byrd Baylor's prose-poem as simple and powerful as the clay pots, sin...

With a lot of practice, a young boy learns from his old teacher how to listen to the sounds and songs of the natural world.When you know "the other way to listen, " you can hear the wild-flower seed bursting open. You hear rocks murmuring and hills singing, and it seems like the most natural thing in the world. Of course, it takes a lot of practice, and you can't be in a hurry. Most people never hear these things at all. This is the story of a...

A Native American boy captures a hawk in the hope that he can also capture some sense of its ability to fly....Parnall's sweeping black-and-white panoramas complement this spare, poetic text.” —School Library Journal A Caldecott Honor BookAn ALA Notable Book

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A picture book "told with tenderness and gentle humor in rhythmic verse and strongly appealing drawings in soft desert colors".--Booklist.

Byrd Baylor's text captures and shares some of the special experiences in the Southwest desert country that have inaugurated her private celebrations: The Time of Falling Stars, in the middle of August, when "every time a streak of light goes shooting through the darkness, I feel my heart shoot out of me", Rainbow Celebration Day, marking the time she and a jackrabbit stood together watching a triple-rainbow over a canyon, and the real New Yea...

The Protestant Reformation, begun with Martin Luther's posting of The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, rapidly escalated into an evangelical reform movement that transformed European Christianity. Less than a decade later, a massive rebellion of German commoners challenged the social and political order in what would prove to be the greatest popular rebellion in European history until the French Revolution. In this volume, Michael Baylor explores t...

Excerpt from Baylor's History of the Baylors: A Collection of Records and Important Family Data Considering our records as a Whole, we have had, and still have, a promising history, more of which will be told in the chapters that follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Boo...

This US Army War College student author looks closely at Field Marshal Slim's ethical development and leadership during all phases of his long career. He argues that the examination shows the value of maintaing high ethical and moral standards, including how high standards can build an organizational bond between Soldiers that can prevail in the face of otherwise apparently insurmountable odds.