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  • Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams

    A Sportscaster's Life

    by Tom Hammond, Mark Story ...
    In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report from the stall area on what was supposed to be a single broadcast, Hammond performed so well that an NBC executive ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams

    A Sportscaster's Life

    by Tom Hammond ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report from the stall area on what was supposed to be a single broadcast, Hammond performed so well that an NBC executive ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Cody's Wish

    A Boy, a Racehorse, and a Fight for Life

    by Paul K. Halloran Jr. ...
    The heart-stirring true story of a champion racehorse, a courageous boy, and the wish that united themCody Dorman had already beaten the odds when, at age thirteen, he was introduced to a five-month-old Thoroughbred foal in 2018 through Make-A-Wish. Born with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, Cody had undergone more than forty operations, including two open-heart surgeries before he was three. One doctor ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Labor in the Time of Trump

    Edited by Jasmine Kerrissey, Eve Weinbaum, Clare Hammonds, Tom Juravich, Dan Clawson ...
    Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working–class movement.While President Trump's election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The contributors show that only by analyzing the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Usability

    Gaining a Competitive Edge

    Edited by Judy Hammond, Tom Gross, Janet Wesson ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Usability has become increasingly important as an essential part of the design and development of software and systems for all sectors of society, business, industry, government and education, as well as a topic of research. Today, we can safely say that, in many parts of the world, information technology and communications is or is becoming a central force in revolutionising the way that we all ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Benefits of Learning

    The Impact of Education on Health, Family Life and Social Capital

    by Tom Schuller, John Preston, Cathie Hammond, Angela Brassett-Grundy, John Bynner ...
    How do education and learning really impact on people's lives?The Benefits of Learning is a detailed, systematic and vivid account of the impact of formal and informal education on people's lives. Based on extended interviews with adults of all ages, it shows how learning affects their health, family lives and participation in civic life, revealing the downsides of education as well as the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Deadstock: The Story of a Wall Street Trader

    by Tom Robertson, Antony Hammond ...
    In a time when greed is good and money talks, one man has had enough of living in the big, rotten apple. 1986 is coming to an end, the economy is booming, Manhattan looks beautifully white and festive from the back of his private limo. From the outside he seems to have it all, the great job, the money, the clothes, the looks, the women but Toby Robinson is having a crisis of conscience. A typical ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • With Edwards in the Governor's Mansion

    From Angola to Free Man

    by Forest C. Hammond ...
    In the summer of 1973, the high school football star Forest Hammond traded his gear for cuffs, entering the Baton Rouge Parish Prison after being caught up in a situation gone wrong. The course of this young man's promising life changed with one mistake: the football hero with the athletic scholarship overestimated himself. In an attempt to dissolve a violent situation, he failed and became ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Diary of a Groupie

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