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.
"A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low--by the award-winning young star of the literary nonfiction world In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us--with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own--how we really (no, really) live now. In his native Kentucky, Sullivan introduces us to Constantine Rafinesque, a nineteenth-century polymath genius who concocted a dense, fantastical prehistory of the New World. Back in modern times, Sullivan takes us to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the alumni and straggling refugees of MTV's Real World, who've generated their own self-perpetuating economy of minor celebrity; and all across the South on the trail of the blues. He takes us to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina--and back again as its residents confront the BP oil spill. Gradually, a unifying narrative emerges, a story about this country that we've never heard told this way. It's like a fun-house hall-of-mirrors tour: Sullivan shows us who we are in ways we've never imagined to be true. Of course we don't know whether to laugh or cry when faced with this reflection--it's our inevitable sob-guffaws that attest to the power of Sullivan's work"--Provided by publisher
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.
