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Celebrated NBA player and the first Black Coach of the Year Ray Scott tells his story.A memoir of hard lessons learned in the racially segregated and sometimes outright racist NBA of the early '60s, when Ray Scott joined the early wave of Black players like Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who would literally change how the game of professional basketball is played-leading to the tremendously popular financial blo...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Fifteenth Round is written from a spiritual perspective to encourage the reader to develop a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. This title was chosen because most of these stories deal with perseverance. In the earlier days of boxing, bouts went an average of fifteen rounds. The final round usually decided the outcome of the bout. The Bible has a lot to say about determination. These stories have been shared throughout my li...

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Excerpt from Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899, Vol. 2: Ornithology, Part IV, Anatidæ-TytodidæHist. Chil. Zool. I. P. 487 Reichenb. Syst. Av. Natatores, pl. Xxxiii, fig. 370 Gray, Hand]. B. III. P. 129, no. 11141 (1871)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. ...

Excerpt from Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899, Vol. 2: Ornithology, Part IV, Anatidæ-TytodidæHist. Chil. Zool. I. P. 487 Reichenb. Syst. Av. Natatores, pl. Xxxiii, fig. 370 Gray, Hand]. B. III. P. 129, no. 11141 (1871)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Story of a Bird LoverBrooklyn was little more than a village in 1852, the year when I was born, and all the country back of the City Hall was open, fields and farms, the Heights south of Wall Street ferry Sloped down in a green bank to New York Bay, and Bedford and Coney Island were remote points where we went for excursions to the country. It was a village with a volunteer fire department, and no general water or sewer system...

If you enjoyed A Christmas Carol, you will be touched by The Switch. It is the story of Mark Gilbert, who was born with a heart defect. His health and his life was severely impaired by his medical condition and by the time Mark reaches his early twenties, his life is virtually at an end. However, a very special someone has been observing Mark's struggle, and at the brink of his death, that someone comes to Mark with an astonishing offer. A swi...

Excerpt from The Story of a Bird Lover It is not merely the fact that the author of this book is recognized by ornithologists as one of the foremost experts in America as regards the life and habits of birds that has led the publishers to urge him to write this biography of a bird lover. Neither is it chiefly the fact that his favorite study has led him into many not well-known parts of the country, where his experiences, personal and scienti...

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