New Releases by Bruce Brooks

Glenn "Doc" Rivers, alongside award-winning author Bruce Brooks, tells us about the game he loves in this insightful player autobiography. Glenn "Doc" Rivers plays basketball the way an artist writes: he practices endlessly to perfect his technique, he constantly thinks of the whole, the game, ahead of himself; and in those moments of inspiration when "the ball starts to move," that''s when the real fun starts. Beginning with schoolyard contests in Chicago against Isiah Thomas and clashes with an older brother who was his toughest one-on-one challenge, he shows us the determination, the competitive fire, and the brains he needed to succeed. We find out about mentors like Johnny Davis and Moses Malone, infuriating opponents like Michael Jordan and Kevin McHale--and coaches like Hank Raymond and Pat Riley, whose techniques Doc later uses as a championship-winning head coach and leader. Doc has a good life in the NBA, but he looks directly at the racial problems sports hides, at the distortion that comes when a game turns into a highlight film, at the pressure on himself and his family that comes from being a too-often-absent dad, and at the day every athlete dreads: retirement. Looking back to his past accomplishments and ahead to his bright future, Doc Rivers guides us on a thought-provoking, memorable journey into the mind of one special ballplayer--one of Those Who Love the Game.

A historical study of Jesus and the beginnings and later history of the movement he left behind

A comprehensive survey of classical Chinese history and thought

En explorant les aspirations de Wright à élever la société américaine à travers l’architecture, ce livre présente de façon concise la réponse à la fois technologique et romantique qu’il apporta aux défis pratiques rencontrés par la classe moyenne américaine.

This large book of two pivotal Frank Lloyd Wright projects is really an examination of just one: the architect''s self-designed home, as built at different locations in Wisconsin and Arizona from 1911 to the late 1930s. Colour photography by Yukio Futugawa captures the pioneering spirit of Wright''s domestic innovation, while Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer''s text examines these buildings'' architectural significance and their fascinating and sometimes tragic personal meaning for Wright.

This title presents the Wright stuff. It is the definitive publication on America''s greatest architect. The three-volume monograph features all of Wright''s designs (numbering approximately 1100), both realized and unrealized. Volume 3 covers the postwar years and the ''living architecture'' period. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is widely considered to be the greatest American architect of all time; indeed, his work virtually ushered in the modern era and remains highly influential today. His wide-ranging and paradigm-shifting oeuvre is the subject of Taschen''s three-volume monograph that covers all of his designs (numbering approximately 1100), both realized and unrealized. Made in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Taliesin, Arizona, this collection leaves no stone unturned in examining and paying tribute to Wright''s life and work. From his early Prairie Houses (typified by the Robie House) to the Usonian concept home and progressive ''living architecture'' buildings to late projects like the spiral Guggenheim Museum in New York and the development of his fantastic vision of a better tomorrow via his concept of the ''living city'', all of the phases of Wright''s career are painstakingly described and illustrated herein. Author and preeminent Wright expert Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer highlights the latest research and gives fresh insight into the work, providing new dating for many of the plans and houses. A plethora of personal photos gives readers a feeling of what it was like to work in Frank Lloyd Wright''s fellowship, traveling each spring from Taliesin West to the old Taliesin complex in Wisconsin and returning the next fall to spend the winter in sunny Arizona again. Volume 1 is dedicated to the early Chicago years and Prairie Houses, the period which provoked a profound influence on European architects. Volume 2 deals with the work after World War I, beginning with the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and covering Wright''s quest to design affordable houses with systematic construction methods and the Usonian concept house, with the forest-sited villa Fallingwater being the dramatic climax. Volume 3 starts after World War II, when Wright''s organic ''living architecture'' introduced ideas for the use of solar energy and curved open spaces. In addition to the Guggenheim museum, the postwar era also saw extraordinary projects such as Wright''s plans for a new Baghdad, his only realized high-rise tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the crystal figure of the Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and an endless row of houses that reached new complexity by floor plans based on hexagons and playing with intersecting angles.

Jerome is the first black kid at his Junior High and is terrific at basketball! When he meets Bix, another great athlete, the two discover they have much in common and a strong friendship develops. As Jerome teaches Bix more about basketball how will these moves translate into real life? (Reading Grade Level 7 & up) (An Accelerated Reader title).

A series of events captures the life of a free-spirited girl as she grows from a savvy seven-year-old to a self-assured sixteen-year-old.

Three novellas explore the effects of death on young lives.

When his teammates on the Breadhurst Newts baseball team continue their losing ways, Whiz uses an unusual printing press to create several star players in hopes of winning a game.

Alice just can''t stop crying. To her, it seems as if it should be simple. If your parents split up, you live with the one who understands you best. Alice''s father had always been the one to "get" her. But somehow she had ended up living with her mom, who drank too much, and her stepfather, who didn''t like her and didn''t care who knew it. So when a bout with bronchitis lands her in the hospital, she decided she just can''t face going home again--ever. What if she simply stops eating--goes on a hunger strike? They would have to keep her there, wouldn''t they? It seems like the simplest solution, even when the hallucinations start, even when they kind of take over. But suppose she goes into a coma--or dies? If that happens, she''ll have her new friend Rex, the mysterious boy who says he''s dying, but whose jaunty ways have brought Alice to life. Once again, Bruce Brooks tells an intriguing story that puts new twists on the oldest, biggest issues--love, death, and taking charge of your own life as you move toward adulthood.

As the Wolfbay Wings make their way into the play-offs, several team members seem to be using marijuana to deal with the pressure and the whole teams suffers because of it.

Rhyming text and illustrations with some cut-outs reveal that things are often more than they seem at first.

This translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China''s most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context.

Fully expecting to be elected captain of his ice hockey team, Dooby is dismayed when the position goes to the new player because she is a girl.

When Reed, who considers himself to be a hotshot hockey player, injures a defenseman on his team, he is forced to take his place and comes to a new understanding of sportsmanship and being a team player.

Eleven-year-old Cody, who plays both hockey and guitar, tries to combine his two interests by forming a fledgling band with some of his teammates, but he is presented with a diffuclt coice when a conflict develops.

Ten-year-old Zip struggles to deal with his best friend''s defection to a rival hockey team, a move that will test their friendship and leave them face to face on opposite sides in a close game.

At the start of the new ice hckey season, Woodsie alone believes that his teammates can pick themselves up after several key players defect to a rival team.

Celebrates the gawky, loud, graceless joy of being a boy and discusses a variety of topics qualifying as boy stuff, including caps, sports, mothers, and friends who are a bad influence.

After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa''s sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.

In his twenty-first century society, fourteen-year-old Sam is allowed to decide the fate of his family after his mother is released from an alcohol rehabilitation center.

An authorative study of Frank Lloyd Wright''s drawings. 303 conceptual studies, plans, detailed elevations, and published perspectives present the full range of his achievement.