Boeken Jockey

Baby Zeke: The Diary of a Jockey- Baby Zeke -- A New Enemy

THE MAN WHO BROUGHT A Mountain of Soul to Houston, Texas

The man who brought a mountain of soul to Houston, Texas. The man who brought and promoted many Houston rhythm and blues performers. The man who brought and promoted many comedy shows including Amos &Andy. The man who watched the church he is a member of grow from 25 members to over 14,000 members.

Gene Jockeys

The scientific scramble to discover the first generation of drugs created through genetic engineering. The biotech arena emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, when molecular biology, one of the fastest-moving areas of basic science in the twentieth century, met the business world. Gene Jockeys is a detailed study of the biotech projects that led to …

Le monde grec antique

LIVRE PREMIER Les premiers temps de la Grèce L’installation des Grecs. La terre et les hommes Le monde égéen à l’époque des palais crétois Apogée et chute du monde mycénien LIVRE DEUXIÈME Un nouveau monde grec 4. Les problèmes du Haut-Archaïsme / Homère et Hésiode 5. La cité archaïque et l’expansion coloniale 6. Évolution politique …

Black Lives- Isaac Murphy

The rise and fall of one of America’s first Black sports celebrities

Great Women in the Sport of Kings

This text considers the phenomenon of female jockeys. It takes a look at their lives and offers portraits of how they overcame personal and professional obstacles. The introduction explores the implications of women in sport, the struggles female jockeys face and the significance of their success.

Champion Jump Horse Racing Jockeys

‘It’s one of the real sports that’s left to us: a bit of danger and a bit of excitement, and the horses, which are the best thing in the world.' HM The Queen Mother on National Hunt racing. This book traces how much National Hunt racing has changed since 1945- and also how Britain has …

Acid Asset

Carl Pappas, the radio detective, is feeling good about the prospects of environment-friendly plastics he’s discussing on his radio show “The Boardroom”. But as he soon finds out there’s something not right with the company behind it. Can the bizz jockey protect a lonely scientist against the schemes of a large corporation that smells money? …

Der letzte Ritt des Jockeys Matteo

Der Jockey Matteo setzt alles auf eine Karte, ist davon überzeugt, noch einmal, ein letztes Mal noch, siegen zu können, ein allerletztes Mal ... Diese Novelle, die Friedrich Torberg während seines amerikanischen Exils in den Vierzigerjahren des vorigen Jahrhunderts geschrieben hat, ist ein packendes Dokument seiner dichterischen Schaffenskraft und zugleich ein anrührendes Zeugnis seiner tiefen …

Nobody Likes a Fat Jockey

Rocky Scarpati is a young, narcissistic womanizer and theatrical-school dropout who believes in the old Shakespearean adage that the world is a stage and everyone is playing a part. Rocky chooses his parts with wild abandonment and pursues them with vigor. First, he’s the tough young kid seeking fame and fortune in the prize fighting …