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One of the top college basketball stars in the country is expected to be a top NBA draft pick, but as the pressure to perform well in school threatens his ability to perform on the court, things begin to fall apart. After being introduced to a tutor and falling in love with her, it turns out she is the sister of a drug lord that rules the streets and his brother's main rival.
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Who Serves? William Taylor shows us why the changing answers to that question matter, not only to the individuals involved but to the health of American democracy. A pioneering work on the political and social history of American military recruiting since the end of World War II.
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""One of the strongest literary renditions of the Shoah I know."--Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Years of Extermination. This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother's diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied...
86) Elephant school
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Describes a government training school in Thailand where elephants are taught special skills needed for work in the teak forests.
88) Elway to Marino
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30 for 30 volume season 2, no. 8
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Recounts the 1983 NFL draft, in which six quarterbacks were selected in the first round, two of whom--John Elway and Dan Marino--went on to become legendary figures in the history of the sport.
91) Hardball retrospective: evaluating scouting and development outcomes for the modern-era franchises
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"Would your favorite baseball team make the playoffs if player X had not been traded? Imagine your team's roster from any particular year. Remove all of the players that your team acquired through trades and free agency. Would you be able to field a competitive team? Now we will re-populate the roster with every player that the organization originally drafted and signed. Yes, we will include undrafted free agents and foreign players who signed with...
93) Beyond the betrayal: the memoir of a World War II Japanese American draft resister of conscience
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"A memoir by a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee that was organized at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp. A book-length, insider's perspective, account by a Nisei World War II draft resister. A rare acknowledgment of dissension within the resistance movement, between the young men who went to prison, and older leaders."
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"What kind of army wants the king of rock-n-roll? Elvis's Army explores the great military and social experiment that was the Cold War atomic army. Militarily, the US Army transformed for the revolution in warfare initiated by the nuclear weapons. Traumatized by Cold War reductions and Korea, it seized on the vision of a great atomic land war against the Soviet Union. It not only adapted a radically new way of fighting, but fundamental changes in...
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A documentary about the lasting effects of the World War II internment on the Japanese American community. The film examines issues that ultimately created deep rifts within the Japanese American community. Looks at the racist loyalty oath, and the practice of drafting for the US military within the camps. Relies on testimony of camp survivors and families to show individual traumas, these are then placed into an overall perspective.
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Elway to Marino: "In 1983, six quarterbacks were selected in the first round of the draft -- still the most ever. Elway to Marino gives you an insider's seat at this landmark draft through the eyes of the players, head coaches, general managers, team owners and agents who participated. Pick by pick, agent Marvin Demoff (who represented both John Elway and Dan Marino) walks you through the months leading up to the most dramatic draft in NFL history"--Container.
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Living in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon neighborhood, fourteen-year-old Quinn's life has been consumed by music and the famous musicians who live nearby, but in 1971, his first girlfriend, a substitute teacher, and a draft dodger help open his eyes about the Vietnam War.
99) Hit & stay
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On May 17, 1968, nine Catholic activists entered a Selective Service office in suburban Catonsville, Maryland, dragged stacks of Draft Board records out into the parking lot, and set them on fire with homemade napalm. They then prayed, and waited to be arrested. In doing so, they kindled a wave of similar protests against the Vietnam War across the country that swept up dozens of participants and inspired thousands, and then millions. HIT & STAY,...
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