When dissidents and activists toppled powerful regimes across the globe in the 1980s and 1990s?from the Soviet Union to South Africa, from Nicaragua to the Philippines?how did Americans respond to challenges in their own country? The conventional wisdom is that Americans sullenly withdrew from all manner of political action. But in fact, activists

Extraordinary Politics: How Protest And Dissent Are Changing American Democracy

Self-Help

Euchner, Charles

Death & Grief

Routledge

Hardcover and dust jacket, as pictured; remainder mark (am)

Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington

History

Americas

Beacon Press

On August 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people—two-thirds black and one-third white—held the greatest civil rights demonstration ever. In this major reinterpretation of the Great Day—the peak of the movement—Charles Euchner brings back the tension and promise of the march. Building on countless interviews, archives, FBI files, and private recordings, this hour-by-hour account offers intimate glimpses into the lives of those key players and ordinary people who converged on the National Mall to fight for civil rights in the March on Washington.

Extraordinary Politics: How Protest And Dissent Are Changing American Democracy (Transforming American Politics)

When dissidents and activists toppled powerful regimes across the globe in the 1980s and 1990sfrom the Soviet Union to South Africa, from Nicaragua to the Philippineshow did Americans respond to challenges in their own country? The conventional wisdom is that Americans sullenly withdrew from all manner of political action. But in fact, activists of all backgrounds took to the streets to challenge ordinary structures of politics.These movementstheir history; their cyclical development; their organization, strategies, and tacticsconstitute what the author calls extraordinary politics.” Activists have set the pace on every conceivable issue, including the environment, gay rights, feminism, abortion, states' rights, religion, and multiculturalism. The president and Congress can barely keep up, but extraordinary politics keeps evolving.With style and grace, Charles Euchner weaves together hundreds of examples drawn from movements spanning the ideological spectrum to offer both a practical and intellectual guidebook to political activism in a reputedly apathetic age, embracing with abandon the art of making a difference.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Westview Press

When dissidents and activists toppled powerful regimes across the globe in the 1980s and 1990sfrom the Soviet Union to South Africa, from Nicaragua to the Philippineshow did Americans respond to challenges in their own country? The conventional wisdom is that Americans sullenly withdrew from all manner of political action. But in fact, activists of all backgrounds took to the streets to challenge ordinary structures of politics.These movementstheir history; their cyclical development; their organization, strategies, and tacticsconstitute what the author calls extraordinary politics.” Activists have set the pace on every conceivable issue, including the environment, gay rights, feminism, abortion, states' rights, religion, and multiculturalism. The president and Congress can barely keep up, but extraordinary politics keeps evolving.With style and grace, Charles Euchner weaves together hundreds of examples drawn from movements spanning the ideological spectrum to offer both a practical and intellectual guidebook to political activism in a reputedly apathetic age, embracing with abandon the art of making a difference.

Little League, Big Dreams: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball's Most Improbable Champions

Little League baseball has come a long way. Organized into leagues and tournaments, today it’s big business, a global entity in over a hundred countries. And every year in modest Williamsport, Pennsylvania, it all comes down to 16 teams of kids eying the ultimate prize: the Little League World Series. The 2005 World Series featured Little League's greatest ending on its biggest stage. Now seen in over five million homes, the thrilling final game of the Series was the most dramatic in the fifty-eight year history of the Little League. With full access to the players, coaches and parents associated with both teams who played in that game, Charles Euchner delivers an astonishing and dramatic narrative that delves into every aspect of the teams involved: from training, coaching and parenting stressed out kids to politics, controversy and the ever expanding role of corporations. Welcome to the hype, the hope and the soul of youth baseball.

Little League, Big Dreams: The Hope, the Hype and the Glory of the Greatest World Series Ever Played

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Sourcebooks, Inc.

The Last Nine Innings: Inside The Real Game Fans Never See

"The Last Nine Innings is the last word on the inside of baseball. It's full of wonderful revelations and perceptions that help us understand the game in ways that we might never have imagined. Charlie Euchner has done a marvelous job in getting players to talk, simply, about how they play, and we're the wiser for it." -Frank Deford "Charlie takes an unorthodox approach to an emotional week and succeeds at finding the heart of both the tension of the World Series and the technical foundations of the baseball profession. This is a different book, in a very good way." -Howard Bryant, the Washington Post, and author of Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball "The lengthy description of game 7 makes for dramatic reading, and the interviews with key players from that game add a human dimension." -Booklist "I enjoyed Charles's book. It's an interesting read, rich in thought-provoking detail and context, in the manner of Malcolm Gladwell. He deftly pulls off a difficult double play: educating the serious fan while entertaining the casual one." -Tom Verducci, Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated "The Last Nine Innings is entertaining, engaging and enlightening. You'll never watch a baseball game the same way." -Andrew Zimbalist, author of Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime and Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College "Memo to ESPN analysts, FOX color announcers and daily baseball scribes: stop telling us about who had a haircut, who didn't have a haircut and who collects stamps. Rip out the red thread on the baseball, peel back the cowhide and talk about all the stuff that's wound up inside the game. That's what Charles Euchner does in The Last Nine Innings and it's fascinating." -Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams, Biography of an American Hero and Why Not Us?: The 86-Year Journey of the Boston Red Sox Fans from Unparalleled Suffering to the Promised Land of the 2004 World Series The Great American Pastime has changed. For the first time in the history of the game, the three major forces that drive the evolution of modern pro baseball-The Triple Revolution-is revealed: The Triple Revolution: (1) Globalization of Recruiting and Business (2) Scientific Analysis &amp; Reduction of Physical Baseball Movements (3) Evolution Effect of Modernized Stat-Crunching Charles Euchner uses a dramatic moment-by-moment narrative of the seventh game of the 2001 World Series between the Yankees and the Diamondbacks to display the Triple Revolution; and to reveal the hidden dimensions of the "game within the game": From pitching motions to batting styles, from fielding and base-running, to training and strategy. Euchner uses extensive interviews with all the players from this modern classic to produce a comprehensive view of the game that will fascinate casual fans, and stimulate baseball experts. The insider narrative includes Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, Derek Jeter, Tino Martinez, Luis Gonzalez and Curt Schilling, along with the game's coaches, managers, support staff, even medical researchers and top game stats experts. Among the questions answered: What is the ideal pitching motion? How can we judge defensive performance? What makes managers succeed and fail? What changes the odds over the course of the game? And much more. Whether a recreational fans, or serious student of the game, The Last Nine Innings enlightens; as baseball author Andrew Zimbalist writes, "You'll never watch a baseball game the same way."

The Last Nine Innings: Inside the Real Game Fans Never See

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

Sourcebooks

It's just like the pros: bright lights, screaming fans, squawking commentators and five million people watching you play your heart out on national television for the right to be called champions. But these are not pampered multimillion-dollar athletes; they are 11- to 13-year-old kids. The 2005 World Series was the most dramatic in the 58-year history of the Little League. With full access to the players, coaches and parents associated with both teams who played in that game, Charles Euchner delivers an astonishing and dramatic narrative that delves into every aspect of the little league game. "Even those with only a passing interest in baseball will be intrigued by this fascinating look at Little League, 'the largest amateur sports organization in the world.'" -Publishers Weekly "Readers can expect to learn a great deal about the history of Little League and the stories behind many teams. This well-written book will inform and entertain." -Library Journal

"Without peer." "Trust me -- it works." "Just the right blend of rigor, encouragement, and fun." "Both useful and a pleasure." "A bounty of usable information." Those are just a handful of raves for The Elements of Writing (previously published as The Big Book of Writing), the only comprehensive system for writing well. Building on the latest research on learning and the brain, The Elements offers a complete apprenticeship on writing. Every skill in this book has been tested in college and high school classrooms, business and nonprofit seminars, and coaching sessions with authors. The Elements of Writing is filled with case studies. In each one, a master of writing shows you a "trick of the trade." So this book is really a group effort, with contributions from the ancients (Homer, Aristotle), timeless writers (Shakespeare, Twain, Charlotte Bronte, Crane, Miller, Hemingway, Henry Roth, Robert Penn Warren), modern masters (Capote, Kundera, Caro, Updike, McPhee, Martin Amis, Tom Wolfe, Gladwell, Agassi, O'Brien, and Zadie Smith, Mernissi), historic figures (Lincoln, Martin Luther King), and classic films ("Casablanca," "Vertigo," and "Hannah and Her Sisters"), and more. People in all fields -- high school, higher education, journalism and publishing, business and government -- have discovered the power of this unique system. Whether you're in business, school, government or nonprofit agencies, or journalism/blogging or publishing, The Big Book offers a powerful to improve your writing right away. Developed by author and teacher Charles Euchner, The Elements of Writing draws lessons from the masters to show the skills and "tricks of the trade" you need to write with clarity and power. The Elements also uses the latest research on learning and the brain to help you manage the creative process. Euchner is the author or editor of ten books, most recently the acclaimed "Nobody Turn Me Around:" A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington" (Beacon Press, 2010). Euchner has also written a trilogy of the world of modern sports ("Playing the Field," "The Last Nine Innings," and "Little League, Big Dreams"), studies of grassroots politics ("Urban Policy Reconsidered," with Steve McGovern, and "Extraordinary Politics"), and works on regional policy and planning (the two-part "Governing Greater Boston" series).

The Elements of Writing: The Only Writing Guide You Will Ever Need (The Elemental Way)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

At last, a comprehensive writing guide for architects and planners.Writing About Place offers the ultimate blueprint for the professionals who design and build our world.With case studies from the best writers on placemaking-from Vitruvius to Rybczynski-The Elements provides all the basic skills and 'tricks of the trade' to write memos, reports, proposals, and critiques.Charles Euchner produced this work for a class at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. And now offers a foundation for all the work of students and practitioners of placemaking.This work offers a "two-fer." In addition to providing simple, intuitive techniques to every writing challenge -- building great sentences and paragraphs, determining the structure of a piece, telling compelling stories, editing, and crafting a convincing analysis -- WAPalso provides a broad introduction to the compelling literature on architecture and planning.The book shows how to produce five essential pieces of writing in architecture, planning, preservation, and other place-oriented writing.* Portraits of people: To do any place-based project, you need to know your client or users. * Description of a place: To plan or design a place, we need to understand how it might work. * Breakdown of an action: Place, ultimately, is for people to use, so we need to understand the detailed ways that people act.* Explanation of a complex process: The best places accommodate complex and unpredictable processes.* Analysis of an issue: Allplacemaking occurs as part of a larger process, so we need to understand what causes what in cities, neighborhoods, communities, buildings, parks, plazas, waterfronts, and other kinds of places.About the AuthorCharles Euchner teaches writing seminars all over the U.S. Author of the acclaimed Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington (Beacon Press), Euchner has written widely about urban policy and planning. Euchner was the founding executive director of Harvard's Rappaport Institute. He was educated at Vanderbilt University and the Johns Hopkins University.Raves for earlier editionsThe Elements of Writing, Euchner's landmark work on writing skills and techniques, has drawn raves from teachers, students, and writers from all realms. The Elements of Writing is an essential reference for writers and storytellers. I use it myself and recommend it to my students. The classic literary examples are extremely helpful. I feel smarter just having this book by my bedside, and I discover new insights every time I pick it up.- Lee-Sean Huang, cofounder and creative director, FoosaI found this book a few months ago and refer to it often and have recommended it to several people. It has some techniques that were very easy to implement and that have changed the way I write and edit. As soon as I adopted The Elements of Writing I found I worked much more quickly and felt in greater command of the text. I wish I had known about this years ago. -Marion Edmunds, Australian authorThe Elements of Writing is the rare writer's handbook that is both useful and a pleasure to read. The book's structure is original and smart; aspiring writers can read the book cover-to-cover or can look up specific issues. Besides articulating his own "tricks of the trade," Euchner offers a huge, wonderful array of examples. In clear, lucid terms, The Elements of Writing explains and shows what makes for strong prose.- Aaron Ritzenberg, Department of English, Columbia University

Writing About Place: The Complete Guide for Architects and Planners

Arts & Photography

Architecture

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Extraordinary Politics: How Protest And Dissent Are Changing American Democracy

Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington

Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington

Extraordinary Politics: How Protest And Dissent Are Changing American Democracy (Transforming American Politics)

Extraordinary Politics: How Protest And Dissent Are Changing American Democracy (Transforming American Politics)

Little League, Big Dreams: The Hope, the Hype and the Glory of the Greatest World Series Ever Played

The Last Nine Innings: Inside the Real Game Fans Never See

Little League, Big Dreams: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball's Most Improbable Champions

The Elements of Writing: The Only Writing Guide You Will Ever Need (The Elemental Way)

Writing About Place: The Complete Guide for Architects and Planners