George Taliaferro was a star player on Indiana University's first great football team of 1945—two years before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's racial barrier. Four years later, he became the first African American drafted by the NFL when the Chicago Bears expressed their interest in him. Rather than play for his childhood dream team, Taliaferro opted to honor the contract he had previously signed with the Los Angeles Dons of the All American Football Conference. Taliaferro would eventually go on to play in the NFL for teams such as the New York Yanks, Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts, and Philadelphia Eagles. More than a biography of one individual, this is a story of inspiration and historic achievement.

Taliaferro: Breaking Barriers from the NFL Draft to the Ivory Tower

History

Knight, Dawn

Americas

Indiana University Press

Thanks to a big, lovable dog and the seemingly off-kilter, elderly neighbor--known as Mad Mary--she must share him with, fourth-grader Brit finds a way to rise above the illness afflicting her family. Reprint.

Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (An Avon Camelot Book)

Children's Books

Camelot

Current corpora are invaluable resources for generating accurate and objective analyses of patterns of language use. However, spoken corpora are effectively mono-modal, presenting data in the same physical medium - text. The reality of a discourse situation is lost in its representation as text. Using multimodal data sets when conducting corpus-based pragmatic analyses is one solution. This book looks at multimodal corpora in some depth, using backchanneling as the conversational feature to be analysed. It provides a bottom-up investigation of the issues and challenges faced at every stage of multimodal corpus construction and analysis, as well as providing an in-depth linguistic analysis of a cross section of multimodal corpus data. The collaborative and co-operative nature of backchannels is highlighted in this book and an adapted pragmatic-functional linguistic coding matrix for the characterisation of backchanneling phenomena is presented. Dawn Knight also looks at possible directions in the construction and use of multimodal corpus linguistics.

Multimodality and Active Listenership: A Corpus Approach (Corpus and Discourse)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Bloomsbury Academic

Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me

Demco Media

Befriending a stray dog brings some unexpected consequences for Brit and her aloof next-door neighbor, Mad Mary, in this sparkling debut novel that will absorb readers with memorable characters and page-turning action.

Greenwillow Books

Embark on an adventurous journey with Danielle, Keera, Queenie, Saudia, Tai and Jody, childhood friends whose lives simultaneously erupt in turmoil. The Thanksgiving holiday had never been more eventful for Danielle Johnson and her friends. Each come together after being separated by the demands of womanhood and are individually attacked by life altering situations. Deceit, drugs, murder and sex are the undercurrents that challenge foundations of love, friendship and spirituality. The ladies will mingle in Hollywood's ghetto-fabulous circles and peek into its deep dark secrets. You will be held captive by Kilamunjaro aka Killa in the not so fabulous ghetto of Los Angeles. His obsession with Danielle proves fatal as he plays "beat the clock" with Andrew, Danielle's wrongfully imprisoned husband. As each character experiences mad drama they rediscover family, friends as well as their own Inner-Spirit. Between these chapters all will try to find refuge in one, the other, or all. That is, if their sanity doesn't escape them first. This riveting story will take you on a trip through your own soul. So, be careful when you enter this world, Kismet. Not only because it's an emotional whirlwind, but because the ride is so thrilling that you will never want to get off.

Kismet : A story of Love, Friendship, Obsession and Fate

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Knightlife Publishing

Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse (Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides)

Business & Money

Adolphs, Svenja

Mark, Geraldine

O'KEEFFE, ANNE

Fitzgerald, Christopher

Farr, Fiona

McNamara, Justin

Peraldi, Sandrine

Fahey Palma, Tania

Cowan, Benjamin

Management & Leadership

Routledge

Current corpora are invaluable resources for generating accurate and objective analyses of patterns of language use. However, spoken corpora are effectively mono-modal, presenting data in the same physical medium – text. The reality of a discourse situation is lost in its representation as text. Using multimodal data sets when conducting corpus-based pragmatic analyses is one solution. This book looks at multimodal corpora in some depth, using backchanneling as the conversational feature to be analysed. It provides a bottom-up investigation of the issues and challenges faced at every stage of multimodal corpus construction and analysis, as well as providing an in-depth linguistic analysis of a cross section of multimodal corpus data. The collaborative and co-operative nature of backchannels is highlighted in this book and an adapted pragmatic-functional linguistic coding matrix for the characterisation of backchanneling phenomena is presented. Dawn Knight also looks at possible directions in the construction and use of multimodal corpus linguistics.

Continuum

Race and Football in America: The Life and Legacy of George Taliaferro

As the first African American player to be drafted by the NFL and the first African American to play quarterback, George Taliaferro was a trailblazer whose athletic prowess earned him accolades throughout his football career. Instrumental in leading Indiana University to an undefeated season and undisputed Big Ten championship in 1945, Taliaferro was a star when many major universities had no black players on their rosters and others were stacking black players behind white starters. George Taliaferro would later rack up impressive statistics while playing professionally for the New York Yanks, Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts, and Philadelphia Eagles. His athletic prowess did little to prevent him from facing segregation and discrimination on a daily basis, but his popularity as an athlete also gave him a platform. Playing professionally gave Taliaferro more opportunity to use football to fight oppression and to interact with other important trailblazers, like Joe Louis, Nat King Cole, Muhammad Ali, and Congressman John Lewis.
 Race and Football in America tells Taliaferro's story and profiles the experiences of other athletes of color who were recognized for their athleticism yet oppressed for their skin color, as they fought (and continue to fight) for equal rights and opportunities. Together these stories provide an insightful portrait of race in America.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Red Lightning Books

As the first African American player to be drafted by the NFL and the first African American to play quarterback, George Taliaferro was a trailblazer whose athletic prowess earned him accolades throughout his football career. Instrumental in leading Indiana University to an undefeated season and undisputed Big Ten championship in 1945, Taliaferro was a star when many major universities had no black players on their rosters and others were stacking black players behind white starters. George Taliaferro would later rack up impressive statistics while playing professionally for the New York Yanks, Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts, and Philadelphia Eagles. His athletic prowess did little to prevent him from facing segregation and discrimination on a daily basis, but his popularity as an athlete also gave him a platform. Playing professionally gave Taliaferro more opportunity to use football to fight oppression and to interact with other important trailblazers, like Joe Louis, Nat King Cole, Muhammad Ali, and Congressman John Lewis.Race and Football in America tells Taliaferro's story and profiles the experiences of other athletes of color who were recognized for their athleticism yet oppressed for their skin color, as they fought (and continue to fight) for equal rights and opportunities. Together these stories provide an insightful portrait of race in America.

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