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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder
During his tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon from 1949 through 1972, Bill Bowerman won 4 national team titles, trained dozens of milers to break the 4-minute barrier, and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. Single-handedly he helped turn the college town of Eugene, Oregon, into the running capital of the world.
In Bowerman: The Wings of Nike, Kenny Moore, a world-class marathon runner and one of Bowerman’s Oregon men, tells the story of his mentor and hero, drawing on years of taped interviews and the full cooperation of the Bowerman family and Nike, the company that Bowerman helped to found through his invention of the waffle-soled running shoe.
Whether providing a fresh look at the tragic siege at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, where Bowerman coached the track and field team; offering a close-up view of the coach’s relationship with runner Steve Prefontaine (subject of the movie Without Limits, co-written and co-produced by Moore); or exploring Bowerman’s role as a Nike innovator, this illuminating portrait is compelling reading throughout—ample evidence of why Bowerman’s widow, noting how well the author understood her husband, said: "If anyone should write Bill’s life story, it’s Kenny Moore."
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Price: $48.89
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Bill W.: The absorbing and deeply moving life story of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
This is the story of a man whose discovery and vision have changed the lives of millions of people throughout the world. Robert Thomsen's biography takes readers through the events of Bill W.'s life, all the while detailing Bill's growing dependence on alcohol. Thomsen writes of the collapse that brought Bill to the verge of death and of the luminous instant of insight that saved him. This turning point led Bill to the encounter in 1935 with Dr. Bob and the start of what was to be a new beginning for countless others who despaired of finding rescue and redemption. Every night at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings around the world, a speaker says, "Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now." This describes the story of Bill W., a stirring spiritual odyssey through triumph, failure, and rebirth, with vital meaning for men and women everywhere..
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Apostle In A Top Hat (The Inspiring Story of Frederick Ozanam, Founder of the worldwide Society of St. Vincent de Paul)
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The House That Love Built: The Story of Linda & Millard Fuller, Founders of Habitat for Humanity and the Fuller Center for Housing
In the hearts of volunteers who mobilize resources to build houses, "Habitat for Humanity" signifies caring. However, few people know that thirty years ago, successful entrepreneur Millard Fuller and his wife Linda left behind their materialistic lifestyle and crumbling marriage to start over as missionaries in Zaire. Upon returning to Georgia, they started building houses to bring new life to the poverty-stricken as their personal Christian ministry. Millard recruited Jimmy Carter to work with Habitat when he left the White House. Together they attracted leaders from church and state worldwide. Habitat became an international movement with 1700 affiliates and a Board of Directors comprised of increasingly large corporate donors. As it grew, a new, more secular vision evolved, and eventually Millard and Linda found themselves alone starting over. The Fullers responded with "God is not done with us." Within days, they were back raising money and building houses for The Fuller Center for Housing--for Katrina victims and in Nepal, Nigeria, and Romania..
Price: $5.99
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Father Mac: The Life and Times of Ignatius D. McDermott, Co-Founder of Chicago's Famed Haymarket Center
'Father Mac' is the story of a humanitarian with a 'south-side-of-Chicago' Irishman's zest for wit, storytelling, politics, sports, and impatience with bureaucracy and slow moving progress, tied together with a compassionate, yet realistic, respect for human nature. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Chicago in 1936, Monsignor Ignatius McDermont is known as Father Mac be everyone from the Governor to the last street wanderer who stumbles into the famed Haymarket Center for alcohol and drug addiction haven he co-founded in 1976. In this story of selflessness and charity, you meet more characters than you can count, from colorful and fast moving Chicago politicians to incredible skid row success stories. Father Mac's sense for drama moved in to load up a bus with welfare babies he was treating, drive them to the state general assembly and literally place them into the arms of state representitives prior to their vote for or against an appropriation for their care. Illinois born Fulton Sheen once remarked, "America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. In the face of this broadmindedness, what the world needs now is intolerance." Thomas Roeser, a long time fixture in Chicago political commentary on radio and in print, has written a biography that captures McDermott at his best. Father Mac is man who is intolerant of heartlessness, cruelty, coldness, and selfishness. Intolerance with teh bureaucracy of government led from Chicago's West Madison Street to crusade for teh decriminalization of alcohol addiction. At an age when most men retire, Father Mac personally signed a one million dollar mortgage and co-founded what has become the finest facility to treat alcohol addictions, Haymarket Center. This book follows in the footsteps of other books on Chicago politics, but with emphasis on the charitable works of Father Mac. All proceeds from the sales of Father Mac go directly the McDermott Foundation and to saving the lives of alcohol addicted men and women at the Haymarket Center..
Price: $19.95
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