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Condizione: good. A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteedâ"but the story's all there!

Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item for full refund. Ships via media mail.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Fine and unread. Cover art by Richard Powers for "The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds" (novelette) (Locus nominee) by Algis Budrys. Includes "Mikal's Songbird" (runner-up for the Analog and Hugo Awards for Best Novelette; Locus and Nebula nominee) (novelette) by Orson Scott Card; "Renewel" (novelette) by Bill Johns; "The Satyr" (short story) by Stephen Robinett; "University Medical Versus Diplococcus" (short story) by Dennis Latham Cox; "Fixed Price War" (#3 in Analog poll for Best Short Story) (short story) by Charles Sheffield; "Twenty Years of Fusion" (science fact) by Milton A. Rothman; "The Anlab Vote" (editorial); "Biolog: Algis Budrys". Illustrated by Jack Gaughan, Janet Aulisio, Broeck Steadman, Doug Beekman, and Vincent Di Fate. Authors: Algis Budrys; Orson Scott Card; Bill Johns; Stephen Robinett; Dennis Latham Cox; Charles Sheffield; Milton A. Rothman.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. DC Comics Teen Titans Graphic Novels (DC Comics) Teen Titans Vol. 5 - Life and Death (EX)Manufacturer: DC ComicsProduct Line: Teen Titans Graphic Novels (DC Comics)Type: SoftcoverCopyright Date: 2006Page Count: 208Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is EX. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:The line between life and death is crossed as the Teen Titans must confront the deceased members of the team that have seemingly returned from the dead. As Donna Troy recruits the mightiest members of the team to battle in the Infinite Crisis, Robin is confronted by his predecessor, the bygone Boy Wonder, Jason Todd. The remaining Titans face the onslaught of Brother Blood and his army of followers which include the deceased Titans Aquagirl, Omen, Hawk, and Dove. As the Crisis hits, Superboy teams up with all of the reserve members of the team to battle his evil counterpart from another dimension.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. Vol. XCVIII, No. 5. Edited by Ben Bova. Cover art by Richard Powers for "The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds" (novelette) by Algis Budrys. Includes "Mikal's Songbird" (novelette) by Orson Scott Card; "Renewal" (novelette) by Bill Johns; "The Satyr" by Stephen Robinett; "University Medical Versus Diplococcus" by Dennis Latham Cox; "Fixed Price War" by Charles Sheffield. Science Fact: "Twenty Years of Fusion" by Milton A. Rothman. Reader's Department: "The Editor's Page: The Anlab Vote"; "In Times to Come"; "Clicheland"; "The Reference Library" by Lester del Rey; "Biolog: Algis Budrys"; "Brass Tacks". Illustrated by Jack Gaughan, Janet Aulisio, Broeck Steadman, Doug Beekman, and Vincent Di Fate. Mild tanning; light rubbing and foxing; minor creasing, edge and corner wear.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good+. Vol. XCVIII, No. 5. Edited by Ben Bova. Cover art by Richard Powers for "The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds" (novelette) by Algis Budrys. Includes "Mikal's Songbird" (novelette) by Orson Scott Card; "Renewal" (novelette) by Bill Johns; "The Satyr" by Stephen Robinett; "University Medical Versus Diplococcus" by Dennis Latham Cox; "Fixed Price War" by Charles Sheffield. Science Fact: "Twenty Years of Fusion" by Milton A. Rothman. Reader's Department: "The Editor's Page: The Anlab Vote"; "In Times to Come"; "Clicheland"; "The Reference Library" by Lester del Rey; "Biolog: Algis Budrys"; "Brass Tacks". Illustrated by Jack Gaughan, Janet Aulisio, Broeck Steadman, Doug Beekman, and Vincent Di Fate. Tanning.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Tony Daniel [Illustrator]; Scott McDaniel [Illustrator]; Todd Nauck [Illustrator]; Paco Medina [Illustrator]; (illustratore). 1st Edition. INVENTORY = C; weight = 309 grams >> Minor bump to corners. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Graphic Novels.

Paperback. Condizione: Like New. First Edition. A nice paperback graphic novel, clean with a tight binding with and an unmarked text.From a private smoke free collection.Shipping within 24 hours, with a tracking number and delivery confirmation.

paperback. Condizione: Fine. in great condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- May, 1978 issue. --- Science Fiction stories including authors: --- Algis Budrys --- Orson Scott Card --- Bill Johns --- Stephen Robinett --- Dennis Latham Cox --- Charles Sheffield. . .

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. UNC Basketball, the Tar Heels, and March Madness form one of the most enduring dynasties in American sport. From Dean Smith to Michael Jordan, Roy Williams to Hubert Davis, the program embodies a living inheritance where memory, identity, and victory converge beneath the rafters of Chapel Hill. UNC Basketball is more than sport-it is inheritance. From Dean Smith's Four Corners offense to Michael Jordan's championship shot, from Roy Williams's redemption banners to Hubert Davis's modern resurgence, the Tar Heels embody a dynasty where memory, identity, and March Madness converge. Chapel Hill has become the stage where basketball is ritual and scripture, where banners hang not only as decoration but as testimony to permanence. To enter the Dean E. Smith Center is to walk beneath rafters that carry names like Lennie Rosenbluth, James Worthy, Vince Carter, Tyler Hansbrough, and Armando Bacot, each binding past to present. This cultural history shows why North Carolina basketball holds a singular place in American memory. It begins with Frank McGuire's undefeated 1957 team, whose triumph over Wilt Chamberlain announced the South on the national stage. It follows Dean Smith, the architect of the Carolina Way, whose insistence on humility, teamwork, and conscience defined an ethos that outlasted victories. It traces the rise of Michael Jordan, whose 1982 jumper altered the sport, and the artistry of Phil Ford, Sam Perkins, and Worthy. The story carries through Roy Williams's fiery restoration, his championships in 2005, 2009, and 2017, and into Hubert Davis's 2022 Final Four run, when Carolina ended Mike Krzyzewski's career. At every turn, the story is about more than games. It is about Franklin Street bonfires after championships, Carmichael Auditorium where walls once shook, and the Dean Dome, where twenty thousand voices still rise as one. It is about Tobacco Road rivalries that divide families and unite a state, especially the clash with Duke that remains the fiercest crucible in American sport. It is about rituals-pointing to the passer, huddling after free throws, standing for injured opponents-that turned basketball into a language of belonging. It is about heartbreak as much as triumph: the 1977 loss to Marquette, the 2006 defeat to George Mason, the Kris Jenkins buzzer-beater in 2016. Each wound is part of the inheritance, proof that Carolina's story is not only about glory but resilience. UNC basketball exists within the larger landscape of American culture. The program has shaped a state where basketball is not secondary to football but central to civic life. It explains how Dean Smith's recruitment of Charlie Scott broke racial barriers, turning the court into a site of moral courage. It follows Tar Heels who became NBA icons-Jordan, Worthy, Carter, Antawn Jamison-and honors the fans whose loyalty made Carolina Blue a national emblem. To wear that color is to enter a tradition recognized across generations. This account places the Tar Heels alongside dynasties of UCLA, Kentucky, and Kansas but insists that Carolina is unique: defined not just by victories but by the Carolina Way. It evokes March Madness, where brackets become sacred texts, where each possession carries history, and where every game feels like a reckoning with memory itself. It acknowledges scandal and trial, yet insists the banners endure, the rafters remain, and the inheritance is unbroken. This is UNC basketball as cultural history-serious, evocative, and atmospheric-for those who believe sport is not only about who wins but about what endures: the ethics of play, the rituals of belonging, the colors and chants carried across decades. Step inside the Dean Dome, glance upward, and feel the story that refuses to fade. This is not just a chronicle of a team. It is the story of how a color became inheritance, how Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Indiana basketball is not simply a sport-it is a way of life. From the Milan Miracle of 1954 to the roar inside Assembly Hall, from small-town gyms to crimson banners in Bloomington, Hoosier hysteria has defined generations. This book tells the full story of Indiana basketball history, exploring how high school hoops, Indiana University, Purdue rivalries, and March Madness itself grew out of one state's unshakable devotion to the game. In this book, encounter the Milan Miracle - not only as a famous upset but as cultural turning point, the small-town triumph that became the foundation of Hoosiers, one of the most beloved sports films ever made. See how Assembly Hall rose as a cathedral of hysteria, its banners relics of glory, its steep walls funneling sound into one of the most intimidating arenas in the nation. Follow the drama of Purdue rivalries, border wars with Kentucky and Louisville, and the Big Ten battles that tested Hoosier identity against Michigan, Ohio State, and Illinois. And discover how women's basketball at Indiana, Purdue, and Notre Dame transformed the state's tradition, proving hysteria was never confined to men's teams but belongs to every player who wears Indiana colors. More than recounting games and championships, this book treats basketball as cultural language. It traces how Indiana newspapers turned Friday night box scores into civic scripture, how radio announcers carried swishes into homes across the state, and how national television broadcasts of Bob Knight's Indiana Hoosiers carried hysteria into living rooms across America. It explores how Hoosiers transformed Milan into American myth, and how modern highlights of Indiana and Purdue still circulate worldwide, proving hysteria endures in every medium. The narrative is both intimate and sweeping. It begins in the small gyms where communities measured themselves through victories and defeats, then ascends to the grandeur of Indiana University's national championships. It considers Purdue's pride, Notre Dame's triumphs, and the rise of Indiana's women's basketball into national prominence. It reflects on how rivalries sharpen identity, how banners preserve memory, and how each generation waits for the next swish that will carry their story forward. At its heart, this is a story about devotion that endures through lean years and losing seasons, devotion that fills gyms even when banners do not multiply, devotion that parents pass to children as inheritance. Indiana basketball is civic religion as much as sport, its arenas sanctuaries, its games liturgy, its fans congregation. Each cheer is testimony, each roar ritual, each swish confirmation that belonging is real. Hoosier Hysteria: Indiana Basketball and the Soul of a State is written in the style of literary nonfiction, evoking the texture of small towns, the echo of Assembly Hall, and the enduring myth of Indiana basketball. It is for readers who love the Milan Miracle, who grew up watching IU and Purdue clash, who remember Damon Bailey's prophecy, who cheered when Christian Watford stunned Kentucky, and who know that March Madness itself would be unthinkable without Indiana. It is also for readers who care about how sport becomes memory, how communities preserve identity, and how tradition survives by remaining unfinished, always open to the next banner, the next miracle, the next swish. Indiana basketball history is not only past-it is present and future, memory and anticipation. This book invites readers to step into gyms where devotion becomes identity, to hear the sound of the net as truth, to see banners as scripture, to feel the roar as inheritance. To read this story is to understand why hysteria is not madness at all but the ethics of memory, a state remembering itself through the game it claims as its own. This item is printed on Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Scarlet and gray are more than colors in Columbus-they are identity, inheritance, and memory. Scarlet and Gray: A History of The Ohio State Football is a sweeping cultural history of the Buckeyes, a team that has come to embody not only the pride of a state but the tradition of college football itself. This book explores Ohio State football history, tracing its roots, rituals, and rivalries in a narrative as enduring as the Horseshoe itself. From the program's beginnings in the nineteenth century to its rise under Woody Hayes, the Buckeyes became a dynasty built on blue-collar ethos and unrelenting labor. The book examines how "three yards and a cloud of dust" was never just strategy but a reflection of Ohio's industrial identity. Readers encounter Archie Griffin, the only two-time Heisman winner; Eddie George, whose power defined the 1990s; Orlando Pace, the lineman who anchored the trenches; and modern stars like the Bosa brothers, Ezekiel Elliott, and Chase Young. This Ohio State Buckeye football dynasty was more than victories-it was resilience as ritual. At the heart of the book is The Game. The Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is more than a contest; it is a civic religion, played every November with the intensity of a holy war. The book brings to life the Ten-Year War between Hayes and Bo Schembechler, Jim Tressel's vow to "beat Michigan," and the recent duels under Urban Meyer and Ryan Day. Generations of Ohioans mark their lives by this rivalry, retelling its moments as family lore. Yet this history is not triumph alone. The book examines the costs of belief-commercialization, scandal, and the pressures placed on players who carry the hopes of millions. From Hayes's downfall in 1978 to the tattoo scandal that ended Tressel's tenure, Scarlet and Gray reveals how loyalty endures even when the program falters. It also explores the transformation of college football into a national spectacle, where Ohio State sits at the center of billion-dollar contracts, recruiting battles, and NIL. More than any scoreboard, the rituals define the program's meaning. Script Ohio, Carmen Ohio, the thunder of O-H answered by I-O-these are liturgies of belonging, repeated across decades until sacred. Families pass them down across generations, binding past to present. The Horseshoe is not only a stadium but a cathedral, where memory is preserved and tradition renewed. Scarlet and Gray also situates Ohio State in the larger story of America. The Buckeyes mirror the nation's values and contradictions: blue-collar labor and commercial spectacle, racial progress and tension, tradition and reinvention. To follow the Buckeyes is to glimpse America itself-its hunger for scale, its love of ritual, and its belief that endurance is a form of grace. This is a book for Ohio State fans who want to understand not only the victories but the meaning of devotion. It is also a book for readers of sports history who see in the Buckeyes a national mirror, alongside other definitive works of college football. Johns, who has written Crimson Reign: Alabama Football and the Making of a Southern Dynasty, College Football Dynasties: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of the Greatest Teams, College Football Rivalries: Blood on the Field, Florida State's Dynasty Years, and Swagger: The Miami Dynasty That Changed College Football, brings the same narrative precision here to Ohio State. His biographies of Johnny Unitas, Ray Lewis, and Ed Reed-and numerous volumes on baseball legends-mark him as one of the few authors to take sports seriously as cultural history. In Scarlet and Gray, Johns argues that Ohio State football is not merely a team but a program embodying a state's identity, a region's pride, and a nation's contradictions. It is ritual, inheritance, and s Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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