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1) Boxing
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A survey of the highlights and legendary athletes--such as Cuban Teófilo Stevenson--of the Olympic sport of boxing, which officially became a part of the modern Summer Games in 1904" -Provided by Publisher.
Author
Series
Killing volume 12
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard...
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
544 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A sweeping biography of one of the greatest and most provocative athletes of all time Decades after his final fight, Muhammad Ali remains larger than life in the imagination of hundreds of millions of people around the world. He won the heavyweight championship at age twenty-two by conquering Sonny Liston in dramatic fashion. The political establishment stripped him of his prize when he refused induction into the United States Army during the height...
5) Knockout
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An intimate and unflinching memoir exploring Mia Kang's journey from self-loathing to self-love... Mia Kang is many things: a sought-after model, an immigrant, an eating disorder survivor, and a Muay Thai fighter. Her first book, Knockout, is the story of how she eschewed normative body standards and learned to use martial arts to redeαne her sense of self-worth. In a charming, αerce, and intimate voice, Kang invites readers into her world. She...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of Muhammad Ali, from his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky, his legendary boxing career, and his conversion to Islam and opposition to the war in Vietnam, to his appearance at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the career of boxer Muhammad Ali. He was more than the heavyweight champion of the world, more than the greatest of all time. Ali was the peoples champion and an athlete who completely transcended his sport.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xviii, 217 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, of all the memories made in ballparks and arenas from California to New York, there was nothing to rival that magic moment that could grab a heavyweight fight crowd by its collective jugular vein and trigger a tsunami of raw emotion before a single punch had even been thrown. That's the way it was when the heavyweight giants danced in the boxing ring during the golden eras of the greats Ali, Frazier, Holmes, and Spinks, to name...