Shadows On Steroids
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Shadows On Steroids
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Author : Rhea Plawat
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2017-09-25
Shadows On Steroids written by Rhea Plawat and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Poetry categories.
Shadows on Steroids is a collection of poems about anger, pain, love, loss and miracles. It brings to light the thoughts and colors experienced by a young girl as she learns to grow up. It’s a perfect mélange of rhymes and muses, veiling real life incidents under exuberant poetic sheets. A tapestry of dark shades, it’s woven in imagery and raw language, pin pricking a vivid account of life and struggles. If you’re going through pain or heartbreak, this book awaits your touch.
Game Of Shadows
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Author : Mark Fainaru-Wada
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-03-23
Game Of Shadows written by Mark Fainaru-Wada and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-23 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In the summer of 1998 two of baseball leading sluggers, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, embarked on a race to break Babe Ruth’s single season home run record. The nation was transfixed as Sosa went on to hit 66 home runs, and McGwire 70. Three years later, San Francisco Giants All-Star Barry Bonds surpassed McGwire by 3 home runs in the midst of what was perhaps the greatest offensive display in baseball history. Over the next three seasons, as Bonds regularly launched mammoth shots into the San Francisco Bay, baseball players across the country were hitting home runs at unprecedented rates. For years there had been rumors that perhaps some of these players owed their success to steroids. But crowd pleasing homers were big business, and sportswriters, fans, and officials alike simply turned a blind eye. Then, in December of 2004, after more than a year of investigation, San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams broke the story that in a federal investigation of a nutritional supplement company called BALCO, Yankees slugger Jason Giambi had admitted taking steroids. Barry Bonds was also implicated. Immediately the issue of steroids became front page news. The revelations led to Congressional hearings on baseball’s drug problems and continued to drive the effort to purge the U.S. Olympic movement of drug cheats. Now Fainaru-Wada and Williams expose for the first time the secrets of the BALCO investigation that has turned the sports world upside down. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroid Scandal That Rocked Professional by award-winning investigative journalists Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, is a riveting narrative about the biggest doping scandal in the history of sports, and how baseball’s home run king, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, came to use steroids. Drawing on more than two years of reporting, including interviews with hundreds of people, and exclusive access to secret grand jury testimony, confidential documents, audio recordings, and more, the authors provide, for the first time, a definitive account of the shocking steroids scandal that made headlines across the country. The book traces the career of Victor Conte, founder of the BALCO laboratory, an egomaniacal former rock musician and self-proclaimed nutritionist, who set out to corrupt sports by providing athletes with “designer” steroids that would be undetectable on “state-of-the-art” doping tests. Conte gave the undetectable drugs to 28 of the world’s greatest athletes—Olympians, NFL players and baseball stars, Bonds chief among them. A separate narrative thread details the steroids use of Bonds, an immensely talented, moody player who turned to performance-enhancing drugs after Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals set a new home run record in 1998. Through his personal trainer, Bonds gained access to BALCO drugs. All of the great athletes who visited BALCO benefited tremendously—Bonds broke McGwire’s record—but many had their careers disrupted after federal investigators raided BALCO and indicted Conte. The authors trace the course of the probe, and the baffling decision of federal prosecutors to protect the elite athletes who were involved. Highlights of Game of Shadows include: Barry Bonds A look at how Bonds was driven to use performance-enhancing drugs in part by jealousy over Mark McGwire’s record-breaking 1998 season. It was shortly thereafter that Bonds—who had never used anything more performance enhancing than a protein shake from the health food store—first began using steroids. How Bonds’s weight trainer, steroid dealer Greg Anderson, arranged to meet Victor Conte before the 2001 baseball season with...
Steroids
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Author : Jon Sterngass
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2010-10-15
Steroids written by Jon Sterngass and has been published by Marshall Cavendish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with Anabolic steroids categories.
This engaging series examines various controversial topics present in today's society.
The Truth About Steroids
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Author : Larry Gerber
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2013-12-15
The Truth About Steroids written by Larry Gerber and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Explores the history of mankind's use of steroids, and reveals how these drugs affect the body and brain. Details the process by which users become addicted to these substances, and offers tips on overcoming addiction. Includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
Steroids
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Author : Aharon W. Zorea
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-04-25
Steroids written by Aharon W. Zorea and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-25 with Health & Fitness categories.
A thorough, balanced examination of the controversies on the therapeutic and non-therapeutic use of steroids that covers both legal medical therapy and illegal performance enhancement. The discussions regarding the ethical, medical, and social controversies surrounding steroid use are as heated as the drugs themselves are powerful. Steroids comprehensively addresses the separate debates over steroid use in therapeutic medical treatments, sports performance enhancement, and cosmetic lifestyle choices. The contents provide balanced coverage of the complex positive and negative implications involved with using these "ingredients of youth" to evade the common ailments of old age and to overcome some of the limitations of natural biology. This book will be invaluable to students of not only health and exercise sciences, sports and sport-related fields, and medical science, but also those researching social and ethical questions involved with the use of steroids in related fields. For example, the book may be used by sociology students investigating social aspects of sports, health policy, and public role models; psychology students focusing on the role of self-image and mental health; and political science students researching public health policy.
Our Necessary Shadow
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Author : Tom Burns
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-06-06
Our Necessary Shadow written by Tom Burns and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Medical categories.
Our Necessary Shadow is the first attempt in a generation to explain the whole subject of psychiatry, from the UK's leading expert, Tom Burns A lot is written about psychiatry and the things it deals with, but very little that describes psychiatry itself. Why should there be such a need? There isn't a raft of books explaining all the other branches of medicine. But for good or ill, psychiatry is a polemical battleground, critcised on the one hand as an instrument of social control or a barbaric practice, while on the other the latest developments in neuroscience are trumpeted as offering lasting solutions to mental illness. Which of these strikingly contrasting positions should we believe? This is the first attempt in a generation to explain the whole subject of psychiatry. In this deeply thoughtful, descriptive and sympathetic book, Tom Burns reviews the historical development of psychiatry, the places where there is much agreement on treatment and where there is not, throughout alert to where psychiatry helps, and where it is imperfect. What is clear is that mental illnesses are intimately tied to what makes us human in the first place. And the drive to relieve the suffering they cause is even more human. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, currently represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses. It is not something we can just ignore. It is our necessary shadow. Tom Burns is Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University. From the late 1980s he has conducted research, in addition his clinical and teaching work, and has produced nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
The Lineup
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Author : Paul Aron
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-07-12
The Lineup written by Paul Aron and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large. Satchel Paige's Pitchin' Man informed the dialog surrounding integration. Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al changed the way Americans viewed their baseball heroes and influenced the work of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Bill James's Baseball Abstract transformed the way managers--including those in fields other than baseball--analyzed numbers. Pete Rose's My Story and My Prison Without Bars exposed and deepened a cultural divide that paved the way for Donald Trump.
Steroids
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Author : David Robson
language : en
Publisher: Referencepoint Press
Release Date : 2008
Steroids written by David Robson and has been published by Referencepoint Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In recent years, the use of steroids tobuild aplayer's strength, endurance, and overall performance has called into question the careers and ethicsof countlessprofessional and amateurathletes. Through objective overviews, primary sources, and full-color illustrations this title examines How Serious a Problem is Steroid Use? How Dangerous are Steroids? Should Steroids Testing and Laws Be Strengthened? How Can Steroid Use Be Prevented?
Steroid Abuse
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Author : Tamara L. Roleff
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2010-02-26
Steroid Abuse written by Tamara L. Roleff and has been published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-26 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse defines the term anabolic steroid as any synthetic variation of the male hormone testosterone. Steroids can be used to treat hormonal issues and can help combat muscular atrophy and other conditions. Athletes and fitness enthusiasts can also abuse them for purposes of performance enhancement or for the improvement of physical appearance. This informative edition describes issues pertaining to steroid abuse. It explores both the body building benefits that steroids offer and the dangerous side effects of the drugs. Since the International Olympics Committee and many professional sports organizations have banned their use, the issues surrounding regulation and testing are also addressed.
Congress And The Politics Of Sports
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Author : Colton C. Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-01-31
Congress And The Politics Of Sports written by Colton C. Campbell and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-31 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This volume covers an aspect of Congress mostly untouched in literature, examining Congress through the lens of sports. Across a set of broad and probing chapters, this book offers insights into some of the historic and contemporary challenges that sports have presented to Congress, along with highlighting the ways in which Congress has impacted the sports industry. The authors utilize a wide range of case studies to provide readers with a contemporary view of the interplay between Congress and sports, at both amateur and professional levels. Perspectives are drawn from an interdisciplinary and cross-organizational roster of authors, uniquely positioned to discuss various subjects. With real attention now being given to issues associated with sports, and an increasing number of lawmakers using sports to push policy agendas and create legislative opportunities, this book will be a vital resource for understanding the dynamic relationship between the two entities. Grounded in relevant literature, and written in an accessible and engaging manner, Congress and the Politics of Sports will be of great interest to both academic researchers and practitioners involved with US politics, Congress and congressional studies, public policy, sports studies and sport history.