Wayne Wilson

Wilson's impassioned, incredibly-paced debut novel drew raves from fellow authors and West Coast review media alike. Loose Jam, interested in the sixties, music and the Vietnam War, is a masterfully written debut sure to attract readers looking for a fresh approach to literary fiction.

Loose Jam

The book "Freedom Souls," written in the memories of September 11, 2001; fellow brothers and sisters diagnosed with brain tumors, cancer, leukemia and diabetes. Also, to survivors who have beaten all odds in the freedom of their souls. During the darkest dim moments, there is hope. When the realities of life''s journeys unfold before the naked eye. Having faith in God the impossible becomes possible. Where there is life, there is freedom within the soul, to breathe again!

Heaven's Nectar

Recounts the life and career of the young actor who hopes to surpass his father's accomplishments while avoiding the drug problems that ended his father's life.

Freddie Prinze, Jr

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A Consumer's Guide in the Age of Information

Good Murders and Bad Murders

This work explores how films tell stories about sexual experiences. Oz, in this exploration, does not refer to the movie's fantasy world but to the moviegoer's response to that world of glamourised sexual practices. It provides an extensive coverage of sexual dramatisations, including movies concerned with conception, abortion, gender, love, marriage, adultery, sexual coercion, and AIDS.

Searching for Safer Sex at the Movies

Sexuality in the Land of Oz

Ed Derse

From a 1998 conference sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, 11 studies cover the science of doping and testing; its history, ethics, and social context; and its politics. Among them are a comparison of how Canada, Russia, and China have responded to doping scandals involving their athletes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Politics of Drugs in the Olympic Movement

Doping in Elite Sport

Matthew Llewellyn

John Gleaves

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and polarizing. On the one hand they have been heralded as an overwhelming, transformative success, ushering the Olympic movement into the modern commercial age. On the other hand, critics have repudiated the Games as a manifestation of commercial excess and a platform for western political and cultural propaganda. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Olympics, this volume examines their legacy. With an international collection of contributing scholars, this volume will span a range of global legacies, including the increasing commercialization of the Games, the changing participation of women, the Communist boycott movement, nationalism and sporting identity, and the modernization and California-cation of the Games. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Assessing the 30-Year Legacy

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games

David K. Wiggins

LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie and Mack Robinson, the importance of the Showtime Lakers, the origins of Muscle Beach and surfing, sport in Hollywood films, and more.

Play, Games, and Community in the City of Angels

LA Sports

Profiles the martial artist who introduced his fighting style in such movies as "Game of Death" and "Enter the Dragon," and opened the door for the martial arts movie industry and later Asian actors in lead roles.

Bruce Lee

Declaring that movies grant psychopaths much more power and fascination than they deserve, Wilson (psychology, Stephen F. Austin State U., Nacogdoches, Texas) profiles the various types portrayed, beginning with the computer HAL in 2001. He also discusses evil's imperfections, breach of character, mood and circumstance, the power within, justice, and other aspects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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