Bryant Books

Great stories from Bear's life with a devotional message. the quotes and Bible verses alone make for interesting reading.

This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to improve/learn financial literacy. It is written from the perspective of talking to parents about their children's economic situation - esp. those of inner city homes. Very easy to read and understand - great book for children/teens to read too.

Let me first just say WOW! I went to a bookstore looking for a book on pitching so i pulled out this book and it had everything i need to know! It helped me on pitching a lot!

Basenjis are beautiful African hounds that yodel instead of bark. The exotic breed is known for not shedding, cleaning themselves like cats, laughing and yodeling. Small and lithe, the clean-limbed dogs run like antelopes and glide when they walk. Their foreheads are deeply wrinkled and they have doubly curled tails which ride on their backs. They are indeed unusual.

The basenji has a long reaching history. Ancient Egyptians used basenji shaped footstools and featured the exotic hounds in paintings. Anubis, the God of the Underworld was depicted with a basenji head. The dogs were the cherished pets of the noble gentry.

In the 1930s, basenjis were imported to Europe, Canada and the United States. They have quite a following and many basenji organizations and publications have sprung up as a nod to this delightful breed of dog.

The Beacon street girls book series is a favorite of my daughter! I think audiobooks are just fantastic for kids - they can relax, close their eyes, and read with a great vocal performance. The Beacon street girls are smart, funny, creative, and inspiring. The characters in this book are ones you would like your child to be like. My daughter liked how this story dealt with the friendship issues that occur between girls. I highly recomend this audiobook and any in the Beacon Street Girls. It is also nice to read a book about kids of different races.

Originally published as "Building a Championship Football Team" in 1960 by Coach Paul W. Bryant, "Bear Bryant on Winning Football" is an updated revision by Coach Gene Stallings, no slouch, either, when it comes to building championship teams.

In "Winning Football," Coach Bryant gives his reasoning and philosophy for practically everything he did when organizing his football teams. The book reads easy, as if he had dictated it staight to his secretary because it has a tendency to echo the way he delivered his commentary on football seasons recap films, with regressions to points he meant to stress or a momentary attention deficit regression.

A master at organization, he knew how to develop players, and coaches, too, as evidenced by this short quote, "I do not think it is advisable for a head coach to do group work with one of his assistants. If an assistant is directing a group and the head man comes over to help out, he takes the lead away from the assistant. As a result the assistant coach is likely to lose his initiative--the very trait you want him to develop."

In reading this book, I developed a greater understanding of what it takes to be fully committed to achieving the best. Full of "X's" and "O's," it probably isn't for anyone except the die-hard football fan or coach who wants to take their program and life to the next level.

In closing, let me say this, if you can find a copy of this book, buy it. After reading it, you won't regret whatever you paid for it.

The year 2008 marked the 25th anniversary of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's death, and if you live in Alabama, or in any of the states that have a Southeastern Conference football team, you know Coach Bryant, as a coach, and as a man, was not someone you could easily replace. Just ask five of the first six coaches who followed in his footsteps.

The proliferation of books about Coach Bryant has been very steady over the last 25 years. Other than Allen Barra's THE LAST COACH, most have dealt with the lean years Coach Bryant experienced, or were written by assistant coaches, or broadcasters who were ever so familiar with Coach Bryant, but their books generally lacked something: either they did not know Coach Bryant as well as they thought they did or, in most cases, they, or their ghost writer, did not know how to put their thoughts down as well as they should. It got to be a standard joke that soon the "errand boy" would be taking pen to paper to give us their opinion on Coach Bryant.

Little did I know, or expect, that Steve Clark, a "go-fer," those are Mr. Clark's words, for Coach Bryant from 1972 to 1976 would write one of the best books about the "real" Coach Bryant, describing in detail the manner in which Coach Bryant interacted with others on a daily basis.

This book is outstanding in that Mr. Clark relates to the reader the aspects about Coach Bryant that describes Coach's approach to life, and how that mirrored his approach towards developing a championship football team Bear Bryant on Winning Football.

Interweaving accounts of the football games and campus life as reported by the student newspaper, "The Crimson-White," Mr. Clark describes, in minute details, the almost cosmological approach Coach Bryant applied to his football program, the University, and the world, and how attuned Coach Bryant was to what was happening on campus during the turbulent early 1970's. While Coach Bryant neither thought it nor behaved as if it were, this was a period when it truly was "his world," and others tried, and usually came-up short, to live in it.

This isn't a "warts" and all book, even though some of what is written may seem to describe Coach Bryant in a way and manner no one else has done before; however, Mr. Clark always shows a well-deserved admiration and respect for "The Man," as he, and others, in the Athletic Department often called Coach Bryant, but not to his face.

I would recommend this book to all who really want to know just what it was about Coach Bryant that made it a cut above other coaches and, in some respects, other men. Twenty or thirty other authors have tried to do that, but so far, only Steve Clark and one or two others have succeeded.

Dorothy Bryant has written a wonderful historical novel centered on Berkeley, with believable, interesting characters who interact with well known people of the times. But it is her relationships, and questions about relationships and continuing loyalty and interests, which drew me in and brought to life the times and the town. The book reads beautifully - she is such a skilled writer, and her language is rich and complex. Bryant's characters are often people we wish we knew.

I highly recommend this book - it would be great for book groups or even a class on American cultural history!

when i first say it i thought what an ugly cover, but after reading it, i must say it was really good. this is a book to read under the sheets.

Wayne just blew me away with this book! It has everything - history, bi film resources, humor, context, even a little dishing.

Everything I would have put into a film book is right here.