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WEB EXCLUSIVE. Buy Chucks! The Phenomenon of Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars from our store and receive an autographed copy and special text insert for chapter 1! Save $3.00 of the retail price! The ChucksConnection and Skyhorse Publishing of New York have published a new full color book all about the Converse All Star 'Chuck' Taylor basketball shoe, the world’s most popular athletic shoe, and a shoe that has influenced the lives of generations of people since it was first manufactured over 80 years ago. In the intersecting worlds of fashion, sports, and popular culture, the Converse Chuck Taylor All Star has become a beloved icon. Based on many of the features contained in this website, the book explores the reasons why chucks wearers are so loyal to the product, what people like so much about chucks, and how chucks have helped to change the world of fashion. The book examines the art and design of chucks, and what makes them the classic American sneaker. More eye catching than any other shoe, chucks occupy an important place in our media, and the book looks at films and television shows where chucks have a role, and how chucks are used in print media. Most importantly, this book takes a look at the wide variety of people who choose chucks as their only or main footwear. From film celebrities to the kid next door, business executives to the musicians in rock bands, guys in college to teenaged girls who cruise the mall looking for the latest models, chucks are “the great unifier”, proudly worn by people in many different age groups and demographic categories. The book presents some of their stories, opinions, and photos as the topic “Why do so many different types of people share the chucks lifestyle?” is explored.
This book takes a look at the history of the shoe, providing information about Chuck Taylor and how he changed the history of the athletic shoe in America and eventually the world. Chucks are constantly being reinvented; hundreds of different color and pattern combinations are available for sale. Yet all chucks pretty much look the same, because the brilliant simplicity of their design allows so many variations. The marketing of the Chuck Taylor shoe has always been somewhat unconventional, and the book takes a look at the relationship between the Converse Company and its retailers, featuring interviews with two long time dealers, Corky Fulton of SageSports and Gary Church of Amercian Athletics. And what does the future hold for chucks? The book presents the opinions of some people in the know. Printed in full color with over 150 photographs, this book is the first real look at the phenomenon of chucks. Hardcover edition, 152 p. Add to Cart
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If you purchased Chucks! The Phenomenon of Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars from another dealer, we will send you an adhesive backed insert that has text missing from Chapter 1 along with directions for how to place it in the book. The only charge is $1.00 to cover our shipping and handling costs. (Do not buy this if you are purchasing the book from The ChucksConnection; the insert is included for free with your purchase.) Add to Cart |
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Chuck Taylor, All Star.
The true story of the man behind the most famous athletic shoe in history. Chuck Taylor is the name on the label of the legendary Converse All Star basketball shoe. Though the shoe has been worn by hundreds of millions of people throughout the world, few people know much, if anything, about the man behind the name. For this first ever biography, Abraham Aamidor went on a three-year quest to learn the true story of Chuck Taylor. The search took him across the country, tracking down numerous leads, and separating truth from legend as he chronicles Taylor's true place in the history of basketball and his work in making the shoes that bear his name an American icon. In the introduction to the book, Dean Smith, a long time basketball coach at the University of North Carolina states that "He gave his life to basketball, and many in basketbal shared their kknowledge and love of the game with him. . . . He was indeed a man of basketball.
He was the key player in the early development of the Converse company's marketing strategy for athletic shoes. His contributions were so numerous and significant that his name was placed on the ankle patch of their top of the line high tops and has remained there ever since.
Save $4.50 off of the hardcover price! Indiana University Press, illustrated, 184 pages. Add to Cart |
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The Hunter & Holmes Mystery Series is about two young teenagers living in the Silicon Valley who become amateur detectives to solve crimes that affect them, their friends, and their community. The Silicon Valley is a great place for two young teens to be growing up. There is fabulous weather all year round so they can wear their favorite pairs of chucks every day, lots of activities for young people to participate in, access to new technologies and innovations, and a great cultural life. With all of these things to do, and with their usual routine of school, arts, recreational sports, and doing things with their friends, why would best friends Jason Hunter and Daniel Holmes want to spend their time as detectives?
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Books in the Series: 1. The Kidnapping Book 2. Double Fugue Book 3. When the Chips Are Down. Book 4. Family Matters. Book 5. Eyewitness News. Book 6. Days of Destiny.
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Book 1. The Kidnapping The answer has to do with motivation. When Jason is suddenly and mysteriously kidnapped in a public park in broad daylight, their carefree days of playing video games, and basketball, or just hanging out with each other and their circle of friends suddenly comes to a halt. Jason must now deal with all of the mental, physical and emotional impact that a crime victim experiences. Even more troubling is the fact that no one can figure out why he was kidnapped or who was responsible. Jason and his parents are nice people, outgoing and friendly, honorable in their relationships and business dealings. They are the last people you would think that someone would have a grudge against. They are a typical professional middle class couple, but not wealthy like many Silicon Valley CEOs or entrepreneurs. After a ransom is paid and Jason is released by his kidnappers, Daniel, who is very angry about what happened to his best friend, also discovers that the Jason he knew before the kidnapping is slipping away in a sea of self-doubt. Daniel realizes that the only way Jason can fully recover from his ordeal is to find out the truth about the kidnapping. Why was it done and who did it? So he sets out to find these answers, and eventually convinces Jason to join him. The detective team of Hunter & Holmes is in business! And there is a nice twist to these stories: each detective is an enthusiastic wearer of chucks, and the "chucks club" culture plays a role in the story lines.
The Kidnapping is available for your enjoyment in a variety of ebook editions. The best edition for each book is our pdf version which will appear on your computer screen exactly like a hard cover book, and the illustrations and graphics are all full page size. Text and illustrations appear in two page spreads, and you can adjust the size of each book to the size of your computer monitor. Upon completing the order process, you will receive a pdf file by email that contains the entire novel with 43 full color illustrations and unique graphic design. The file size is 6.8 MB in size. Allow 1-2 business days for delivery. 225 pages, illustrated.
To order The Kidnapping for your Nook Reader, click on this link which will take you to the Barnes & Noble website and the order page for this book. Order The Kidnapping for your Kindle Reader.The download is available from six different Amazon.com websites. To order from the United States store: Click on this link which will take you to the US Amazon.com website and the order page for this book. To order from the United Kingdom store, click on this link. To order from the German store, click on this link. To order from the French store, click on this link. To order from the Italian store, click on this link. To order from the Spanish store, click on this link.
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Book 2. Double Fugue The first novel in the series, focused on Jason a lot while the second novel has more to do with Daniel and his musical interests. The title refers to the two intertwining stories of the book, and the psychological impact that its events have on the two characters (besides Jason and Daniel) that this novel is about. The main story line involves Daniel and his chance meeting with rock star Ethan Savage who is retiring from the music business and planning to give away most of his huge fortune from recording and publishing rights. When Daniel accidentally witnesses Ethan's mysterious disappearance and reappearance, he become involved in a very strange and troubling set of circumstances that end up having a major impact on his life. Daniel also discovers that there are many facets to music as he explores the pop side and learns about the concert/classical side through his interactions with Ethan Savage, Jason's friend Robert Fischer, and local educator and conductor David Molinari. The other story line in Double Fugue begins when Marilyn and Jorge Ferreira, Jason's neighbors from down the block, knock on his door one evening and tell him how worried they are about their young nephew, 14-year-old Eric Acosta, who lives in Springdale, a small Monterey County town 70 miles south of the Silicon Valley. Eric apparently has been attacked and victimized, but refuses to talk about it with anyone, and seems to be withdrawing from communication with any adult, including his very concerned mother. Marilyn thinks that maybe Jason could get through to him, and asks him if he would be willing to try. Based on his own experiences as a crime victim and what he is told by the Ferreiras, Jason immediately senses that Eric has been victimized by a serious predator, and he and Daniel, along with their adult friend and advisor, Mr. Joe Connor, quickly set out to visit Eric and try to get him to reveal what happened. What they discover and become involved in is quite disturbing and gut wrenching!
This is a full length novel in a hard cover sized edition converted to a online format. Upon completing the order process, you will receive a pdf file by email that contains the entire novel with 43 full color illustrations plus a unique graphic design. The file size is 5 MB in size. Allow 1-2 business days for delivery. 284 pages, illustrated. Contains the score to a complete musical arrangement performed by Daniel and his friends Eric and Diana.
To order the pdf edition of Double Fugue use our secure online shopping cart system. Add PDF Edition to Shopping Cart. To order Double Fugue for your Nook Reader, click on this link which will take you to the Barnes & Noble website and the order page for this book. Order Double Fugue for your Apple iPad, iPod Touch (2nd generation or later), or iPhone (3G or later). Books can only be viewed using the iBooks application. Double Fugue is available through the iTunes stores in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Open iTunes on your device and then search for Double Fugue. You will find it in the books section. Order Double Fugue for your Kindle Reader.The download is available from four different Amazon.com websites. To order from the United States store: Click on this link which will take you to the US Amazon.com website and the order page for this book. To order from the United Kingdom store, click on this link. To order from the German store, click on this link. To order from the French store, click on this link. To order from the Italian store, click on this link. To order from the Spanish store, click on this link. To order from the Italian store, click on this link. To order from the Spanish store, click on this link.
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Book 3. When the Chips Are Down. Spring break turns out to be anything but that for Jason and Daniel. They agree to help their friend Richard Liu and his father Junjie try and figure out what is going on at his father’s work place, the DCC Chip Company, which has been recently plagued by hijackings of their new line of computer chips. Richard is worried that the company will go out of business and his family will lose everything if something isn’t done to stop the thefts. While looking for a young friend, Jason and Daniel stumble onto what appears to be another hijacking of DCC chips. Convinced that the thefts must be an inside job, Jason and Daniel pose as reporters from their high school newspaper to tour the plant and meet the employees. The second element of the story starts with the urgent and desperate plea of Teresa Barnwell, a young girl living in a foster home. She asks Jason to visit a nearby boot camp for teenagers where Timothy Wilkinson, a mutual friend of theirs, has been sent. Teresa is convinced that Tim is being mistreated at the camp. In the past two weeks he has disappeared from the camp roster, all mail to him as been returned, and his parents were told that he has been sent to anger management training. When kids at the camp confirm that Tim and another kid named Cody did not get along with the camp authorities, were constantly being treated harshly, and believe that the two have been taken somewhere to be forced into submission, Jason and Daniel mount an all out campaign to find Tim and Cody before serious harm comes to them.
This is a full length novel in a hard cover sized edition converted to a online format. Upon completing the order process, you will receive a pdf file by email that contains the entire novel with 49 full color illustrations and graphics. The file is 4.2 MB in size. Allow 1-2 business days for delivery. 300 pages, illustrated.
To order the pdf edition use our secure online shopping cart system. Add PDF Edition to Cart To order When The Chips Are Down for your Nook Reader, click on this link which will take you to the Barnes & Noble website and the order page for this book. Order When The Chips Are Down for your Kindle Reader.The download is available from six different Amazon.com websites. To order from the United States store: Click on this link which will take you to the US Amazon.com website and the order page for this book. To order from the United Kingdom store, click on this link. To order from the German store, click on this link. To order from the French store, click on this link. To order from the Italian store, click on this link. To order from the Spanish store, click on this link. Order When The Chips Are Down for your Apple iPad, iPod Touch (2nd generation or later), or iPhone (3G or later). Books can only be viewed using the iBooks application. When The Chips Are Down is available through all fourteen iTunes stores around the world. Open iTunes on your device and then search for When The Chips Are Down. You will find it in the books section. This link will take you to the order page for When The Chips Are Down in the US store.
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Book 4. Family Matters. School is out, but the lazy carefree days of summer are soon filled with more adventures for the Hunter & Holmes detective team. Jason and Daniel have a very unusual meeting with Enrico Feraducci, a Mafia godfather who has a special request for them. Jason and Daniel travel with Joe Connor to southern California to try and broker a reconciliation for him with his estranged daughter and grandchildren. Daniel begins rehearsing with his band as they work on creating their sound and search for a keyboard player. Jason and Daniel then meet and make friends with Nick, a very talented and gifted pianist who wants to join the band but recently has been threatened and attacked by a mysterious stranger who somehow is able to enter his house at will. Jason and Daniel are determined to help Nick and protect him from further attacks. Captain Garcia leads a task force to try and solve a string of missing children cases in the town of San Matthias. Soon Jason and Daniel become involved in the investigation. Jason's relationship with Laura and Daniel's relationship with Diana have major developments. Many of their mutual friends, Eric, Rebecca, Timothy, Teresa, Chauncey and the A List basketball team all have interesting changes in their lives. All these things and more are in Family Matters, the fourth book in the Hunter & Holmes Mystery Series. This is a full length novel in a hard cover sized edition converted to a online format. Upon completing the order process, you will receive a pdf file by email that contains the entire novel with 48 full color illustrations and graphics. The file is 4.6 MB in size. Allow 1-2 business days for delivery. 302 pages, illustrated.
To order the pdf edition of Family Matters use our secure online shopping cart system. Add PDF Edition to Cart To order Family Matters for your Nook Reader, click on this link which will take you to the Barnes & Noble website and the order page for this book. Order Family Matters for your Kindle Reader.The download is available from six different Amazon.com websites. To order from the United States store: Click on this link which will take you to the US Amazon.com website and the order page for this book. To order from the United Kingdom store, click on this link. To order from the German store, click on this link. To order from the French store, click on this link. To order from the Italian store, click on this link. To order from the Spanish store, click on this link. Order Family Matters for your Apple iPad, iPod Touch (2nd generation or later), or iPhone (3G or later). Books can only be viewed using the iBooks application. Family Matters is available through all thirty-two iTunes stores around the world. Open iTunes on your device and then search for Family Matters. You will find it in the books section. Search under Books>Mysteries and Thrillers>Aiden Vaughan or do a search for Family Matters and select Books>All.
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Book 5. Eyewitness News. After the stunning ending to their adventures in Family Matters, Jason and Daniel are determined to spend the remainder of the summer relaxing and kicking back. Now that Jason and Daniel have pledged to go steady with their girl friends, Laura and Diana, they discover that they have new obligations and personal issues to deal with. Jason is eager to play interleague basketball with his friend Chauncey and his other A-List team members. But new complications beguile Chauncey as another player tries to make him look bad during their games. Daniel is happy to spend much of his time rehearsing with his band now that his rhythm section is settled, Nick has become their neighbor, and is a valued and creative member of the band. After talking with Jason about the recovery process for what happened to them earlier that summer in Family Matters, Nick realizes that he has debt to pay to the other victims who didn’t survive, and begins working on an intensely personal musical project to provide closure. Eric reaches out to help Ben Kessler, the other young boy rescued by Jason and the police task force. On Tim's recommendation the band auditions a potential new member, Jonathan Kowalski, a talented reed player who is an excellent performer on saxophone, flute, and clarinet. Unfortunately Jonathan has complications in his family life because his mother has become addicted to methamphetamines and is spending her time with a low life drug dealer. Jason and the other band members become very concerned about Jonathan as they rally to help him out. Arthur Vincenzo is now living in the Silicon Valley, adopted by Captain Antonio Garcia and his wife, Marisol. Arthur is grateful to finally have a stable home life, but it is threatened by gang members who want to recruit him. Jaime Orlando and the media are keeping an eye on Jason and his activities. Part of the storyline is told from the point of view of reports by Jaime for KHHT television Eyewitness News as the story line builds to its exciting and moving conclusion. Full of action and emotion, you won't want to miss Eyewitness News, the fifth book in the Hunter & Holmes Mystery Series.
This is a full length novel in a hard cover sized edition converted to a online format. Upon completing the order process, you will receive a pdf file by email that contains the entire novel with 48 full color illustrations and graphics. The file is 6.4 MB in size. Allow 1-2 business days for delivery. 294 pages, illustrated with 48 full color illustrations and graphics, and the vocal-piano score to part of Nicolo Ferraducci’s musical project.
To order the pdf edition of Eyewitness News use our secure online shopping cart system. Add PDF Edition to Cart To order Eyewitness News for your Nook Reader, click on this link which will take you to the Barnes & Noble website and the order page for this book. Order Eyewitness News for your Kindle Reader.The download is available from six different Amazon.com websites. To order from the United States store: Click on this link which will take you to the US Amazon.com website and the order page for this book. To order from the United Kingdom store, click on this link. To order from the German store, click on this link. To order from the French store, click on this link. To order from the Italian store, click on this link. To order from the Spanish store, click on this link. Order Eyewitness News for your Apple iPad, iPod Touch (2nd generation or later), or iPhone (3G or later). Books can only be viewed using the iBooks application. Eyewitness Newss is available through all thirty-two iTunes stores around the world. Open iTunes on your device and then search for Eyewitness News. You will find it in the books section. Search under Books>Mysteries and Thrillers>Aiden Vaughan or do a search for Eyewitness News and select Books>All.
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Book 6. Days of Destiny. Days of Destiny begins in San Francisco. Richard Liu, Jason's friend and neighbor, is taking Jason and Daniel up to Chinatown to see the spectacular night time New Year's parade, preceded by a fabulous dinner at a Taiwanese restaurant owned by his Aunt Mai. On the way to see the parade, the three take a shortcut through a building where they discover Jian-heng Chen, an eight-year-old Chinese boy, left locked in a closet by human traffickers who have also enslaved the boy's older sisters. With the assistance of Richard's translation, Jason and Daniel learn how the orphaned boy is bravely seeking a new life in America. Detemined to help Jian-heng out and rescue his sisters, they bring the boy back to the Silicon Valley where he is taken in by the Liu family. But Jason and Daniel have a lot more to deal with besides tracking down the traffickers. Daniel and his band are working on their demo CD, trying to create a complete album of original songs to present to some promoters who have taken an interest in the band since their performance of Nick Feraducci's Requiem for the Lost Children last fall. Jason is very involved with the Merriam High School varsity basketball team which is headed to the district and regional playoffs. Plus Jason's relationship with Laura and Daniel's romance with Diana are taking on new dimensions. To add further complications, the boys investigate a quite upsetting sexting scandal that breaks open at a Merriam High School dance. Eventually the boys are able to focus on Jian-heng's case and the search for his two sisters and the men who have enslaved them is on. What they discover in the process is quite upsetting and shocking as Jason and Daniel use their detective skills to solve this and the other crimes involving school activities. Join Jason, Daniel, and their friends as they face Days of Destiny, the sixth book in the Hunter & Holmes Mystery Series.
This is a full length novel in a hard cover sized edition converted to a online format. Upon completing the order process, you will receive a pdf file by email that contains the entire novel with 43 full color illustrations and unique graphic design. The file is 6.4 MB in size. Allow 1-2 business days for delivery. 330 pages, illustrated.
Order Days of Destiny for your Apple iPad, iPod Touch (2nd generation or later), or iPhone (3G or later). Books can only be viewed using the iBooks application. Days of Destiny is available from all thirty-two iTunes stores around the world. Open iTunes on your device and then search for Days of Destiny. You will find it in the books section. Search under Books>Mysteries and Thrillers>Aiden Vaughan or do a search for Days of Destiny and select Books>All. To order Book 6, Days of Destiny, in its pdf edition, click here to use our online shopping cart system. To order Days of Destiny for your Nook Reader, click on this link which will take you to the Barnes & Noble website and the order page for this book. Order Days of Destiny for your Kindle Reader. The download is available from six different Amazon.com websites. To order from the United States store: Click on this link which will take you to the US Amazon.com website and the order page for this book. To order from the United Kingdom store, click on this link. To order from the German store, click on this link. To order from the French store, click on this link. To order from the Italian store, click on this link. To order from the Spanish store, click on this link. |
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