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TCU PRESS NEW RELEASES

Sports Makes You Type Faster by Dan Jenkins
A brand-new passel of essays by one of America’s best-known and best-loved sportswriters. Served
up with the acerbic wit that is Dan Jenkins’s hallmark, this new collection ranges over the whole
world of sports, taking aim at owners, players, fans and franchises alike—with results that will
make you laugh out loud.

Talking to the Stars by Bobbie Wygant
In her memoir, Bobbie Wygant recalls her trailblazing career
as an arts and entertainment reporter for Dallas-Fort Worth’s
Channel 5. Started in 1948 by Amon G. Carter, WBAP (now
KXAS) was the first television station west of the Mississippi
and Wygant was there from the beginning. Like everyone
on that early Channel 5 staff, Wygant pitched in to do a little of everything—writing
copy, performing live on-air skits, presenting commercials—but she soon became
known for the way she connected with celebrities. In a career spanning seven
decades, Wygant has interviewed literally thousands of the most notable entertainers
and celebrities since the 1950s—from Bob Hope, Jane Fonda and Denzel Washington
to Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon. Wygant was live on the air
with her popular midday program Dateline on November 22, 1963, when news
broke of JFK’s assassination. A few months later, during their debut tour of the
US, she interviewed the Beatles. In addition to charming and often funny accounts
of her interviews with the stars, Wygant’s personal observations of television broadcasting as it emerged at WBAP-TV
offer fascinating insights into the infancy of today’s multi-billion-dollar industry. This engaging and informative volume
includes more than three hundred photographs of her favorite celebrity encounters.

Learning through a PRISM by Tracy Rundstrom Williams
This book introduces the PRISM, an academically grounded and experientially driven pedagogy
for faculty wishing to design courses and experiences that develop students’ inter-cultural
competence. It includes suggested readings, adaptable assignments and clear rubrics. While the
book focuses on study abroad settings, its concepts and resources can be adapted to any course
focused on the development of inter-cultural competence. The PRISM will challenge faculty and
students to engage, interact, and create meaning in study abroad, intercultural and global contexts.

Portraits of a Soldier by Jon Lippens and J.W. Wilson
At age thirteen, most boys are finding trouble in all its infinite forms. In
1939, thirteen-year-old Jon Lippens’s worst troubles found him in a
predawn Nazi invasion that left his hometown of Ghent, Belgium, enveloped in mass death and
destruction. His childhood ended that day. Jon’s life thereafter was a series of traumatic events
and close scrapes with death. He resisted Hitler Youth recruiters and avoided being sent to death
in a labor camp, disappearing into the Belgian Underground Resistance, where he ultimately
joined the Allied effort. Jon was witness to unspeakable horrors and suffering, but those years of
clandestine struggles taught him not only how to survive but how to fight back. Life in postwar
Europe was a struggle and ultimately Jon was able to emigrate to the US, eventually
settling in Texas. The horrors of World War II and his part in it still dogged his memories, but
Jon learned to make peace with his past through painting and map making. His artistic talent
kept his belly full, while newfound faith kept his soul alive. As he aged, Jon turned from his
haunting memories to create beauty with his paintbrush. At once a remarkable hero and a very modest man, he finally
decided, as his life neared its conclusion, to share his unparalleled story of survival and healing—a story largely unknown
until now.

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