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Download or read book Seconds Out written by Alison Dean and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kicking ass and taking notes—what it’s like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. “You punch like a girl” still isn’t a compliment — women aren’t supposed to choose to participate in violence. Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a person’s — and particularly a woman’s — relationship to their body and to the world around them, and at the same time considers the ways in which women might change martial arts. Combining historical research, anecdotal experience, and interviews with coaches and fighters, Seconds Out explores our culture’s relationship with violence, and particularly with violence practiced by women. "An important addition to women’s martial arts scholarship, Dean provides personal insight into the radical space women occupy in sport fighting. Seconds Out is a must-read for all fighters looking for mentors in the complicated world of martial arts." —L.A. Jennings, author of Mixed Martial Arts: A History from Ancient Fighting Sports to the UFC "Dean brings a fresh new female voice to the topic of combat sports." —Trevor Wittman, renowned MMA trainer, UFC analyst, and founder of ONX Sports "Trained in the discipline and art of both fighting and literature, Dean combines both with style. She honors the fighters, writers, and historians who have come before her and definitively ends the idea of women fighters as a novelty. Seconds Out is a must-read for anyone who feels the call of the bell and reverence for a good fight." —Sue Jaye Johnson
Book Synopsis To Write as a Boxer by : Kurt Campbell
Download or read book To Write as a Boxer written by Kurt Campbell and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recuperates the narrative of Andrew Jeptha, a Cape Town-born boxer who was the first black fighter to win a British welterweight title in 1907. As a result of that victory, Jeptha was permanently blinded, and took to preparing a book titled A South African Boxer in Britain (1910). This volume explores the relationship between the life of a pugilist and his textual production, and locates the complex negotiations of a pugilist by situating Jeptha in a larger arc of the ‘care of the self’, extending from Greco-Roman aesthetics to the present. In the process, it investigates the strategies of care that were integral to opposing, confronting and living in the increasingly racialised world of the early 1900s.
Download or read book The Boxer written by Nikesh Shukla and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny. A seventeen year old feeling isolated and disconnected in the city he's just moved to, Sunny joins a boxing club to learn to protect himself after a racist attack. He finds the community he's been desperately seeking at the club, and a mentor in trainer Shobu, who helps him find his place in the world. But racial tensions are rising in the city, and when a Far Right march through Bristol turns violent, Sunny is faced with losing his new best friend Keir to radicalisation. A gripping, life-affirming YA novel about friendship, radicalisation and finding where you belong.
Book Synopsis The Voice that Won the Vote by : Elisa Boxer
Download or read book The Voice that Won the Vote written by Elisa Boxer and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August of 1920, women's suffrage in America came down to the vote in Tennessee. If the Tennessee legislature approved the 19th amendment it would be ratified, giving all American women the right to vote. The historic moment came down to a single vote and the voter who tipped the scale toward equality did so because of a powerful letter his mother, Febb Burn, had written him urging him to "Vote for suffrage and don't forget to be a good boy." The Voice That Won the Vote is the story of Febb, her son Harry, and the letter than gave all American women a voice.
Download or read book Dark Trade written by Donald McRae and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 1996 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE. In the early 1990s, Donald McRae set out to discover the truth about the intense and forbidding world of professional boxing. Travelling around the States and Britain, he was welcomed into the inner sanctums of some of the greatest fighters of the period - men such as Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, Oscar de la Hoya, Frank Bruno, Evander Holyfield and Naseem Hamed among them. They opened up to him, revealing unforgettable personal stories from both inside and outside the ring, and explaining why it is that some are driven to compete in this most brutal of sports, risking their health and even their lives. The result is a classic account of boxing that remains as fresh and entertaining as when it was first published almost 20 years ago. McRae approaches his subjects with wit, compassion and insight, and the result was a book that was a deserved winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.
Download or read book Blows to the Head written by Binnie Klein and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative tale of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing.
Book Synopsis The Polish Boxer by : Eduardo Halfon
Download or read book The Polish Boxer written by Eduardo Halfon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English-language debut of a major Latin American writer.
Download or read book Fat City written by Leonard Gardner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black walnut trees. When two men meet in the ring -- the retired boxer Billy Tully and the newcomer Ernie Munger - their brief bout sets into motion their hidden fates, initiating young Ernie into the company of men and luring Tully back into training. In a dispassionate and composed voice, Gardner narrates their swings of fortune, and the plodding optimism of their manager Ruben Luna, as he watches the most promising boys one by one succumb to some undefined weakness; still, "There was always someone who wanted to fight."
Download or read book The Boxer written by Kathleen Karr and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having learned how to box while in prison, fifteen-year-old Johnny sets out to discover if he can make a decent living as a fighter in late nineteenth-century New York City.
Book Synopsis Boxing - From Chump to Champ by : Andrew Hudson
Download or read book Boxing - From Chump to Champ written by Andrew Hudson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to box in 30 days! Even if you don't go to a boxing gym and have no experience If you want to get in amazing shape, learn useful self defense, or you simply just want to start boxing. This book will help you on your journey right from the beginning and will teach you everything you need to know! I will pass on my expert knowledge, as a qualified boxing coach I have been doing this for years. I once was a beginner too, it can be hard to start a new sport/hobby with nothing and I was always sitting on the fence about starting. However, I believe that boxing has helped me in so many ways that I didn't think was possible! Boxing helped me build everlasting confidence and made me determined, this improved me as a fighter and as a person. I focus on making this book suit people who want to work out at home as I understand going to a gym/ boxing club is expensive and brave for beginners, although going to a gym does help. I have witnessed many people change for the good and I am sure you can better yourself with boxing, afterall everyone has room for growth and that is why I'm here to help. In this book, you'll discover: A range of simple, yet effective punches. The importance of footwork. The stance that suits you as a fighter The basics of defence Home boxing workouts. The perfect diet that suits a boxer. The brilliance of shadowboxing. Deadly combinations. How boxing can make you mentally stronger and much more... *Don't just keep considering it, try something new! So if you want to get to grips with the boxing basics and get in shape, then scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button now!
Book Synopsis Left / Write // Hook by : Donna Lyon
Download or read book Left / Write // Hook written by Donna Lyon and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEFT / WRITE // HOOK shows that sexual abuse survivors are everywhere, that trauma lives in the body, and it needs to be expressed. "By no choice of their own, survivors of childhood sexual abuse spend the entirety of their lives 'in the ring', fighting. Left / Write // Hook offers visceral insight into survivors' fierce, compelling and ultimately triumphant stories" --. Dr Joy Townsend, Learning Consent "Donna Lyon has the ability to get women to open up and reveal all, and in the process begin the journey to healing. Boxing is a violent sport, but projects like Left / Write // Hook take the violence out of it, so that it becomes therapeutic and gives you power". --Tommy Hopkins, Fitlife Boxing Club, Melbourne Australia. Fueled with the voices and lived experiences of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, whose lives and work have been positively impacted by the combination of writing and boxing, readers will experience: * a profound understanding of the complexity and depth of trauma through the lived experiences of survivors * insights into the tenacious long-term impacts of abuse and trauma on the mind, body, and spirit * personalised and collective accounts of how trauma manifests in the experiences of survivors and their sense of self * hope and courage as to the resilience and strength of survivors who live with the daily effects of their trauma * new insight into how the combination of physical, mental, and creative programs of expression are vital to healing * dozens of powerful writing prompts that unearth hidden feelings, thoughts, and beliefs to recover your true self. Learn more at: www.leftwritehook.com From Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com
Download or read book The Fight written by Norman Mailer and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity. Whether he is analyzing the fighters’ moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer’s grasp of the titanic battle’s feints and stratagems—and his sensitivity to their deeper symbolism—makes this book a masterpiece of the literature of sport. Praise for The Fight “Exquisitely refined and attenuated . . . [a] sensitive portrait of an extraordinary athlete and man, and a pugilistic drama fully as exciting as the reality on which it is based.”—The New York Times “One of the defining texts of sports journalism. Not only does Mailer recall the violent combat with a scholar’s eye . . . he also makes the whole act of reporting seem as exciting as what’s occurring in the ring.”—GQ “Stylistically, Mailer was the greatest boxing writer of all time.”—Chuck Klosterman, Esquire “One of Mailer’s finest books.”—Louis Menand, The New Yorker Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post
Download or read book Gravity written by Sarah Deming and published by Make Me a World. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rocky meets I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in this YA novel about a young female boxer who learns to fight for what she wants. *"A riveting pugilistic must-read." --Kirkus Reviews, starred Gravity "Doomsday" Delgado is good at breaking things. Maybe she learned it from her broken home. But since she started boxing with a legendary coach at a gym in Brooklyn, Gravity is finding her talent for breaking things has an upside. Lately, she's been breaking records, breaking her competitors, and breaking down the walls inside her. Boxing is taking her places, and if she just stays focused, she knows she'll have a shot at the Olympics. Life outside the ring is heating up, too. Suddenly she's flirting (and more) with a cute boxer at her gym--much to her coach's disapproval. Meanwhile, things at home with Gravity's mom are reaching a tipping point, and Gravity has to look out for her little brother, Ty. With Olympic dreams, Gravity will have to decide what is worth fighting for.
Book Synopsis The Longhaired Boxer by : Ed. Malave
Download or read book The Longhaired Boxer written by Ed. Malave and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LONGHAIRED BOXER took author Ed. (Aka Chu Chu) Malave twelve years to complete. He struggled with depression, coming to terms with haunting memories. As the much-publicized New York boxer in the early '70s whose pretty face, shoulder-length locks and gladiator style, Mr. Malave defied convention, injecting glitz and glamour into sports, opening the door for athletes to bring more to their game than just talent. Mr. Malave broke every rule to be his own man. He acted on the New York Stage and Hollywood TV shows and movies, working with Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino, Ryan O'Neal and Robert Duval, to name a few. When acting jobs dried-up, he became homeless. His toughest battle. He wrote his story as a way of understanding how he had fallen so low. The former boxer/actor attended California State University, Los Angeles, as a 52-year-old high school dropout and received a Bachelors Degree in English. He wrote a feature for the New York Daily News, "Brotherly Glove" (1997), and an essay as a student, My Sharkskin Suit in "VOICES: Tapping the Child's Voice" (Alliance Press, 2000). He just completed his first novel, Spanish Eyes, a romantic, action-packed adventure story. The Longhaired Boxer is the triumph of rising, falling, and RISING AGAIN. Who doesn't like a story of a fight for dignity? It's through the lessons of others that we learn we're alike - more resilient than we give ourselves credit. TLB is a gut-wrenching story of overcoming life's most eviscerating hammer blows. Mr. Malave's tome is an inspiration.
Download or read book Run, Riot written by Nikesh Shukla and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED IN THE YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018. From the editor of The Good Immigrant, an adrenaline-fuelled, powerful YA novel about young people taking charge of their own destiny. A novel about standing up and being counted. Aspiring MC Taran and her twin brother Hari never wanted to move to Firestone House. But when the rent was doubled overnight and Dad's chemo meant he couldn't work, they had to make this tower block their home. It's good now though; they feel part of something here. When they start noticing boarded-up flats and glossy flyers for expensive apartments, they don't think much of it - until Hari is caught up in a tragedy, and they are forced to go on the run. It's up to these teenagers to uncover the sinister truth behind what's going on in the block, before it blows their world apart.
Download or read book Box Like the Pros written by Joe Frazier and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former World Heavyweight champion Smokin' Joe Frazier and William Dettloff, senior writer for The Ring magazine, present a complete guide to the fight game – from the history of the sport to how to throw a crushing uppercut and take a punch without flinching. Drawing from the experiences of one of the masters of the sport, Box Like the Pros is a must–have for anyone pursuing boxing as a hobby or who is interested in training to become a professional boxer. Frazier, with longtime boxing writer William Dettloff, presents a complete introduction to the sport, including the game's history, rules of the ring, how fights are scored, how to spar, the basics of defence and offence, the fighter's workout, a directory of boxing gyms, and much more. Box Like the Pros is an instruction manual, a historical reference tool and an insider's guide to the world's most controversial sport.
Book Synopsis It's OK to Be Different by : Richard Berger
Download or read book It's OK to Be Different written by Richard Berger and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world which tends to reinforce conformity rather than being different, the story of Brody the Boxer AKA Hollywood teaches children that it's OK to be different, important to be kind and that there are solutions to challenges. Brody the Boxer was adopted by a kind man named Richard when he was just 6 weeks old. He has led the typical life of a family pet in some ways, but in other ways he has also had more interesting types of adventures and outings than some other dogs. Brody is a very popular dog, and much more well known around his hometown than a lot of other dogs. Not only is he famous on Facebook, but he has proven, thanks to the kindness of others that there are ways to deal with unexpected challenges....like his Degenerative Myelopathy. Brody's back legs no longer work, but with his own special doggy wheelchair and roller skates, he still gets to enjoy all the same kinds of things he did before he developed this disease. Brody is a very special dog who wins the hearts of children, adults and other dogs as well. Children may be surprised by some of the things they learn about him in this introductory book. Like that he got married or likes to help with the grocery shopping.We hope that meeting Brody and following his adventures will teach children that it's OK to be different and that we should accept and be respectful of individual differences - knowing that deep down inside - we're really all the same.
