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Soccer Grannies

Author : Jean Duffy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538170183
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Soccer Grannies written by Jean Duffy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational story of an amazing group of soccer-playing South African grannies. In rural South Africa, beloved humanitarian “Mama Beka” defied social convention and started a soccer team for the women in her community. The Soccer Grannies, as they came to be known, won over their families and villages who at first rejected the idea of older women playing soccer, and that single team quickly grew into dozens. Soon, the strength, tenacity, and pure joy of the Soccer Grannies had captured the attention of the world. In Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World, Jean Duffy, a soccer-playing mom herself, recounts how she and her team set to work to bring the Soccer Grannies to the U.S. after hearing their incredible story. Despite many obstacles that stand in their way, the Soccer Grannies finally arrive, and Jean describes the wonderful friendships and cultural exchanges that follow. But Soccer Grannies tells more than just the physical journey of the South African women; it also details the Grannies’ personal journeys, sharing poignant insights into the realities of women living in South Africa. Life beyond the pitch has not been easy for the Grannies. They have persevered through apartheid, rampant poverty and unemployment, the loss of children to AIDS, domestic abuse, and more. But with the friendship and support of their fellow Soccer Grannies, these women face life’s challenges with dignity, humor, and hope. Their stories show to the world the power of sport and its unique ability to bring people and cultures together.

Who Shot Sports

Author : Gail Buckland
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385352239
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Who Shot Sports written by Gail Buckland and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator/editor of Who Shot Rock & Roll (“I loved this book” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times. “Whatever Gail Buckland writes, I want to read”), a book that brings together the work of 165 extraordinary photographers, most of their images heralded, most of their names unknown; photographs that capture the essence of athletes’ mastery of mind/body/soul against the odds, doing the impossible, seeming to defy the laws of gravity, the laws of physics, and showing what human will, discipline, drive, and desire look like when suspended in time. The first book to show the range, cultural importance, and aesthetics of sports photography, much of it legendary, all of it powerful. Here, in more than 280 spectacular images—more than 130 in full color—are great action photographs; portraits of athletes, famous and unknown; athletes off the field and behind the scenes; athletes practicing, working out, the daily relentless effort of training and achieving physical perfection. Buckland writes that sports photographers have always been central to the technical advancement of photography, that they have designed longer lenses, faster shutters, motor drives, underwater casings, and remote controls, allowing us to see what we could never see—and hold on to—with the naked eye. Here are photographs by such masters as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Danny Lyon, Walker Evans, Annie Leibovitz, and 160 more, names not necessarily known to the public but whose photographic work is considered iconic . . . Here are photographs of Willie Mays . . . Carl Lewis . . . Ian Botham . . . Kobe Bryant . . . Magic Johnson . . . Muhammad Ali . . . Serena Williams . . . Bobby Orr . . . Stirling Moss . . . Jesse Owens . . . Mark Spitz . . . Roger Federer . . . Jackie Robinson. Here is the work of the great sports photographers Neil Leifer, Walter Iooss Jr., Bob Martin, Al Bello, Robert Riger, and Heinz Kleutmeier of Sports Illustrated, who was the first to put a camera at the bottom of an Olympic swimming pool and photograph swimmers from below . . . Here are pictures by Charles Hoff, the New York Daily News photographer of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, whose images of the 1936 Berlin Olympics still inspire shock and awe . . . and those of Ernst Haas, whose innovative color pictures of bullfighting of the 1950s remain poetic evocations of a bloody sport . . . To make the selections for Who Shot Sports, Buckland, a former curator of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and Benjamin Menschel Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, has drawn upon the work of more than fifty archives, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to Sports Illustrated, Condé Nast, Getty Images, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, L’Équipe, The New York Times, and the archives of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne. Here are classic and unknown sports images that capture the uncapturable, that allow us to experience “kinetic beauty,” and that give us the essence and meaning—the transcendent power—of sports.

Grandmother Power

Author : Paola Gianturco
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 1576876276
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Grandmother Power written by Paola Gianturco and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether fighting for the environment, human rights, education, health, or cultural preservation, a new generation of activist grandmothers across the world are using their strength, wisdom, and hearts to make a difference. An unheralded grandmothers' movement is changing the world. Insurgent grandmothers are using their power to fight for a better future for grandchildren everywhere. And they are succeeding. Grandmother Power profiles activist grandmothers in fifteen countries on five continents who tell their compelling stories in their own words. Grandmothers in Canada, Swaziland, and South Africa collaborate to care for AIDS orphans. Grandmothers in Senegal convince communities to abandon female genital mutilation. Grandmothers in India become solar engineers and bring light to their villages while those in Peru, Thailand, and Laos sustain weaving traditions. Grandmothers in Argentina teach children to love books and reading. Other Argentine grandmothers continue their 40-year search for grandchildren who were kidnapped during the nation's military dictatorship. Irish grandmothers teach children to sow seeds and cook with fresh, local ingredients. Filipino grandmothers demand justice for having been forced into sex slavery during World War II. Guatemalan grandmothers operate a hotline and teach parenting. In the Middle East, Israeli grandmothers monitor checkpoints to prevent abuse and the UAE's most popular television show stars four animated grandmothers who are surprised by contemporary life. Indigenous grandmothers from thirteen countries conduct healing rituals to bring peace to the world. Gianturco's full-color images and her heroines' amazing tales make Grandmother Power an inspiration for everyone, and it cements the power of grandmothers worldwide. Please visit http://globalgrandmotherpower.com/ for additional information. All author royalties will be donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign, which provides grants to African grandmothers who are raising AIDS orphans.

What's the Score?

Author : Bonnie J. Morris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684351820
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book What's the Score? written by Bonnie J. Morris and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the first female athlete you admired? Were male and female athletes treated differently in your high school? Is there a natural limit to women's athletic ability? How has Title IX opened up opportunities for women athletes? Every semester since 1996, Bonnie Morris has encouraged students to confront questions like these in one of the most provocative college courses in America: Athletics and Gender, A History of Women's Sports. What's the Score?, Morris's energetic teaching memoir, is a peek inside that class and features a decades-long dialogue with student athletes about the greater opportunities for women—on the playing field, as coaches, and in sports media. From corsets to segregated schoolyards to the WNBA, we find women athletes the world over conquering unique barriers to success. What's the Score? is not only an insider's look at sports education but also an engaging guide to turning points in women's sports history that everyone should know.

Global Gleanings 2010

Author : John Seaman
Publisher : John Seaman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Gleanings 2010 written by John Seaman and published by John Seaman. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the real thing, the truth that is stranger than fiction, presented here in some 600 items abridged from the news as footprints left behind to mark the year 2010

Community Klepto

Author : Kelly I. Hitchcock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647423740
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Community Klepto written by Kelly I. Hitchcock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Josephson is a twenty-five-year-old sociopath whose compulsive kleptomania manifests itself in the most unlikely of places: the community center where she works out every day. The walls of the community center insulate her from the terrors of the outside world, which include her freelance work as a graphic artist; her socialite parents, who pay the better part of her living expenses; her therapist, who devotedly punches the clock; and the dark void of romantic relationships. As Ann battles the inner demons that plague her millennial psyche, she must also battle the fiends that plague her at the gym: the loudly grunting beefcake who can’t be bothered to drop his weights at a reasonable volume, the naked old lady in the locker room using a towel as butt floss, the housewife in yoga pants that obviate the need for yoga wheeling her double stroller up and down the indoor track. Set in suburban Kansas City in the early 2010s, Community Klepto—a droll combination of Bridget Jones’ Diary and Choke—makes incarnate the characters and shenanigans that go on in every gym in the world.

Sin & Contrition

Author : William Peace
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1618970453
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Sin & Contrition written by William Peace and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the lives of some boys who make life changing decisions which have both good and disastrous results.

Bottled

Author : Sara Byala
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805261169
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Bottled written by Sara Byala and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. Bottled asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation, development and capitalism. Bottled is the first assessment of the social, commercial and environmental impact of one of the planet’s biggest brands and largest corporations, in Africa. Sara Byala charts the company’s century-long involvement in everything from recycling and education to the anti-apartheid struggle, showing that Africans have harnessed Coca-Cola in varied expressions of modernity and self-determination: this is not a story of American capitalism running amok, but rather of a company becoming African, bending to consumer power in ways big and small. In late capitalism, everyone’s fates are bound together. A beverage in Atlanta and a beverage in Johannesburg pull us all towards the same end narrative. This story matters for more than just the local reasons, enhancing our understanding of our globalised, integrated world. Drawing on fieldwork and research in company archives, Byala asks a question for our time: does Coca-Cola’s generative work offset the human and planetary costs associated with its growth in the twenty-first century?

Gender: The Basics

Author : Hilary M. Lips
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134682034
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Gender: The Basics written by Hilary M. Lips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender: The Basics is an engaging introduction which examines the impact of cultural, historical, biological, psychological and economic forces on qualities which have come to be defined as masculine or feminine. Highlighting that there is far more to gender than biological sex, it takes a global perspective to examine the interaction between gender and a wide range of topics including: • Relationships, intimacy and concepts of sexuality • The workplace and labour markets • Gender related violence and war • Public health, poverty and development • The ageing process Supporting theory with examples and case studies from a variety of contexts, suggestions for further reading and a detailed glossary, this text is an essential read for anyone approaching the study of gender for the first time.

Perfect Wave

Author : Dave Hickey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226333140
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Wave written by Dave Hickey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out - he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and for us, he survived, and he continues to battle, decades into a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts. He's a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture. This book brings together essays on a wide range of subjects from throughout Hickey's career, displaying his usual breadth of interest and powerful insight into what makes art work, or not, and why we care. With Hickey as our guide, we travel to Disneyland and Vegas, London and Venice. We discover the genius of Karen Carpenter and Waylon Jennings, learn why Robert Mitchum matters more than Jimmy Stewart, and see how the stillness of Antonioni speaks to us today. Never slow to judge - or to surprise us in doing so - Hickey powerfully relates his wincing disappointment in the later career of his early hero Susan Sontag, and shows us the appeal to our commonality that we've been missing in Norman Rockwell. With each essay, the doing is as important as what's done; the pleasure of reading Dave Hickey lies nearly as much in spending time in his company as in being surprised to find yourself agreeing with his conclusions. -- Description from amazon.com.

Not of This World

Author : J. A. Bouma
Publisher : EmmausWay Press
ISBN 13 : 1948545764
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Not of This World written by J. A. Bouma and published by EmmausWay Press. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stand Against the Darkness Monday morning, a Catholic priest is discovered dead inside a locked confessional both. The manner of death is clear. The rest…not so much. Who killed him, how did they accomplish the feat, and why did they commit such brazen, depraved sacrilege? There’s only one hope to answering the murky questions surrounding this inexplicable, criminal mystery. Group X. Elijah Fox and Gina Anderson, two former FBI agents, headline the newly formed investigative agency of the Order of Thaddeus, ancient defender of Christianity. Both solved bizarre cases with a paranormal edge that confounded the U.S. government—and they’re back to solve the Church's unexplainable, supernatural mysteries. Questions abound the deeper they investigate, and a dark, primal power stalks them from the shadows of the Unseen Realm. They must solve this inexplicable puzzle threatening the Church to confront a rising, monstrous darkness from devouring communities across America. Dark, gritty supernatural suspense at its finest, fans of Frank Peretti and Dean Koontz will devour this briskly paced, heart-pounding puzzle mystery that will leave you breathless—a haunting tale highlighting the fantastical side to life waged by the dark, powerful forces of the Unseen Realm.

Feng Shui Mommy

Author : Bailey Gaddis
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608684717
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Feng Shui Mommy written by Bailey Gaddis and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impending motherhood serves up a confusing cocktail of heroic strength and terrifying vulnerability. Our culture has seized on the “vulnerability” part of this experience and tends to reinforce a pregnant woman’s insecurities instead of encouraging her to embrace this most natural time and trust her body, her intuition, and her own mind. Feng Shui Mommy takes a different approach, helping the expecting mother build her own unique, epic journey to motherhood. It’s about supporting her while she shores up her mind-body-spirit alignment so she can best handle the cosmic kick in the uterus and juicy kiss on the soul that pregnancy is. Bailey Gaddis guides women through the experience, providing specific suggestions for mind, body, and spirit for each trimester (including the “fourth,” after birth), leading to birth preparation designed for each mother and baby, and culminating in strong mother-child bonding. She includes detailed and practical information about prenatal exercise and nutrition, birth preferences and birthing positions, breath work, breastfeeding, and much more. Her advice allows mothers to welcome delight and curiosity into the journey while taking each phase with purpose and calm — and even a sense of fun. This comprehensive guide makes challenge and change joyful, allowing new life to be as incomparably wonder-filled as it is meant to be.

Sorry Not Sorry

Author : Jaime Reed
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338149016
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Sorry Not Sorry written by Jaime Reed and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling #ownvoices story about friendship, rivalry, and sacrifice, original for our Point line. Janelle and Alyssa used to be friends.Best friends. They knew each other's deepest secrets and went through the hardest times together. But that was then.Now? Their status is somewhere between frenemies and full-on rivals. Janelle is all about making a difference in her community, while Alyssa reigns over the shallowest girls in school. Until the day Alyssa collapses and is rushed to the hospital. Suddenly, everyone knows about her declining health and race against time. And, in a stunning twist of fate, the only person who might be able to save Alyssa's life -- is Janelle. But will the girls' bitter past get in the way of their futures? With a fresh, unforgettable voice, Jaime Reed spins a riveting and empowering story of female friendship and how the difficult choices we make -- or don't make -- can change our lives.

Inside the Wagon

Author : K. Lyn Kennedy
Publisher : BK Wright
ISBN 13 : 1618454897
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Wagon written by K. Lyn Kennedy and published by BK Wright. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started with a simple game… Now the man who lay there like a god was her husband. His father was ruthless, and she feared her husband would be just like him. But she had no idea what awaited her inside his wagon. “A word of wisdom for you, Luca,” she said. “In marriage, patience will be your best friend. Patience grows love and understanding. Quick pleasure leaves anger and resentment.” It took Luca a moment to understand what she meant. She spoke of their wedding night, of their time in bed together. He frowned at her, uncertain of what to say. Virgins were new territory to him. The only carnal pleasure he had received in the past was from the well worn bodies of prostitutes. “I understand,” he said. “Good,” Jaelle said. In another part of the world, Annie sat in her room and stared at herself in the mirror. She could still hear her father’s words from when she was a child. He had called her an unwanted child because she had been orphaned and left on their doorstep. She was not quite noble, yet not lower-class, but nonetheless the daughter of a nobleman simply because of the man who had adopted her. If she had been left on the doorstep of a pauper, she would have been shipped off to the circus or hung. Soon… she would be the wife of man she had never met!

Pardon... My Opinion

Author : Bradley Molloy
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300132426
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Pardon... My Opinion written by Bradley Molloy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of columns from a Sunday humor columnist involving how he perceives the world around him from dating, money, the government and everything under the sun.

Keep Me in Mind

Author : Jaime Reed
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545883830
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Keep Me in Mind written by Jaime Reed and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl who doesn't remember. A boy who can't forget her. An incredible novel from a striking new talent. Ellia Dawson doesn't recognize the handsome boy who sits in tears by her hospital bed. He claims he's her boyfriend, Liam. But to Ellia, he's a stranger. She remembers her name. Her parents. Her best friend, Stacey. But Liam is a total blank in her life.Liam McPherson is devastated. His girlfriend, Ellia, suffered a terrible accident--maybe because of him--and now she's lost her memory. But the harder Liam tries to reach Ellia, and remind her of what they had, the more she pulls away. As Ellia begins on the slow road to recovery, Liam begins work on a secret project that he hopes will bring back the girl he loved. But can there ever be a future when the past is in pieces?

Crime of Slashin'

Author : K. Lyn Kennedy
Publisher : Beau to Beau Books
ISBN 13 : 1618455060
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Crime of Slashin' written by K. Lyn Kennedy and published by Beau to Beau Books. This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call it a Crime of Passion… or better yet… a Crime of Slashin’. Sadie’s new man is kind, and the charm of Emerald Falls is captivating. It’s a small town, a magical, mystical place, and Sadie never wants to leave. But there’s one man who is not so kind. He’s Sadie’s ex, and he demands to see her again… alone. When she agrees to meet with him, she discovers that he is involved in a very shady business. Threatening Sadie to join him, or die in the arms of her new leading man, she goes to her ex but has no idea what she’s getting into. She can forget all about Emerald Falls, or perhaps she can make a deal with the devil. *** All you have to do is meet the yacht when you get the call. My limo driver will take you to the dock and then you will bring the shipment back here to me. It’s easy.” “Why me?” “Ah, Sadie, yours is not to ask or wonder why… yours is but to do or die.” Sadie stood up. “You don’t scare me.” She could feel the men behind her coming closer. “We don’t mean to frighten you, but you will do as you are told. This is a business with a very small margin of error. You were a medical student. Doctors are not afforded the luxury of making mistakes. That will be your code name… the doctor. How ‘bout it, boys?” Sadie heard mumbles behind her as the men agreed. Lin gave Sadie a hurtful smirk. “The doctor it is. Cheer up, Sadie. Your addiction will be fed at cost.” Sadie started to say that she did not have an addiction, but she stopped short of saying actual words. “I only have the room for another day.” “After tomorrow, you will share my suite,” Lin informed her, with a brush of his lips to her cheek. Sadie cringed at Lin’s touch. He had changed so much that she doubted he would recognize his former self. Sadie went to the door, but she was followed by one of Lin’s men. “We wouldn’t want you to be alone, Sadie. Who knows, you could change your mind. Maybe that sweet man from Emerald Falls will be your knight in shining armor.”