In a land where dreams come true, lived little creatures that were called Furry Eyeballs. They wandered from valley to valley, looking at a little bit of this and wondering at a little bit of that. One special Furry Eyefulls, smaller than the rest and more talkative than most, was Gabby.
Covering a breadth of topics surrounding the current state of women in sports, this two-volume collection taps current events, sociological and feminist theory, and recent research to contextualize women's experiences in sports within a patriarchal society and highlight areas for improvement. Women are continuing to break barriers in all aspects of sports, and a growing number of people are beginning to recognize sex disparities in sports as a social problem. Additionally, women's inclusion and exclusion in sports—and their equitable and inequitable treatment on the playing field—have large-scale social, legal, health, and economic consequences. Women in Sports: Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles comprehensively examines the state of women in sports by considering current events, controversies, and trends as well as qualitative and quantitative research. The contributors to this volume take a sociological approach to discussing women in sports by questioning dominant assumptions surrounding notions of women's biological athletic inferiority and by examining other social constructs that affect women's experiences in sports, such as race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation. The book offers a complete and up-to-date account of women's experiences in sports through coverage of the history of women's participation in sports (with a focus on exceptional female athletes) and of the increasing number of women who are competing in traditionally male sports, such as football, baseball, and mixed martial arts. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation for the issues of equity that women face, both within the world of sports and in society in general.
A collection of stories, poems, and essays reflecting more than three-quarters of a century living a rich, fulfilling yet sensibly simple life. Bonnie's stories are about people, places, and happenings that she knows. They are there although her tales may be fictitious. Her narrative style is rich, entertaining, and woven with deeper meanings which makes this much more than a book of memories and poems - it is a search for meaning... and discovery.
The princesses are having a ball visiting Lysandra's sister, Gabriella, and brother-in-law, Jerome. And they can't wait for Jerome's handsome brother, Prince Jonathon, to join them. But when he never arrives, everyone panics. Lysandra and her friends must find the missing prince—without the help of his stubborn servant, Thomas, who's not saying a word!
The zombie apocalypse has already happened. Or has it? Little Mikey Freeman, the strange and disturbingly silent young loner, can see dead people and speak to them. Or at least they speak to him. Or do they? As a troubled pre-teen was he actually transformed into a blood-thirsty creature of the night by the seductive vampire pedophile babysitter from next door? Did our tragic anti-hero grow up to become a shameless and unapologetic psycho killer? Or is it all just so much psychotic rubbish, barely contained within in his own troubled head? Just one big fatalistic phantasmagoria, the guilty collective conscious of a doomed race conjured up by a lonesome prophet? Like our strange young Moody/Freeman, are we all just hopelessly . . . Lost in Time.
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