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Author: Adeline Foo
Publisher: Epigram Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9810732082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI write my diary in the toilet to get away from my troubles, like having to compete with Michael, the bully who’s in the swim team with me, and falling out with my best friend, Alvin, over a girl! My diary goes wherever I go as there are those who want to read it. For I know secrets, like how to break my sister’s curse and how babies are made…
Author: Adeline Foo
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2015-10-15
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9350094592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI write my diary in the toilet to get away from my troubles like having to compete with Michael the bully who’s in the swim team with me and falling out with my best friend Alvin over a girl! This year has been full of ups and downs. The good thing is that I’ve been growing UP rather than down having to deal with one thing after another. First I’ve had to work out till my arms and legs nearly fell off while Coach insisted that such discipline was necessary to make a good sportsman. The arrival of a new girl in class my new baby brother a brand new magazine by Anthony and me and a new pet cat meant that there was plenty of stuff happening and I have had to furiously scribble away to keep pace with all the new adventures and excitement in my life including spider babies and lizard’s eggs! And then there are parts that are even more fascinating for I know secrets like how to break my sister’s terrible curse how to win a race and how ba
Author: M. Ann Hall
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 144263412X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this new edition of her groundbreaking social history The Girl and the Game (2002), M. Ann Hall updates her lively narrative of how women resisted masculine hegemony in Canadian sport and, in turn, how their efforts were opposed and sometimes supported by men. The second edition of The Girl and the Game begins with an important new chapter on aboriginal women and their interaction with early sport and ends with a new chapter on how trends and issues facing contemporary women in Canadian sport have their origins in the past. Other new sections focus on gender and the residential school system, the promotion of women's track and field, the 1928 summer Olympics and the Matchless Six, and aboriginal sportswomen. As in the first edition, Hall introduces her audience to more obscure Canadian female athletes rather than focusing her discussion on household names. The introduction to the new edition has been updated to reflect the content changes in the narrative. To increase appeal to the course market, chapter titles are more descriptive, the text has been revised to include more subsections, and the 52 black and white images are placed throughout the text.
Author: Sylvia Patterson
Publisher: Fleet
Published: 2023-04-27
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0349727449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Patterson is one of the great comic writers of the last quarter century' THE HERALD 'Unsparing but ultimately uplifting, every sentence cuts a caper' MOJO 'A thoroughly engaging, life-affirming book' MAIL ON SUNDAY How does the big stuff in life truly change us? In late 2019, Sylvia Patterson was a celebrated pop journalist, still merrily writing about the musical greats. But with the diagnosis of a life-threatening disease, a global pandemic and the collapse of her industry, life was about to take a drastic turn. It was a misadventure that would teach her many things. The power of friendship, the shock of mortality and what happens when love is tested. How a walk in the park, a spontaneous dance and a TV hero can save your life. How your perspective can shift on everything, from work, family and music, to what truly makes you happy. And what really happens when your body, never mind your kitchen, falls apart. The follow-up to the Costa-shortlisted I'm Not with the Band, this is Sylvia's unflinching, poignant and gallows-funny odyssey through the mid-life trials we all face, as she tries to answer the big question: would it all change her, or would she stay that same old girl? 'A relatable read by a phenomenal writer' THE FACE 'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' SUNDAY TIMES
Author: Lois P. Frankel
Publisher: Balance
Published: 2014-02-18
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 145555412X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore you were told to "Lean In," Dr. Lois Frankel told you how to get that corner office. The New York Times bestseller, is now completely revised and updated. In this edition, internationally recognized executive coach Lois P. Frankel reveals a distinctive set of behaviors--over 130 in all--that women learn in girlhood that ultimately sabotage them as adults. She teaches you how to eliminate these unconscious mistakes that could be holding you back and offers invaluable coaching tips that can easily be incorporated into your social and business skills. Stop making "nice girl" errors that can become career pitfalls, such as: Mistake #13: Avoiding office politics. If you don't play the game, you can't possibly win. Mistake #21: Multi-tasking. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it. Mistake #54: Failure to negotiate. Don't equate negotiation with confrontation. Mistake #70: Inappropriate use of social media. Once it's out there, it's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Mistake #82: Asking permission. Children, not adults, ask for approval. Be direct, be confident.
Author: Helana Michelle
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1329257154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHelana Michelle wrote this coming of age collection in her high school years. As she grew and changed over the years, her writing style started to form. In this poetry book, witness the lives of characters she created; of finding first love and coping with loss, but most of all, of living life, growing, and being shaped into who she is today.
Author: Barbara Hood Hopkins
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-08-18
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 1465337830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJesus never entered into the equation as the Smith family planned their move from New York City to Left Fork, South Carolina. Career advancement, safe living, peace, and the hope of keeping jobs in the United States for this small town were reasons Mike Smith rationalized as he made his decision to move. However, man’s plans are often superseded by God’s plan. (Jer. 29:11) While Mike Smith starts out as the family leader, it is Mary Margaret, his 9-year-old daughter, who in the end takes the lead and changes this family’s direction forever.
Author: Bonnie M. Hagerman
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2023-05-15
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0813949246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSkimpy Coverage explores Sports Illustrated’s treatment of female athletes since the iconic magazine’s founding in 1954. The first book-length study of its kind, this accessible account charts the ways in which Sports Illustrated—arguably the leading sports publication in postwar America—engaged with the social and cultural changes affecting women’s athletics and the conversations about gender and identity they spawned. Bonnie Hagerman examines the emergence of the magazine’s archetypal female athlete—good-looking, straight, and white—and argues that such qualities were the same ones the magazine prized in the women who appeared in its wildly successful Swimsuit Issue. As Hagerman shows, the female athlete and the swimsuit model, at least for the magazine, were essentially one and the same. Despite this conflation, and the challenges it poses, Hagerman also tracks the distance that sportswomen—including Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and Megan Rapinoe—have traveled both within Sports Illustrated’s pages and without. Blending sports with gender history, Skimpy Coverage profiles numerous sportswomen who have used athletics and the platform sport offers to push for empowerment, freedom, equality, and acceptance in ways that have complemented and inspired broader feminist agendas.
Author: M.K. England
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1789098319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe official prequel novel to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, the hotly anticipated action-adventure game developed by Eidos-Montréal and published by Square Enix. The official prequel novel to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, the hotly anticipated action-adventure game developed by Eidos-Montréal and published by Square Enix. Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Racoon and Groot. They’re the Guardians of the Galaxy, turning a tidy profit as heroes for hire—or, they will be if Peter Quill can get his act together. After he botches the most critical part of their latest mission—getting paid—his newly assembled crew is close to ditching him for good. Now he needs a big payday, fast. When an old acquaintance shows up offering a whole lot of units for a field trip to Peter’s past, it’s a no-brainer. Twelve years ago, Peter fought the Chitauri alongside the Resistance on Mercury to prevent an invasion of Earth. Now it’s time to go back. The old Resistance base has a squatter, and it’s up to the Guardians to ‘gently escort’ them off the premises… and unmask a wartime traitor while they’re at it. But war is heavy, man, and the Galactic War screwed up each of the Guardians in their own special ways. The brand-new team is barely hanging together, and the mission brings up all kinds of bad memories. It’s make or break time for the Guardians, and they do so love breaking things… Just hopefully not each other.
Author: Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2024-06-06
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 183726144X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Poetic, candid and utterly compelling' - FREYA BROMLEY 'Absolutely remarkable' - LYNN BARBER 'Reads with the tension of a thriller, illuminating the world of elite sport' - CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'An embodied water odyssey' - LIDIA YUKNAVITCH This is not a story about making history. Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell was once a double British Champion and the first Black woman ever to swim for Great Britain. As her body and mind are sharpened through gruelling training, press scrutiny and the harshness of adolescence, Rebecca charts her career’s ascent and her singular love of the water, before explaining why she walked away from it all. A compulsive and unforgettable study of intensity, These Heavy Black Bones meditates on Blackness, identity and the ecstasy of peak physical performance, and lays bare the pressures within the swimming world.
