Swimming With Dolphins
Swimming With Dolphins

Author: Jessie Paddock

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1338633716

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When 12-year-old KT Wynn learns that she has to move from Iowa City to Florida, she's distraught. Not only does she have to leave behind her best friends and the only home she's ever known, she also has to deal with being the new kid in school. And she's especially worried about how her wheelchair, Sprinkles, will affect things.On the bright side, she'll still have her big sister, Lucy, with her, and she'll even get to see a dolphin-her favorite animal!-for the very first time. In fact, KT has always dreamed of swimming with a dolphin, and with the help of her sister, she's determined to make it happen.But when she meets Cola for the first time, he's not what she expected. KT is suddenly afraid, and she's unsure if she can swim with Cola given her disability. Will KT be able to overcome her fear and gain the confidence to take the plunge?

Camp Maqua
Camp Maqua

Author: Kathryn A. Baker

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 146711491X

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"The Bay City, Michigan, YWCA camp began as a small gathering of 65 women during the summer of 1916 at a rental cottage in Killarney. The second site, selected two years later, was on Aplin Beach near Saginaw Bay. In 1924, the YWCA purchased the Camp Maqua property in Hale, on the shores of Loon Lake, with a solitary farmhouse, and numerous cabins were then completed. After the YWCA sold the property to a private owner in 1979, it was subdivided into 10 parcels. In 1987, the Baker/Starks families purchased the lodge and 14 acres. Ten families continue to keep the spirit of Maqua alive through an association dedicated to retaining the historical integrity of the land and remaining buildings."-- Page [4] of cover.

Swimming in the Sink
Swimming in the Sink

Author: Lynne Cox

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1101971835

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In this stunning memoir of life after loss, the open-water swimming legend and bestselling author tells of facing the one challenge that no amount of training could prepare her for. A celebrated athlete who set swimming records around the world, Lynne Cox achieved astonishing feats of strength and endurance. She was the first to swim the frigid waters of the Bering Strait, the Strait of Magellan, and the coast of Antarctica, and she was the fastest to swim the English Channel. But it is a different kind of struggle that pushes her to the brink. In a short period of time, Lynne loses her father, and then her mother, and then Cody, her beloved Labrador retriever. Soon after, Lynne herself is diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition that leaves her unable to swim and barely able to walk. But against all odds, and with the support of her friends and family, Lynne begins the slow pull toward recovery, reaching always for the open waters that give her the freedom and mastery that mean everything to her. What follows is a beautifully poignant meditation on loss and an exhilarating celebration of life as, to Lynne’s surprise, she begins to find, within the unfamiliar space of vulnerability, the greatest treasures—like falling in love.

Portals
Portals

Author: Amy Catania Kulper

Publisher: Actar D, Inc.

Published: 2021-11-11

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1638408173

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Portals: Pedagogy, Practice, and Architecture’s Future Imaginary considers the COVID-19 pandemic and the remote pedagogy it occasioned globally in schools of architecture, as a critical threshold to future architectural pedagogy, practice, and spatial imaginaries. Given that the conceit of a “return to normal” is neither desirable nor possible, this book speculates upon possible futures for the discipline of architecture, through the lens of the Thesis and Directed Research projects of the RISD Architecture class of 2020. This book documents an interregnum, a pause, a moment of self-reflection in which architects, imperiled by the COVID-19 pandemic and all of the forms of inequity that this global crisis surfaced, confronted remote architectural pedagogy and practice as a critical threshold for the future imaginary of the discipline. The renowned group of architects, educators, theorists, critics, and curators assembled in this volume provide critical insights into the future of architectural pedagogy, utilizing the thesis and design research projects of the RISD Architecture class of 2020 as exemplars of the transformations currently taking place in the field. This volume considers the forms that architectural activism and advocacy take in a moment when architects are critically reexamining the conventions of their practice and the question of which constituencies they serve. With Contributions by RISD B.Arch & M.Arch students with Iñaki Alday, Daniel A. Barber, Hansy Better Barraza, Sean Canty, Kevin Crouse, Peggy Deamer, David Gersten, Mario Gooden, Timothy Hyde, Daniel Ibañez, Kent Kleinman, Amy Catania Kulper, Carl Lostritto, Ryan McCaffrey, Ana Miljački, Kiel Moe, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ijlal Muzaffar, Ben Pell, Rachely Rotem, Jacqueline Shaw, Lola Sheppard, Georgeen Theodore, Mason White, Dr. Mabel O. Wilson, Jason Young

Wet Goddess
Wet Goddess

Author: Malcolm Brenner

Publisher:

Published: 2010-04-15

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 9780615334608

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In the 1970's, a hippie college student falls in love with a female dolphin.

Backpacker
Backpacker

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2007-09

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

Spectacular Nature
Spectacular Nature

Author: Susan G. Davis

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 052091953X

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This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold. With its trademark star, Shamu the killer whale—as well as performing dolphins, pettable sting rays, and reproductions of pristine natural worlds—the park represents a careful coordination of shows, dioramas, rides, and concessions built around the theme of ocean life. Susan Davis analyzes the Sea World experience and the forces that produce it: the theme park industry; Southern California tourism; the privatization of urban space; and the increasing integration of advertising, entertainment, and education. The result is an engaging exploration of the role played by images of nature and animals in contemporary commercial culture, and a precise account of how Sea World and its parent corporation, Anheuser-Busch, succeed. Davis argues that Sea World builds its vision of nature around customers' worries and concerns about the environment, family relations, and education. While Davis shows the many ways that Sea World monitors its audience and manipulates animals and landscapes to manufacture pleasure, she also explains the contradictions facing the enterprise in its campaign for a positive public identity. Shifting popular attitudes, animal rights activists, and environmental laws all pose practical and public relations challenges to the theme park. Davis confronts the park's vast operations with impressive insight and originality, revealing Sea World as both an industrial product and a phenomenon typical of contemporary American culture. Spectacular Nature opens an intriguing field of inquiry: the role of commercial entertainment in shaping public understandings of the environment and environmental problems.

May You Drink from the Saucer
May You Drink from the Saucer

Author: Jac Arbour

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780989892704

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The personal development and self-improvement field is a virtual ocean brimming with great ideas and sound advice, but who has the time to wade through it all? With the desire to share his findings, author Jac Arbour explored and distilled this extensive body of information-- he has filtered it through his own experiences with success and those of highly successful people to extract the most potent drops. May You Drink from the Saucer presents the most impactful concepts and habits that have delivered results for successful people, throughout history and across pursuits. At age twenty-one, Jac Arbour met a worldclass entrepreneur who forever changed his way of thinking. After numerous conversations that touched on just about everything--family, achievement, happiness, success, significance, and more--Arbour's new confidant gave him a life-changing instruction: seek out people who can serve as mentors. "If you do this in your life," he promised, "your cup will overflow." Arbour began to channel his natural zeal for learning toward finding more golden drops in the vast ocean of ideas and strategies. He devoured insightful books and, following his first mentor's advice, Arbour surrounded himself with people more knowledgeable than himself in many important arenas: relationship building, philanthropic giving, wealth creation, life philosophy, business strategy, and networking and interpersonal connections. The pieces of wisdom he acquired are nothing less than timeless truths--ever-workable principles of success that have already led millions of people to lives of meaning and fulfillment. May You Drink from the Saucer is your starting point for a life overflowing with learning, growth, and fulfilled dreams! These timeless truths and practical ways to apply them will serve you right away and for the rest of your life.