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Author: Jean Mills
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780889955615
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Music, performing arts, sports and hockey collide in this young adult novel about family, commitment, and friendship set against coming-of-age social issues of two exceptionally gifted young adults who are both facing uncommon pressures to succeed. --
Author: Daniel D. Maurer
Publisher: Adventures in Science
Published: 2016-07
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781607539582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo children go ice skating, fall through thin ice, and once they are safely home, they learn more about how matter changes state from solid to liquid to gas. Includes two hands-on experiments and further resources.
Author: Frank Coffey
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Published: 2018-01-30
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0786044977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s Impossible to Forget Tonya Harding. She will be forever remembered as a tough-talking, hard-living athlete who would do anything to become an Olympic Gold Medalist. But was Tonya Harding a misunderstood girl from the wrong side of the tracks? Did her raw talent and burning ambition trip her up? How far was she willing to go to beat her greatest rival, Nancy Kerrigan? Award-winning sportswriter Joe Layden and bestselling author Frank Coffey go past the bright lights of the rink to find the truth behind Harding’s public image. Despite a nightmare childhood of poverty and abuse, a troubled marriage, and a disastrous divorce, Harding became one of her generation’s greatest figure skaters. But did she reach her sport’s ultimate goal fair and square? How deeply was she involved in the stunning attack on Nancy Kerrigan? How did she really feel about her rival? Throughout the controversy that derailed her career, Harding held her head high and stayed true to herself. Fierce, undaunted, uncensored—this is the true story of Tonya Harding. Includes 10 revealing photographs!
Author: Anatol Rapoport
Publisher: RDR Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781571430847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1921, when he was 11 years old, Anatol Rapoport attempted to ice skate out of Russia to freedom in Poland. Caught by border guards and turned back, he decided to try again with the help of professional Army smugglers. This bittersweet story of emigration, by the famed psychologist and mathematician known for his work in game theory, is set against the background of the Russian revolution and civil war. Poignant accounts of life in the Ukraine and Crimea, stories of Red and White Army soldiers bivouacking in his home, and a 200-mile train ride that takes 13 days in the comfort of a boxcar make this Canadian/American author's story unforgettable.
Author: Skating
Publisher:
Published: 1863
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter S. DeKeseredy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2023-10-02
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1487550847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSkating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence. Why is it that professional sports, and notably hockey, remain a bastion for rape culture and violence against women? What are the conditions that allow a culture of toxic masculinity to persist despite awakenings elsewhere in society? What is the path forward, and how do we make officials, coaches, and athletes accountable? Drawing on decades of award-winning sociological research and sports journalism, Walter S. DeKeseredy, Martin D. Schwartz, and veteran sportswriter Stu Cowan find answers to these questions in Skating on Thin Ice. The book examines the abusive, misogynistic, racist, and homophobic behaviors found in professional hockey and explains the larger societal forces that perpetuate and legitimate these harms. Confirming a recent federal government inquiry into Hockey Canada’s handling of sexual assault allegations, the book reveals that young men enter the NHL and other revenue-generating hockey leagues already trained and primed to treat women as objects – and often to commit violent acts against them. Rooted in the authors’ work in the sports world as well as their work with activists and governments, Skating on Thin Ice doesn’t just highlight the problem of hockey and rape culture, it also provides collaborative solutions for fixing it.
Author: Louise Everett
Publisher: Troll Communications
Published: 1997-02
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780816709939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this easy-to-read story, Rosie the elephant and her friend Joe enjoy ice skating until Joe falls into the ice.
Author: Cynthia Donehoo
Publisher: Thomas Bouregy
Published: 1995-06
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780803491274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Reinder Van Til
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0802824781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDESCRIPTION This unique volume contains twenty-eight fascinating life stories of people -- many of whom went on to become famous -- who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The coming-of-age stories in Thin Ice relate a range of experiences both good and bad, including happy memories and heartwarming recollections but also personal traumas, intergenerational and racial conflicts, the strictures of religious belief and practice, the joys and sorrows of young romance, and more. Above and beyond the stories of the more notable personalities -- Jim Harrison, Roger Wilkins, John Hockenberry, President Gerald Ford, Betty Ford, Al Green, Paul Schrader, William Brashler -- the book as a whole is chock-full of crisp, humorous, irreverent, and moving writing. Reinder Van Til and Gordon Olson have excerpted half of the pieces from previous publications, while they directly solicited the other half from active writers specifically for this book. The earliest stories go back to the 1830s and 1850s, and the most recent are a cluster of contemporary pieces that describe coming of age in the Grand Rapids of the 1960s through the 1980s. Together they paint a multifaceted, impressionistic portrait of a century and a half in the fair city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. All in all, Thin Ice is a nostalgic treasure for any Grand Rapidian and literary treasure for e v e r y one. Contributors Albert Baxter Charles E. Belknap A. J. Muste Arnold Gingrich David Cornel DeJong Gerald R. Ford Betty Ford Edward V. Gillis John Thompson Roger Wilkins Jim Harrison Glen Peterson Max Apple John Otterbacher Reinder Van Til Al Green Paul Schrader Robert VanderMolen William Brashler Sheri Venema Hank Meijer Charles Honey Tom Rademacher Levi Rickert John Hockenberry Laura Kasischke Kaye Longberg Bich Minh Nguyen
Author: Bill Dias
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2000-11
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0595144268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Can you come skating?" He smiled cheerfully. "The river is frozen solid." He kept his eyes on Doug, seemed to hope that he would agree to come with him. Doug hesitated. He took a look at his woodpile. "If we start right away we might be able to skate all the way to Ipswich," continued Jack. Skate all the way to Ipswich? Doug had never heard of anyone skating that far. What an adventure. He forgot all about splitting wood. Set in the 1930's, this book depicts the life, times and adventures of a teenage boy growing up in the Massachussets countryside.
