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Author | : Summer Sanders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780385334211 |
Sanders offers parents the unique perspective of the child in guiding them through the agony and joy of raising a child with aspirations of greatness.
Author | : Ralph Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Resuscitation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Loynd |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2023-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 059335706X |
The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal) “Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat . . . captures the imagination of the public. . . . Add The Watermen by Michael Loynd to this illustrious list.”—Swimming World Winner of the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Paragon Award and the Buck Dawson Authors Award In the early twentieth century, few Americans knew how to swim, and swimming as a competitive sport was almost unheard of. That is, until Charles Daniels took to the water. On the surface, young Charles had it all: high-society parents, a place at an exclusive New York City prep school, summer vacations in the Adirondacks. But the scrawny teenager suffered from extreme anxiety thanks to a sadistic father who mired the family in bankruptcy and scandal before abandoning Charles and his mother altogether. Charles’s only source of joy was swimming. But with no one to teach him, he struggled with technique—until he caught the eye of two immigrant coaches hell-bent on building a U.S. swim program that could rival the British Empire’s seventy-year domination of the sport. Interwoven with the story of Charles’s efforts to overcome his family’s disgrace is the compelling history of the struggle to establish the modern Olympics in an era when competitive sports were still in their infancy. When the powerful British Empire finally legitimized the Games by hosting the fourth Olympiad in 1908, Charles’s hard-fought rise climaxed in a gold-medal race where British judges prepared a trap to ensure the American upstart’s defeat. Set in the early days of a rapidly changing twentieth century, The Watermen—a term used at the time to describe men skilled in water sports—tells an engrossing story of grit, of the growth of a major new sport in which Americans would prevail, and of a young man’s determination to excel.
Author | : Sandeep Sinha |
Publisher | : BFC Publications |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2021-07-06 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9391455018 |
Lieutenant’s disposition was not to spare anyone this time. With electrifying rapidity, she gripped his hand and pulled him all over her shoulder; which neared him towards her lifted knees, gave him the hardest blow on his groins. The man was taken aback. Not expecting this to come to him, fell on the floor holding his groins with both his hands and yelling in pain. Before anyone could know what happened; she flew in air with her right leg stretched at front and the left bent slightly, landed with a flying kick on the face of one of the ladies. The lady fell on the ground. The other lady wanted to take a hold of her but Lieutenant proved too fast for her. She had snatched the flashlight from the black man and switched on the high intensified beam which fell straight into the lady’s eyes literally blinding her. A right-hand blow in her stomach while she covered her eyes from the flashlight was more than enough for her to handle. She too fell on the ground. Lt. Shivani was in her best offensive moves now. She held a posture of a tigress with all her fingers opened wide like any tiger’s paw, both legs slightly bent to repeat the attack. The bald man struggled to get up. But, before he could, another left leg kick on his chin finished the game for him. He just lay on the floor covering his face with his hands almost never to get up.
Author | : Kent Wong |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-04-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1647001862 |
When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work and returned with the family to the newly established People’s Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Mao’s China was dangerous and unstable, with landlords executed en-masse and millions dying of starvation during the Great Leap Forward.
Author | : Roberto Strauss |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2019-09-27 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0359871356 |
A common sense approach for teachers, coaches, & PE students. Are you the BEST swim instructor that you that you can be? Are you the BEST parent that you can be? That's why you chose this handbook! WELCOME to the world of Discovering Swimming. In this book, I will share with you all the wisdom that I have been taught and as the founder and director of Swim Gym/H2O's Foundation. During this time, educators from around the world, my swim instructors, the parents of my students have taught me, but most of all, I have learned from my students.
Author | : Lynn Sherr |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1610390474 |
Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It's an inquiry into why we swim -- the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It's a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. It's about our relationship with the water, with our fishy forebearers, and with the costumes that we wear. You'll even find a few songs to sing when you push out those next laps. Swimming enthusiast Lynn Sherr explores every aspect of the sport, from the biology of swimming to the fame of Esther Williams; from turquoise pools and wild water to the training of Olympians; and she reveals the secret of buoyancy so that anyone can avoid the example of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lamented, "Why can't I swim, it seems so very easy?" When his friend, the biographer Edward John Trelawny, said, "because you think you can't," Shelley plunged into Italy's Arno River and dropped like a rock. With Swim, you can avoid that happening to you.
Author | : Heather McGhee |
Publisher | : One World |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2021-02-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0525509577 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color. WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal “This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist Look for the author’s new podcast, The Sum of Us, based on this book! Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out? McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare. But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game. LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
Author | : Kalyani Mookherji |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 8184304811 |
Michael Phelps is a swimming champion who has shattered previous world records and set multiples ones even before he turned 20. A US national, Phelps set an unprecedented five world records at his first World Championship in competitive swimming and currently holds the world record for winning the maximum number of individual gold medals in a single Olympics Game as well as the most number of medals in the history of Olympic Games. Towering at 6 ft and 4 inches, Phelps remains extremely active in philanthropic causes across the world.
Author | : Terry Laughlin |
Publisher | : Total Immersion Swimming, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781931009010 |