The Politics of Size

The Politics of Size
Author: Ragen Chastain
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2014-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This book presents an unprecedented opportunity for people to hear from a simultaneously ostracized, ridiculed, and ignored group: fat Americans. Find out how the members of this very diverse group of people describe their actual lived experiences, quality of life, hopes and dreams, and demands. Our society is body-size obsessed. The result? An environment where "fat people" are consistently shunned and discussed disparagingly behind their backs. Although fat people typically bear the brunt of the institutionalized oppression around being oversized, pervasive closeminded attitudes about body size in America affect everyone of all sizes—from people who are shamed for being too thin to those whose lives revolve around the fear of becoming fat. This book talks about a topic that is important to all readers, regardless of their physical size, providing an anthology of first-person accounts of what it's like to be part of the fat-acceptance movement and on the front lines of activism in the "war on obesity." The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement supplies a frank discussion of the issues surrounding being fat and the associated health concerns—both physical and mental—and reframes the discussion about obesity from a medical issue to a social one. The essays serve to correct misinformation about obesity and fat people that is commonly accepted by the general public, such as the idea that "fat" and "healthy" are mutually exclusive. Subject matter covered includes fat-friendly workplace policies; fat dating experiences; and the intersections of being fat and also a person of color, a person with disabilities, a transgender person, or a member of another sub-group of society.

Going Rogue (At Hebrew School)

Going Rogue (At Hebrew School)
Author: Casey Breton
Publisher: Green Bean Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-09-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1784385425

A laugh-out-loud novel for middle-grade readers, for any child who loves Star Wars, science and soccer. Ten-year-old Avery Green loves science. He loves football. He is crazy about Star Wars. But Hebrew school? No, thank you. Avery would rather have his arms sliced off with a lightsaber than sit through one more day of Hebrew School. He’s only asked about a million times why he has to go, but no one in his family has managed to convince him. And then one day, Rabbi Bob shows up. He is strange, but how strange? And strange how? Piecing together some unusual clues, Avery begins to suspect that this new rabbi might be a Jedi master. Armed with something more powerful than a lightsaber, he sets out to reveal the surprising truth. Going Rogue (at Hebrew School) is a hilarious tale about the deep passions of a 10-year-old boy, Judaism, family, big questions and the surprising journey one can have in pursuit of truth and understanding. A book for any child who questions the purpose of religious school and any parent who has run out of answers.

Be a Man Fergod Sake

Be a Man Fergod Sake
Author: Del Corey
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2012-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781477285756

Ted Byrum decides to join the army and become a paratrooper. Little did this 18 year old suspect the military world could be as cruel and demanding as he found it. Not only was the leadership harsh, but the other recruits were people who would challenge his character, sometimes forcing and often helping him, to make decisions he was surprised he would ever take. Ted's father, a tough man that he looked up to, ordered him to "Be a Man, Fergod Sake," and these words stuck with this young man entering a larger world than he'd ever experienced. So when, in basic training, this new private is pushed and bullied by a big tough guy named Timothy Murphy, that's his first challenge to "be a man." Meanwhile, when Ted learns of an attempted suicide of his father at home, it shakes up many of his beliefs and expectations. This is followed by many cruelties and demands of the military, through 16 weeks of basic. and three weeks of jump school, where he encounters unnecessary beatings and deaths. How Ted reacts to these and many other events all go to influence his becoming a Man.

The End of College Football

The End of College Football
Author: Nathan Kalman-Lamb
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2024-10-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1469683474

In this book, Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America's favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players from some of the country's most prominent college football teams, Kalman-Lamb and Silva explore how football is both predicated on a foundation of coercion and suffused with racialized harm and exploitation. Through the stories of those who lived it, the authors examine the ways in which college football must be understood as a site of harm, revealing how players are systematically denied the economic value they produce for universities and offered only a devalued education in return. By illuminating the plantation dynamics that make college football a particularly racialized form of exploitation, the book makes legible the forms of physical sacrifice that are required, the ultimate cost in health and well-being, and the coercion that drives players into the sport and compels them to endure such abusive conditions.

Dickie's a Bastard

Dickie's a Bastard
Author: Richard Lund
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2023-01-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Dickie's a Bastard By: Richard Lund Dickie’s a Bastard is the story of a man discovering that his dad was not his biological father and keeping that secret until later in life. Though he never knew his biological father and often felt unwanted by his mother, the story explores how he was able to build his own life with a loving wife and five sons, a successful military and academic career, and a passion for the outdoors, hunting, and fishing.

11 Hearts, 11 Helmets, 1 Goal The Austin Outlaws Women's Professional Football Team

11 Hearts, 11 Helmets, 1 Goal The Austin Outlaws Women's Professional Football Team
Author: Dennis Stostad
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2011-12-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1105370895

The Austin Outlaws is a women's professional football team. They play full-contact NFL rules and have been doing this since the year 2000. Based in Austin, Texas, they play an eight game schedule in the spring of each year. In 2003 I started shooting action photos of Outlaws games and practices. In 2011 I started a blog to showcase my photos. Along with hundreds of photos, the blog includes my insights about football and any other subjects that interest me. It is a mixture of serious and silly, fun for me to do and fun for fans to visit. My blog server suggested creating a book of my blog posts - and this is that book. It is a collection of selected blog posts taken nearly exactly as they originally appeared in the blog. I've done some editing to adapt to the book format. The book is fun and a great keepsake for Austin Outlaw players. The blog is: http: //womenwhoplayfootballplus.blogspot.com/.

The Laugh Rally

The Laugh Rally
Author: Christina Wilsdon
Publisher: Skylark
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1995
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780553481884

Readers get to make up their own cartoon punch lines and untangle funny puzzles. A chapter at the end features riddles that fans sent to the Ghostwriter newspaper feature.

The Fatherhood

The Fatherhood
Author: Mark Reinhardt
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2018-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480951404

The Fatherhood By: Mark Reinhardt The Fatherhood is a suspense-filled crime novel about the horrors and realities of drug-dealing and using – what happens when good people go bad and the ways fathers can shape their children for better or for worse. Greg Johnson, the loving father of Brad, opens the novel in his quest for the drug dealer who sold his son the drugs that ended his life. The story then launches into that drug dealer’s story, Patrick Landoff, the university football prodigy who crushes his knee and turns to opiates. He gets involved with unsavory characters in his quest to feed his addiction, mixing with drug kingpins, double-dealing minions, and loose women. This book is unique in that it humanizes the drug dealers while impressing upon readers the seriousness of the crimes they’re committing. Brad Johnson’s father will not rest until he finds justice for his son and readers are treated to a wild ride on the journey with him.