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Author: Tim Tate Publisher: John Blake ISBN: 9781782197720 Category : Soccer for women Languages : en Pages : 0
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In their day they were bigger than Beckham--the working class factory girls who played in front of vast crowds throughout Britain and became celebrities across the world. But they threatened the entire male dominated bastion of 20th century soccer. So the FA plotted to shut them down . . . Women's soccer began to flourish among factory workers during World War I, and by 1920 had become a major spectator sport. Yet in the success of ladies' teams and the celebrity of their leading players lay the seeds of their destruction. A year later, the men of the Football Association, alarmed by the huge popularity of the women's game, met behind closed doors and, after a brief debate, banned women's soccer from all professional grounds. Girls With Balls tells the extraordinary story of the time when women ruled the soccer world. With recollections from the last surviving member of the leading factory team during its glory years, backed by remarkable contemporary photographs, here is the missing chapter in soccer's history--its last great secret. It is a tale of self-interested men with power, wealth, and a fiefdom to protect. But above all, it is the story of girls with balls.
Author: Tim Tate Publisher: John Blake ISBN: 9781782197720 Category : Soccer for women Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
In their day they were bigger than Beckham--the working class factory girls who played in front of vast crowds throughout Britain and became celebrities across the world. But they threatened the entire male dominated bastion of 20th century soccer. So the FA plotted to shut them down . . . Women's soccer began to flourish among factory workers during World War I, and by 1920 had become a major spectator sport. Yet in the success of ladies' teams and the celebrity of their leading players lay the seeds of their destruction. A year later, the men of the Football Association, alarmed by the huge popularity of the women's game, met behind closed doors and, after a brief debate, banned women's soccer from all professional grounds. Girls With Balls tells the extraordinary story of the time when women ruled the soccer world. With recollections from the last surviving member of the leading factory team during its glory years, backed by remarkable contemporary photographs, here is the missing chapter in soccer's history--its last great secret. It is a tale of self-interested men with power, wealth, and a fiefdom to protect. But above all, it is the story of girls with balls.
Author: Gene Gutowski Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462002749 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 333
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Gene Gutowskis name is associated with some of the great films of the twentieth century: the Oscar-winning masterpiece The Pianist, Repulsion, Cul-de-sac, and Fearless Vampire Killers. Producer of many of Roman Polanskis classics, Gene Gutowski shares here his extraordinary memoirs: those of a Polish Jew, alone in occupied Warsaw after the deportation of his entire family. As a young man who, with the blind courage of one who has nothing to lose, took incredible risks, he narrowly escaped the many horrors of life in Nazi-occupied Poland. In an extraordinary twist of destiny, and thanks to his prodigious resourcefulness, Gene Gutowski found himself in Germany in 1945, working as an American counter-espionage agent. After the war, he made his way to New York, where he worked as a fashion illustrator and TV producer, then on to London, where he became a successful producer and member of the jet set during the sixties. Finally, he achieved Hollywood consecration with the three Oscars won by The Pianist. It is an extremely endearing personality that reveals itself here, modest about the difficulties overcome, honest about the successes and failures. Gene Gutowskis youth was a thumb of the nose to death and totalitarianism, and his journey is a formidable life lesson.
Author: Alice Combs Publisher: Cypress House ISBN: 9780998785417 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 288
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During the 1970s, Alice Combs, undeterred by a former employer’s snobbish pronouncement, “You’re not corporate material,” transformed herself from divorced mother on food stamps to successful entrepreneur. Resolute, Alice overcame her initial ignorance of the recycling trade, and recovered from the many novice mistakes she inevitably made while teaching herself to operate Vulcan Wire, which would slowly become a thriving business despite an embezzling partner, cutthroat competitors, and several employees who proved unreliable when they were most needed. Alice refused to be intimidated and wouldn’t take no for an answer. Her exceptional achievement in a traditionally male arena is an inspiration for all women who aspire to the heights of success in their chosen fields.--Publisher.
Author: Trevor Johnston Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467892459 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
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Will Sheila get Harry to the altar? Will Harry lose the football match to avoid marrying Sheila? Can Anne Marie Drummond get a good Irish Catholic girl for her son Sean? Can Sean get the sexy non Catholic Payne into bed without Anne Marie finding out? Will the girls take control of the football club and get the players fit for rugby and bedroom! All these questions and many more will be answered in Dolls with Balls.
Author: Mary Gabriel Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316456446 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 939
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New York Times Editors’ Choice, One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year In this “infinitely readable” biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna (People Magazine) With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion—as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles—taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna lookalike contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called “Madonna-land.” But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanor of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation. Amid the scourge of AIDS, she brought queer identities into the mainstream, fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever—and be whoever—they wanted. Despite fierce criticism, she never separated her music from her political activism. And, as an artist, she never stopped experimenting. Madonna existed to push past boundaries by creating provocative, visionary music, videos, films, and live performances that changed culture globally. Deftly tracing Madonna’s story from her Michigan roots to her rise to super-stardom, master biographer Mary Gabriel captures the dramatic life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of our time.
Author: June Marie Saxton Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1491821272 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 365
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Swanee's dad is the football coach at Black Willow High School. After his star running back is injured he recruits his daughter to fill the vacant position. As a two-time state track gold medalist, Swanee is undeniably fast, but football? Swanee's skeptical. Can a season of pigskin help her overcome her natural timidity? Fans cheer as Swanee's personal journey takes her from the sidelines to the headlines. A yearning for success is kindled as she learns that she can do hard things, and the score at the final buzzer does not provide the only victory.
Author: Don H. Hockenbury Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429216506 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 853
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A multimedia-enhanced eBook integrates the text, a rich assortment of media-powered learning opportunities, and a variety of customization features for students and instructors. Worth's acclaimed eBook platform was developed by a cognitive psychologist, Pepper Williams, (Ph.D., Yale University) who taught undergraduate psychology at the University of Massachusetts.
Author: Zahi Hawass Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press ISBN: 9789774162022 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 216
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This beautifully produced new paperback edition of Silent Images explores a puzzling contradiction: Despite the multitude of artifacts and texts that have come to us from ancient Egypt, much still remains obscure regarding the lives of women. Women were, from the historical perspective, silent-but how should this silence be interpreted? What was the reality of women's lives behind the standardized images? We know that their chief role in society as mothers and anchors of the family was honored and respected, although it meant a degree of segregation and, in most periods, excluded them from public office. Nevertheless, in law they were the equals of men and they could, and did, own property, which they administered and disposed of themselves. Zahi Hawass's book searches for a more realistic picture of women's lives in ancient Egypt. As well as reconsidering the evidence from tomb and temple, the author draws on unpublished material from his excavations at the workers' cemetery at Giza, which sheds light on the womenfolk of the workmen who built and maintained the pyramids. The text is complemented by lavish illustrations of places and objects, many made especially for this book.
Author: Michael Bronte Publisher: Createspace ISBN: 151190027X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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1969 has been called the most eventful year in our history, and it’s against the backdrop of Vietnam and anti-establishment culture that Brownie wrote his own history that year: he smoked his first joint, and got laid, both of those momentous events taking place in the sun and the mud at Woodstock. He also attended Alliance College, and while there was no war there, people died, victims of an evil crime network fronted by a fraternity house cook name Dandy Don. Brownie and his best friend become inextricably tangled in a web of crime, bribery, depravity, and degradation. From professors to ballplayers to strippers, Dandy Don ruins the lives of everyone he touches. Porchball is a story of loyalty, betrayal, and deception. Ultimately, it’s the code by which the game of Porchball is played that rises above all other of life’s principles. When a fraternity brother explains that no one cheats at the game, Brownie doesn’t understand. It’s simple. “Everyone is taken at their word,” says the brother. “Everyone does the right thing.”
Author: Tim Tate
Author: Tim Tate
Author: Ann Richards (Playwright)
Author: Gene Gutowski
Author: Alice Combs
Author: Trevor Johnston
Author: Mary Gabriel
Author: June Marie Saxton
Author: Don H. Hockenbury
Author: Zahi Hawass
Author: Michael Bronte