Author: Katie Barnes
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250276632
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
“[An] electrifying debut...Through in-depth and compassionate reporting, Barnes breaks down the misunderstood science surrounding sex and gender that has been used to keep cisgender women out of sports and has fueled debate over trans athletes participation in women’s sports.”—Shannon Carlin, TIME magazine, “100 Must-Read Books of 2023” For decades women have been playing competitive sports, thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since the passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school and college and professionally, has risen dramatically. In Fair Play, award-winning journalist Katie Barnes traces the evolution of women’s sports as a pastime and a political arena where equality and fairness have been fought over for generations. As attitudes toward gender have shifted to embrace more fluidity in recent decades, sex continues to be viewed as a static binary that is easily determined: male or female. It is on the very idea of static sex that we have built an entire sporting apparatus. Now that foundation is being hotly debated as a result of intense culture wars. Many transgender and intersex athletes, including a South African runner, a wrestler in Texas, a Connecticut track star, and a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, have captured the attention of law and policymakers who want to decide how and when they compete. Women’s sports, since their inception, have been seen as a separate class of competition that requires protection and rules for entry. But what are those rules and who gets to make them? Fair Play looks at all sides of the issue and presents a reasoned and much-needed solution that seeks to preserve opportunities for all going forward.
Fair Play
Author: Katie Barnes
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250276632
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
“[An] electrifying debut...Through in-depth and compassionate reporting, Barnes breaks down the misunderstood science surrounding sex and gender that has been used to keep cisgender women out of sports and has fueled debate over trans athletes participation in women’s sports.”—Shannon Carlin, TIME magazine, “100 Must-Read Books of 2023” For decades women have been playing competitive sports, thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since the passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school and college and professionally, has risen dramatically. In Fair Play, award-winning journalist Katie Barnes traces the evolution of women’s sports as a pastime and a political arena where equality and fairness have been fought over for generations. As attitudes toward gender have shifted to embrace more fluidity in recent decades, sex continues to be viewed as a static binary that is easily determined: male or female. It is on the very idea of static sex that we have built an entire sporting apparatus. Now that foundation is being hotly debated as a result of intense culture wars. Many transgender and intersex athletes, including a South African runner, a wrestler in Texas, a Connecticut track star, and a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, have captured the attention of law and policymakers who want to decide how and when they compete. Women’s sports, since their inception, have been seen as a separate class of competition that requires protection and rules for entry. But what are those rules and who gets to make them? Fair Play looks at all sides of the issue and presents a reasoned and much-needed solution that seeks to preserve opportunities for all going forward.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250276632
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
“[An] electrifying debut...Through in-depth and compassionate reporting, Barnes breaks down the misunderstood science surrounding sex and gender that has been used to keep cisgender women out of sports and has fueled debate over trans athletes participation in women’s sports.”—Shannon Carlin, TIME magazine, “100 Must-Read Books of 2023” For decades women have been playing competitive sports, thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since the passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school and college and professionally, has risen dramatically. In Fair Play, award-winning journalist Katie Barnes traces the evolution of women’s sports as a pastime and a political arena where equality and fairness have been fought over for generations. As attitudes toward gender have shifted to embrace more fluidity in recent decades, sex continues to be viewed as a static binary that is easily determined: male or female. It is on the very idea of static sex that we have built an entire sporting apparatus. Now that foundation is being hotly debated as a result of intense culture wars. Many transgender and intersex athletes, including a South African runner, a wrestler in Texas, a Connecticut track star, and a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, have captured the attention of law and policymakers who want to decide how and when they compete. Women’s sports, since their inception, have been seen as a separate class of competition that requires protection and rules for entry. But what are those rules and who gets to make them? Fair Play looks at all sides of the issue and presents a reasoned and much-needed solution that seeks to preserve opportunities for all going forward.
Not a Eulogy
Author: Keven Leslie
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532095422
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This is the second installment of the Big Popi and Li’l Freckles series. Their love for each other is stronger than ever and the violent assaults on these good people continue unabated. After a deadly attack on their jet liner, they are stranded on a desert isle in the Pacific Ocean. Popi is captured by communist rebels and sold to Yemeni terrorists. Layla starts a world-wide search for her husband enlists the aide of President. After months of brutal imprisonment, He is rescued by the US Navy and reunited with his dear Li’l Freckles who said, “Popi seemed to be in fairly good shape, I mean emotionally. Physically, he is dreamier than ever. I’ve always thought he is at his handsomest when he is a little beat up.” Popi thought he had the gunslinger’s curse, causing every hot shot wannabe to want to be the one to outdraw him. Beyond his typical dashing façade, Popi was hurting from all the killing he’d had to do in protection of Layla. He said, “They are haunting me. They aren’t the spirits of the dead, but rather dream images who urge me to join them in the hell of my own making, Just as Popi was nearly recovered after months of PTSD therapy and Layla’s tender support, one of their old enemies resurfaces. The sniper shot Popi eleven times as he covered Layla with his body. He was dead long before the ambulance arrived, or was he..
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532095422
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This is the second installment of the Big Popi and Li’l Freckles series. Their love for each other is stronger than ever and the violent assaults on these good people continue unabated. After a deadly attack on their jet liner, they are stranded on a desert isle in the Pacific Ocean. Popi is captured by communist rebels and sold to Yemeni terrorists. Layla starts a world-wide search for her husband enlists the aide of President. After months of brutal imprisonment, He is rescued by the US Navy and reunited with his dear Li’l Freckles who said, “Popi seemed to be in fairly good shape, I mean emotionally. Physically, he is dreamier than ever. I’ve always thought he is at his handsomest when he is a little beat up.” Popi thought he had the gunslinger’s curse, causing every hot shot wannabe to want to be the one to outdraw him. Beyond his typical dashing façade, Popi was hurting from all the killing he’d had to do in protection of Layla. He said, “They are haunting me. They aren’t the spirits of the dead, but rather dream images who urge me to join them in the hell of my own making, Just as Popi was nearly recovered after months of PTSD therapy and Layla’s tender support, one of their old enemies resurfaces. The sniper shot Popi eleven times as he covered Layla with his body. He was dead long before the ambulance arrived, or was he..
Mommy Wars
Author: Leslie Morgan Steiner
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588365980
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and breathed every side of the “mommy wars.” Rather than just watch the battles rage, Steiner decided to do something about it. She commissioned twenty-six outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood. Ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-two and scattered across the country from New Hampshire to California, these mothers reflect the full spectrum of lifestyle choices. Women who have been home with the kids from day one, moms who shuttle from full-time office jobs to part-time at-home work, hard-driving executives who put in seventy-hour-plus weeks: they all get a turn. The one thing these women have in common, aside from having kids, is that they’re all terrific writers. Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley vividly recounts how her generation stormed the American workplace–only to take refuge at home when the workplace drove them out. Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minsky describes what it felt like to hear her kids scream “I hope you never come back!” when she flew to L.A. to launch the show that made her career. Susan Cheever, novelist, biographer, and Newsday columnist, reports on the furious battles between the stroller pushers and the briefcase bearers on the streets of Manhattan. Lois R. Shea traded the journalistic fast track for a house in the country where she could raise her daughter in peace. Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff, chief operating officer of the Women’s National Basketball Association, argues fiercely that you can combine ambition and motherhood–and have a blast in the process. Candid, engaging, by turns unflinchingly honest and painfully funny, the essays collected here offer an astonishingly intimate portrait of the state of motherhood today. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives. Including these essays: “Neither Here nor There” by Sandy Hingston “The Mother Load” by Terri Minsky “Sharks and Jets” by Page Evans “Baby Battle” by Susan Cheever “Guilty” by Dawn Drzal “The Donna Reed Syndrome” by Lonnae O’Neal Parker “Mother Superior” by Catherine Clifford “Good Enough” by Beth Brophy “Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn” by Lois R. Shea “What Goes Unsaid” by Sydney Trent “I Hate Everybody” by Leslie Lehr “Before; After” by Molly Jong-Fast “I Do Know How She Does It” by Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff “Red Boots and Cole Haans” by Monica Buckley Price “Working Mother, Not Guilty” by Sara Nelson “Feminism Meets the Free Market” by Jane Smiley “Happy” by Anne Marie Feld “I Never Dreamed I’d Have So Many Children” by Lila Leff “On Being a Radical Feminist Stay-at-Home Mom” by Inda Schaenen “Being There” by Reshma Memon Yaqub “Russian Dolls” by Veronica Chambers “Peace and Carrots” by Carolyn Hax “Unprotected” by Natalie Smith Parra “Julia” by Anna Fels “On Balance” by Jane Juska “My Baby’s Feet Are Size 13” by Iris Krasnow
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588365980
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and breathed every side of the “mommy wars.” Rather than just watch the battles rage, Steiner decided to do something about it. She commissioned twenty-six outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood. Ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-two and scattered across the country from New Hampshire to California, these mothers reflect the full spectrum of lifestyle choices. Women who have been home with the kids from day one, moms who shuttle from full-time office jobs to part-time at-home work, hard-driving executives who put in seventy-hour-plus weeks: they all get a turn. The one thing these women have in common, aside from having kids, is that they’re all terrific writers. Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley vividly recounts how her generation stormed the American workplace–only to take refuge at home when the workplace drove them out. Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minsky describes what it felt like to hear her kids scream “I hope you never come back!” when she flew to L.A. to launch the show that made her career. Susan Cheever, novelist, biographer, and Newsday columnist, reports on the furious battles between the stroller pushers and the briefcase bearers on the streets of Manhattan. Lois R. Shea traded the journalistic fast track for a house in the country where she could raise her daughter in peace. Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff, chief operating officer of the Women’s National Basketball Association, argues fiercely that you can combine ambition and motherhood–and have a blast in the process. Candid, engaging, by turns unflinchingly honest and painfully funny, the essays collected here offer an astonishingly intimate portrait of the state of motherhood today. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives. Including these essays: “Neither Here nor There” by Sandy Hingston “The Mother Load” by Terri Minsky “Sharks and Jets” by Page Evans “Baby Battle” by Susan Cheever “Guilty” by Dawn Drzal “The Donna Reed Syndrome” by Lonnae O’Neal Parker “Mother Superior” by Catherine Clifford “Good Enough” by Beth Brophy “Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn” by Lois R. Shea “What Goes Unsaid” by Sydney Trent “I Hate Everybody” by Leslie Lehr “Before; After” by Molly Jong-Fast “I Do Know How She Does It” by Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff “Red Boots and Cole Haans” by Monica Buckley Price “Working Mother, Not Guilty” by Sara Nelson “Feminism Meets the Free Market” by Jane Smiley “Happy” by Anne Marie Feld “I Never Dreamed I’d Have So Many Children” by Lila Leff “On Being a Radical Feminist Stay-at-Home Mom” by Inda Schaenen “Being There” by Reshma Memon Yaqub “Russian Dolls” by Veronica Chambers “Peace and Carrots” by Carolyn Hax “Unprotected” by Natalie Smith Parra “Julia” by Anna Fels “On Balance” by Jane Juska “My Baby’s Feet Are Size 13” by Iris Krasnow
The Best Season - the First Ninety Games
Author: Bob May
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457512211
Category : African American baseball players
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A look at the first ninety games of a simulated baseball season featuring Negro league players versus major league players using a baseball board game.
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457512211
Category : African American baseball players
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A look at the first ninety games of a simulated baseball season featuring Negro league players versus major league players using a baseball board game.
A Journey from 726 Walnut Street
Author: Ramon Noches
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469119382
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
I began this book not as a planned publication but as an in-depth chronicle of my recollections. It is a very raw and largely unedited and every word I personally wrote. Most of my life's experiences contained in the book cover the years from 1942 to 2001. I did not write it for profit or any notion of self-aggrandizement, but something to pass on to my propensity. In fact, my preference is that sales remain low. It does contain several items of historical note probably not covered in other publications. My reasoning was to convert a very lengthy memo into published form because of a similar effort by my Great Grandfather Marshall George Newman (Son of an Indian Chief) that failed. He composed a very lengthy document about his experiences from 1840s forward. That document passed through many hands and eventually disappeared. I did not want to repeat his experience so I elected to complete it in a book that would probably last for many years. Are there inaccuracies in this book, probably, but very few as I made every effort to be honest, direct, and straightforward in all aspects in developing the final product. Perhaps the biggest issue many would have is how honest I related both the good and bad of my life without the obfuscation we see, read, and hear in everyday life. I know of no other path to take than to be honest and not join in the trampling of the word integrity.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469119382
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
I began this book not as a planned publication but as an in-depth chronicle of my recollections. It is a very raw and largely unedited and every word I personally wrote. Most of my life's experiences contained in the book cover the years from 1942 to 2001. I did not write it for profit or any notion of self-aggrandizement, but something to pass on to my propensity. In fact, my preference is that sales remain low. It does contain several items of historical note probably not covered in other publications. My reasoning was to convert a very lengthy memo into published form because of a similar effort by my Great Grandfather Marshall George Newman (Son of an Indian Chief) that failed. He composed a very lengthy document about his experiences from 1840s forward. That document passed through many hands and eventually disappeared. I did not want to repeat his experience so I elected to complete it in a book that would probably last for many years. Are there inaccuracies in this book, probably, but very few as I made every effort to be honest, direct, and straightforward in all aspects in developing the final product. Perhaps the biggest issue many would have is how honest I related both the good and bad of my life without the obfuscation we see, read, and hear in everyday life. I know of no other path to take than to be honest and not join in the trampling of the word integrity.
Against the Odds
Author: Elmer John John
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438986335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Elmer's story is relentless in its action, made more exciting by its simple telling. This is not a book that needs hyperbole; the drama is there in his own words. Sean Feast, Author of Carried on the Wind, Heroic Endeavour and Master Bombers I started reading your father's book last night and couldn't stop until I had finished it. Don Elliott, "Pappy to the Kriegies" In addition to recording the military exploits of a young, very brave Pathfinder bomber pilot during the second World War. this down to earth,in the trenches (skies) recap of many harrowing brushes with the grim reaper saga perpetuates the memory of those ten thousand heroic men and women of the Royal Canadian Air Force who gave their lives in Bomber Command. Major Don Little, R.C.A.F. (retired)
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438986335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Elmer's story is relentless in its action, made more exciting by its simple telling. This is not a book that needs hyperbole; the drama is there in his own words. Sean Feast, Author of Carried on the Wind, Heroic Endeavour and Master Bombers I started reading your father's book last night and couldn't stop until I had finished it. Don Elliott, "Pappy to the Kriegies" In addition to recording the military exploits of a young, very brave Pathfinder bomber pilot during the second World War. this down to earth,in the trenches (skies) recap of many harrowing brushes with the grim reaper saga perpetuates the memory of those ten thousand heroic men and women of the Royal Canadian Air Force who gave their lives in Bomber Command. Major Don Little, R.C.A.F. (retired)
Encyclopedia of Television Shows
Author: Vincent Terrace
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651566
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
There were, between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2022, 1,559 television series broadcast on three platforms: broadcast TV, cable TV, and streaming services. This book, the second supplement to the original Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010, presents detailed information on each program, including storylines, casts (character and performer), years of broadcast, trivia facts, and network, cable or streaming information. Along with the traditional network channels and cable services, the newest streaming services like Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus and pioneering streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are covered. The book includes a section devoted to reality series and foreign series broadcast in the U.S. for the first time from 2017 to 2022, a listing of the series broadcast from 2011 through 2016 (which are contained in the prior supplement), and an index of performers.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651566
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
There were, between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2022, 1,559 television series broadcast on three platforms: broadcast TV, cable TV, and streaming services. This book, the second supplement to the original Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010, presents detailed information on each program, including storylines, casts (character and performer), years of broadcast, trivia facts, and network, cable or streaming information. Along with the traditional network channels and cable services, the newest streaming services like Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus and pioneering streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are covered. The book includes a section devoted to reality series and foreign series broadcast in the U.S. for the first time from 2017 to 2022, a listing of the series broadcast from 2011 through 2016 (which are contained in the prior supplement), and an index of performers.
Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - E-Book
Author: Carole Edelman
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323837425
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - E-Book
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323837425
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - E-Book
Memories
Author: Leslie E. Niemi
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457503905
Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457503905
Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Pretty Wanted
Author: Elisa Ludwig
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062066145
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Pretty Wanted is Elisa Ludwig’s rollicking finale to the Pretty Crooked trilogy, a series filled with moxie, romance, and heart that’s perfect for fans of Ally Carter or Sara Shepard. When Willa skipped probation and hit the California highway to find her mom, she discovered a dark family secret: Joanne Fox is not who she says she is—and neither is Willa. Now Willa and her hot partner in crime, Aidan, must race to St. Louis, Missouri, where they hope to find answers about Willa’s past. But uncovering the truth requires solving a decades-old murder case. Unfortunately, the perps are still out there . . . and willing to do whatever it takes to keep the case cold. Willa’s only hope is to find the truth before it finds her first.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062066145
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Pretty Wanted is Elisa Ludwig’s rollicking finale to the Pretty Crooked trilogy, a series filled with moxie, romance, and heart that’s perfect for fans of Ally Carter or Sara Shepard. When Willa skipped probation and hit the California highway to find her mom, she discovered a dark family secret: Joanne Fox is not who she says she is—and neither is Willa. Now Willa and her hot partner in crime, Aidan, must race to St. Louis, Missouri, where they hope to find answers about Willa’s past. But uncovering the truth requires solving a decades-old murder case. Unfortunately, the perps are still out there . . . and willing to do whatever it takes to keep the case cold. Willa’s only hope is to find the truth before it finds her first.