Fighting the Current
Title | Fighting the Current PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Waldorf |
Publisher | Lobster Press |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781894222938 |
Everything changes for Theresa, when her father is hit by a drunk driver and left with the mind of a 5 year old.
Fighting the Current
Title | Fighting the Current PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Bier |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2011-09-07 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786487267 |
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first female to swim the English Channel--and broke the existing record time in doing so. Although today she is considered a pioneer in women's swimming, women were swimming competitively 50 years earlier. This historical book details the early period of women's competitive swimming in the United States, from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through Ederle's astonishing accomplishment. Women and girls faced many obstacles to safe swimming opportunities, including restrictive beliefs about physical abilities, access to safe and clean water, bathing suits that impeded movement and became heavy in water, and opposition from official sporting organizations. The stories of these early swimmers plainly show how far female athletes have come.
Fighting the Current
Title | Fighting the Current PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Jellison |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2007-05-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780615144931 |
A true life story about two ordinary guys who embarked on an adventure of a lifetime that challenged their strength & endurance, as they paddled across America in canoes. Two and a half years & 8,000 miles later, they finished the epic journey gaunt, exhausted & feeling a huge sense of accomplishment. Join Jared as he reflects on the extraordinary events that he encountered.
Live Working Or Die Fighting
Title | Live Working Or Die Fighting PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Mason |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1608460703 |
"This is micro-historical writing at its best."--Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination "Brilliant."--Ken Loach The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I. It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book. Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for BBC World News America and BBC Newsnight. In addition to Live Working or Die Fighting, which was shortlisted as a 2007 Guardian First Book Award, Mason is the author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed (Verso Books).
Fighting Words
Title | Fighting Words PDF eBook |
Author | Kent Greenawalt |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 1996-05-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1400821673 |
Should "hate speech" be made a criminal offense, or does the First Amendment oblige Americans to permit the use of epithets directed against a person's race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, or sexual preference? Does a campus speech code enhance or degrade democratic values? When the American flag is burned in protest, what rights of free speech are involved? In a lucid and balanced analysis of contemporary court cases dealing with these problems, as well as those of obscenity and workplace harassment, acclaimed First Amendment scholar Kent Greenawalt now addresses a broad general audience of readers interested in the most current free speech issues.
Water is for Fighting Over
Title | Water is for Fighting Over PDF eBook |
Author | John Fleck |
Publisher | Island Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2016-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1610916794 |
"Illuminating." --New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. Yet despite decades of headlines warning of mega-droughts, the death of agriculture, and the collapse of cities, the Colorado River basin has thrived in the face of water scarcity. John Fleck shows how western communities, whether farmers and city-dwellers or U.S. environmentalists and Mexican water managers, actually have a promising record of conservation and cooperation. Rather than perpetuate the myth "Whiskey's for drinkin', water's for fightin' over," Fleck urges readers to embrace a new, more optimistic narrative--a future where the Colorado continues to flow.
Current Literature
Title | Current Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 712 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Books |
ISBN |