Author: Bob Woods
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
ISBN: 1489647821
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Racer Danica Patrick took the world by storm in the 2005 Indianapolis 500. However, she is not alone in the ranks of well-known, talented female racers. Discover more about these high-speed athletes in Racer Girls, a Girls Rock! book.
Racer Girls
Author: Bob Woods
Publisher: Girls Rock!
ISBN: 9781489650993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Racer Danica Patrick took the world by storm in the 2005 Indianapolis 500. However, she is not alone in the ranks of well-known, talented female racers. Discover more about these high-speed athletes in Racer Girls, a Girls Rock! book.
Publisher: Girls Rock!
ISBN: 9781489650993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Racer Danica Patrick took the world by storm in the 2005 Indianapolis 500. However, she is not alone in the ranks of well-known, talented female racers. Discover more about these high-speed athletes in Racer Girls, a Girls Rock! book.
Boy Racer Culture
Author: Karen Lumsden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113618435X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving behaviours. Boy Racer Culture sheds light on the boy racer phenomenon through ethnographic research with the notorious ‘Bouley Basher’ culture in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the moral panic on the part of outside groups including the local community, police, politicians and media. This book examines the creation of masculine and feminine identities in a traditionally male-dominated subculture through car-related rituals such as ‘modding’, subcultural media and events, and the quest for celebrity status via public performances. Boy Racer Culture challenges common misconceptions surrounding the boy racer, the ‘problematic’ young (male) motorist and the car modifier. It will be essential reading for an international audience including sociologists and criminologists, particularly those with an interest in youth culture, subcultures, moral panics, car culture, anti-social behaviour, and the governance and policing of the roads.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113618435X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving behaviours. Boy Racer Culture sheds light on the boy racer phenomenon through ethnographic research with the notorious ‘Bouley Basher’ culture in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the moral panic on the part of outside groups including the local community, police, politicians and media. This book examines the creation of masculine and feminine identities in a traditionally male-dominated subculture through car-related rituals such as ‘modding’, subcultural media and events, and the quest for celebrity status via public performances. Boy Racer Culture challenges common misconceptions surrounding the boy racer, the ‘problematic’ young (male) motorist and the car modifier. It will be essential reading for an international audience including sociologists and criminologists, particularly those with an interest in youth culture, subcultures, moral panics, car culture, anti-social behaviour, and the governance and policing of the roads.
The Ohio Farmer
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Mobilizing Japanese Youth
Author: Christopher Gerteis
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501756338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan—left-wing radicals and right-wing activists—attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of voting-age adults. Gerteis argues that socially constructed aspects of class and gender preconfigured the forms of political rhetoric and social organization that both the far-right and far-left deployed to mobilize postwar, further exacerbating the levels of social and political alienation expressed by young blue- and pink- collar working men and women well into the 1970s, illustrated by high-profile acts of political violence committed by young Japanese in this era. As Gerteis shows, Japanese youth were profoundly influenced by a transnational flow of ideas and people that constituted a unique historical convergence of pan-Asianism, Mao-ism, black nationalism, anti-imperialism, anticommunism, neo-fascism, and ultra-nationalism. Mobilizing Japanese Youth carefully unpacks their formative experiences and the social, cultural, and political challenges to both the hegemonic culture and the authority of the Japanese state that engulfed them. The 1950s-style mass-mobilization efforts orchestrated by organized labor could not capture their political imagination in the way that more extreme ideologies could. By focusing on how far-right and far-left organizations attempted to reach-out to young radicals, especially those of working-class origins, this book offers a new understanding of successive waves of youth radicalism since 1960.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501756338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan—left-wing radicals and right-wing activists—attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of voting-age adults. Gerteis argues that socially constructed aspects of class and gender preconfigured the forms of political rhetoric and social organization that both the far-right and far-left deployed to mobilize postwar, further exacerbating the levels of social and political alienation expressed by young blue- and pink- collar working men and women well into the 1970s, illustrated by high-profile acts of political violence committed by young Japanese in this era. As Gerteis shows, Japanese youth were profoundly influenced by a transnational flow of ideas and people that constituted a unique historical convergence of pan-Asianism, Mao-ism, black nationalism, anti-imperialism, anticommunism, neo-fascism, and ultra-nationalism. Mobilizing Japanese Youth carefully unpacks their formative experiences and the social, cultural, and political challenges to both the hegemonic culture and the authority of the Japanese state that engulfed them. The 1950s-style mass-mobilization efforts orchestrated by organized labor could not capture their political imagination in the way that more extreme ideologies could. By focusing on how far-right and far-left organizations attempted to reach-out to young radicals, especially those of working-class origins, this book offers a new understanding of successive waves of youth radicalism since 1960.
Ski
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Amazing Racers
Author: Marc Bloom
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 164313177X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
What would one call taking teens with no evident running talent and putting them through breakneck training combined with mantras from the rock n' roll, techniques from Kenya, philosophy from Australia and turning them champions? Is it revolutionary? Or just plain crazy?Bill Aris has heard both, but one thing is indisputable. Everything Aris does with his runners—male and female—is new and extraordinary, and he has created a new American running dynasty. The runners of Fayetteville-Manlius High School, or F-M, have won the last nine out of ten national championships and have the best cumulative record in cross country history. F-M's domination has shocked the sport for its defiance of accepted running principles and limitations. One year, the girls defeated the 2nd-place team in the country by an average of 59 seconds per girl in a 5k race. Another year, the F-M girls’ ran faster than their Kenyan counterparts, who had come to Oregon as a showcase. Across the country, top coaches all whisper, “How do they do it?”From adopting long-forgotten Spartan creeds to focusing on teenaged developmental psychology and gender-blindness in training, The Running Revolutionaries is a a must read for millions of runners and the millions more who strive for better performance.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 164313177X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
What would one call taking teens with no evident running talent and putting them through breakneck training combined with mantras from the rock n' roll, techniques from Kenya, philosophy from Australia and turning them champions? Is it revolutionary? Or just plain crazy?Bill Aris has heard both, but one thing is indisputable. Everything Aris does with his runners—male and female—is new and extraordinary, and he has created a new American running dynasty. The runners of Fayetteville-Manlius High School, or F-M, have won the last nine out of ten national championships and have the best cumulative record in cross country history. F-M's domination has shocked the sport for its defiance of accepted running principles and limitations. One year, the girls defeated the 2nd-place team in the country by an average of 59 seconds per girl in a 5k race. Another year, the F-M girls’ ran faster than their Kenyan counterparts, who had come to Oregon as a showcase. Across the country, top coaches all whisper, “How do they do it?”From adopting long-forgotten Spartan creeds to focusing on teenaged developmental psychology and gender-blindness in training, The Running Revolutionaries is a a must read for millions of runners and the millions more who strive for better performance.
Skiing
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Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Motorcycle Illustrated
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Category : Motorcycles
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Category : Motorcycles
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Bangalors
Author: Carl E. Boyett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Carl E. Boyett grew up in a small town in south Alabama reading books by H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Now let him take you on a tale of five young teens that get into so much mischief on their home planets and are shipped off to Boldoron Academy. They are thrown together on the flight to the school and become the newly formed Alpha Squad. Boldoron Academy is the only Structure on the only planet in a Cat’s Eye Nebula. Follow the group as the deal with the drama for everyday life at the academy and the adventure they endure while there. Join our group of misfits as they discover their hidden abilities and see how they grow. We have Caalin Mathews with abilities he had not discovered his self. Angiliana Avora a winged beauty that everyone calls Ang. Mortomous Valtor, Ang’s wingless cousin, whom they call Mouse. Finally Ssamuel and Ssophia Ssallazz the green skin twins with a secret all their own. Follow them as they travel to new worlds, make new friends and have great adventures.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Carl E. Boyett grew up in a small town in south Alabama reading books by H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Now let him take you on a tale of five young teens that get into so much mischief on their home planets and are shipped off to Boldoron Academy. They are thrown together on the flight to the school and become the newly formed Alpha Squad. Boldoron Academy is the only Structure on the only planet in a Cat’s Eye Nebula. Follow the group as the deal with the drama for everyday life at the academy and the adventure they endure while there. Join our group of misfits as they discover their hidden abilities and see how they grow. We have Caalin Mathews with abilities he had not discovered his self. Angiliana Avora a winged beauty that everyone calls Ang. Mortomous Valtor, Ang’s wingless cousin, whom they call Mouse. Finally Ssamuel and Ssophia Ssallazz the green skin twins with a secret all their own. Follow them as they travel to new worlds, make new friends and have great adventures.
The Light from Maggie’S View
Author: Cheryl Nugent
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475926330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In the summer of 1958, best friends Veronica Ricky Cooper and Ann Sympson spend their days swimming, watching movies on TV and exploring the safe neighborhoods in the borough of Kentbury, a small New Jersey town, rich in history and romantic legends. But only two days after they visit the beautiful estate of Maggies View, the body of a murdered girl is found there and the town is sent reeling. Before they know it, Ricky and Ann are embroiled in the mystery, learning new words like circumstantial, embezzle and incest. In spite of the loving friends and family who surround them, darkness and betrayal creep into their lives, chipping away at their innocence. The doors of Maggies View open for Ricky and Ann as they glimpse a world they thought only existed in the movies. They make new friends at the historic mansion, including the engaging Mrs. Tutbury; a mysterious Englishwoman; and a witty detective from Brooklyn who will add his own expertise to the murder investigation. But another girl will die; the murder count rises and Ricky and Ann could be next, when they naively walk into the murderers web of treachery. Set in the Rolling Hills of Hunterdon County, Kentbury is a fictional town created from the authors intimate knowledge of that notable area. Come along and enjoy gentle history lessons, meet colorful personalities, delve into local politics and discover the evil that can exist, even in a quiet little country town.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475926330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In the summer of 1958, best friends Veronica Ricky Cooper and Ann Sympson spend their days swimming, watching movies on TV and exploring the safe neighborhoods in the borough of Kentbury, a small New Jersey town, rich in history and romantic legends. But only two days after they visit the beautiful estate of Maggies View, the body of a murdered girl is found there and the town is sent reeling. Before they know it, Ricky and Ann are embroiled in the mystery, learning new words like circumstantial, embezzle and incest. In spite of the loving friends and family who surround them, darkness and betrayal creep into their lives, chipping away at their innocence. The doors of Maggies View open for Ricky and Ann as they glimpse a world they thought only existed in the movies. They make new friends at the historic mansion, including the engaging Mrs. Tutbury; a mysterious Englishwoman; and a witty detective from Brooklyn who will add his own expertise to the murder investigation. But another girl will die; the murder count rises and Ricky and Ann could be next, when they naively walk into the murderers web of treachery. Set in the Rolling Hills of Hunterdon County, Kentbury is a fictional town created from the authors intimate knowledge of that notable area. Come along and enjoy gentle history lessons, meet colorful personalities, delve into local politics and discover the evil that can exist, even in a quiet little country town.