Author: Thatcher Heldring
Publisher:
ISBN: 0385741839
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In the summer before high school, Tessa's decision to play football instead of running cross-country affects her blossoming romance with football prospect Caleb, her relationship with best friends Marina and Lexie--who're counting on Tessa to try out for cross-country--and her home life with her politically ambitious mother.
The Football Girl
Author: Thatcher Heldring
Publisher:
ISBN: 0385741839
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In the summer before high school, Tessa's decision to play football instead of running cross-country affects her blossoming romance with football prospect Caleb, her relationship with best friends Marina and Lexie--who're counting on Tessa to try out for cross-country--and her home life with her politically ambitious mother.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0385741839
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In the summer before high school, Tessa's decision to play football instead of running cross-country affects her blossoming romance with football prospect Caleb, her relationship with best friends Marina and Lexie--who're counting on Tessa to try out for cross-country--and her home life with her politically ambitious mother.
What to Wear
Author: Lost Century of Sports Collection
Publisher: The Lost Century of Sports Collection
ISBN: 196419749X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
This volume of the Sports She Wrote series offers a comprehensive exploration of 19th-century women's athletic fashion, featuring 124 articles written by 80 women (125,000 words) between the Civil War and 1900, published in dozens of periodicals. Illustrated with 130 images, this collection showcases the intersection of fashion and sport, from the scandalous practicalities of swimwear to the refined elegance of ice-skating ensembles. Spanning a wide range of physical activities, including golf, tennis, horseback riding, hunting, cycling, swimming, skating, mountaineering, physical fitness and more, these articles delve into the evolution of sportswear as a pivotal aspect of the dress reform movement of the 1800s. Amidst the social constraints of Victorian-era fashion, athletic women rebelled, ushering in innovations such as shorter skirts, practical footwear, and adaptable attire for the New Woman’s healthful physical activities. Controversy surrounded garments like bloomers and knickerbockers, challenging societal norms and inspiring debates over femininity and functionality. Corsets were shunned and tennis shoes became fashionable. Offering insights into the social impact of women's athletic attire and its enduring influence on contemporary fashion, this volume serves as a fascinating time-capsule of the evolution of style and women's self-expression in the 19th century. Sports She Wrote is a 31-volume time-capsule of primary documents written by more than 500 women in the 19th century.
Publisher: The Lost Century of Sports Collection
ISBN: 196419749X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
This volume of the Sports She Wrote series offers a comprehensive exploration of 19th-century women's athletic fashion, featuring 124 articles written by 80 women (125,000 words) between the Civil War and 1900, published in dozens of periodicals. Illustrated with 130 images, this collection showcases the intersection of fashion and sport, from the scandalous practicalities of swimwear to the refined elegance of ice-skating ensembles. Spanning a wide range of physical activities, including golf, tennis, horseback riding, hunting, cycling, swimming, skating, mountaineering, physical fitness and more, these articles delve into the evolution of sportswear as a pivotal aspect of the dress reform movement of the 1800s. Amidst the social constraints of Victorian-era fashion, athletic women rebelled, ushering in innovations such as shorter skirts, practical footwear, and adaptable attire for the New Woman’s healthful physical activities. Controversy surrounded garments like bloomers and knickerbockers, challenging societal norms and inspiring debates over femininity and functionality. Corsets were shunned and tennis shoes became fashionable. Offering insights into the social impact of women's athletic attire and its enduring influence on contemporary fashion, this volume serves as a fascinating time-capsule of the evolution of style and women's self-expression in the 19th century. Sports She Wrote is a 31-volume time-capsule of primary documents written by more than 500 women in the 19th century.
Reading Football
Author: Michael Oriard
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866962
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football, the first contemporary book about football's formative years. American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines. Oriard shows how this constant narrative in football's early years developed many different stories about what the game meant: football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, as a game of rules and their infringements. He shows how football became a series of cultural stories about power, luck, strategy, and deception. These different interpretations have been magnified by football's current omnipresence on television. According to Oriard, televised football now plays a cultural role of enormous importance for men, yet within the field of cultural studies the influence of football has been ignored until now. From the book: "A receiver sprints down the sideline, fast and graceful, then breaks toward the middle of the field where a safety waits for him. From forty yards upfield the quarterback releases the ball; it spirals in an elegant arc toward the goalposts as the receiver now for the first time looks back to pick up its flight. The pass is a little high; the receiver leaps, stretches, grasps the ball--barely, fingers clutching--at the very moment that the safety drives a helmet into his unprotected ribs. The force of the collision flings the receiver backward, slamming him to the turf. . . . This familiar tableau, this exemplary moment in a football game, epitomizes the appeal of the sport: the dramatic confrontation of artistry with violence, both equally necessary."
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866962
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football, the first contemporary book about football's formative years. American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines. Oriard shows how this constant narrative in football's early years developed many different stories about what the game meant: football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, as a game of rules and their infringements. He shows how football became a series of cultural stories about power, luck, strategy, and deception. These different interpretations have been magnified by football's current omnipresence on television. According to Oriard, televised football now plays a cultural role of enormous importance for men, yet within the field of cultural studies the influence of football has been ignored until now. From the book: "A receiver sprints down the sideline, fast and graceful, then breaks toward the middle of the field where a safety waits for him. From forty yards upfield the quarterback releases the ball; it spirals in an elegant arc toward the goalposts as the receiver now for the first time looks back to pick up its flight. The pass is a little high; the receiver leaps, stretches, grasps the ball--barely, fingers clutching--at the very moment that the safety drives a helmet into his unprotected ribs. The force of the collision flings the receiver backward, slamming him to the turf. . . . This familiar tableau, this exemplary moment in a football game, epitomizes the appeal of the sport: the dramatic confrontation of artistry with violence, both equally necessary."
The American Stationer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stationery trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stationery trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Woman's Home Companion
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Judge
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
How (Not) to Have an Arranged Marriage
Author: Amir Khan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1035008254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
He’s the perfect catch (according to his mother). From Dr Amir Khan, How (Not) To Have an Arranged Marriage is a timely, heartfelt novel which looks at all aspects of modern arranged marriages. 'This is a complete delight from a born storyteller' – Lorraine Kelly Yousef is the golden child to his strict Pakistani parents, overshadowing his younger sister, Rehana. As he finishes his medical degree in London, his life appears to be mapped out for him: become a doctor, marry a suitable girl of his parents’ choosing and, above all, make his family proud. Then Yousef meets Jess. A fellow medical student, Jess presents a complication to the plan. Suddenly, Yousef finds himself torn between two worlds – keeping each a secret from the other. Then, as graduation day looms, Yousef’s mother informs him that she’s started looking for his wife . . . Modern love and traditional cultures collide in How (Not) To Have an Arranged Marriage, a big-hearted romance from full-time GP and author of The Doctor Will See You Now, Dr Amir Khan.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1035008254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
He’s the perfect catch (according to his mother). From Dr Amir Khan, How (Not) To Have an Arranged Marriage is a timely, heartfelt novel which looks at all aspects of modern arranged marriages. 'This is a complete delight from a born storyteller' – Lorraine Kelly Yousef is the golden child to his strict Pakistani parents, overshadowing his younger sister, Rehana. As he finishes his medical degree in London, his life appears to be mapped out for him: become a doctor, marry a suitable girl of his parents’ choosing and, above all, make his family proud. Then Yousef meets Jess. A fellow medical student, Jess presents a complication to the plan. Suddenly, Yousef finds himself torn between two worlds – keeping each a secret from the other. Then, as graduation day looms, Yousef’s mother informs him that she’s started looking for his wife . . . Modern love and traditional cultures collide in How (Not) To Have an Arranged Marriage, a big-hearted romance from full-time GP and author of The Doctor Will See You Now, Dr Amir Khan.
Popular Culture in Africa
Author: Stephanie Newell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135068933
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the streets of Africa, especially city streets where different cultures and cultural personalities meet, the book asks how the category of "the people" is identified and interpreted by African culture-producers, politicians, religious leaders, and by "the people" themselves. The book offers a nuanced, strongly historicized perspective in which African popular cultures are regarded as vehicles through which we can document ordinary people’s vitality and responsiveness to political and social transformations.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135068933
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the streets of Africa, especially city streets where different cultures and cultural personalities meet, the book asks how the category of "the people" is identified and interpreted by African culture-producers, politicians, religious leaders, and by "the people" themselves. The book offers a nuanced, strongly historicized perspective in which African popular cultures are regarded as vehicles through which we can document ordinary people’s vitality and responsiveness to political and social transformations.
California Pelican
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Angels and Other Cows
Author: Petra Ahrweiler
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031604016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031604016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description