Flying Above The Glass Ceiling

Author : Nina Anderson
Publisher : Safe Goods
ISBN 13 : 1884820948
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Above the Glass Ceiling written by Nina Anderson and published by Safe Goods. This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying Above the Glass Ceiling chronicles the accomplishments of pioneering women flyers and distaff members of the aviation industry from the 1800s to the present, noting their specific struggles because they entered a man's profession! Their personal stories, determination, passion, triumphs, and disappointments provide insight into what kept them moving toward their dream. This book gives hope to everyone who has the qualifications to achieve his or her career goal.

Author : Eileen M. Collins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1956763007
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars written by Eileen M. Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. She was only the second woman pilot admitted to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. Since retiring from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership. Eileen Collins is among the most recognized and admired women in the world, yet this is the first time she has told her story in a book. It is a story not only of achievement and overcoming obstacles but of profound personal transformation. The shy, quiet child of an alcoholic father and struggling single mother, who grew up in modest circumstances and was an unremarkable student, she had few prospects when she graduated from high school, but she changed her life to pursue her secret dream of becoming an astronaut. She shares her leadership and life lessons throughout the book with the aim of inspiring and passing on her legacy to a new generation.

Author : Julie Glass
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0679886079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fly on the Ceiling written by Julie Glass and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1998-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as the father of analytic geometry, René Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher. Kids will love this funny and very accessible tale - based on one of math's greatest myths - about the man who popularized the Cartesion system of coordinates.

Author : Carol J. Haddad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000022366
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ungendering Technology written by Carol J. Haddad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fresh insight into women’s mastery of technologies commonly associated with men, with important implications for institutional efforts to identify and support technical proficiency among girls and women. The work is structured across five original case studies featuring: breast cancer survivors in Newfoundland who constructed a wooden dragon boat using hand and power tools; Egyptian women who used information and communication technologies for political action during the Revolution of 2011; pioneer female audio engineers in the United States working in live concert and studio venues; U.S. female commercial airline pilots who mastered the complexity of flying large aircraft; and a university-educated woman working in sewer maintenance and repair for the City of Detroit in the 1970s. The case studies capture women’s own voices and present a range of historical and geographic locations. A major contribution of this volume is the multidisciplinary analytical framework used to explain women’s motivation to engage with non-traditional technologies, the role of peer and political support in encouraging persistence, and informal as well as formal knowledge and skill acquisition. Above all, it is a story of women's empowerment - individually and collectively. This is a unique book suitable for undergraduates and graduates in the fields of Women's and Gender Studies; Science, Technology and Society (STS) Studies; Engineering Education; and Adult Education.

Author : Alexandra Allred
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153817135X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Women Stood written by Alexandra Allred and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unapologetically candid and illuminating history of women and their fight for equality, told through the influential world of sports. From early Amazons to modern-day athletes, women have been fighting for their rightful place in the world. The history of these female athletes—whether warriors on the battlefield or competitors in the sports arena—has often been neglected, yet it is through sports that women have changed society, gaining entry into education, travel, politics, and more. When Women Stood is an eye-opening chronicle of the amazing women who refused to accept the status quo and fought for something better for themselves and for those who would follow. Featuring exclusive insight from athletes such as Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Kathrine Switzer, Nancy Lieberman, Briana Scurry, and Nancy Hogshead-Maker, this book includes the stories of female football players, Olympic athletes, powerlifters, and soccer stars, of historians, archeologists, crusaders, and scientists. Women’s sports history cannot be told without also telling the story of the fight for gender and racial equality, economics, medical biases, gay and transgender history, violence, religion, media, abuse, and activism. When Women Stood is the first to go beyond the record books and gold medal counts to truly dig into the vital role women and sports have played in instigating change in society as a whole. And it shows that, despite seemingly unsurmountable odds, the true spirit of the female athlete can never be restrained.

Author : Aki Ishida
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429013868
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture written by Aki Ishida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six pivotal works of architecture. Written from the perspectives of a practitioner, the six essays challenge assumptions about fragility and visual transparency of glass. A material imbued with idealism and utopic vision, glass has captured architects’ imagination, and glass’s fragility and difficulties in thermal control continue to present technical challenges. In recent decades, architecture has witnessed an emergence of technological advancements in chemical coating, structural engineering, and fabrication methods that resulted in new kinds of glass transparencies. Buildings examined in the book include a sanatorium with expansive windows delivering light and air to recovering tuberculosis patients, a pavilion with a crystal clear glass plenum circulating air for heating and cooling, a glass monument symbolizing the screen of personal devices that shortened the distance between machines and humans, and a glass building symbolizing the social and material intertwining in the glass ceiling metaphor. Connecting material glass to broader cultural and social contexts, Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture enlightens students and practitioners of architecture as well as the general public with interest in design. The author demonstrates how glass is rarely crystal clear but is blurred both materially and metaphysically, revealing complex readings of ideas for which glass continues to stand.

Author : Rhonda Donahue
Publisher : Safe Goods
ISBN 13 : 1884820964
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pollution Inside You written by Rhonda Donahue and published by Safe Goods. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are tired or just not feeling well you body may be trying to tell you something. The Pollution Inside You outlines what exactly is bad for your body from toxins in the home to the environment and what is really bad in food. It gives symptoms of toxicity and provides a program for ridding th body of these disease provocating conditions.

Author : Jacki Pritchard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000417093
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy and Birthing written by Jacki Pritchard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jacki Pritchard has done an excellent job in writing her new book. The many scripts are immensely creative and wide-ranging. Any Hypnotherapist working with childbirth should have this book in their tool-bag; I totally recommend it." – Steve Burgess, Hypnotherapist and Director of Lionheart Training This practical volume provides resources and guidance for practising hypnotherapy with pregnant women and their birthing partners. Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy and Birthing begins with an overview of the topic and discusses a range of complex issues and vulnerabilities that might arise during sessions, before moving onto setting up and running group and/or individual sessions. Then, presenting techniques to work with pregnancy and birthing draws on a range of methodologies including solution-focused, metaphors (Ericksonian), Gestalt therapy, benefits approach and regression therapy. It covers: • Hypnosis, pregnancy and birthing • Getting into trance and relaxation • Breathing • Practising self-hypnosis and working on issues • Preparing for birthing • Bonding with baby • Working with worries, fears and phobias • Dealing with trauma and the unexpected • Loss and bereavement • Ego boosting. Containing over 70 customisable scripts and designed to stimulate reflection, this book is a valuable resource for student, newly qualified and experienced hypnotherapists working with pregnancy and birthing.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles S Areni
Publisher : DARLINGTON PRESS
ISBN 13 : 1921364238
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The other glass ceiling written by Charles S Areni and published by DARLINGTON PRESS. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The other glass ceiling offers an insightful male perspective to a debate on the lack of work-family balance in modern day families. Based on research and full of entertaining anecdotes, this book challenges the predominant gender roles that expect a mother to care for her family and doubt her commitment to a career, while at the same time requiring a father to provide for his family financially and doubting his ability to look after his own children. This is the other glass ceiling - the one reflected in gender inequity in the family home and preventing equality in parenting. The other glass ceiling is perpetuated by both genders equally, and the solution requires compromises from both sides. Charles Areni and Stephen Holden encourage dads to 'step up', to take on a bigger share of the burden of home duties. They encourage mums to 'let go', to let dad get involved in child-rearing, and to bring to the task his own skills and approaches. Breaking through this other glass ceiling will be good for mum, good for dad - oh, and good for the children too!