Swim Pretty

Author : Jennifer A. Kokai
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336014
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swim Pretty written by Jennifer A. Kokai and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cultural associations with bodies of water, the spectacle of pretty women, and the appeal of the concept of “family-friendly” productions, performative aquatic spectacles portray water as an exotic fantasy environment exploitable for the purpose of entertainment. In Swim Pretty, Jennifer A. Kokai reveals the influential role of aquatic spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in the United States over the past century. Examining dramatic works in water and performances at four water parks, Kokai shows that the evolution of these works and performances helps us better understand our ever-changing relationship with the oceans and their inhabitants. Kokai sorts the regard for and harnessing of water in aquatic spectacles into three categories—natural, tamed, and domesticated—and discusses the ways in which these modes of water are engaged in the performances throug an aesthetics of descension. Ultimately, this study links the uncritical love of aquatic spectacles to a disregard for the rights of marine animals and lack of concern for the marine environment.

Author : Jennifer A. Kokai
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336006
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swim Pretty written by Jennifer A. Kokai and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Swim Pretty, Jennifer A. Kokai reveals the influential role of aquatic spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in the United States over the past century.

Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780316094559
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty-One Mile Swim written by Matt Christopher and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With remarks about his small stature and poor swimming skills ringing in his ears, the son of Hungarian immigrants begins to train for the 21-mile swim across a nearby lake.

Author : Lynn Sherr
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390474
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swim written by Lynn Sherr and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It’s an inquiry into why we swim—the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It’s a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. It’s about our relationship with the water, with our fishy forebearers, and with the costumes that we wear. You’ll even find a few songs to sing when you push out those next laps. Swimming enthusiast Lynn Sherr explores every aspect of the sport, from the biology of swimming to the fame of Esther Williams; from turquoise pools and wild water to the training of Olympians; and she reveals the secret of buoyancy so that anyone can avoid the example of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lamented, “Why can’t I swim, it seems so very easy?” When his friend, the biographer Edward John Trelawny, said, “because you think you can’t,” Shelley plunged into Italy’s Arno River and dropped like a rock. With Swim, you can avoid that happening to you.

Author : Edwin Tenney Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming written by Edwin Tenney Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Bachrach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outline of Swimming written by William Bachrach and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julie Checkoway
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455523437
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three-Year Swim Club written by Julie Checkoway and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians. They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American and were malnourished and barefoot. They had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields. Their future was in those same fields, working alongside their parents in virtual slavery, known not by their names but by numbered tags that hung around their necks. Their teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, was an ordinary man whose swimming ability didn't extend much beyond treading water. In spite of everything, including the virulent anti-Japanese sentiment of the late 1930s, in their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size; in their second year, they were national and international champs, shattering American and world records and making headlines from L.A. to Nazi Germany. In their third year, they'd be declared the greatest swimmers in the world. But they'd also face their greatest obstacle: the dawning of a world war and the cancellation of the Games. Still, on the battlefield, they'd become the 20th century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they'd have one last chance for Olympic glory. They were the Three-Year Swim Club. This is their story.

Author : John A. Lapointe
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780533147670
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nice Is Better Than Pretty written by John A. Lapointe and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Leahy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style written by John Leahy and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leahy (Sergeant, John)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style written by Leahy (Sergeant, John) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: