Swimming To Chicago

Author : David-Matthew Barnes
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1602826080
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming to Chicago written by David-Matthew Barnes and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reeling from his mother's suicide, seventeen-year-old Alex Bainbridge retreats from the world around him, often finding solace on a secluded island behind his house. As an Armenian-American living in a small Southern town, Alex struggles to fit in. His close friendship with the outspoken Jillian Dambro is his only saving grace, until he meets and falls in love with Robby LaMontÑan introverted new student at school. As the year unfolds and the lives of the adults around them unravel, the three teens form an unbreakable bond, vowing to do anything to stay togetherÑeven if it means leaving everything behind.

Author : United States. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5T/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Outdoor Recreation in Metropolitan Regions of the United States written by United States. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Eva Carr
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145775
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shifting Currents written by Karen Eva Carr and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’ swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water’s power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women’s swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. Thus, the history of swimming offers a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender, and power on a centuries-long scale.

Author : Claire Fuller
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1941040527
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Lessons written by Claire Fuller and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah Editor's Pick and NPR Best Book of the Year From the author of the award-winning and word-of-mouth sensation Our Endless Numbered Days comes an exhilarating literary mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final page. Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he’s getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intercollegiate Swimming Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chicago Commission on Race Relations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro in Chicago written by Chicago Commission on Race Relations and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Chaline
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238908
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strokes of Genius written by Eric Chaline and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be better than diving into cool water on a hot day? In this enormously enjoyable and informative history of swimming, Eric Chaline sums up this most summery of moments with one phrase: pleasure beckons at the water’s edge. Strokes of Genius traces the history of swimming from the first civilizations to its current worldwide popularity as a sport, fitness pastime, and leisure activity. Chaline explores swimming’s role in ritual, early trade and manufacturing, warfare, and medicine, before describing its transformation in the early modern period into a leisure activity and a competitive sport—the necessary precursors that have made it the most common physical pastime in the developed world. The book celebrates the physicality and sensuality of swimming—attributes that Chaline argues could have contributed to the evolution of the human species. Swimming, like other disciplines that use repetitive movements to train the body and quiet the mind, is also a means of spiritual awakening—a personal journey of discovery. Swimming has attained the status of a cultural marker, denoting eroticism, leisure, endurance, adventure, exploration, and excellence. Strokes of Genius shows that there is not a single story of human swimming, but many currents that merge, diverge, and remerge. Chaline argues that swimming will become particularly important as we look toward a warmer future in which our survival may depend on our ability to adapt to life in an aquatic world.

Author : William M. Tuttle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065866
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race Riot written by William M. Tuttle and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays the race riot which left 38 dead, 537 wounded and hundreds homeless in Chicago during the summer of 1919.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4N/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official swimming guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Hartfield
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544785134
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Few Red Drops written by Claire Hartfield and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2018 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Archival photos and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.