[PDF] Rebounders eBook

Author : Rick Newman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Career changes
ISBN : 0345527836

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"U.S. News & World Report" journalist Newman examines the rise and fall--and rise again--of some of our most prolific and productive figures in order to demystify the anatomy of resilience.

Author : Amanda Ottaway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1496205871

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Unlike the stories of most visible Division I college athletes, Amanda Ottaway's story has more in common with those of the 80 percent of college athletes who are never seen on TV. The Rebounders follows the college career of an average NCAA Division I women's basketball player in the twenty-first century, beginning with the recruiting process when Ottaway is an eager, naive teenager and ending when she's a more contemplative twentysomething alumna. Ottaway's story, along with the journeys of her dynamic Wildcat teammates at Davidson College in North Carolina, covers in engaging detail the life of a mid-major athlete: recruitment, the preseason, body image and eating disorders, schoolwork, family relationships, practice, love life, team travel, game day, injuries, drug and alcohol use, coaching changes, and what comes after the very last game. In addition to the everyday issues of being a student athlete, The Rebounders also covers the objectification of female athletes, race, sexuality, and self-expression. Most college athletes, famous or not, play hard, get hurt, fail, and triumph together in a profound love of their sport and one another, and then their careers end and they figure out how to move on. From concussions and minor injuries to classrooms, parties, and relationships, Ottaway understands the experience of a Division I women's basketball player firsthand. The Rebounders is, at its core, a feminist coming-of-age story, an exploration of what it means to be a young woman who loves a sport and is on a course of self-discovery through that medium.

Author : Amanda Ottaway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2022-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496233115

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The Rebounders is an up-close look at the contemporary college athletic experience of women away from the limelight.

Author : Thomas J. Dygard
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780140377026

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Doug Fulton, coach of the Hamilton High Panthers, is certain that transfer student Chris Patton can lead the team to a championship, but a tragic accident has made Chris decide to never play basketball again.

Author : Rick Newman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1466879300

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Americans are increasingly dismayed with a broken political system and the big institutions they blame for a Darwinian economy (in which it's getting harder to get ahead). What they've lost sight of is the importance of self-reliance and personal initiative in every individual's quest for prosperity. Liberty For All pushes past the usual go-nowhere policy prescriptions to probe what ordinary people can do to build their own self-reliance and enhance their odds of success. In a wry and entertaining narrative, Rick Newman embarks on a quest to improve his own self-reliance by camping with "doomsday preppers," deconstructing the "rugged individualist" that politicians so often invoke, and detailing the ways we unnecessarily shackle ourselves. The result is a guide to enriching your prospects—and your life—by harnessing every freedom available.