[PDF] Tough Broad eBook

Author : Caroline Paul
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1635576504

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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age. Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, Why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? Tough Broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like ninety-three-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, eighty-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, fifty-two-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, sixty-four-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Chasers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren't experts. But their experiences and the scientific studies that back them up offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. Tough Broad is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, in our fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light

Author : Frank Prevost
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2008-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469103710

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A Wicked, Awesome, Tough Broad tells the story of one woman’s valiant fight against cancer. Told through the eyes of her devoted husband of thirty-two years, it details the struggles and triumphs of a beautiful lady who died too soon. The story is inspiring, touching, informative, and entertaining. The book is an honest portrayal of the emotional ups and downs of a four-year journey. It illustrates the conundrum of conflicting medical advice and the importance of taking charge of one’s own medical care. It shows how one woman celebrated life to the fullest despite facing a terminal illness. It also demonstrates that there is life and love after the death of a spouse as it takes the reader through the grieving process. The book will move you, it will inform you, it will make you cry, and it will make you laugh. The book will appeal to anyone facing a serious illness or having a loved one with a serious illness. It will also be of interest to anyone that wants to find humor in difficult situations as well as to those struggling with the death of someone close to them.

Author : Cece Meng
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0618824154

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Three independent chicks who dare to be different are reprimanded by the other barnyard residents for not being quiet and docile, until the smart, fearless trio takes on a runaway tractor.

Author : Paul Tough
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2019
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 9780544944480

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The bestselling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the U.S.

Author : Suzanne Braun Levine
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374299528

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An oral biography of the influential Bella Abzug charts her more than fifty-year career as an activist, congresswoman, social leader, and champion of the disenfranchised and powerless.

Author : Caroline Paul
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1681199181

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Being a good citizen means standing up for what's right-and here's just the way to start. From the author of The Gutsy Girl, this kids' guide to activism is the perfect book for those with a fierce sense of justice, a good sense of humor, and a big heart. This guide features change-maker tips, tons of DIY activities, and stories about the kids who have paved the way before, from famous activists like Malala Yousafzai and Claudette Colvin to the everyday young people whose habit changes triggered huge ripple effects. So make a sign, write a letter, volunteer, sit-in, or march! There are lots of tactics to choose from, and you're never too young to change the world.

Author : J. D. Vance
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0062872257

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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309452961

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Caroline Paul
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Cats
ISBN : 1408835576

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What do our pets do when they're not with us? Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton used GPS, cat cameras, psychics, and the web to track the adventures of their beloved cat Tibia.