Degrees Of Difficulty

Author : Georgia Cervin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052676
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degrees of Difficulty written by Georgia Cervin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women's gymnastics Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci helped make women’s artistic gymnastics one of the most popular events in the Olympic Games. But the transition of gymnastics from a women’s sport to a girl’s sport in the 1970s also laid the foundation for a system of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of gymnasts around the world. Georgia Cervin offers a unique history of women's gymnastics, examining how the high-stakes diplomatic rivalry of the Cold War created a breeding ground for exploitation. Yet, a surprising spirit of international collaboration arose to decide the social values and image of femininity demonstrated by the sport. Cervin also charts the changes in style, equipment, training, and participants that transformed the sport, as explosive athleticism replaced balletic grace and gymnastics dominance shifted from East to West. Sweeping and revelatory, Degrees of Difficulty tells a story of international friction, unexpected cooperation, and the legacy of abuse and betrayal created by the win-at-all-cost attitudes of the Cold War.

Author : Vladimir Shataev
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780898860139
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degrees of Difficulty written by Vladimir Shataev and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a Soviet mountaineer, describes his career as a climber, discusses the Soviet bureaucracy and rating system, and looks at the dangers of the sport.

Author : Julie E. Justicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944388744
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degrees of Difficulty written by Julie E. Justicz and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is the foundation of family, but at what cost? After Ben Novotny is born with a rare chromosomal disorder that produces profound mental disability and brain-racking seizures, his parents, Caroline and Perry, and their two other children are asked to give more than they have. When Ben is an infant, the care and the fear are constant. The demands and pressure only mount when he and his older brother and sister become teenagers. Ben needs even more from his family, just as Hugo, the athlete and the "good soul", and Ivy, the ambitious rebel, must carve out their own identities. Over the span of decades, this deep and understanding novel follow each family member, Perry and Caroline, Hugo and Ivy, as their lives diverge. In Degrees of Difficulty, grace is found amidst heartache, love finds a way after loss.

Author : Alfred Horatio Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Experimental Study of the Factors and Types of Voluntary Choice written by Alfred Horatio Martin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychological Monographs written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.

Author : Granville Stanley Hall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of Psychology written by Granville Stanley Hall and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Columbia University
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columbia University Bulletin written by Columbia University and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Goucher College
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue written by Goucher College and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Davide Castiglione
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319970011
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Difficulty in Poetry written by Davide Castiglione and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is ‘difficult’ - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with. It is the first work to offer a stylistic and cognitive model that sheds new light on the mechanisms of difficulty, as well as on its range of potential effects. Its eight chapters are organised into two thematic parts. The first traces the history of difficulty, surveys its main scholarly traditions, addresses related themes – from elitism to obscurity, from abstraction to intentionality – and introduces a wide array of analytical tools from literary theory and cognitive psychology. These tools are then consistently applied in the second part, which includes several extended analyses of poems by canonical modernists such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane, alongside those of postmodernist innovators such as Geoffrey Hill, Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein, among others. This innovative work will provide fresh insights and approaches for scholars of stylistics, literary studies, cognitive poetics and psychology.

Author : Abhoy Kumar Mazumdar
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlines of Moral Philosophy written by Abhoy Kumar Mazumdar and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: