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Swimming Studies
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Author : Leanne Shapton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-07-05
Swimming Studies written by Leanne Shapton and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography Swimming Studies is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager to enjoying pools and beaches around the world as an adult, Leanne Shapton offers a fascinating glimpse into the private, often solitary, realm of swimming. Her spare and elegant writing reveals an intimate narrative of suburban adolescence, spent underwater in a discipline that continues to inspire Shapton’s work as an artist and author. Her illustrations throughout the book offer an intuitive perspective on the landscapes and imagery of the sport. Shapton’s emphasis is on the smaller moments of athletic pursuit rather than its triumphs. For the accomplished athlete, aspiring amateur, or habitual practicer, this remarkable work of written and visual sketches propels the reader through a beautifully personal and universally appealing exercise in reflection.
Mechanics Of Swimming And Flying
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Author : Stephen Childress
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1981-07-31
Mechanics Of Swimming And Flying written by Stephen Childress and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-07-31 with Mathematics categories.
Provides a summary of the fluid dynamics of the locomotion of living organisms. Describes biological phenomena in detail from the swimming of bacteria and fish to the flying of insects and birds.
Early British Swimming 55 Bc Ad 1719
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Author : Nicholas Orme
language : en
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Release Date : 1983
Early British Swimming 55 Bc Ad 1719 written by Nicholas Orme and has been published by University of Exeter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Great Britain categories.
In 1857 Everard Digby, an extrovert Cambridge scholar, published the first scientific treatise on swimming - and one of the first on any modern sport. Six months later he was expelled from his college, and died in obscurity as a country parson. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a great pioneer of the history of sport. The book opens with a detailed history of swimming in Britain from the Romans to the sixteenth century, which is followed by an account of Digby's life and work and its impact on swimming down to the eighteenth century. The book also includes the first modern edition of Digby's treatise, in the English version of 1595, with the 43 original illustrations.
World Book Of Swimming
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Author : Ludovic Seifert
language : en
Publisher: Nova Novinka
Release Date : 2011
World Book Of Swimming written by Ludovic Seifert and has been published by Nova Novinka this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Human mechanics categories.
Before 1970, scientific research in swimming was poor and anecdotal, and the improvements of performance were linked firstly to the swimmer's experience and, secondly, as a result of permanent research for speed. Before and after the Second World War, scientific studies were conducted by pioneers and marked the beginning of research in stroke mechanics and swimming physiology exercise. This book reviews research on the body of knowledge available for the improvement of sports coaching and training practice in swimming, which seems to be relevant, numerous, and diversified enough to help swimming coaches bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Sky Swimming
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Author : Sylvia Martin
language : en
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-01
Sky Swimming written by Sylvia Martin and has been published by UWA Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife—black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the clouds reflected there just as a solitary duck swims into view. Everything in the photograph is familiar yet the effect is entirely strange. The duck is swimming across the sky...' The reflections in Sky Swimming can be read as meditations on the enigmas of love, family, ageing, memory, home and belonging. At its heart is a mudbrick house built by two women on an ancient lava flow in the Warrumbungle Mountains, circling back to a childhood filled with music in Melbourne and an early career in the theatre. It fans out across the world to a family mystery in The Netherlands of the 1950s and a friendship in Montreal in the 1990s. Reflections on the process of writing feminist biography are included and the women from Martin’s biographies thread their way through the narrative alongside the people who have helped shape her life, often in unexpected directions.
Swimming And Flying In Nature
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Author : Theodore Wu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-04-17
Swimming And Flying In Nature written by Theodore Wu and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-17 with Science categories.
The Symposium on Swimming and Flying in Nature which was held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California from July 8-12, 1974 was conceived with the objective of providing an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of funda mental biological and fluid mechanical aspects of these forms of natura110comotion. It was the earnest hope of all concerned in the organization of the Symposium that the exchange of knowledge and interaction of ideas from the disciplines involved would stimu late new research in this developing field. If the liveliness of the discussion generated among the 250 or so participants is any measure, then this objective was fulfilled to a significant degree. These two companion volumes contain the manuscripts of the papers presented during the Symposium. It is hoped that this permanent record will serve to perpetuate the enthusiasm and active thought generated during those days in Pasadena. The first volume contains the proceedings of the first two days of the confer ence (Sessions I to IV) which concentrated on the locomotion of micro-organisms. The second volume (Sessions V to VIII) deals with the propulsion of larger fish, insects and birds. Professor Sir James Lighthill's Special Invited Lecture which opened the Symposium is contained in the second volume, rather than the first, since it deals with natural flight.
Innovative Buddhist Women
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Innovative Buddhist Women written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Social Science categories.
Combines the voices of scholars and practitioners in analysing Buddhist women's history. 26 articles document the lives of women who have set in motion changes within Buddhist societies, with analyses of issues such as gender, ethnicity, authority, and class that affect the lives of women in traditional Buddhist cultures and, increasingly, the west.
Swimming Against The Tide
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Author : Sandra Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2008-12-09
Swimming Against The Tide written by Sandra Hanson and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-09 with Education categories.
Following African American women who "swim against the tide" in the white male science education system.
Neither Letters Nor Swimming The Rebirth Of Swimming And Free Diving
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Author : John M. McManamon
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-03-01
Neither Letters Nor Swimming The Rebirth Of Swimming And Free Diving written by John M. McManamon and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-01 with History categories.
In "Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving, John McManamon documents the revival of interest in swimming during the European Renaissance and its conceptualization as an art. Renaissance scholars realized that the ancients considered one truly ignorant who knew “neither letters nor swimming.”
A Social History Of Swimming In England 1800 1918
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Author : Christopher Love
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
A Social History Of Swimming In England 1800 1918 written by Christopher Love and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Covering a time of great social and technological change, this history traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, with its main focus on racing. Working from the beginnings of municipal recreational swimming, the book fully explores the links between swimming and other aspects of English life society including class, education, gender, municipal governance, sexuality and the Victorian invention of the sports amateur-professional divide. Uniquely focused on swimming -often neglected in analytic sports histories- this is the first study of its kind and will be an important landmark in the establishment of swimming history as a topic of scholarly investigation. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.