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Welcome to the world of women's gymnastics and figure skating--the real world that happens away from the cameras, at the training camps and in the private lives of these talented teenage competitors. From starvation diets and debilitating injuries to the brutal tactics of tyrannical gymnastics guru Béla Károlyi, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes portrays the horrors endured by girls at the hands of their coaches and sometimes their own families--an...

These essays present images and analysis that cover the period from the invention of photography to digital technology. They reveal how photographs have acted as sites through which the subjective experience of space and time is expressed and shaped.

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Joan Ryan began her formal chef training at age seven cooking omelets in the kitchen of their family home in Chicago. She continued her apprenticeship through her teenage years when she learned to bake Christmas cookies, Chicken Kiev, pasta, crepes, and fondue. She religiously watched Julia Child on PBS, then graduated to the food network and is a big fan of Top Chef, which has expanded her culinary repertoire. Joan's passion for cooking stems...

Joan Ryan began her formal chef training at age seven cooking omelets in the kitchen of their family home in Chicago. She continued her apprenticeship through her teenage years when she learned to bake Christmas cookies, Chicken Kiev, pasta, crepes, and fondue. She religiously watched Julia Child on PBS, then graduated to the food network and is a big fan of Top Chef, which has expanded her culinary repertoire. Joan's passion for cooking stems...

Does team chemistry actually exist? Is there scientific or mathematical proof? Is team chemistry as real and relevant as on-base percentages and wins above replacement? Team chemistry alone won't win a World Series, but talent alone won't win it, either. And by interviewing more than 100 players, coaches, managers, and statisticians, as well as over five years of extensive research in neuroscience, biology, physiology, and psychology, the auth...

Award-winning sportswriter Joan Ryan whisks readers from the sports field to the research lab on an ambitious quest to understand the seemingly indefinable phenomenon called team chemistry.

With a new foreword by former Olympic gymnast Jamie Dantzscher"--Back cover.

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While focusing on the student's role as citizen, student, family member, consumer, and active participant in the business world, this book informs students of their various financial responsibilities. It provides opportunities for self-awareness, expression, and satisfaction in a highly technical and competitive society.

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Contains study guide problems and activity worksheets for each chapter. Problems include vocabulary, fill in the blank, true/false, multiple choice, and open-ended problem-solving questions. Worksheets are provided for real-world practice with financial forms and documents such as a resume, will, and loan application.

Do you wonder how you can improve your professional and personal relationships? Are you curious how emotional intelligence will take you to the next level of greatness? Do you know how to become your ideal self?Using Emotional Intelligence to Become Your Ideal Self offers specific strategies for applying emotional intelligence to your everyday life. These include self-awareness, awareness of others, and relationship management. Utilizing these...

Joan Ryan and her research team have carefully documented Dogrib traditional justice as it has been practised over the past century. Relying upon information received from the elders of Lac La Martre, Northwest Territories, they have unearthed a sophisticated body of Dogrib law, the understanding of which has important implications for contemporary ways in which the Dogrib people and the department of justice can deal with social control. The ...

Published to coincide with the Olympic Games in Atlanta, an expose of the punishing training schedules, the pressure to perform, the severe and debilitating injuries and the routine, legal and even celebrated abuse of young women which, Ryan asserts, lie at the heart of international gymnastics and figure skating.

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Both a medical drama and meditation on motherhood, "The Water Giver" is Joan Ryan's honest account of her doubts and mistakes in raising a learning-disabled son and the story of how his near-fatal accident gave her a second chance as a parent.

A father's lessons are gifts that last a lifetime. The love and support of a father play a central role in a child's life, fathers themselves are forever changed by the experience of fatherhood. In this outstanding collection of stories, poems and letters, famous individuals and ordinary people from all walks of life share fond memories of their fathers and relate the lessons fatherhood has taught them. Lessons from Dad celebrates the all-impo...