Download or read book Collision Course written by Jason Henderson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Decker's clash with Zola Budd at the 1984 Los Angeles Games is one of the biggest and most controversial events in Olympic history. In a head-to-head that gripped the imagination of the world, the 3000 metres race pitted the experienced and glamourous world champion from the host nation against a prodigious, teenage waif from South Africa wearing a hastily-organised British flag on her vest and, memorably, no shoes on her feet. Disastrously, a mid-race collision saw Decker tumble to the inside of the track after her legs tangled with Budd's as the 18-year-old overtook the American in a battle for pole position. Distraught and unable to carry on, the tearful Decker watched in frustration as Maricica Puica of Romania stormed to gold while Budd, who was heavily booed by the partisan crowd in the closing stages, faded to seventh. Using the famous Olympic moment as its focal point, Collision Course tells the story of two of the best-known and greatest athletes of al ltime, analyses their place in history as pioneers of women's sport, and lifts the lid on two lives that have been filled with sporting and political intrigue that, until now, has never been fully told.

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Download or read book Thank You for Loving Me written by Shi XiaoMi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since high school, the female lead who liked Bai Lingyu came back after living in the United States for three years, and conquered the male lead with her new face. The male lead also had a favorable impression of the female lead from high school. But their feelings were opposed by forces such as Anzhiwei. Later on, the male lead and female lead separated for a period of time due to misunderstandings, and at the same time, Gu's deep feelings caused the female lead to waver. They split up and quarreled, and deep love and strong ugliness intertwined between them.

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Download or read book The Guardian of Heaven written by Mark H. Barratt and published by Booksurge. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHANNON is the third book of the Guardian of Heaven series - 263 pages. Rejected by the world, David finds himself alone, employed in a lackluster job, and working for a true Texas character. His fate seems to have gone from bad to worse until the heavens open and a ray of sunshine illuminates his dark world. David's life soars as he finds an oasis of love in Shannon's mischievous smile, but that peace is soon shattered. When fiery Shannon learns the true fate of her remarkable new husband, she fights with all the courage and character of her soul to save the man she so desperately loves.

Download or read book The Twin Mirrors written by J. Lennington and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Walters thought she had everything she ever wanted until it all came crashing down around her. It had to be "The Pickett Curse". Nana and her family were cursed by her twin sister, Carrie, to live unhappy lives before Carrie hung herself in the barn. Rachel believed in the curse until she gazed into Carrie's wedding mirror at the reflection of Nana in an identical mirror built for Nana on her wedding day. Rachel suddenly found herself in The Valley of the Dead Trees when Nana and Carrie were mere children. Rachel was soon to learn that all was not as she had been led to believe.

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Download or read book Writing Home written by Eli Goldblatt and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the first thirty years of his life—in the classroom but mostly outside it. Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography traces Goldblatt’s search for home and his growing recognition that only through his writing life can he fully contextualize the world he inhabits. Goldblatt connects his educational journey as a poet and a teacher to his conception of literacy, and assesses his intellectual, emotional, and political development through undergraduate and postgraduate experiences alongside the social imperatives of the era. He explores his decision to leave medical school after he realized that he could not compartmentalize work and creative life or follow in his surgeon father’s footsteps. A brief first marriage rearranged his understanding of gender and sexuality, and a job teaching in an innercity school initiated him into racial politics. Literacy became a dramatic social reality when he witnessed the start of the national literacy campaign in postrevolutionary Nicaragua and spent two months finding his bearings while writing poetry in Mexico City. Goldblatt presents a thoughtful and exquisitely crafted narrative of his life to illustrate that literacy exists at the intersection of individual and social life and is practiced in relationship to others. While the concept of literacy autobiography is a common assignment in undergraduate and graduate writing courses, few books model the exercise. Writing Home helps fill that void and, with Goldblatt’s emphasis on “out of school” literacy, fosters an understanding of literacy as a social practice.