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Age Is Just a Number

Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

By: Dara Torres,Elizabeth Weil

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Age Is Just a Number

Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

By: Dara Torres,Elizabeth Weil

From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams. Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. When she took three silver medals in Beijing—including a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the gold medalist in the women’s 50-meter freestyle—America loved her all the more for her astonishing achievement and her good-natured acceptance of the results. Now, in Age Is Just a Number, Dara reveals how the dream of an Olympic comeback first came to her—when she was months into her first, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned to serious training—while nursing her infant daughter and contending with her beloved father’s long battle with cancer. Dara talks frankly about diving back in for this comeback; about being an older athlete in a younger athletes’ game; about competition, doubt, and belief; about working through pain and uncertainty; and finally—about seizing the moment and, most important, never giving up. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate with women of all ages—and with anyone daring to entertain a seemingly impossible dream.

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Crown

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0767931912

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9780767931915

Gold Medal Fitness

A Revolutionary 5-Week Program

By: Dara Torres

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Gold Medal Fitness

A Revolutionary 5-Week Program

By: Dara Torres

Dara Torres has been to the Olympics five times, she's won twelve medals, and now, at the age of 42, she still competes with girls half her age and is one of the most celebrated swimmers of all time. But you don't need to list her accolades to understand why people admire her athleticism so much—just look at her! Perfect abs, enviable arms—she's as strong as can be and continues to redefine established wisdom about staying in shape at any age. So, what's her secret? In Gold Medal Fitness you'll find all of Torres's tips for getting back into the game and staying in shape for many years to come. Her unique combination of stretching and strengthening exercises both tone and elongate your muscles, leaving you with that perfectly sculpted and slender shape. And in this revolutionary 5-week program, she's adapted her workout plan for you! Torres will take you step by step through a nutrition plan to prepare for the workouts. She'll walk you through the strengthening and stretching exercises, including the Ki-Hara method that has transformed her body. She'll give you hints on how to enjoy your cardiovascular activities. And, finally, she'll share her wisdom about rest and recovery and why it is as essential for your body as your training. Whether you're looking to lose those last ten pounds or get back into a sport that you used to love, Gold Medal Fitness will produce the results that you want, reignite how you feel in your own skin, and change your lifestyle.

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Harmony

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0767931963

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9780767931960

Age Is Just a Number

Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

By: Dara Torres,Elizabeth Weil

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A Revolutionary 5-Week Program

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Out of Bounds

Islands and the Demarcation of Identity in the Hispanic Caribbean

By: Dara E. Goldman

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Out of Bounds

Islands and the Demarcation of Identity in the Hispanic Caribbean

By: Dara E. Goldman

Out of Bounds teases out the intricacies of a territorial conception of nationhood in the context of a global reorganization that ostensibly renders historical boundaries irrelevant. Hispanic Caribbean writers have traditionally pointed toward the supposed perfect equivalence of island and nation and have explained local culture as a direct consequence of that equation. The major social, political, and demographic shifts of the twentieth century increasingly call this equation into question, yet authors continue to assert its existence and its centrality in the evolution of Caribbean identity. The author contends that traditional forms of identification have not been eviscerated by globalization; instead, they have persisted and, in some cases, have been intensified by recent geopolitical shifts. Out of Bounds underscores the ongoing role of the nation as the site of identity formation. In this manner, the book presents Hispanic Caribbean cultural production as a case study that acutely dramatizes the paradoxical status of traditional demarcations of self-definition in an increasingly globalized context.

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258

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Associated University Presse

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0838756778

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9780838756775

Cheap Bastard'sTM Guide to Miami

Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Less!

By: Dara Bramson

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Cheap Bastard'sTM Guide to Miami

Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Less!

By: Dara Bramson

Miami is full of free and ridiculously cheap stuff—one just needs to know where to look. Leave it to “The Cheap Bastard” to uncover all the ins and outs and exclusive bargains to be had, and to set forth the real deal with wit and humor.

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294

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762767154

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9780762767151

Insiders' Guide® to Miami

By: Dara Bramson

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Insiders' Guide® to Miami

By: Dara Bramson

A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Miami is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Florida's top tropical destination. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Miami and its surrounding environs.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762768231

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9780762768233

The Ecology of Herbal Medicine

A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest

By: Dara Saville

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The Ecology of Herbal Medicine

A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest

By: Dara Saville

The Ecology of Herbal Medicine introduces botanical medicine through an in-depth exploration of the land, presenting a unique guide to plants found across the American Southwest. An accomplished herbalist and geographer, Dara Saville offers readers an ecological manual for developing relationships with the land and plants in a new theoretical approach to using herbal medicines. Designed to increase our understanding of plants’ rapport with their environment, this trailblazing herbal speaks to our innate connection to place and provides a pathway to understanding the medicinal properties of plants through their ecological relationships. With thirty-nine plant profiles and detailed color photographs, Saville provides an extensive materia medica in which she offers practical tools and information alongside inspiration for working with plants in a way that restores our connection to the natural world.

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588

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826362184

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9780826362186

When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People

Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America

By: Dara Z. Strolovitch

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When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People

Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America

By: Dara Z. Strolovitch

A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States. From the climate crisis to the opioid crisis to the Coronavirus crisis, the language of crisis is everywhere around us and ubiquitous in contemporary American politics and policymaking. But for every problem that political actors describe as a crisis, there are myriad other equally serious ones that are not described in this way. Why has the term crisis been associated with some problems but not others? What has crisis come to mean, and what work does it do? In When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People, Dara Z. Strolovitch brings a critical eye to the taken-for-granted political vernacular of crisis. Using systematic analyses to trace the evolution of the use of the term crisis by both political elites and outsiders, Strolovitch unpacks the idea of “crisis” in contemporary politics and demonstrates that crisis is itself an operation of politics. She shows that racial justice activists innovated the language of crisis in an effort to transform racism from something understood as natural and intractable and to cast it instead as a policy problem that could be remedied. Dominant political actors later seized on the language of crisis to compel the use of state power, but often in ways that compounded rather than alleviated inequality and injustice. In this eye-opening and important book, Strolovitch demonstrates that understanding crisis politics is key to understanding the politics of racial, gender, and class inequalities in the early twenty-first century.

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421

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University of Chicago Press

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022679881X

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9780226798813

Affirmative Advocacy

Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics

By: Dara Z. Strolovitch

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Affirmative Advocacy

Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics

By: Dara Z. Strolovitch

The United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups that are marginalized in national politics, from women to racial minorities to the poor. Here, in the first systematic study of these organizations, Dara Z. Strolovitch explores the challenges and opportunities they face in the new millennium, as waning legal discrimination coincides with increasing political and economic inequalities within the populations they represent. Drawing on rich new data from a survey of 286 organizations and interviews with forty officials, Strolovitch finds that groups too often prioritize the interests of their most advantaged members: male rather than female racial minorities, for example, or affluent rather than poor women. But Strolovitch also finds that many organizations try to remedy this inequity, and she concludes by distilling their best practices into a set of principles that she calls affirmative advocacy—a form of representation that aims to overcome the entrenched but often subtle biases against people at the intersection of more than one marginalized group. Intelligently combining political theory with sophisticated empirical methods, Affirmative Advocacy will be required reading for students and scholars of American politics.

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355

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University of Chicago Press

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0226777456

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9780226777450

Social Work and Human Services Responsibilities in a Time of Climate Change

Country, Community and Complexity

By: Amanda Howard,Margot Rawsthorne,Pam Joseph,Mareese Terare,Dara Sampson,Meaghan Katrak Harris

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Social Work and Human Services Responsibilities in a Time of Climate Change

Country, Community and Complexity

By: Amanda Howard,Margot Rawsthorne,Pam Joseph,Mareese Terare,Dara Sampson,Meaghan Katrak Harris

This book provides an accessible, research-informed text for students, social workers and other social service workers and community development workers focused on practically linking climate change to social justice. The book is designed for: Those who want to embed an understanding of climate change and its social justice impacts in their everyday practice Those keen to explore the explicit but also often invisible ways we see injustice playing out and exacerbated by climate change Those interested in embarking on research and action which addresses climate change in an inclusive, creative and fair way Utilising existing and current research with organisations, government and communities, it examines key themes and contexts where work has been done and where more work is needed to design and implement inclusive and just action on climate change. With a core position revolving around the idea and practice of justice – for earth and everything that lives here, it draws on First Nations worldviews, critical analysis, community-led approaches and complexity theory, to outline some practical ways to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change as well as a strategy to reshape our life and work for the longer term. It will be required reading for all scholars, students and professionals of social work, social welfare, community development, international development, community health and environmental and community education.

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206

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Taylor & Francis

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100078259X

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9781000782592

Using Language, Fiction, and Story in Social Work Education

By: Dara Sampson,Amanda Howard

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Using Language, Fiction, and Story in Social Work Education

By: Dara Sampson,Amanda Howard

This book provides an accessible, research-informed text for social work educators, students, and practitioners interested in the use of story to engender the connection of human experiences with ideas, theories, and skills. A broad lens is also taken to the ways in which fiction has been used as a teaching tool in other degrees, ranging from medicine to engineering to philosophy and economics. Although the research explored is social work specific, this text has applicability for any educator looking for creative methods to teach complex theories, skills, and concepts. Showing how fiction can be used in social work education, it explains why story matters to social work and how fiction can emulate these stories, as well as the capacity of fiction to evoke empathy. Ways in which educators can enlist fiction to create a ‘safe space’ for the exploration of complex emotional terrain are explored, as are the ways in which a community of practice can be created through fiction. Woven within the end of every chapter are some practice examples and author conversations which work to locate the research into a practice context. The text concludes with examples of how fiction has been effectively utilised by the authors, in order to provide a starting point for those interested in exploring this pedagogical approach further.

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188

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Taylor & Francis

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1003811744

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9781003811749

Telehealth in Urology - E-Book

By: Dara Lundon

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Telehealth in Urology - E-Book

By: Dara Lundon

Offering significant benefits to both healthcare providers and patients, telehealth is a key component in the future of urology and patient care. Telehealth in Urology is a step-by-step, illustrated guide for clinicians who are beginning a telehealth offering or are interested in adopting new digital technologies—all specific and relevant to today's urology practice. It covers the key information you need to know—from necessary equipment to the practice team—with clear explanations of how you can best use telemedicine to provide timely, effective care to every patient. - Explains how to establish and conduct telehealth consultations and describes the growing number of options in telehealth diagnostics, patient monitoring, and digital therapeutics. - Offers practical examples of conducting telehealth visits for common adult and pediatric urological complaints, for both benign and malignant conditions. - Guides readers step by step through the many practical challenges of telemedicine for clinicians, patients, and practices, and describes the opportunities that lay ahead for the field. - Covers regulatory, compliance, and technical principles of telehealth devices and applications for use in urology, including key topics such as data protection, patient privacy, e-prescribing, remote diagnostics and monitoring, and much more.

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148

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323874819

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9780323874816

Muzzling a Movement

The Effects of Anti-terrorism Law, Money, and Politics on Animal Activism

By: Dara Lovitz

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Muzzling a Movement

The Effects of Anti-terrorism Law, Money, and Politics on Animal Activism

By: Dara Lovitz

In Muzzling the Movement, lawyer Dara Lovitz presents an in-depth and tightly argued analysis of the case of the SHAC-7. She reveals the history behind the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, examines the tendentious and speculative government case against the SHAC activists, and in so doing shows how the U.S. government has deeply compromised the freedom of speech and protest enshrined in the Constitution. The ability to protest peacefully and to voice unpopular opinions without being arrested and imprisoned arbitrarily are cornerstones of the U.S. Constitution, and are the reasons why, in spite of the many limitations imposed upon sectors of its society over the centuries, the dominant order has been forced to change to allow people of color, women, and others to take their place in society. Animals raised for their flesh or body products, however, remain without even the most basic natural rights: to move around, to associate with their conspecifics, to breathe clean air, and to nest or wallow or graze. They have no choice but to rely, as do all non-human animals, on human beings to speak up for them and articulate those basic rights, as well as to challenge those who are either indifferent to, or actively complicit in harming, their welfare. Since the passage of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) in 2006, however, the ability to document abuses, draw attention to the horrors, and raise public awareness about the suffering of animals in factory farms or scientific laboratories has been substantially curtailed. Muzzling the Movement is an in-depth and tightly argued analysis of the case of the SHAC-7, the organization whose supposed activities ultimately led to the passage of the AETA. Lawyer Dara Lovitz reveals the history behind the AETA, examines the tendentious and speculative government case against the SHAC activists, and in so doing shows how the U.S. government has deeply compromised the freedom of speech and protest enshrined in the Constitution.

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Lantern Books

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1590561767

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Age Is Just a Number

Age Is Just a Number

Gold Medal Fitness

Gold Medal Fitness

Age Is Just a Number

Age Is Just a Number

Gold Medal Fitness

Gold Medal Fitness

Out of Bounds

Out of Bounds

Cheap Bastard'sTM Guide to Miami

Cheap Bastard'sTM Guide to Miami

Insiders' Guide® to Miami

Insiders' Guide® to Miami

The Ecology of Herbal Medicine

The Ecology of Herbal Medicine

When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People

When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People

Affirmative Advocacy

Affirmative Advocacy

Social Work and Human Services Responsibilities in a Time of Climate Change

Social Work and Human Services Responsibilities in a Time of Climate Change

Using Language, Fiction, and Story in Social Work Education

Using Language, Fiction, and Story in Social Work Education

Telehealth in Urology - E-Book

Telehealth in Urology - E-Book

Muzzling a Movement

Muzzling a Movement

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