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  • The Three-Year Swim Club

    The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

    de Julie Checkoway ...
    The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers."A brightly told story of the triumph of underdogs ... exuberant, well-researched ... tense, vivid, and inspiring." ―Kirkus ReviewsIn 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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    The Three-Year Swim Club

    The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

    de Julie Checkoway ...
    Narrado por Alex Chadwick ...

    Completo

    14 hora 48 minutos

    The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers."A brightly told story of the triumph of underdogs ... exuberant, well-researched ... tense, vivid, and inspiring." ―Kirkus ReviewsIn 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Transforming Undergraduate Education

    Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed

    de Jann H. Adams, Jerzy Axer, Kenneth R. Bain, Randall J. Bass, Thomas Bender, Dessa Bergen-Cico, Joyce A. Bylander, Kent John Chabotar, Barry N. Checkoway, Catherine A. Crosby-Currie, Richard A. Detweiler, Ashley P. Finley, Cassia Freedland, Richard Guarasci, Debra Humphreys, Bruce Keith, Julie J. Kidd, Phyllis Lane, William M. Loker, Theodore E. Long, Linda J. Major, Michael V. McGill, Elizabeth McHugh, Mindy McWilliams, Sally Engelhard Pingree, Alice (Jill) N. Reich, Joan B. Riley, Daniel Tad Roach, David M. Scobey, Valerie I. Sessa, Shalom Staub, Catharine R. Stimpson, Lynn E. Swaner, Cynthia Wolf, Christine Zimmerman, Nancy D.Mitchell, Carol Geary Schneider, John K. Haynes, William M. Sullivan, Adrianna J. Kezar, Devorah Lieberman ...
    For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and encouragement. And for those who are pausing—looking positively but cautiously at what needs to ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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    A Map of Future Ruins

    On Borders and Belonging

    de Lauren Markham ...
    Narrado por Gilli Messer ...

    Completo

    7 hora 22 minutos

    “This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we’ve been told—and told ourselves—in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we’ve come to understand as order.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy ExamsWhen and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West’s idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Boiling River

    Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon

    de Andrés Ruzo ...
    Series series TED Books
    In this exciting adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon—where rivers boil and legends come to life.When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years later, Ruzo—now a ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Sky Lantern

    The Story of a Father's Love for His Children and the Healing Power of the Smallest Act of Kindness

    de Matt Mikalatos ...
    A compassionate memoir about a father’s relationship with his children, the healing power of a small act of kindness, and the proof that love is everlasting.Love you, Dad. Miss you so much. Steph.A brokenhearted daughter scribbled those words on a sky lantern before sending it off to her father in heaven who had passed away. Halfway across the country, Steph’s lantern landed in Matt Mikalatos’s ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Into the Abyss

    An Extraordinary True Story

    de Carol Shaben ...
    Read the "gripping and emotionally affecting" book where four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to (Washington Post).On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Three Against the Wilderness

    de Eric Collier ...
    Timeless tales about wilderness living.Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent homesteading in the isolated Chilcotin wilderness made for an international bestseller and one of the most famous books ever written about British Columbia.In the early 1930s, Collier and his family moved to Meldrum Creek, where the couple built their own ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Girl in the Woods

    A Memoir

    de Aspen Matis ...
    Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • But You Did Not Come Back

    A Memoir

    de Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Judith Perrignon ...
    A French woman's heartrending account of her survival in a WWII Nazi concentration camp—and a tribute to her father who died there.A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust. It is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Happier Than A Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week

    de Nadine Hays Pisani ...
    TWO PLANE TICKETS, NO PLAN, ONE DREAM Happier Than A Billionaire shares one couple's celebration of risking it all for the dream of living a happier life. In this humorous and witty account, Nadine Pisani shares what it is like to follow her dream of quitting her job and starting a new life under the sunny skies of Costa Rica. Along the way, she finds reliable utilities are not that reliable, ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Two-Family House

    A Novel

    de Lynda Cohen Loigman ...
    "An emotional but dreamy novel that...will transport you far, far away from your next dreary Monday morning. You may do a lot of sobbing, but don't worry, you'll be smiling by the end." —Bustle, "12 Spring Break Reads To Help You Escape Normal Life"****Buzzfeed, "14 Of The Most Buzzed-About Books"**Popsugar, "6 Books You Should Read"**"A novel you won't be able to put down." —Diane Chamberlain, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD