Author : Penelope Niven
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156027076
The author uses metaphors, such as floating, treading water, and swimming with all your might to share her insight on how to live life.
Author : Yoko Ogawa
Publisher : Picador
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429924950
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool--a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination--but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's? A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg. Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.
Author : Amanda Lanser
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1474711448
Author : American National Red Cross
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Diving
ISBN :
Author : Allan Morey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2015-09
Category : Diving
ISBN : 9781607538097
Presents information about swimming and diving in the Olympics including different types of swimming strokes, different diving events, and synchronized swimming.
Author : Max Charles Munson
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 2021-06-20
Category :
ISBN :
When a chance conversation at lunch leads former, age-group swimmer Max Munson back to the water, he rediscovers the benefits of swimming both in competition and for his own pleasure and satisfaction. Diving Back In tells the story of a swimmer who hung up his goggles in frustration 30 years ago and finds a way to return to the pool. Keeping his ego at bay and focusing on the joys of the process, he found more to enjoy in maturity than he ever did in his youth. Telling his story, author Munson describes the array of advantages available to anyone who swims regularly, whether in competition or for the workout. Masters pool competitions, distance swim races, freezing swims in lakes and rivers -- Max describes them all in language that is inviting, helpful, and encouraging. His story leads the reader to the water and all it offers, including mood elevation, health benefits, a chance for active meditation, and improved well-being. If you have ever enjoyed diving into a pool or swimming out deep into a lake or challenging the current of a river, this book is for you.
Author : George Hebden Corsan
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Swimming
ISBN :
Author : Lou Stoppard
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 084786586X
A celebratory ode to the joy and enduring allure of the swimming pool, and a gorgeous photography book to accompany poolside daydreaming. Glamorous, seductive, and fun, made for lounging, frolicking, splashing, dipping, diving, floating, and escaping, swimming pools are symbols of both sport and leisure and conjure images of well-oiled bodies, colorful bikinis, and glimmering blue waters on hot summer days. Muse to writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers, the swimming pool's careless opulence is splashed across the pages of this book in gorgeous images by contemporary photographers. In her second book for Rizzoli, curator, writer, and avid swimmer Lou Stoppard offers the promise of sunshine and the seduction of youth in her edit of some of the best contemporary swimming-pool photography. Organized by theme, from the glamour of the poolside party to the simple, meditative pleasure of being in the water, the selected photographs are as inspiring as they are moving. Photographers whose images are featured in this book include Sølve Sundsbø, Glen Luchford, Stephen Shore, Mert & Marcus, Diana Markosian, Martin Parr, Martine Franck, Alex Webb, Alice Hawkins, and Nick Knight. This is the perfect gift purchase for photography fans, swimmers, and lovers of leisure.
Author : Lynn Sherr
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1610390466
Explores the nature and appeal of swimming, from the history of the strokes to aspects of modern Olympic competition, as well as the author's personal experiences and milestones in the sport.
Author : Lilli Ahrendt
Publisher : Meyer & Meyer Verlag
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Swimming
ISBN : 1841260770
A handbook for parents and course instructors on baby swimming. It contains basic knowledge gained from practical experience as well as scientific findings on how babies can be encouraged and furthered in all senses from an early age through baby swimming. The specifically developed teaching concept, the Grip ABC, the water-pouring diving method and numerous ideas for movement and games are all presented here. The author also explores who can take part in baby swimming, how this course is run and what one must pay attention to when in the water with a baby. There is also critical discussion of the questions of why a child can be furthered in the water, why the element of water can rouse our bodies and senses in a special way, and why it is a good idea to get a baby used to the water.
