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Can you combine wanderlust and motherhood? Margo Weinstein did.For decades, Margo Weinstein escaped her demanding legal practice by kayaking, whitewater rafting, trekking, and climbing in remote regions. Then she had a son and found herself in the kiddie pool on a Disney cruise. Searching for a new path, a jalan-jalan, that could accommodate motherhood and satisfy her wanderlust, she dragged her young son to the other side of the world, moving first to Shanghai and then to Bali. Adventure seekers and armchair travelers will relish reading Weinstein's exploits as she battles baboons in Zimbabwe and surfaces under a capsized raft in Pakistan. Parents will appreciate her efforts to explore the world with a kid in tow and marvel at her expat life in a villa where a python on the stairs, a scorpion in the outdoor shower, and Hindu offerings ceremonially placed next to the infinity pool and Wi-Fi router are daily realities.Told with intelligence, humor, spirit, and Weinstein's version of practicality, Jalan-Jalan will inspire you to find your path and take the trip of a lifetime.

For many Americans who grew up in a small town, childhood and adolescence revolved around the skatepark. As time passes, however, these people drift away from skateboarding and the spaces where they learned to do it. Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay, Small Town Skateparks is the story of an adventure to discover the role skateparks play in such lives and the role they played in the author's own. Clint Carrick grew up at the skatepark. Every day of the summer, he and his friends would loaf at the dilapidated park with warped plywood ramps strewn with rusty nails. They were the outsiders of the town, or at least thought of themselves that way. They wore jeans and ripped skate shoes and felt free in their special hang out, the skatepark, where they had their own language, their own heroes, and their own views of the world. In this setting they matured from children awestruck of high school kids to bored young men desperate to get out. Clint, now an adult, rekindles these forgotten memories as he drives across the country visiting unremarkable skateparks in America's small towns. Why is he drawn to these skateparks? What is their charm? How does the skatepark function as an institution, and what is the indelible mark it leaves on those who grow in its womb? As he makes his way further west, Clint relearns how to skate. He chats with locals, crashes, bleeds, and hears a lot of stories that sound like his own. The rust begins to wear off, but questions remain. Can someone who left skating behind rediscover the activity that defined his youth? Can someone who abandoned skateboarding make the skatepark once again his home?

Surfer in the White House (and Other Salty Yarns) is a collection of hilarious and insightful experiences of a life-long surfer, drawn into politics by his love for the ocean. People Magazine said, "'Birdlegs' is a Righteous Dude." Vanity Fair called Caughlan is a "Golden State Eco Warrior." His adventures include surfing with sharks, hopping freight trains and unconventional media methods of promoting environmental causes with celebrities like Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and William Shatner. There are vivid, first-person accounts of working with President Jimmy Carter. He used his pragmatic media savvy for a who's who of American Senators and Congressional Representatives - Dianne Feinstein, Jay Rockefeller, Jackie Speier, Pete McCloskey, and Leo Ryan. As president of the Surfrider Foundation, he brought surfer muscle to battles for coastal protection. This book shows that a life of activism can be both rewarding and fun. If surfers can make a difference, anybody can.

¿¿¿¿¿LAUNCH PRICE ENDING SOON¿¿¿¿¿Skaters have attitude-they probably need to chill out.Angelika Sommer's hand-drawn designs are perfect for skaters and animal-lovers to express their creativity, relax, and have fun! Each design includes a motivational quote so that skaters can move on with their life and start living. It provides countless hours of relief for skaters and it will also provide YOU with countless hours of relief!What's so great about this book?High-quality stress-relieving designs that are perfect for relaxing. Hand-drawn skateboarding animal-themed designs. Inspirational skateboarding quotes to get you motivated. Black and white variants of each design.Single-sided pages to prevent bleed.Ideal for pen, pencil, and light markers.Perfect as a gift for young skaters or animal lovers.So, what are you waiting for! Purchase this book for yourself or as a gift for someone else and start relaxing now!

Gender, Sport and the Role of the Alter Ego in Roller Derby focuses on the resurgence of roller derby by examining the appeal and dedication to a sport that combines the masculine aggression and physicality of sport with a more feminine, or alternative, style of organizing and community building.

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One crazy year on the California coast--in 1975 a hippie skunkworks, bred in garages and shacks, launched the modern skater movement. Strap in for a wild ride replete with two car chases, two plane crashes, a massive truck bomb, Colombian narcos, the Mafia, senior White House staff, a gypsy fortuneteller, three straight-up miracles, Jacques Cousteau, big piles of cocaine and naked hippie chicks. Author John O'Malley was in the thick of it all, and he retraces the trip that starts with a bang and races to a melt-in-your-mouth ending.

This biographical anthology project chronicles some of the most interesting characters one could ever hope to have the privilege of calling friends. The Tuesday Morning Gang boasts such icons as one of the world’s fastest runners, Sports Illustrated’s "Smartest Man in Football" (soon to be enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame), surfing legends, paddling and bodysurfing champions, ingenious business pioneers, world travelers, four pilots, and a fire chief!With an ethos derived from the Southern California ocean whose liquid adhesive brought and kept them together, this group of men constitutes the gathering of some of the consummate Old-School Southern California Watermen.So sit back and enjoy this biographical journey from the beginning of the Great Depression through today’s chaotic world.

The first collected works of Hannah Nicklin: a writer, game designer and performance maker experimenting with socially engaged practices and storytelling in contemporary performance. This collection brings together three pieces made in collaboration with a series of other artists, musicians and people in the street, from 2012 to 2015. There is an introduction and commentary on each performance text, plus additional materials provided by collaborators, expanding and reflecting on the work, and how each piece was made.<BR><BR>A Conversation with my Father<BR>"[.] as topical in these days of police 'kettling' and undercover provocateurs as it might be timeless in its questioning of the basis of a functioning civic society." - Wayne Burrows<BR><BR>Songs for Breaking Britain<BR>"[.] defies the media's lucrative monopoly on our narratives [.] funny, compassionate, heart-breaking and very, very loud." - Catherine Love<BR><BR>Equations for a Moving Body<BR>"So interesting, engaging and relatable. Beautifully human." - Audience feedback in Newcastle

This rapid-paced story for young readers from best-selling author Jonathan London churns with heart-stopping adventure as rafting novice Aaron confronts more than just white water on a life-changing trip in the wilds of Utah's canyonlands.

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