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81) The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and
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Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection of classic magazines we have compiled a series of informative publications on the subject of sport. The titles in this range include 'The Sport of Rifle Shooting,' 'A Traditional Guide to Swimming and Diving,' 'The Great Sport of Rowing,' and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, 'The...
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Longtime columnist Jennaye Derge navigates life like a steep technical descent strewn with ridiculously inconvenient rocks. Only, the rocks are exercising and grocery shopping. A series of jobs slinging coffee and newspapers. Dates in a world of bros. And, well, being a woman in a time that makes that challenging enough all on its own. But through it all, she has her bicycle: her baby, her outlet, her teacher. These (mostly) funny and (always) heartfelt...
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Ever gotten lost in a book? Or on your bicycle? Or both at once, by falling through a portal on the page? Anything is possible in this collection of fifteen very short stories and one comic. Ranging from science fiction to fantasy and traveling in time from a reimagined past to the heat death of the universe, these stories combine the personal and popular power of spokes and words. Meet a young graduate who rides off to become a velo-archivist, a...
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Riding More with Less is the bike repair manual for everyone else.
Pulling away from the obsolescence and disposability so often implied within consumer economies, the book surveys experienced community bike shop mechanics worldwide to identify the best and safest repair solutions when new parts are not an option. For those already familiar with the finer arts of bicycle preservation, Riding More with Less aligns the most useful technical references...
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Extrait: "Il ne faut pas être excessif. La Fontaine disait: «Rien de trop.» La Bruyère et La Rochefoucauld ont soutenu des thèses pareilles. Mais Jonathan Shopp n'était pas de leur avis. Les plus sages raisonnements, les dilemmes les plus serrés échouaient devant l'enthousiasme naturel de son caractère. Il s'entraînait, pour ainsi dire, et se grisait de ses idées. Il fallait cet entêtement indomptable à cet excellent cœur, pour que le...
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A feminist history of bicycling for sport and adventure spans a century of women who changed the world from two wheels. This vivacious tale, peppered with fascinating details from primary sources, shows how women were sometimes the stars of bicycle races and exhibitions, and other times had to overcome sexism, exclusion, and economic inequalities in order to ride. From the almost burlesque show races and creative performances of the 19th century to...
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Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours-and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes-these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in and out of dense traffic, dodging (or sometimes failing to dodge) taxis and pedestrians alike in order to meet their clients' tight deadlines. Riding through midtown traffic at breakneck speeds is dangerous...
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6 audio discs (330 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Snowbound mystery : It's an unusual winter vacation for the Alden family when a huge snowstorm traps them in the wood! Tree house mystery: The Alden children are helping their neighbors build a tree house. Bicycle mystery : The Alden's are making the journey to their Aunt Jane's house on an overnight bicycle trip.
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The Scooter: A Resister's Vision of Life in 2050 is an optimist's view of what life could be in thirty years. It dips into humankind's past and present and predicts a future that is as bright as we want it to be. It is the story of a Frenchman who, in his quest to discover what tomorrow will bring, reads only disastrous scenarios reflecting what he perceives to be a society-wide collective depression. He gives himself a challenge. During an epic journey...
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Seeking a temporary escape from city life and a world gone mad, Alan Brown plots out a personal challenge: an epic coast-to-coast trip through the wild and lonely interior of the Highlands. He traverses paths historic and new, eschewing creature comforts and high-tech cycle gear, trusting his (mostly) serviceable bike. Armed with the essentials and a sense of adventure and curiosity, he discovers more about nature, history, people, his country, the...
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Like all boys growing up in Rome during the 1930s and 1940s, the author was expected to join the Balilla-Italy's fascist Youth Organization. With political divisions running deep in the families within his palazzo, he and his motley group of friends were recruited into the underground Resistance. Racing around Rome on bicycles, they smuggled messages and weapons for the partisans. Later, the author fled to the Italian countryside and narrowly avoided...
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Une volonté de vivre à toute épreuve malgré le handicap
Au départ, Vincent est un enfant comme les autres : une enfance sans réels problèmes, une aptitude aux études, un goût prononcé pour le sport. Mais à 18 ans, une première épreuve vient enrayer son évolution. Atteint d'un lymphme d'Hodgkin, il consacre son énergie à vaincre la maladie. Tout en poursuivant des études d'ingénieur, Il se tourne vers la haute montagne et décide...
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Can you pedal your way through everything life throws at you?
Taking on the bicycle as a means of making sense of life and death, contributors write about their experiences on a bicycle, enjoying the little things about everyday life, dealing with the most difficult, and overcoming loss, trauma, and fear. Contributions range from the lyrical to the profane, the deeply personal to the keenly analytical. Includes essays, art, and a short story.
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Bicycling as a sport, a means of transportation, and a passionate pursuit is explored here by transgender, nonbinary, and intersex authors and artists. This groundbreaking volume includes a diverse range of experiences. A woman sets off on a long-distance tour across the desert, where she finds the courage she needs to continue back at home. The executive director of a major advocacy organization walks us through his coming-out process and the precedent...
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Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles-and the United States-from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo's story of growing up Chicana in Orange County, becoming a bicycle anthropologist,...
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Many dream of dropping everything and just traveling around the world. It's a common dream, but few imagine embarking on that journey by bicycle. Exposed to the elements, legs burning, all your possessions strapped to you and your bicycle-it doesn't paint a relaxing picture, but this is just what Pierre-Yves Tremblay did.
Leaving his hometown of Chicoutimi, Quebec, in July 1994, Tremblay took a flight to Europe, and from Paris hopped on his bike...
100) Bike on, Bear!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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"Bear is an extraordinary, genius bear, who can do anything except ride a bike. Can Bear figure out how to get on two wheels?"--
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