Resultados para "Air" en Mujeres

¿Quién es la jugadora con más Balones de Oro? ¿Sabías que en La Coruña hubo una chica que creó su propio equipo y que encima le puso su nombre? ¿A qué futbolista descubrieron en la playa? ¿Qué jugadoras han puesto de moda el pelo morado y las trenzas? ¿Qué estudian en la universidad las futbolistas? ¿Quiénes son Las Matildas? Todo eso y mucho más es lo que vas a descubrir en las páginas de este libro. Cada capítulo cuenta la historia de una jugadora o árbitra (porque ellas también están en el partido).

When Lu Spinney's 29-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, "he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp," writes his mother, "skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead.... " He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma. Thus begins the erratic loss - Miles first in a coma and then trapped in a fluctuating state of minimal consciousness - that unravels over the next five years.

Este audiolibro es la crónica de primera mano del intento de Serena Williams de regresar a la primera línea del tenis tras dar a luz a su hija, y también un análisis cultural de la atleta femenina más importante de su tiempo. Su biografía examina quién es ella tanto dentro como fuera de la cancha, y para ello el autor se convierte en su sombra a lo largo de toda la temporada 2019, desde Melbourne y el Open de Australia hasta Roland-Garros, Wimbledon y US Open.

Mandy Smith spent 12 years strutting down the aisles as a Virgin flight attendant. From projectile vomit and celebrity tantrums to Manhattans and shopping in New York, her tales of life in the air are riotous good fun. Set against a backdrop of exotic locations, the cast of characters includes several celebrities, including Sir Richard himself. In-flight entertainment has never been so fun...and risqué!

In 1930, at the age of twenty-seven, Liesl Herbst was the Austrian National Tennis Champion, a celebrity in Vienna. Liesl, her husband David and their daughter Dorli came to Britain after escaping the Nazis. In London, though initially stripped of their Austrian passports and rendered stateless aliens, both Liesl and her daughter Dorli competed at Wimbledon. They remain the only mother and daughter ever to have played doubles together at Wimbledon.

Amelia Earhart captured the hearts and imaginations of people around the world when she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane. This audiobook, her personal account of the historic flight, sparkles with her high-spirited charm and adventurous determination.

It’s the sixties. Everything’s groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the author’s young life. She doesn’t swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesn’t protest the Vietnam War or fight for women’s rights. Instead, from age seven to sixteen, she accompanies her father to a dilapidated barn on the edge of a dusty little town located on the outskirts of San Francisco, where she works after school building a ship that is supposed to set her free.

Da quando a sette anni è salita per la prima volta sul tatami, Sara Cardin non ha mai smesso di combattere. Dalle prime gare a livello locale, quando si impone all'attenzione degli allenatori per il suo talento, alle sfide più importanti, oggi Sara Cardin vanta 20 titoli italiani, 7 Assoluti, svariate medaglie d'oro ai Campionati Europei e alle Premier League, e soprattutto il podio più importante della sua vita, nel 2014: Campionessa del mondo di karate. Oltre alle battaglie sul campo, questo audiolibro avvincente, che è più di una biografia.

Twenty-year-old American gymnast Shawn Johnson is a four-time Olympic gold and silver medalist; a national- and world-champion athlete. Already a popular role model to all ages, in 2009 she captured the national spotlight again when she won on the widely popular Dancing with the Stars. Yet Shawn is no stranger to hard work and adversity.

In this memoir–a mix of poetry, prose, and storytelling–Leena Magdi describes a mind altered by grief. Exploring the sudden loss of her brother and the war in Sudan, readers dive headfirst into Leena’s world.

Although this is a book about life as a flight attendant with the world’s most iconic and glamorous airline, Pan American World Airways, it is not just a chronology of airborne events. Instead it begins with Betty Riegel’s description of leaving her home in the middle of the night, clutching her teddy and running with her Mother to an air raid shelter during war torn London. From humble working-class roots, growing up with a mother who struggled to make ends meet and a father away at war, she had always dreamed of bigger things.

This is a testimonial to the true witness of God's love and forgiveness as you follow Karen's journey. Karen starts her life with innocent dreams that only become shattered when she wanted nothing more than to find the love of her life and God's will. Karen experiences true heartbreak, sadness, and an intense fight for her mental and spiritual survival as she meets and discards the men in her life. The overpowering male relationships make her question herself over and over as she battles herself, God, and if she is "good enough" for His love and forgiveness.

Castles in the Air is a beautifully written, autobiographical story of rescuing an ancient mansion. Gwydir Castle was inhabited by ravers and rats until Judy Corbett and her husband Peter Welford found and acquired this 500-year-old house mouldering in the foothills of Snowdonia. Despite the...

Isabelle Tronquet est hôtesse de l'air. En vingt ans de carrière, elle en a vu des vertes et des pas mûres. L'alcool, la claustrophobie ou encore la peur de l'avion révèlent, parfois, nos plus bas instincts... Pour chacune des 110 histoires, vous allez (enfin) savoir ce que pensent vraiment hôtesses et stewards quand les passagers dépassent les bornes ! Installez-vous confortablement pour déguster ce cocktail céleste mélangeant crises de nerfs, sexe, règlements de compte et belles histoires...

Live the dream with Turi Ryder, a music jock and talk host on major-market stations from Chicago to Los Angeles, with stops in Minneapolis, Portland, and San Francisco along the way. This darkly comical, bitingly accurate, and lovingly fictionalized memoir will ring true for anyone who has longed for both a creative life and a family to come home to.

María Carolina Hoyos Turbay tenía 18 años cuando se enteró por la radio de la operación autorizada por el entonces presidente César Gaviria para intentar liberar a su mamá, secuestrada por Pablo Escobar. Horas después, luego de un rescate fallido y frente al cuerpo sin vida de Diana Turbay, su hija le prometió que nunca más volvería a sonreír. Tuvieron que pasar muchos años, muchas lágrimas y mucho dolor para que María Carolina decidiera incumplir esa promesa, retomar su vida e intentar ser feliz.

You Are the First You tells the story of Whitney Holtzman’s journey through the sports and marketing world as a female entrepreneur, and the lessons she learned along the way. Whitney’s career in pro sports has included stops at ESPN and Major League Baseball, in addition to working for entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk at VaynerMedia. Her passion is at the intersection of sports and making the world a better place, which was showcased when she then joined RISE, a racial equality nonprofit with every pro sports league on the board.

While the household was buffeted by the coach's tumultuous firings and hirings, which periodically propelled the family to a new city, Jennifer dreamed of being the first female quarterback in the NFL. But as she grew, she yearned mostly to be someone that her father would notice. In a world where only football mattered, what could she strive for, who could she become?

Narrow Margins is the true story of one family's journey from the financial crash of the Rover car company to an alternative and better lifestyle. Faced with the loss of everything - the house, the cars, and more importantly, their rather lazy and indolent lifestyle - Marie Browne and her family took on the challenge of a whole new way of life. Strapped for cash, the family buy a decrepit 70ft barge called Happy Go Lucky which had been run as a floating hotel.

Jools Walker rediscovered cycling aged 28 after a decade-long absence from the saddle. When she started blogging about her cycle adventures under the alias Lady Vélo, a whole world was opened up to her. But it's hard to find space in an industry not traditionally open to women - especially women of colour. Shortly after getting back on two wheels, Jools was diagnosed with depression and then, in her early 30s, hit by a mini-stroke. Yet, through all of these punctures, one constant remained: Jools' love of cycling.