Wheels For Walking

Author : Sandra Richmond
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554981915

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Wheels for Walking by Sandra Richmond Pdf

Sally and Brian are in love. But at the end of a wonderful ski weekend together, a car accident leaves Sally fully paralyzed for life. This powerful, honest book tells of Sally's struggle immediately following the accident as she goes through rehabilitation. Her anger, her flirtation with drugs, and a dangerously angry fellow patient, and her slow, hesitant journey to finding a way to live with her new reality make this one of the strongest portraits of a life-transforming disability ever published for young adults. Yet the story and the author's life offer hope. Far too many young people continue to become paraplegic and quadriplegic in car accidents, diving accidents and other risk-taking behavior. This book lays no blame and makes no promises. But it shows that a way forward can be found.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0812463285

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Wheels for Walking-CC by Anonim Pdf

Author : Judith Buxton-Keenlyside
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772823981

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Selected Canadian spinning wheels in perspective by Judith Buxton-Keenlyside Pdf

Reprinted by popular demand, this study of Canadian spinning wheels in the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, demonstrates their broad variation by period, region and manufacturer. The discussion focuses on the wheel-driven spindle but also includes the very popular hand-driven spindle. Both Aboriginal and European spinning traditions are described.

Author : Sandra Richmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0888990227

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Wheels for Walking by Sandra Richmond Pdf

Author : M. Ann Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773555327

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Muscle on Wheels by M. Ann Hall Pdf

The majestic high-wheel bicycle, with its spider wheels and rubber tires, emerged in the mid-1870s as the standard bicycle. A common misconception is that, bound by Victorian dress and decorum, women were unable to ride it, only taking up cycling in the 1880s with the advent of the chain-driven safety bicycle. On the contrary, women had been riding and even racing some form of the bicycle since the first vélocipèdes appeared in Europe early in the nineteenth century. Challenging the understanding that bicycling was a purely masculine sport, Muscle on Wheels tells the story of women's high-wheel racing in North America in the 1880s and early 1890s, with a focus on a particular cyclist: Louise Armaindo (1857–1900). Among Canada's first women professional athletes and the first woman who was truly successful as a high-wheel racer, Armaindo began her career as a strongwoman and trapeze artist in Chicago in the 1870s before discovering high-wheel bicycle racing. Initially she competed against men, but as more women took up the sport, she raced them too. Although Armaindo is the star of Muscle on Wheels, the book is also about other women cyclists and the many men – racers, managers, trainers, agents, bookmakers, sport administrators, and editors of influential cycling magazines – who controlled the sport, especially in the United States. The story of working-class Victorian women who earned a living through their athletic talent, Muscle on Wheels showcases an exciting moment in women's and athletic history that is often forgotten or misconstrued.

Author : Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555010600

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The Repertory of arts and manufactures [afterw.] arts, manufactures and agriculture by Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1748 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000065837559

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Kazuya Yoshida,Satoshi Tadokoro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642406867

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Field and Service Robotics by Kazuya Yoshida,Satoshi Tadokoro Pdf

FSR, the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, is the leading single track conference of robotics for field and service applications. This book presents the results of FSR2012, the eighth conference of Field and Service Robotics, which was originally planned for 2011 with the venue of Matsushima in Tohoku region of Japan. However, on March 11, 2011, a magnitude M9.0 earthquake occurred off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, and a large-scale disaster was caused by the Tsunami which resulted, therefore the conference was postponed by one year to July, 2012. In fact, this earthquake raised issues concerning the contribution of field and service robotics technology to emergency scenarios. A number of precious lessons were learned from operation of robots in the resulting, very real and challenging, disaster environments. Up-to-date study on disaster response, relief and recovery was then featured in the conference. This book offers 43 papers on a broad range of topics including: Disaster Response, Service/Entertainment Robots, Inspection/Maintenance Robots, Mobile Robot Navigation, Agricultural Robots, Robots for Excavation, Planetary Exploration, Large Area Mapping, SLAM for Outdoor Robots, and Elemental Technology for Mobile Robots.

Author : Long Chen,Yong Kang Zhang,Ai Xin Feng,Zhen Ying Xu,Bo Quan Li,Han Shen
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783038135258

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Advance in Mechatronics Technology by Long Chen,Yong Kang Zhang,Ai Xin Feng,Zhen Ying Xu,Bo Quan Li,Han Shen Pdf

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The present volume comprises a collection of peer-reviewed papers covering a wealth of innovations and practical experience in the fields of mechatronics and MEMS, advanced laser manufacturing and testing technology, control theory, methods and application, robotics and electrical control, smart materials, structures and instruments, transducers, actuators and mechanisms, machine dynamics, simulation and signal process, computers, communications and network techniques, bio-manufacturing and bionics, new theories and techniques of design and manufacturing, HSM and NTM, advanced techniques and devices of electronics manufacturing, production technologies of fiber materials and textile industries, LDAC air conditioning new technology and materials, and automobile electronics for inter-vehicle sensor networks.

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2620 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002657219

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by USA Patent Office Pdf

Author : Eva McCracken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 0954441680

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Walking on Wheels by Eva McCracken Pdf

This volume is a guide for wheelchair or electric scooter users who wish to enjoy the Scottish countryside. It provides the reader with a practical guide to the degree of difficulty and the sights and attractions which the wheelchair or electric scooter user might encounter.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1824 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Copyright
ISBN : WISC:89081493850

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The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy Withers,Daniel P. Shea
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780803290457

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Culture on Two Wheels by Jeremy Withers,Daniel P. Shea Pdf

Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as “vehicles” for that text’s themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect with nature and for women to gain a measure of personal freedom, while during World War II it became a utilitarian tool of the French Resistance and in 1970s China stood for wealth and modernization. Lately it has functioned variously as the favored ideological steed of environmentalists, a means of community bonding and aesthetic self-expression in hip hop, and the ride of choice for bike messenger–idolizing urban hipsters. Culture on Two Wheels analyzes the shifting cultural significance of the bicycle by examining its appearances in literary, musical, and cinematic works spanning three continents and more than 125 years of history. Bringing together essays by a variety of cyclists and scholars with myriad angles of approach, this collection highlights the bicycle’s flexibility as a signifier and analyzes the appearance of bicycles in canonical and well-known texts such as Samuel Beckett’s modernist novel Molloy, the Oscar-winning film Breaking Away, and various Stephen King novels and stories, as well as in lesser-known but equally significant texts, such as the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Sacrifice and Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s nineteenth-century travelogue A Canterbury Pilgrimage, the latter of which traces the route of Chaucer’s pilgrims via bicycle. Listen to an interview with the author.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Agricultural machinery
ISBN : UCAL:$B657785

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Farm Implement News Buyer's Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. Ann Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773555334

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Muscle on Wheels by M. Ann Hall Pdf

The majestic high-wheel bicycle, with its spider wheels and rubber tires, emerged in the mid-1870s as the standard bicycle. A common misconception is that, bound by Victorian dress and decorum, women were unable to ride it, only taking up cycling in the 1880s with the advent of the chain-driven safety bicycle. On the contrary, women had been riding and even racing some form of the bicycle since the first vélocipèdes appeared in Europe early in the nineteenth century. Challenging the understanding that bicycling was a purely masculine sport, Muscle on Wheels tells the story of women's high-wheel racing in North America in the 1880s and early 1890s, with a focus on a particular cyclist: Louise Armaindo (1857–1900). Among Canada's first women professional athletes and the first woman who was truly successful as a high-wheel racer, Armaindo began her career as a strongwoman and trapeze artist in Chicago in the 1870s before discovering high-wheel bicycle racing. Initially she competed against men, but as more women took up the sport, she raced them too. Although Armaindo is the star of Muscle on Wheels, the book is also about other women cyclists and the many men – racers, managers, trainers, agents, bookmakers, sport administrators, and editors of influential cycling magazines – who controlled the sport, especially in the United States. The story of working-class Victorian women who earned a living through their athletic talent, Muscle on Wheels showcases an exciting moment in women's and athletic history that is often forgotten or misconstrued.