Product Description: Pub Date: 2015-04-28 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins The candid and uplifting memoir of World Golf Hall of Fame legend. Latino role model. working mother. and wife Nancy Lopez.The 1970s were a time of sweeping social change...read more

An exciting revision of a classic book, Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys focuses on the life histories of the largest immigrant group in New York City, the youth from the Dominican Republic, the West Indies, and Haiti, to explain why girls of color are succeeding at higher rates than their male counterparts. Nancy Lopez brings to life the attitudes, feelings, and expectations of these teens, and shows that girls maintain optimistic outlooks on their lives, while boys are ambivalent about the promises of education. This fascinating account explains how and why our schools and cities are failing boys of color.

Product Description: While Latinos and Latinas are the youngest and largest U.S. minority group, they continue to be among the poorest and least educated. A major contribution of Creating Alternative Discourses in the Education of Latinos and Latinas is that it provides scholars, teachers, and practitioners with counter-hegemonic theories, methods, and pedagogies that challenge the mainstream assumptions about the education of this group...read more

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Collects the golf stories of Ben Hogan, Nancy Lopez, Dave Marr, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Ted Ray, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Tiger Woods, and Babe Zaharias. (view table of contents)

Offers golfers of all skill levels professional advice--from basic fundamentals and equipment choice to precise club-by-club shot-making and strategies for better play--for taking shots off their game

Covers equipment choice, shotmaking, basics of swing, strategy, and competing, with special sections on nutrition, women, and teaching children

The pro golfer who won Rookie of the Year, Golfer of the Year, and Female Athlete of the Year all in the same year describes her golf education in terms of philosophy, biology, psychology, and chemistry