Tag: Pioneering

American Wings Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 059332398X | 384 Pages | EPUB | 34 MB
In the years between World War I and World War II, aviation fever was everywhere, including among Black Americans. But what hope did a Black person have of learning to fly in a country constricted by prejudice and Jim Crow laws, where Black aviators like Bessie Coleman had to move to France to earn their wings?

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The Personalized Diet The Pioneering Program to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease (2024)


Free Download Eran Segal PhD, Eran Elinav MD PhD, Eve Adamson, "The Personalized Diet: The Pioneering Program to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1478918802 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 9.4 mb
A paradigm-shifting diet book that explains why one-size-fits-all diets don’t work and helps readers customize their diet to lose weight and improve health.

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Unflinching Courage Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas


Free Download Kay Bailey Hutchison, "Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas"
English | 2013 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0062130692, 0062130714 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
In Unflinching Courage, former United States Senator and New York Times bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison brings to life the incredible stories of the resourceful and brave women who shaped the state of Texas and influenced American history.

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Calling Detective Crockford The Story of a Pioneering Policewoman in the 1950s [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CFN74GH8 | 2023 | 10 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Ruth D’Alessandro
Narrator: Rachel Atkins

This nostalgic and absorbing memoir tells the story of a real-life female police detective in post-war Britain, as she navigates a man’s world. It’s 1956, and the Berkshire Constabulary has never had a woman detective before. That is, until bright and ambitious WPC Gwen Crockford passes out of Hendon Detective Training School with flying colours…After five years serving as one of Britain’s first policewomen, Gwen Crockford becomes one of its first female detectives. Swapping crime prevention for detection, she must soon become comfortable with attending murder scenes and post-mortems, investigating sex crimes and going undercover.

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Clown Through Mask The Pioneering Work of Richard Pochinko as Practised by Sue Morrison


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2013 | 492 Pages | ISBN: 1841505749 | EPUB | 10 MB
Richard Pochinko (1946-89) played a pioneering role in North American clown theater through the creation of an original pedagogy synthesizing modern European and indigenous Native American techniques. In Clown Through Mask, Veronica Coburn and onetime Pochinko apprentice Sue Morrison lay out the methodology of the Pochinko style of clowning and offer a bold philosophical framework for its interpretation. Morrison is today a leading teacher of Pochinko’s Clown through Mask technique and this book extends significantly the literature on this underdocumented form of theater.

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