Jul 09 2011

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Want to find out where can get boxing lessons in Crawford County Pennsylvania?

My 15 year old daughter wants to take boxing lessons. I want to find out where she can go to take them.

Most gyms are listed on http://www.boxinggyms.com You can click on Pennsylvania and then look for the nieghborhood closest to you.

Boxing Lessons for Beginners : Shadow boxing


Billy Elliot (DVD)


Billy Elliot (DVD)


$10.52


Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in northeast England in the mid-1980s. While his gruff father and brother are taking part in a massive coal miners strike, Billy goes to boxing lessons and furtively plays his dead mother’s piano o…

Billy Elliot (Blu-ray/DVD)


Billy Elliot (Blu-ray/DVD)


$14.46


Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in northeast England in the mid-1980s. While his gruff father and brother are taking part in a massive coal miners strike, Billy goes to boxing lessons and furtively plays his dead mother’s piano o…

Billy Elliot (DVD)


Billy Elliot (DVD)


$15.69


Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in northeast England in the mid-1980s. While his gruff father and brother are taking part in a massive coal miners strike, Billy goes to boxing lessons and furtively plays his dead mother’s piano o…

Life in the Ring: Lessons & Inspiration from the Sport of Boxing


Life in the Ring: Lessons & Inspiration from the Sport of Boxing


$11.56


There is no sport more unforgiving than boxing. Boxing represents the best of who we are as individuals. Those who have participated in the sport, at any level, can use the lessons they have learned in all aspects of their lives, including business and politics, as there are many parallels to life and boxing. People observing the sport can draw on the lessons that it teaches in all phases of their lives. "Life in the Ring" gathers the wisdom and lore of the "sweet science" of boxing and organizes them into a single volume that is historical, literary and inspirational. From the anecdotal (Did heavyweight champion Robert Fitzsimmons really quip, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall?") to the well-documented (many heavyweight champions wrote or ghosted books on boxing training and technique), "Life in the Ring" culls from the long and fabled literature of pugilism–Jack Dempsey on perseverance, John L. Sullivan on sizing up your opponent, Joe Louis on handling others’ expectations: "Life in the Ring" is an invaluable compendium of the life lessons offered by this most exacting of sports.

Savage Science of Streetfighting: Applying the Lessons of Championship Boxing to Serious Street Survival


Savage Science of Streetfighting: Applying the Lessons of Championship Boxing to Serious Street Survival


$24.21


In this sequel to his Championship Streetfighting, veteran boxer Ned Beaumont applies the more advanced principles, techniques and training methods of the "sweet science" of boxing to surviving the no-holds-barred viciousness of a bloody barroom brawl or other violent encounter. Beaumont takes an in-depth look at the "secret" punches of champs and why they worked like magic in the ring. In addition, he examines the various elements of power punching for knockouts; the nuances of counter-punching; advanced defensive skills; and ways to use boxing against weapons, in a gang attack or in enclosed spaces.

The Berlin Boxing Club


The Berlin Boxing Club


$17.08


Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But to the bullies at his school in Naziera Berlin, it doesn’t matter that Karl has never set foot in a synagogue or that his family doesn’t practice religion. Demoralized by relentless attacks on a heritage he doesn’t accept as his own, Karl longs to prove his worth to everyone around him. So when Max Schmeling, champion boxer and German national hero, makes a deal with Karl’s father to give Karl boxing lessons, Karl sees it as the perfect chance to reinvent himself. A skilled cartoonist, Karl has never had an interest in boxing, but as Max becomes the mentor Karl never had, Karl soon finds both his boxing skills and his art flourishing. But when Nazi violence against Jews escalates, Karl must take on a new role: protector of his family. Karl longs to ask his new mentor for help, but with Max’s fame growing, he is forced to associate with Hitler and other Nazi elites, leaving Karl to wonder where his hero’s sympathies truly lie. Can Karl balance his dream of boxing greatness with his obligation to keep his family out of harm’s way?

On Boxing


On Boxing


$3.95


"No other subject is, for the writer, so intensely personal as boxing. To write about boxing is to write about oneself–however elliptically, and unintentionally. And to write about boxing is to be forced to contemplate not only boxing, but the perimeters of civilization–what it is, or should be, to be ‘human’ . . . The sport seems in crisis, its best practitioners no less than its most dubious contaminate by association with fixed fights, manipulated judges, questionable referees. Demands for its abolition are made, indignation is aroused, well-argued editorials are printed, deals continue to be made, boxers continue to be, managed.’ occasionally there is a boxing match that, in its demonstration of skill, courage, intelligence, hope, seems to redeem the sport–or almost. Perhaps boxing has always been in crisis a sport "of crisis. Without doubt, it is our most dramatically ‘masculine’ sport, and our most dramatically ‘self-destructive’ sport. In this, for some for us, its abiding interest lies." –Joyce Carol Oates, from the Foreword

Boxing


Boxing


$24.99


Boxing – Art Print

Boxing: The American Martial Art: A 12 Week Boxing Course


Boxing: The American Martial Art: A 12 Week Boxing Course


$5.79


Whether you want to box for fitness or competition, Boxing: The AmericanMartial Art is an excellent guide to getting started. Professional boxingcoach and trainer R. Michael Onello has created a 12-week, step-by-stepboxing course that can be followed at home or in the gym.Begin with the thorough boxing conditioning program designed to tone andstrengthen your entire body, with a special emphasis on the abs, chest andarm muscles. From Lesson One, you’ll learn stance and movement, defensivetactics and a simple method of wrapping your hands to protect them duringtraining. As you work through the twice-weekly lessons, you’ll learn thejab, straight right, uppercut and hook, then practice them alone and incombinations to increase your punching speed, accuracy and power.The step-by-step lesson format guides you through the same drills used byprofessional boxing trainers and includes specifics like the number of reps, the type of equipment to practice on, strategic advice and key points to payattention to as you progress. Once you’ve got the basics down, get togetherwith a sparring partner to work on the offense-defense drills, counterpunching and putting your new skills to work in sparring practice.The lessons wrap up with advice on creating a rotating 12-week trainingschedule by introducing more advanced training concepts and variations onthe workouts. Also included is a chapter for trainers and coaches, includingsample program handouts and training advice.

The Boxer's Heart: Lessons from the Ring


The Boxer’s Heart: Lessons from the Ring


$4.24


The Boxers Heart is a brilliantly candid memoir and the first-ever guide to the world of womens boxing. Written by Food and Wine editor Kate Sekules, it tells the story of how an average athlete converted her visceral dislike of violence into a short but eventful career as a professional boxer makes irresistible reading for both fans and foes of what used to be The Manly Art. Sekuless account unfolds with the pace and depth of a great novel, crammed with larger-than-life characters and piercing observations. Any woman who has grappled with anger and trust, been nagged by insecurity at the gym, or wondered what it feels like to throw a punch will identify with this witty and honest account of the sweet science of bruising. Its a knockout, folks….. The Boxers Heart is a winner, on all cards.Newsweek Sekules … is appealingly self-aware … and] gives us a sense of womens boxing as a thriving movement.New York Times Book Review Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.Kirkus Reviews

The Lessons


The Lessons


$7.39


Poetry. "THE LESSONS is driven by the poet’s passion for natural history, for the marvels and horrors of science,for the people closest to her, and, in every way, by music. The risks Diaz takes in this beautiful first book are the profound risks of art and of love"–Gail Mazur. "Excitedly descriptive, sinuously rhythmical, and vividly perceptive, Joanne Diaz’s poems ‘wring the roots of thought’ and fill the mind’s eye with scenes of the paradoxically sensuous richnessof longing–homesickness, sorrow, love. In this book, ‘desire’ is not just an erotic longing but an existential one; that is, it is our capacity and hunger for meaning"–Reginald Gibbons.

Lessons


Lessons


$3.95


Summer was drawing to a close, and Rachel would soon return to school to begin fifth grade. Like many of her classmates, she was anxious about her friends, the strict Mrs. Kelly, and the timed arithmetic tests, but there was something else worrying Rachel, too. Ever since her baby brother, Matthew, was born, she couldn’t help but notice that her father seemed even more brooding and withdrawn than ever. Confused and concerned by his behavior, Rachel starts demanding answers–but the secret she uncovers raises more questions than it solves. Author Bonnie Geisert transports readers back to a simpler time and place. Yet life on a rural South Dakota farm in the 1950s was not without its challenges, and Rachel soon discovers she has many lessons to learn, both in Mrs. Kelly’s classroom and beyond . . .

Boxing Coach in a Boxing Ring


Boxing Coach in a Boxing Ring


$29.99


Boxing Coach in a Boxing Ring – Photographic Print

Shadow Boxing


Shadow Boxing


$3.46


Sixteen year old Alice is living in the shadows: the shadow of her mother’s death, continued rejection by her father and her aunt’s coldness. Will she ever know happiness again? Can she get past her secret torture? Alice is struggling to cope with the death of her mother, after a long depilating illness. Her father has shut her out of her life and her aunt is only worried about her next spa appointment and the two are conspiring to send her away. Her angst is so deep it cuts like knife, will she ever feel whole again? Chloe is the only person that truly understands and when she becomes pregnant, Alice must look inside to find the strength to get them both out of their downward spiral. With the help of John, the caring bookstore owner that provides Alice’s escape, the girls devise a plan to live a life that excludes their self-absorbed parents. When they meet Caleb, a struggling artist, he introduces them to the creative and inspiring world of shadowboxes. Filled with heart-wrenching scenes and characters you will never forget, Sherie Posesorski creates a story of loss and love. Alice and Chloe each have a story of teenage struggle and finding their place in the world. The ultimate triumph of these two determined teens is an inspiration. Set in the High Park neighbourhood of Toronto, the authentic and edgy dialogue will resonate with teens and their unique struggle to adulthood.

BOXING GLOVES


BOXING GLOVES


$34.5


3D, Sterling Silver, 3/8 x 3/8 in

Boxing Charm


Boxing Charm


$106.95


Boxing Charm is approximately 1/2quot X 1/2quot If a charm is very long then the longer part will be 1/2quot inch 1/2quot is around the size of a Dime Charm includes a split ring so you can easily attach a charm bracelet., 1/2 inch x 1/2 inch Solid 14K Yellow Gold

Boxing Retreat


Boxing Retreat


$29.99


Boxing Retreat Giclee Print by . Product size approximately 16 x 16 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints.

Boxing Hares


Boxing Hares


$49.99


Boxing Hares – Giclee Print

Boxing Match


Boxing Match


$49.99


Boxing Match – Giclee Print

Vintage Boxing


Vintage Boxing


$29.99


Sam Appleman Vintage Boxing – Giclee Print

Boxing Gloves


Boxing Gloves


$24.99


Boxing Gloves – Art Print

Rabbit Boxing


Rabbit Boxing


$49.99


Rabbit Boxing – Giclee Print

Children Boxing


Children Boxing


$29.99


Children Boxing – Photographic Print

Championnat Boxing


Championnat Boxing


$124.99


Championnat Boxing – Framed Art Print

Boxing in the Shadows


Boxing in the Shadows


$20.31


"Boxing In The Shadows" is the story of many great Black fighters throughout the past century and puts their accomplishments within the context of the era that they fought in. This book is the seventh book that Mr. Donelson has written or co-written. Mr. Donelson has written on a variety of subjects over the past three decades and been published in newspapers and publications, Mr. Donelson is a leading observer of the boxing scene as well as a member of the International Boxing Research Organization, the leading boxing historical society. About Mr. Donelson, Ringsports.com Rusty Rubin writes, "Tom Donelson is an outstanding scribe in describing the world of boxing. This is why I asked Mr. Donelson to co-authored our book, Billy Soose, "The Champion that Time Forgot.""

Boxing Fitness


Boxing Fitness


$25.61


Boxing is well-known for its training regime, which produces some of the strongest, fittest athletes in the world. ‘Boxing fitness’, a recent development in personal fitness, has adapted elements of this training into a safe, enjoyable and effective workout. A non-contact discipline, it’s fun and suitable for everyone. In essence, it’s a great cardiovascular workout that also helps develop strength, speed, coordination, balance and flexibility. In this book, two experts describe the techniques involved – a circuit that includes shadow boxing, skipping, punch bag and focus-pad work – and explain how a regime can be tailored to address each individual’s fitness goals, whether it be weight loss, general toning, increased stamina or improved strength. The unique structure of a boxing fitness session evokes the traditional boxing experience, adding an authentic touch to a modern exercise regime that’s suitable for men and women, young and old. Whether you’re a cross-training athlete or simply want to enjoy a great workout, this clear and well-illustrated guide will help you reach the top of your game.



 About Boxing - Boxing Training and Lessons for The Beginner *LINK TO BONUS AUDIO AND VIDEO TUTORIALS*


About Boxing – Boxing Training and Lessons for The Beginner *LINK TO BONUS AUDIO AND VIDEO TUTORIALS*


$5.99


Greg Mason,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by TKM Mason Group, LLC

 Albert Meltzer


Albert Meltzer


$43.88


Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Albert Meltzer (January 7, 1920 – May 7, 1996) was an anarcho-communist activist and writer. Meltzer was born in London, and attracted to anarchism at the age of fifteen as a direct result of taking boxing lessons . The Labour MP for Edmonton, Edith Summerskill was virulently anti-boxing and his school governors at The Latymer School considered it “common.” At hi

 Albert Meltzer


Albert Meltzer


$58.99


Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Albert Meltzer (January 7, 1920 – May 7, 1996) was an anarcho-communist activist and writer. Meltzer was born in London, and attracted to anarchism at the age of fifteen as a direct result of taking boxing lessons . The Labour MP for Edmonton, Edith Summerskill was virulently anti-boxing and his school governors at The Latymer School considered it “common.” At hi

 Asshole


Asshole


$3.5


Martin Kihn was the nicest guy in the world – and it was killing him. But on the day he turned forty, Marty decided to change his life – for the meaner. Tired of being passed over for promotions at work, Marty set out on a journey to transform himself from Mr. Nice Guy into a rule-breaking, order-giving dickhead like the ?Marty Kaan” character played by Don Cheadle in the Showtime series House of Lies, based on Kihn’s book of the same name. Asshole is the story of Kihn’s ascent from Beta Male to Alpha Male to Asshole. He shares the techniques that helped him hone his image as a jerk, including the essential body language (don’t smile, unless others are in pain); covers typical activities (credit stealing, getting even); and delineates classic behavior patterns, including speaking loudly and interrupting often, and insisting you’ve never, ever made a mistake.From acting lessons to boxing lessons, from hiring a life coach to covertly observing his nemesis at work, Marty develops the Seven Principles of Assholism. But will it be enough to earn him a promotion? Or will he alienate others to the point where his own wife won’t be able to stand him?

 Asshole


Asshole


$2.99


Martin Kihn was the nicest guy in the world – and it was killing him. But on the day he turned forty, Marty decided to change his life – for the meaner. Tired of being passed over for promotions at work, Marty set out on a journey to transform himself from Mr. Nice Guy into a rule-breaking, order-giving dickhead like the ?Marty Kaan” character played by Don Cheadle in the Showtime series House of Lies, based on Kihn’s book of the same name. Asshole is the story of Kihn’s ascent from Beta Male to Alpha Male to Asshole. He shares the techniques that helped him hone his image as a jerk, including the essential body language (don’t smile, unless others are in pain); covers typical activities (credit stealing, getting even); and delineates classic behavior patterns, including speaking loudly and interrupting often, and insisting you’ve never, ever made a mistake.From acting lessons to boxing lessons, from hiring a life coach to covertly observing his nemesis at work, Marty develops the Seven Principles of Assholism. But will it be enough to earn him a promotion? Or will he alienate others to the point where his own wife won’t be able to stand him?

 Autumn Leaves


Autumn Leaves


$5.3


Used – Single mother Karen Matheson feels like a failure with her daughter, Katie. When Katie takes boxing lessons from former marine Steve Songer, Karen soon turns to him for help and discovers a chance at everlasting love. Original.

 Autumn Leaves


Autumn Leaves


$0.99


Used – Single mother Karen Matheson feels like a failure with her daughter, Katie. When Katie takes boxing lessons from former marine Steve Songer, Karen soon turns to him for help and discovers a chance at everlasting love. Original.

 Boxing Tips & Techniques, Vol. 1: Fundamentals DVD


Boxing Tips & Techniques, Vol. 1: Fundamentals DVD


$20.95


Former boxing champion Jeff Mayweather leads viewers through a series of exercises and lessons designed to expose newcomers to the basics of the sweet science. Among the topics covered are stances,…

 Boxing Tips & Techniques, Vol. 2: Bag Work DVD


Boxing Tips & Techniques, Vol. 2: Bag Work DVD


$20.95


Former boxing champion Jeff Mayweather leads viewers through a series of exercises and lessons designed to teach viewers how to utilize the heavy bag and the speed bag in order to throw faster and …

 Boxing Tips & Techniques, Vol. 3: Mitt Work DVD


Boxing Tips & Techniques, Vol. 3: Mitt Work DVD


$20.95


Former boxing champion Jeff Mayweather leads viewers through a series of exercises and lessons designed to show how to utilize mitts in order to improve the various punches required to become a bet…

 Boxing: A 12 Week Course


Boxing: A 12 Week Course


$8.97


Professional boxing coach and trainer R. Michael Onello has created a 12-week, step-by-step boxing course that can be followed at home or in the gym. Begin with the thorough boxing conditioning program designed to tone and strengthen your entire body, with a special emphasis on the abs, chest and arm muscles. From Lesson One, you’ll learn stance and movement, defensive tactics and a simple method of wrapping your hands to protect them during training. As you work through the twice-weekly lessons, you’ll learn the jab, straight right, uppercut and hook, then practice them alone and in combinations to increase your punching speed, accuracy and power. The step-by-step lesson format guides you through the same drills used by professional boxing trainers and includes specifics like the number of reps, the type of equipment to practice on, strategic advice and key points to pay attention to as you progress. Once you’ve got the basics down, get together with a sparring partner to work on the offense-defense drills, counterpunching and putting your new skills to work in sparring practice.

 Bukka White concert at Ash Grove on 18 Aug 67


Bukka White concert at Ash Grove on 18 Aug 67


$12.98


Born during the first decade of the 1900s near the town of Houston, Mississippi, Booker T. Washington White was one of seven children raised by his grandfather on a sharecropper farm in Chickasaw County, east of the Mississippi River delta. Booker’s father, John White, was a railroad fireman and part-time musician who taught him to play guitar. In his teen years, he relocated to Grenada, Mississippi to work on his uncle’s farm, where he was first exposed to the delta music traditions. Most significantly, White became aware of Charley Patton, one of the greatest and most influential of all the early blues men. He first began performing at local dances and functions as well as in delta juke joints and honkytonks, by traveling up the Mississippi river to Memphis and St. Louis, where he often worked for food. While performing in St. Louis, White was befriended by an older musician named Johnny Thomas, who gave him lessons on guitar and piano. Later, while performing in Memphis, White met Ralph Lembo, who served as a talent scout for the Victor label. In 1930, Lembo arranged for White to cut his first recordings, several of them gospel numbers and the label initially marketed him as Washington White-”The Singing Preacher,” but with the depression underway, only four sides were released. In addition to performing at every paying opportunity, he also pursued sports, pitching for the Birmingham Black Cats baseball team, occasionally boxing, and making moonshine to make ends meet during extremely difficult times. In 1937, claiming self-defense, White shot a man after being ambushed on a dark road. He was sentenced to two years at Parchman Farm on assault charges. Prior to the sentencing, White traveled to Chicago to record two songs for the Vocalion label. According to legend, he jumped bail and was re-arrested by a sheriff while in the recording studio. While serving his time on Parchman Farm (soon to be the source of his most covered song), “Shake ‘em on Down,” one of the two 1937 recordings, became a hit. Vocalion’s art director misheard his name as “Bukka” instead of Booker and misspelled it on the records, which is how he got his stage name, a name he actually despised. While serving his two years, White organized a prison band, which helped him stay off the work gangs, but the harsh conditions and isolation left him little to do. He passed the time notating song lyrics he knew and creating new songs, many of them reflective of the loneliness and impending death that surrounded him. Upon his release, he headed straight for Chicago and tracked down Lester Melrose, an agent who had helped him during the 1937 recordings, with hopes of resuming his recording career. Melrose gave White a hotel room and instructions to write new material. For White, who had spent the last two years contemplating his music, this was the ideal assignment. On March 7, 1940, White entered Melrose’s South Side studio, where he recorded 14 songs, featuring accompaniment by

 Champion in You: Lessons from Professional Boxing About How to Succeed in Life & Work


Champion in You: Lessons from Professional Boxing About How to Succeed in Life & Work


$58.77


Used – From this book, the reader, much like the world championship boxer, will exceed their potential and become a performer to contend with. The skills you gain from this book will formalise you as a championship performer with a systematic approach for battle preparation and delivery. Each chapter is authored as a condensed instalment with summary points. This book is written for professionals striving to perform in the workplace. The metaphors and lessons borrowed from the elite boxing world

 Champion in You: Lessons from Professional Boxing About How to Succeed in Life & Work


Champion in You: Lessons from Professional Boxing About How to Succeed in Life & Work


$92.85


New – From this book, the reader, much like the world championship boxer, will exceed their potential and become a performer to contend with. The skills you gain from this book will formalise you as a championship performer with a systematic approach for battle preparation and delivery. Each chapter is authored as a condensed instalment with summary points. This book is written for professionals striving to perform in the workplace. The metaphors and lessons borrowed from the elite boxing world

 Champion in You: Lessons from Professional Boxing About How to Succeed in Life & Work


Champion in You: Lessons from Professional Boxing About How to Succeed in Life & Work


$92.85


Used – From this book, the reader, much like the world championship boxer, will exceed their potential and become a performer to contend with. The skills you gain from this book will formalise you as a championship performer with a systematic approach for battle preparation and delivery. Each chapter is authored as a condensed instalment with summary points. This book is written for professionals striving to perform in the workplace. The metaphors and lessons borrowed from the elite boxing world

 Champion in You: Lessons from Professional Boxing About How to Succeed in Life & Work


Champion in You: Lessons from Professional Boxing About How to Succeed in Life & Work


$59.2


New – From this book, the reader, much like the world championship boxer, will exceed their potential and become a performer to contend with. The skills you gain from this book will formalise you as a championship performer with a systematic approach for battle preparation and delivery. Each chapter is authored as a condensed instalment with summary points. This book is written for professionals striving to perform in the workplace. The metaphors and lessons borrowed from the elite boxing world

 Deceived by Desire


Deceived by Desire


$40.95


New – Beth is willing to do almost anything to meet her dream man-including taking boxing lessons. She passes Harry’s gym for weeks before mustering up the nerve to walk in and talk to the gorgeous owner. Once she does, sparks fly as well as punches. Their budding relationship is tested with the arrival of Ky, Harry’s old Army buddy. After years of frustrated longing for his fellow soldier, Ky is hoping that he can win Harry’s heart. He hadn’t planned on Beth, however-or the scorching desire she

 Deceived by Desire


Deceived by Desire


$32.36


New – Beth is willing to do almost anything to meet her dream man-including taking boxing lessons. She passes Harry’s gym for weeks before mustering up the nerve to walk in and talk to the gorgeous owner. Once she does, sparks fly as well as punches. Their budding relationship is tested with the arrival of Ky, Harry’s old Army buddy. After years of frustrated longing for his fellow soldier, Ky is hoping that he can win Harry’s heart. He hadn’t planned on Beth, however-or the scorching desire she

 Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir


Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir


$15


A perceptive, witty memoir about the transformative humiliations of childhood-and adulthood-from a unique, already-beloved voice.When Heather Havrilesky was a kid during the ’70s, harrowing disaster films dominated every movie screen with earthquakes that destroyed huge cities, airplanes that plummeted towards the ground and giant sharks that ripped teenagers to shreds. Between her parents’ dramatic clashes and her older siblings’ hazing, Heather’s home life sometimes mirrored the chaos onscreen.A thoughtful, funny memoir about surviving the real and imagined perils of childhood and early adulthood, Disaster Preparedness charts how the most humiliating and painful moments in Havrilesky’s past forced her to develop a wide range of defense mechanisms, some adaptive, some piteously ill-suited to modern life. From premature boxing lessons to the competitive grooming of cheerleading camp, from her parents’ divorce to her father’s sudden death, Havrilesky explores a path from innocence and optimism to self-protection and caution, bravely reexamining the injuries that shaped her, the lessons that sunk in along the way, and the insights that carried her through.By laying bare her bumps and bruises, Havrilesky offers hope that we can find a frazzled and unruly, desperate and wistful, restless and funny and frayed-at-the-edges way of staring disaster in the face, and even rising to meet it head on. By turns offbeat, sophisticated, uproarious and wise, Disaster Preparedness is a road map to the personal disasters we all face from an irresistible voice that gets straight to the unexpected grace at the heart of every calamity.

 Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir


Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir


$25.95


A perceptive, witty memoir about the transformative humiliations of childhood-and adulthood-from a unique, already-beloved voice.When Heather Havrilesky was a kid during the ’70s, harrowing disaster films dominated every movie screen with earthquakes that destroyed huge cities, airplanes that plummeted towards the ground and giant sharks that ripped teenagers to shreds. Between her parents’ dramatic clashes and her older siblings’ hazing, Heather’s home life sometimes mirrored the chaos onscreen.A thoughtful, funny memoir about surviving the real and imagined perils of childhood and early adulthood, Disaster Preparedness charts how the most humiliating and painful moments in Havrilesky’s past forced her to develop a wide range of defense mechanisms, some adaptive, some piteously ill-suited to modern life. From premature boxing lessons to the competitive grooming of cheerleading camp, from her parents’ divorce to her father’s sudden death, Havrilesky explores a path from innocence and optimism to self-protection and caution, bravely reexamining the injuries that shaped her, the lessons that sunk in along the way, and the insights that carried her through.By laying bare her bumps and bruises, Havrilesky offers hope that we can find a frazzled and unruly, desperate and wistful, restless and funny and frayed-at-the-edges way of staring disaster in the face, and even rising to meet it head on. By turns offbeat, sophisticated, uproarious and wise, Disaster Preparedness is a road map to the personal disasters we all face from an irresistible voice that gets straight to the unexpected grace at the heart of every calamity.