Shannon Miller, the most decorated gymnast in American history, has won sixteen medals and is one of the sports world's most positive role models. Yet none of it would have happened if a little girl from Oklahoma hadn't dared to dream . . . and followed up on that dream with hard work, commitment, and a firm belief in herself. "I've learned to be disciplined and organized in order to balance gymnastics, college, and a social life," says Shannon. But how does she do it? And is that kind of focus within your reach? Yes! With friendly, upbeat advice, Shannon shares how she succeeds in being a winner both inside and outside the gym. Inspiring sections in Winning Every Day include: Getting motivated Setting goals Eating healthy (with recipes!) Handling stress Finding spiritual fulfillment Achieving your dreams and much more, including personal gymnastics anecdotes, diary excerpts, and full-color photos from Shannon's private collection. Winning Every Day - Shannon Miller's down-to-earth approach to getting the most out of life - will make you a winner too!

Winning Every Day

Children's Books

Miller, Shannon

Biographies

Bantam Books for Young Readers

In the closing decades of the sixteenth century, England attempted its first colonial expansion into the New World through planned settlements in Ireland, Newfoundland, Virginia, and Guiana. All of these colonial efforts were unsuccessful. Yet these projects were a significant cultural force in early modern England. Influenced by recent work in postcolonial theory and cultural studies, Shannon Miller's Invested with Meaning examines the documentary and material remains of these vanished colonies to explore the multiple influences of the Irish and New World encounters on English culture.
Miller contends that the projects sponsored by the Raleigh circle were inextricably bound to the economic and social transformations of English systems, including the transition from a feudal-based economy to an emergent capitalism, the redefinition of the patron-client relationship, and challenges to the categories of gentry and merchant. These social and economic transitions shaped the goals of the colonization projects and dictated the ways in which the writers and artists of these enterprises could frame the New World and its people; influenced by the changes in England, their construction of the New World both reflected and helped to constitute a sense of English national identity.

Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World (New Cultural Studies)

History

Americas

University of Pennsylvania Press

The narrative of the Garden of Eden infused seventeenth-century political thought no less than it reflected attitudes toward the relationship between the sexes. Within the contemporary debate over political legitimacy, theorists who supported or questioned the monarchy turned explicitly to the narrative of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve to articulate their theories of governmental authority.
Engaging this foundational relationship between gendered interpersonal and governmental organization, Shannon Miller turns to a body of texts produced in England that replot the story of the Garden. She sets a series of writings by women into conversation with the period's most important poetic rendering of the Fall, Milton's Paradise Lost, to illustrate how significant gender was to accounts of social and political organization, and to demonstrate how the Garden narrative plots the role of gender. Her multidirectional and multilayered conversation between numerous seventeenth-century women—such as Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish, and Mary Chudleigh—and Milton's Genesis epic crystallizes the interplay between the narrative of the Fall, the organization of political structures, and the extent to which both were shaped by cultural debates over the role of women.

Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

"When the odds were against me, I was always at my best." When she retired at age 19, Shannon Miller did so as one of the most recognizable gymnasts in the country. The winner of seven Olympic medals and the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in U.S. history, Shannon tells a story of surviving and thriving. A shy, rambunctious girl raised in Oklahoma, Shannon fell in love with gymnastics at a young age and fought her way to the top.
In 1992 she won five Olympic medals after breaking her elbow in a training accident just months prior to the Games. Then, in 1996, a doctor advised her to retire immediately or face dire consequences if she chose to compete on her injured wrist. Undeterred, Shannon endured the pain and led her team, the "Magnificent Seven," to the first Olympic team gold medal for the United States in gymnastics. She followed up as the first American to win gold on the balance beam.
Equally intense, heroic and gratifying is the story of her brutal but successful battle with ovarian cancer, a disease from which fewer than fifty percent survive. Relying on her faith and hard-learned perseverance, Shannon battled through surgery and major chemotherapy to emerge on the other side with a miracle baby girl.
Her story of trial, triumph and life after cancer reminds us all that its life's bumps and bruises that reveal our character. From early on in her career, Shannon knew that life wasn't about perfection. In this incredible and inspirational tale, Shannon speaks out so as to be seen and heard by thousands as a beacon of hope.

It's Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Peary, Danny

Community & Culture

Thomas Dunne Books

Keeping your phone number private is important to online safety. Readers will learn why they should not tell strangers their phone number and how to respond if they are asked for it. This information will help readers become more aware of the basics of Internet safety.

Don't Share Your Phone Number Online (Internet Dos & Don'ts)

Computers & Technology

Powerkids Pr

Don't Talk to Strangers Online (Internet Dos & Don'ts)

Readers learn from a young age not to talk to strangers they encounter in the “real world,” but they may not understand the danger of talking to strangers online. Accessible text explains why this is unsafe and informs readers of what they should do if someone online says things that make them uncomfortable. The awareness raised in students will help them become confident and safe Internet users.

Don't Share Your Address Online (Internet Dos & Don'ts)

An important aspect of online safety for children is not giving out their address. Students are told reasons why they should not give strangers their address or provide it to websites without a parent’s permission. Learning this lesson is one of the foundations of becoming a safe Internet user.

Don't Share Your Address Online (Internet Dos & Don'ts, 2)

Passwords are important personal information that should not be sharednot even with a best friend. Readers will learn why password privacy is key to their safety and the potential consequences of telling others confidential information. This lesson will help students stay safe online.

Keep Your Passwords Secret (Internet Dos & Don'ts)

Don't Share Your Plans Online (Internet Dos & Don'ts)

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