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From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.
Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. When she took three silver medals in Beijing—including a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the gold medalist in the women’s 50-meter freestyle—America loved her all the more for her astonishing achievement and her good-natured acceptance of the results.
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Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life
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The genesis of the universe elegantly explained in a simple theory based on just six numbers by one of the world’s most renowned astrophysicists.Amazon.com Review
Just six numbers govern the shape, size, and texture of our universe. If their values were only fractionally different, we would not exist: nor, in many cases, would matter have had a chance to form. If the numbers that govern our universe were elegant–1, say, or pi, or the Golden Mean–we would simply shrug and say that the universe was an elegant mathematical puzzle. But the numbers Martin Rees discusses are far from tidy. Was the universe “tweaked” or is it one of many universes, all run by slightly different, but equally messy, … More >>
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe
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