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c2010., General, Harper Call No: 650.1 S982b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Demonstrates how competition provides vital insight into many of the most controversial issues of our time, from biology and economics, to psychology and culture, to genetics and race, to sports and politics. Explains why some people thrive under pressure and others choke, and weighs the value of innate ability against that of practice, hard work, and will.
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1997., Three Rivers Press Call No: 576.8 G698f Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2017., Adult, Scribner Call No: Fic Ega Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished."--From publisher.