While volunteering at the Summer X Games in San Diego, Wall and Kevin become involved in mysterious happenings just as the sports competition heats up.

An introduction to the life and career of the motocross figure Dave Mirra.

Discusses the history, stunts, competitions, equipment, and safety measures of bungee jumping.

This study sets out to question commonplace assumptions about the use of technology by children at home. Bringing together research from the perspectives of psychology, sociology, education and media studies, the authors ask whether we are really witnessing the rise of a new 'digital generation'.

7th Grade Reading Comprehension Workbooks for kids ages 12+ Support your child’s educational journey with Spectrum’s Reading Comprehension Grade 7 Workbook that teaches essential 7th grade reading comprehension skills. 7th grade reading workbooks are a great way for children to learn reading comprehension, vocabulary builder, and critical thinking skills such as story structure, integration of knowledge and ideas about a story, and more through a variety of passages and activities that are both fun AND educational! Why You’ll Love This Reading Comprehension Grade 7 Workbook Engaging and educational reading passages and activities. “Fiction and nonfiction stories”, “Post-reading questions”, and “Identifying genre” are a few of the fun activities that incorporate reading to help inspire learning into your child’s classroom or homeschool curriculum. Tracking progress along the way. Use the answer key in the back of the reading workbook to track student progress before moving on to new and exciting activities. Practically sized for every activity. The 160-page 7th grade book is sized at about 8 1⁄2 inches x 11 inches—giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise. About Spectrum For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals—providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum. The Spectrum Grade 7 Reading Comprehension Workbook Contains: Nonfiction and fiction reading passages Reading activities Answer key

Takes readers on a wild ride through the rise of snowboarding, from its hippie origins in the backwoods of Vermont and California to its present incarnation as a $150 billion global industry, starting with the sport's early days, when the pioneers built their own boards and sneaked onto the slopes. Explores the nature of snowboarding culture, traces the mainstreaming of the sport, and the evolution of snowboard fashion.

Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, captures an eclectic collection of new studies from accomplished scholars in the fields such as communication, business, geography, kinesiology, media, and sports management and administration, using a wide range of methodologies including quantitative, qualitative, and critical analyses. In the communication revolution of the twenty-first century, the study of mediated sports is critical. As fans use all media at their disposal to consume sports and carry their sports-viewing experience online, they are seizing the initiative and asserting themselves into the mediated sports-dissemination process. They are occupying traditional roles of consumers/receivers of sports, but also as sharers and sports content creators. Fans are becoming pseudo sports journalists. They are interpreting mediated sports content for other fans. They are making their voice heard by sports organizations and athletes. Mediated sports, in essence, provide a context for studying and understanding where and how the communication revolution of the twenty-first century is being waged. With their collection of studies by scholars from North America and Europe, Earnheardt, Haridakis, and Hugenberg illuminate the symbiotic relationship among and between sports organizations, the media, and their audiences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization spurs both the researcher and the interested fan to consider what the study of sports tells us about ourselves and the society in which we live.