The Redskins Encyclopedia brings to light the team's history and tradition in the most comprehensive account ever written about the storied NFL franchise. Readers are exposed to a treasure-trove of information about the Redskins.
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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Michael Richman
George Allen was a fascinating and eccentric figure in the world of football coaching. His remarkable career spanned six decades, from the late 1940s until his sudden death in 1990 at the age of seventy-three. Although he never won a Super Bowl, he never had a losing season as an NFL head coach and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002. In George Allen: A Football Life, Mike Richman captures the life and accomplishments of one of the most successful NFL coaches of all time and one of the greatest innovators in the game. A player’s coach, Allen was a tremendous motivator and game strategist, as well as a defensive mastermind, and is credited with making special teams a critical focus in an era in which they were an afterthought. He had a keen eye for talent and pulled off masterful trades, often for veteran players who were viewed to be past their prime, who then had great seasons and made his teams much better. In addition to his coaching feats, Allen had an idiosyncratic and controversial personality. His life revolved around football 24-7. One of his quirks was to minimize chewing time by consuming soft foods, giving himself more time to prepare for games and study opponents. He lived and breathed football; he compared losing to death. Allen had contentious relationships with the owners of the two NFL teams for which he was the head coach, the Washington Redskins and Los Angeles Rams. Richman explores why he was fired by those teams and whether he was blackballed from coaching again in the NFL. Based on detailed research and interviews with family, former players, and coaches, George Allen is the definitive biography of the football coach who lived to win, loved a good challenge, and left a lasting legacy on pro football history.
Heritage Gardens, Heirloom Seeds
Irwin Richman; Michael B. Emery
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2015
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A detailed overview of the inter-relationship between heirloom seeds and heritage gardens, richly illustrated with over 650 images, many of rare, historical importance. Heritage, or traditional, gardens and heirloom seeds are joined at the hip, but previous books have separated them. This is the first holistic look at several of the most vibrant trends in contemporary horticulture, both in vegetables and flowers. Lavishly illustrated, it is a how-to manual, a history, and a guide to gardens and historic landscapes. The basics of heritage garden design from California to the East Coast are here, with special attention to the Pennsylvania four-square garden. Plans and suggestions for your garden are included, and seed-saving techniques are clearly enumerated. A gallery of heirloom plants and lists of suppliers are featured. There are travel suggestions for visiting gardens ranging from Bethabara Park in North Carolina, to The Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum in Pennsylvania, to the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia. This book is sure to delight historians, traditionalists, green thumbs, and horticulturists alike.
These 580+ juicy images capture the fact that throughout history, artists and artisans have depicted vegetables in remarkable ways. Still lifes, photographs, amusing antique postcards, seed packet art—all sorts of vegetable illustrations have been created to arouse physical and aesthetic appetites, and they are displayed here together with interesting botanical and historical insights. This wealth of vegetable art includes paintings by American artists like Lily Martin Spencer, Ernest Lawson, and Charles Demuth; engravings and lithographs by major printmaking companies like Louis Prang and Company; botanical illustrations; and commercial images drawn from vintage catalogs and seed packets. Vegetables are represented in colorful glory, from the hundreds we appreciate daily—like tomatoes, potatoes, peas, and carrots—to less-familiar vegetables like sea kale, cardoon, and walking onions.
America's favorite flora are the homey ray flowers, a tribe featuring daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, dahlias, coneflowers, and black-eyed Susans, combined with the elegant, multifaceted rose. Children pick ray flowers for their prepubescent crush or for their mom; when they get older, they graduate to the rose, a more sophisticated choice. Both high culture and pop culture embrace floral imagery; think of Annie Liebovitz's famous nude photograph of Bette Midler blanketed in long-stemmed American Beauties on the cover of Rolling Stone, or zombies featured in a Wars of the Roses comic book. Thousands of postcards and greeting cards are covered in a sea of roses and ray flowers. Meet Daisy Mae, see Daisy the dog, and view the presidential Rose Garden, as well as influential American and European works of art. These images are combined with the history and romance of our favorite flowers. A nonallergenic floral extravaganza!
An isolated house. Ghosts in the windows. Something climbing the stairs.Ron lands the home of his dreams, isolated on a rural mountain, away from the noise and crowds of the city. With the house in need of repairs, he works on fixing it up before his wife and son join him. Unfortunately, the more he repairs, the more problems he uncovers. During the day, he works on the mundane: septic system, plumbing, electrical wiring. But when the night comes and a deep darkness settles on the lonely property, a whole new set of troubles develop: scratching at the windows, the sound of footsteps on the stairs, shadowy figures in the yard. Threats. Attacks.Despite being a skeptic, he comes to realize the house is unsafe - not because of the physical problems, but because of the unseen. As the horrific history of the mountain, it sits on is revealed, making the house safe for his son becomes the biggest challenge of his life.
Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of class politics. It has been used to dismiss movements such as Black Lives Matter and brought seemingly progressive people into the path of fascism. It has emboldened the march of the transphobes. In Fractured, the authors move away from the ahistorical temper of the identity politics debate. Instead of crudely categorising race, gender and sexuality as fixed and immutable identities, or forcing them under the banner of 'diversity', they argue that these categories are inseparable from the history of class struggle under British and US capitalism. Through an appraisal of pivotal historical moments in Britain and the US, including Black feminist and anticolonial traditions on both sides of the Atlantic, the authors question the assumptions of the culture war, offering a refreshing and reasoned way to understand how historical class struggles were formed and continue to determine the possibilities for new forms of solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world.
Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of class politics. It has been used to dismiss movements such as Black Lives Matter and brought seemingly progressive people into the path of fascism. It has emboldened the march of the transphobes. In Fractured, the authors move away from the ahistorical temper of the identity politics debate. Instead of crudely categorising race, gender and sexuality as fixed and immutable identities, or forcing them under the banner of 'diversity', they argue that these categories are inseparable from the history of class struggle under British and US capitalism. Through an appraisal of pivotal historical moments in Britain and the US, including Black feminist and anticolonial traditions on both sides of the Atlantic, the authors question the assumptions of the culture war, offering a refreshing and reasoned way to understand how historical class struggles were formed and continue to determine the possibilities for new forms of solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world.
Why is the town mortuary secretly removing bodies in the middle of the night?Deem, a young woman living downwind in southern Utah, is using her gift to figure that out. Spying on the old funeral home with the help of her boyfriend Warren, she confirms that corpses are being stolen - but for what purpose?With Winn and David away in Europe, and Warren too skeptical to be much help, Deem is grateful when her cousin Alice comes to the rescue. Together they stake out the mortuary and begin an adventure that takes them all over the southwest, coming face to face with a giant conspiracy that threatens to overtake them all.Just as she is on the cusp of solving the mystery and dispensing some justice, Deem is betrayed by everything she has come to rely on - with devastating consequences.Things may never be the same... The Remains is a fast-paced paranormal mystery and the eighth title in The Downwinders series.Praise for The Downwinders series from Amazon readers: "I love the way this author brings his characters to life ""I love the characters, how they intertwine in each other's stories, and the fact they're not only likable but evolving with each story.""It just further proves Richan's mastery in the fact that after all his books, he STILL shocked me ""If you like paranormal books, then read all of these by Richan's because you will not be disappointed."
Murdered children are haunting Steven's home.Knockings in the middle of the night...ghostly apparitions in dark corners...an evil presence moving through the house...Steven has always been a rational person, skeptical of things like hauntings and ghosts. However, the new home he lives in is changing his mind in a big way.His father Roy recognizes what's going on and tries to help, but their relationship is strained. Roy has "the gift" and can see things that normal people cannot. Steven has this ability too, but at first he is too skeptical to use it.The chilling apparitions become relentless, forcing Steven and Roy to discover the dark mystery hidden within the house. Something far more sinister than either of them expected is behind the ghostly specters, and they will have to learn to trust each other if they're going to fight the evil lurking in the rooms of Steven's home.The Bank of the River is a fast-paced and suspenseful paranormal novel, and the first book in The River series.
Mason Manor, tucked away in the forests of Oregon - historic, beautiful, and completely haunted.The estate, built in 1850, is now a bed and breakfast run by Pete and Sarah. Once a wonderful place to stay, now it's got a real problem - guests aren't surviving the night, and word has gotten out: "Stay away The place is dangerous "Pete turns to an old friend, Roy, who has "the gift." Sarah is skeptical of Roy's abilities, but Pete convinces Roy to help save their business.With his son, Steven, they jump into the mystery and find things are much worse than they appear. They endure horrific encounters with the ghosts of the manor and discover a sinister force at work. Roy and Steven will need to use Roy's gift and marshal the help of others to save Mason Manor from the terrors within.A Haunting in Oregon is a fast-paced and suspenseful paranormal novel that confronts evil, ghosts, and the dead - and explores the supernatural gifts a father and son use to fight them.A Haunting in Oregon is the second book in The River series. There are currently eleven titles available in the series, and an additional six titles in two spin-off series, The Downwinders and The Dark River.Praise for The River Series from Amazon readers: "Truly scary.""Finally found a book that got under my nerves ""Couldn't put it down...wanted the story to go on and on.""Very few authors can pull me in immediately and make me feel as though I were reading about old friends. Stephen King always has, and I can now add Michael Richan to the list.""Awesome ghost story with wonderful characters and a great plot ""Some of the most delightful reading I have done in a long time.""This was a great horror book. I absolutely loved it, and I know you will too Keep the lights on when reading
A dark figure that appears at night...Steven is awakened in the middle of the night by a dark figure that mysteriously shifts around the inside of his home. The figure seems frozen in time, benign, unable to move -- like a statue of a man, made of glass. It suddenly disappears and re-appears somewhere else, still frozen, watching him. When Steven summons the courage to inspect it closer, he discovers it's a shell of some kind, with a man inside... and the man is angry.Steven would normally turn to his father, Roy, who is educating him on how to use "the gift" to deal with ghosts and other supernatural threats, but Roy isn't available. When the dark figure attacks him, Steven becomes desperate and turns to his friends Eliza and Daniel. Daniel's an expert on time, recognizes the figure's movement as "time shifting." They all soon discover the true nature of the threat: it comes from the past and it's worse than any of them could have guessed.Unusual ghosts and horrific creatures stand between them and the solution. Time is running out as Steven, Roy, Daniel and Eliza dig into the past to learn of half-finished business that is coming back to haunt them all.Ghosts of Our Fathers is a fast-paced and suspenseful paranormal novel where Steven and Roy confront a ghostly history that is determined to take revenge upon their entire family.Ghosts of Our Fathers is the third book in The River series. There are currently nine titles available in the series, and an additional three titles in a spin-off series, The Downwinders.Praise for The River series from Amazon readers: "Truly scary.""Finally found a book that got under my nerves ""Couldn't put it down...wanted the story to go on and on.""Very few authors can pull me in immediately and make me feel as though I were reading about old friends. Stephen Kingalways has, and I can now add Michael Richan to the list.""Awesome ghost story with wonderful characters and a great plot ""Some of the most delightful reading I have done in a long time.""This was a great horror book. I absolutely loved it, and I know you will too Keep the lights on when reading "
Downwind: the area of the United States that received the brunt of the fallout from nuclear testing. As a result, humans developed cancers and congenital malformations... and so did the creatures in the River, the place where people with "the gift" see things others cannot.Young Winn has recently discovered he has this ability, though he hardly knows how to use it. When his friend Brent suggests they search for treasure in the hills surrounding their Tucson suburb, Winn joins him and puts his newfound skills to use. They discover a cave filled with mutated ghosts possessing unusual powers. Here, Winn finds something so incredible, it begins a nightmare that will haunt him for the rest of his life.Winn's mother is distant and uninterested in mentoring his abilities, so Winn turns to Marty, a neighbor who steers him toward a solution. On the way, they meet Jeanette, a crazy but prophetic resident of their trailer court, and Ida, a firecracker who gave up part of herself to confront a similar nightmare.If the ghosts in the cave were normal, Winn and Brent might stand a chance. But the ghosts are downwind, where radiation changed everything...The Impossible Coin is a fast-paced adventure with an unusual twist on ghosts. It is the second book in The Downwinders Series, but can be read stand-alone.