Dan Gordon

The award-winning firm explores 14 gardens so in tune with their landscape that they feel as if they must have always been there--while detailing for the reader how they use plants, pattern, and inspiration from the property itself to bring these verdant spaces to vibrant life. For thirty years, the renowned landscape firm has been defining the art of creating enduring gardens that entice visitors to wander all through their lengths. DGLA is best known for merging elegant, classical design principles with impeccable plantsmanship and contemporary materials, resulting in landscapes that feel both historically grounded and perfectly suited to modern life. The reader will find ideas for many types of yard, from compact Boston city gardens that enhance outdoor living areas to sweeping country estates where stately rock walls connect to the past, and even broad beachfront plantings that draw the eye down to the water's edge. The firm's beautiful design details provide plenty of inspiration for home readers, from delicate patterns set in stone walkways and gates crafted to last a century to their brilliant arrangements of blooms that cascade out from the house before blending seamlessly into the woodland beyond. A layered presentation that reveals beautiful overview images as well as intimate moments of quiet beauty will help readers learn how every design choice combines to create seasonal color, texture, and mood. Featuring over 200 full-color photographs, this is a must-have resource for discerning home gardeners seeking to create a personal sanctuary reflective of their personalities.

"Nearly all of us either have had or have heard of an experience in which a soul already departed reaches back to us who have been left behind.... Sometimes, it's no more than a whisper, a familiar smell in the air, or just the feeling of presence as vivid as when the loved one was still alive. These moments are just that...moments, a glimpse behind the veil; not a letter from heaven, but a postcard." (Dan Gordon, Postcards from Heaven) A postcard from heaven is not a revelation from on high -- rather, it's "a whisper, a familiar smell in the air, or just the feeling of presence" of someone who's passed away. It is just enough of a message to imply that what we call life is not ended by what we call death. Dan Gordon has been receiving these postcards all his life -- from his father, his older brother, and his son Zaki, who was killed in a car accident when he was only twenty-two. Postcards from Heaven is the beautiful, inspirational memoir of four generations of a remarkable family and how they remain interconnected, a part of one another's stories, even after passing to the other side. Here is the span of his father's long life, moving and funny, from the Russian Revolution to his improbable Depression-era courtship of a woman named Goddess -- Gordon's mother -- to his spiritual later years in Israel; his incorrigible older brother's mischievous magic, able to find humor even in cancer treatment; and his brilliant son, a natural storyteller who looked destined to follow his father into the movie business. These are the stories of their lives on earth as well as after death. Full of humor, compassion, and love, Postcards from Heaven comforts and assures us that those we loved can reach back to those of us still on earth -- and, if only we are attentive enough to listen, we can hear them say, Got here safe. It's really beautiful. Much love, till we meet again.

Coaching is an increasingly important area of sports science courses, and this text provides accessible and up-to-date coverage of this key topic. Modern coaches need to be applied scientists who keep abreast of research and are able to apply a multidisciplinary understanding to their practice. The book therefore examines coaching in terms of biomechanics, physiology and psychology, as well as perennial issues such as athlete motivation, nutrition, design of training programmes, talent identification, monitoring and ethics. Written by an author who combines academic expertise with high-level practical experience, the book successfully links theory with case studies.

A postcard from heaven is not a revelation from on high--rather, it is a whisper, a brush of the presence of someone who's passed away. Though subtle, these coincidences are uncanny enough to suggest that they come from the spirits of lost loved ones, and they have a deeply comforting effect. In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie, screenwriter Dan Gordon shares the uplifting and poignant story of a remarkable family and how they remain intertwined in one another's lives even after passing to the other side. Introducing us to four colorful generations of strong Jewish characters, he describes the funny and touching ways in which family love travels across boundaries of time, space, personality, and even death.

Presents a collection of anecdotes, folk tales, ghost stories, and paranormal events related to various baseball teams, games, players, and fields of play as recalled by management, umpires, teammates, and fans.

Dan Gordon, who is widely regarded as one of the three best football handicappers in the world, shares his inside tips and strategies on making big money betting on NFL football. Much of the information here is available nowhere else. More than forty chapters cover basic, advanced and expert concepts that will give readers the most powerful winning information available anywhere. Readers learn how to set up betting models and use power ratings and how to separate performance from perception. Gordon shows how to beat the point spreads and money lines, and how to bet underdogs, propositions, teasers, parlays, futures, and much, much more.

Whats driving the moral decline of America? What lies behind the radical changes in our societys values? This is the sweeping saga of one mans lifelong struggle against a sinful world. A New Englander and a descendentof the Puritans, his Christian battle leads him to some startling conclusions about modern teaching and howthough often presented as scienceit has changed the very foundations of human thought, casting mankind in a different and godless light. Sure to be controversial, this novel nonetheless provides food for thought to a world starving for answers.