Walk in the shoes of people from golf's untold and "hidden" past, as SHADOWS ON THE GREEN brings us into their lives and reveals both the destructive and inspiring sides of human nature. The frailtiesand strengthsof men and women are represented equally, allowing us to empathize with their experiences - which were not so different from our own - and consider our own power to do good or bad in this world. These are told in the stories of people who suffered from drug addiction, alcoholism, physical violence, racism, and sexism, as well as stories of amputees, the blind, the aged, and survivors of horrific accidents. All found in golf not only a challenge, but a salvation and expression of their God-given gifts. Among the subjects in the book: ​- Nathaniel Moore, the self-indulgent son of a rich industrialist was an Olympic golf champion in 1904, but also a morphine addict who died in a Chicago brothel, the victim of an opioid crisis as great as what we face today / - Eben Byers won the 1906 U.S. Amateur but died a gruesome and painful death, one of the many victims of a supposed patent medicine elixir in the 1920s that poisoned him with radium and ate away the bones in his jaw and head / - John Shippen, the first African America to play in the U.S. Open in 1896. Beyond societal pressures he also carried the burden of numerous family crises, beginning with his father's suicide, and estrangements from his wife and children, who valued education and thought his lowly profession meritless / - Lucy Barnes Brown, the winner of the 1895 U.S. Women's Amateur, who has connections to Pebble Beach, one of the most famous courses in the world. Her son was Franklin Roosevelt's friend and roommate at Harvard, and her granddaughter owned the land on which the remodeled fifth hole (designed by Jack Nicklaus) now occupies / - Marion Miley was one of the best amateur golfers in the country when she was brutally murdered in 1941 at the age of 27 / - Cyril Walker won the 1924 U.S. Open, beating the great Bobby Jones, but was a hopeless alcoholic who died in a jail cell / - The "Rabbit Wars" of St Andrews from 1801 to 1821 that threatened the existence of the oldest course in the world / - The book concludes with shorter, fun stories on quirky bits of golf history.

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.' Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her mother's life before her. She knew Paula had grown up in South Africa and had seven siblings. She had been told stories about deadly snakes and hailstones the size of golf balls. There was mention, once, of a trial. But most of the past was a mystery. When her mother dies of cancer, Emma - by then a successful journalist at the Guardian - is free to investigate the untold story. Her search begins in the Colindale library but then takes her to South Africa, to the extended family she has never met and their accounts of a childhood so different to her own.She encounters versions of the life her mother chose to leave behind - and realises what a gift her mother gave her. Part investigation, part travelogue, part elegy, She Left Me the Gun is a gripping, funny and clear-eyed account of a writer's search for her mother's story.

Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.

In this fifth and final set of Father Brown mysteries G K Chesterton's short, shabby priest continues, in his humorous, effortless but powerfully effective way to solve a wide range of high crimes and misdemeanours.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.

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