This is the second book of Swoosh Family poems. So I guess you might like to know where the Swoosh family came from. The actual Swooshes are scribbles that live at the bottom of some pages in my written idea-journals. They started out as nameless, undistinguished scribbles to end a page and fill up an extra line or so at the bottom. Somewhere about three years in they began to take a particular shape that reminded me of faces so I began adding eyes and mouth indications. That gave them a personality in my jaded eyes. They were looking at me as I turned the page and they sort of reminded me of people I knew or knew about. I wrote a poem, then three, then three hundred or so. The family members and extended family members are not my own family necessarily, but are each based on people I have met, in some cases heard about; it's a writer thing I guess. Check these out; you may know some of them yourself.

This book contains more than birthday sentiment. That is the + after Birthday in the title. This book may be just a bit more expensive than some regular hallmarked cards. But it is infinitely more useful. Just check any or all poem pages you think apply to the recipient or occasion. Gift it with or without additional wrapping. It can be passed on as often as one likes with each new gifter marking their intention boxes in a different color. The recipient may read only those checked or dive in as deep as they can stand.

The struggles between the Immortal, Devil, and Mortal Realms have been endless since time immemorial. The shadows of the sword and Light Sword stained the clothes with blood. Fight for the world! Hunting absolute beauties! To overturn the Heavenly Dao! Only I am! It was a fantasy, a war between all the beings of the three realms. It was a military battle, a war on the battlefield, a war against each other. It was history. Han Xin! A loud name made everyone's blood boil. Behind him, there were even Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, the two prodigies, Zhang Liang, Princess Yu, and Xin Zhui.

The unauthorized national-bestselling sensation revealing the absorbing story of the rise, fall, and recovery of Nike, by a former employee and a Los Angeles Times reporter.

This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms – popular culture – capable of being transformed into heritage?.

Your basic skills are intact; you love the game, but a nagging question remains, 'What does it take to complete my field goals, layups and free throws, consistently?' Swoosh, Shooting the Perfect Shot is here to take you through the process from shooting to sinking those shots. Inside you will discover: Basic shooting techniques How to increase your concentration Learn how to visualize Learn how to focus How to accomplish consistency How to put the ball in the hoop "I am so glad to have trained under Wajeedah Muhammed. With only four sessions, my shooting skills improved and my game elevated to another level. It was definitely worth the time and learning. I hope to continue my training with Ms. Muhammad soon." Marquez Tidwell March 29th, 2016"

Winner of 2014 U.S. Gourmand Drinks Award • Taste 5,000 years of brewing history as a time-traveling homebrewer rediscovers and re-creates the great beers of the past. The Brewer’s Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer’s quest to bring them—and their ancient, forgotten beers—back to life, one taste at a time. This is the story of the world according to beer, a toast to flavors born of necessity and place—in Belgian monasteries, rundown farmhouses, and the basement nanobrewery next door. So pull up a barstool and raise a glass to 5,000 years of fermented magic. Fueled by date-and-honey gruel, sour pediococcus-laced lambics, and all manner of beers between, William Bostwick’s rollicking quest for the drink’s origins takes him into the redwood forests of Sonoma County, to bullet-riddled South Boston brewpubs, and across the Atlantic, from Mesopotamian sands to medieval monasteries to British brewing factories. Bostwick compares notes with the Mt. Vernon historian in charge of preserving George Washington’s molasses-based home brew, and he finds the ancestor of today’s macrobrewed lagers in a nineteenth-century spy’s hollowed-out walking stick. Wrapped around this modern reportage are deeply informed tales of history’s archetypal brewers: Babylonian temple workers, Nordic shamans, patriots, rebels, and monks. The Brewer’s Tale unfurls from the ancient goddess Ninkasi, ruler of intoxication, to the cryptic beer hymns of the Rig Veda and down into the clove-scented treasure holds of India-bound sailing ships. With each discovery comes Bostwick’s own turn at the brew pot, an exercise that honors the audacity and experimentation of the craft. A sticky English porter, a pricelessly rare Belgian, and a sacred, shamanic wormwood-tinged gruit each offer humble communion with the brewers of yore. From sickly sweet Nordic grogs to industrially fine-tuned fizzy lager, Bostwick’s journey into brewing history ultimately arrives at the head of the modern craft beer movement and gazes eagerly if a bit blurry-eyed toward the future of beer.