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The British Open, or the Open Championship as it's known outside the United States, is believed to be the most challenging tournament in professional golf. There was no greater Open than in 1977 at Turnberry on Scotland's southwest coast, when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus battled over the last thirty-six holes with Watson winning with a closing birdie. Drawing on interviews with participants, caddies, journalists, and spectators, Michael Corcoran brings the drama of this historic Open Championship to vivid life. Along with a revealing retelling of the '77 Open, Corcoran delivers an evocative...

Walking on air is inspirational poetry that combines both the power of poetry and the power of the Tarot. Each poem has a unique connection with each of the 78 cards for the card itself inspired the poem. Beyond the physical is a world we can only reach through our contact with our inner selves. This is where personal growth takes place and this inner world is the province of both poetry and the Tarot. This is where they combined to create this book. Allow yourself to reach into your own inner world through the medium of both the tarot and these poems. It is there that you will find a friend...

On Thanksgiving Day 1971 a record fifty-five million homes tuned in to watch two powerhouse college football teams collide. The defending national champion, the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers, was squaring off against the number one offense in the country and second-ranked team, the Oklahoma Sooners. Combining a meticulously researched history of college football with in-depth interviews, Michael Corcoran reveals the play-by-play strategies and techniques, the personalities of the coaches who conceived the plans and the players who executed them, and the formations and...

Our national anthem celebrates it. Patriots wave it. Politicians of all kinds try to wrap themselves in it. It is saluted at baseball games, in parades, and on the most solemn of commemorative occasions. It was salvaged in the first hours following the dreadful events of September 11, and it stands outstretched just above the surface of the moon.

It is, of course, the American flag, and there are few symbols as potent. With all the reverence and sacrifice and emotion it inspires, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that it is ultimately just a symbol. Why is it so powerful? Why...

Swan ... Irish ... Early ... they are mercenaries for whom freedom and justice are bigger incentives than the almighty dollar. Under the leadership of freedom fighter, Rick Drew, they take on a mission too dangerous for even the CIA-the rescue of American POWs held in secret internment camps since the Vietnam War and long since abandoned as missing in action. Against unthinkable odds Drew and company penetrate the most remote jungles of North Vietnam. With an arsenal of weapons that ranges from top-secret military gear to the natural wisdom of an indigenous tribe, they take on an enemy...

Revised edition of the authors' Violence assessment and intervention, c2009.

The last Kindling Conference was organized by Dr. Juhn Wada and held at the Univer- sity of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., in 1989. In the intervening years, research on kin- dling has proceeded at an explosive pace and significant advances have been made in our understanding of the molecular biological, anatomical, and physiological substrates of kin- dling, as well as in our appreciation of the age-dependent effects and complex behavioral consequences of kindling, its sensitivity to drugs, and its relevance to the clinical epilepsies. In order to review these developments and to...

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Kindling. Speakers at the conference will write chapters summarizing their current cutting-edge research on the kindling of seizures and related phenomena in epilepsy.

The Kindling Conferences and the books arising from them (Kindling, Kindling 2-Kindling 5) have provided valuable summaries of the ongoing research on seizure development, with an emphasis on mechanisms, consequences, and potential treatments that might offset epileptogenesis. The general themes of talks and chapters at the Sixth Conference on Kindling are:...

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Kindling. Speakers at the conference will write chapters summarizing their current cutting-edge research on the kindling of seizures and related phenomena in epilepsy.

The Kindling Conferences and the books arising from them (Kindling, Kindling 2-Kindling 5) have provided valuable summaries of the ongoing research on seizure development, with an emphasis on mechanisms, consequences, and potential treatments that might offset epileptogenesis. The general themes of talks and chapters at the Sixth Conference on Kindling are:...

These proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Kindling held in June, 1996 in Victoria, British Columbia address new research on the molecular biological, anatomical, and physiological substrates of kindling, as well as in the age- dependent effects and complex behavioral consequences of