Visit http: //www.loompress.com/ for the full color special edition. Sweeney in Effable contains five books focused on decades of exploits and artwork perpetrated by one character, Sweeney O'Sweeney. This contemporary protagonist is based on the ancient Irish legend from Trevor Joyce's translation, Sweeny Peregrine, with a nod to Seamus Heaney's Sweeney Astray. Dave Robinson's Sweeney O'Sweeney lives in the late-20th and early-21st centuries, traveling the first and third worlds while seeking remote reefs to surf. All the while, Sweeney gathers material for his poems and prose--mailing off these missives to friends back in America. This former hometown legend, an adept athlete and brawler in his younger days, was born and raised in the blue collar, coastal city of Seawell, Massachusetts. It's a raw place filled with condemned mills, a dying fishing industry and too many shared memories to count. First published by Loom Press in 2007, Book I--Sweeney on-the-Fringe--is included here and features Sweeney's fellow Seawellians grumbling and opining about what has become of their native son. Is he dead, insane, merely lost, endlessly traveling, imprisoned, surfing, still writing? No one is sure, most want to know and many will loudly hazard a guess. Robinson's Sweeney in Effable continues the contemporary legend of Sweeney in four more books, employing varying styles and voices to deliver superb, well-paced storytelling. The author makes use of prose, interviews, Celtic folklore, poems disguised as prose, a corrupted screenplay and Japanese-style travelogues to tell the story. Sweeney in Effable propels the reader through North, Central and South America and some of the sandier corners of Europe. In these five stylistically different books--which include photos, sketches and sculptures to visually round out the tales--Sweeney invites the reader to explore his mental states, a star-crossed romance or two, his meditative practices and an undying thirst for adventure. By the end of book three, through the conclusion of book five, Sweeney O'Sweeney's burgeoning compassion for his friends, some of the poorest people in the world, compels him to keep writing, seeking and connecting.

Sweeney in Effable: Five Books About Enjoying the View

Dave Robinson

Loom Press Publishing

Winning was not the only thing. Something more important than winning football games occurred during the Lombardi Dynasty. Vince Lombardis Green Bay Packers ushered the National Football League to the forefront of American sports popularity during a racially explosive time, proving that teamwork transcended the color barrier. Along the way to greatness, Lombardis team demonstrated to the NFL, to America, what football looked like in the modern era: blacks and whites working together to win. And win they did. The Green Bay Packers can tell one of the greatest sports stories our nation has ever seen: five World Championships, including three in a row. No team has been able to win three straight World titles since the great Packers squads. With 40 years of reflection, how Lombardis Dynasty occurred is much more important than we knew back then. They won championships because of the character of the players. The task was daunting and the results historical. With a collection of competent people, Lombardi pushed, pulled, tugged and led Green Bay and the NFL into the modern era. Very little has been written about the defensive side of the ball and because of the attrition of the Packer defensive players from the era, there is very little chance much will be published. Lombardis Left Side is the first and likely the last book about the great Green Bay Packers defenses of the Lombardi Era as told by two of Lombardis greatest defensive players: Herb Adderley and Dave Robinson. These two players were critical elements in winning championships and moving our country forward in a racially explosive time. The two men who were athletic, bright, courageous, disciplined, hungry, confident, proud, spiritual, decent and black, blazed a trail. They played on the left side of Green Bays great defenses of the Lombardi Era. For the first time, Adderley and Robinson share what it was like to be a professional football player in the 1960s through personal stories of Lombardi and his management of the entire Green Bay Packer organization. Articulate and intelligent, Adderley and Robinson cover it all: on the field and off. These two great athletes shut down the left side of the football field and opened up the right side of our minds.

Lombardi's Left Side

Herb Adderley

(with) Royce Boyles

(foreword) Bill Cosby

Biographies & Memoirs

Ascend Books

An introduction to the famous philosphers and major schools of philosophical thought. A unique blend of insightful text and graphic art.

Intro to Philosophy

Metro_Books

Book by Royce Boyles, Dave Robinson

The Lombardi Legacy: Thirty People Who Were Touched By Greatness

Royce Boyles

Goose Creek Publishers

Perhaps the greatest of all philosophers, the work of such diverse thinkers as Aristotle, Kant, and Nietzsche can be traced to his influence.

Introducing Plato

Politics & Social Sciences

Judy Groves

Philosophy

Icon,Totem Books

Introducing Empiricism

Birds of Southern Arabia (Arabian heritage series)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Motivate Pub

Cizgibilim Serisi - Etik

Burak Da_õstanlõ

NTV Yayinlari

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