Crowther Letters: Chasing Stonewall to Chancellorsville (2)

History

Hileman, Bob

Americas

Word Assn Pub

Crowther Letters: Family, Companions, and Rebels: 2

Avast, ye scurvy dogs and saucy wenches! The Pirate Guys – Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers and John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur – were as surprised as anyone when their idea for Talk Like a Pirate Day went around the world in just two years. In 2003 more than 19 million people on seven continents took part in the fun. The Pirate Guys have been seen and heard on CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC, Radio Ireland, and plenty more radio stations and newspapers around the globe. 
Now they share their booty of pirate lore and high seas hijinks in Well Blow Me Down. With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry, the Guys tell the how and why of talking like pirates in a "drop-dead funny" book that will shiver your timbers and make any landlubber swagger with pirattitude.

Well Blow Me Down: A Guys Guide to Talking Like a Pirate

Humor & Entertainment

Summers, Mark

Baur, John

Humor

Dick Tiger was perhaps the greatest fighter to come out of the African continent. Emerging from an environment devoid of substantive traditions in boxing, he would overcome a litany of obstacles before becoming a two-time undisputed world middleweight titlist and an undisputed light heavyweight champion. ‘The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal,’ the first comprehensive biography of Dick Tiger, puts the man in the context of his times. A migrant fighter to Liverpool, the repository of West African born fighters who kept the British game alive during the industry wide recession of the 1950s, Tiger later moved to America where he established a marquee value seldom attained by non-American fighters and where he played a prominent role as an ‘in-house’ fighter at the ‘Mecca of Boxing,’ New York City’s Madison Square Garden. His life also personified the hopes, aspirations and the tragedy of the Igbo ethnic group. An avowed apostle of Biafran secession from Nigeria,! Tiger’s support would cost him dearly. Here is Dick Tiger as never before explained: The ‘blue collar’ fighter, ageless ringman, commercial venturer, Nigerian patriot and Biafran rebel. From empty bottle trader to wealthy realtor, from Nigerian boxing booths to Madison Square Garden, from journeyman fighter to world championship fighter; ‘The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal’ is a compelling study of human dignity in triumph and in tragedy.

Dick Tiger: The Life And Times of a Boxing Immortal

Biographies & Memoirs

Makinde, Adeyinka

Community & Culture

Dr. John Gaisford ought to know a lot about medicine. A retired surgeon, he devoted sixty years of his life to the practice of surgery. He served as chairman of the Department of Surgery at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1970 to 1984 and founded the hospital’s Burn/Trauma Center in 1970. Throughout these years, he made a habit of becoming familiar with a wide variety of medical fields and the people who work in them.A Taste of Medicine is a compilation of interviews and often amusing stories that bring the world of medicine to life. Real people — doctors, nurses, physical therapists, etc. — talk candidly about the reasons why they chose their particular field, what the challenges are, and what keeps them going. They give us hard facts and practical information but they also leave us with a sense of what it is like to work in medicine. In addition, Dr. Gaisford tackles some of the “hot” issues such as malpractice and prescription error that are front-page news.“The patient comes first” emerges as the underlying theme of the book. But the book is not only about medical professionals helping patients, but also about institutions and individuals who find extraordinary ways to reach out to those in need. Dr. Gaisford tells the story of one of these individuals, a patient of his who, having suffered severe burns in an automobile accident, later went on to become a nurse in West Penn’s Burn/Trauma Center. Whether you are contemplating a medical career, have already embarked on one, or are just plain curious about the world of medicine, you will receive a healthy dose of information that will be easy to swallow.

A Taste of Medicine: An Overview of Careers in Medicine

Medical Books

Gaisford, John C., M.D.

Nursing

A children s book with war as a backdrop is not an easy subject to pull off. But the creators of Is Your Dad a Hero have found just the right approach. The reader they address is any child whose father is serving in the military, far away from home. These are children who miss their dads, worry about them, and have lots of conflicting emotions and unanswered questions. The authors know this is a tender subject for young readers and have kept the book uplifting and free from scary words like guns, war and fighting. The book gives kids permission to be happy and proud of their military dad.

My Dad's a Hero

Children's Books

Christiansen, Rebecca

Armstrong, Jewel

Literature & Fiction

Beyond Peyton Place, although based upon the life and times of Ed Nelson, is much more than the biography of an actor who claims, in his own words, to have clawed and scratched his way to the middle. It is a fascinating recounting of the professional career of someone who has climbed to professional heights far greater than the middle, and who did it while always giving top billing to his wife and six children. There was not a performance genre in which Ed Nelson did not excel. He began doing high school and college amateur theater, became a floor director for a local TV station, accepted small movie roles filmed in and around New Orleans, and then moved his then-small family to Hollywood, without even enough money to own an automobile. He took whatever roles he could get in film, TV, and theater, and never looked back. Over the next fifty years he appeared in 40 movie roles, over 1,500 TV productions, 30 major stage appearances, and although best known for his starring role for five years as Dr. Mike Rossi in Peyton Place, was a resounding hit as Harry S Truman in the marvelous one-man show Give em Hell Harry! which toured the United States for almost a year. He succeeded Academy-Award winner James Whitmore, who originated the role. Ed Nelson will tell you that his life story is as much about those luminaries, both male and female, with whom he has shared the stage and camera, as it is about himself. Blessed with a phenomenal memory, he offers up stories, some amusing and some sad, but always with an underlying message that will give aspiring actors guidance and encouragement in their quest for a successful career.

Beyond Peyton Place: My Fifty Years on Stage, Screen, and Television

Nelson, Ed

Cotlar, Alvin M., M.D.

Doctor Nussbaum is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist in the state of Pennsylvania. Having earned his Doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona in 1991, Dr. Nussbaum completed his internship and Post-Doctoral fellowship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is an adjunct Associate Professor in Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Doctor Nussbaum has 25 years experience in the care of older persons suffering dementia and related disorders. From the outpatient setting to the long- term care setting, Dr. Nussbaum has worked in all sectors of the continuum of care. An expert in neuroanatomy and human behavior, Dr. Nussbaum has published many peer reviewed articles, books, and chapters within the scientific community. His books Your Brain Health Lifestyle, Brain Health and Wellness, Love Your Brain, and What Brain Research Teaches About Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships are easy to read and informative guides to increasing the health of your brain. He is a national and international lecturer on brain health, healthy aging, dementia and related disorders. Doctor Nussbaum educates the general public on the basics of the human brain and how to keep the brain healthy over the entire lifespan. He has presented his views on brain health at the United Nations and National Press Club. His keynote presentations across the nation are both informative and fun and he is often interviewed by the local and national press/media. Doctor Nussbaum also serves as a brain health consultant to many diverse businesses and organizations. He is the recent winner of the 2007 American Society on Aging Gloria Cavanaugh Award for excellence in training and education in the field of aging. He also received with Emeritus Assisted Living the 2007 Best of the Best award for the Brain Health Initiative and Prototype Program presented by the Assisted Living Federation of America. For more information about Brain health or to contact Dr. Nussbaum visit his website (paulnussbaum.com).

Your Brain Health Lifestyle: Application to School, Library, Corporate-business Settings and Home

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Nussbaum, Paul David

Diseases & Physical Ailments

This painstakingly researched book by Douglas J. Gladstone examines the plight of 874 Major League Baseball players who played between 1947 and 1979, all with brief trials in the majors, careers figuratively just long enough to drink a cup of coffee. Since 1980, Major League Baseball players have needed one day of service credit for health benefits and 43 days of service credit to be eligible for a retirement allowance, but those former ballplayers who played during the 1947-1979 seasons were not included retroactively in the amended vesting requirement, and so receive no pensions for the time they gave to our national pastime. These men, the author suggests, have gulped bitter cups of coffee. In his careful examination of this issue, which includes many interviews with former players and some poignant stories of their plight, Gladstone asks his readers to examine our national relationship to sports and its heroes, as well as our relationships with those who precede us in the game of life. A lifelong baseball fan, DOUGLAS J. GLADSTONE is a journalist by training, whose published articles have appeared in the Chicago Sun Times, Baseball Digest and the San Diego Jewish World, among others. This is his first book. DAVE MARASH (Foreword) has been a working journalist for more than 50 years. Best known for his 16 years as a correspondent for ABC News Nightline, Marash won Emmy Awards for his coverage of the wars in Nicaragua and Bosnia, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the explosion that downed TWA Flight 800. He anchored the opening season of Baseball Tonight on ESPN and did play-by-play coverage of the New York Knicks and Rangers.

A Bitter Cup of Coffee: How MLB and the Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve

Sports & Outdoors

Gladstone, Douglas J.

Baseball

Upstream from the deserted New Castle Street Bridge, Connoquenessing Creek waters cascaded over a rocky shelf. Gurgling noises of the shadowy rapids muted splashes of footsteps. On that awful August night, nobody heard the rumble of a kayak being dragged up a sandstone bank. Nobody heard the window glass shatter or the blast of a single gunshot. No one would soon forget what happened at the old farmhouse in the black of midnight along Zelienople Road. Brian Lee Weakland completes his award-winning mystery series with yet another whirlwind journey through the rivers and byways of Pennsylvania. Zelienople Road, third novel of his Rivers of Pittsburgh Mystery Trilogy, celebrates Ohio River legends with heavy doses of humor, intrigue and memorable characters only Weakland can create. Zelienople Road boldly fixes an exclamation mark to an outstanding literary achievement!

Zelienople Road (Rivers of Pittsburgh Mystery Trilogy)

Weakland, Brian Lee

Genre Fiction

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