Linda Carroll
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
For far too long, the menace of concussions has been hidden in plain sight. On playing fields across America, lives are being derailed by seemingly innocuous jolts to the head. From the peewees to the pros, concussions are reaching epidemic proportions. This book brings that hidden epidemic and its consequences out of the shadows. As frightening as the numbers are-estimates of sports-related concussions range from 1.6 million to 3.8 million annually...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The notions that passion always peters out, that there's a "seven-year itch," and that honeymoons are over once reality sets in are cliche;s with truth to them. But that doesn't mean that long-term love is impossible. As veteran couples therapist Linda Carroll shows, love "cycles," including Doubt and Denial, are part of genuine intimacy, rather than signs of its demise. In fact, asserts Carroll, it is by courageously moving through what comes after...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A look at the duel between Affirmed, the last horse to win the Triple Crown, and his archrival, Alydar. Alydar was horseracing royalty while Affirmed grew up on a backwoods Florida farm. But scrappy Affirmed held off Alydar by an ever-narrowing margin to win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes in 1978.