Silverman: 413 books
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Minnesota Vikings
Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Minnesota Vikings History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Minnesota Vikings documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably...
Golf Miscellany
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Golf
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
What causes a golf ball to hook or slice? What are the origins of the terms bogey” and birdie”? Why was Jack Nicklaus called The Golden Bear”? Why is the Masters champion presented with a green jacket? How many tournaments did Byron Nelson win in 1945?
With Golf Miscellany, the...
Baseball Miscellany
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Why does a curveball curve? What is a can of corn”? Why was Joe DiMaggio called the Yankee Clipper”? Who wrote Take Me Out to the Ballgame”? How many times did Ty Cobb steal home?
In Baseball Miscellany, the fascinating history and lore of our national pastime is finally revealed!...
The Book of the Month
Sixty Years of Books in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This collection of essays and reviews from the Book-of-the-Month Club offers a unique literary history of American readership in the twentieth century.
From The Sun Also Rises to The Accidental Tourist, the judges, editors, and reviewers of the Book-of-the-Month Club help readers all across...
My House Across the Road
One Man's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
A rebellious boy from the post-WWII streets of Brooklyn gains maturity in military service, embraces the charms of the Orient and thrives in an modest role in a secret war. This book relates his Odyssey: The stages of life, rites of passage, adventures and evolution of beliefs. In the...
Lucky Every Day
20 Unforgettable Lessons from a Coach Who Made a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Loyola college of Maryland Women's Lacrosse Coach Diane Geppi-Aikens would have been a remarkable role model simply as one of the nation's top lacrosse coaches. But this single mother of four battled inoperable brain tumors for eight years. Partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, Geppi-Aikens...
by Jerry Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
A colorful song collection containing music from 19 Latin American countries, including Ecuador,Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, and others. All lyrics are in Spanish and singable English. Arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.
Comes the Millennium: It's Still Tough to Be Jewish!
100 Years in the Life of an Immigrant Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
The stories begin over 100 years ago in Sokolka, Poland, when my father escaped via an underground route, from his forced conscription into the Czar's Russian Army. The stories continue through the ensuing decades after he immigrated to America. The anecdotes describe how the family coped with the...
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Philadelphia Eagles
Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Philadelphia Eagles History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Philadelphia Eagles documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably...
Cubs by the Numbers
A Complete Team History of the Chicago Cubs by Uniform Number
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Jason Heyward all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though eight decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first time
outfielder...
Red Sox by the Numbers
A Complete Team History of the Boston Red Sox by Uniform Number
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They all wore #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more than 1,500 players. Red Sox by the Numbers tells the story of every Red Sox player since '31-from Bill Sweeney...
The Story Behind the Holocaust
Forgive and Forget?
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
What do we know about the Vatican Military Orders, the Johanniters, Freemasons, or other secret societies like the Bilderberg Group or the Trilateral Commission? What is the connection between these and other secret groups, World Wars, Globalization and International Free Trade Agreements of today?
During...
by Kaja Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1983
This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.
The Fundamentals of Extremism
The Christian Right in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
On September 11, 2001, Americans witnessed horrific carnage inspired by religious extremism. We saw religious fundamentalists will stop at nothing to reign terror on those they regard as their enemies. In our response, we began to focus on the oppressive treatment of women and children in other...