As modern football grapples with the implications of a global crisis, this book looks at first in the game's history: The First World War. The game's structure and fabric faced existential challenges as fundamental questions were asked about its place and value in English society. This study explores how conflict reshaped the People's Game on the English Home Front. The wartime seasons saw football's entire commercial model challenged and questioned. In 1915, the FA banned the payment of players, reopening a decades-old dispute between the game's early amateur values and its modern links to the world of capital and lucrative entertainment. Wartime football forced supporters to consider whether the game should continue, and if so, in what form? Using an array of previously unused sources and images, this book explores how players, administrators and fans grappled with these questions as daily life was continually reshaped by the demands of total war. From grassroots to elite football, players to spectators, gambling to charity work, this study examines the social, economic and cultural impact of what became Football's Great War.

The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in 19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world would rival characters straight out of the lives and imaginations of Joseph Conrad and Jack London. Will Jackson survived a harrowing shipwreck in the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn and running down Alaskan glaciers over a tragically shortened life that ended in a most bizarre and pedestrian incident on the eve of realizing his life's ambition: appointment as master of a ship. After nine months of sometimes perilous life among natives in the South Sea islands in 1884, captured in chapters of a book he helped write, Jackson served on a series of large ships and coastal schooners - all based in the post-Gold Rush boomtown of San Francisco - that took him up and down the west coast from Alaska to Mexico and to the four corners of the earth. His faithful letters to his family in Maine and a diary offer a compelling portrait of an extraordinary young man of character and independent spirit, intellect and curiosity, no small ambition and that most admirable of traits, an abiding sense of humor.

The "Golden Rule" not withstanding the catastrophe of 9-11, the world has been thrown into chaos. Here, upon the shores of U.S. America, have the people experienced the certain effects of this chaos: *Constitutional Rights curtailed *Religious Freedom maligned *Economic instability realized *Overall Health Care eroded *Public Education jeopardized Mr. Jackson's follows the footprint of his earlier work, takes a close up look at the weavings leading up to the present condition experienced in the world. It presents this close-up expose through a blend of poetry and frank discourse. Its unique viewpoint is set around the concerns of U.S America's Black population and the American Dream. Presently, the prevailing spirit has made it difficult for the Spirit of Truth to reside, to intercede. We award accolades and we garner congratulatory wreaths where might we should urge patience and exercise humility. Thus, have we slid into an era of insensitivity and mean-spirited intent. -SHORN SHARER-Leavings is a unique account of this dissuasion. Imbibe this protracting voice of concern--SHORN SHARER.

The "Golden Rule" not withstanding the catastrophe of 9-11, the world has been thrown into chaos. Here, upon the shores of U.S. America, have the people experienced the certain effects of this chaos: *Constitutional Rights curtailed *Religious Freedom maligned *Economic instability realized *Overall Health Care eroded *Public Education jeopardized Mr. Jackson's follows the footprint of his earlier work, takes a close up look at the weavings leading up to the present condition experienced in the world. It presents this close-up expose through a blend of poetry and frank discourse. Its unique viewpoint is set around the concerns of U.S America's Black population and the American Dream. Presently, the prevailing spirit has made it difficult for the Spirit of Truth to reside, to intercede. We award accolades and we garner congratulatory wreaths where might we should urge patience and exercise humility. Thus, have we slid into an era of insensitivity and mean-spirited intent. -SHORN SHARER-Leavings is a unique account of this dissuasion. Imbibe this protracting voice of concern--SHORN SHARER.

Mitchell Alexander Jackson's contemporary thought, in response to the change brought on by a change of the U.S. administration, was breathed forth-Shorn Sharer. While the author was soaking up the flavor of Wyoming, in the historic city of Sheridan, non-Election 2000 happened. Unfortunately its fruits remain.within and without the borders of our United States of America-ever engulfing. Following the locking of the ballot box, the constricting of the rights of the American people, and the diluting of the past glory of America's heritage concerning Truth, Honor, and Integrity are there presently an eager embracing of intolerance, fain displays of justness, and new forms of exclusionary practices. Perhaps that self same Spirit that issued in the book Shorn Sharer sees merit in this present work bearing The Flying Africans motif. This long ago documented account of a small band of enslaved Africans and their escape is Southern legendary folklore that passed into myth, only to become the best kept legendary secrete in American culture. band of flying Africans dropped their hoes, danced about in a ring, and lifted up and flew away home--back to Africa. Mr. Jackson utilizes The Flying Africans motif of flight to freedom to underline its spiritual thread of awakening, awareness and growth. He unveils his trilogy through the narrative entitled A Random Act Of Kindness, a combination mystery/thriller/suspense, with a heavy heaping of romance. The first novel of the trio is The Loving Cup. The Loving Cup, a different type of Southern flavor, launches the plight of the abandoned youth, Mildred Loveless, who is suddenly venerable to every underworld figure with designs of immediate profit and immeasurable power. The saga begins: The local police of Savannah, Georgia are in the midst of an International threat to the survival of U.S. America.