Bøger af Ray Long

This book offers a scientific approach to understanding the practice of hatha yoga. Through four-color, three-dimensional illustrations of major muscles, tendons, and ligaments, Ray Long describes the practice and benefits of hatha yoga. Specific anatomical and physiological descriptions highlight the agonist, antagonist, and synergist muscles that come into play with each pose. Volume I of the series describes the key muscles of hatha yoga and how they are utilized. From beginners to experts, this book will become a constant companion.

Michael Madigan rose from the Chicago machine to hold unprecedented power as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. In his thirty-six years wielding the gavel, Madigan outlasted governors, passed or blocked legislation at will, and outmaneuvered virtually every attempt to limit his reach. Veteran reporter Ray Long draws on four decades of observing state government to provide the definitive political analysis of Michael Madigan. Secretive, intimidating, shrewd, power-hungry--Madigan mesmerized his admirers and often left his opponents too beaten down to oppose him. Long vividly recreates the battles that defined the Madigan era, from stunning James Thompson with a lightning-strike tax increase, to pressing for a pension overhaul that ultimately failed in the courts, to steering the House toward the Rod Blagojevich impeachment. Long also shines a light on the machinery that kept the Speaker in power. Head of a patronage army, Madigan ruthlessly used his influence and fundraising prowess to reward loyalists and aid his daughter's electoral fortunes. At the same time, he reshaped bills to guarantee he and his Democratic troops shared in the partisan spoils of his legislative victories. Yet Madigan's position as the state's seemingly invulnerable power broker could not survive scandals among his close associates and the widespread belief that his time as Speaker had finally reached its end. Unsparing and authoritative, The House That Madigan Built is the page-turning account of one the most powerful politicians in Illinois history.

This book is purely fiction and does not portraying any person living or dead. I have taken some liberties with places like the Kingston Hall, although a real place I moved it from one part of town to another. The main characters in the story are names you can find in the area described but the characters are fictional and do not in any way represent any living person. The same with places such as the Washington Hotel, which is still operational and actually was visited by our first president none of the events I discuss actually happened there. The Eastern Shore of Maryland is a delightful place to grow up and/or live in. Any event in this book were in no way a reflection of any person or representive any of the great folks on the lower Eastern Shore of the Bay. There is a University of Maryland - Eastern Shore and Smith Island 10 layer cake is enjoyed by an extended group of eaters and growing group loving homemade cake, there was a Johnny's and Sammy's Restaurant in Salisbury which made the best pies I've ever eaten outside my wives. The Long's and Dryden's families are the major part of my heritage going back to the early 1600's but I don't know anyone by the name of Ben Dryden or David Long.This novel follows a young man who grew up in Baltimore City whose father had planned his future down to which school he would attend and where he would work...in his fathers law firm. The boy grew to be a man and to his father chagrin decided to follow a different path from graduating from MIT, being hired by the CIA to becoming an Earl in Scotland. The novel is very violent and has a lot of sexual situations. Some of the situation he finds himself in I created due to rumors I heard about were part of the Dryden family that are woven into Daves adventures along with his beautiful wife. I tried to make it a pleasant book to read with some history, some local lore and some fantasy.