In this groundbreaking and deeply personal book, Ron Cooper—a leading voice in the artisanal mezcal movement, and the person largely responsible for popularizing the spirit in the United States—shares everything he knows about this storied, culturally rich, and now hugely in-demand spirit, along with 40 recipes. In 1990, artist Ron Cooper was collaborating with craftspeople in Oaxaca, Mexico, when he found mezcal—or, as he likes to say, mezcal found him. This traditional spirit was virtually unknown in the United States at the time, and Cooper founded Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal in order to import it. Finding Mezcal recounts Cooper's love affair with the spirit and the people who make it; its meteoric rise in popularity; and the delicate balance between sharing mezcal with the world and facilitating its preservation. Each chapter introduces a new mezcal, its producer, and its place of origin, while also covering mezcal production methods and the botany of the maguey (aka agave) plant, from which mezcal is distilled. Featuring 40 recipes developed for Del Maguey by chefs and bartenders from around the world, the book is copiously illustrated with photographs, as well as Cooper's artwork and that of his friend Ken Price, who illustrated Del Maguey's now-iconic labels.

Finding Mezcal: A Journey into the Liquid Soul of Mexico, with 40 Cocktails

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooper, Ron

Martineau, Chantal

Beverages & Wine

Ten Speed Press+

Beautiful America's Salem

Politics & Social Sciences

Sanchez, Elaine K.

Social Sciences

Beautiful Amer Pub Co

Creating Your Brand and Marketing YOU the Actor, puts the power of marketing your career directly into the hands of the actor. This bluntly written guide overflows with cutting-edge step by step strategies in an easy to follow conversation. This manual is designed as a clear-eyed, uncensored perspective on building your personal brand and marketing YOU the actor. This thorough and well-written resource is for anyone wanting to understand all facets of marketing their acting career. It is packed with concrete, proven advice to help you succeed.

Creating Your Brand and Marketing YOU the Actor

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Celebrating Humanity: Faces from Five Continents

Photography & Video

RON COOPER

Purvis Driggers is a South Carolina Low Country loser. With little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents' house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, he's sure he's figured a way out: Rob an old man of the rumored millions hidden in his house. But all he finds is the old man dead and the money, if there was any, already gone.Disappointed and defeated, Purvis is drawn to the sound of music across the creek. There, he discovers a beautiful woman in a white gown being baptized in the water. Surely Martha, beautiful Martha, will give Purvis the escape he imagines. With the Martha boat come to his rescue, Purvis decides, he'll never have to worry about drowning.But Martha Umphlett is trapped, too. Married and just as quickly divorced, Martha's been condemned to return to the home she d once escaped. Made to take care of her obese mother, and forced to participate in a baptism she has no interest in whatsoever, Martha, in her own way, is every bit as desperate as Purvis, but far more capable and a good deal more dangerous.Their paths cross with that of Brother Andrew, a monk at a nearby monastery whose call more and more is not to God, but to nature, and more importantly, to somewhere else. He wanders the swamp to watch birds, practice archery, and meditate, but it becomes clearer and clearer to him that the answers he seeks are not to be found in his monastery, his vow of silence, or the life he has thus far known. But maybe the answer is in the girl he, too, sees being baptized across the creek. Perhaps Martha will make Andrew happy.All three want and need something different in their lives, but the paths they will take are neither clear nor pretty, and they will not end well.Infatuated with Martha, and certain she's the answer to his dreams, Purvis sets out to do whatever is necessary to prove his love, all the while terrified that the FBI will pin the old man s murder on him. Is he demented, or just crazy with love? Does Martha care for Purvis, or will she simply exploit him? Is Brother Andrew straying too far toward both of them and too far away from his faith? And just what is necessary for Purvis to prove himself to Martha?Told from the characters' alternate points of view, this darkly humorous story wends its way through a web of murder and dismemberment, a twisted love triangle, and a woodland monster known as the Hairy Man. As funny as it is sad, as beautiful as it is ugly, as authentic as it is shocking, and as powerful as anything you'll ever read, Ron Cooper's Purple Jesus is a murder mystery, a love story, a religious allegory and, most importantly, a dark and comic descent into the lives and world views of three unbelievable and unforgettable characters.

Purple Jesus

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Bancroft Press

An ancient legend claimed that Jesus had a twin brother Thomas. An extra-Biblical text that dates from perhaps as early as the late first century CE (which would make it the same age as the Biblical Gospels) claimed to be the secret teachings of Jesus as recorded by “Judas Didymos Thomas.” The Greek word “Didymos” and the Aramaic word “Thomas” both mean “twin.”While only several Greek fragments of this manuscript, dating to the early second century CE, actually exist, a manuscript written in Coptic from the fourth century was discovered in 1945. This Gospel of Thomas contains 114 purported sayings of Jesus, many of which resemble passages in the New Testament.Drawing upon years of extensive research in early Jewish and Christian history and recent work on the historical Jesus, acclaimed novelist Ron Cooper focuses on Thomas of Nazareth, old and bitter after years of self-imposed exile from his homeland, who returns to Jerusalem to write a book about his identical twin brother Jesus. Disgusted by how others have perverted his brother’s message, Thomas wants to set the record straight. But in doing so, he must try to unravel the enigma that was Jesus.Provocative, inventive, and sure to be controversial, The Gospel of the Twin draws upon scriptural and ancient, non-Biblical sources to present an imaginative version of the founding of Christianity through scenes of violence, tenderness, and mistaken identity that will change the way the world thinks about Jesus.For fans of such books as Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan, Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly, and even such Dan Brown novels as The Da Vinci Code, Cooper’s The Gospel of the Twin may also appeal to readers of such sophisticated Bible scholars as Bart Erhman, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, and Elaine Pagels, all of whom have written academic works as well as books more accessible to the general reader.With The Gospel of the Twin, Cooper provides a potentially controversial, compellingly human, and thoroughly readable page-turner―his own brilliant version of what many call “the greatest story ever told.”

The Gospel of the Twin

United States

Who doesn't love Santa Claus? From award-winning photographer Ron Cooper comes a beautifully curated collection of fifty professional Santas from across the country. We Are Santa is a fascinating glimpse into the lives of those who slip into the red suit to spread Christmas cheer. Before and after portraits, behind-the-scenes stories of custom made costumes and specialized training, and surprising anecdotes of on-the-job encounters bring these Santas to life. Just as Humans of New York captures the lives of everyday people, We Are Santa celebrates the humanity of everyday Santas. From a third-generation Kris Kringle to an Orthodox Jew who has been playing Santa for fifty years, Cooper's portraits are a testament to the holiday spirit. When Santa Mike, a Navy veteran and aircraft mechanic, meets a six-year-old girl with a prosthetic hand just like his own, he says, "Her eyes got big, and she threw her arms around my neck. It was the highlight of my season. That's why I'm Santa."

We Are Santa: Portraits and Profiles

Princeton Architectural Press

Former academic now veteran Deputy Sheriff Blevins Bombardi tries to solve a freakish murder of a cryptozoologist seeking the elusive Skunk Ape in a national forest in north central Florida. He is distracted, though, by struggles with his inner demons: heavy drinking, depression, suicidal thoughts, and torment from the recent murder of his wife for which he was responsible. Also, his daughter ran away two years before when her mother was killed and may have joined up with a vagabond cult that moves with the seasons around the country and is now camping nearby in Florida, and he has spent countless hours traveling from state to state trying to find her.\nIn the meantime a category five hurricane rushes toward Florida in the unlikely month of February, the bears and monkeys (an odd piece of Florida history) in the national forest are mysteriously slaughtered by arrows, and politicians and evangelists join forces in a push to privatize all public lands.\nWhen a bizarre and perhaps severely mentally disturbed ex-con shows up insisting that Bombardi help him locate a former lover (who may be imaginary), the Deputy Sheriff may have to step far outside the law to restore any order to his off-balance world.\nAll My Sins Remembered joins Ron Cooper’s previous novels as part mystery, part philosophical inquiry, and part tragi-comedy. Winner of a Florida Book Award.\nPraise for ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED:\n“Please meet Major Blevins Bombardi, a deputy in the middle-of-nowhere central Florida, a man unknowingly haunted by the first line of Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus. He’s part Spencer from Robert B. Parker’s detective novels, and part TV’s House. All My Sins Remembered is a fast-paced whodunit—or whodunabunchofthings—with a cast of secondary characters worthy of any swamp-dweller chronicle.” —George Singleton, author of Between Wrecks and The Half-Mammals of Dixie\n“Ron Cooper was born and raised on the edge of the swamp, and that curious upbringing shows through in just the right places. A mystery and love story to boot, All My Sins Remembered is a red-hot ball of iron marvel.” —William P. Baldwin, author of Charles Town and The Hard to Catch Mercy\n“Cooper combines philosophical reflection with a rural setting, working-class characters, an engaging storyline, and vernacular to create a rare, pleasurable experience for the reader…a lesson in what a good novel of ideas can and should achieve aesthetically.” —American Book Review\n“Ron Cooper has his own unique voice, and what a marvelous, darkly comic voice it is. He is an immensely talented writer.” —Ron Rash, author of The Risen and Serena\n“Cooper is a superb writer, and a daring one too.” —Steve Yarbrough, author of The Unmade World and The Realm of Last Chances\n“A prose style that snaps like garters.” —Fred Chappell, author of I am One of You Forever and Look Back All the Green Valley

All My Sins Remembered

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Down & Out Books

What if Erma Bombeck and James Michener took off in an RV together to see America, wandering from place to place with no particular destination or schedule? “Boldly Going Somewhere” is a lighthearted account of our two years and 100,000 miles living on the road, experiencing our big, wild country and its quirky denizens. Written in a feisty back-and-forth style and filled with love and laughter, it gives the reader a close look at the things that make America a fascinating place to explore, while providing insight into the not-so-glamorous moments that make living in an RV an adventure for any relationship.

Boldly Going Somewhere

Cooper, Aimee

Travel

Palmetto Publishing

Have you ever wondered why others seem to misunderstand what you stated so clearly? Perhaps you wonder if they just lack the potential that you need to build a winning team. Because surely it’s not you…or is it? If you have ever felt like someone else just didn’t “get it” when you communicated what was a very clear message to you, perhaps it was simply that you were speaking in a language that they don’t naturally understand. Different personality types receive and process information differently. Miscommunication is one of the primary causes of stress and dysfunction among teams. For communication to be clear, it must be able to be understood by the entire group receiving it. This is where we come in. In Discover Your Team’s Potential, prepare to learn from an extraordinary group of Human Behavior Consultants who share about the power that comes from understanding the Model of Human Behavior known as DISC. It is far more than simply a personality assessment. It is a practical method for learning how to communicate with your team in the way they process information. In other words, learn to speak the languages they naturally speak. When you learn from the experts who share their insights within this book, you will find that you are prepared to help your personal or professional team crack the communication code and begin realizing its full potential.

Discover Your Team's Potential: Proven Principles To Help Engage Your Team & Improve Performance

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Davis, Susan

Clark, Matthew

Rollins, Chris

Hartley, Ken

Kasten, Kathy

Behan, Jennifer

Dove, Wes

Reed-Richardson, Beth

Dasmacci, Cherie

Psychology & Counseling

Rollins Performance Group, Inc.

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