Basketball fans enjoy watching their favorite NBA players push themselves to their limits. The hard work and dedication of these professional athletes often results in amazing comebacks, game-winning buzzer-beaters, and championship titles. Sometimes these events also include record-breaking performances. Some records have stood for decades, with the bar set so high that even the best current players struggle to come anywhere close to challenging them. Part of the Unbreakable Sports Record...

Even for the best football players, it isn’t easy to break records in this physically and mentally demanding sport. Just making it into the record books is an impressive accomplishment. Holding a record for an extended period is even more impressive. Some football records have remained in place for years or even decades. A few records are unlikely to be broken anytime soon, if ever. Part of the Unbreakable Sports Records? series, Football Records That Will Be Tough to Beat tells the storie...

From the best scorers, defenders, and goalies to the World Cup and everything in between, readers will find soccer’s latest and greatest stats here. Photos that pop and small bites of information make for fun, enjoyable reading for impassioned soccer fans. Browsable text and fast-paced soccer action help to draw in reluctant readers as well as the most dedicated sports enthusiasts.

In the Art of Interesting (Kenedy, 1920) the writer began a discussion of the principles of art and of their application to writing and speaking. In this work the discussion is carried further and is not restricted to the one feature of arousing and fixing attention, especially in oratory, which was the chief topic of the Art of Interesting. The following chapters represent the reactions of the writer to literature both as composed today and as taught in our schools. Any active mind, bewil...

From the greatest all-time passers and running backs to Super Bowl wins and everything in between, readers will find all the freshest football trivia here. Photos that pop and small bites of information make for fun, enjoyable reading for eager football fans. Browsable text and hard-hitting football action help to draw in reluctant readers as well as the most dedicated sports enthusiasts.

From batting averages to World Series wins and everything in between, readers will find all their tantalizing baseball trivia here. Photos that pop and small bites of information make for fun, enjoyable reading for big-time baseball fans. Browsable text and intriguing baseball action help to draw in reluctant readers as well as the most dedicated sports enthusiasts.

Transcontinental railroad history, Union Pacific Central Pacific 1863-1869, Chinese and Irish workers, Credit Mobilier scandal, Promontory Summit — the complete narrative history of building America's iron road. At 12:47 p.m. on May 10, 1869, the telegraph operator at Promontory Summit tapped out a single word: Done. Stanford swung the silver maul at the golden spike and missed. Durant swung and also missed. A railroad worker drove the actual spikes home. The 10,000 Chinese workers who had...

**It was called impossible.** Cross a continent — mountains, deserts, and a thousand miles of nothing — with iron rails laid by hand. No machines. No roads. Just men, gunpowder, and an ambition big enough to bind a nation together. You've seen the famous photo: two locomotives meeting at Promontory Summit, the golden spike, the champagne. But that single image hides the real story — the staggering human cost, the breathtaking engineering, and the men whose backs built the line and whose na...

Willow Hammer is a consummate lyric of the aftermath. In his fifth book, Patrick Donnelly has his face pressed against the eyepiece as he looks unsparingly at the past, generating a sequence of poems that fans out kaleidoscopically upon learning, twenty years afterward, that his stepfather assaulted his sister.In response to this crime, Donnelly traces the consequences of ignorance, denial, bargaining, complicity, and finally revelation that reverberated through his and hi...

Plunge into a suspenseful true crime narrative of audacious heists, cat-and-mouse investigations, and systemic failure. Perfect for a gripping daily commute or an intense weekend binge, this cinematic exploration drops you directly into the chaotic middle of ten legendary vault breaches, museum robberies, and high-tech digital infiltrations.Beyond the immediate thrill of the perfect crime, experience the grueling investigative grind required to hunt down meticulous planners and rec...

Experience the definitive sports history of how a rugged Scottish pastime transformed into a global phenomenon. Perfect for your morning commute, this immersive origin story transports you to the raw, windy dunes of coastal Europe. Discover the surprising social tensions and class battles hidden beneath the manicured greens of the modern fairway.Unwind this weekend as you follow the captivating journey of shepherds, nobles, and hustling professionals who forged the traditions of th...

Uncover the gripping medical history of human transplantation and the fierce bioethical battles defying mortality. Perfect for a thought-provoking daily commute, this fascinating narrative traces our quest to replace failing body parts, moving from ancient myths to modern surgical miracles. It is a profound exploration of human resilience and scientific revolution.Step inside high-stakes operating rooms and research labs where pioneering doctors challenged the very definition of de...