Filled with stunning photos, this book by the #1 New York Times–bestselling sportswriter tells the story of Mickey Mantle's legendary career.Mickey Mantle has long been considered one of baseball's most memorable figures—playing his entire eighteen-year baseball career for the New York Yankees (1951-68), winning three American League MVP titles, playing in twenty All-Star games, and winning seven World Series.Today, decades after his retirement, he s...

"Comparative Deviance" represents a systematic attempt to survey public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. There is extensive diversity in both law and perception concerning such deviances as taking drugs, homosexuality, and abortion, yet there is evidence for a basically invariant structure in perception of deviance across all cultures. Within the countries studied in this volume, Geraeme Newman discovers t...

We learn from everything that we do, and everything that we do becomes part of what we are. In his more than fifty-five years of teaching biology and fifty-seven years of marriage to Pat, a retired administrator for the Syracuse University Writing Program, Druger has shaped his experiences with his boundless energy, quick wit, and tireless sense of adventure.With humor and refreshing candor, Druger reflects on his many "misadventures" in this charming memoir. He shares classroom an...

Every second of our lives, we experience something new. Even a repetition of the same experience is not exactly the same. We learn from everything that we do, and everything that we do becomes part of what we are. This book reflects on our everyday experiences and our environments. Each poem carries a thoughtful message for children and adults about life and the world around us. Sometimes life is sad; sometimes it is fun; sometimes it is ridiculous. These different moods and observations a...

Freaky Friday( A Jurassic Adventure)Is about five teenagers being sent back through time to the Jurassic period. Their journey came from a meteorite that plunged to earth millions of years before. The city is St Louis and the area of Walnut Park is where the meteorite landed. The school Bernard High was built on top of this site. What the contractors that built the building didn't know is that the meteorite damaged the earth and created radioactive time portal. In a school divided ...

The second of two debates between President Ronald Reagan and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale was held in Kansas City, Missouri on October 21, 1984. Edwin Newman was the debate moderator. Georgie Anne Geyer, Marvin Kalb, Morton Kondracke, and Henry Trewhitt were the four panelists who asked questions.This second debate was on defense and foreign policy. Questions focused on the following topics: Central America, the Soviet Union, regions vital to U.S. interests, Eastern Eur...