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The Fifty-Year Seduction

How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of the Modern NCAA to the Creation of the BCS

by Keith Dunnavant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004

For more than a half century, television has played a primary role in securing college football's place as one of America's most popular spectator sports. But it has also been the common denominator in the sport's rise as a big business. Television, which multiplied the number of people who cared...

Tipping Point for Planet Earth

How Close Are We to the Edge?

by Anthony D. Barnosky, Elizabeth A. Hadly
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

Four people are born every second of every day. Conservative estimates suggest that there will be 10 billion people on Earth by 2050. That is billions more than the natural resources of our planet can sustain without big changes in how we use and manage them. So what happens when vast population...

A History of Ancient Egypt

From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid

by John Romer
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013

The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaeologist John Romer draws on a lifetime of research to tell one history's greatest stories; how, over more than a thousand years,...

No Barriers

A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon

by Erik Weihenmayer, Buddy Levy
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

2018 Colorado Book Awards finalist in Creative Nonfiction, and National Bestseller and Honorable Mention Award Winner in the Outdoor Literature category of the 2017 National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA) — “A beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve more than you ever thought possible.”...

Sex and God at Yale

Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad

by Nathan Harden
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

To glimpse America's future, one needs to look no further than its college campuses. Of those institutions, none holds more clout than Yale University, the hallowed "cradle of presidents." In Sex and God at Yale, recent graduate Nathan Harden undresses perversity among the Ivy and ideology...

Mortal Judgment

A Legal Medical Mystery

by John A. Peak
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1999

Vicki Shea, a San Francisco malpractice lawyer with a medical degree, is a good choice for surgeon Arnold Jones. Jones faces a malpractice suit that could virtually wreck his career. He is accused of having caused the sudden death of a rich and powerful businesswoman. He is urged by everyone to settle,...

Autopsy of War

A Personal History

by John A. Parrish, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he...

The Butler's Child

An Autobiography

by Beau Friedlander, Lewis M. Steel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016

The Butler's Child is the personal story of a Warner Brothers family grandson who spent more than fifty years as a fighting, no holds barred civil rights lawyer. Lewis M. Steel explores why he, a privileged white man, devoted his life to seeking racial progress in often uncomprehending or hostile...

Wild Blue

A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal

by Dan Bortolotti
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008

The blue whale holds the title of largest creature that has ever lived, and it may also be the most mysterious. The biggest blue whales can outweigh every player in Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League combined. Their mouths can gulp more than thirteen thousand gallons of seawater....

And God Said

How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning

by Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010

For centuries, translations of the Bible have obscured our understanding and appreciation of the original text. Now And God Said provides readers with an authoritative account of significant mistranslations and shows how new translation methods can give readers their first glimpse into what the Bible...

The Book of Mychal

The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge

by Michael Daly
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008

The inspiring story of New York Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge His death certificate bears the number one. As chaplain to the Fire Department of New York, Father Mychal Judge was officially the first to go. A loving priest with a gift for the gab-gregarious yet humble, a healer...

Inquisition

The Reign of Fear

by Toby Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

A journey across centuries of religious conflict Toby Green's incredible new book brings a vast panorama to life by focusing on the untold stories of individuals from all walks of life and every section of society who were affected by the Inquisition. From witches in Mexico, bigamists in Brazil,...

Out on the Deep Blue

True Stories of Daring, Persistence, and Survival from the Nation's Most Dangerous Profession

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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

This is the first collection of dramatic, first-person accounts of commercial fishing written by the men and women who work in the nation's most dangerous occupation. Nineteen diverse fisher-writers, from the famous to the unknown, take the reader swordfish harpooning on the Georges Banks, winter...

Only Ever You

A Novel

by Rebecca Drake
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

"Suspense at its best." - Lisa Scottoline A gripping, edge-of-your-seat domestic thriller, Rebecca Drake's Only Ever You will leave you breathless as you race to the end. Jill Lassiter’s three-year-old daughter disappears from a playground only to return after forty frantic...
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