Archives for “Biographies & Memoirs”
Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success: Building Blocks For a Better Life . Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden and Jay Carty know that when it comes down to it, success is an equal opportunity player. Anyone can create it in his or her career, family and beyond. Based on John Wooden’s own method to victory, [...]
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court . Coach Wooden’s remarkable 10 national basketball championships in 12 years at UCLA speak for themselves. In Wooden, the coach–quiet, thoughtful, and introspective throughout his distinguished career–finally speaks forhimself, and he’s well worth hearing. Wooden is a modern chapbook of inspiration and [...]
Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon . When in 1969 the NBA sought an emblem for the league, one man was chosen above all as the icon of his sport: Jerry West. Silhouetted in white against a red-and-blue backdrop, West’s signature gait and left-handed dribble are still the NBA logo, seen [...]
Lebron James: The Making of an MVP . This book is the most complete and most colorful look at LeBron’s life and professional career to date. #1 draft pick . . . Rookie of the Year . . . All Star . . . Olympic gold . . . Most Valuable Player no one has [...]
LeBron’s Dream Team: How Five Friends Made History . The SHOOTING STARS were a bunch of kids from Akron, Ohio-LeBron James and his best friends-who first met on a youth basketball team of the same name when they were ten and eleven years old. United by their love of the game and their yearning for [...]
The Real George Washington: The True Story of Americas Most Indispensable Man. There is properly no history; only biography, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. If that is true of the general run of mankind, it is particularly true of George Washington. The story of his life is the story of the founding of America. [...]
Laura Bush: Spoken from the Heart . In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story. Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to [...]
Ricky Martin : Livin’ La Vida Loca . Just to look at him is to know that he is hot cha-cha-cha! You may know that this hombre guapo began his career in the controversial all-boy group Menudo and that he starred in General Hospital, but there’s so much more to Ricky than that.
Ricky Martin : Rockin’ the House . Meet Ricky Martin! From his electrifying standing-ovation performance at the Grammys to the tourism commercial he shot for his native Puerto Rico to his collaboration with Madonna, this talented Latin star is hot, hot, hot.
Ricky Martin . Smart, sexy, and soulful, Ricky Martin is more than a pop star. He’s an accomplished actor and Grammy-award-winning singer who takes himself and his music seriously. Immensely talented, he started out young, acting in commercials at the age of six, and eventually joined the hugely successful singing group Menudo.
End the Fed . In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country’s economy could not properly function.
The Taylor Lautner Album . Thanks to his performance as lovelorn werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga and his years of acting in movies and television, Taylor Lautner is an upcoming international star with an already established global fanbase.
Going Rogue : An American Life . One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the [...]
Open : An Autobiography . From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida [...]
This classic set of three volumes in four books plus portfolio, edited from the original manuscripts, provides for the first time a complete, reliable and authoritative text of Cook’s account of his voyages of discovery. Published over many years, complete sets of previous edition shave been hard to come by. This reissue makes more widely [...]
The Champ’s Edition: No. 1-1,000 - The “Champ’s Edition” has a white silk cover with pink lettering. - Limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies, each one signed by Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons. - Four gallery-quality silver gelatin prints signed by photographer Howard L. Bingham and Muhammad Ali. Jeff Koons has created an original art piece for the [...]
