This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts...

The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and...

Indiana. Why is Indiana called the Hoosier State? No one really knows! But over the years many stories have been told about the origins of the word hoosier. Inside, you'll find: Which industries drive Indiana's economy; A timeline, photos-and what people do for fun in Indiana; Surprising TRUE facts that will shock and amaze you!

When a journalist poses as a Jewish man to write an article about anti-Semitism, he becomes the victim of religious intolerance; two cops intercept a large drug shipment from France and find themselves fighting for their lives; after stealing a prized role from her idol Margo, Eve begins to disrupt other areas of Margo's life; a woman leaves a convent to become governess to seven children in a house where the father does not allow music or entertainment;...

Explores the cases of over one hundred notorious crimes and criminals from world history, covering bandits, arsonists, hucksters, white collar criminals, organized crime, kidnappers, extortionists, and murderers.

"The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook provides a complete examination of right-to-die issues in the United States that dissects the complex arguments for and against a person's liberty to receive a physician's assistance to hasten death. It covers the legal aspects and the politics of the right-to-die controversy, analyzes the battles over the right to die in state and federal courts, and supplies primary source documents that illustrate the political,...