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HOT PEPPERS FOR POP: During the Great Depression, a 15-year-old boy earns enough money in hot-pepper-eating contests to attend a major league baseball game, where he sits on the field with Dizzy Dean and drinks from the dugout water fountain. WING MAN: During WWII, a young man is trained to pilot the B-29 bomber, the most advanced aircraft of its time, and accompany the plane that drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. OUT OF THE WILDERNESS: During WWII, an orphaned, Polish, Jewish youth miraculously eludes the Nazis, joins the Russian army, gets arrested for "Counter Revolutionary Propaganda,"...

During my two-year stay in a rural village in western Kenya, I felt as if I were "glowing in the dark." I stood out like a sore thumb among the villagers, many of whom had never seen a white person. Though I would never fit in to the village in the way I hoped, I would take with me lessons that would shape my life. These lessons would solidify my dream of becoming a teacher and educating children about the many cultures that make up our world. This autobiographical work covers two years and three months in my life as a Peace Corps Volunteer. These three narratives are about lessons taught and...

An exploration of the strange world of bankruptcy -- the types of individuals and companies that become bankrupts, and the people who make their living from them, including auctioneers, lawyers, accountants, and collection men. This book takes you behind the scenes to where the deals are made, showing the gimmicks used and the fees collected. Find out the danger signals that give advance notice of a bankruptcy in the making, and learn how to cut through public relations semantics to determine whether a company really is in distress.

Chris Carmichael has trained many of the world's best cyclists, and now he offers his invaluable training tips, cutting-edge workout programs, and state-of-the-art exercises to help readers find their ultimate ride. In this book, he gives riders of all abilities an insider's guide to getting fitter, faster, and on to the champion's platform.
With photographs and illustrated exercises, The Ultimate Ride helps build a strong foundation for incremental leaps in fitness, times, and techniques. Nutritional advice, goal-setting methods, and mental exercises complement the physical...