When you execute a man or woman, you end their life. You take away all that they really have. And it is YOU that is pulling the switch or injecting the poison, since it is ultimately the people who decide on using or not using the death penalty. The courts have been struggling with this decision for decades, but it will always be the voice of the people making the final decision. Nor is it really possible to execute the "really bad" criminals and not the "kind of bad" ones. Murder is murder. They did it, now the law will do it to them. And the law is you. And what if they are found later to...

Two teen-agers back in early day France probably started it all by "borrowing" their Dad's "horseless carriages" and seeing which could go fastest. That was when highly respected doctors were certain that you would die if you moved faster than sixty miles an hour. The human body simply couldn't survive at that speed. Now, racers routinely go two hundred miles an hour, and drag racers go more than three hundred miles an hour in only a thousand feet. Auto racing is one of the most popular sports in the world. It is daring, dangerous, and exciting, and the winners often become millionaires. This...

It was the duty of every captured prisoner of war to attempt to escape. Escaping meant the enemy had to tie up time and manpower to recapture the escapee. This meant that even as a prisoner of war, you still had a chance to effect the outcome. You were, in fact, still in the battle. If you were recaptured you generally suffered a few days in the "cooler," in solitary confinement. Until Adolph Hitler sent down orders to execute escaped prisoners who have been recaptured, escaping was a battle of wits. Usually you lost and were returned to prison. Sometimes you died. But occasionally you made...

David Zaid survived the extermination of the Jews in Poland ordered by cruel German dictator Adolph Hitler. He went on to become a hero in the Israeli army. His voice is now stilled, but with this book he continues to speak out against the holocaust-deniers who insist that the atrocities, the death camps, the routine executions of Jews, never really happened. Zaid lived through it, lost his entire family to an uncaring German firing squad, and knows the truth. And if he ever questioned his own courage while hiding from the murderous Nazis and the equally murderous Polish farmers in a Polish...

Scott Hunter is an average student, an above average football player, and an excellent skin and scuba diver and teacher. He should have known better when he put aside some strict and basic rules of diving and got into serious trouble. His friend, Lisa Turner, is in the same trouble, since he is her teacher and diving partner. When Scott Hunter must watch himself sleeping in his own bed, knowing that he will never see Lisa again but also that he must suffer through his parents grief at his own funeral again and again, he is desperate. So he breaks another bond with a friend. Even when he has a...

Lt.Col. Charles S. Hudson, the most decorated bombardier in World War Two, lived a full life of adventure, danger, and challenge. During his exciting life, he was an athlete, a professional boxer, an oil driller, an exotic animal hauler, involved in a major prison break (from outside) and a defendant in a federal drug trial, something the resulted in him being on a mob "hit list." Charmin' Charlie Hudson never slowed down, never worried, and lived his life to the fullest.