Tom Jones

What if Studs Terkel wrote a book with Bill James? You'd have a book on what it's really like to make a living in the world of baseball. For everyone who ever dreamed of making their love of baseball into their vocation, Working at the Ballpark will provide a view at their lives that might have been, with interviews with more than 50 people who make a living in major league baseball. Each is asked the same questions: What is your job? How did you...

Top Cats Stockton, California experienced a high-voltage jolt of enthusiasm during the 1960s when a young basketball coach named Dick Edwards brought a city together. Hired by the University of the Pacific to coach its team, Edwards had an ability to go "outside the campus gates" and capture the support of the city of Stockton and the outlying community. He built a rabid fan base that became honorary Pacific alumni and they all turned an old opera...

This is a sourcebook for people seeking to advance their careers. It helps job hunters understand what an employer values and how to reflect those qualities in the interview and later after they are hired. It shows readers how to take charge of their life rather than let the fear of rejection diminish their aspirations and dampen their enthusiasm.This book was written in the hope that readers will rethink rejection as a negative or undesirable outcome...

When Mr. Ellis' class pays a visit to the Museum of Horrors the children fail to heed the most important rule of not touching the exhibits, and they all come out a little more weird and frightening and must find a way to lift their curses.

"Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator--the originator--Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archival footage, performances, and interviews, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions." --Container.

Standard 1-disc anniversary compilation features the themes from 22 of 23 James Bond films. From 1962's Dr. No (James Bond Theme), to 2008's Quantum of Solace (Another Way to Die).

Set in the ruthless world of San Francisco in the late 1800s, rival Chinatown crime families are pitted against each other, against the police, and against an overtly racist white working class.