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Describes the events leading up to the NCAA championship game that took place on March 26, 1979. Includes a timeline of the careers of Larry Joe Bird and Earvin Johnson Jr.

"Offers an insightful, honest portrayal of Lewis's turbulent eleven-year relationship within the New York City public school system and her fight to survive in a profession that undervalued her worth and her understanding of how children of color learn best"--Back cover.

A biography of NASA astronaut Mae Jemison.

"... In Amsterdam, where his travels begin, poet Michael White, reeling from an ongoing divorce and custody battle, visits the Rijksmuseum and unexpectedly discovers the consoling power of Johannes Vermeer's radiant vision in The Milkmaid and other paintings ..."--Back cover.

Standing up against apartheid in South Africa was risky. It could get you serioulsy hurt or killed. This is the story of three journalism students at Rhodes University who took a stand against injustice.

In 1983, twenty-seven-year old Earl Smith walked through the menacing gates of San Quentin State Prison just as everyone thought he would. As a gang member and criminal from a young age, Smith expected to do some time. But when he walked in it was not as an inmate but as the Chaplain of Death Row. A year earlier six bullets were fired into his body in a botched drug deal. Those bullets saved his soul and changed his life path forever. Twenty-three years later, Smith had played chess with Charles Manson, negotiated truces between rival gangs, and bore witness to the final thoughts and prayers of dozens of Death Row inmates.

Examines the shortage of women working in the fields of hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science.

Examines the personal friendship and professional rivalry between the two tennis greats, and examines each of their careers, their tournaments, and how they influenced women's sports.