anecdotes

Presents one hundred stories from legendary football players and coaches about unforgettable games and includes excepts from Joe Montana, Frank Clifford, Don Meredith, and Brian Sipe.

Andrea Young shares the lessons she learned from her mother, Jean, about truth, love, integrity, faith, and the importance of balancing family with career and career with service to the larger community.

Golf coach Harvey Penick presents wisdom culled from his more than eighty years on the course, covering the physical and mental aspects of the game.

Nicole Lea Helget recounts the experiences she had while growing up in a small farm community during the 1980s.

Provides an account of Eric LeMarque's struggle to survive after he became lost while snowboarding in a remote area of California's Mammoth Mountain in February 2004, wandering for eight days without food, shelter, or proper clothing.

Explores the origins and development of punk rock, detailing the major events, personalities, and bands that have shaped the pink music scene. Features excerpts from more than 100 interviews that reveal the place of punk rock in popular culture of the past and present.

Discusses the history of energy and the search for efficiency and focuses on how to live sustainably while caring for the environment and the future of our planet. Examines the fact that, while we already have the technology and knowledge to live sustainably, little progress has been made to achieve that goal.

A collection of stories from around the world describing stupid things people do.

Presents winners of the Darwin Award for people who improve the gene pool by leaving it. This edition provides all new tales of stupidity as well as scientific interludes from guest authors who discuss other examples of evolution in action.

Explores the realm of medicine using anecdotes and stories about patients with life-threatening illness, mistakes in surgery, doctors with limited skills, saving lives, and more.