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A biography of Billy Martin, the controversial manager who has been hired and fired more than anyone else in major league baseball.

Describes the childhood, rise to power, and political influence of the military leader who has been president of Syria since 1970.

A joined biography of Watson and Crick who unlocked the mystery of DNA, focusing on their relationship and how they worked together as a team in their research.

A biography of the child actress who was known as "America's Sweetheart" and who, as an adult, became active in politics and served as Ambassador to Ghana and as the first woman Chief of Protocol at the White House.

Providing examples from specific cases, this book discusses the studies of human body decomposition in body farms that determine postmortem interval, the period of time between death and discovery of the body.

Columbian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and uses magical realism to tell his stories, a blend of mythical elements with realistic narrative.

James Brady chronicles the experiences he had when he returned to North Korea nearly fifty years after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, describing the painful memories his travels brought back and the healing that came with it.

Tells the story of Jack Lucas, who fraudulently joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 at the age of fourteen and became the youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor as a result of his heroic actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima three years later.