A biography of actor/dancer Gregory Hines, tracing his career from childhood when he tap danced with his father and brother, through 1992 when he won the Tony Award for best actor in the Broadway musical "Jelly's Last Jam.".
This is the biography of the Spanish conquistador who led a small but well-trained army along the Pacific coast of unexplored South America and who took control of the Inca empire claiming its wealth for Spain.
Explains the events leading up to the formation of the Massachusetts 54th, a regiment of free African-Americans, and its participation in the Civil War, and includes sidebars with quotations from leaders of the time and facts about the soldiers.
Discusses the high tech crimes committed by hackers, crackers, and phone phreaks using computers, including fraud, embezzlement, and espionage, as well as the best ways to minimize the occurrence of such crimes.
Describes the life of Jim Jones and the church he established, supposedly to help people find a better life, and recounts the events that led to the deaths of Jones and his followers at their compound in Guyana in 1978.
An illustrated examination of the effects disasters have had on NASA and on attitudes toward American space exploration, discussing the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger explosion in detail.
