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A biography of the Seattle Mariner hitting and fielding star who won the MVP and Rookie of the Year Award in 2001 and became the first successful Japanese player in the Major Leagues.

The company that is now Google began as a partnership of ideas between two Stanford University graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. This perceptive book includes sidebars on the company's innovations, a biographical fact sheet on Brin, Page, and Eric Schmidt, CEO.

The author describes growing up with Tourette Syndrome, and how he was able to overcome the abuse that he received from students and teachers alike to rise up and succeed in spite of his disorder, and offers advice to those who must live with Tourette's.

Actress Portia de Rossi reflects on her struggles with food, weight, and body image, discussing her extreme dieting, compulsive physical exercising, purging, and more; and offers details on how she was able to overcome her eating disorder and become an outspoken advocate for gay rights and women's health issues.

David Blaine presents a combination autobiography/history of magic that features behind-the-scenes details on his own stunts, including being frozen in a block of ice, and standing on a ninety-foot-tall pillar for thirty-five hours.

A biography of Oscar De La Hoya, discussing his youth in the barrios of East Los Angeles, his Olympic and professional boxing careers, and the stumbling blocks he has encountered on his path to success.

Follows the life of the tennis star who became the youngest winner of a Grand Slam title in over one hundred years, from her childhood in Yugoslavia through the traumatic attack during a match in Germany in 1993 to her comeback in 1995.

Explores the lives and work of six figures who have had an influence on technology, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Jeff Bezos.

A brief biography of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of the Google Internet Search Engine.

A career biography of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the two developers of the Internet search engine Google, a company whose revenue increased by more than 400,000 percent in its first five years, and includes background on the business climate in which Google was created.