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Pro hockey games are exciting, beautiful, ugly, graceful, bone breaking, frantic, bloody, sometimes like a ballet and always unpredictable. A losing team wins. A Stanley Cup team loses. A star player misses a key goal. A rookie wins with an amazing shot. In SLAP SHOT!! twelve of the best, most famous players ever in the game are discussed. Some are now gone, some are still living, all are retired but many are still involved in the great game t...

Whether you agree or not, Ross R. Olney has discussed seveal famous films made over the the past century or so. And he has made his point on why they are in this book on the "best films" list. Olney even points out that these films may or may not have won the famous "Oscar, " given to the "best" films. But he also makes the point that they all, every one of them, should be seen by every reader who enjoys films whenever possible

This book is a discussion and makes suggestions on the rash of lawsuits being filed by women against men in recent times. It goes into detail on matters such as "oral sex" and other actions said to have been forced on women by men, especially in the entertainment business, currently. It names names and places, and agrees that rape is a crime and that rapists should be punished. But it also indicates that perhaps we are all "moving too fast" an...

This book was written by an expert on motion picture films. He even lives in California, where many movies are made, and he sees famous actors frequently, interviews many of them, and becomes friends with a few if them. Ashe points out in this book, nost actros and actresses enjoy talking to fans, who soemtimes become fruebds, and most actors, from local theaters to moviton pictues, will just chat about anything at any time. They are generally...

Of all the great women in the history of the world, these seven should be remembered forever. They accomplished so much in medicine, the arts, the field of entertainment, science, and contributed so much to everyone in science and in pure charity, that they will be remembered. They are gone now, but each left a mark that will never fade.

What does a chiropractor do for you? Dr. Kalani Gusman Jose, a chiropractor with many years of experience and thousands of satisfied patients, and a man who plans to change the face of health care, tells all in this book on himself, his practice, what to expect when you schedule a visit, and his own love of his profession. He had a terrible accident as a young truck driver, and turned to a chiropractor after medical doctors could no longer hel...

It was the duty of every captured prisoner of war to attempt to escape. Escaping meant the enemy had to tie up time and manpower to recapture the escapee. This meant that even as a prisoner of war, you still had a chance to effect the outcome. You were, in fact, still in the battle. If you were recaptured you generally suffered a few days in the "cooler, " in solitary confinement. Until Adolph Hitler sent down orders to execute escaped prisone...

Every soldier, if he or she is captured, knows it is their duty to try to escape. Although not all prisoners of war do try to escape, those who do know that they are still in the battle because they are forcing the enemy to use extra troops and time to try to recapture them. In every war, there are then a few POW's who make a dangerous crusade out of escaping. They are driven to escape. They are desperate to return to action. This book is abou...

David Zaid survived the extermination of the Jews in Poland ordered by cruel German dictator Adolph Hitler. He went on to become a hero in the Israeli army. His voice is now stilled, but with this book he continues to speak out against the holocaust-deniers who insist that the atrocities, the death camps, the routine executions of Jews, never really happened. Zaid lived through it, lost his entire family to an uncaring German firing squad, and...

In every generation there are a few special men and women builders who ignore the nay-sayers and build amazing monuments. It will sink into the ground, insist some of the "experts." It will cause the drowning of thousands of innocent people or burn to death entire families with their children. These special builders go right ahead and we all now enjoy what they have done. They didn't listen when many others said "It can't be done.

This is the true story of the famous Lost Dutchman treasure as this author sees it, and offers a completely new theory on the location of the massive treasure. This location is within a stone's throw of the thousands of tourists who visit the forbidding Superstition Mountain area every year to have fun and to "find the Lost Dutchman." For the past one hundred years or so, they have no idea how close they might have been. A map? Yes. Read the b...

Two teen-agers back in early day France probably started it all by "borrowing" their Dad's "horseless carriages" and seeing which could go fastest. That was when highly respected doctors were certain that you would die if you moved faster than sixty miles an hour. The human body simply couldn't survive at that speed. Now, racers routinely go two hundred miles an hour, and drag racers go more than three hundred miles an hour in only a thousand ...

When you execute a man or woman, you end their life. You take away all that they really have. And it is YOU that is pulling the switch or injecting the poison, since it is ultimately the people who decide on using or not using the death penalty. The courts have been struggling with this decision for decades, but it will always be the voice of the people making the final decision. Nor is it really possible to execute the "really bad" criminals ...

Lt.Col. Charles S. Hudson, the most decorated bombardier in World War Two, lived a full life of adventure, danger, and challenge. During his exciting life, he was an athlete, a professional boxer, an oil driller, an exotic animal hauler, involved in a major prison break (from outside) and a defendant in a federal drug trial, something the resulted in him being on a mob "hit list." Charmin' Charlie Hudson never slowed down, never worried, and l...

David Zaid survived the extermination of Jews in Poland ordered by Adolph Hitler. He went on to become a hero in the Israeli army. His voice is now stilled, but with this book he continues to speak out against the holocaust-deniers who insist that the atrocities, the death camps, the routine executions of Jews, never really happened. Zaid lived through it, and knows the truth. And if he ever questioned his own courage while hiding from the mur...

Scott Hunter is an average student, an above average football player, and an excellent skin and scuba diver and teacher. He should have known better when he put aside some strict and basic rules of diving and got into serious trouble. His friend, Lisa Turner, is in the same trouble, since he is her teacher and diving partner. When Scott Hunter must watch himself sleeping in his own bed, knowing that he will never see Lisa again but also that h...

Lt.Col. Charles S. Hudson, the most decorated bombardier in World War Two, lived a full life of adventure, danger, and challenge. During his exciting life, he was an athlete, a professional boxer, an oil driller, an exotic animal hauler, involved in a major prison break (from outside) and a defendant in a federal drug trial, something the resulted in him being on a mob "hit list." Charmin' Charlie Hudson never slowed down, never worried, and l...

Bridges hanging on wires? Tunnels under rivers? Raceways two miles long? A football field that has a roof? A dam that holds back a raging river, and provides power? These and more were thought to be impossible, but they were built by some of the very few construction genius builders born every generation who refuse to believe in "impossible" projects, and go ahead and build them. In this book are the first, when today's construction science wa...

Hockey is a hard-hitting, beautiful, bloody, exciting, bruising, stunning game and at the top level it is a ballet. Very few of the thousands of young players who dream of it ever make it to the National Hockey League, and then very few of them become super stars, the best in the business, in the history of the sport. Most of these dynamic players are retired or gone now, but their spirit lives on with the teams where they played and in the ri...