During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create dreams for a depression generation. This book explores that world, taking a look into the musical and racial integration. Long b...
Will Hunting verbringt sein Leben mit seinem Kumpel Chuckie in den miesen Vierteln Bostons zwischen Bars, Bier und Baseball. Er erledigt miese Jobs und prügelt sich auch mal ganz gerne. Eine Universit...
Eine Handvoll unerschrockener Maedels gruendet das erste Frauen-Baseball-Team der Welt - die Rockford Peaches. Als ´´Botschafterinnen des Charmes und weiblicher Schoenheit´´ sollten sie antreten. Doc...
Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he would rather be working on friendships and...
Veteran broadcaster Joe Castiglione combines the story of his baseball adventures with the Cleveland Indians, the Milwaukee Brewers, and for 20 years, the Boston Red Sox with a travelogue of major Ame...
Vor langer Zeit war Morris Buttermaker mal ein richtig guter Baseball-Spieler und die Hoffnung der Major League. Doch jetzt schlägt er sich stets leicht alkoholisiert und schlecht gelaunt durchs Leben...
I want to state that I have lived one of the most bizarre, wildest, dangerous and tragic life any human being could have ever lived. I have been stabbed and shot before, damn near beaten to death by p...
Ted´s grandma is a bit unusual. She tells corny jokes, she loves to play baseball, and she embarrasses him -- all the time. But it´s her special cheer at the opening-day game that enables the red-face...
Follow the quest to understand the laws of motion and gravity--to formulate the ups and downs of physics and solve the mysteries of the strange forces that propel all objects on Earth. Whenever we...
´´Sports Stars, Series 5´´ adds 22 new amatuer and professional athletes and 12 two-page updates from previous ´´Sports Stars´´ series to its coverage. Students will find biographical sketches averagi...
