The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition

Offers a compendium of statistics, stories, and images that span the history of the Winter Olympics.
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James Naismith: The Man Who Invented Basketball

Rob Rains is a former National League beat writer for USA Today's Baseball Weekly and for three years covered the St. Louis Cardinals for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.  He is the  author or co-author of autobiographies or biographies of Tony La Russa, Ozzie Smith, Mark McGwire, Jack Buck, Red Schoendienst and many other sports celebrities.

Hellen Carpenter is the granddaughter of James Naismith. For more than 40 years she had in her possession more than 200 documents from Naismith's files which were instrumental in crafting this biography.
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Remarkable Service

As competition for customers is constantly increasing, contemporary restaurants must distinguish themselves by offering consistent, high-quality service. Service and hospitality can mean different things to different foodservice operations, and this book addresses the service needs of a wide range of dining establishments, from casual and outdoor dining to upscale restaurants and catering operations. Chapters cover everything from training and hiring staff, preparation for service, front-door hospitality to money handling, styles of modern table service, front-of-the-house safety and sanitation, serving diners with special needs, and service challenges—what to do when things go wrong. Remarkable Service is the most comprehensive guide to service and hospitality on the market, and this new edition includes the most up-to-date information available on serving customers in the contemporary restaurant world.
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When Kids Get Arrested: What Every Adult Should Know

Every year, millions of children across the country get arrested. What most adults do not know is that the juvenile justice system has become much more punitive in the last fifteen years. No longer is juvenile court a place where regardless of what happens you get a clean slate when you turn eighteen. Today almost every adjudication of delinquency is accompanied by adult-style fingerprinting, prior record score points, and DNA tests that can stay in a state repository for years. For every stage of the justice system, from arrest to expungement, "When Kids Get Arrested" gives atop tipsa to help adults make the best choices to protect children from long-term negative consequences.Sandra Simkins provides straight answers to common questions such as:
 Should I let my child talk to the police without a lawyer?
 How can I help my child succeed on probation?
 Should my child admit to the charges or take the case to trial?
 How will this case impact my childas future? Will it prevent him from getting a job or going into the army?
 My child has mental health issues. Can the juvenile justice system help?
 My daughter is out of control. Should I call the police?
 My son got arrested at school and is now suspended. What should I do next?
Simkins takes complicated legal concepts and breaks them down into easy-to-understand guidelines. She includes information on topics such as police interrogation, detention hearings, and bail, along with state-by-state specifics. "When Kids Get Arrested" is a perfect resource for parents, social workers, guidance counselors, teachers, principals, coaches, and anyone else who works with children.
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The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050

"The social analyst author of The New Geography makes predictions for mid-21st-century America, assessing how an anticipated additional 100 million citizens will transform everything from community life and employment to technology and renewable energies."
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The Forensic Science of C.S.I

A journey behind the scenes of CBS television's popular series C.S.I: Crime Scene Investigation takes a close-up look at the real-life forensic science, tools, and procedures dramatized by the show, including DNA typing, ballistics, blood pattern analysis, forensic odontology, and more, and how they are used to solve modern-day crimes.
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Boston Noir

Presents a collection of short stories featuring noir and crime fiction about Boston by such authors as Jim Fusilli, Dana Cameron, Don Lee, and Patricia Powell.
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Robert Altman: An Oral Biography

Draws on the perspectives of family members, colleagues, and actors to assess the director's life and artistic achievements, discussing such topics as his womanizing reputation, his heart transplant, and the creation of his films.
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

The Great Depression of the 1930s had an undeniable impact on the economics and politics of the United States. Less studied is the impact it had on the country's cultural makeup. The Depression reshaped the American dream. How that dream, and the contemporary reality, was portrayed by artists, photographers, dancers, poets, novelists, and filmmakers of the era is the subject of this impressive, highly-readable history. Dickstein delves deeply, but not ponderously, into the works of individuals shaping the culture of the day, as well as provides readers with an excellent overview of the times and their cultural meaning.
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Stitches: A Memoir...

The author recounts in graphic novel format his troubled childhood with a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of sixteen in the hopes of becoming an artist.
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The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

An engrossing, lucid exploration of the origins of human morality that challenges our most basic assumptions, from the world’s leading primatologist

Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behaviour is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and “survival of the fittest,” but in fact humans are equally hard-wired for empathy. Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behaviour, and neuroscience, de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals — highly cooperative, sensitive to injustice, and mostly peace-loving — just like other primates, elephants, and dolphins. This revelation has profound implications for everything from politics to office culture. 
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Taste of Home The New Appetizer: 230 Recipes for Today's Party Starters

Over 150 color photos compliment an array of easy-to-follow appetizer recipes--including dips and spreads, meatballs, party pizzas, snack mixes and more--in a book that includes practical pointers, serving ideas, entertaining tips and handy guidelines on food portions and quantities.
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101 Law Forms for Personal Use

Contains forms covering legal issues faced by people everyday, including a simple will, rental application, monthly payment record, storage contract, and complaint letter.
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The American Theatre Wing Presents The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them

What was the play that changed your life? What was the play that inspired you; that showed you something entirely new; that was so thrilling or surprising, breathtaking or poignant, that you were never the same? Nineteen of today's most gifted playwrights respond in this most revealing and personal book, published by Applause Books and presented by the American Theatre Wing, founder of The Tony Awards. From Edward Albee's 1935 visit to New York's Hippodrome Theatre to see Jimmy Durante (and an elephant) in Rodgers and Hart's Jumbo, to Diana Son's twelfth-grade field trip in 1983 to see Diane Venora play Hamlet at The Public Theater, from David Henry Hwang's seminal San Francisco encounter with Equus to a young Beth Henley's epiphany after seeing her mother in a "Green Bean Man costume," The Play That Changed My Life offers readers a unique peek into the theatrical influences of some of the nation's most important dramatists. The book is filled with tributes, memories, anecdotes and other insights that connect past to present and make this volume an instant "must have" for anyone who adores the theatre. Also in the book are pieces by David Auburn, Jon Robin Baitz, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Charles Fuller, A. R. Gurney, Tina Howe, David Ives, Donald Margulies, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, John Patrick Shanley, Regina Taylor, and Doug Wright, as well as an introduction by Paula Vogel. All together, the playwrights featured here have won more than 40 Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, Obies, and MacArthur genius grants.
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