Leagues Books

If you need ANY information about ANY player on the NHL, whether active or retired (or even a rookie), it's ALL in there.
672 pages filled with all the statistics you need about your favorite players.
This year, the book includes facts like "who played where in 2004-05" and "Who's playing where in 2005-06" (with all the changes that took place during the summer). Plus information about thye 2006 Olympics AND the New Rules.
For the price, you get more than your money's worth.
but just don't take my word for it, but it, read it, use it.
It's also a nice cover with Lemieux (now retired, unfortunately, again) and Crosby, the next one.
Highly recommended!
:)

This annual volume is especially nicein that it includes small photos of active players as well as number of retirees. It is also a good source to learn which of the old timers have passed away. Another feature I like is the all time records by player, and to see where the current veterans are positioned in these ranks. This issue also shows where all the active players played during the 2003-04 strike season. This book contains everything you can think of about the current hockey teams as well as the history from the early beginnings.

The greatest all-time stat book that the NHL has. A great encyclopedia on the players of the game. Every player and rookie listed along with their picture, and every year of stats they produced throughout their career. Every team and player record as well. This book has been printed yearly for over 20 years. A must have, if you like to update your rosters in EA Sports computer game NHL 2006, look no farther. This book also has a retired index of every player that ever stepped on the ice as well. THis book is 25 bucks, but you will find yourself using it a great deal throughout the entire 2005-2006 season. I promise. Let's Go Rangers!!!!!

Dan Diamond and his staff have again done an outstanding job of preparing a preview guide that ranks among the best in any pro sport. For the hockey fan, this isn't an optional purchase, but one you must have.

The statistical information for active players and prospects is unrivaled in any print resource. And while much of this information can now be found online (at the Internet Hockey Database, a great resource), there's nothing like having this handy reference on your desk or coffee table to grab up during a game, or while you're having a conversation about a player.

I've bought this book for years, and I still love going over the lists of all-time leaders, or looking at a list of guys who scored 50 goals in a season and reminiscing about those times. For hockey trivia addicts, this book is like a great fix, with list after list, and recaps from every season preceeding 2005.

There are a couple of items I'd love to see added to this annual, but it's hard to quibble about so great a resource. This should find a home on the desk or coffee table of every NHL fan out there

This is a beautiful book with over 150 photos of Negro League Baseball players, each with a concise, informative, interesting synopsis of the picture and player. For any baseball fan, photography fan, and student of African American life, this is a wonderful book.

Reviwer: Bob Kellemen is the author of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction , Spiritual Friends, and Soul Physicians.

Facinating insight into this era of Baseball . The marvellous photographs effectively communicate many aspects of the time . Accompanying essay very informative and has wet my appetite to learn more about the history of the Negro League.

I was one of the lucky ones that got to view this book before it went to print. I'm a professional sports writer and was impressed with not only the text that goes with this book, but some of the pictures that are within its covers. Baseball is my passion and there are certainly plenty of great images in baseball history ("The Catch", Maz's home run, Fisk's HR, etc.), but this provides a different light to both professional baseball and the Negro Leagues. Withers provides a perspective and view on the lifestyle, mannerisms and actions of the Negro Leagues that I've never seen before. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who's interested in baseball history.

The foreward in this book is particularly touching, as it comes straight from the source, Willie Mays, a Negro League and MLB legend. It is a perfect complement to the wonderful photos of this great era from Mr. Withers.

THIS BOOK IS WORTH WAY MORE THAN THE PRICE PAID! EVERY GAME IN NFL HISTORY IS HERE FOR THE READER TO TRACE THE HISTORY OF THE TEAM. SEE THE RESULTS OF EVERY SAN FRANCISCO 49ER & NEW ORLEANS SAINTS GAME EVER PLAYED! (FOR THOSE WHO CARE!) I HAPPEN TO BE A MAJOR FAN OF THE SPORT AND ENJOYED FINDING THE ANSWER TO EVERY QUESTION ABOUT EVERY STAT YOU COULD IMAGINE! IT EVEN INCLUDES AN NFL RULEBOOK IN THE BACK, COMPLETE WITH REF SIGNALS! GET THIS BOOK AND THE OFFSEASON WILL SEEM MUCH SHORTER!

For the serious football fan you have got to own this book. I have every year since 1984 and look forward to every September not only for the start of the new season but for this book.

This book is fantastic for everyone. If you are an avid and veteran fan, you will love all the information this book has. Regular season records, postseason records, Super bowl records, everything you can imagine! And if you are a regular fan, you will learn a lot with the information in this book. There is everything you want to know about the 2000 season, every record of every team, super bowl summaries, and even a section explaining the rules! And it's a great book to consult during the games, when you want to know everything about that especific player. Every fan must have this book on his shelf. 5 stars!

The Official NFL 1998 Record and Fact Book continues to be the best available NFL stats book. This edition provides great rundowns and scoring stats for every game played by every team during the 1997 season.

There is also a 4-page section on each team with coaching histories, individual and team records, draft choices, and coaches bios.

This 1998 edition includes a complete schedule for the 1998 season. This schedule is spread out over 6 1/2 pages with plenty of space for me to write in the game scores and miscellaneous notes. And it includes a worksheet to determine each team's opponents for the 1999 season.

Workman Publishing puts this book out each summer, and the 1998 edition is my fourth one. If you're serious about your NFL facts, then this book should be on your shelf!

I got this book when I was a kid, I could not put it down! It is a great introduction into the world of HAMs, and also has a great description of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness Area, which was interesting when I later walked through the real place.

Also check out Hostage In the Woods.

I read this book which translating to Thai language, it's very excite story I would like to another peple to read it so much.

I just finished reading this book. I could not put it down! It goes into details about a search and rescue of a 19-year old lost in the mountains. He's a ham radio operator who was hiking up a mountain to take school off his mind. As the tension mounts, ham radio becomes more and more important to being the key to his survival. This book would be of interest to anyone who is even remotely interested in radio communications and amateur radio. In fact, I would recommend this book to a non-ham to get them interested in it! It is definitely worth the 5 stars I gave it.

i am fifteen years old and i am reviewing this book for a school project. i thought this book was great. the best part is that it relates to Ham radio operators. this is a good book for young people that are interested in Ham radio. this book held my attention throughout the whole story.

As someone who has worked with gang members for a number of years, this book really resonated with me. It is so hard to communicate to people who gang members are behind the facades they wear. Arturo Hernandez's real life experiences speak powerfully to both the hopelessness and the hope to be found in America's inner-city areas. He also provides insights as to the underlying problems which have created our gang problems today, and hypothesizes about possible solutions, many of which seem viable based on my personal experiences. This book is a must-read, particularly for those in education-related fields dealing with gangs.

The author's recounting of his experiences setting up a school for gang-involved youth in L.A. is riveting, compelling, and moving. His accounts are simultaneously chilling, heartbreaking, and uplifting as he tells of lives both lost and saved. The book reads like a novel, but you couldn't make up stuff this good. Hernandez has a unique gift for painting vivid word pictures that remind the reader that these aren't just stereotypical media creations of gang children--he's writing about the real thing! The last section of the book offers good, solid advice--from one who has firsthand knowledge of the problems of gang-involved youth--about how communities can band together to help these kids rather than declare war on them.

Peace in the Streets is a realistic yet hopeful look at gang life. Hernandez uses vivid imagery and poignant stories to weave a picture of children immersed in gang life. The book recreates the lives of the students that participated in his small alternative school in East L.A. Peace in the Streets portrays the children not as violent monsters but as adolescents lost in an imperfect system and society. Hernandez possesses the unique ability to understand and eloquently portray the path most children followed before entering gang life. He writes with an empathy and sensitivity rarely seen in books of this nature. As an educator working in at-risk schools I found this book to be very enlightening. Peace in the Streets is one of the few books in this genre that offers incredible insight into the lives of gang members while providing a step by step plan for communities to help their youths. This book is a pleasurable and necessary read for educators, parents, and communities struggling with issues related to gangs.

I read this book for my political science class and I loved it. It gave me my first look at gang violence. The author gives you a stunning first hand account on not the gangs as a whole, but the kids as indviduals. He helps you to see that these kids are all different. Some are good in school, others can't read... he helps us, who do not have to deal with these problems, see that there is no "typical kid or family". Every student who is thinking about going into social work, Psychology, policics, teaching, etc... should read this book. It will open your eyes.

I thought I wouldn't be able to get a copy of this cookbook for my sister.
Thank you! Since this cookbook is out of print, I was sure it would be impossible to find.

I received this cookbook as a gift in 1992, I think, when I spoke for a women's business organization in Salt Lake City. I finally used it at Thanksgiving in 2004, and was really blown away by the results.

The biggest hit of the meal was the apple-sausage stuffing. This particular recipe is meant for Christmas goose, but I used it with Thanksgiving turkey, and substituted turkey sausage and buttersquash soup for the sausage and milk it called for. It was absolutely the best stuffing I have ever had in my life, and our guests all agreed.

The book is loaded with unusual recipes like that one, including suggestions for drinks and hor d'oeuvres, bunches and breads, soups and stews, salads, vegetables and side dishes, seafood, meat, poultry, as well as desserts and pies and cookies and cakes.

It's a really special set of recipes, filling more than 230 pages. Even if you seldom cook (like me), go for it.

A Pinch Of Salt Lake is an impressive and diverse compilation of easy-to-prepare recipes for beverages, hors d'oeuvres, brunches, breads, soups, stews, salads, vegetable and side dishes, seafood, poultry, meats, desserts, pies, cookies, and cakes. From Bacon-Wrapped Scallops; Cucumber Sandwich Canapes; Onion Corn Bread; and Cold Tortellini Salad; to Sweet Fried Corn; Fusilli with Shrimp and Roasted Peppers; Poached Chicken Breasts in Tarragon; and Raspberry Walnut Torte, A Pinch Of Salt Lake will soon become a family kitchen favorite. An extensive index is provided which will ably assist in planning meals appropriate and suitable for all occasions and circumstances.

I own many cookbooks but have yet to find one as good as this one. The many recipes I've prepared are very delicious, have nice presentation and use ingredients that are easy to find. There are quite a few recipes with a "quick & easy" icon on the side which makes it nice when you're in a hurry but would like to make something good. It's a beautiful cookbook that's well laid out. It makes an excellent gift.

If you're the parent of a preschool age child (3-5) and aren't totally comfortable with the idea of trusting these early learning years to a stranger, I'd strongly recommend this book. It is packed with encouragement for parents and tons of fun activities to do with kids. Although the authors advocate beginning (or joining) a co-op preschool at home, it's suitable for homeschoolers too. A co-op preschool may be something I consider at a later time, but right now we're just getting our feet wet with learning. I always thought I'd send my precious little one off to a swanky preschool when the time came, but he's 4 now and the time is here, and neither one of us are ready for anything like that. We're having so much fun playing and learning together. I always thought learning at home would be frustrating (for me) and boring (for him), but it's really not if you take it in stride and follow your child's lead for the most part. The first part of this book "exposes" the history of preschool and why it ever came into being (whereas kids used to start school in 1st grade), and why it may not be the best thing for your child. It's really sad the way we parents compete with the Joneses...we want our child to talk first, spell first, add first, read first...etc. And so many of us are afraid that not sending them to preschool will cause them to be "behind" when the time for actual school (or homeschool) comes. How many of us have felt like wanting to crawl under the carpet when caught up in a group of of mothers who incessantly brag about their children's accomplishments ("My Mary could read when she was 4"..."My Johnny could add when he was 4 and a half"...My Sarah already knows all the names of the planets, and she's only in kindergarten"...) This book deals with all of those questions and insecurities quite well. Hope you find it as helpful as I have!

As a homeschooling family, we have chosen to bypass day care, preschool, and traditional school. This book reinforced our views on maintaining the special parent-child bond in childhood while incorporating the stimulating environment our children need for their mental, physical, social, and emotional development. This book won't sit on the shelf.

I enjoyed reading this well organized and informative book. This book has helped me to provide educational activities that teach my child with fun play in a loving home. It has allowed us to introduce him to "school" in a positive nurturing environment. He is learning independence and social interactions without going into a daycare situation. We (several other moms and I) are now organizing a cooperative pre-school for our children in our own homes. The book provides background research, example lesson plans, general themes, and a Bibliography.

As a homeschooling family, we have chosen to bypass day care, preschool, and traditional school. This book reinforced our views on maintaining the special parent-child bond in childhood while incorporating the stimulating environment our children need for their mental, physical, social, and emotional development. This book won't sit on the shelf.

David Deal is a terrific photographer; you've seen his work in most major national magazines. He's not flashy, just good. He works with a 4x5" sheet-film view camera, in the eye of the digital capture storm. Prospects, however, was shot with a medium format Hasselblad 2-1/4 X 2-1/4" square-format SLR, handheld. Baseball is a great subject for B&W and Deal delivers the goods. If you love baseball and/or black-and-white photography, you should own this book. Also, if you love B&W, visit www.bwphotopro.com.

I bought this book for two reasons. First and foremost, my undying love for the game that, as a girl, I was forced to give up at the age of 15. Secondly, my love of black and white photography. Not only does David Deal capture the essence of the sport itself, but he captures the character of the "boys" who play it. Throughout the book, between pictures, are his personal accounts of travelling with the team, the interactions between teams and between teammates and more importantly of life at the minor league level. But I think the pictures tell more than the words, capturing a catcher's throw to second, the dirty ball in the hands of a player that could be anyone at any level, the joking between teammates, the pride on the face of the rookie and the catcher sitting in the dugout after a tough game. The pictures are phenomenal, all captivating in their own way. It's amazing how well Deal has captured the true nature of the game.

You may not have heard of David Deal, but you will. Prospects: A Portrait of Minor League Baseball, cements him as one of the great photographic geniuses of our time. In this powerful, moving book Mr. Deal captures the bygone allure and glory of what was once America's favorite sport. His original photographs take us back to a day when sandlots all over America were teaming with kids dreaming of the big leagues. What's amazing is that this is not an anthology of old photographs - just the opposite. In this wholly original work, Mr. Deal captures tomorrow's big leaguers...today. His lens invites us into the world of minor league baseball and does so with ease and brilliance. These players are seldom noticed, rarely acknowledged. Mr. Deal does more than notice and acknowledge - he celebrates, elevates and glorifies them. And you will be moved to do the same. But this is more than a baseball book - it's a book about life, about dreams, about hope. Buy this book. Read this book. Share this book.

This is a beautiful book, a celebration of baseball and a tribute to those who strive and struggle in any this or any other endeavor. What amazes me about Mr. Deal's portraits is his ability to capture his subjects with such vigor and HONESTY. These young ballplayers seem to meet the camera in all their raw self-hood. They don't pose for the camera. Rather, the camera seems to draw out of them something true and strong and wonderful. It's hard to describe. Unless you are holding the book in your hands it probably won't make much sense. But this is an extraordinary celebration of baseball, a remarkable and powerful tribute to those who play the game. Wish I could say it better. There is something very moving in this work.

I read this book about 1982. I used to work the night shift at a hospital and on Sunday mornings, I recall listening to a Sunday Morning NPR talk show. One morning, Howard Cosel interviewed the author of Righteous Gentile. I was completely fascinated by this story that I had never heard. Howard was masterful in his interview and I was so taken that I immediately purchased the book and read it. It is riveting and I could not put it down until I had consumed it all. I am always in amazed wonderment at ordinary people who perform extraordinary acts under dire conditions. Wallenberg was such a man. The story is, of course, a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, as Wallenberg disappears into the Russian Gulag. I irony of his imprisonment in the Gulag after having saved so many Jews from their fate in the Holocost. It is one of those books that is uplifting because it reminds us of both the good and evil that humans are capable of.

John Bierman's terrifically tragic Wallenberg biography,'Righteous Gentile' is divided into two parts;the first 119 pages lead up to his kidnapping by the Russians on
January 17,1945.The last 97 pages deal with the world's apathy in securing his release from the Gulag.Thousands of Jews and some non-Jews owe their lives to Wallenberg's intervention on
"behalf of the Swedish government"-which dealt with the Wallenberg kidnapping issue as buroucracies tend to do.Bierman's Wallenberg book was published in 1981-and there were credible reports that Wallenberg was still vegetating in the Soviet prison system.The sin of allowing this to happen-is beyond unforgivable.

Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish aristocrat who managed to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the gas chambers in the closing months of 1944. His relief agency in Budapest issued bogus Swedish passports to as many Jews as possible. By dint of his commanding personality, his ingenuity, and his talent for pulling the wool over the eyes of dimwitted Nazi functionaries, he contrived to convince the German and Hungarian authorities to respect these entirely extralegal documents. In mid-January 1945, he was summoned to the Soviet embassy in newly-"liberated" Budapest, and he was never seen again.

This is a great and inspiring story, and "Righteous Gentile" does justice to it. Bierman doesn't really succeed in explaining the origins of the idealism that led Wallenberg to volunteer for this job in the first place, but probably nobody could. What he does show is the skill and energy with which Wallenberg executed the task assigned to him. Actually "skill and energy" are ludicrously inadequate terms. Wallenberg not only distributed his passports, he tirelessly roamed around pulling Jews out of death marches and off trains bound for Auschwitz, he bossed Nazi thugs around in impeccable Hochdeutsch (and they listened), and he confronted Adolf Eichmann himself, all the while taking the most extraordinary risks. I can't say that Wallenberg was the greatest hero in recorded history, since I'm not familiar with all of it; suffice to say that he is by a very large margin the greatest hero I've ever read of, in fiction or history, and it is an inspiring and hopeful fact that someone like him ever existed. I am grateful to John Bierman for bringing this figure to such luminous and memorable life.

The only problem I have with the book is that half of it consists of speculations and rumor-cataloguing to the effect that Wallenberg was alive in the Gulag until about 1980. I believe that most authorities now think he was murdered by the Soviets long before this, perhaps after they failed to recruit him for espionage. This part of the book is therefore something of an anachronism. However, it doesn't detract from the general value of the book, which should be required reading for everybody, period.

A five star book about a five star hero.

The second world war threw-up some gigantic figures but ironically Raoul Wallenberg from neutral Sweden towers over all the rest.

Like the Good Samaritan he didn't pass on by but instead left his safe homeland to assist others by putting himself in danger day after day in the inferno that was Hungary during the dreadful days of 1944-45.

The man who saved a 100,000 jews from the clutches of Adolf Eichmann, the SS, and the Hungarian facists, the Arrow Cross ultimately fell foul of the Russian 'liberators.' He was never seen again as a free man after being taken into 'protective custody' by the Reds on 17 January 1945.

I read John Bierman's excellent book some 20 years ago and he charts the extraordinary crusade of his subject with a deft touch.

This is a book that will both inspire you, with Wallenberg's humanity and courage, and anger you that such a man could lose his liberty after fighting so hard for the freedom and safety of others.

In the pantheon of heroes Raoul Wallenberg-the righteous gentile-would have to be at the very top

This book has become a staple for my at home daily cooking. The Breakfast Casserole and the Lemon Squares are particularly good. This cookbook will serve as an outstanding guide for anyone who is intersted in adding the delicious flavor of Louisiana cuisine to their everyday meals!

I got this cookbook as a gift, and so far the recipes have been easy to follow! My family loves the Banana Nut Bread on page 58 any time of the day. I was afraid the recipes would all be too spicy, but they were yummy! I am going out to buy River Roads Recipes III this week.

When I say that this cookbook is one of my favorites, topped only by Talk About Good, that is saying a lot. I have found myself pulling this off of my mother's shelves after she has 'borrowed it'.

When I got this as a gift from my Sister In Law, I didn't know what a treat I was in for. Thank you!

The recipes are fairly easy to prepare and the results turn out great meals.

My only issue with any cajun cooking is that it sometimes calls for those Louisiana type of ingredients that are hard to get anywhere else but Louisiana (tasso for example!)

Having lived in New Orleans for 8 years, I acquired a taste for the unbelievable food there. In 1988, I moved away and some of the most important items to pack were my copies of the River Road cookbooks. I have just discovered my son has "borrowed" my Second Helping cookbook only to inform me it is his now. I now find myself having to reorder it as it contains so many easy to prepare and outstanding recipes. Congratulations to your contributors for a job well done.