Dive into amusing Olympic moments both high and low

Basketball has so many great stories, so many interesting anecdotes-about college and pro teams, players from all levels, announcers, and even owners-that one book just isn't enough to hold it all. That's why Potomac Books, Inc. is introducing Basketball's Most Wanted™ II: The Top 10 Book of More Hotshot Hoopsters, Double Dribbles, and Roundball Oddities. With even more fun tales and interesting facts from the world of hoops, there's something in here for all fans of basketball. Which NBA team attempted to draft a player straight out of high school in 1969-a female player from the Iowa six-on-six league? What standard features in today's NBA were originally introduced in the renegade American Basketball Association? Who are the best three-point shooters in both the pros and college? Which high school team had an amazing four future NBA players on its roster? With which team did Wilt Chamberlain begin his professional career? (Hint: It wasn't an NBA team.) You'll find the answers to all those questions and so much more in Basketball's Most Wantedª II, including the best and worst basketball movies, the most shocking NCAA tournament upsets, top names from basketball's "Asian invasion," and even guys who played one game-and only one game-in the NBA. So join David L. Hudson, Jr. as he looks at the amazing and the amusing, the wacky and the wonderful, the best and worst of everything basketball has to offer. It's a slam dunk!

The New Revolutionary Way To Build A Successful Business In A Post-Product World If you are trying to build a successful business in todays economy, read this book. Authored by Bill Bishop, one of the worlds leading business coaches to entrepreneurial companies, this book outlines a new, revolutionary way to build a successful business in a post-product world. For the past 200 years, weve built companies around specific products and services, Bishop says. But that product-first model is now obsolete due to accelerating change, increasing competition, and instant communication. Companies that keep using these old models will fail to grow, and may even go out of business all together. To be successful in this new environment, you need to use a new post-product business model, one built around relationships, not products. This model, while simple in its structure, is revolutionary because it creates a completely different kind of company; an enterprise that prospers because it takes advantage of accelerating change, increasing competition, and instant communication. Based on Bill Bishops work coaching more than 4,000 companies over a 25-year period, this book will open your eyes to incredible possibilities and opportunities, and get you excited again about your business. As Bishop says: Once you understand this new model, you realize that our society has only created 1% of the worlds potential value, that another 99% of new wealth is possible for people who are willing to think differently.

For over 20 years I stole from every part of Houston's affluent society, this is my long overdue apology.

Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier... Part four of the third Chris Ryan Extreme series. Bundled together as the full book, Chris Ryan Extreme: Most Wanted. A hero in the SAS and later an asset for British intelligence, John Bald is now on the wrong side of the tracks after an encounter in Geneva turns his world upside down. Now he's the most wanted man in Europe, and there is only one person who can help him: Viktor Klich, the man he once tried to kill. Bald must pursue Klich to the town of Antibes in the south of France protecting him at all costs from enemies lurking at every turn. Bald will have to call on all his survival skills to stay alive. But nothing can prepare him for what lies in wait at the end of the line.

Do you think you know basketball? Do you think you know it well enough to take the court as an NBA or NCAA referee and accurately make the really tough calls? Well, here’s your chance to prove how much you really know about the history and rules of one of the world’s most popular sports. You’re the Basketball Ref, newly updated with a dozen fresh scenarios, is designed to inform, challenge, and entertain basketball fans. A brief introduction to the history of basketball is followed by an overview of NBA and NCAA matters. Topics range from situations that typically come up in games—traveling and shot clock violations, for example—to rules that are just a bit more unusual or, for the casual fan, more obscure. Then quiz yourself on what call you would make in each scenario! Many of the situations in You’re the Basketball Ref come from real games, but some scenarios are made up to illustrate specific points or rules. So don your stripes, grab your whistle, and take your position on the court. After all, you’re the ref!

Angie and Margaret are best friends and inseparable. Both love the game of basketball. They share a dream of someday winning the State Championship. But their dream turns into a nightmare when one of the girls is tragically struck by a car. This coming-of-age novel parallels two lives: one girl maturing into a young woman and talented basketball player; the other, simply trying to hang onto her very life.Basketballs and Babysteps explores the trials of growing into adulthood, the thrills of achievement and the pains of misfortune.

Goosebumps now on Disney+! Ray Gordon really likes the circus. His uncle, Theo, is a performer in Koko's Klown Academy and he invites Ray to come join him for the summer. At first, Ray's parents are reluctant-they know their son has a habit of getting himself into strange situations. But Ray manages to convince them that he'll be on his best behavior. The circus itself is very cool. The clowns stay in their makeup all day and only go by their clown names. Ray becomes a clown-in-training named Mr. Belly-Bounce. But the longer he's there, the scarier things become. There are whisperings about a place called Clown Street and nobody, including Murder the Clown, wants to go there. Will Ray be able to survive the dark secrets of the circus?

It Is Finished By: Thierry R. Lundy Imagine that, for most of your life, you’ve accepted the idea that your life consisted of just one level. This level is made up of everything you could see, smell, taste, touch, and hear. Now imagine one day you are abruptly awakened to the fact that there has not just been one level to your life, but a second one that you never knew existed. To take it a step further, imagine one day someone reveals to you that your life has never been about what you’ve always thought it was about. Imagine that this person tells you that there has always been an invisible hand working in your life in an invisible realm, and creating a story that is invisible to the naked eye. Well, I can imagine it because this brief illustration is the nutshell that is packed with my visible and invisible story that conveys the depth of God’s goodness.