Product Description: In the early 1960s, an anonymous committee of ordinary citizens in Seattle selected kidney disease victims from a pool for an experiment with something new: a kidney dialysis machine. If the experiment worked, a small number of people would live instead of surely die from kidney failure...read more

Product Description: Here is a story collection about love, death, humor, and the glue called family. In one narrative, a man wakes up one morning to find the odor of dead fish won't go away, but no one else can smell it. In another, a couple's visit with friends to watch the Academy Awards has the protagonist envying his friends' lawn and lifestyle...read more

A biography of bodybuilder and movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger

A brief biography of the author of such popular books as 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'James and the Giant Peach'

Describes the history, equipment, and techniques of skydiving

Explores Japan's culture and its economy today--a productive and efficient one which has grown out of the devastation of World War II and thrown Japan into an interdependent partnership with the United States and made it a world economic force. (view table of contents)